The snapper fishing lately has been amazing with some great fish around 15lb getting caught quite frequently during the evening and into dark on the sand anywhere 15 - 40 meters its great not having to go far to catch great fish.
On Wednesday we caught some great snapper many 3 - 4 kg in 32meters 3 mile off the mount we also caught 5 massive sea going eels 2 of them were about 30lb, a 12kg kingfish and a large octopus which will make great bait.
The Kahawai are everywhere at the moment and seem to be working best on the bigger snapper and so too the barracuda as big strip baits on the straylines.
The snapper seem to be in better numbers out deeper from 30 to 50 meters in the last 2 weeks with the northern end of Motiti producing good numbers of large snapper up to 6kg. The fish are lighter in colour suggesting they are big schooling fish predominantly feeding off the sand unlike the darker kelpies. The fishing in close has been good at night time getting some big fish straylining into the rocks after a good berley up, also had a unexpected visit from a baby hammerhead. During the day in close has been not so productive with the odd good fish but mainly small snapper. 
