Paul Hitchman The Bowentown Fishing Report www.sunlive.co.nz

The weather is getting better after a week or so of easterly swells that made the bar marginal and not for the faint hearted to go outside. On Monday, the weather couldn't have been more perfect with hardly any swells and no winds in the middle of the day with glassy seas.

The fishing reports that I have been given are that the harbour has been fishing really well and some good sized snapper are being taken further up the harbour in the shallows.

Plenty of good sized Trevally have been taken in the harbour. Kingfish are still being caught inside the harbour.

Outside the harbour it has been a good year for Marlin with several having been weighed in by our club and one was rumoured to have been dropped in 30 metres off the end of the bar. We have had two other Marlin caught elsewhere and courtesy weighed by other clubs. The best being Thomas Menefy weighing in a 282kg blue Marlin at Waihau Bay. The better area to fish seems to be between the Aldermans and Mayor.

Snapper have been patchy and after a short time trying on the end of the bar on Monday and only catching a couple of fish, we went out to the 32-35 metre mark and caught quite a variety of fish. The snapper that we caught were only in the early 30cms which is disappointing considering that the harbour is producing bigger ones. Small kahawai are around in abundance but no big sized ones. People have been catching good numbers of skippys and Albacore.