Headed up to Toots on Thursday with the Mighty Porae. Figured with the swellmap forecast of 10knot S and 0.25m swell at 10 second period that everything would be sweet. Well, as it turned out the swell was more SE and held quite a surge on the coast line. Anchored Speedy Scallop (3m inflatable) inside a quiet bay north of Toots and proceeded to fight the swell south. Figuring the sun rises in the east and sets on the west, all would be good, but no, the sun seemed to be in the eyes. Within 30m of the boat I noticed a very nice snapper sitting about 10m ahead on a white kina barren wall, head into the current. Unfortunately he must have noticed me and after slinking back under the rock and duck diving down, along then up for the shot, no joy - no one home. I was super surprised at the poor health of the marine environment here. Vast kina barrens dominated the 10m mark to deep and it very much reminded me of the days spent at Mathesons Bay. I guess all that recreational fishing pressure does have a bearing on the local snapper population. Porae managed a couple of crays and I snotted a colorful trevally feeding on the stony rubble in the shallows. Seems this is where I see most trevs these days outside of the more notorious offshore schooling spots. Generally feeding on the sand or rubble in the very shallows, particularly near little sandy beaches. After iking and stringing him to the based of the reel gun I headed to the weed. I noticed that Mr Trev started shaking and shimmering so ikied whatever was left of his brain but he refused to stop? Nerves? Not so good having a fish do this and held him tail to gun barrell to the shallows to stop it. I then proceeded to set up a kina burley to try and bring some action to the morning - and proceeded to bring in banded wrasse, spotties and of course a porae. I went back to grab my reel gun (with the trev hanging from it) and noticed something had taken a bite out of its head To be honest the cold and surge were making things pretty hard work. The temperature dropped from 18 to 17 degrees as the sun rose? Think anything with "S" in the swell/wind chills down the surface of the water and pushes the good fish deeper. Anyhow, took Porae to my favourite little spot and after surfing for half an hour managed to pull out eight more good crays - leaving my baby packies to grow - another year and they'll be there. This turned out to be a good move as a very friendly Fisheries Officer said hello at the boat ramp and checked out our catch. A really nice guy, super polite and friendly, thanked him for doing his job. Good times. Home by 4pm - Snoop