26th January 2009
Bay of Islands Fishing Report


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


Our Next Trip was....

29th January - 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.....


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....


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


24th January - For the very first time we had picked up passengers from one of the visiting cruise ships .....


25th January - Another perfect day weather wise.....


26th January - Because the fish caught yesterday were the biggest that we had seen in the last 2-3 weeks, we headed back to the same spot today. The breeze was still very light so we had planned on doing more drifting. On the way we were joined by a pod of dolphins. They were being followed by one of the dolphin viewing boats when a bunch of these lovely mammals peeled off and shot over for a play under our bow. We were treated to their antics for about five minutes as they competed with each other to get the prime position right under the bow. Back to the fishing...the first spot was on an area of foul ground that looked promising so we dropped anchor but after 15 minutes of zero activity we moved. The second spot was the same area as yesterday and there was a lot of fish life there. The wind had strengthened so we dropped anchor again. It was a bit of a slow start but eventually it started to tick along. We kept nothing under 30cm and we ended up with a few fish in the 3-4lb range. Every fish was of fillet-able quality. About 1pm the wind had died completely so we pulled anchor and drifted but without much success as the fish had stopped biting. It was hot and very still. We tried a couple of places on the way home but the fish had lost interest completely. Never mind, we had enough fish for everyone and it had been a beautiful day.

Dolphins under our bow
Dolphins under our bow still

A great start to the trip with these dolphins jostling for the prime spot under our bow