Fishing Reports

  The snapper have finally fired, with some great catches from all areas of the Bay. Average size seems to be a little down on last year, with plenty of fosh up to 10lb, but very few above 20lb.

 Best areas over the last week have been Centre Foul ( the area to the east of Battleship Rock), the top end of Mita's Foul, and along the 50M line from Whale to the Nine Pin, where some good fish, and a few good kingis , have been feeding under the birds.

  Rocky Point continues to give consistent results on kingis, but the largest fish are barely above 12kg. The strong westerly wind pattern is due to cease at the end of the week, and after the promised easterlies, there should be some big kingis available at 71M Reef. In fact the fish are there now, but present an extremely unpleasant trip in strong westerlies. Similarly, Bird Rock will become a better option with a change to easterlies.

  Water temps out wide are still in the 17C range (a little colder closer in),. and few reports of pelagics within fishing range. This situation will also change with the easterlies, and will hopfully put us on course for the first marlin around Xmas.

As always. drop me an email to major.tom@xtra.co.nz if you have any queries.