the longest wharf

We drove down the coast from Tokomaru Bay to Gisborne, stopping near Tolaga Bay on our way down. The longest wharf in New Zealand is in Tolaga Bay, and Jamie’s dad said he’d heard there’s good fishing there, so we bought a surfcasting rod when we got to Gisborne and made plans to head back up there for some night fishing.

Rather than messing with real bait without a refrigerator, we got a package of softbait and some flasher rigs. Softbait, realistically-shaped plastic bait infused with scent-chemicals, is supposed to outfish real bait in many circumstances, but we didn’t have that luck tonight. There were a bunch of other people fishing on the wharf, though, and no one else even got any bites – according to the locals, we later found out it’s a feast-or-famine spot there – so we didn’t feel too bad. Also, we can now say We Have Walked The Entire Length Of The Longest Wharf In New Zealand, which has to be good for something. It was reeeeaaally long; it’d be interesting to see it on Google Earth when I have a decent internet connection sometime. The sunset was gorgeous, too, and the cliffs on one side had a ton of caves, which looked pretty cool.