16th January 2009
Bay of Islands Fishing Report


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


Our Next Trip was....

17th January - The weathers looking good again....



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!


16th January - A definite improvement in fish stocks. We are feeling a lot happier about going out now. We had very nice conditions with a small, gentle swell and light winds. Everyone was catching fish and we had a bit of variety with Trevally, Snapper and even a John Dory being caught. The fish being caught were consistent enough to keep the kids happy and the adults were all trying to beat Francis. For a while it looked like we might have a new leader in the fishing competition but at the end of trip weigh-in it was obvious that Janice is still safe with her 5.5kg snapper.

Josh Wakerley with his John Dory
Francis does it again with the biggest snapper - 10lbs
Martin with his biggest ever Snapper

Josh Wakerley unknowingly caught a Jock Stewart which this magnificent John Dory thought was just right for his lunch. Bad luck for the Dory but good luck for Josh. It took three attempts to get Martin out for the day. He'd been waiting patiently since the holidays began. I think this snapper was his biggest ever, so our target is to make this look really small if he comes out again......and Francis... What can I say? Once again she caught the biggest snapper. Leave some for the rest of please   ;-)