After the southerly blow yesterday the morning was calm but the sea was still running at 1.5 metres and very sloppy, we left the Tata ramp at 7 to arrive on Aerial reef to find the northwesterly was picking up making conditions very uncomfortable. In fact after setting the anchor I very
nearly lost my breakfast and that hasn't happened in a long time. we dropped our baits and managed some reasonable Blue Cod and after a while the odd snapper showed up. We thought we would put out a berley bag to bring the snapper in and hopefully get a big one but strangely it worked the opposite way with the fish under us disappearing completely. By lunch the wind had dropped and the sea was calming down we pulled anchor and moved over to South rocks and again anchored on good sign to find fishing hard, after catching a few Terakihi we moved off to try a drift over the mud banks between 2 areas of rocks but that plan failed, so with time running out we headed home.
The second day was called off with the off shore wind getting up to 30 knots. The third day is on next Saturday and the forecast is looking good, so hopefully we can get out and have a good days fishing.
Crayfish and they taste real good
As I'm on holiday at the moment and so is Craig from Tzer, we have been doing our Crayfish pots each morning. Crayfish or Spiny Lobster (they don't have claws, and taste real good) are a high value fishery in New Zealand and highly regulated. The last 2 days we managed to catch our limit each, which is 6 each, that is good as it has been hard of late to even get 1 legal cray so hopefully it is a sign that the fishery is recovering around Gisborne after the last few years of overfishing.
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