20th December 2008
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14th December - With seven people on board we headed out with high expectations....



3rd December - A Beautiful day, calm as calm.....

4th December - This was the first of two trips with Kerikeri High School......

5th December - This was the second of two trips with Kerikeri High School.....


6th December - The day started out with perfect weather.....

7th December - Needless to say, we headed back to yesterdays spot....

8th December - We headed out today with the hope that .......

10th December
- The swell had dropped.......

11th December - Our morning trip was cancelled due to a lack of numbers but luckily we had an afternoon Sole Charter to make the most of this weather....

12th December - This was our last school trip.....

13th December - It was a quiet day fish-wise until....

17th December
- The weather was good and we were confident of a good day



18th December - With the previous days fishing in mind we set out....

19th December - This was another scratchy day....

20th December
- We were pretty certain that the school fish were only in the middle of the bay. However the weather had been so bad overnight that the swell had built up to the extent that we didn't believe that we would be able to fish where we wanted to be. We tried to cancel this trip but were unable to contact our group, so we were committed. When they turned up, we headed out and tried the middle but with close on 2 metre swells it became obvious that we were going to have to head for shelter. Once we got out of the wind and swells we had a very pleasant day but the schoolies were conspicuous by their absence.

Our Next Trip was....

22nd December
- We had two trips today....