Big Snaps still around. Mokau!

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    Posted: 31 Jan 2015 at 4:15pm
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Hi All, had yesterday morning off work, so a quick early call to my brother in New Plymouth and we had a fishing mission happening! The conditions were very good and we were out about 3km off-shore with our rods in bye 8am. Within half an hour we had a couple of good fish, 3-4 kg in boat. The Sabiki rod was catching plenty of big well conditioned kahawai. Great - heaps of bait. 

The straylines were getting hammered bye smaller snaps, stripping bait, leaving a bit of skin on hooks. When this happens I fillet the kahawai, leave scales on, gut bones, chop a big hunk off with bones in it. This slows them up until a big one has a chance to sniff a bait out and smash it! This is exactly what happened at about 10.30 am. 

The noise of a drag screaming off the real is something you can never get sick of! Once I adjusted the drag to play the fish, I felt good weight and knew it was over 20 lbs. Fish was 9.8 kgs. Went in 11.30am for cleanup and made it to work by 1pm. Six snaps in total and four more kahawai for bait stocks was the catch today. Here's a pic of me holding the best snap at sea. Cheers.

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Another great catch from the Mac.  Thanked
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Wow its a horse of a fish!
Good fishing trip nothing breaks, great trip catch fish.
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Awesome fellas, champagne fishing right there!
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You make it look so easy, well done Geoff.
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they must be pretty tame by now, you just lift them out the water and say smile for the camera and plonk em back for the next report????

well done guys great to see your still getting into them...Thumbs Up
Thanks for everything you did for us Eric. may you rest in peace, You were one of the real legends of NZ recreational fishing
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u got that place dialled in GeoffThumbs Up
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You look like a beekeeper
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Yet another stonker fish and great weather as always. Wink
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[QUOTE=treedoc]You look like a beekeeper [/QUOTE Beekeeper that gets results!  lol.
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Nice work mate. We hit the beach fri night mate cracked it with a 10.2 kg fish we came home with 4 from 3 to 10kg and a couple of 2 to 3kg ky.
The 20lb+ Snapper club No Longer Eludes me Broken with a 12kg new PB
Goal for the next 12 months: catch another 20lb+ Snap and watch it swim away
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