Snapper were thick in Tasman bay on saturday. Went out in mates boat from cable bay and set one set line then went for a fish. Caught 9 good snapper on the rods, all between 6-8lb in 30m mark.
Got a kingfish at 73cm,just under legal and four gurnard, one greyboy, couple of barracouta, couple of big mackrel. Lost 3 other snapper as well as getting busted off on two other fish.
The setline had one snapper, 5 gurnard, couple big kawhawai and some spiky dogfish.
Another 2 boats fishing the 30m mark got 17 snapper on a setline , and one got 8, with a couple 10lbers on rods
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