DIRTY SEA
With a start time of 9am, we wanted 
to be on the beach at daybreak and 
in a good spot as you fish along a 
twenty kilometre stretch of beach 
north of Baylys Beach, which covers 
to the north and south of Omamari 
Gap where the prize giving is held.
I drove up the beach on the 
Friday to do a recon of good spots 
as the strong 40knot+ easterly 
had dropped, but the swell was 
looking to pick up with the tail of 
the storm going down the west 
coast.  I found a great looking hole 
with deep water which looked 
promising and rigged up to catch 
a trevally which I regard as a top 
bait for big snapper and which the 
7kg+ fish was caught on last year.
As I was setting up the rod and 
getting into the wetsuit, a family 
in a ute drove past and yelled out 
“This is the spot for tomorrow bro!” 
and laughed as they headed north.
“I soon landed a kahawai that looked about 
1.5kg, but I thought might be too small to make 
the prizes, but we tagged it just in case.”
We tagged the fish as with the dirty and 
sweepy conditions, the fish numbers 
would be down on the previous year.
Brian landed a fat pannie 
snapper on the Long Reach 
rig on the fresh trevally.
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18  FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE

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