Recently, Bay of Islands' angler, Cameron Galbraith, headed out with fishing buddy Brandon Hull to see if they could bag themselves a marlin. As we all know, sometimes things don't quite work out when you're packing up the kit and on this occasion they left the heavy duty snaplock swivels behind.
After a bit of a rumage about, the closest thing they had onboard that day was a Black Magic ‘snapper’ snaplock swivel and so it was duly deployed as part of the rigging.
Trolling in 70 metres inside the Ninepin, Cameron spotted a ‘bait ball’ with several marlin in attendance. One run past the bait produced a hook-up and after two hours and 20 minutes later, the 80kg marlin was boated.
Pretty good job with a Black Magic ‘snapper’ snaplock swivel we reckon and is testament to the quality of the Black Magic brand and their range of excellent products.
New Zealand Fishing News Magazine
This News article was supplied by New Zealand's leading fishing publication NZ Fishing News magazine. Read the full story in the March 2016 issue.

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