Enjoying my forced early retirement by going fishing with my good friend Barry Stevens at the kaipara this morning.
Snapper are usually very shallow in the warmer months and we were hoping this was still the case.
Last hour of the tide to low doesnt sound a good time to fish but this is the kaipara.
A slight drop off from 2m to 3m of water in a large shallow flat area was all we needed. Our jack mackeral baits were straylined and absolutely smashed by fat healthy snapper to 3kg
plus bonus kahawaii featuring often but not too often.
Weather was diabolical and not forecast - our 4 knot light southwest was a much fresher west north west, white caps wind against tide and torrential heavy showers - but we stuck it out and it settled down nicely after an hour or so.
Fished from 715 to 1030 - the bigger fish would come in waves and truly great fishing when it was on.