b'MANGAWHAITin Bum is a Senator RC540 recently re-powered with a Yamaha 115hp four-stroke.T he month of July hadWebs started the outboard and we circled back south been hectic shifting our family into a bigger houseslowly and then came up to the start of our drift again, it is in Tauranga and thecrucial not to drive back over your drift line at speed and constant harsh weather had prevented me from gettingspook fish in the shallows with this approach.on the water.It was late July when I spotted a small window of clear weather on the east side and got in touch with an old hometownScott Cushman hooks mate Damien Styles (aka Webs) whoanother fish on the Z-Man now lives in Mangawhai to see if heAtomic Sunrise.could go fishing.Webs confirmed the wet conditions had hampered his work schedule, so a plan was hatched to get out on the Friday before the weather turned again.I drove up to Auckland after 5pm on Thursday to stay the night with another mate on the North Shore and then head up at 5:30am with writer Scott Cushman, who was also eager to get on the water and do some filming for FIGZ Club.We arrived at Webs house in the countryside just outside Mangawhai at 7:15am as the sun was just starting to lighten the sky, and he was ready to go with his Senator RC540 hooked up to the Isuzu.I had been looking forward to getting out with him in his boat as I had checked it over in August last year when he had just bought it and since then, he had re-powered it with a new Yamaha 115hp four-stroke.30FISHING IN GODZONE SEP/OCT 2022'