Fishing Charter on the Kaipara Harbour

As today is Labour Day and a day off work, I headed off on a fishing charter with Paul and several others on the Kaipara Harbour, to the north west of Auckland.





After a few days of dubious weather, we were fortunate today - a warm and sunny day. It was still quite choppy though in parts. Unfortunately the big fish weren't biting, but still managed to reel in several fish.




This is my final haul of 8 snapper, 4 trevally, 1 gurnard, 1 small cod and 2 kahawai. The kahawai were biting well, so quite a few were put back, only the 2 big ones kept for smoking.





Our dinner consisted of sashimi trevally fillets followed by lemon pepper coated cod fillets with home made chips - the cod was probably the nicest fish we have ever had. As you can see I am quite tired after my hard day at sea.