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Went down to the beach last night and fished over the high tide (10pm) for a few hours. Caught a couple of small sharks and one good school shark weighing 12kgs, which i ended up roping in by the tail end with the second hook on my trace as it bit through the one i hooked it with then foul hooked in the tail so that was a bit of luck and ended up about 400 metres down the beach from where id started with the fight.
After dark caught a nice rig too. After that was bitten off by a big moocher then packed up and went home.
Nice rig..
I went down to the diversion again today, first in the morning at high tide but there was nothing about. Checked out the Bar and the amount of water the tide pushes up the cutting at high tide is impressive.
Went back to the diversion late afternoon, went to the south side via the sand road and notice about five cars parked on my side
so I went home. I noticed earlier in the day that someone had smashed the entry gate but it was still standing. So they must of decided to finsish the gate off……… I was tempted to go and fix the gate and force all the cars to travel back via the sand road but I was to lazy and probably lacked the tools. Hopefully the council would repair it quickly so I can have my side back. [b:1a8z7h4r]Weather[/b:1a8z7h4r]
At home it was blowing a gale. Down at the springlands it was a very light wind, cloudy bay was almost flat. I guess it must have been a true Westerly wind.
Went back and fished lyttelton breakwater again. 1st cast hooked into a big ray, fought for close to an hour then got it right into the rocks next to me could have touched it (not that i wanted to lol) was gona cut the line but it bit through before i got the knife at the same time i was fighting the ray my other rod went off and got a nice 12lb rig fished from 6pm till 9pm
not a bad spot for stingrays have had 2 in 2 days
Just gotten back from Clifford Bay. My gamble paid off, there was a gentle offshore breeze* and no chop on the sea. The swell was small. Threw out a few prawn baits and a bonito bait while catching crabs. There was a lot of weed in the water and it often covered the lines making them hard to pull in
The fishing was a non-event, I landed two extra tiny Tope and a equally small Rig. The rig took a prawn bait and the Tope took a red flasher rig baited with prawn.
My crab pot got crashed by weed on its first drop, so I was about to give up but all further drops resulted in crabs, mainly small but one big one towards the end. Should now have enough crabs to last me 3-4 rig hunting trips.
The local sea birds have started to roost on the pier, it is now completely covered in bird shit. Should make it pleasant for anyone who fishes from it.
*The gentle offshore breeze blew the sewage like smell of decomposing lake material towards me all night
so I went home. I noticed earlier in the day that someone had smashed the entry gate but it was still standing. So they must of decided to finsish the gate off……… I was tempted to go and fix the gate and force all the cars to travel back via the sand road but I was to lazy and probably lacked the tools. Hopefully the council would repair it quickly so I can have my side back. 
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