02.10.2010 A hard day at the office

It was a toss up whether to fish the surfcasting comp or to go deep sea, the forecast was calm, little swell and light winds so deep sea won. Murray and I headed out to TR1A at 6am from Tata ramp. We arrived on our spot at 7am, 37km out to sea in 187 metres of water. The sea was good no wind, we soon had baits down, our first drift yielded a nice trumpeter around 4 kilos, we repositioned and Murray had a Hapuka around 10 kgs on board, while I battled a 4 foot shark again. Over the next hour we managed another 2 trumpeter. By 12 the sea breeze had gotten up from the south so we headed in shore to fill the bin with Tarakihi - but they weren't playing the game. From the reports on the radio everyone was struggling to catch anything, we were happy with our 5 fish least they were good sized and would provide plenty of food. We heard from a mate fishing in the comp that only 5 fish were caught so we made the right choice.