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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