Trumpeter (very good eating)Saturday morning the forecast was good with a large high over the top of Gisborne, so off came the covers again and a quick hose down to wash away the frost. Gazebo was loaded by 8 and outside Murray's house a few minutes latter. We decided to launch from Tatapouri ramp so we could go east, to a secret spot Murray was given by a ex commercial fisherman. The only problem with a Tata launch is that we have to use the clubs tractor and it means self launching and getting wet while getting into the boat, that ok in the summer but in winter and in a frost it's a wee bit chilly. We headed out to the secret spot we've called TR1A which is 38 km's offshore to find a mate of mine already there fishing (so much for it being secret) half an hour latter we were joined by another boat (yeah right - really secret seeing that there was only 6 boats out). We were drift fishing in 180 metres picking up the usual toothed species like shark and barracuda and one nice trumpeter (really good eating). The story was "should have been here last week, boats were filling up" sadly some of us have to work during the week. As the wind picked up we headed back to gables to catch a few Tarakihi for tea, we found a good rock but were pack raped by Rat Kingfish (undersized fish) we struggled to get our gear to the bottom without multi hook ups as the gear went down. We put 8 Tarakihi into the Bin and called it a day.
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