Nice snapper FBF, looks like you have it sussed.
I had a stroke of luck today. Did a day trip to Tiritiri Matangi to go take some photos/video of the birds on the island. Decided to pack my fly rod for the trip back just in case I find something.
Lots of birds sitting on the water as I headed to the island at dawn. What a wonderful place. Will have to go there a lot more. The life and birdsong on a predator free paradise like that is just amazing. Wonder what NZ forests sounded like pre-predators. It's such a contrast to the silence in most places. I finished about 11:30am.
As soon as I left I spotted a workup not far out from the island and promptly hooked a kahawai, pretty much first cast. It came off and my hook came back with a scale so it must have been foul hooked?
The school moved on but I managed to land one from the tail end before making my way across the channel. There were shearwaters everywhere and by the time I reached the end of the Whangaparoa peninsula there was a bunch of persistent work-ups. Mainly terns and shearwaters with plenty of good sized kahawai.
Took me a while to get myself sorted but once I did I just kept drifting as the schools swam past. Landed 6 before I decided I had to head home. Not far from the ramp I was interrupted by diving gannets. I wanted to look for kings
. Only landed one more kahawai for a total of 7 in about one and a half hours worth of fishing.
Needless to say I was glad I packed the fly rod and so was the family as we had fish and chips for dinner.