Ethan posing next to Robbies 155.05kg Southern Blue Fin TunaFor the last 7 days we have had perfect weather no wind, sunny and warm during the day at least and a couple of light frosts at night, all thanks to a large high pressure system covering New Zealand. The only downer is we have a 2-3 metre swell and I'm at work. Saturday it still looked good and the usual weekend weather turn to custard didn't happen. Murray and I were at the ramp at 6.30am and the sea looked perfect, the swell had dropped to a metre and the surfers and fishermen were in for a great day. We headed out to BS1A which is 34km out to sea and about 16 km out we came across 20 plus Albatross sitting on the ocean a sure sign of fish. The water temp was 17.4, a bit cold but we set a couple lures and 1 minute later Murray had a Skip jack tuna on board (I had thought they were long gone to warmer seas) we then hooked a couple of rat Kingfish which were released. With fresh bait on board we didn't want to waste the day we continued heading out to BS1A. On arrival we had a look around and found 8 metres of sign over the rock Murray caught his big Bass, we set up our first drift and to our disappointment we both caught sharks (full moon and slow tides....recipe for sharks) over the next 4 hours we managed to catch 4 Hapuka (2 each) in between numerous sharks. A lot of other boats were complaining of hard fishing so we think we did ok with 4 Puka we headed home with the conditions just getting better.
Footnote. Sunday morning I received a text from Johnstone that his son Ethan had been out all night on the boat Houston Broad bill fishing and they hooked a 155.05kg Southern Blue Fin tuna not far from where we were.
Footnote. Sunday morning I received a text from Johnstone that his son Ethan had been out all night on the boat Houston Broad bill fishing and they hooked a 155.05kg Southern Blue Fin tuna not far from where we were.
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