b'Feature We headed back in by 3pm to have a cold ale and wait for all the other crew to arrive and have a bbq and catchup.Muzza returned later in his mates McLay, and they had found good fish straight out from Houhora and released many, keeping several for dinner that night.He advised they were hooking up straight away on jigs with Ocean Angler Jelly Babies and Zman softbaits in about 30m of water.So, we all knew where to head on Saturday morning.FIRST DAY OF COMPUp early after a good night of catching up, we got ready and launched boats and all headed north towards Houhora.The sea was good, with little swell and wind and I was soon at the 30m mark out off Houhora and slowed to check out the Lowrance.Good fish sign showed immediately, and I told CJ who was fishing with me in the Oceanpro 460 centre console to drop down a jig on the new Okuma Salina 4000.CJ had flown up from CJ was enjoying the hot snapperChristchurch to fish with us for the bite on the first morning having flown up from Christchurch tofirst time in 3 years and was super attend the long weekend. keen to get amongst the fish.We caught several nice fish and a few snapper straight out in front of lodge, but after a couple of hours I said to Craig lets head in for a coffee with the others who were waiting for a break in the weather.A change of clothes and hot coffee at our unit and catchup with the others on their plans, and within an hour the sun was out and wind down.We headed back out to get amongst the fish in the harbour with another boat who followed us to see where we were fishing, while my uncle Muzza headed out wide to fish.We found the big trevs again feeding over a sand bank near the channel and had fun playingThe Lowrance showed good fish sign at the 30m mark with kingfish them in the shallows on the lightand snapper caught under the boat.softbait combos.32FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'