b'FeatureA solid 50cm+ snapper will put up a good fight in the shallows, taking line at speed with nowhere to go but run.USE FRESH BAITS Brian Snooks hooks up on his Lanza We like to use fresh baits that werod when fishing in the Kaipara.have recently caught ourselves like mullet, trevally or kahawai with provide plenty of juicy scent on the current and has consistently proven to be a winner over freezer brought bait.If you can find the time, catch it the day before or take a bait net if you own one and set it off the mouth of a small creek or where the mangroves are found, as mullet are commonly found in good numbers.Once you cut this up for strip baits and deploy them at your chosen spot, the snapper will soon turn up in numbers usually in under 15 minutes as the oily scent and content acts like berley.Often on the red-hot fishing days experienced on the Kaipara, we start fishing early and are finished by mid-morning with good snapper common in the 40-60cm range, as we usually needed to stop fishing because the bin is full.The limit out west is 10 snapper per angler, and you need a good-sized bin with ice if you are fishing with mates.26FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'