10.01.2010

Over the last 2 weeks we have been out several times, mainly to 'BS1A' (gps mark) where we have caught a couple of Hapuka and 6 Gemfish, on the way home on one of the trips we stopped at 'SR1E' and put 28 Tarakihi in the bin in less than an hour, most of the tarakihi were very good sized weighting over 1.3kg's. On the 10th we decided to go snapper hunting as they have been hard to find over the last few months. We went to a spot 'FR1A' where I caught good sized snapper last year to win 3 contests, we were there at labour weekend and couldn't find any snapper, this time we put a good berlie trail down only to get 1 small snapper. We managed to catch 2 hapuka on the straylines in 20 metres of water, so the question is where have all the snapper gone?. The water temp has dropped again to around 18.5 degrees and the water colour has gone back to the blue/green from the deep ink blue it was 2 weeks ago.