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Team St Moritz with a 29kg kingfish caught on 6kg line. At the time of writing this was the largest fish weighed but Wednesday (last day) fish yet to be counted! The BOISC 53rd TotalSpan Bay of Islands International Yellowtail Tournament has just completed their 4-day event for which the weather gods finally smiled. Forty teams including many returning Australian anglers who fish this tournament every year have been battling it out for bragging rights and the prize pool. There have been good numbers of fish weighed everyday along with measure or tag and release fish. The prize giving is...

      James with the fish of the day last Tuesday. Subsequently released. The last fortnight has seen more weather windows than usual, and I have managed to get out twice. Plenty of kahawai schools in the Bay resulted in our bait easily caught. Whitebait was what the kahawai were feeding on and so the smaller narrow sliver twisty lures worked great. We then preceded to convert that bait into snapper. Drift fishing in 12 meters was productive and we caught fish on sliders, softbaits and big baits on the strayline setups. James (from Sydney) has recently brought a...

Tyler Davey with his Marlin caught on 10kg line. Its certainly looking like 2023 shall be called the year of the Easterlies. There has been little opportunity to get out on the boat due to the constant strong winds encountered. In the shop, there has been steady stream of people bemoaning cancelled charters or how they towed the boat hours up to Russell and have no chance of getting out in it! However, the keen anglers have resorted to fishing from the beach and off the rocks and have been catching a few too! Earlier this past fortnight the weather...

Tyler Davey with the “Horse”, which after the photo was safely released I got my mojo back! Good weather and have enjoyed some great fishing. Been unlucky on the game fishing side although had two bites but it’s always great to see a marlin on the surface worrying the outrigger lure! Shame he didn’t stick but that’s fishing. I’ve also had the opportunity to take 2 young fellows out for a fish over the past 2 weeks and seeing the smile on these young, keen as mustard, anglers makes it so rewarding. Last Sunday I snagged a great snapper on...

Mitch with a nice snapper taken on a slider during a mid-week mission. The weather continues to be mostly settled and the shop has been doing a steady trade as a result. I went out last week for a morning fish and Mitch (aka Uncle) caught a thumper of a snapper on the old faithful slider. The fish ‘blew’ on the way up but was thoroughly enjoyed at the Swordfish Club for dinner by several people that night.Possibly the most meritorious catch has come from Bevan Beauchamp fishing solo from his trailer boat Blind Squirrel, who successfully tagged a blue...