b'Top TipsSHALLOW SOFTBAITING TIPS+Select a quiet stretch of coast away from human activity, mid-week is best.+Drift the area quietly, avoid restarting the motor often if you dont have an electric trolling motor.+Ensure you achieve long casts (30m+) well away from the boat so not to spook fish.+Tie fresh 20-30lb leader to help improve your chances in shallow water with foul.+Use 3/8 oz oroz jig heads to achieve longer casts and not hook up in the foul.+Set your drag high on the reel, before casting, keep working the rod hard (short pumps) during the fight to tire fish and their head up.+Be ready to start the motor to follow the fish quickly The Mercury 60hp provides outstanding fuel and get above it if it reacheseconomy, using less than 20L fuel for the some foul. trip to Motiti Island and back to Tauranga.The Mercury gauge shows almost 33After clearing the weed from the line, the fight continued Nautical miles for just 19L fuel! with increased drag on the king with the Lanza rod really hurting the fish as it swum in tighter circles under the boat.while aware that I could feel the lineabout 20m to where the fish was rubbing on weed or rocks below and Iholed up below the boat in only needed to quickly gain some line back5m of water and I put the Go-Pro and keep its head up out of the foul. underwater to film.I started to focus on the fish andI could see a big yellow tail and it pump the rod hard, putting a lot ofconfirmed my hunch that it was a strain on the fish which was either akingfish and as soon as the boat came good snapper or potentially a decentover top, it came out of the foul with kingfish.I couldnt tell from any tell- a good clump of kelp attached, which tale head nods that were absent, butI soon had up on the surface.After the speed of the line pulls suggestedclearing the weed from the line, the it was a king. fight continued with increased drag At one point the line got stuckon the king with the Lanza rod really on either kelp or rocks below, so Ihurting the fish as it swum in tighter quickly started the Merc and movedcircles under the boat. /FISHINGINGODZONE19'