queensland Bay Snapper Out Of Control

[Cobiaaddict]

Hi All, 

Its been a while since my last fishing post and a long time since I last had a fish to be honest I think Australia Day was my last fish . Headed out with a mate from Tasmania who has not ever caught a decent shallow water bay snapper before , So the pressure was on . Lucky me,  with literally months off the water and know knowledge of fish on the chew any where the search was on. 

Headed out for a quick  bay snapper session Saturday arvo leaving Clontarf around just after 1pm to grab some live baits and then find some nice hard rubble bottom to anchor up on and burley in hope of a July snapper,

After spending a couple of hours searching for live baits and finding some nice rubble bottom with a little drop off we anchored up about 3.45pm and started to burley up , send some baits back hoping some fish would come on the chew, 

After waiting close to 1hr (5pm),  the 1st rod got lit up and the decky was into a nice fish with good head shakes,  few tense moment as the fish ran for drop off with great intent ,  but some nice rod work and Ben had his head turned and coming to the boat nicely,   few more small runs and  I slid the net under a great fish , as we were dehooking this fish and getting ready for a few happy snaps - the other bait-runner went off hard , so I set the hook with it still in the rod holder - struggling to get this one out of the holder,  I was now onto another nice fish which I felt running hard along the bottom almost straight away.,  after some back and forth action I slowly had nice snapper in the net and on the deck of the boat yay me,  trip successful,  So we quickly rest the baits and went about a few photos,  after getting a shot of Ben holding both fish , both rods went off again with a big double hook up on 2 more cracking snapper at 75 & 78cm  - which went back - I went checked the esky had a quick measure and with a 81cm & 84cm in the ice box I realized we where wasting out time.  Ben had set another 2 baits out and whilst holding my Snapper for a photo we had another double hook up,  Ill put the photo up of myself looking away at the back of the boat holding my fish with a concerned look of holy geeeeezzzzz.  .  

We had another crazy 20minutes with about 5 more fish hooked and released totaling 11 for the session and taking the 1st 2 home for a feed, 

Both fish weight 6.0kg & 6.1Kg  . 

 

Hope you all enjoy the read

Cheers Josh <><

[jon]

Just love good sessions like that, very hard to beat. Well done mate!

[ellicat]

Nice work. Beaut session for sure. Pillies ?

[Cobiaaddict]

15 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Nice work. Beaut session for sure. Pillies ?

all fish come on yakkas that had been sitting in the bottom of my freezer for over 12 months,  they smelt really bad once they had thoued out.  

[ellicat]

Good ol' fresh bait beliefs thrown out the window.

[Cobiaaddict]

3 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Good ol' fresh bait beliefs thrown out the window.

definitely,  not one fish come on live bait or fresh dead bait,  

[Drop Bear]

Great session there mate. Keep that GPS safe and secure for sure. 

Top read thanks for that. Report of the month for sure!!

Dead Yakkas! Great to hear. Were they whole baits or did you cut them up? 

[Cobiaaddict]

15 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

Great session there mate. Keep that GPS safe and secure for sure. 

Top read thanks for that. Report of the month for sure!!

Dead Yakkas! Great to hear. Were they whole baits or did you cut them up? 

Haha ,  the guys in the small 4m tinny in the back ground pics who rocked up at the same time I was anchoring had followed me from jigging live bait grounds and anchored to the west of me and fished and I did not see them turn a reel all arvo. .  I think they where swearing at us when I was throwing 5kg snapper back because we couldn't keep anymore. 

Whole  yakkas ,  rigged on single 10/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hooks, on 30lb & 40lb mono mainlines, 

 

[Drop Bear]

1 hour ago, Cobiaaddict said:

Haha ,  the guys in the small 4m tinny in the back ground pics who rocked up at the same time I was anchoring had followed me from jigging live bait grounds and anchored to the west of me and fished and I did not see them turn a reel all arvo. .  I think they where swearing at us when I was throwing 5kg snapper back because we couldn't keep anymore. 

Whole  yakkas ,  rigged on single 10/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hooks, on 30lb & 40lb mono mainlines, 

 

haha serves them right haha. I bet they anchored exactly where you had been when you left. 

Thanks for the info. I have become less confident of late using large fish baits. I need to get over that by catching some large snapper again.

 

[Cobiaaddict]

1 hour ago, Drop Bear said:

haha serves them right haha. I bet they anchored exactly where you had been when you left. 

Thanks for the info. I have become less confident of late using large fish baits. I need to get over that by catching some large snapper again.

 

Lucky he left a few minutes before I did, LOL

  

[Luvit]

Great session, Always satisfying to catch fish after a long time off the water.

[tugger]

Hot bite you won't forget in a hurry 

[kmcrosby78]

Cracking bay snapper and session there Josh, well done!

[samsteele115]

Inspiring report mate. What a session 

[Poddymullet]

Awesome report @Cobiaaddict and love that you released so many freakish fish! I am yet to catch any Snapper of worth in the bay...but I haven't put the hours in dedicated to it yet. Not looking for your marks (always welcome though) but from Clontarf were you still fishing along Peninsula or in the bay? Love that last photo! I'd vote that in for photo of the month for sure 

[Cobiaaddict]

27 minutes ago, Poddymullet said:

Awesome report @Cobiaaddict and love that you released so many freakish fish! I am yet to catch any Snapper of worth in the bay...but I haven't put the hours in dedicated to it yet. Not looking for your marks (always welcome though) but from Clontarf were you still fishing along Peninsula or in the bay? Love that last photo! I'd vote that in for photo of the month for sure 

Thanks @Poddymullet  bag limits limited us to keeping any of the other fish , But normally this area will only produce 1 or 2 good fish in a session.  

Fished the SE area of the Bay mate,  

Glad you like the photo ,  

 

 

[Drop Bear]

20 hours ago, Cobiaaddict said:

Lucky he left a few minutes before I did, LOL

  

haha yes gonna be pissed