Saturday the 5th, the first day of the two day Ray White Real estate fishing contest the calm Friday turns into a howling easterly overnight, we get up at 4.30 am head out from Poverty Bay which is flat and calm, turn east past the island and run straight into the easterly, a quick look at each other and we turn for home just as the organisers call off day one.
Sunday I sleep in, get up at 5.15 the skies are clear and the wind has gone, I wake my son Matt and we are at the ramp with Murray by 5.40. We leave from Town and head to south rocks, we go to have a look at a mark we have and find good sign 400 metres before the mark, we don't muck round the pick is lowered and bait is in the water, it takes an hour to fill the bin with 28 Tarakihi and a small snapper. We decide to have a look out deep for Hapuka, by 9am the sea breeze is starting to get up with the left over swell of a metre the sea is starting to get a bit sloppy, we see a lot of birds showing a bit of interest over the shallows so we set some lures and troll to biastows, we do 3 drifts with the motor running into the wind and Murray picks up 2 hapukas and a small bass, by now the sea is getting quite rough, we head back to south rocks were Matt picks up a nice Kingfish and we head home . We manage a 3rd in the snapper, a 3rd in the Tarakihi and a 2nd in the Hapuka as well as picking up a couple of spot prizes, overall the sea conditions weren't good but not a bad days fishing
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