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The ever-popular Auckland Fishing Charter Boat MV Mantaray, with Skipper Lance at the helm, was once again a feature of a worldwide promotion showcasing Z Pier, Westhaven Marina in Auckland City, as a top destination for Snapper Fishing Trips to our overseas tourists. New Zealand is becoming an ever increasingly popular choice for sporting events.  In conjunction with Tourism New Zealand, this latest production was aimed at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 target audience. For airing on South African TV's "Hooked on Cricket", the South African Film Crew accompanied SA Cricketing Legend Jonty (Jonathon) Rhodes, who first of all was introduced to our own New Zealand Cricket Team before embarking on a promotional ski-ing trip in the South Island, taking in Christchurch and Queenstown.  The choice of Auckland activity was a saltwater Snapper Fishing Trip on the Auckland Harbour and Inner Hauraki Gulf.  Despite increment weather conditions during the week, the Auckland weather typically changed ...

The end of June already!  The team at NZ Fishing Safaris have still been kept busy despite the cooler temperatures!  Regular Snapper Fishing trips are still underway.

Queens Birthday weekend 31st May/1st June 2014 saw the Tracker II Fishing Team once again take out the top honours in the Annual Warkworth Gamefish Club 10kg competition. The same team as last year....

New Zealand Fishing Safaris has featured again on an overseas television show.  This time on "Love Is In The Air" - a reality show putting...

At the inaugral Z Pier Fishing Classic held at Westhaven Marina, Auckland, on 11th May 2014, top place for largest fish caught (and also the only Kingfish!!) went to Faye Lees.  Young 10 year old Alex Oudenhoven also...

A fun day for the Crew (Ray Phillips and Lance Paniora) aboard MANTARAY on 18th March filming a Photo Shoot for the Press Release of Cadbury's Chocolate latest promotion in conjuction with...

The SWEET LOUISE Annual Charity Fishing Competition is a fundraising day for Secondary Cancer Sufferers, and is well supported by the New Zealand Textile Industry.  Once again this year, the Charles Parsons' crew aboard Tracker II came in with some outstanding results taking out the top prizes. Largest Overall Snapper - Mike Petherick [5.41kgs] 5th Largest Snapper - Joel Sampson Largest Overall Ladies' Snapper 1st on Aggregate for total fish weighed in Hard Luck Story of the Day - Tina Grant They even won the Raffle!! Well done to the Charles Parsons'  Team under the professional watch of Skipper Richard and Deckie ("the fish whisperer"), Jim.   A great effort and a great result for the 2014 event. In this, it's 5th year, $16,000 was raised for this very worthy charity.                                 & ...

The Annual Warkworth Gamefish Club's 2013 10kg Line Competition was an awesome weekend with great results for the team of four anglers aboard Tracker II, Ray Phillips, Tony Gale, Trevor Williams and Sue Trent, taking out top honours. The Snapper Section went to 15 places again this year, and it is a feature of this competition that will endure because even 15th place is usually in excess of 5kg and this is a good fish on a 10kg or less line.  Tracker II Team took out 1st place (Tony), 2nd Place (Ray) 4th Place (Trevor) and 13th Place (Sue).  Sue took out 1st Place in the Ladies Section. Super prizes on offer - the Tracker Team also took out the Earlybird Draw and each won a raffle prize and came home armed with $1,000 cash, fishing rod, chilly bin, bottles of wine, Marine LED light set - awesome sponsorship for this event. Sincere thanks to the Warkworth Gamefish Club for their hospitality and awesome organisation, the sponsors - and last but not least to Grahame, the Sandspit Harbourmaster, ...

This popular Annual Fishing Contest well supported by the New Zealand Textile Industry was held this year on 22nd February. The Sweet Louise Charity was set up to supports sufferers of secondary cancer and all funds raised at the Fishing Contest go towards this.  Money is raised from entries and raffles of prizes donated by the participants and sponsors of the event.  This year they netted over $11,000. New Zealand Fishing Safaris had two boats involved in the competition - Team NZ Window Shades aboard Tracker II and Team Charles Parsons aboard Exdreme. Places included: 1st Largest Ladies Snapper - Safia Haythorne (Tracker II) 2nd Largest Mens Snapper - Dave Ryan (Tracker II) Hardluck Prize - Bob Errington - Exdreme 2012 COMPETITION RESULTS Team Charles Parsons  aboard TRACKER II  (Skipper Captain Rod and deckie Doug): 1st Overall Snapper - Kerry Winter 1st Ladies Snapper - Kerry Winter 1st John Dory - A total of $10,500 was raised from thi ...

You just never know who may book a Fishing Charter in Auckland! Welcome aboard Tracker II to His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and Special Advisor to the President of the UAE. Crew of Ray and Sue were able to show these Royal Visitors to Auckland, the very best our great city has to offer.  The weather blessed us with beautiful blue skies and warm temperatures making for a stunning trip down the Auckland Harbour along the waterfront and out into the Hauraki Gulf.  The added bonus too of some really exciting fishing!  We were able to showcase some of the many fish species prevelant in these waters with some great size snapper caught.  Even the dolphins joined in the fun and gave us a great display playing around the boat! Our royal Guest and entourage enjoyed a typical kiwi barbecue lunch of burgers, sausages and salads whilst moored off Waiheke Island.  New Zeala ...