Fishing Reports

Diving for scallops ! They are now big and fat and in great condition so with our area allowing you 50 per diver at 90 mm, you can't miss out. At present there are heaps in the inner Queen Charlotte Sound with the northern bays still be better than the southern bays. Weather is not normally a concern as far as boating goes as you are pretty well protected from anything except extreme conditions anywhere in the inner sounds.

The crays are coming right back on the menu with hardly any now in berry and also quite a few males about. Watch out though as some are a bit soft. Anywhere from Port Underwood up the coast, Tory Entrance area, Cape Koamaru to Coopers Point. Going further a field to Cape Jackson and beyond, you start getting into the bigger crays but less of them. As far as getting out there, check the weather out a bit more carefully as Cook Strait can be quite changable.

However if the wind and swell are in the southerly quarter, the outer Queen Charlotte will be more sheltered and if more in the north then outer Tory and Port Underwood would probably be more suitable.

Safe diving

Kevin