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The Ranfurly Bank, located some 30 miles east of East Cape, is one of the most exciting fisheries New Zealand has to offer.

This month NZ Fishing News covers the area with two features, both aboard prominent charter vessels. Read about 60kg bass and 40kg plus kingfish and find out how you can put yourself in the picture. That could be you on the cover shot in the future!

But you don’t have to go ‘out wide’ to catch a kingfish, NZ Fishing News tells you how to target them much closer to home in our harbours and inshore reefs as well as the latest and greatest tackle to catch them on in Adam Clancey’s ‘Hoodlums from the Hood’ feature . A fun way to target kingfish is with a popper. In the fourth article in the series Mark Kitteridge rounds out his coverage of the subject with a ‘which popper?’ feature that highlights the performance and application of a number of lure styles.

With the gamefishing season in full flight, there are several articles on how to improve your catch rate and techniques. Tony Orton writes about teasers while Jeff Strang explains how to fish from a gamechair.
Even the kayakers are getting offshore. Stephen Tapp’s ‘Big Fish – Small Boats’ article checks out a mothership operation.

This month’s spearfishing section looks at a new concept in contests where a camera plays as big a part in the proceedings as the speargun does. There is also an article on ‘snapper snooping’ at Great Barrier – another mothership operation.

At times catching surface feeding species such as kahawai and trevally can be more difficult than it looks. Josh Worthington offers a few tips on how to ensure success. Keeping it in the family, dad Craig checks out some fun with flounder.

If you are a surfcaster , especially in the Hawkes Bay, you will not want to miss the fourth and final article in Kane Wrigglesworth’s series on the region’s hotspots.
Soft bait fishing continues to grow in popularity. This issue Paul Senior rounds up the latest techniques in his ‘twitch, jerk, lift or drop’ feature while Peter Francis, a self-confessed ‘artificial’ angler, explains his attraction to ‘slow jigs’.

For the freshwater angler, this issue looks at leaders and sight fishing techniques while ion the offshore department, John Eichelsheim completes part two of his Solomons sojourn.
Auckland’s west coast offers some great fishing, but it is mainly accessed by way of a bar crossing. In his first feature for the magazine, Manukau area contributor Ben Francis explains how to cross the Manukau bar safely.

Add the above all the regular monthly features and columns and you have 188 pages of the best fishing action money can by. Enjoy your reading.

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