b'RANGIPUTAScott and I quickly unpacked the uteI stopped the boat about 25-30m away and geared up to launch the centreand Scott cast near them working his console for an afternoon fish uponlure quickly, but it unfortunately got no arriving, to get a reccy fish done and theinterest.The wind was now blowing lures in the water!After spending severalharder and pushing us away and making hours in the vehicle and finally reachinghis follow up casts into the strong breeze your spot, this gets you very keen to bedifficult to put the stick bait closer to the on the water. feeding kingfish.Soon it was all over, Heading out after filming some droneand the kings had disappeared, and we footage of the new boat in the harbour,rued our missed chance.We worked the we could see in the distance workingarea for several minutes casting lures, it birds up the harbour, so I gunned thewas still cool to see the bust up and we Mercury 60hp towards the action. decided to return to the spot the next Arriving quickly, we could see kahawaiday and slow troll live baits.smashing small baitfish and sign on theThe rising wind caused us to end our Lowrance under the top water fish.Scottlate afternoon session, but we had dinner worked a stick bait around the schoolssorted and we headed back into our unit looking for a kingfish, while I worked ato fillet the fish and prep for a full day of Zman softbait on the new Tica Kazumifishing tomorrow.Softbait Pro rod for the first time.I was soon connected to a nice snapperSECOND DAYwhich was kept for our dinner, and thenThe forecast was spot on when we scored a couple more fish with a fatawoke at 6am as the wind had dropped 50cm trevally also in the bin for sashimi. to almost nothing and there was hardly Scott was working his stick bait with noany breeze as we packed the boat.hits when up ahead about 60m away, ILaunching at 7am we went along to saw large splashing and activity on thethe local boat ramp to meet up with surface.It looked like kingfish action toCraig and his wife Michelle who had me, so we raced over to see two goodorganised to join us and fish from their kingfish smashing into bait. 4.2m Smartwave.Scott hooked up to a good fish around some foul in the shallows when softbaiting.Scott was working his stick bait with no hits when up ahead about 70m away, I saw a large splash and activity on the surface.It looked like kingfish action to me20FISHING IN GODZONE JUL/AUG 2023'