b'SURFCASTING Jarrad Syddall waits for a bite while surfcasting off Ripiro Beach in Northland.I am also a fan of fresh is bestand you dont need to buy bait if you know where to look. Firstly, pipi or tuatua is a top bait and easily found on most beaches, trevally and snapper love them.My go to rig is a simple ledger rig thatfrom spiralling around and makes theinstead of fishing.The clips are also uses a swivel, heavier 50-60lb mono, arig streamline, so you get more of thosegood to quickly remove your sinker 6/0 recurve hook and of course a 4oz orprecious metres when casting.Big castswhen putting the rods back on the 5oz breakout sinker.The heavier leaderusually mean bigger fish as they patrolvehicle as you dont want them bashing means it will take the force from thefurther out. We now sell these sinkers,or scratching your wagon!cast and wont break off, while the lineand you can go to fishingingodozne.co.nz An old school mate has been attached to your hook will handle anyto become a member of our club toexperimenting with lure skirts attached unexpected larger fish like unwantedbuy them. to his ledger rigs and this bit of extra rays so you can land them to release orI like to pre-tie several rigs and placebling is lightweight and can help attract kingfish if you are fortunate to hook one.them in plastic bags in my tackle box.Iattention in the turbulent water as the The breakout sinkers that we use,also use the small lure clips (genie clip)rig moves around.I have tried it myself have a special wire at the base and thisfor the sinker as I can change theserecently on a quiet day and picked up a ingenious idea enables you to placeeasily out if the current or waves arecouple of snapper, so it is a good option your baited hook under it to keep insweeping the lighter sinkers around,to look at if fishing is hard or you want place when cast.It keeps the hookso I dont have to retie and waste timeto experiment.12FISHING IN GODZONE MAR/APR 2021'