Pacific Toyota x TK Offshore Fishing | Toyota Hilux Powers the Perfect Day Out in the Bay of Plenty

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]All right. So, that's a wrap. Thanks for taking us through the new Hilux, Rachel.

[00:00:03]>> No worries.

[00:00:04]>> Yeah, awesome to see the new features, what's been updated since the last model. Um very excited to get my hands on one, see how it tows, hook it up to the boat, put it through its paces, which will be really fun. And then uh fingers crossed we can talk your boss into letting you guys come for a fish as well.

[00:00:20]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> All right. So, we're in the new Hilux. Take it easy, driver.

[00:00:52]And this is all thoughts. Oh, it's just unbelievable.

[00:00:55]Pretty very smooth.

[00:00:57]>> It's already nice. It's towing the boat well. Um very smooth. The boat's fully loaded at about 3.2 [music] t.

[00:01:03]>> Yeah.

[00:01:04]And you can hardly feel it, right?

[00:01:07]Beautiful, mate. So impressed.

[00:01:09]Can't see time cuz it's It's not warm.

[00:01:12]>> It's not warm.

[00:01:14]It's only 8° here. It's still a lot warmer than I had down south a couple of days ago.

[00:01:21]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Before like spear fishing and Yeah.

[00:02:45]All that sort of stuff. I did the cave I've always wanted to do that. Yeah. I didn't know whether I had the guts.

[00:02:50]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:52]Yeah.

[00:02:53]When I was up in the team we'll see we had 30 sharks under us at all times. Oh wow.

[00:02:58]And um when we turn a long line in the Coral Sea, we'd have good markers and big tiger sharks just camped under the boat.

[00:03:05]Oh. Just camped under there all day and they'd come out grab a grab a yellow hang under the boat.

[00:03:13]All right. You guys heard it first. T goes telling war stories. Yep. Um but I don't think we've even done an intro today.

[00:03:19]We're out here today with the Pacific Toyota guys.

[00:03:22]Rachel is leading the charge so far.

[00:03:25]The uh guys are starting to get a little bit worried that they're going to go back to work after being beat by Rachel.

[00:03:29]Um yeah, what are we up to T go? Well, I'm I'm sitting beside Rachel mate. She's getting a little first.

[00:03:35]>> Yeah.

[00:03:35]>> [laughter] >> So they've She's on fire. They've kindly lent one of the new Hiluxes to us for the weekend see how it tows and stuff like that.

[00:03:45]Excellent. Excellent. Yeah, so I could say it's a bloody expensive weekend so far. We've putting fuel in the boat and fuel in the ute, and then buying a new ute. Okay.

[00:03:54]>> [laughter] >> But yeah.

[00:03:56]Yeah, really grateful. I've just spent a week down south with one of the new Prados. Um that cost me $280 on fuel.

[00:04:02]Yeah. But got a big trout. That video will come soon. Um was using a new rod from Shimano that's still under NDA, so once that's cleared, that video will come out. But it's absolutely beautiful out here. We're just outside the harbor entrance.

[00:04:19]Filling up the bin with snapper.

[00:04:21]See you guys soon.

[00:04:22]All right, we're still in the same spot.

[00:04:24]Same spot. Everyone's just re-baited.

[00:04:26]You just got a a double by the looks of it.

[00:04:29]What did you get?

[00:04:30]Number one.

[00:04:31]Number one, baby.

[00:04:32]>> [laughter] >> A nice trevally and a little snap.

[00:04:35]>> Trevally and snap? Yeah.

[00:04:38]Yeah, getting into it, giving it a go.

[00:04:41]Rachel's still in the lead. Pretty consistent.

[00:04:47]What have we got? All right.

[00:04:49]>> Beauty, what's that?

[00:04:50]You're on fire, mate. Nice Lindsay. Nice Lindsay. Great rigging by TK.

[00:04:56]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, they the individually hanging sinker that's definitely not wound around another sinker. That's definitely >> Yeah.

[00:05:03]>> [laughter] >> No, it's a beautiful snap.

[00:05:07]Epic.

