queensland snapper hunting

[Angus]

Well I may have been absent but I have been fishing and plan to trickle some varied reports in as I find time.

A big quest for me and my bother in law Joel over the last 18 months has been really sussing out shallow water snapper in the bay. We have done well and what is better is we rarely find them where the car parks of boats are. As challenging as it can be the most consistent fishing has come from really finesse set ups displaying small plastics with long pauses. Picture a small prawn or shrimp moving along the rubbly bottom to imagine what the plastic would look like. Anyway some pictures of the better fish with millions of smaller but still legal fish in between... The biggest one there for me was 76cm which I consider a good effort on 12lb leader in 3 meters of water.

 

Obviously a lot more than snapper in the bay and this technique brings in a lot of by catch... Note the queenie actually swallowed a 30cm squire which got lodged in its throat...

 

As for locations there is no consistency here geographically. We have been fishing a wide range (away from other boats if we can). Or we are looking for is either rubbly bottom (does not need to be much) or bait or in a perfect world both!

 

Angus

 

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Great report and great work on all of those fish!

[Bretto77]

Very well done

[Old Scaley]

Good to see you back on AFO, @Angus. I see you haven’t lost your touch! That cobia would be a rare catch in that spot.

[Angus]

25 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Good to see you back on AFO, @Angus. I see you haven’t lost your touch! That cobia would be a rare catch in that spot.

Yeah it was not expected. There was a school that size busting bait. Epic fun on a 2-4kg sharpshooter!!!

I saw a guy get a cobia under the gateway recently. Made me laugh with all the old Cobia under the indro bridge jokes.

[ellicat]

Envy is the word that springs to mind.

Some great fish there.

[flattyfan4573]

great post with some really nice fish. few years back was chasing them regularly offshore in the 15-25m range but lately been trying to learn the art of chasing them in the bay shallows. great fun on similar gear, biggest so far well shy of yours (49cm) but boy oh boy do you know youve hooked them!