Yesterday Keith C and I had a noteworthy day on the salt, fishing the Auckland East Coast Bays. For the first part of the match day we fished the outgoing. Conditions were perfect - flat sea with just a hint of ripple and overcast. Very slight wind with the tide. The playing surface looked like this:
Almost from kickoff we started to get a few keepable snapper. A few throwbacks too, but enough well into the 30's to make it worthwhile. Then this guy showed up around half time:
So after 3 hours and the tide having turned we went looking for another spot. The second half of the match was played on the incoming with a field that looked like this:
Then these guys started showing up:
There was a ton of bait on the sounder all day although very few birds around and no workups. Prospecting with the sabiki rig brought up plenty of good yellowtail mackerel and even a reasonable-sized blue mackerel. We also had a livebait deployed all day but nothing showed any interest in that.
Still, by fulltime we had a good score:
Picture distorts things a bit but the smallest snap in the pic was 33cm
Thanks for a great game today Keith - you get player of the match prize.
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