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.....

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


26th December - Another lovely day with very light easterly winds forecast .....


Our Next Trip was.... New Years day


27th December - The day started with 10 knot easterlies .....


28th December - Easterly winds gradually rising to 35 knots and ......


30th December - You could not have asked for a nicer day.....


31st December - A bit of a swell and about 15 knots of North Westerly but definitely another nice day. The fish were biting right from the start and we were throwing good fish back all day. We had a few good hits but didn't manage to land any of them (two broken lines and the rest got off the hook.) The biggest fish kept were 5lb and 6lb, not spectacular but still very tasty fish. We had a full boat and everyone took heaps of fish home.