13.06.2010

With a reasonable forecast is time to put Gazebo back in the water, Murray and I left town and headed out to BS1A. It is a 30 km run to the drop off, we arrived to 12 knot northwesterly and lumpy seas. We scouted around for a while and found a couple of areas of fish sign in 210 metres of water, we set up and started a drift pattern. The first fish up was a small shark, definitely not the plan. The second drift Murray had a small Hapuka (Groper) which was the plan. Over the next 2 hours we managed to catch 3 Hapuka, 3 Blue Nose (excellent eating) and a few more small sharks and a couple of small Gemfish (excellent smoked). While we were at the drop off the wind died off but on the way home the wind built up the closer we got to land, with 5 k's to go we stopped and gave a tow to a boat that had broken down.