6-30am out the door to load the bait and rods and it's freezing. Grabbed an extra coat and beany, and went to the ramp. There were a few hardy souls but generally pretty quiet. With gloves on and beany pulled down over my ears, plus two coats and a lifejacket, I felt a bit bulky. There was a screaming ebb tide so I went down the channel along side the rocks to dodge the worst of the tide wash. I didn't want to get a wetting down.
Crossed the bar no issue and pointed to a spot about 7nm offshore, that is often pretty good in the colder months. I hunched up behind the console to get out of the wind as I sat on a comfortable 18knt.
25 minutes later I was there. Sounder looked ok a bit of stuff showing on top of the rocks. Baited up and sent it down.
Not a minute after it hit the bottom, before I could organise another rod, and it bends over.
Bit of a fight obvious snapper knock knock, and up comes a reasonable fish. Measured it at 42cm. I was drifting and was away from the rocks so organised both rods baited with squid and pillies, then cruised back 100mtrs. Over they went a few minutes to drift back and bang both rods bend over. 5 minutes and fish 2 and 3 are flapping around the floor. Bit smaller mid 30's. The next half an hour was repeat the previous procedure a few times. End result 3 x 40cm + , 5 between 30 and 40cm and 1 mowong. It was just past 9am when I pointed the boat to land and headed in.
pretty happy with that after 7 weeks off.
Water temp is way down now 14.5 deg. I might even have another go tomorrow.
and called it an extra jumper.
I got my PB squid today so it’s been a good day as well 
