Lovely sunrise this morning, Mike picked me up at 6am and we launched at Parua Bay, shot down the harbour and hyng a right and headed towards Ruakaka, spot x on the gps/sounder was a hole from 10-15m.
Not long with lines down I hooked a fat gurnard... pillies went out on floaters and even a few softee squidgys went out for a cast and twitch. A bit quiet lots of boats out here and tons of birds but all sitting spread over a very wide area, we went for a drive and found some fish sign right on the bottom, the odd baitfish school mid-water and gannets diving but spread out all over.
We did a few drifts, used baits and softees, a few more gurns a few more spots, found some wicked pilchard school sign on sounder bit patches from 3/4 to just below half the depth.
Eko was already out, we thought he may have kept going out to The Chics... but he was a few miles to the north of us and had gurns and a few snap in the bin...then he rang the bugger had just landed a 16 pounda!


So away we went and met up with him, had a chat, took photos of his fish and then we did what he was drifting from 22m to about 17m and then go back and start again, and this was off the power station. So we did about three drifts until the tide reached the low and called it a day as the wind was also getting up by now. So we finished up with 6 Gurnard and 4 Snapper, two nights feeds for us so we are happy. A slowish day but great day.
And as he arrived at the beach his wheel bearing broke so the poor buggar had to ring and wait for a tow truck.
I bet you are majorly pissed Dave considering you only just fixed them...and had to go to Auck
land for them...

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau