Damo wrote: fozzie wrote: After todays mission I am looking forward to seeing Amatuers report (who btw is celebrating his 50th today....) We came home with a lot of snapper tails sticking out of the sides of the bins...., some wide smiles, and a few well chewed jitterbugs. Will let the birthday boy fill in the gaps, but thanks Ian for getting such a good crew together, and Chris, for showing us where the fish are at, top crew, great fishing = great day out!. I wouldve loved to have come along for the ride on this one too mate...sadly though i was entrenched behind a desk for 10 hours Glad you got into a few nice ones ...some of the pics look great ...snapper with jitterbugs swinging from the gob

That same area is still pretty steady...early mornings and evening been best. Glad you guys had a good day!

mmmm....firstly put the ledger loop through the inside of the hook (the hook should hang a little towards the main branch of the ledger when held up and it kind of "spring loads" the hook which is great if they are biting softly or sucking baits)

Secondly, is your leader pulling through the gap between the shaft and the end of the eye of the hook? If so then upsize the leader...its too thin. If its breaking off here chances are the leader is rubbing on the end of the eye and wearing through. hard to say without seeing it really.

I tend to run Black Magic 60lb supple trace during the summer bumping it up to 80lb if working in close and for the deeper winter work we do. 80lb for kingfish over flat foul and 100lb for most other reefs. 120-130lb for shallow puka and deep kings and 200lb for deepwater (200m) puka, bass, kings

I prefer this hook for the dropper


and put the hook through this way(twists dont seem to make much difference with 60lb but would stiffen up a 30-40lb leader)

yeh should come from the front for all recurve hooks. not sure about j hooks dont fish with them

Do you have to find the fish when you are between tiri and kawau? or when you put the berley out do you find the fish just come naturally. I tend to find never see much on the sounder except for the odd bait school in that line unless there is a work up

ponty wrote: Do you have to find the fish when you are between tiri and kawau? or when you put the berley out do you find the fish just come naturally. I tend to find never see much on the sounder except for the odd bait school in that line unless there is a work up

Work ups are the obvious signpost mate but not always there...some get a bit lost without them.

The bait schools are shadowed by the snapper normally so they are always worth a look and if that doesn't work on the drift then get up current and anchor (quietly) and burley up.

This is what the crew are doing today and the tally about 1/2 an hour ago was 85 snapper to 5kg or so

not too bad on a breezy day like today with pretty much the place to ourselves

try about 2-2.5 miles north of the Tiri Channel then...the contour line looks all "squiggly" on the chart....its loaded there. Anchored and burelyed up cos of the wind but the are in general is pretty well stocked.

day off for us 2moro

Damo wrote: I prefer this hook for the dropper and put the hook through this way(twists dont seem to make much difference with 60lb but would stiffen up a 30-40lb leader)

Thanks mate