Saturdays forecast wasn't that good, so with that in mind and a light Southerly (on shore wind) Friday we did a bit of a late start. We hit the ramp at 7am to find calm conditions. We headed to Aerial Reef 20km's out from the ramp, to the spot we caught our Snapper last year. We berlied for a couple of hours and nothing "a big fat zero", we pulled the pick and headed another 6km's out to South Rocks to our spot we have been fishing lately. We dropped the pick and put the berlie bag in and I cast my first bait, and it hadn't even got to the bottom and a big hit. I played the fish in thinking a double hook up of Barracuda and got a shock to see a nice big fat snapper. After another hour we were getting snaked (Barracuda's) on every bait. Managed to catch a nice big one and it went in the bin as they were in the contest. Lunch time found the sea dead glassy - not a breath of wind, so we decided to take a lunch break from "inshore fishing" and head out to the Hapuka fields. Still glassy we dropped our baits and sat on 200 metres of water, I caught my usual shark and Murray a double hook up - Hapuka and a Bass. My next drop was a small Bluenose and Murray a shark (his turn). With lunch over we headed back in to Penguins and back to snapper fishing, by mid afternoon the sea breeze had arrived and with nothing else happening we headed in.
Sunday the weather forecast was better, but the sea breeze was already up at 7am, we headed back to south rocks only to find every barracuda in the world had turned up. By 10am the sea breeze was howling and the snakes were destroying baits and gear, by 11am I had enough and pulled the pin and headed home.
The snapper 7.340kg won first place in the snapper section and the barracuda 5.420kg also won first place in the barracuda section.
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