Surf and fishing report - from Shaun @ NIR
Late pre season - had nice small crisp swells yielding fun workable waves to ease into season. Ral was reliable, a few good sessions on Nago Left - ( long walls and not a drop out of place). Pikinini also offered a few fast breaking sessions, and Nusa Left also delivered some trademark form - average size 2-4 foot, occasional 5 foot.
1st Nov Onwards -
An unproductive start to official season - simply a complete lack of swell and generally speaking, a little uninspiring with the only waves on offer being at Ral Island. Fortunately, the fishing was firing and to quote one of the boys and his infinite wisdom, there’s plenty of waves on the coast but the fishing doesn’t have a patch on here.
Their tally was good, more than a few sailfish, a swag of mackerel and many in the 22-25kg range, jobfish, range of trevally barracuda. The lads did the right thing and released secondary fish - to fight another day. Award to Jethro for falling out of the boat when trying to avoid the snappy head of a 25kg mackerel gaffed into the boat.
Last few days have offered clean fun waves at Ral - 2-4 foot - more promising than the last 10 days - apologies to Jimmy and the Lads - next time fellas.
Outlook - next few days looking much the same but with slight improvement so hopefully some of the other reefs will start working. Slight rise in swell & an improving period - direction is OK. No big systems to suggest anything epic in terms of solid groundswell but there will be small to medium waves with clean faces.
Today. another postcard day in paradise & nice 2-4 foot waves @ Ral - for a handful of surfers.
Lukim you sampela taim.