b'Brian hooks up on a low tide bank on Ripiro Beach, a prime time to get your baits out into deeper water.GearThe Tica Kazumi Gold Medal 4.5m surfcaster A top quality rod now available for Kiwi surfcasters.With a 3-piece, slim line blank that is rated for casting 100-250gm."Just yourself with a rod designed to cast your baitare feeding, so a bigger and heavier bait will reduce your cast. Fresh well out, and when you hook a good snapper thatbaits are the key to attracting big fights hard through the surf break as it comes intosnapper, catching fresh kahawai or trevally, and turning them into thin shallower water.Seeing a big red tail flounderingstrip cut baits is a winning move.in the surf always puts a smile on your dial." Making sure you cut the baits longer and thinner will help them be more aerodynamic for casting, and wrapping in elastic These large tidal movements ofwhere the fish are feeding. Oftencotton keeps them together. A the Tasman signal to the snapper tothe closer in rod gets hit so you dontfreshly caught fish turned into move in on the hunt for shellfish orhave to try and cast for the horizon.bait is nice and juicy and has more crabs. They are also fond of juvenileHowever, on most days I have foundappeal for a hungry snapper.flounder which I have often foundthe biggest fish was usually taken onShellfish like tuatua or mussel in their stomachs. You need tothe longest casts, so they are at leastthreaded onto the hook is another ensure you have heavier breakout100m or further from where I cast. good option, but as they dont have sinkers, nothing under 4oz weighta lot of scent like a fish bait, I like to for calmer conditions and typicallyFRESH BAITS smear them and the sinker, with a 5 or 6oz sinkers are required for theTargeting big snapper in a boat andgood helping of Secret Sauce. This larger waves and swell out west. many anglers will simply go for areally works well, and the sticky Fishing with two rods is a good idealarger bait, like a whole pilchard,sauce stays on the bait and sinker to see where the fish are, cast onebonito head or squid, but this doesntuntil cast, and it hits the water, where the furthest out you can with a bigreally work surfcasting. You need tothe scent disperses in the water and cast and the other in closer to findget distance to where the larger fishhelps bring in snapper to your bait. /FISHINGINGODZONE23'