Fishing Reports

With beautiful blue water at 19C, the first marlin of the season could be caught at any time. Graeme Miller, fishing on the Susan landed a mahimahi over 5kg last Sunday, out from Whangaroa.

We had Major Tom II out wide on the same day off Cape Brett, landing skippies and albacore and seeing plenty of sunfish and a large hammerhead. There is a constant air of expectation while fishing, and I'm sure that the only reason we have not seen a yellowfin or marlin landed is a lack of boats and time on the water. -- Roll on La Nina-  (but spare a thought for the "cockies".

Most of the fishing action remains based on schooling snapper. The best of the action has been from the bottom end of Mita's Foul, out to and along the 50M contour, up to the Nine Pin.

After some rather ho hum results for the last month the kingfish action has improved. The biggest fish are still to be had at 71M Reef but other rocks deeper than 60M also seem to be holding fish, though there have been very few reports of kingies inside the bay.

As always, drop me an email at MAJOR.TOM@xtra.co.nz if you have any queries and keep your eyes on the Fishing.net.nz Game Fishing Forum where I will try and update any significant early catches as they happen