All week a large high has covered New Zealand giving beautiful settled weather, as per usual the weeknd it all starts turning to custard. Saturday gave us to only window of fine weather before the rain arrives Sunday, So with that in mind we head out at 6am which is not bad seeing I have been laid low all week with the worse case of man flu you can imagine, haven't had a real sick day off work in years and as the weather starts to warm up I get sick...great, hopefully that's it for another 5 years. Anyway getting back to real stuff, the sea is looking good so we head out to the puka fields 40km out to sea, The sea has a light sea breeze on it already but conditions are still good. I drop a 3 hook puka (Groper) rig down, 2 large circle hooks and 1 smaller one, straight away good bites and a nice fat Terakihi in the bin, 2 drops later and with 3 Terakihi in the bin that's my wife's dinner looked after. I change rigs to 1 large circle hook and one medium sized circle hook and straight away again and large 6.6kg Trumpeter is in the bin soon followed by 2 smaller ones. Murray catches the 3rd Trumpeter and finally gets on the board and unbeknown to me is where he takes over and I stop catching. Around lunch time he catches a nice 15kg Kingfish down in 180 metres of water, followed by a small Hapuka. With the fishing or lack of - we decide to head south to look at new areas around Baistow's (17 km away) but on the way home (well sort of). Between the 2 areas, both are at 180-200metres deep is a trench that goes down to 550 metres, there are a couple of good sea walls to look at that rise up from 400 metres to 260 metres that should hold good fish. One of these we stop at and drop our gear down. Murray doesn't muck about a hauls up a nice 5kg Bluenose (excellent eating) and tops it with a double hook up of 2 more, meanwhile I'm just winching bait and empty hooks up and down but that's fishing.
All in all a good day on the sea.
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