Well, another frustrating couple of weeks for the keen fishos.

These highs, lows, and fronts just keep rolling on through. When we get a couple of settled days, it seems to be midweek, and come the weekend it's back to marginal at best.

The harbour would have to be the most consistent at the moment.

Still more snapper around than tarakihi. We picked up a reasonable tally around karewa on a half day and Mayor's still producing pretty well when you can get out there, although the hapuka fishing is still pretty hard. Otherwise its pretty much the same ole same ole.

On Sunday we had the Hamilton Cossie Club and fished our way out to the Penguins via Pudney, and some of the closer inshore spots. We picked up snapper throughout, with everyone getting a good feed, but nothing exceptional. Where we expected to do best in the deeper water, turned out to be one of the harder spots for the day. But with 95% of the catch snapper, they were happy punters. Wade (the decky) managed a 5lber, but most of them were between legal (27cm) and 34cm.

Plenty of weed floating throughout, as a result of the recent SW winds we have been getting hammered by, but hopefully that will settle off with the next couple of calm days forecast, and the fishing will pick up as a result. Will keep you posted.

 - Brett Keller