Black Friday 13th January I took the day off to help Deb move our camp site back home, with the hope of getting out for a fish, as the Liquorland contest had been going all week. But as usual the weather gods frowned on me. The wind picked up from the Northwest strong to gale force, so no fishing, just packing up the camp site. The northwest wind in Gisborne is our hot dry wind and our temperature started to rise, finally summer is here and we picked the hottest day of summer to pack up. The contest is a 7 day one, with those lucky enough to be on holiday being able to go out and fish calm weather during the week while the workers had to wait until the weekend.
14.01.12 day 1 for us - The wind had dropped from Friday but was still expected to be strong, but with the temp expected to get into the low 30's I thought the seabreeze might hold the northwesterly back and we might get a nice day. We left the ramp and headed out to PR1A a under water reef system 16 km off shore. We found a area a fish on the sounder and anchored, put out the berlie and threw out our strayline baits and we were soon into a couple of snapper the heaviest at 2.7kg, after an hour things quietened down with the only highlight being a Marco shark taking our livebait as soon as we put it in the water (the reason for it being quiet) and playing it to the boat so we could release it. I managed 3 more pannies on a ledger rig and we decided to try somewhere else. The new spot turned out to be a Marco shark hang out spot with all baits being taken and bitten off. We spent the rest of the day looking around and trying different things to no avail, at least my predictions were right
15.01.12 - We headed out again into a building northwesterly, this time we went to SR1A another under water reef system 26km's out to sea. we found another school of fish in a shallow area and wiped a couple of strayline baits into them and bang a nice 2 kilo snapper, another bait and bang another nice 4 kilo snapper, Murray not to be out done whipped out a bait and again bang other nice snapper @ 6.74kg. I managed to catch a good Trevally @ 4.74kg. Then it went quiet, to stir up interest we put out the berlie bag *bad mistake* Marcos and blue sharks came to us, every bait was taken, we managed to play 3 Marcos and one Blue to the boat so we could release them, the rest just chewed us off. and with that our day was done.
Murray's snapper took out 1st place and my Trevally also took out 1st place.
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