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welcome back rich i will send you a pm mate . mark b

I have just found out about bob from pj really sorry to hear whats happed its good to see that a memorial has been set up for him and that there was a good turn out . mark b

All the kiwi guys over here like the shimano tld 25 and the shimmano charter special's i have two penn 975's i have the ld and the star drag aswell very good reels . mark b

It is not much better here at the moment it's been raining for the last two days very hard . mark

well we get out when ever we can i try not to work as hard as i did and not at the weekend anymore so more time for fishing weather permitting our next comp is on the 7Th 8Th and the 9Th of Jan and it called the motuihe challenge most of the members take part in it we set up camp on motuihe on the Friday and fish all weekend i have booked the Friday off so on the Thursday we will launch and stay on the island Thursday Friday and Saturday so bbqs beer and fishing all weekend there will be prizes for the best snapper adults' juniors and prizes for the best kahawai again adults and juniors this club is so much for the kids there are 27 kids in this club and Ryan and James have found some good friends and there is also a bit of rivalry between them which is good there is also a bit of pressure on me now because we now have to catch good fish the boys do not want to bring in small fish all day they say they mates will laugh at them . i will get some photos of our weekend comp and fill you all in on whats happen . Regards to rich i have not heard from him last i heard he had split from debs how true this is i don't know i have email him but he did not get back to me ? must be going we have our work Xmas party tonight on a 60 ft boat with a free bar and a bbq on the back we will be sailing around rangitoto volcano and back 4 hour it will take must go merry chirstmas everyone and a happy new year . mark b

just look at that sea you can just see great barrier in the back ground

heres my jd

ryan with he's 2.93kg snapper

ryan with he's 2.93kg snapper

the dolphins

heres ryan with he's two best fish

We managed to get out at the weekend we drove for an hour north to a place called gulf harbour and that is where we launched from and headed out to tiritiri matangi island it's about 35min's at 20knots so not far' in the fishing club that i am in we have a fish of the month and November's was john dory so that was my target fish for the day but too had been Court already so i had to catch a good one and i had a mark on my plotter that i wanted to try so we headed to it .On the way we was joined by a pod of dolphins they was amazing they was swimming through my wash you could of touched them if you try ed .We found our mark its a whole of 32 meters deep as we arrived the fish finder was going mad' balls of bait fish everywhere so we posited the boat over the whole well i tryed anyway but it was close enought the first drop fish on 2 kg snapper to ryan and then my mate jim had one a little smaller i did not even get my rod out of my bag and they had two fish but the time i got my line wet ryan had 4 fish but he loved it and he rubs my nose in it aswell but not to be out done i waited for a very little snapper to be court and them i placed it on my size 6 circle hook on a bull weight and lowed it in to the whole left it for 30 mins and bang rods starts to click so i left it bit longer gave it some line and waited by this time the other too said reel it in it's gone i said just wait 5 more minutes so we did . so i started to reel and it was heavy very heavy and with the tide aswell but it did come up and yes it was a dory i shouted grab the net pulled it to the boat netted it job done 2.75kg which won me $100 bar tab that shut the other too up aswell so all in all a good day at the office the weather was just perfect the sea was a mill pond no clouds in the sky i did burn my legs thought but in the end ryans best fish was 2.92kgs snapper which has got him on the junior leader board for the heavyest snapper so far we must of court inexess of 50 fish all good size we took just enought for a feed 5 around the 2kg mark and the rest went back the leagal size for snapper here is 27cm if i take anyone out no fish under 35cm to be kept there is no meat on them waste of time me thinks keeping fish under 35cm. sorry about the spelling mark b

thanks guys it's all down hill now isn't it well still loving kiwi land i just don't get enough time to fish but summer is on it's way now but to be fair i wouldn't say that we even had a winter it's just not cold enough driving home to night from work and it's 18c and it's spring . I have had to do a few jobs on the boat she needed a new battery $250 later and a tyre on the trailer and i am about to fit a stainless keel band as i am fed up keep repairing my keel with gelcoat but it has been a while since i have been out we fished and comp in the kaipra harbour a couple of months ago it's about a hour north of auckland for the biggest gurnard james again out fished us with a nice 2lb fish which he came 3rd over all and won $100 but we do have a comp this weekend if the weather holds it's called the 5 grander it's between 3 clubs here on the north shore and only snapper can be weighed in and only ten fish so the best ten fish from each clubs and for the last 3 years browns bay have won so game on and this season i have some marks now . regards mark b

hi i have just tryed to sort this unit out but i can not highlight the set up tab on left of the screen it just does not highlight why is this does anyone know ?. mark b

so after walking around this boat show for five hours we finaly made our mines up a we brought this one .

here's a smaller rayglass this is the 25ft one .

this is the one that caught my eye it's called a rayglass this boats had everthink even the price tag $250.000 about

the coastguard had a stall here

strange

this boat/car was weird it's called sealegs quite a good idea.

even jeanneau were here they had a 645 merry fisher at a cool $100.000 about

this is the biggest i could fine at the show .

look at this this boat will hit 70 knotts and it's a sunseeker but not from the uk it's from aus.

viaduct harbour

another one