How time flies the first contest of the season is here already, the 3 day Tui fishing contest. We left the ramp early at day break into a 1.5 metre swell and a breeze that was to drop. We headed to a area we call SR4A at South Rocks some 26 km out from the ramp. We had to take care going over Aerial reef as it was breaking on the shallows (9 metres deep at the shallowest part), we anchored up and started to catch Terakihi and after an hour the first snapper (only small). Then we both lost our sinkers, I looked at the fish finder and we had 50 metres of barracudas under us, after another 4 sinkers and a dozen hooks latter we knew we couldn't stay there. We headed to a number of marks in the south rocks area catching a number of fish but nothing big. On the way home we came across a school of Kahawai feeding on the surface and flicked out a couple of lures and landed a couple of nice sized fish.
The next day was even better, we headed out to Baistows 32 km's out from the ramp in 225 metres of water for a deep fish, we managed to land 5 small bluenose 1.5 to 2 kg, at lunch time we headed back to South rocks where the wind had completely died off. It was just perfect a rarity in our waters, on the way we came across a sun fish doing it's thing. We anchored and berlied up trying for a good sized snapper but only managed small pannies, we headed home and managed to see a Humpback whale cruising past. It was a truly magic day.
The grand old lady SS Earnslaw, 100 year old steamship
Queenstown
Lake Wakatipu
Queenstowns Jetty on Lake Wakatipu
We had to miss the 3rd day as I was in Queenstown for a conference (also a wonderful part of New Zealand), our 2 Kahawai managed to come 2nd and 3rd.
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