b'BEST TIMES & SURFCASTINGFeature When you get an easterly wind blowing for a few days and it drops the big swells on the west coast, and if it coincides with a new moon, then this is the time to drop tools and head west!For surfcasting, the large swell can make it hard to fish in the surf so ideally you want the swell 1.5m or less and around a metre or under is your best window.The new moon means the tides are big and when the sea sucks way out at low, you will find large sand banks are exposed by the tide.This is where you need to cast from and out past the last breaker rolling in to get into deep water where fish are coming closer into the beach to feed.For snapper, I predominantly catch all my fish on Large snapper over 50cm arethe outgoing tide and the start of the commonly caught surfcasting atincoming, this is because I am getting Pouto in the Kaipara harbour. my casts into the better water.Softbaiting at the infamous graveyard with large sand dunes in the background and Alex Wallace enjoys the fight of a solid snapper.12FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'