A couple of days of southerly winds were cold enough to remind us what a great summer we've been having, fortunately they seem to have moved off leaving the temperature still pretty good. Water temp is still around 19-19.3* and we've still been picking up skippies and the odd albacore.

We've been fishing a bit deeper lately and been having some good tarakihi catches with a few quite good sized snapper amongst them.

Still quite short feed times, so we've been emphasising the importance of having spare traces made up, and being ready to go as soon as the motor's turned off. It might well be [and often is] that you're going to catch 90% of your fish in the 1st hour and if you're not organised you're going to miss out.

Still see lots of big hooks, little sinkers which don't work in 60m +, but everyone that's caught a snapper or watched a fishing show seems to know more than us. Strange how many tangles and few fish they seem to get. What works on a mussel barge or 20m of water doesn't necessarily do it in the Pacific Ocean.