It's been a while since my last post, summer has been and gone, Autumn is coming to an end - sadly, The fishing has been hard with my favorite fish snapper very hard to find all summer, only now are there reports of fish being caught in their usual haunts, the star has been Hapuka (Grouper), with good catches all over the place ( not only in the deep but in the shallows up to 50 metres).
The contest season has been equally hard, I took Gazebo out in the Tuna hunt this year for the first time for only one fish a Albacore tuna 10kg that took out 15th place, sadly I had a large Big Eye tuna on for 15 minutes until the hook pulled, overall 10 marlin were tagged or landed and more were lost.
I went out on Tzer at the White pointer only contest at Waihau Bay, again I had a very large Blue marlin hooked in the 3rd hour of the contest until it also threw the hook, my year for dropping large fish ( Got to take some consolation that at least I hooked them),
In the 48 hour blue water contest I managed to win the open Hapuka section with an 11 kg fish off Tzer.
Easter I took Gazebo up to Bowentown (5 hour drive), we had a day trolling Mayor Island for no joy and the next day taking the girls out for a snapper fish. On Sunday we entered the harbour only contest and I managed to win the snapper section with a 2.8 kg fish and my son Jordan won the other section with a 600gm octopus,
This weekend I take Gazebo and the crew from Tzer up to the Surtees only contest in Whakatane (2.5 hour drive) and the following weekend is the boys cricket trip to Cape Runaway for snapper fishing off the rocks
Monday, April 13, 2015
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