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Lindi Rowe with her impressive Kingfish! The Kingfish are back! The charter operators are posting some great photos of recent catches and I weighed a nice Kingfish for Junior Lindi Rowe fishing the Nationals. A great fish at 17.7 kgs on 6kg line! The weather hasn’t been great over the past fortnight and I’ve only managed to venture out for a few short trips with little success. The Bay appears to be full of bait but not a workup to be seen which seems odd looking back at my fishing stats from previous years. I did find some great kingfish...

Noah with a nice pannie snapper for dinner that night! We had great weather over Easter and there were plenty of boats out in the Bay. I managed to get out for a morning with young Noah, who had come up from Auckland for the Easter break. While the plan to snag an impressive model sized fish didn’t eventuate, the joy and smiles produced by pannie sized fish was well worth it! There are plenty of small size pannies in the shallows and most people report being plagued by just undersized fish. I have upsized the hooks and baits to...

Nathan with a nice pannie destined for dinner at the Swordfish Club that night! To be honest, I’ve been struggling with little to show for a mornings fishing however this all changed yesterday with a great slider session in the 60m zone. The bite times from www.nzfishingnet.nz were bang on and all the crew got a fish or two including Nathan Mill visiting the Bay of Islands from Scotland. While we were fishing some skipjack tuna showed up close by so we trolled a softbait and caught a few. This has got me thinking that’s its time for a marlin...

Alexandrio from Argentia with a nice skipjack tuna. The weather has been great but the fishing poor (at least for me!). To date I’ve been out wide 4 days for one bite but never give up, it’s just a matter of time! Meanwhile, I’ve been kept busy at the weigh station. The most meritorious catch has to be Luke Roberts first marlin caught in a 14 foot tinny and on 15kg line to boot! Out to 200 meters and back at the weigh station by lunchtime – doesn’t get any better than that! I’m finding it difficult to locate some...

Luke Wiseman with a 52kg Yellowfin Tuna, caught solo. It was a busy Waitangi Day on the water and I was kept busy weighing fish, a yellowfin tuna and 3 striped marlin during the afternoon. And three fish were first’s for small boats and only one was weighed for the competition. The snapper and kingfish seem a little more difficult to find but out deeper has worked for me and reports are of good catches in shallow. The Pacific Motor Group Eldorado 2024 hosted by the Bay of Islands Swordfish Club was a huge success with 31 teams and 111...