Dive motiti

I have had 5 dives in the last few weeks studying the crayfish ha ha ha.
Most of the female crayfish are stil in berry or have eggs therefore have to be left alone
although getting a feed of nice bucks has not been a problem.
 This rock produced some reds for dinner. 

Diving

I have had 2 dives in the last 2 weeks and its not warm but there are plenty of crays around. Each dive produced 6 nice bucks, All of the female crays are still very much in berry (eggs) and will be for a while yet. I am counting down the days until scallop season opens a week and a half away, yum I cant wait. 

TERAKIHI

The last week or so the weather has been great and so has the Terakihi fishing with large numbers of big fish (1 to 2kg) being caught. The fish seem to be near any sort of rock structure from 50m to 150m. On Saturday one of the old favourite spots produced 70 Terakihi, 5 golden snapper, 2 john dory in 72m of water out the back of Motiti Is the area has alot of small rocky reefs that all hold fish during certain seasons. 

Snapper

The snapper seem to be in better numbers out deeper from 30 to 50 meters in the last 2 weeks with the northern end of Motiti producing good numbers of large snapper up to 6kg. The fish are lighter in colour suggesting they are big schooling fish predominantly feeding off the sand unlike the darker kelpies. The fishing in close has been good at night time getting some big fish straylining into the rocks after a good berley up, also had a unexpected visit from a baby hammerhead. During the day in close has been not so productive with the odd good fish but mainly small snapper. 

                                             Big schoolie for the smoker    

FIXATION FISHING AND DIVING CHARTERS TAURANGA: Some good Bluenose and a Hapuka caught on the mayo...

FIXATION FISHING AND DIVING CHARTERS TAURANGA: Some good Bluenose and a Hapuka caught on the mayo...: "Some good Bluenose and a Hapuka caught on the mayor knolls in 400 meters of water in mid May 8 - 18 kg "

The snapper fishing lately has been amazing with some great fish around 15lb getting caught quite frequently during the evening and into dark on the sand anywhere 15 - 40 meters its great not having to go far to catch great fish. 
On Wednesday we caught some great snapper many 3 - 4 kg in 32meters 3 mile off the mount we also caught 5 massive sea going eels 2 of them were about 30lb, a 12kg kingfish and a large octopus which will make great bait.

The Kahawai are everywhere at the moment and seem to be working best on the bigger snapper and so too the barracuda as big strip baits on the straylines.

Some good Bluenose and a Hapuka caught on the mayor knolls in 400 meters of water in mid May 8 - 18 kg