Thread: Teaching the old man some new tricks...

down to french pass.. wind blowing it's tits off so round into deep bay for some shelterd water.. clear as vis reaching 30 feet (which is very good for the round here).My son Blake & me free diving spent the first half an hour smashing up kina's to feed the blue cod and waitng for the tide to drop so I could dive some reef I spied but was to deep for me a full tide. little cod and spotties and the odd wrase were all we had for company..Blake buggered off to have a look at some turf he had seen from to road and I was left to entertain myself. Sat on a rock with a flat calm sea around me was very relaxing. The tide dropped a bit so back in the water,an hour later I was reaching new depths that I would not have believed possible 3 months ago (it seems you can teach an old man new tricks).

Dived some fantastic turf huge cracks and holes, saw some beauty moki & blue cod but the crays hadn't read the script and were awol. Blake & me then stooged around a couple of shallow weed beds no butters seen, but as they say you never know whats around the corner so we spent the next 3 hours swimming up & down the coast..taking my own advise I was watching the currents & resticted myself to how far I ventured. No fish were harmed on this outing no paua seen.

Back to Okiwi and shit it blew so off home to do chores around the house untill the weather improved.Which it did on Saturday so loaded up the trusty Nissan and back to Okiwi out and down to paddock rocks Dolphins all the way down the coast made it a slow trip as the crew wanted photos and to swim with em ( had to tell em this is a fishing boat not a dolphin research vessel), caught up with some good cod but spot X has stopped producing those mega fish of winter/spring. Got our cod and a couple of Barra's for bait nt out into the sand for gurnard & maybe a snapper ... Bite "hell yeah" line pulled .. more line pulled fingers crossed for a good snapper ...No deal couple of big grey boys.

Bugger this time to cool off freedived some weed beds not alot about so back in the boat and over to a cray spot.. Broke out a tank (kind of feels like cheating now) and me and blake dropped down for a dive we hit 50ft and were into some mint turf Huge moki & cod some small blue mio mio , I looked into a crack you beauty cray!! then what the ...blake snagged one beside me (cheeky little shit reckons I need glasses)... then to add insult to injury I make an arse of myself and tits up my one FARK!!

Back to into the boat saving our tanks for scallops (our spots have being a bit leen of late)...up the coast on a flat arse calm sea.Stopped at an old mark from yesteryear over the side for a spot check and well well you little beauty's come to papa.. so here I am grabbing me a hand full of scallops then a bloody great paw full of scallops bloody blake can't stay in the boat for five mins and freediving scallops. depth 30ft wore him out pretty quickly so I surfaced and waited for him to chuck on his tank and we slayed our quota in 10 mins. then home for a clean up.

Up and out on Sunday with my old man & mum and the rest of the tribe took em to a few of my spots (apperntly he took me there years ago eh .. Insert tui add here) got another feed of cod and then dropped them on me scallop patch they loved it a clear dive in warm water with plenty of scallops . Sadly it was over all to soon and I was packing for home and back to work on monday... but what a xmas break.

Just off the phone from yarnin with the young folk sounds like a trip to the coast is on the cards ... I love this shit!!