06.03.11 girls contest canceled

The ladies contest was canceled on Thursday due to a bad weather forecast, but as usual the day wasn't so bad. Poverty Bay was flat and as calm as a mill pond, but the further you went out the sloppier it got. Murray and went out to catch Skippies for the bait freezer, we left at 9am and 50 metres from the harbour entrance Marry saw a Small school of skippies and then another 6 or seven splashing on the surface so out went the lures and for the next half hour we went up and down the back of the reef at Kaiti beach for nothing we just couldn't get them to take anything. So we headed out to fluke rock 16km's out, the sea got quiet sloppy and there was no sign of any skippies any where, so back in we went to Kaiti beach and out went the lures again, we struggled to land 2 nice sized skippies over the next hour or so, the main school of skippies were in 7 metres of water, 150 metres off shore. Maybe the shallow water spooked the fish too much but they weren't interested in our lures at all. Hopefully next time as we need to fill the freezer up for the years fishing to come.