SAFETY COMES FIRST!! ! As you brought young children and the weather had increased as we travelled out to a point where it was not practical or comfortable to travel outside the sounds, a decision was made to fish in Beatrix Bay. When returning later that day the waves and wind were blowing over the top of the boat and I knew my decision to keep the boat safe was the correct one. The weather was the determining factor how far we travelled that day and we were not able to go to the better fishing spots in the outer sounds. The lady that organised this trip invited you as her guest, she caught snapper, a number of good sized blue cod as well as other species and was fishing alongside you. The skipper observed that you kept changing your fishing tackle, putting on colourful fly's that you had brought with you and some without weights? Blue cod are bottom feeders? This may have been a factor in your fishing success and type of fish caught. Sometimes people have bad fishing day's. The skipper was shown a photo of a large number of fish caught on another Fishing charter vessel. Our Marlborough sounds fishing rules only allow 2 Blue cod per person fishing and at the end of the day there was 2 blue cod for each person that fished and a number of other species caught as well. All the fish was equally shared out among the group.The other guests caught good fish with our gear and their own, which they had arranged and negotiated to bring beforehand. I apologise if my gear was not up to your liking but i did give you an assortment of hooks and rods to choose from and try on the day. You did not mention the discount that was credited to your family as you were the only person who expressed a disappointment with your day.