Day one.... Canceled, Woke up a 4 am to hear the rain on the roof and the howl of the wind in the trees, 25 knot southerly and swell increasing to 1.5 meters. Back to bed try again tomorrow.
Day Two .... Not much better than yesterday, but the wind had dropped a bit, only 10-15 knots from the southeast. So the call was made to let the boats go, we head to the Wharerateas to hide under the cliffs, hoping to get some protection, but no the sea was yuk. We dropped anchor on the inside neddle's area to find only small Kahawai, so we then head out to the neddle's proper where 6 other boats are at anchor. We find good sign on the sounder and drop the anchor, berlie in the water and straylines deployed. Bang a hit and the trace is gone times 4 rods. Baracoutta are at their worst, we hang in retiring trace after trace, the other boats are pulling in small snapper one after the other. Finally I get a bait to the bottom and after 15 minutes a hit and I wind in a 7.18kg snapper. After another 3 hours and dozens of traces later, we pull the pick and head over to another boat to find they haven't seen a coutta at all, we drop the pick near them and have problems hooking up to the bottom and manage to catch 3 Tarakihi and that was that for the day.
Day 3 .... Still southeast but 1-5 knots, we head out from the Tata ramp and head to Baistows, the conditions are sloppy but ok. We drop our gear in 210 metres of water and I hook up instantly, a 8 kg Gemfish and Evan brings up a smaller one. We move over slightly and again soon as we hit the bottom I hook up, this time a small Bass and Evan a 5 kg Bluenose (good size for Baistows). over the rest of the morning we catch 5 Bass, 2 Hapuka (we even release one small bass, one that seemed ok, normally they have blown up from the change in pressure) and 4 good Bluenose all around 5 kg. We follow our game plan and head over to south rocks where we come arcross a work up of Kahawai, we break out the jigs and I land a Kingfish around 10-12 kg's Evan is straight into a good sized Kingi, takes around 15 minutes to get it into the boat and its a beauty, I release mine and it swims off none the worst for its stay on the boat.
Evans Kingfish weights 27.68 kg and takes 1st place, My snapper takes 2nd place and one of my Bluenose takes 3rd at 5.8 kg, so we didn't do to bad after all.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Summer 12/13
Sorry its been awhile since my last post, things have changed in my life, Having been made redundant just before Christmas and starting my own company, finding clients and work have kept me busy. Still I have found time to go fishing, we took our caravan out to the beach again this year (here in Gisborne we can freedom camp on certain beaches) and this year not having to work over the holiday period I was able to enjoy the beach. We have had the best summer so far in years, hot and dry with little wind.
I was able to go to the Tokomaru Bay's (about 65 k's up the coast) 2 day deep water contest on White Pointer, as usual the wind turned on shore for the contest and dropped completely as the contest ended. The conditions 46 k's out to sea were not good on the first day with most of the fleet being sick at sometime (even seasoned commercial fishermen were crook). I surprised myself with a quick spit after untangling a couple of lines and was good for the rest of the time, we had 4 on the boat who were not good all of the time on the first day. We managed only a couple of Hapuka and 16 Bluenose over the 2 days. not a good return seeing we were in the eldorado of Hapuka, the people we stayed with caught over 30 Hapuka over the 2 days supplying most of the small township of Tokomaru Bay with fish .
The water off Gisborne is starting to warm up reaching 20.9 last weekend, so everyone is starting to talk Tuna/Marlin, but still no sign of them. The sea looks ready for them with heaps of bait fish around so they can't be far away. This weekend is the Enterprise Holden Bay Bonanza our big 3 day contest, as per normal the forecast is crap for the weekend - but we live in hope the weather men have got it wrong.
I was able to go to the Tokomaru Bay's (about 65 k's up the coast) 2 day deep water contest on White Pointer, as usual the wind turned on shore for the contest and dropped completely as the contest ended. The conditions 46 k's out to sea were not good on the first day with most of the fleet being sick at sometime (even seasoned commercial fishermen were crook). I surprised myself with a quick spit after untangling a couple of lines and was good for the rest of the time, we had 4 on the boat who were not good all of the time on the first day. We managed only a couple of Hapuka and 16 Bluenose over the 2 days. not a good return seeing we were in the eldorado of Hapuka, the people we stayed with caught over 30 Hapuka over the 2 days supplying most of the small township of Tokomaru Bay with fish .
The water off Gisborne is starting to warm up reaching 20.9 last weekend, so everyone is starting to talk Tuna/Marlin, but still no sign of them. The sea looks ready for them with heaps of bait fish around so they can't be far away. This weekend is the Enterprise Holden Bay Bonanza our big 3 day contest, as per normal the forecast is crap for the weekend - but we live in hope the weather men have got it wrong.
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