Archives for January, 2010

Yay, looks like the 30Fish challenge is going to be picked up and covered by the good folk at Bayfisher magazine, will post more details once confirmed.

Ok, I’m only a few days away from starting this thing, I’m leaving Auckland on board Red Quarters and heading to Great Barrier island for the long weekend, so the first three days of the 30 day challenge will be spent fishing at Great Barrier!

Up at 5:15, on the beach at 5:30, paddling out the harbour to watch the sun rise

Well the family headed back to Auckland this morning, so what to do after work... Yea I know, I'll go fishing, so out the Hospital at 5:00, drive to Ngunguru, load the kayak, put on some gear and drive around the corner to Whangaumu. Not having looked at any charts or anything, hey this is the North it's full of fish anywhere will do... So I was out there for about two hours and here's how it went down...

Well I’m all moved in to Ngunguru, been on a few walk abouts to check out the local spots, there are some very fishiy looking spots to check out in the Ngunguru / Tutukaka / Matapori areas.

The first sponsor is on board and getting behind 30Fish, K-Labs – www.klabs.co.nz – They have come forward with some of their Flurocarbon leader in a range of breaking strains on 50 yard wheel dispensers. Thanks guys!

Today I have filled in all the pages in the About section to the right, the What / Who / Where / When / Why / Sponsors pages, have a look through them and they will explain more about the challenge, and who I am. I’ve also had a few people ask me how did [...]