Author: Matthew Foster

Kauai, Hawaii

  • Date: 8-August-2017
  • Time: 5am – 12pm
  • Weather: Started overcast it changed to sunny but the seas were choppy
  • Tide: High tide around 10am.
  • Location: Kauai, Hawaii
  • Charter: Nemesis Sportfishing

We set off early in the morning trolling almost immediately out from Port Allen harbour. We trolled around with four lines with four different types of lures to target any type of predatory fish, they ran 4 marlin fishing reels, two were extra heavy duty by looks of them.

It was two hours into our fishing charter when my rod hooked up a Mahi-mahi, weirdly enough I saw some debry floating past so I think that’s where it was hiding because I’ve read and heard that Mahi-mahi often hide under floating debry. The cool thing was that I caught the only fish on the charter and it was my first ever Mahi-mahi, ticking off one more on my bucket list.

I found the boat very stable, a Bertram 33′ sport fisher, Captain Darrin was great along with his deckhand, I would go out with them again.

Eastern Beach, Auckland

  • Date: 5-June-2017
  • Time: 1:00pm-16:30pm
  • Weather: Generally sunny but at the end it went cloudy and rainy
  • Tide: Mid tide incoming
  • Location: Click Here

Awesome day of  Fishing, Caught a couple of  Baby Snappers and one legal sized Snapper. It was very slow regarding bites and fish. My trusty Takacat is proving to be a stable dingy for this type of fishing. I run a 5hp Mercury motor it gets me up and planning fully loaded with my fishing gear.

When I am filleting my catch I need to keep a close eye on my cat Travis, as he is fast at snatching a feed for himself!

Eastern Beach, Auckland

  • Date: 4-June-2017
  • Time: 8:30am-12:30pm
  • Weather: Sunny and the ocean started off oily calm but later that day the ocean went rough/bumpy
  • Tide: out going tide to incoming tide
  • Location: Click Here

Awesome day of fishing, heaps of bites. I caught 2 legal Snappers and one medium sized Kahawai. I also caught a bunch of Baby Snappers and two Baby Kahawai.

Cooked up the Snapper and made sliders for everyone.

Eastern Beach,Auckland

  • Date: 7-may-2017
  • Time: 4.00pm-6.00pm
  • Weather: sunny and hot but nice oily calm
  • Tide: Incoming tide to out going tide
  • Location Spot 1: Eastern Beach

Awesome 2hr fishing trip, heaps of bites and baby Snappers. If I was able to stay out longer I would of definitely of caught more legal Snappers, two legal Snappers were caught and a bunch of Jack Mackerells were caught aswell. I found it a bit unusual that we were catching Jack Mackerell at the depth we were fishing at because I thought Jack Mackerell were more of a shallow fish.

Eastern Beach, Auckland

  • Date: 28-April-2017
  • Time: 6:40am-11am
  • Weather: Cloudy and choppy but started off oily calm
  • Tide: Incoming tide to out going tide
  • Location Spot 1: Eastern Beach
  • Location Spot 2: Eastern Beach

Awesome days fishing heaps of bites and at the first spot there was heaps of 20cm Snappers and at the second spot there was heaps of 29cm Snappers and at the second spot I caught one Jack Mackerell.