I would put more of it down to the conditions.

The calmer and more settled the sea was, the smaller the fish, as soon as the sea picked up with more swell, the bigger the fish got, and that seemed to be the case in many of the spots, even the rocks to an extent.

I know around the 6th the tidal movement peaked, which would be what you are refuring too Naki, and is what the dates were based around. The week prior, in particular early in the week during the small dead tides, the snapper fishing was still very very good, and it was quite funny as this was when the kingfish fishing peaked, during the dead tide ( small tides ) which is the oppersite to what would usually happen.

The tides around the 6th were the largest I had ever seen, the sea moved mountains, truck loads of sand were soured away from different area ( areas I won't name) but it was bloody amazing.

The trevally were never really on, however were caught in both slack tides and 100% tides so not allot of difference there.

Over the two week period from the 25th, the number of snapper never changed at all, the snapper were on the hot bite and took everything at all times of the day, as mentioned above, the only real noticable difference was when it was rough. One morning it was rough..... no fish under 4kg caught, everything was big, that afternoon it flattened off, and the fish size dropped away.......

I would note, the snapper fishing through the day was allot better the week of the 26th of october in comparison to the week of November. In November they were harder to catch, but also there were sunny conditions to contend with.

In hind sight Naki, both sets of tides, both small and 100% tides had different advantages.

For your records Naki, there was also 3 snapper over 20lb on the 2nd of November caught. During the day.