The Marlin fishing here is the stuff of legends with the average count in the 2008 season of 14 fish per day with some weeks going 100+ fish. When your average Striped Marlin at the Wanganella's is 150kg+ you are in for the trip of a life time.

If you're undecided on a trip to this marlin mecca, then check the Black Marlin video here.

Wanganella sounds like a made up place name that you might hear in a fairy tale, a mystical place where you might expect to run into Peter Pan, the Hobbits or the Tooth fairy. Matt's accounts of the Wanganella Banks might sound like a Fairy tale but rest assured, the striped marlin wonderland really exists.

The name Wanganella is obviously not of New Zealand origin, in fact it sounds very Australian most likely an Aboriginal name, and so it stands to reason that the Wanganella Banks are well outside New Zealand's 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone, in fact Norfolk Island is the closest landfall. A look at a chart of the north Tasman sea shows that the Wanganella banks rise up out of over 2000 metres of water to less than 20 metres in places, situated over 300 nautical miles north west of North Cape.

The Wanganellas is a place every keen marlin fisherman should visit in their lifetime.