b'When you get a few days of settled Feature weather and the sea/waves look clean, that is your best time to throw the rod and if you can combine it with a big moon phase, either full or new moon, then the fishing is typically better leading up to and after the day it arrives.ROAD TRIPIt was early August when the conditions were looking good to head north to the west coast to visit family and unpack the Tica Kazumi Gold Medal surfcaster, as it had been a while since I had been surfcasting, and I was keen to get a good session in.Heading up from Tauranga on a Sunday and the easterly winds and small swell had a good sea developing that would be ideal to fish on the Monday afternoon with a late afternoon low tide.It was also the day after the new moon, my favourite time to surfcast on the west coast as Black Magic KLT recurvethe bigger tides meant I can look for hooks with elastic cotton are a dynamite combo for securinga good sand bank to cast off and get baits and hooking gurnard. further out into deeper water.Brian scored a solid 40cm+ gurnard on the Tica Kazumi Pro surf rod.14FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'