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Story: Recreational sea fishing

Hooked up

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Hooked up

An angler fishing from a small boat puts the pressure on a good snapper off Channel Island, off the northern tip of the Coromandel Peninsula. Snapper are one of the most highly prized fish as they fight well and are good eating.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 27 October 2005

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Carl Walrond, Recreational sea fishing – Big-game fishing: methods, clubs and conservation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7823/hooked-up (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009.