I had been down to Muriwai rock on Friday for 3 hours, with a 1.5m swell and while I could hold the bottom, there were no bites even coming up to dark. Because of a sandbank to the South, the swells were coming on a 45 degree angle across the front of the rock with a current, putting a lot of drag on the line. I tried a couple of calmer spots but same result, At least we can leave the baits out there, none of your blooming crabs (there was one year they were a nuisance a while back).
So, Sunday morning at the rock for 6 am, black as a badgers ----, though there are some street lights top of the cliff behind me. Plenty of stars and a few planes on approach to Auckland airport about 30km away. You can see their light for about 20 minutes before they are overhead.
High tide 8-40,
Swell about .5m
Wind light E
Clear sky,
Water still some colour, not clear.
Expectations poor, too calm!
Company, nobody! until 7-30, then 2 others.
The preferred NW corner all mine, set up and cast out one rod with a 4 inch anchovy well tied with elastic, very slow, holding the rod, 15 minutes before the first bite, one small Kahawai duly landed, another 10 minutes another 250mm K landed light started, so second rod out with a chunk of pilchard, a better but thin 40cm Kahawai returned for another time, with the light bites aplenty. a solid bite on the second rod, with solid resistance, which was a 46cm snapper at 2.06Kg in good condition.
And so the morning kept giving.
Ended at 9 am when I had to leave with 4 snapper, one given away, 5 Kahawai 2 returned, one trevally, and one red gurnard.
Too busy to take photos, nearly forgot when I started filleting. (That is a 5oz sinker)
One of our cats who can eat a staggering amount of fish trimmings, and always appears with opening the ice box lid (chilly bin here)
The big snapper and one Kahawai filleted for smoking, the trevally filleted for bait, the rest filleted for eating, one snappers fillets given to a friend.
Just goes to show, you can never guess what the fish are going to do!
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