The weekend had a good forecast which is great as the last 2 weekends it wasn't that good, I had decided to stay at home and do some of those "I'll get round to it" jobs around the house. Saturdays forecast looked good so I dragged Murray kicking and screaming out to sea (he was waiting by his gate at 6.30am to be picked up). The wind was a 8-10 knot offshore, making the sea a little sloppy, but it was supposed to drop off to nothing. We went to South rocks which is 20km's out to sea to try our luck as the next contest is an "inshore" one. As we don't have a "inshore" as such, the species that we are targeting are caught in the shallower water around the various reefs found off shore rather than the deeper water around the drop offs.
The rock we went to showed good sign so we dropped the pick and missed to spot we wanted by about 5 metres, but we dropped our lines and managed a couple of good snapper. Over the next hour or so we managed 6 nice snapper, we thought we would re anchor on the rock and did so only to find the rock was surrounded by school sharks. so we pulled the pick again and headed over to the rock we caught the snapper on in the last contest. The sounder showed 5 metres of fish, so down went the pick again and we were straight into Tarakihi, good sized ones and 2 at a time. In an hour we had 37 in the bin before the wind changed and we drifted off the fish. The limit is 20 each and with 3 short we decided we had enough, so at midday it was time to head home to do some serious filleting. Deb and Murray did the afternoon fish run dropping off fish to all our friends and families so there was no waste. It turned out to be a beautiful day out on the water.
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