Fishing Reports by Carl Muir

Red Hot Yellowtail Fishing in New Zealand - Howdy All The kingi fishing continues here in New Zealand. Our jigging trips are producing some awesome sessions with fifty plus kingis in a day, most released to fight another day. The biggest from last week was 23kg, a good sized fish taken ji more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

First day of winter signals great snapper fishing - The first day of winter greeted us yesterday and as per usual the snapper were on tap in the shallows. As the water in close cools, the snapper move in and the next three months is some of the best time to softbait in the shallows. We're working more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Gamefishing Hanging in There! - After getting dealt with some pretty average sea conditions over the last month, the skies were blue and seas were glassy last weekend. Typical! Justin Pilkington from Cathedral Cove Macadamias, Rob Fort from Coromandel Kayak Adventures and I were st more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Epic New Zealand Fishing - Well, we are half way through Autumn and the water temp is better than we had for the whole of summer! We have azure blue water in close to the coastline and a very hot end of season marlin bite. The yellowtail kingfish are really starting to c more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - HOT KINGFISH ACTION! We've just come off two days of insane kingfish action. Jigging the offshore pinnacles around the Aldermen Islands with big 400gm pink jigs we hooked into around 50 kingfish between five anglers up to 20kg. There are lot more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - GENERAL CONDITIONS Our water temp is starting to climb up, out wide of the Aldermen Islands we now have 17-18 degrees, and with the water warming we will have Albacore, Yellowfin and within a couple of months, Marlin will be turning up. Inshor more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - INSANE SOFTBAIT ACTION If you had of told me a year ago that we would be using no bait at all for snapper fishing, I would have thought you'd maybe had a few too many... But that is exactly how things have panned out. We are getting such good more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - SPRING ACTION Well it looks like we have an epic season ahead. The water is a lot warmer out wide compared to the same time last year. Albacore in the 20kg range are now being caught and it won't be long before we get the first run of yellowfi more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - Vanuatu Blues and Coromandel Snapper We've just got back from our annual trip to Vanuatu. Travelling with us was Lonnie McAlister, Bill Pepper and Ian Hogan, who all managed to battle with the big Blue and Black Marlin that Vanuatu is famous fo more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

New Zealand - Tairua & the Coromandel Peninsula - WINTER KINGFISH AND SNAPPER Well, we are well and truly in the middle of winter here in New Zealand, but is hasn't stopped the fish from biting.We had a great day on Sunday, with three hardy souls braving some average conditions with us, but determ more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel