Took Caitlin (9y/o) for a surfcast this afternoon/evening. Caught a decent gurnard at 35cm, only to be upstaged by her with her first gurnard at 38cm. Talk about happy little girl. Landed a 28cm snapper 20 mins later (released), then Caitlin got a small kahawai. I decided to keep that as bait, which, at 7:45pm netted me a new pb snapper at 3.32kg on my new Veritas rod. Stoked with how it performed. Got a decent feed and had a few laughs.

Caitlin fell asleep at 8:45pm in the front seat, and I fished on until 10:30pm with one more hit that didn't stick. Got back into Kerikeri as a little girl woke up and said she was hungry, so off to Maccas. Caitlin, still half asleep picks up the bag when we arrive home and promptly drops most of mine in the foot well of the truck. Oops.

The highlight of the night? Caitlin sitting at the table, half a burger in hand and face plants the table asleep. I still can't stop laughing.