b'KAHAWAIDont forget about good old kahawai.This bait is notably resilient and being very bloody, it has a strong scent. When prepared as strip baits or whole fillets, it has yielded impressive catches of snapper, gurnard, trevally, and kingfish.Kahawai is easily caught using lures like jigs or softbaits, you can find them in big schools out in the boat usually just off the coast and also in good numbers around white water of rocks where there is current and in the surf on beaches, especially near river mouths.Spinning lures at river mouths on the east coast will result in good numbers of kahawai landed for baits and for the table.JACK MACKERELSpending the early morning at sunrise in your boat to find the Jack mackerel are another top mackerel schools to load up thesnapper bait; you can catch them live bait tank, or fish bin is anotheron sabikis or small jigs like this Flea.Fresh kahawai is a hardy, juicygood option.Mackerel are often bait that stays on the hookfound in good schools in quiet bays well, cut into strips and placenear to where you launch the boat, your hook through the top. usually in under 20m of water.Use your sounder to locate the thick schools, drop sabikis down with tiny pieces of bait and you can also use little jigs like the Ocean Angler Flea.Mackerel is remarkably similar to trevally, tiny scales and a firm white flesh that has plenty of scent and snapper love it.Cut into strips or use a whole fillet off the side of a mack for larger snapper to take.Out on the west coast and you often get mackerel washed in and stranded on big tides and you can simply pick them up off the beach early if the gulls havent beaten you to them.We have done this before and then beach launched to fish out deep using them for puka baits and caught fish up to 30kg.This all points to why fresh is best! /FISHINGINGODZONE63'