b'BAIT always scale kahawai before cutting it up into baits, the tough scales can stick to the barb and blunt hooks affecting your hook ups.Kahawai is of course another good fish many people take home for the table, bled, and often smoked.They do make hardy fresh baits and if you catch several, fillet them and use a vacuum sealer to seal up fillets individually so they last longer in the freezer. A vacuum sealer is a good option for sealing any of your baits you have gathered to make them last longer and save you money, shell tutatua, salt then bag, or simply bag whole mullet.Check out www.zeropak.co.nz for vacuum sealer options, they are very handy to have for fishos and hunters and we use ours often.FIGZSnapper come into beaches to feed on tuatua, pipis, or cockles.Spend the time at low tide gathering shellfish for fresh bait.KAHAWAI Netting mullet So, you have gathered tuatua or nettedon west coast mullet to use for bait and startedbeaches proides a surfcasting.You will either catch trevally,lot of bait which snapper or gurnard using these top baitsyou can freeze to and saved yourself some dollars along theuse over summer.way.Kahawai will also turn up as they love mullet too and this is another top snapper bait, we find it often produces the biggest snapper on our trips.The other benefit with kahawai also, is that it seems to deter the smaller pannie snapper that cant resist picking away at our fresh mullet baits.They seem to stop harassing kahawai baits when offered and when they leave them alone the bigger snapper find them.Full of blood and scent it makes sense to me that a big dog snapper would be attracted to a meaty piece of kahawai.Make sure you 32FISHING IN GODZONE NOV/DEC 2022'