Hi all, With the Wife's birthday yesterday, along weekend and five other couples staying a night in Mokau to celebrate I was hoping the weather gods would play ball to hopefully send everyone home with Kilo's of fish!Conditions were marginal. My brother and I couldn't launch off Mokau so we towed ten K's South to a little bay called Rapanui. A bit of a wait for a lull but out we got no probs
Tried in close at 10 metres for first hour, nothing much happening but plenty of fresh Kahawai for bait. Out a little deeper we went to approx 18 metres. And Boom! within five minutes we had screaming Straylines on the big fresh Kahawai baits. One of my secrets is to chunk the Kahawai Frames into two inch bits and every now and then throw a few over. This keeps the school of Big Snaps below you hanging around. The first hour was insane
. Would of caught ten good ones each, picking and choosing which ones to keep and letting the others go. A couple we let go were over the 20 lb mark but most around 15-20. The second hour we just ran huge baits, heads, whole fillets with backbones in trying to pull a real big one out but no takers, just similar sizes to first hour of which we let all go. Bait came to a halt and we left the fish below us, choosing to head in early to crank up the Smoker as well. Pick of Snaps we kept, plenty of fish for our out of town friends! and other locals.