21.04.12 Bronwyn Kay Ladies day.

Since my last blog the weather really sucked, with heavy rain again just before Easter, this time the roads south and east were closed and the rail is unlikely to be reopened. The road north closed now for 3 weeks was opened for daylight hours for Easter and we made our escape to Bowentown for the break. The weather was summer again - sunny, hot and calm. I left Gazebo back home and had use of my Brother in laws runabout. The swell outside the harbour bar was huge, 3-4 metres so Cliff and I entered the Bowentowns Fishing Clubs Sunday competition, The day was nice and we got to catch some snapper, nothing big but we managed to weigh 4 in.

The rest of April in Gisborne the rain eased off and the sun came out, but still no fishing - big swells, crappy weekends etc.

                                                                      The Jelly Fish

21.04.12 The Bronwyn Kay Ladies Competition. The weather map had a nice weekend for us, so Deb, Trish and Leanne were told to be ready for a 5.30am start. So we were ready at 6 am (you know lippy, hair, toilet, coffee, toilet, tissues, towels, toilet etc). We were in the water just after 6.30 and puttering out the harbour and the girls all decided they wanted to wear life jackets, So I had to go into the cabin to get them and unbeknown to me I unplugged the fish finder from the transducer. It was a few Km's out to sea when I noticed the fish finder had no bottom and couldn't find the reason, so I changed plans and went to my old favourite snapper spot. I blindly chucked the pick over when the GPS said we were there and put out the berlie bag. It didn't take long to get the first snapper in and for the barracuda to find us. Over the next 5 hours we caught some nice sized snapper and Trevally and lost a lot of gear to the snakes (barracuda). the best snapper weighed 6.280kg and gave Deb first place and she managed 2nd place in the trevally section with a 2.455kg fish. The sea ended up glassy as and we had a really good trip home, while washing the boat I found the unplugged lead and I had the fish finder back in business. The girls Came second in the fancy dress section in their Jelly fish outfits.