The forecast is good for once, Murray Matt and I got up at 5 and head off again the sea is perfect flat , no wind and no swell, we head out again to Baistows where we went last week for the contest, we are the only boat there, we have a scan around and find a school of fish and have our first drift, Murray catches an 8kg Hapuka and a large Gem fish on his first drift, I pull up a double of Hapuka, Matt a small reef fish. Over the next hour we add 3 more Hapuka 2 blue nose to the bin which is by now full, another boat has arrived Black Betty a smaller boat about the same size as my last one , we put them onto the hapuka, we are packing up to head home (back and cleaned up before lunch - that's a rarity) Black Betty starts her engine and it doesn't sound good, before long we have her under tow, 29 km's to go, we arrive back at the ramp at 2pm so much for a early day. I don't mind helping as we are a small club in a big ocean and we all help each other, you never know when it might be your turn for a tow home.
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