Coromandel Fishing Reports

New Zealand kingfish season in full swing! - Hi All! Well the NZ kingfish season is in full swing at the moment! We got a cracker of a fish over the weekend that went 27kg, the fish hit a Katch1 jig from Sportfishing NZ, We were targeting fish high up in the water column and it had a Daiw more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Jigging Big Kingfish in New Zealand! - Hi All We've just finished a couple of awesome weeks of fishing here in New Zealand. Most of the time our clients were pulled up against the side of the boat like this! Kingi's around the 25kg mark were common, and these are hard fighting fish more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Epic Kingi Action in New Zealand! - With winter well and truly upon us, the weather is a little on the wild side but the fishing is superb!! If you're into jigging fishing in New Zealand at this time of the year does not get much better. A short run of an hour out to our jigging gr more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Red Hot Yellowtail Fishing in New Zealand - Howdy All The kingi fishing continues here in New Zealand. Our jigging trips are producing some awesome sessions with fifty plus kingis in a day, most released to fight another day. The biggest from last week was 23kg, a good sized fish taken ji more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

First day of winter signals great snapper fishing - The first day of winter greeted us yesterday and as per usual the snapper were on tap in the shallows. As the water in close cools, the snapper move in and the next three months is some of the best time to softbait in the shallows. We're working more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Gamefishing Hanging in There! - After getting dealt with some pretty average sea conditions over the last month, the skies were blue and seas were glassy last weekend. Typical! Justin Pilkington from Cathedral Cove Macadamias, Rob Fort from Coromandel Kayak Adventures and I were st more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Epic New Zealand Fishing - Well, we are half way through Autumn and the water temp is better than we had for the whole of summer! We have azure blue water in close to the coastline and a very hot end of season marlin bite. The yellowtail kingfish are really starting to c more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - HOT KINGFISH ACTION! We've just come off two days of insane kingfish action. Jigging the offshore pinnacles around the Aldermen Islands with big 400gm pink jigs we hooked into around 50 kingfish between five anglers up to 20kg. There are lot more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - GENERAL CONDITIONS Our water temp is starting to climb up, out wide of the Aldermen Islands we now have 17-18 degrees, and with the water warming we will have Albacore, Yellowfin and within a couple of months, Marlin will be turning up. Inshor more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - INSANE SOFTBAIT ACTION If you had of told me a year ago that we would be using no bait at all for snapper fishing, I would have thought you'd maybe had a few too many... But that is exactly how things have panned out. We are getting such good more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel