Some NZ Action

[DaCosmo]

Hey Guys,

I moved over to NZ from Sydney a few years back and I tell you, I have never seen fishing as good as it is over here.

The fishing is superb all over the country with huge fish in huge numbers. Here are some pics and links to video clips I have created while fishing here over the last 6 months.

The kingfish are HUGE here, my PB is 35kg, if you get a chance to come here for a fish, take it.

Remember when selecting video clips, right click and save target as to your computer.



http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner/Volkner19.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner/Volkner20.jpg


http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner/Volkner25.jpg



http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/24sep2006/fishing-24SEP06-2-small.jpg





Some video clips for you to download.

Enjoy.

Watch out for the active volcano in the background in clips 3 & 4

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/volkner-050107/volkner-5-jan-07-Part2.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/volkner-050107/volkner-5-jan-07-Part3.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/volkner-050107/volkner-5-jan-07-Part4.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/coro-feb3-2007/coro2.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/coro-feb3-2007/coro3.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/coro-feb3-2007/coro4.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/coro-feb3-2007/coro5.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/coro-feb3-2007/coro6.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/fishing-trip-24SEP06.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/coro-feb17-2007/coro-feb17-2007.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner/Volkner8-Lance.wmv

Cheers

DaCosmo

[James]

awesome pics mate.

struggling to watch the videos though

[mulloway mayhem]

mate looks like you have your hands full of some big nz kings
i tried to download some of the movies but it said 10hours left of down loading time...maybe i did something wrong not sure...

anyhow good stuff mate send some pics in we all love to see big fish no matter where they are from

:beerchug: wayneo

[DaCosmo]

Hey Guys,

The clips are standard windows media player, WMV files so you shouldn't have any probs viewing them. However I recommend that you don't just click on them as they will try and download and play the clip real time.

You are better off right clicking and selecting, "Save Target As" to save a copy of the file to your PC.

Some of the clips are large and will take a while to download, but believe me, if you like action video of catching large fish, its well worth the download.

Enjoy,

DaCosmo

Here are a few more pics.

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/coro-feb17-2007/channel-1.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/coro-feb17-2007/king-for-dinner-2.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner/Volkner23.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner/Volkner9.jpg

[TomMc]

awesome kingies!!!!!!! i also had trouble with movies
Tom

[Jewman70]

omg!!! look at that rod bend! Great fish mate :D

[445F]

Some amazing fish there !!!! Look at the size of theose Kings !!!

Did you catch those on charters or on your own boat, and how far out from shore do you need to go?

[445F]

Hey DaCosmo, what bait are you using?

[disco]

Da Cosmo-
Lance Warren??
20B triple rotor Mazda 929 Coupe with Evo 3 front bar??
Or something like that??

[DaCosmo]

Hey Tom, What problems are you having with the movies? Broadband is recommended.

Hey 445F, A couple of the pics are from a charter over here based at a place called Whakatane. There is a active volcanic Island 51kms from the mainland called White Island and another group of rocks 3ks north of White called the Volkner Rocks which has a huge resident population of kings. The waters out there can be quite rough most of the time, but I did manage take my own boat out there over xmas and got amoungst them.

You can catch kings over here on a variety of baits and lures. The most popular lures these days are vertical jigs and the Japanese 'Zest' brand seems to work the best. If the kings are working at the surface you can get them with a popper or spinner.

Live baits, like kahawai (Australian Salmon), Jack Mackeral work the best for large kings and can be rigged either just below the surface with a balloon or sent down below with a large sinker.

Another popular place to fish for huge kings is the ranfurly banks which is off the east cape of the North Island.

I live in Auckland and fish the Hauraki Gulf which is also abundant with snapper, kingfish, trevally and Kahawai.

Snapper over 10kg is regularly caught in the gulf and kingfish average 15kg and up.

Here are a few pics of the places I just talked about.

Cheers

DaCosmo

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/ni-fishing.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/hauraki-gulf-fishing.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/bop-fishing.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/east-cape-fishing.jpg

[445F]

Thanks DaCasmo, very interesting information. Sounds like fishing over in NZ is amazing. Have to add it to the wish list of fishing destinations. Cheers.

[DaCosmo]

Hey Mate, If you ever plan to come over here for a holiday, I would be happy to take you out to get a 20kg kingie.

[445F]

Geez, thanks DaCasmo, very kind of you to offer !!!! I might take you up on the offer one of these days !!!!

I downloaded some of the videos (they take a bit of time to download, even with broadband, perhaps that is why people are having trouble downloading - as some of them are huge in size). Good action happening. Are you the camera man or the bloke in the red cap?

Finally, what are the large kings like to eat? eg the 15kg one you brought up?

Some of the guys in Sydney say the ones over a metre are not that nice to eat as the meat is a little grey.... I would have thought that if the 15kg ones are good to eat, then the 1 metre ones should not be a problem, after all they are exactly the same fish aren't they?? Just that they are the XOS versions over there???

[DaCosmo]

Hey 445F, I have the Navman cap on in some of the pics, the guy with the red cap is my fishing buddy, Bill. We both have 7m aluminium fishing boats and we alternate between his and mine most weekends.

Here are a couple of short video clips of our boats.

bills boat

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/bill-boat.wmv

my boat

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/lance-boat.wmv

They build great boats over here too.

As far as the taste of kings go, we either cook em up as steaks or smoke them. As long as you blead them right away they tast great, even the 2m jobbies.

