A week ago the country was in the grips of a icy polar blast, with snow down to sea level in the south. A week later spring is here with the night time temp around 5-8 degrees and the day time temp up to 20 degrees, what a difference over 7 days. We missed out fishing Saturday due to work and family stuff and hear it was a perfect day on the water, so Sunday we were keen as. We headed out to Kell's for a Terakihi fish (10k's out), we found plenty of sign but couldn't catch a thing, we re anchored 3 times and still nothing. we then headed out to the back of Penguins another 8 k's out to sea, we found 4 metres of fish over the reef in 50 metres of water, dropped the anchor and sat on a flat glassy sea with a lazy half metre swell and not a breath of wind - absolute perfection. over a couple of hours we managed to catch 30 Terakihi between 800gm - 1 kilo, enough to feed everyone and headed home. The air temp was warm and the sea was one of those days we dream about - as we fish in the open ocean, no islands or land masses, the next stop from Gisborne is Chilie, 5000 miles away over the Pacific Ocean, so to get a day like we did is very rare.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
13.08.2011 Finally a calm Saturday
Heaps of good eating
Just what the Doctor ordered - a dose of calm sea.
Murray hauling up a Hapuka
The weather forecast had New Zealand surrounded by 4 Lows and a storm warning that has a polar blast coming direct from Antarctica racing up the East coast over the weekend. BUT Gisborne was right in the middle and we were forecast for calm weather Saturday with no wind turning to crap Sunday.
So Gazebo was loaded up and by 8am Saturday morning we were heading out to sea, we decided to go where we fished last time, straight to Thunder rock 38k's out to sea. The sea was glass with a metre swell, we set up for our first drift over the rock, Murray managed a nice Trumpeter around 4 - 5 kgs. With a full moon at the time and the lack of much current tends to make fishing hard, over the next hour we had a lot of small bites before I managed a nice Hapuka (Groper). Around mid-day was bite time and we managed another couple of Hapuka and then things slowed right down and we started to pull up sharks (which isn't fun in 187 metres of water, no electric reels on Gazebo). 3pm was another bite time and we managed another 3 Hapuka. With the day light going just after 5pm and an hour to drive back to to ramp it was time to go. It is good to see the weather people are getting the forecasting right.
Sunday - the bad weather is starting to arrive.
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