15th January 2009
Bay of Islands Fishing Report


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


Our Next Trip was....

16th January - A definite improvement in fish stocks....



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.....


15th January - Yahoo, the fish are back! We had heard that the kahawai had appeared yesterday and knew that there was now the possibility of the snapper reappearing. So with great expectations we headed out into the bay. The swell was minimal so we drifted amongst a number of other boats out in the middle but the fishing was deader than dead. So we headed off to the place that had reportedly done pretty well for Kahawai the previous day. Dead again. So we took a punt and dropped the anchor. As time went on the fishing got better and better. We only got one Kahawai but we also scored half a dozen Trevally, a John Dory and so many snapper it was unbelievable.  The snapper just got bigger and bigger as the day progressed. Our biggest was only 5lbs but it looks like the big ones are coming back. It took an hour for two of us to fillet everything on the way home. We also spotted large Kahawai schools on the way home. Happy? I was wrapped and I'm sure my customers were too.