Bay of Plenty

Russ Hawkins of Fat Boy Charters highlights promising fishing conditions in the BOP area, noting an increase in tarakihi and snapper, and offers recommendations for the upcoming Labour Weekend.

A slow start turns into a good run of tarakihi. Waters temperatures slowly climbing out wide.

Despite the weather recently, there looks to finally be a few windows opening up to get out there again.

It seems every fishing report in recent times starts with commentary about the weather, and at the moment, why not?

Well, it may have been a pretty crook summer, and autumn to boot, but one thing that seems to be the shining light is some damn good snapper fishing. In fact, it’s some of the best snapper fishing I can recall for this time of year in quite a while.

There’s big snapper in the harbour, and some really decent trevally too. Looks like fishing in the Bay is getting off to an early season start this year if the recent catches are anything to go by.