b'SURFCASTING W ith over 30 years of surfcasting knowledge behind me, I have built up a good base of experiencefishing in the surf and targeting snapper and trevally.These two fish are my favourite to catch, putting on a good fight to enjoy on the rod and of course the family love to eat them!Surfcasting appeals to many and there is something special about The breakout sinker has a smalldriving down a beach, picking a spot, wire piece at the base for thecasting out and landing a few fish.It baited hook to clip under.is a simple form of fishing, no boat AVAILABLEFROM:fishingingodzone.co.nz needed with little cost and you really earn your fish, battling the waves and if youre lucky like me to fish The writers simple surfcastingoften out on the isolated west coast, ledger rig: 60lb mono tied fromthen you can really experience some sinker to swivel, with a shorter piece off the same swivel loop foroutstanding fishing.the 6/0 recurve hook. I have covered a lot of the gear, techniques, tides, and spots on surfcasting over previous issues.In this article I will look at the rigs and baits which work well for me and you can employ on your surfcasting trips around Godzone.RIGSThere are quite a few pre-tied surfcasting rigs out in the shops now, these werent around in my day back in the eighties when I first got the fishing bug.I would go fishing down the beach with my family and my grandfather would show me how to tie a hook on to a swivel with an old school pyramid sinker.Bait was typically mullet or squid from a Cut smaller baits that willcardboard packet, and it was a lot of cast better and tie on well bytrial and error when fishing.I cant wrapping with elastic cotton. believe the gear and options we now have available that makes fishing so much easier.The pre-tied rigs are good for people starting out surfcasting, but I personally dont like all the plastic and clips used.These add weight which you dont want when your aim is to achieve long casts and theyre just not good if they break off and just think about all that tackle left out in the sea.We have to really think about our footprint fishing even more these days.Less is best.10FISHING IN GODZONE MAR/APR 2021'