Once the skippies arrive, the concentration of big fish should be close behind.

"So you got this kid from the best home, but he can't stand going out of the house in those skippies.

None bit, but there were plenty of skippies and some albacore around to provide potential light tackle action.

Fernando Express are a German schlager group founded in 1969 as Skippies.

There are some good schools of skippies for bait and quite a lot of kahawai just outside Tolaga Bay.

A few yellowfin were also taken, but skippies and albacore were not as evident as normal at this time of year.

The few boats left cruising the coast are still catching the odd marlin, with plenty of skippies in close, and good looking blue water out beyond the 200M line.

Our trip to Cape Karikari last week produced plenty of skippies around the 200M line, however, and at least one broadbill managed to slice up our baits during a deep drift, but didn't hook up.

The 41-year-old executive, who styles herself something of a trend poetess (her offerings to the vernacular include "skippies," school kids with income and purchasing power; and "woofs," well-off older folks), wasted no time in stamping the 90's the "Decency Decade."