Three days of fantastic weather at the BAY BONANZA fishing competition gave us the opportunity to start the 2009 gamefishing season with a great result for our first fishing trip since March 2008.With over 400 anglers competing we managed to land a 209kg Blue Marlin for Gisborne angler,Troy Mackey and win the top prize.Earlier in the second day we also hooked and lost a second Blue of similar size and coming back to port had a bite from a small stripey.This is probably the earliest a Blue Marlin has been landed out of Gisborne so it augers well for the remainder of the season which finishes for us on the 12th of March