b'Feature Standing in the line the packed crowd got a glimpse of the snapper as we confirmed the weight at 7.285kg (16lb) and as soon as it was carried up onto the truck as the biggest snapper, the crowd erupted with claps and whistling.It was cool to hear their response as abig snapper on the surfcaster is most anglers dream fish.After the trevally prizes were given, I was called up onto stage to give out the snapper prizes and Ali won second place for his fish just over 3kg, winning the Tica surfcasting combo and I presented the Lanza spin rod to Shawn for his PB 16lb snapper.It was a good result for the FIGZ crew and so it turned out, we caught the snapper in section 16 - that we sponsored Section 16 produced severalfor FIGZ and Lanza.We didnt even good snapper for the FIGZ crew. know it at the time, classic!Shawn and I let them cast while we cooked a barbie and had a beer, word had gotten around on the beach of the snapper and soon we had friends arriving to take a look at the fish in the chilly bin.The others soon started landing a few good snapper and kahawai, with Ali Hammond catching his PB on his new Tica reel, a solid 57cm fish which I thought could also be in for a prize.WEIGH-INWith the weigh-in time of 4pm fast approaching, we all soon packed up and drove back to get our kahawai and snapper weighed.Shawn and I parked his ute away at the back of the vehicles, and sorted what we needed and I helped him get the big snapper out of the bin.As we carried it up the beach and through the creek, we had so many comments about the snapper and people congratulating on such a good fish.Many asked what bait we used, and my fresh trevallyShawn looks on as the snapper plan was definitely a winner. weighs in at 7.285kg (16lb).24FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'