21st Jan 2018 Waihi Beach Snapper Fishing - NZ Style

I got up early at Waihi Beach to get a time exposure of the Sunrise over the water as we don't see this too often coming from WA and a bloke (Bro) came past on a quad bike. I couldn't work out what he was up to at the start, he looked like a fisherman but had no rods. Eventually my curiosity got the better of me and I stopped the time exposure and went over to have a look. He had a GPS navigated torpedo with dive flags on it to take his 400lb mono out 1600m with 25 baited circle hooks clipped onto the line. He left it there for 30 minutes before hooking up a battery to his winch to reel the line back in. He only got 1 Pink Snapper but lost another on the shore line. Chris said he does better at night but I have never seen, only heard about this type of fishing. There were other parties up the beach using the same. Fishing in NZ is a lot less governed, Legal size for Pink Snapper is 30cm, not 50cm like in Perth.