At least one angler is in with a chance to win $10,000 after catching one of the special green-tagged fish released into the Rotorua lakes in time for this weekend’s opening of the new fishing season. The Fish for Gold promotion centres on 30 green-tagged fish which have been put, ten apiece, into lakes Tarawera, Rotoiti and Okataina. Numbers on the tags correspond to prizes contained in sealed and numbered envelopes and one of them contains the grand prize of $10,000. The promotion runs until October 9. Rotorua angler Mark Preece says that he and his companions were deep trolling in the white cliffs area of Lake Tarawera this morning when they hooked the green tag fish.
The spring workups have now become more intense and concentrated as we start to move into summer. They are in a general area for a few days to a week until the bait is consumed and have been ranging over a large area. You know that there will be snapper under these ones as they are in the same spot and will go for hours on end. If you don’t drive through them and ruin it for yourself and other anglers, you will reap the rewards (bit like having a burly off the back of the boat then cutting it of so it floats away). We have been drifting up to 300mtrs down the exhaust/burly of these workups and catching good snapper all the way then coming back to repeat over and over again without disturbing it.