May Marie Charters 

In 2025, I used MAY MARIE CHARTERS for the first time. It was my inaugural trip with a professional team in the Bay of Islands. I had no prior experience with open-water fishing. I faced some challenges, but the skipper and his crew took excellent care of all the anglers. Everyone managed to catch something. This year, in 2026, I was more "experienced" and ended up catching 32 fish of various species. This trip was my greatest success.

My dad wanted to go for his 60th he had the best time and enjoyed it so much that he now wants to make it a birthday tradition! He came home with an incredible catch 🤟 Enough fish that fed 5 families 😊 If you're thinking about booking, do it — you won't be disappointed. I will definitely be booking again for a girls day out next time!

Weve had 2 trips out on the May Narie now and they have both been epic. awesome crew, beautiful scenery and loads of fish. Taking home loads of freshly filleted fish at the end of the day feels like that pays for the outing. we’ll always do this charter when we are in the bay 👍👍👍

May Marie - should take the title for BEST Charter for every other month of the year: Jan Marie, Feb Marie, Mar Marie…through to Dec Marie. We had a Monday booking but because of Cyclone Vaiana, May Marie Charters kindly pushed our fishing trip out to Tuesday morning. We were a family of 7 and had a private charter which we found 100% fair value $$$ exchange for the experience of a lifetime. The crew headed up by Captain Trent Morgan and super-deckhand Johnny Van-Eyk always made us feel safe, were professional, personable, patient, courteous, kind, caring and great fun and nothing was a problem. We spent our first hour chasing schools of bait and caught lots of live bait. They did everything from setting up rods, hooking up bait, unhooking our catch, boiled the kettle for a cuppa, once loaded up with bait, we went snapper fishing. Aged from 13-64, we all caught plenty of fish, especially the teens who got bites every time they put their lines into the sea. 46 snapper, 5 kahawai and 1 kingfish (not quite big enough so returned with my sisters initials on the fish as she caught it). Johnny with help from Captain Trent, cleaned, filleted and bagged our large haul of fish. Johnny even prepared the freshest Ocean-to-plate sashimi. We are back at our rental, we butter panned fried snapper for lunch and made a beautiful Samoan oka (ceviche) which is chilling in the fridge for later. Fish is re-bagged, and covered with salt-ice in the fridge for sharing with friends tomorrow. Choose May Marie Charters - reliable and stable boat (especially if you have choppy seas), They have the best rating because it’s been earned honestly and with hard work and incredible customer care!!! MAY MARIE KNOW ALL THE SECRET FISHING SPOTS, GUARANTEED TO CATCH FISH. BONUS: They have a kettle for hot drinks, waters and even some chips snacks if you wanted some. SEVEN STARS ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

船长具备很好的专业水平，比如安全讲解、平稳驾驶、准确抛锚等。 船长的服务也很好，并且提供了标准化的服务。 船员的服务更加贴心，尤其是给客人挂鱼饵的时候特别认真，值得点赞👍 由于我是第一次来新西兰海钓，英文很差，担心船长的区别对待并不存在！

We caught some large snapper piggys and some bait fish started slow then the captains experience showed as he moved us to find some really nice snaper it was so much fun

The best charter experience I’ve ever had. Weather forced a change of plans but everyone was very communicative and went above and beyond to accommodate. Trent and Johnny put us right on some great fishing spots. The boat is very spacious with plenty of room for personal items and while using the fishing gear. Whether you want to book an open party or book the whole boat (which is what I’ll be doing next time), I cannot recommend May Marie Charters enough!

Not our best day fishing on May Marie. I have been out several times before on the May Marie and caught some big snapper. We tried for Kingfish this time and one of us landed a decent kingfish. That was exciting for all of us and enough fish for a few days back at the resort. We also went out two days later for a snapper trip and caught some small snapper but no where near our pb’s on May Marie a few years earlier. A really good crew made it once again a great day out in the Bay.

Loved catching the bait fish first and happy we both caught some Snapper loved not having to fillet fish afterwards the crew did this and baited our hooks fixed snags and took the fish off fixed tangles great trip lots if fish big and small caught 21 fish between 12 people lots of small ines throw backs great day

Overall it was a very good experience and definitely worth the money. However, not everything is about catching the target fish. If you can’t get kingfish, then make use of your plentiful kahawai or any other species on offer. Kahawai on surface lures is excellent fun. It’s all about keeping clients busy and entertained. Boat is clean and very comfortable but slow so a lot of time is spent travelling from spot to spot. Also please check with client if they want to keep the fish or release to live another day before you kill it. Catch and release is preferred by many people, including myself and it benefits everyone.