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| Perfect Day |
I finally took a day off from work and got the weather and sea conditions to work in my favour. the forecast had a 15 knot Northwest fading out to nothing by lunch and the same for Saturday, I meet Linda a friend who I had promised a trip out for sometime at the harbour at 7am. We launched Gazebo and headed out the conditions out to sea was choppy with the 15 knot offshore wind, we headed to Westpac 28km's to the southeast, we found good sign in 73 metres of water and dropped the anchor. The bottom being mainly mud hooking up was a problem, so we ended doing a slow drift.
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| Visitors that came to play - hundreds of Dolphins |
Over the next hour or so we reset 3 times and we managed to catch 12 or so good sized Terakihi and a small snapper, I then decided to try Bank rock were we might be able to stay hooked up. We travelled the 10 km's to bank rock and by the time we got there the wind was dropping. We found good sign again and dropped the anchor and we were straight into Terakihi smaller than Westpacs but ok, we put another 14 into the bin plus a small pup Hapuka that Linda caught. By 1.30 the wind had completely died off and the sea had turned to glass with a metre rolling swell. With the bin full and our stomachs full as well on the yummy food Linda had bought it was time to go. Spring is not far away, already there is a bit of heat in the sun.
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