Hi All, With a couple of poor trips over the last few weeks today certainly made up for it! Day break Launch saw me settle in fishing by 6.30am. First few hours slow until the Big Snaps finally turned up. For the next Two hours I caught seven over the 20 lb mark, with the best an 11 kg model 84 cm long. This one came home as with two others as one had swallowed gear and two more to buggered to get back down. Others Released. Nothing gets wasted as I share the fish and heads, wings around. Don't be Shy to use huge Fresh Baits as pictured, Good Snaps make mince meat of them  Times like this when I'm catching good fish I'm only trying to nail a really big one for personal goals and get back my top spot in NZ measure Comp. It will happen but not today. A few Pics from Today. Cheers All..

Hope they stay around for the 1st dec Geoff

Brilliant. 

Good work , I was passing Mokau today, the sea looked awesome, and I wondered if that bugger was out there slaying them, he was. nice pics.

Cheers

I fished along side Geoff this past Sunday with my partner. Fishing was a bit slow but still managed to take home a good feed. Biggest snap for us went 5.2kg.
Monday evening was time to cook the catch. I thought while there's a selection of fish I'd try a little experiment (very non scientific).
Big snapper 5.2kg vs little snapper 1.2kg vs gurnard taste comp. 5 voters in total. Big snapper won with 5 votes!!!
P.S we'll be back Geoff

foulplay wrote: Great stuff Geoff. Is it weird that i get really excited by well presented big bloody baits? Probably. But those look really good and fresh. Just quickly. What are your rig details. Obviously 2 hooks. But line weight, trace size, hook size?

Hi Foulplay, at least your Honest! I get excited by the fish the bloody things catch Yep they are super fresh, caught minutes before. They look alot smaller in photo's but are big Kahawai baits. Also when you hit on to them like this, i will go backbone in as well for a stronger bait. Rigs are an individuals choice. Most Guys laugh at mine, a typical comment is wot the hell are you after Sharks? And the same guys don't catch big Snaps 100lb tough trace, Mutsu 32 mill circles-commercial grade, Crane swivels- better quality than barrel. half ounce sinker.

Marligator wrote: Well done Geoff, out of interest do you catch many snapper on the bottom hook of that rig. I have found when using 2 hook rigs the vast majority of fish are hooked on the top hook (10/0 youvella mutsu hooks).

Heads usually bootom hook as the big Snaps will start on the underbelly wing area. I have my hooks quite away apart for big fillet baits and Id'e say be fairly even on which hook catches. Occasionly a Snap will have swallowed whole bait and have one hook in stomach or gills and one firmly in corner of jaw where most are hooked using big circle hooks.

Unreal Geoff! Awesome little report and some wicked snaps right there. Well worth the wait obviously...