b'SURFCASTINGWe were hoping to get amongst theseputting the fish off?Suddenly, Snookshis path to grab the rod.A comedy of bigger fish and after a couple of kahawairod doubled over, and he was battlingevents as the shark swam away to deeper were landed, Shawn who was fishinga big fish on his Tica Kazumi Galacticwater while Shawn wound in his fishless next to me hooked up to a good fish.Herod which we called for either a sharkand bait less hook.soon had a decent snapper at his feet inor a monster snapper.After a goodWe stayed fishing until the tide turned thigh deep water and passed me the rod10-minute battle and a 1m+ school sharkto come in and after 2pm we were joined to grab the fish when a wave washedwas in the shallows as we unhooked itby Jay and Hamish who had stopped over the snapper, and it threw the hookand Shawn walked it out in knee deepfurther along the beach to fish in a deep and swam off at speed!Shawn jumpedwater for release.Another larger wavegut they liked the look off.They scored a for it but missed as the snapper earnt itsarrived and now standing in thigh deepkahawai and then Jay got a big bite on his freedom.Bugger, but on his very nextwater, the shark turned on him and hepilchard bait, so he rebaited and recast cast he landed a nice 51cm fish whichmoved quickly out of its way only toto have it smashed by a decent fish and actually looked smaller than the fish thatstumble on an unseen pothole, landingafter a good fight he landed a 63cm had just escaped. face first in the water with the shark just(5kg) snapper.It was his PB fish on the behind him!It was very funny to see himsurfcaster and best fish of the day.SHARK ANTICS scrambling out of the water and I thenWe moved further down to Pouto Point I had only one or two bites with a fewnoticed his rod double over in the rodas the incoming tide cut off our beach casts over the next hour and with theholder and yelled to him, as he ran for itaccess and we cast out leaving rods in bright sunny conditions I think it wasthe shark beat him to it and blocked offthe holder as we enjoyed a beer in the 14FISHING IN GODZONE NOV/DEC 2021'