Flying Wok Dive Charters: Strait ahead 2014

The Flying Wok team decided to try another fishing spot, and so booked a trip with Dave Fishburn - two days fishing with grouper the target species and three nights stay at Endeavour Lodge. The FW team were a bit tardy in replying to the summons for a trip in August and so the numbers were filled out by gentlemen from the Motueka RSA fishing club and Jim, another Nelson ring-in.

Bruce

Geoff

Jim

Mark

Pat

Mike

The team set sail on a Tuesday afternoon and drove to Picton, stopping in Havelock for our usual lunch at the Brick Oven.

We drove on to Picton, where we met Dave Fishburn and FV Nimrod at the wharf, next to the ferry terminal. We unloaded our gear (food, booze, and the Wok) aboard the boat and sailed to the Endeavour Lodge in Endeavour Inlet.

Along way we caught scallops for tea in the Bay of Many Coves

We met Corky's cousin beside the path as we walked from the jetty to the motels.

Our Accomodation - Endeavour Lodge

Cooking on the Wok

Lunch sandwiches

We started out on Nimrod early (0700hrs) the next day for Cook Strait and a spot of Grouper fishing. The fish were not very forthcoming and the weather was packing up so we retreated to catch some Blue Cod - in "the slot" (30-35cm in size) After catching many cod that were either too small or too big we filled our quota of 2 per person and tried for "other species" The Gurnard, Tarakihi and Snapper were not very forthcoming.