27.10.12 Day 3 of the Inshore contest

Day 3 promised so much, the forecast was for light winds and they were spot on. In the morning the sea was just perfect, no wind what ever just glass, sadly the fish weren't playing the game, the tide was very slow so with no movement the fish were off the bite, we managed to drop a few lures in a patch of schooling Kahawai and Murray managed a reasonable sized one, he also managed to jig a 8-10kg Kingfish that was under one of the schools we came across.  The rest of the day was very slow with a few Terakihi caught in 70 metres of water. With the day running out and the sea breeze picking up we headed to Penguins reef were we put out the last of our berlie in the hope of a snapper or 2 but as luck would have it the barracuda turned up, with our last bait in the water Murray managed a large 5.8kg Barracuda which looked good as they were in the contest. At prize giving Murray took out the Kahawai (1st) and Barracuda (1st) sections and picked up a 3rd(average weight) prize in the Blue Cod section, not a bad effort foe a bad day out. Check out the competition results on this link http://www.gtsfc.co.nz/Competitions/20122013Results.aspx