Friday - the weather finally came right, a beautiful day but and there is always a but! a solid 2 metre swell decreasing, Saturdays contest looks ok.
Saturday 5.15am at the ramp 3 of us for day one Evan, Murray and myself as the dawn lightens we can see the swell has dropped to a metre and the sea is calm with a 10 knot land breeze which should burn off when the sun rises. We head out to TR2A (38kms out to sea). The land wind drops away to nothing, we set up for our first drop - plenty of sign on the sounder but no takers, after a couple of drifts we move over to TR1A about 1km away, yet again plenty of sign, but no takers over the rock, we drift about 500 metres with the current and see a small 2 metre ledge on the sea floor with sign on the downward side of it. As soon as our gear dropped into it we were hooked up. Murray had a pair of 8kg Hapukas I soon followed with a 10.8kg, after a couple of unsuccessful drifts we decided to move as the sea was calm as we headed out another 14kms to a new spot for us EB2A. Same again we found a small drop with heaps of sign in 225 metres of water. Evan pulled up a double hook up of large Gemfish, I followed with a 11.8kg Hapuka and a small Bass, Murray and Evan both ended with another Gemfish each. The day was magic no wind all day hot and sunny. We got back to the ramp at 4pm tired but happy.
Sunday 14.11.10. Yet again up at 3.30am and at the ramp by 5am. The swell had dropped but (yet again a but) the wind had picked up from the northwest and was supposed to pick up during the day. Murray and I (Evan was crewing for another boat Sunday) headed out and along the coast, we started to go out to an area 20kms out but the wind was roughing the sea up to much so we headed to an area under a cliff, hopefully to give us protection from the wind. the sea was calm but fishless, the wind seemed to drop off so we pulled the pick and headed out to a group of rocks in 30 metres of water 12 kms out, we dropped the pick and the wind returned in it's full fury, a solid 20-25 knots - not very pleasant. Murray who loves stray lining (NOT) soon had a couple of snapper on board, I followed with one and that was that, we stayed till 12 and called it a day and headed home with a 30 km drive into a head wind.
Prize giving. Much to our surprise Murray's biggest Snapper 2.60kg won first prize in the snapper section and my 11.8kg Hapuka came 6th out of 7 prize winners.
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