Cheers

DaCosmo

[445F]

Hey DaCosmo,

Very nice boat indeed, great camera work too. What sort of boat is it?

I love the area in which you were boating, very beautiful and scenic. Much better then the concrete jungle we have here in Sydney...

Can't complain though, the harbour is awesome for a big city like Sydney, it is relatively clean and minimal travel time to get onto nice sized Kings.

[DaCosmo]

Hey 445F, my boat is a SothernSportz 670 Hardtop made in the South Island of NZ http://www.southernboats.co.nz

My mate Bill, has a McLay 680 http://www.mclayboats.co.nz

There are quite a few manufacturers over here, another popular brand is surtees, http://www.surtees.co.nz

The scenery here is awesome, a lot of islands etc.

Hopefully see you over here soon.

Cheers

DaCosmo

[Jewman70]

Very nice DaComo, I watched all of those movies, your daughter is the cutest! i love the Part when they kingie is going for a run, "is the drag up right up?" and his still running even with your thumb on the spool!!! awesome stuff, there is a way too make them smaller, download winrar and extract them should take a few mb off.

Dylan

[DaCosmo]

Hey Jewman70, I am glad you enjoyed all the vids. I am packing tonight for a trip back down to white island this weekend. Its a 4.5 hour drive with the boat in tow, but well worth the effort when you get onto those XOS kings. I'll post up some pics and more vids when we get back.

Cheers

DaCosmo

[Jewman70]

Awesome mate, can't wait to see them. Put some REALLY ridicously big baits out, you never never know!

Dylan

['fin]

big kingies are lush to eat:ohhh yeah:

[DaCosmo]

Hey Guys,

There have been some monster kings caught this week here in NZ.

Check out these boys..!

Cheers

DaCosmo

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/bigkings007.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/bigkings001.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/kings-off-the-beach.jpg

[mulloway mayhem]

hey mate

not to sure about the 2 fish on the beach.....

but the first 2 pics it looks to me that they were speared.1st one im 100% you can see he is wearing wet suit and there is a spear hole in the back of the kings head........

2nd pic it also looks as if they were speared...

still good fish...!!

:Drinkin: :Drinkin: wayneo

[honky007]

OMG!!!!

That's freaking MASSIVE!

Hahaha wow!

I was thinking of PnG but now NZ seems the goods!

I have to go!

For someone heading over for a fishing holiday, what's the best time of year and place to go?

Are you able to recommend any fishing charters?

I want to get stuck into one of those kings!!

Thanks heaps for putting those pics up, amazing!

[DaCosmo]

Hey Honky,

I would be glad to take you out and get amongst them, nows the time of year for it. I am heading off at 4am tomorrow to the spot where these were nabbed.

So I will post some pics and vids when I get back Sunday night.

Cheers

DaCosmo

[445F]

Those Kings are MASSIVE !!!! The first one is so fat too !!!!

Could the holes in the fish have been a result of gaff marks!?

Hope you go onto some big Kings DaCosmo, let us know how you go.

[flat rock]

yes they do look like they have been speared old mates wearing a wet suit and thats no gaff mark!!
but classic pics

[DaCosmo]

Hey Guys,

Well the plan was to head down to Whakatane on friday night for an early saturday morning trip out to white island but I had to work late friday night and didn't get back home til midnight so decided to fish in the Hauraki Gulf close to my house on saturday and head to coro where I have had some good success with kings lately.

Well what a beautiful day it was, but we couldn't find the kings. Unfortunately they were not around but we did land some nice fish.

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner2/lance-poureye1.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner2/lance-poureye2.jpg

This is a huge "pooreye" that would have gone close to 8kg.

We also got our share of small fish, like this very small mini-snapper.

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner2/lance-snapper2.jpg

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner2/lance-snapper3.jpg

This snapper was landed on a 10/0 hook which was funny.

to be continued....

[DaCosmo]

....from previous post......

It was such a nice day that I decided to come back in early and head down to Whakatane for sunday. After coming back in, washing the boat and packing our stuff we didn't leave until 10pm, so it was 2.30am sunday by the time we got there. We decided to fuel up the boat, get some ice and catch a few z's parked up at the boat ramp car park.

At 5.30am Sunday, we launched and headed over the bar, unfortuneatly 2m swells prevented us heading out to White Is and Volkner so we hung close to shore with about 5 nice ocean going Kahawai being landed on light tackle. Calling it a day, we decided to check into a motel and see what the weather was going to be like on monday and lucky for us it was perfect and we headed out to white is and volkner. The 51km trip took just over 45mins and we were greeted with a dead calm sea.

After 30mins of jigging, I landed this nice fat 25kg brute.

http://www.3rotor.com/images/fishing/volkner2/lance-king1.jpg

He put up an awesome fight and was a great fish on a jig. Now thats what I am talking about.

Gotta love this place

Cheers

DaCosmo

[xtosea]

That is one huge Parore, or for us here, Morwong. That is a monster!
Keep em coming, all pics of fish are welcome!

Kamil

[DaCosmo]

Hey Kamil, yeh man that was one big fish. I thought it was a king for a while there, he was pulling line pretty well.

I have uploaded some videos of this mission.

Don't forget to right click and "save target as" to your computer.

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/volkner-5mar07/lance-king1.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/volkner-5mar07/volkner1.wmv

http://www.3rotor.com/video/fishing/volkner-5mar07/volkner2.wmv

Cheers DaCosmo