b'I set the three trolling rods and had just sat down within arms reach of the rods, when bang!Two rods doubled over.The reels screamed in protest as line tore off the spools, these were no couta!dark, so we dropped him off in a baywho hadnt seen any good deermoving, jumping fish ahead with with the tender. sign but was keen to spend a fullbirds working amongst them!Tuna!We moved to anchor up atday in the bush.That night, TorinThey were feeding and jumping out Richards mark and we all startedimpressed us all with his restaurantof the water, so I yelled to Richard fishing, apart from Derek whograde meal of fresh cod fillets andto take us over and we put out the quickly suited up for his dive. crayfish.His sauces were tastyRapalas.It was amazing to see Immediately we started catchingand if this was to be the standardbluefin inside the fiords feeding and cod, perch, and wrasse as soon asof all our meals, then we wereI wished I had my top water gear.our baits hit the bottom.The codhappy fishos! Suddenly we had a strike, fish on!were in great condition, fat 40cm+The fish didnt fight hard, it must fish and it wasnt going to take usDAY TWO be a small tuna and unfortunately too long to catch our dinner. The next morning, we all awoketurned out to be a dreaded couta.Derek returned from his dive withwith eager anticipation for whatWe continued trolling around the six big crayfish and was babblingFiordland would deliver.Theworking tuna but kept catching non-stop about having seen at leastweather was again calm and warm,damn couta.We caught several and fifty crays, while taking his pickso the skipper pulled anchor tobecame deflated as the tuna were like being at a supermarket.Wehead to another fishing spot.Asright there, just not interested in our returned to the bay to collect Gavinwe moved between spots I saw fastlures today. /FISHINGINGODZONE51'