08.10.10 Day off from work

We have just had a perfect week of weather, it started Monday - no wind and no swell and by Thursday it was driving me nuts. The weekend forecast was for gale force winds Saturday....GREAT. So I took a managers day off Friday as it was the last day of the school holidays. Johnstone and I decided to take our boys, Ethan and Jordan out fishing, my boy Jordan hasn't had the best of times out fishing with me due to sea sickness but we dosed him up last night with sealegs and hoped he would be ok. We left the Tata ramp at 7am and headed to TR1A 37 kms out to sea, the sea was not bad but a light northerly was just roughing it up a bit. On our first drop Johnstone managed a good hook up and wound up a Hapuka (Grouper) around 18 kgs, our next couple of drifts Ethan managed to wind up a couple of sharks, on our fourth drift Jordan managed to hook up a 10 kg Hapuka, 2 fish and the bin was full. The wind had started to freshen and then suddenly died away so we thought we would have a bit of an explore around the area. We went out a further 5 kms and a further 5 kms to the north, but there was little to be seen. Our rock we have been fishing seems to be the only one holding fish. Around lunch time we headed to Kells to give the kids a Tarakihi fish before heading home. Jordan was fine and didn't feel sick at all.