b'After a such a bad start to the year with continued wetHowever, the fishing that eventuated on this recent trip was not overly weather over summer and into autumn for the North Island,impressive to the usual outstanding many anglers like Evana were forced to make a fishing trip infish encountered in the Far North, but between a small window to get out on the water. as it often is with us, was not short W e werefew and far between, we were alwaysof adventure.HOLED UPsurely notmet with a cyclone or weather bomb ofFor many days and many nights, we were the onlysome sort for the upper North Island. rugged up inside the bach, hoping for a ones thatFinally, in April with a small window ofbreak in the weather. Several daily drive have beendecent weather aligning for us and forby checks each day to check out the cursing thethis fishing trip, we were really lookingstate of the sea and our boat launching weatherforward to it.Each trip up to the Farsites, left us with little hope. Every night, gods a lotNorth has given us high expectations, forwe ended up drowning our sorrows this year!Itmany of the trips before having proveddown at the local Tuatua Tavern.had been a while since we managed tovery successful.With the fishing forThe forecast looked decidedly morbid get out on the water and enjoy a goodmyself producing three of my personalfor the entirety of our week away, so couple of days of fishing, as moving ourbest for snapper, kingfish, and trevally. when we woke one day to a lull in rain home, town and new jobs had kept usWith all three fish appearing as coverand gale force winds, we had to take our busy.With our days off and that beingshots for this magazine. chance, no matter how small the window.A break in the weather conditions allowed a small window to fish close to shore. /FISHINGINGODZONE35'