21st January 2009
Bay of Islands Fishing Report


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


Our Next Trip was....

23rd January - Light variable winds were forecast today so
                      we were expecting calm water....



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...


17th January - We headed out with high hopes and a reasonable forecast....


19th January - Gusty South Westerlies were forecast so we kept the group small....


20th January - The South Westerlies had dropped to a mere breeze...


21st January - Another very ordinary day. We headed out into deeper water to try and locate our missing snapper. The theory was, that if we couldn't find them here we would at least have a chance at catching Pink Mao Mao, Golden Snapper or maybe even Kahawai. It took almost an hour and a half to get to this particular reef. Immediately upon dropping the anchor we started getting bites but the snapper we pulled up were small. It was very quiet all day with the odd big hit but they kept on getting off the hook half way to the surface. In the end we had a few Golden Snapper, a small selection of ordinary Snapper up to 32cm and that was it. Finally just before the end of the trip we got the fish below that fed the whole boat.

Peter Kwok with his sand shark (also known as Lemon Fish)

Peter Kwok had a couple of really good fish on his line today but they kept getting off about halfway to the surface. So he was under pressure to get this last fish to the surface. It put up a good fight but the winner was Peter. The fillets off this beastie feed everyone on board today. Thanks Peter.