Despite the forecast telling me there was going to be gusts upto 50 knots, thunder, lightning & rain, I thought i'd try my luck anyway and just aswell because it was mint out there, hardly any wind and one short light shower was all we had to put up with. Took my brother out for a fish, went straight to my usual spot in the waiuku channel and consistently caught fish from around 11.30 till about 2.30 with a small quiet patch when the tide was slack, 15 gurnard kept and about 4 under 35cm released, we were still catching fish when we decided to call it a day.
Also a question for you knowledgeable guys out there, who can tell me what kind of shark this is...? Never caught one before and managed 2 of them today! The first one in the pic was over a metre long and had a black cord hanging out it's mouth so I grabbed it with the pliers and pulled and whatta ya' know, a little stingray, wasn't expecting that! Let this fella go and 30 mins later it's mumma turned up, atleast twice the size and twice the girth of the smaller one, unfortunately once I got it to the boat it twisted it's tail around the mainline and broke free so I didn't get a picture, was the same kind of shark as earlier though, grey and covered in black spots. They seemed like quite docile fish, both just felt like a big weight on the end of the line and didn't put up much of a fight at all, especially the bigger one.
Cirrus - on average these gurnard had noticeably larger amounts of roe in them, a big change from what I have seen lately, so that would match up with a late spawn...?