b"SPEARFISHING The best thing about tinnies is their limitations, because you can't head miles offshore you instead need to fish your feet first. Diving stretches of coastline and exploring new terrain that most people zip straight past in their bigger boats can be rewarding, especially when you manage to secure a feed without spending hundreds of dollars on fuel.This summer one of my mates purchased a 3.70m boat, which is a twelve footer in tinny talk. With a 25hp Tohatsu on the back and its high sides, it makes the ideal inshore spearing platform. Of course, with a small boat comes bigger responsibility. A reliable motor, correct weight distribution and a constant watch of the weather is required if you plan to dive out of a tinny.With the weather forecast showing light winds early and increasing mid-morning, a plan was hatched for a half day mission to a peninsula north of Auckland packed full of potential. Diving a peninsula, we knew that if the wind did get up as forecasted, we would be sheltered for the trip home. In a tinny you can't just go full noise into Diving from a small tinny, Fergthe chop so a bit of prior planning and an managed to bag a solid kingie. option b should the weather turn pear shaped, goes a long way, and remember if in doubt dont go out.Ferg brings the fat kingfish over the side of the Quintrex 12ftBAY SNOOPINGtinny and safely away from a lurking bronzie. Setting out of the harbour and with the smell of 2-stroke in the air, we found ourselves a secluded rocky bay just up the coast. With the small tinny we were able to quietly idle right up into the shallows before carefully dropping the anchor over the side, stealth is another positive to spearing in the humble tinny. With the sun slowly coming up we hatched a plan to head off in search of snapper and other tasty reef fish. I was to swim north along the bay snooping whilst my two dive buddies Ferg and Leo, were to swim south to set berley on a promising pile of rocks.Hunting snapper at the change of light is one of my favourite types of spearfishing and with the current running it wasn't long before I came across my first pannie mooching around in the shallows. A well-aimed shot to the brain and the fish was on my float line, I continued on up the coast. Meanwhile down the other side of the bay the boys had also got onto some good fish, big kina berleys seemed to work well in this spot and before long we had a several pannies between us. 42FISHING IN GODZONE MAR/APR 2023"