b"O ne of the wonderfulcheap pre-cooked sausages and puta few channel markers for kingfish at things about fishing isthem in the freezer. At $6.95 for a 2kgdawn, however there were no takers, that it can constantlybag, they were certainly cheaper than aso I moved to the Rakino channel and surprise you even afterbag of pillies, but I would never considersurrounding areas in search of hungry many years. There arethem attractive to any fish except theautumntime snapper. After many drifts in those seasons thathungriest and most desperate of snapper.close and out deep with jigs and around differ from year to yearThey were forgotten about for a fewthe wash of islands with softbaits, I was e.g., this summer hasmonths over summer, until they suffereddrawing a blank. So, I headed around to been unusually warm and the fishingfreezer burn and my wife suggested IThe Noises to a shallow reefy area and exceptionally good. Kingfish numbersuse them for bait.What?And I scoffedplanned to put out the berley and catch seem to be up around the country (andat such a suggestion, when wouldsomething I could use for bait.further south) and off the west coastsnapper ever have hunted and eatenRounding one of the islands, I saw a beaches, more green torpedoes have beensausies before? Anyway, the sausagesflotilla of anglers parked up at anchor caught surfcasting than in previous years. played freezer tag between my wife'sand straylining in force. I hate fishing in Then there are those downrightfreezer and my bait freezer until one daycrowds so parked up further away and outrageous I never would have believedI thought I would take them out fishinggot the berley in the current to bring in kinds of events that happen once inand chuck them out. the local fish. Looking in the bin I spied a blue moon. I saw a photo once of aI was planning to fish lures in thethe sausages and thought to myself - kahawai that happened to be swimmingmorning and then pick up a mate andwell, snapper have been known to eat in the wrong place at the wrong time andhis young son in the afternoon for somechicken bones thrown over the side, so a BOS sinker happened to land squaremore fishing. Knowing kids get boredwell give it a go just in case. I hooked on its noggin, impaling the kahawai ineasily sometimes, I took a berley bombone on and cast out my first sausage the head. Recently I experienced one ofwith me and planned to try and catchpiece and watched in disgust as the those I dont believe it events that I stillmackerel or a kahawai for fresh bait tobait just floated on the surface. Great shake my head at. improvise if the lures werent working.idea I thought to myself what was I So off I set with lures, berley, and pre- thinking? I almost abandoned the idea PRE-COOKED SAUSIES cooked sausages in my kit. but persevered and put a tiny sinker on It all started with a sale at the localIt was a glorious autumn morning andthe line to help it get down and then supermarket. My wife had bought somean early start had me sniffing aroundcast again. /FISHINGINGODZONE19"