10th January 2009
Bay of Islands Fishing Report


1st January - What a beautiful way to celebrate the new year.


Our Next Trip is....

15th January - Yahoo, the fish are back!



2nd January - Another very nice day apart from a bit of a worry about the wind.....

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3rd January - The forecast was for 15 knot Northerlies turning to 20-30 knots South Westerly winds at the end of the day....


4th January - The forecast was for 10 knot Southerly turning to 15 knot Sou-Westerly winds at the end of the day.....


5th January - Another incredibly accurate forecast (queue the Tui's Advert) ....


6th January - SE winds were forecast and once again they came from the NE....

  Fishing Competition Update

  The Current Leader is Janice Paris
 
Size - 5.5kg
  Caught - 01/01/09


7th January - NE winds again (incorrect forecast yet again) but another very, very nice day...


8th January - The day was so pleasant that we, once again drifted for much of the day...


9th January - The main aim of this trip was an island visit and a bit of fishing.....


10th January - There was a huge swell so we were restricted to....


13th January - We were surprised to observe that the swell had dropped so much, so instead of heading back amongst the islands we traveled out into the middle of the bay. We were able to drift but the small amount of fish appearing on the fishfinder just didn't seem to be interested. No one around us appeared to be having any luck either so we went to Plan B. Heading into the islands near Urapukapuka we had a spot in mind that might produce. We dropped the anchor in about 8 metres of water and immediately started pulling up fish. This was a huge improvement on our first spot but the snapper were very small. However we were soon pulling in huge numbers of Trevally so the excitement started to build. The weather was perfect, the water was dead calm and the fish were constant. After about two hours of this we had quite a few Trevally but not as much snapper as we wanted so we set off for the spot that had produced so well three days before.  Alas, the snapper were not as prevalent as before and not as big. By the end of the day we had an adequate amount of fish but nothing startling.