Well the summer has gone and we are well into autumn, the Tuna Hunt has been again we sucked, this year we crewed a new 9.5 meter White Pointer shaft driven boat for its new Lord Howe Islander owners. The weather was perfect but we failed to fire(every place we went to marlin were caught that day) overall 9 marlin were landed for the competition. Between February and Easter we went out a few of times and managed a fed but caught nothing special. Easter I took Gazebo up to Bowentown for Easter, it was good to get out and fish the Harbor again and catch snapper in 2 meters of water, means I may have learned to fish the harbor finally. We got outside the Bar and fished the 23 meter mark and again caught snapper and reasonable sized ones at that. On the way Home I stopped at Whakatane for the Surtee's boats only competition where I was joined by Craig and Doug. The sea was perfect and we heard the snapper were being caught at the 14 meter mark (depth) and true to word there was sign on the fish finder only at 14 meters and we had no problem catching snapper up to 4.4kg. On day 2 again we headed to the 14 meter mark and again we had no problem catching snapper but couldn't beat 4.4 kg. with an hour to go we headed to the shore and in 2 meters of water behind the small surf, Craig and Doug had a soft bait and Craig hooked a 11.6 kg Kingfish, we had to play it like a marlin as Craig only had 6lb line and after 20 minutes we landed it. The Kingfish took 1st place which was great.
Today we went out for a snapper fish in the shallows on Ariel reef, this time of year there should be heaps of snapper around but we struck out with a big fat zero - weird - where are they??. the day was so good zero wind and glassy conditions we decided to head out to Baistows on the 225 meter mark, we managed 1 nice Hapuka and 7 Bluenose which filled the bin. We headed home over a glassy sea - what a perfect day, very rare for us not to have any wind all day.
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