Sunday28/6/20 7:15 to 9:45am
Back to Takapuna, this time in 4m of water for the incoming. Lots of berley, and mullet and squid bait, but it was a slow start. Caught a small KY in the berley trail and cut it up into quite large pieces. Nek minute, reel screams, and fish heads for the rocks and weed. A bit of coaxing required to get it out of there, and a sigh of relief. Turned out to be a Takapuna PB at 68cms.
It had swallowed the hook but wasn't bleeding from the gills, so cut the hook off and released it. Took a while to perk up, but swam away. If you catch one of similar size in the area it has 2 distinguishing features. The front of the right eye is covered by what looks like seaweed pigments, a green-brown film. And at the moment it has a Gammie 10/0 circle hook in it. Hope it survives, and you can never be sure when they have a hook in them, but it sure as hell woundna survived if I killed it then and there.
Kept 3 between 34 to 46cms.
Had a tussle with an old craypot that looked like it had been there for years. Was going to bring it home and dispose of it, but it dropped off the anchor just as I reached for it.