Beautiful day on the water Saturday, some of the best weather we have been out in. With conditions this good, the plan was to get a few fish under our belt early then head out deep to sound some new ground.

Hit the 200's and it was a glass off, awesome conditions. Made for a very easy drift and we had 3 nice grey band cod and a pinkie in the first 3 drops. Matt (Langa) has been out wide about 8 or 9 times and had not landed a grey band cod, with a series of bad luck and bad luck stories.....but today he killed it, first with this nice grey band, excellent eating size. Check out the conditions!

Then Langa got a bigger model, smashing his drought.

It was 8.30am, and it looked like we would bag out on the next drift, so we decided to head wider to try and find new ground on some prospective looking deeper contours we have been waiting for better weather to check out, as its bloody hard finding new ground in rough weather as the sounder does not work well. This proved harder than expected, as it was like a car park out there, boats everywhere on the depths we were planning to sound, so we sounded about a bit further afield till we found a few fish shows. After plenty of greeneye, we hit a nice patch and hit some XOS fish, Langa's leader wore through on a huge fish he fought for ages and I got bricked after another monster proved too much for my dodgy back......Langa then landed this nice hapuka (a first for our boat) to top off a great day for him.

As the day was getting on, we decided to head off and check another mark we were given, but on the way there we found a nice ledge and TimVB landed a Bass Groper, another first. Gotta say, the Puka and bass groper certainly pull a lot harder than grey band. I hope they taste as good.

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