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    Posted: 10 Mar 2011 at 7:43am
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I knew one day it we would get a snapper on a stick bait but I was still shocked when one popped up next to the boat with a stick bait hanging out of its gob.

Lure was a new lure coming just on the market from Angel Tackle and of course it was on a Carpenter rod.
Fish was weighed and then released, went good old fashioned 20 pounds.
 
The Angler was none other than regualr on here Bunzo over visiting from Australia
 
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Nice one Mark.
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that is sweet as....did you see the bite? over deep foul or in the shallows mate?
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That is awesome.

As per Kezza, interested in what sort of depth /  terrain you were fishing?
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I didnt see the bite, we were in 20 metres when it hit but we were right next to a rock that come up to 5 metres, guessing the fish was cruising the dropoff.
After we got the fish some soft baits went out and we then got smoked by something big
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very cool! Thumbs Upanythings possible
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That's very sweet. 
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Crikey , very very cool Thumbs Up
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yeah bunny!
 
we got some nice snapper trolling a few months ago at astro-penuin-rock,they were coming up from 20-60m or atleast feeding high in that water colum.I said the first one was a fluke but we got 4 more.
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Nice!Clap Seems to have been a couple of nice snaps taken on surface lures lately.
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Mean as might be worth trolling big paddletails around the reefs atm they are aggressive.
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that's cool
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We had one come up on a stickbait a couple of months ago, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
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amazing. didnt know they came right up the water column.
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We've got tow cam footage of a horde of the buggars that came up on a Rapala being towed at 5knts....no bite but was interesting all the same...
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we have caught snapper in amongst kingfish on the surface so they ant shy when it comes to taking surface schooling bait fish....

that is a excellent fish though on a surface lure...
well done guys...Thumbs Up  
Thanks for everything you did for us Eric. may you rest in peace, You were one of the real legends of NZ recreational fishing
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yep thats a car door, very Cool!
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I've seen them on the surface sucking back krill.
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COOL, i am going snapper sticking LOL
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One of the great things about fishing.
Any thing can happen any time as long as you have got a line in the water.  WickedThumbs Up 
    A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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