NEW ZEALAND SERIOUSLY AWESOME

sadamson · November 19, 2012

I have just got back from New Zealand with 3 work mates, We were rostered off for a couple of weeks ,so we booked some cheap air fares and headed to Auckland, the plan was to chase some big NZ kings. Plus do some sightseeing along the way.The trip started perfectly when we were greeted by the Jim Beam girls at the airport offering samples plus posing for photos. We went to Lake Taupo and Rotorua, did the rapid jet boat rides and to Agro adventures and scarred the crap out of me on some of the crazy things that only kiwis can offer.

We had booked a day out fishing in a lovely town of Whitianga 2 hours drive from Auckland. Sadly we could only book 1 day as they were booked out for the next 6 months. We were up very early could not sleep just like kids and Christmas. We meet our guide down at the ramp at 7.00am. Toby would be the best charter skipper I have been out with. We started with catching a tank full of livies then headed out. We were lucky the water was flat and no wind, we headed out to a reef 25 miles off shore. Toby hunted all day working his fish finder telling us how far to drop our baits as we were using multi coloured braid it made the job easy as it changed every 10 metres.

From the first drop we found the fish, there were no trophy fish caught but most of them were around the 80cm mark, which is much better than what we catch a home. We ended up with over 20 kings plus just as many gear stealing Barracouta. A great day out good company flat sea (thank god) nobody got sick. We took 1 fish back which made a wonderful dinner.

Our second charter we booked was to target Snapper out of Auckland. But the good weather we were having came to an end we could only get out half the distance the skipper wanted to go. We got shelter behind an island and got only a couple of pan size snapper we were getting smashed by the wind and rain so we pulled the pin early and came in. We were travelling into the wind and had the tide against us one hell of a trip back to port. But that’s fishing we had a great 6 days away from work and home lots and lots of laughs to much to drink a great holiday.

I would go out with the first charter again and try and book extra days.