Letting several opportunities slip away, Northland's match fell to pieces due to a derelict attacking shape and an inability to string together multiple phases.
Paying for some costly defensive lapses, Taranaki's key attacking threats put Northland on the back foot and the Taniwha failed to recover after the gap on the scoreboard grew via a gutsy run at the sticks by Taranaki blindside flanker Toa Halafihi, followed by a nifty Charlie Ngatai try shortly before halftime.
The second half saw Taranaki continue their dominance and slowly gain momentum on attack.
Trumping the Taniwha in the scrums and lineouts, Taranaki hindered Northland's inability to get their set piece firing.
With smooth tactical decisions from Marty McKenzie and Cody Lei at first five-eighth, Taranaki opened up the gate for the Bulls to run down the race.
Ngatai crossed for his second of the afternoon followed closely by Seta Tamanivalu.
Rookie winger Latu Vaeno then put the icing on the cake for the visiting side with two cheeky tries inside the final quarter.
With salt well and truly rubbed into the wound, Dan Hawkins' try heading into the last 20 minutes saw a lift in morale form Northland, however, his silky running skills in open space came too late for the home side - their inability to construct any sort of rebuttal squandered by a much superior side.
Northland 7 (Hawkins try; Hawkins con)
Taranaki 50 (Penalty try, Halafihi, Ngatai 2, Tamanivalu, Va'eno 2 tries; Rei 6 cons, pen)
HT: 0-21
