Reel Deal Adventures

18/03/2025

Autumn bluenose fishing at its finest
With beautiful clam days and a slight chil in the air
You just can't beat this time of year for getting a good feed of bluenose for those winter days coming

17/03/2025

Swordfishing can produce some quite tasty by catch in-between bluenose fishing spots

17/03/2025

Bluenose are on the chew and ready to spawn
Nows the perfect time to catch yourself a good stock of table fish for winter

05/05/2024

Big Kingfish are feeding hard getting ready for winter atm in the Bay of Plenty and it has to be the best time of the year to be out here

25/04/2024

DEEP SEA C**K SOCKS
Otherwise known as
Pyrosomes, genus Pyrosoma, are free-floating colonial tunicates that usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths. Pyrosomes are cylindrical or cone-shaped colonies up to 18 m long, made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids

25/04/2024

TE KUIA ROCK

Keeping Tradition Alive
At the entrance to Tauranga Harbour, at the foot of Mauao, there is a rock in the water called Te Kuia, the old lady. When the fishing boats go out in the open sea, the people on board throw over a piece of food or a small coin, an offering to the Kuia as they pass by this rock. This is also an offering to Tangaroa, god of the ocean, to ensure the success of their fishing trip. It is also a way of showing respect for the sea, for the power of the waves and the food resources to be found there.

My family has been giving offering to Te Kuia rock for 30 plus years now and we are not going to stop any time soon.

KEEPING THE LEGEND ALIVE

24/04/2024

Overnight at Mayor Island is producing great fishing for kingfish as they feed hard getting ready for winter as the water temp starts to drop off.
With kingfish in the bin we headed out to try 2 Puka Knolls off Mayor Island
The Razor Tooth Gang (gemfish) were biting hard and we couldn't stay on the bottom long enough to get a hapuka so the boys were keen to try getting some snapper so we headed back to Mayor Island to do some reef fishing.
Catching a few snapper we headed for home with heavy bins of great eating fish
A great trip with the guys from up North
Looking forward to next time

08/03/2024

The places your Suzuki should go – summer edition. ⁣
Mayor Island (Tuhua), North Island, New Zealand ⁣
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Just 35 km north of Tauranga, Mayor Island (Tuhua) isn’t merely another distant island peak. Tuhua is a dormant shield volcano providing insane big game fishing and a pest-free reserve. We recommend that you don’t just go for the day and instead drop an anchor at Southeast Bay for the night and enjoy exploring the island. ⁣
But perhaps don’t all flock there at once, Reel Deal Adventures might not be so pleased about sharing his spot. ⁣⁣

23/02/2024

Snapper kingfish trip
Leaving 6 30 am and back around 6pm
Sulphur Point Boat Ramp departure
2 spots available
550 per person

20/02/2024

With a family group from over seas on board SHOWTIME we headed out to mayor Island to show them what New Zealands fishing is all about and with the seas flat for the best part of the day we did just that
Starting off with massive schools of blue mackerel and a marlin tuning them up hopes were high but the marlin wasn't interested in a live blue mackerel so we carried on out to mayor to fish for live bait snapper and kingfish

Once at mayor we quickly set up the gear and caught a heap of live koheru putting them back down there we getting nailed by kingfish upto 12kg and the strayline out the back got this really nice snapper pushing the high 20s

With fish in the bin we decided to go for an island sights seeing run around the island and stopping into south east bay for lunch and a walk

Then back on the SHOWTIME we set our sights on some big kingfish with the wind picking up We had to try a little harder to hold on the right spot and quickly having 3 livebaits stolen we were determined to get 1 on the 4th livebait we did just that hooking up to a massive kingfish the anglers were infor a fight with 3 change overs on the angler we managed to boat a very nice sized kingfish estimated to being 28kg with photos taken and alot of amazement in the sheer size of the fish we sent down another livebait and got nailed again by another big kingfish which was fighting really hard until the taxman decided to take his part ... boating the left overs we had left the kingfish was estimate to have been 22kg if hole and with that we headed for home with a nasty westerly picking up We had a big of a rough ride home but to top off the day we seen dolphins 3 miles off the mount with a beautiful sunset behind them

WHAT A DAY TO REMEMBER ... WOW

10/02/2024

Sarah's nice snapper which took 3rd place for the women's comp

07/02/2024

Heading to Mayor Knolls
We managed a nice kingfish, 2 small bass and a load of gemfish and then catching up with my brother rusty running Striker we carried on over to mayor Island to finish the day off catching a few reef fish and then a quick stop on the island it.

18/01/2024

Quick shoot out the the Mayor Knolls midmorning produced some really nice eating size bass, jemfish and even a Japanese gurnard
Some firsts for these 3 guys
And also seeing dolphins 🐬 on the way out making a great day out

09/01/2024

Mount Maunganui and all her glory
Heading out Mayor Island on sunrise is hard to bet

30/12/2023

Another banger of a day with seas flat we headed out from mayor Island with high hopes of catching a few bluenose which proved to be hard to catch for some reason (they are starting row up so it would be long till they are in full bite and easier to hunt down and catch) so we were working hard doing alot of winding the baits back up from deep water

We decided to turn our sights on hapuka and bass before the day came to and end and we managed a couple of nice fish with ella catching her personal best fish ever a 31kg bass and jono catching his best hapuka so far at 15kg

With the day coming to and end we shot back in to the tauranga game fishing club and weighed in our fish

Another great trip had by all on SHOWTIME

29/12/2023