Weather & Tides

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Fishing Gossip - Courtesy of Tauranga Marine Charters
Another busy week, settled weather and generally good fishing. We had an evening trip on Tuesday, calm weather and nice conditions, fishing was ok, nothing exciting, but steady with panny snapper and the odd trevally. Thursday we went around Motiti again, also steady rather than full on, but with what’s becoming the normal mix of tarakihi, snapper with occasional bi ones amongst them, trevally, and everybody’s favourites, scarpies, mixed in with a few blind eels and barracuda to keep things interesting. Friday, worked the same areas, but the fish were more bitey, a pretty good day. Saturday, a stag day, some fish, but more laughs, watching as the alcohol (and incoherence) kick in. Sunday was a public day with a good crowd on board. A N.E/S.E slop meant we stayed inside Motiti initially for a few fish, then heading outside as the slop settled. Same story, steady fishing, plenty of moving as they’re still not really feeding hard.
Why? A variety of things. Sometimes a lot of bottom current, strong tides, krill in the water (EVERYTHING feeds on krill, whales skippies snapper tarakihi etc), they’re not hungry, sometimes all of the above, and sometimes, who knows. As anybody who’s dived knows, what’s happening beneath the waves can be radically different to conditions on top. So at best, it’s educated guessing.

February 2012
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March 2012
Times listed are NZ Standard Time: Remember to add 1 Hour for NZ Daylight Saving Time. Crown Copyright Reserved