[00:05:10]All right, we'll jab that one on the head, and Rachel's lost the lead.

[00:05:14]>> [laughter] >> All right, just like that, we've had a lead change.

[00:05:19]>> [laughter] >> Lindsay's in the lead. Rachel's gone for a swim.

[00:05:24]There's one towel on the boat, and it's been on here for about 6 months, and it's covered in fish grime, so I hope you brought your own towel.

[00:05:30][laughter] And I think I've got a fish on here.

[00:05:34]Beautiful.

[00:05:36]Here we go. It's going to be bigger than Lindsay's. Absolutely.

[00:05:42]I mean, once they're in the bin, no one knows whose is whose anyway.

[00:05:45]>> [laughter] >> Oh, I must have shot it.

[00:05:50]There's two two calls for charters It's all right. I'll answer it and say hey, I'm out fishing.

[00:05:55]Take it easy, buddy. Skyving off work as usual.

[00:05:58]Hiding up the front of the boat.

[00:06:02]Charter bookings going off.

[00:06:06]We got A color yet? Yeah, I'm not seeing anything.

[00:06:12]Oh, look. Here we go. Got a color.

[00:06:14]Snapper.

[00:06:16]Snapper.

[00:06:18]Got a hook? And uh Beauty.

[00:06:27]I don't know what it is. Hopefully it's a good snapper.

[00:06:32]Yeah, we do we do a half-day trip and uh Is it like gurnard?

[00:06:37]And uh a minimum of uh 6 or 8 inches long. All right, here we We got Uh Another trevally.

[00:06:49]Sweet.

[00:06:50]Grab the side of the handrail. Holy So, I'm on the wrong side of the handrail with two broken ribs hanging onto the handrail. And my mate Archie does a bloody pod thing and puts a knife between his mouth and starts pulling down the back. He's got he's got he's got to cut the rope.

[00:07:04]Then all of a sudden the trip Marco spun around and just came straight back up towards me. So, he jumped back in the boat and grabbed me by the ass. Holy sh Pulled me out, yeah.

[00:07:13]And now that shark was sitting in a primary school claiming kids' fingers every day.

[00:07:18]>> [laughter] >> So, I with my daughter who was 5 years old Yeah. I gave the big I put the big jaw Yeah, it's good. gave the jaw to um the new entrants class.

[00:07:28]Yeah.

[00:07:29]And every year the mayor would come in the class and draw blood.

[00:07:34]>> [laughter] >> And that that was for years. And then they ended up putting it in a cupboard.

[00:07:37]When my daughter became a school teacher Yeah. she went to in primary grade, I used to go to and I gave it to the jeweler. So now she's got She's got it down on the back. Yeah, that's cool.

[00:07:46]Yeah. Yeah, so she teaches us at prep.

[00:07:48]And that thing literally just claims Still draws blood. Blood. Doesn't stop.

[00:07:52]All the little boys All the boys can't help themselves. Oh, they sharp. Oh, yeah.

[00:07:57]>> [laughter] >> All right, we've dropped too many trevally so far, so this is another trevally.

[00:08:04]>> [snorts] >> We've actually got the net ready to go on.

[00:08:07]But Lindsay's killing it.

[00:08:14]Oh, somebody Somebody Yeah, man, we'll put that one back. Mhm.

[00:08:23]Hey.

[00:08:29]You just want to flip the arm over on Oh, nice. Nice, that's a good one. Good line up.

[00:08:40]Good little snapper, dude. Yeah.

[00:08:52]Awesome.

[00:08:59]That's a good snapper, man. Good one.

[00:09:11]Yeah, pretty good.

[00:09:13]Another snapper? Yeah. Nice, bugger.

[00:09:18]Actually to make us some good curry, eh?

[00:09:26]What did you say, curry?

[00:09:28]Yeah, Ash got him in the workshop. Yeah.

[00:09:30]See what he can get for you. Yeah. Nice.

[00:09:35]What do you need for I don't I don't know what sauce.

[00:09:37]I'm not sure. He said whatever we bring again.

[00:09:52]Too small? Yeah.