the west coast one base (fishing)

fishing

a couple of weeks ago i enterd a fishing comp. we did not go on our boat we went on a big 10 metre boat that goes by the name keeper. early sunday morning 5 in the mornig infact me and dad started to get ready and in no time we wher on the trailer of the boat. we have all brought some food for breakfast on the boat. we where allowd out of the hourber at 7 so. we gatherd some bait fish well haveing bacon . we had a tank that keeps them alive. we planed to go to awhinkino which is 2 hours north.

 

oops i have not indruduced you to the crew we have clown and his luckey tui hat. then the young gun jarod. and the skipper baz. then me and dad. a soon time later we where on our way there was lots of boats behind us it looked prity awsome. an hour and half through the trip up there we saw whals and dolphins an hour later we get the gear out. by the way for the whole time we trolled for a marlin. baz the skipper gave me the whell and i took over for 20 minutes.

 

a soon time later i saw ganutes diving so i told baz to head for them. we got ther 10 minutes later there was big baals of fish and suddenly yelld out thers a marlin on the gear a second later the rod was screaming and clown was in. then it took haif an hour to get it in we tagged it messurd then let it go the esstimated weight was 120 kgs.

 

we where at the fishing club till midnight and went fishing again at the same time as sunday it was taranaki anvisery weekend.

 

i added up our travling time and it was 7 hours all together. by jake