Up here the fishing has been not that great. Blacks has been dead, whakaki has been full of small kahawai and trevs, tahanui's been a dessert, not to flash at all.

Snapper rocks been the pick of the lot with some nice fish comming in. Lots of trevs with a few good ones in between. A few rats around at the moment too, havent seen anything big, just ones 4-8k max.

I took the boat out of blacks on Friday, 30 spineys, 1 red cod, I shit you not. I went out the bar in wairoa and headed down to waihua on Saturday, we caught 40 snapper in a couple of hours and were back by 9am. If waihua is clean boys, and you have a quad, I would highly recommend a tour.

From the second creak at wairoa heading towards waihua there is a huge set of rock just out of casting reach, Fishing from there back towards waihua would be the pick of the entire coast and your vehicles are very safe, in 3 years I have not heard of a car touched. If you go in from Waihua, head to the right, about half way back to mohaka you will see a big cut out in the cliffs, this is another outstanding spot which is holding............ And as a side note, consistently the biggest kahawai I have ever seen in the bay.

If you explore this area boys, you may just find a spot to remember, it doesn't get much pressure, holds plenty of fantastic reef structure and hold some incredible fishing.

As for Mahanga, I here there have been quite a few gurns comming in on the long lines and good sized snapper, but no suprizes that very few are caught on the rods. It has just come off a HUGE swell and with some onshore may produce.

Dinahs, as always at this time of the year, lots of sharks with a few smaller pannies in between.

Good luck, hope the four trawlers smashing our coast currently don't steal all our fish.