28.08.11 Sea of glass

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.