b'Feature HEAVY RAINWe started to fish in 20-30m and watch the sounder which showed little fish sign and soon the heavens opened, and heavy rain saturated us all.We moved often as we worked the lures and picked up a couple of pannies, and kahawai were logged on the app.The lack of fish sign out deep over 25m+ had me thinking we needed to go in shallower and drift out, so we went in off the beach to 10m, and the bait fish sign was solid and straight away we started getting better strikes.Graeme hooked up on his jig to a line pulling fish and soon had a 55cm to photograph and record as his first decent snapper.We went back and continued the shallow start on the drift, and I picked up several snapper between 50-52cm on the Rapala Crush City 7 jerk in colour Bombshell, this pink/green colour has served me well before.We have found The Lowrance Recon trolling motor was excellentthat the larger softbaits are best at holding the boat in 5-6 knot currents fishing at the graveyard.Note the old lighthouse inin the murkier waters of the the background watching over the boat. graveyard for fish to pick up.We were also the only boatsLanza rod builder Graeme hooks there as the forecast no doubtup on a nice line pulling fish.had put many fishos off venturing here, and we had the place to ourselves as we started our drifts in the strong 5-6 knot current and I fished with a large 7 Crush City softbait on a 1oz jig head while Graeme went for a 200gm jig.The reason we picked the graveyard is over the past two years Webs and I had fished in the local King of the Kaipara contest held in December and picked up 7kg+ snapper and prizes.There is also a lot of big 50cm+ kahawai and resident kingfish to target, but October might be early for the big snapper, and we hoped they would be at home feeding on the large mussel rocks.12FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'