b'It is safer to keep to chest Feature deep water, and I wear a full-length wetsuit for extra buoyancy.We also have extra people standing by in knee deep water to assist with the net.Using fresh baits such as mullet that we have netted, snapper and gurnard love this very oily fish, so do kingfish and mullet make one of the best live baits going.Fresh oily baits like mullet send out more juice and scent to help bring the fish on the bite.Cut the baits smaller and as strips, with the hook though just once so the barb is well exposed and enables a quick hook set when the fish moves off with it in their mouth.TUATUACollecting your own shellfish such as pipi or tuatua is another great option to turn into baits and when Brent Condon with a solid 40cm+ Kaiparasurfcasting I use tuatua often to gurnard taken on a Black Magic Snappercatch trevally and snapper.I will Snack rigged with fresh kahawai. look for tuatua on sand banks to dig and cast out which is wrapped well in elastic cotton to prevent Spending time to catch piperflying off and trevally cannot resist can provide a top bait that mostthese baits in the surf.Trevally predators cannot resist.although being a top table fish for turning into either fresh sashimi or smoking, is also an excellent big snapper bait and using fresh strips of trev has accounted for many of our PB snapper on the surf rods.Collecting piper off wharves or the rocks in calm safe conditions, is also a great way to get the kids involved and help get bait for dad to take on his next trip out over summer when you are trying to get them off technology and outdoors!60FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'