Off to my spot X and start deploying our Straylines... A quiet start as low tide was 9am we weren't expecting much until the turn. An  Hour or so later it was all on! The Snaps were hungry and smashing the fresh Kahawai.... First fish was around the 8kg mark, good start but he went back! Operating two straylines each when they come on requires alot experience in baiting, playing and landing fish after fish without getting tangled etc...I'm not joking in the next three hours we would of caught over twenty fish over 7kg, three of them 9's and one a good 10kg. A few were kept that swallowed hooks but most released including the biggest..Went through all the baitfish and caught more to carry on. When we catch them like this we are both thinking the same thing of hooking into a whopper,  P.B material. Couple of picks of Mick all dressed up for winter holding a few fish. Cheers

Thanks for taking the time to post reports. You're a legend.

Re the bait.  I am still learning up here in Tutukaka.  I have found frozen shop-bought bait not much good at all.  Been catching some nice koheru recently which seem fantastic as bait (whole, 35cm ish or else half).  KY and trevally I have caught but not used so much (until I run out of the koheru).   

Do you ever catch bait then freeze for later trip?  Or catch then fridge for a few days?  Or always catch fresh?  Preferred bait = KY or what?

(My last trip I deliberately went out the day before to catch the koheru and thats all.  Next day B&B session but the kingis were a bit of a plague :) )