Today the weather gave us a good window to make the tramp out to Anchorite from our local launch place - Waiake beach. We launched as the sun was coming up and 22 nautical miles later we arrived at our destination. There were about 10 boats already in the general area. No issues with that - nice to have company when you are well away from home base. Over the next few hours we had a very enjoyable day with plenty of action. Didn't take many photos but at one point we had this guy (or gal?) swimming around quite close to us hoovering up bait:
We also had a couple of heavy hits from what turned out to be large (5' long plus) tope which reluctantly came to the boat to be cut free. Then a decent school of kingfish showed up and played around and at times under the boat. We tried plenty of options to hook one - large soft plastics, jigs. slug-go, even trolled large Rapalas for a while - but they were not playing ball. Still great to see them around. So the main positive action came from bottom fishing with 7 reasonable snapper to mid 40's in the bin plus a welcome blue cod.
Then the time came to motor back and we slid back to the starting point over a very flat sea. Boat worked well. Good crew. Good weather. A few fish in the bin. What else would you want?
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