Surfcasting Aotearoa

12/12/2025

Mahi today.
3 cabins to the Taharoa Ironsands mine west coast. Massive operation and some very impressive machinery. Waves were pumping

20/11/2025

When you find a rod that you really like , a rod that casts effortlessly, a rod that simply just doesn't seem to have any faults and won't break the bank. What do you do when you have found that rod . You buy another one !!
Thanks to Off the sand-Chasing tides NZ , Tony Holden and the team a Kilwell Sports , I went out and bought another Kazumi Pro.
Side note : I bought a Kai Cooler 700 fish chiller bag too.

04/11/2025

Get online everyone and purchase these

Introducing a new range to the stocks, if your not a fan of the Octopus Skirts, 😎 We have you sorted. I've added an option that contains x 2 traces plus the long cast pully rig, with added floats and lumo beads. New to the stocks are these little beutys 9mm Glossy Red & Yellow, fire cracker looking floats. No doubt these will turn a snappers head.. ✌️ 🎣
You can find our store online at

www.chasingtidesnz.com

Tight lines always.
Vij 😎

26/10/2025

Over the years I've tried many different rigs for surfcasting and finally rested on the running rig and thought well thats it I dont need to try anything else. That was until I heard about these pulley rigs made by Off the sand-Chasing tides NZ .
Friday night I hit the beach around 9.30 pm with Kaz Thompson and we were catching a few small kahawai and snaps. Around 1 am Kaz went home and I changed 1 rod from running to 1 of the new pulley rigs . Within 3 hours I caught 11 snapper , 3 on running and 8 on the new pulley. Took 7 home the biggest going 510 mm and the rest between 400 - 480 mm. All snapper were caught on occy .

So now these pulley rigs will be heavily featured on my rods this summer and I am so looking forward to seeing what I catch . Thanks so much to Vijay Nikora Raj from Off the Sand for supplying them. Chur chur .

15/12/2024

November-early December has proved to be a nice productive time of the year when usually it’s windy and slow. This trip was no different.
I started the night mid papamoa Saturday at 9.30pm and fished there until 12.30am Sunday morning with just 1 Trev at 37cm hitting the sand.
Made the great decision to move to my low tide spot with bait hitting the water at 1.45am . Was a bit slow a first but at 3am it started to fire . Bite time lasted for 1.5 hours with 4 snapper beached .
1 @ 2.56kg , 2 @ 2-2.3kg , 1 @1.7kg
All my 3 heaviest fish had that milky flesh which was ok but no the the greatest.
Lastly I want to say if you are looking at getting a new rod , get a Tica Kazumi Pro.
I love casting it , fighting fish and how light it is . I’m very impressed with how it handles considering how light it is.

01/11/2024

Good old Papamoa doing it again. You can’t deny it we definitely live in blessed part of the world. When I got to my spot on the beach I was expecting there to be a lot of NW - W wind but it was non existent really. Fished from 8.30pm - 1am at the first spot which produced 4 nice reds but then went quiet , then moved 1km down the road and fished the slack tide until 2.30am . Being able to wade OTB is where it’s at for me. Picked up 2 more healthy , fat reds . They were both stuffed with crabs. Packed up , fish on ice and in bed by 3.30am.
Location : on papamoa
Rods : Tica Kazumi Pro and Tica Kazumi Galatic
Reels : 2x Okuma 8k loaded with 8kg Sufix tritanium
Bait : pillies and fresh kahawai
Hooks : BKK 4/0 circle

Chur chur

28/10/2024

So with this s**t weather hanging around for a bit I decided to go for a fish anyway as there was a slight lull in the wind around 9pm -12am last night. First spot towards pap east I got my 60lb trace snapped in half , which left me wondering. Let around 11.30pm with an empty fish bag. Went down to my go to spot to fish the whole incoming tide. It didn’t disappoint. Caught 2 good keepers ( 51 and 43 cm ) , put back 4 just over legal snaps , good absolutely smoked by at a guess a really good snap ( lots of big head nods and strong runs ) and lost a good red in the surf 10 metres from me 🤬. To top it all off had 4 drunk youth come talk to me at 2am and 1 of them tried to walk off with my big fish . Calmly and politely 😂🤬 I told him to bring it back which he quickly did. Wading in shorts and thermals is so good now water is warm.
Tica Kazumi Pro and Okuma 8k , Tica Galatic and Okuma 8k both with a fish each . Wasabi 5/0 KLT hooking them .
Pillies and occy for bait .

25/10/2024

Glad I got to hit the beach last night.
52cm red coming home.
Fished 1st spot for 1.5 hours without a bite. Moved to 2nd spot and pulled in the snapper within 5 minutes of first bait being cast out . Dropped 2 other good rod benders . Occy and chovie mix getting it done

14/09/2024

It’s been a while since I’ve done an update but I’m here and it’s time to send some occy baits out !

18/06/2024

Anyone know of a homekill butcher who makes good sausages in the Bay of Plenty area ?

26/04/2024

Relaxation at its finest
645pm

06/04/2024

Seaweed galore again down paps . What’s a guy supposed to do 🤷🏼