b'Feature Caught in late winter using fresh mackerel and on a KLT 6/0, this 10.5lb fish put up a good fight.Using freshly caught kahawaiThe other part is because there as bait helped bring the snapperis just something simple and pure on the bite with a Black Magicabout taking on the breaking surf, KLT 6/0 the writers go to hook. just yourself with a rod designed to cast your bait well out, and when you hook a good snapper that fights hard through the surf break as it comes into shallower water. Seeing a big red tail floundering in the surf always puts a smile on your dial.It is why I still return to my childhood fishing grounds, where I learnt my surfcasting craft to fish for big snapper that have now finally returned in good numbers.BIG TIDESWe have found over the past three seasons that spring has produced our biggest snapper on Ripiro Beach fishing on the main beach and down to the top of the Kaipara harbour. We plan our surfcasting trips to the west coast around the bigger moon phases such as new or full moon. This is a key factor with bigger tides around the larger moon phases, especially at low tide allowing us to cast from sand banks to reach deeper water or channels.20FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'