Thread: Snapper rig and advice for Kenepuru area

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Sanmar, Saury all the same. Cunts of things if not fresh. Picked to death via schoolies typically, just like the sloppy frozen pilchards you also buy at the servo. Bait on, nibble nibble, hooks up (cause bait gone) re-bait. You know the routine.
Piper on the other hand are easy to catch tough on the hook and are deadly if fresh.
When I say easy, easy if you have the right gear. I'd sit on a jetty the day before a big kingfish session (when i lived at the Mount, and it wasn't bought out by every retired farmer in the Waikato) with a really light trout spin rig and a quill float. Use a bit of tough bait on a real small (fly fishing 14-16) hook. Often the best piper bait is piper! Even frozen I reckon they are better than pilchard. Kingfish will fall over themselves for piper too. Live ones even more so. Sometime we could not get a hook up for all the fucking kingies scrapping over the bait!
The more I write the more I miss fishing for real fish. Damn you Dave!

As I said I have no idea how to catch piper as they have small gobs. It would be great fun for my daughter to catch them so I will strip a few old flys I have and give it a go.
Are they active all day as I have only seen them at night or on dark?