The water is so blue!!Amazing!

Great video, lovely couple fishing, I also fish with my girl, good information Thankyou for sharing your experiences I'm from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 ♥️

Thank you for the great adventure.!

You guys do the best fishing videos! So relatable and funny 😅. Kahawai really are the "peoples fish". ❤

gr8 to see the boat in action out there. awesome action on the kahawai

Good video~Look forward your update!!🤩

nice Video 🤙

Nice one Mark! Looks like a beautiful spot 🙌

AWESOME !!!🤙🤙🤙

Another great video guys!!! Well done!!!

Great video. I was checking out salmon fishing videos and KZfaq suggested New Zealand salmon. I was curious to see how you fish salmon in the southern hemisphere. Vancouver, Canada here. Our regulations here require single barbless hooks so it's a challenge to land salmon. The trick is to have very sharp hooks. They should be "sticky". If you try to stick the point of the hook into your thumbnail and the hook doesn't "stick", it just slides along your thumbnail, then we just throw it away and get a new one. Having sticky sharp hooks increases your landing success immensely. You probably won't need to use the treble hook and releasing is easier on you and the fish. I recommend Gamakatsu hooks. They're strong and very sharp hooks.

I liked the video … a lot I felt real excitement when both of hooked up and fish jumped across each other, it was fantastic for the viewing. Salmon fishing on the Waitaki has been a bit lacklustre have only caught two so far and one was only 4 1/2 pounds (trout size) seen a few though, will try again tomorrow

Great video mate. When you dropping kahawai, sharpen your hooks and keep the rod tip high, I guarantee way less drops.

Another great video - nice to see you guys at my 'go-to' fishing spot. Cheers.

Try to imagine a bit what the hook does in the fish's mouth. There is a reason why you are losing most of those fish. If you hook a fish for example upstream of you the shank of the hook and your line/rod are "in line" and as long as you keep pressure on, the fish will usually stay hooked unless the hook rips out. In the video on multiple occasions you can see how the fish goes for example from upstream to downstream, i.e. swims past you, and you dont lead correctly with your rod. The shank of the hook now points away from your rod/line, and as you build up tension the hook "rolls out" of the fish's mouth (unless you keep a lot of pressure on and keep the fish's head turned all the time). You gotta keep the rod consistently on one side of the fish and if the fish passes you by, you dont switch sides and pull into the other direction. Trebles dont save you from this (or only help a bit). Try improving your technique on how you play the fish. Hope this makes sense. There are lures for fish that jump and shake their heads, where the lure is an in-line lure (the lure slides freely on your line and the hook is tied on behind the lure). We use this to catch sea trout in Norway. You basically take away the leverage from the fish, it doesnt have any mass left to shake out the hook. Try googling "snurrebassen lure" to see what I mean. Im sure NZ has something like that too. Also: pleeeease kill the fish before you de-hook if you are going to take the fish anyway. In your home country, this is the way you are being taught, and the only way you're getting your fishing license. No reason to behave any differently abroad.

Kahawai are great fish to catch,eat and use as bait- a good all-round fish but so many people turn their noses up at them. I catch them on Daiwa bait junkie 4-inch soft baits and they hammer them at the Rakaia River mouth. Usually they are 3-4kgs so big Kahawai.

Legends 🙏 Hyeshin needs more fishing time, get fit for the big kingfish 🎣

Come back in the whitebait season, the kahawai are twice as big then!!

Have you tried the Waitaki River Mouth they are huge 60+ CM just South Of Waimate in South Canterbury ?

Awesome video, they had a good run this summer. What rod and reel combo are you two using?

Is it possible to get these guys off the shore near Auckland? I’d love to get one but not sure where