Deb with her winning 5.90kg Snapper
The girls haul
The bin is full
Trish waiting for the big one
Deb in the I'm ready positionThe Ladies competition was postponed twice due to bad weather. So finally we have a green light, we are down one of the team due to work commitments (Lianne) so we get up at 5.30am so we can make the 15 minute trip to the ramp, we arrive at 6.40am, Girls just don't get up and go (have coffee in bed, hair, lippy, go to toilet, get dressed, make lunch [I made mine the night before] go to toilet, put out washing, go to toilet). We head off to the spot where I caught last weeks winning snapper, the sea is a little lumpy from yesterdays sea breeze and the moans from the girls have already started - like "can't we fish a couple of metres from the shore where it is calm" (we are heading out 16km's)
I anchor up and set the berley sack to ever increasing moaning, after a 15 minute soak we have our first hit and it's Deb first up, It's a beaut I have to hold on to the back of her gimble belt and the rod while she reels it in and it is a 5.95kg snapper, as we bin the snapper the second rod is hit and Trish lands a pan size snapper, soon it is all on, over the next couple of hours we bin 9 snapper and release a couple, Trish lands a nice 3.76kg snapper, strange how the moaning has been replaced by shreiks of delight. By lunch the current and wind is opposite to each other and is no good for straylining, we pull the pick and head over to South rocks to catch some Tarakihi and to let the girls fish in deep water (45metres), They bin 12 Tarakihi's. The wind has disappeared and the sea is smooth as, I suggest shall we head back Trish said " God yes I'm buggered" we have a nice ride back and the girls are all smiles, Deb manages to win the snapper section and Trish was just beaten for 3rd place.
I anchor up and set the berley sack to ever increasing moaning, after a 15 minute soak we have our first hit and it's Deb first up, It's a beaut I have to hold on to the back of her gimble belt and the rod while she reels it in and it is a 5.95kg snapper, as we bin the snapper the second rod is hit and Trish lands a pan size snapper, soon it is all on, over the next couple of hours we bin 9 snapper and release a couple, Trish lands a nice 3.76kg snapper, strange how the moaning has been replaced by shreiks of delight. By lunch the current and wind is opposite to each other and is no good for straylining, we pull the pick and head over to South rocks to catch some Tarakihi and to let the girls fish in deep water (45metres), They bin 12 Tarakihi's. The wind has disappeared and the sea is smooth as, I suggest shall we head back Trish said " God yes I'm buggered" we have a nice ride back and the girls are all smiles, Deb manages to win the snapper section and Trish was just beaten for 3rd place.
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