b'SURFCASTING ROADIEWe arrived at Pouto along from theThe tide had just started to turn by nowThe tide was starting to come in quickly famous old lighthouse and rigged upand started coming in as we repositionednow and suddenly Brians rod was hit our surfcasters with mullet that Brianand rebaited. hard and he grabbed his surfcaster to had been given and caught on the mainbring in a solid 50cm+ fish.After quick beach by locals netting.Mullet is a greatFRESHBAITS photos and dispatching the fish to the bait on the west coast and on our firstOn our first casts better, sized snapperbin, I looked up to see my rod bend over casts, we both had bites instantly. hit the mullet baits here and then wehard and line started to take off from the It was two hours before low tide anddecided to switch over to use the freshPenns spool.It was a good fish which during this time we landed a lot ofkahawai.It went noticeably quiet asput a nice bend in my Kilwell Powerplay, smaller pan sized snapper, a fat gurnardwe both cast out side by side with theand it was great to feel those big head and Brian scored a good kahawai.Wekahawai baits, we didnt however get theshakes from a tell-tale snapper.decided to move spots further along thetap-tap of smaller fish and so we put ourI soon had a nice 60cm fish on the beach as the bigger fish just werent here. rods in the rod holder and waited. beach and Brian and I nodded in 14FISHING IN GODZONE NOV/DEC 2022'