Grants Little Panny.
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Grant and a nice Hauraki Snapper.
Before Scotty knew it he was onto a good fish. He yelled its a snap as he could feel it shaking its head. Standing on those rocks I never thought about what was going to happen next. I was just enjoying the exhilaration of having such a great nights fishing. I decided to chuck on a big bit of fresh trevally after trying a bonito head and a trevally head. To this day I can still feel my big snap have a gulp at that yummy bit of trevally skewered onto my hook. It felt like the other bites I had been getting and they were all good bites. I hit back hard and my reel started peeling out nylon. My rod was bent over and I knew it was big whatever it was. I was hoping it was not that shark that had been lurking around in the burly trail. My fish finally stopped peeling and I got some line in. He was in the deep water which was good. He had a few more runs and then I slowly got the line in which is where we caught a glimpse of the orange flash that you only see with a snapper. The snapper seemed docile until he was dragged up the rocks then started flapping around furiously. I must admit I was yelling in disbelief at what I had caught.
We estimated it to be between 18-22 pound. That was a night to remember. We cleaned up with one 20 pounder two around the 13 pound mark, one 10 pounder and a heap of good pannies. The next day the boys came up to test there luck. We had another good days fishing laying into some nice kahawhai and trevally. The snapper seemed to have gone of the bite which was a shame.
Blog text by Lloyd Thompson. Photographs by Scott M.