b'FAR NORTH action of a trevally.Sure enough, it was a nice 50cm trevally that came into the net.Craig was also getting soft takes but not hooking up, so I recast and bang a bigger fish took off and really put the afterburners on!This was a bigger fish, and it took some effort to bring to the net, this trev was over 55cm and put on ice in the bin.Craig loves to make a fish stir fry using trevally or kingfish with their denser flesh ideally suited for this.While we were having fun hooking up on the trevs, around us on the surface schools of kahawai were feeding with birds diving amongst them.Craig yelled out as we both saw a huge kingie attack the baitfish on the surface leaving a big hole in the water as its large yellow tail beat the water!Lets get over there Craig I yelled!We moved the boat about 30m, and I cast a WCP 60g stickbait but unfortunately got no interest, so we set to trying to get a kahawai on a softbait for a livie.I recast and bang a bigger fish took off and really put the afterburners on!This was a bigger fish, and it took This 58cm trev put on a great fightsome effort to bring to the in the shallows for the writer. net, this trev was over 55cm"We were soon on the water andCraig gets hit by a solid fish heading to the harbour entrance to fishthat takes off at speed.the rocks where we had done so well last year, with snapper to 17lb and seen a big kingfish.As we approached the shallows the sounder showed a lot of fish down below, they were large and schooling.Were they snapper?It seemed odd as usually snapper are spread out hard on the bottom here as only 15m deep.I was super keen to cast out a Z-Man and picked one of my favourites, the orange Atomic Sunrise 5 on a five-eighths jig head.The wind was supposed to be under 6 knots but as the sun started to rise the gusts were well over 12 knots and cold, as coming from the southeast direction.STRANGE TAKESAs Craig moved into position and we deployed the drogue, I cast out the back and was getting hit instantly with small taps on the softbaits.Small snapper?Weird takes, but soon I was hooked up to a heavy fish with that tell-tale vibrating 14FISHING IN GODZONE JULY/AUGUST 2022'