When:Sunday 22 January, 6:30am
Where:Marine Gardens, Raumati
Registration from 6.30am at Marine Gardens, Raumati Beach on Sunday 22nd. Or early registration is also available on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st at the Village Inn between 5pm and 6pm. $20 for adults, $10 for children.
Rods in at 7.30am and out at 3pm. All welcome, entry is on the [...]

The First thing you need to do is to kill the Kahawai. The best method is with several hard blows to the head with a fish donger. The heart will beat for several minutes after the Kahawai has died, so there is no worry about the blood not coming out.
If you catch a Kahawai you [...]

Forum Topic can be found here: Discuss the Moki $1,000 Competition Here.
Moki Fishing Competition in Cape Palliser Organised by the Fielding Surfcasting Club
The Entry fee for this competition is $20 and entry can be obtained by emailing the following details to this email address: bryan@kairangaeggs.co.nz

Feilding Surfcasting Club
ENTRY FORM MOKI $1000 26th November 2011
Name [...]

Rockfisher, Jimijig, Jordan, The Hairyone and Andy did the South coast Saturday arvo and into the night, others were expected to show, but alas never appeared. We were greeted with clear sky above and fickle winds from all directions,but nothing which is typical of this area, a very good swell was pumping in which had [...]

After our mish to the south coast with big swells,it was good to settle into some smaller waves and favorable conditions at my local haunt.
Still lots of Spiny Dogs,Red Cod and plenty of little Tope around,the Kahawai are slowly showing themselves as the Whitebait are slowly making their way up Otakis mouth.
Hopefully the northerlies stay [...]

Great for using fish of lesser quality
Half kilo fish minced/ mouli’eed or otherwise mashed
1 stalk lemongrass finely chopped
2 birdseye chillies finely chopped
Handful of coriander roughly chopped
1 egg
1 cup mashed potato
1 cup breadcrumbs
Thai Fish sauce
Half teaspoon curry powder or paste equivalent
Mix together shape into fritters, pat into more breadcrumbs, shallow fry in quality oil
good with sweet [...]

The blood circulatory system of fish is very basic when compared to say a mammal’s blood system. However the principals are similar and learning about this system will help you understand better the fish’s anatomy and also how to bleed a fish. Before I talk about the make up of the fish blood circulatory system [...]

Rockfisher
Went to a wedding on the Saturday and got home at about 10 pm so decided to go for a fish, arranged with Ozz to head out to spot x at 5-5.30 am Sunday,I was running late as a dickhead decided to roll his car in front of me but all was good 1 [...]

Baiting a hook properly is very important when it comes to catching fish. Baiting crab onto your hook can leave you scratching your head and asking the question, how do I bait crab onto my fishing hooks?

Went out for a first light fish this morn becoz wind dropped right off, low cloud cover, good moon and tide… thought sweet lets go nail some easy pannies in the harbour… got down there was mint as and i started saluvating(it really looked that good, perfect conditions), set my rods ups and got all [...]