Finally got out on the muddy yesterday afternoon.
No work, Auckland was covered in fog and the harbour was like a millpond, so I thought why not try and nab a few gurnard.
My mate was off work as well so it was meant to be. Arrived at his place in Green Bay and proceeded to French bay to launch. Beautiful sunny day on land with the harbour still enveloped in fog. The plan was to try some of our old spots that we grew up fishing and see if they still produce.
We scooted out to an old gurnard spot that we have caught huge carrots at, however this is over a decade ago now. Didn’t even manage a bite here for the first 45 mins so we decided to shoot to another old favourite as by now the fog was lifting quickly.
As soon as we anchored up I heard a strange blowing noise, turned around and saw a bloody big dolphin coming over to the dinghy for a look. It got very close, basically touching distance from the boat. Last time we fished at these spots we had a pod of orca come up to the boat so this was pretty awesome too!
Again however, only one lost hookup here so we moved further up by the Mill Bay marker for zilch, then over to the middle channel in line with Cornwallis.
Here we had more action with a couple of nice Kahawai and one nice spotted shark (rig?). Only kept one Kahawai.
Back at the ramp on dark, tide well at the bottom of the concrete but easily done with a 12ft Frypan. We covered a lot of mileage and used about 3 litres of fuel if that. I still miss my big boat but in these times with the price of everything it’s good to sit back and fish economically….no fish today but she was pretty nice out there.