queensland snapper in the bay

[Mack_attack]

hey guys after fishing the bay for over 5 years now i am still to have caught a legal snapper. (my record is 34cm so close) i try to use the freshest baits, smallest sinkers and the appropriate tackle but still no luck. As i have a boat i was wondering where i can go and what i am doing wrong. Also any advice on tides or water depth would be greatly appreciated.

cheers, Jack

Post edited by: Mack_attack, at: 2006/09/24 12:20

Post edited by: Mack_attack, at: 2006/09/24 12:25

[stingray]

Hi Mate.

From my snapper fishing in the past from boat and rocks , I find you need to be fishing over a good reef, where they are .

There is more to it , like bait and tide , but try fishing somewhere where there is rocks and a bit of a reef.

Marek

Post edited by: stingray, at: 2006/09/24 12:20

[Mack_attack]

yeah thanks but kind of need to know where these reefs are and what depth but i guess thats the secret

[mk2]

try using fresh mullet fillets no sinker .what part of the bay are you fishing

[Cowfish13]

Mack_attacks my brother and he hasn't been online for a while.

We usually fish around St Helena and Mud Islands, and we sometimes go out to Harry Atkinsins Reef and the \"Four Beacons\".

[reef_raider]

we have never done any good at 4 beacons have you???

[Cowfish13]

We've caught 30 winter whiting before. We were trying to get live bait using bait jigs, for Cobia and Tuna etc. And we wern't getting many yakka's or herring, so my brother put a bit of squid on a small hook and pulled up a whiting. Another time we got nothing, but this time we had heap of yakka's, but the Tangalooma dolphine kept on eating them. we would cast out a livy, and then we would see the dolphina come over, dive down, the baitrunner reel would spin, the would stop, dolphine would come up and we would have no bait on the hook:angry: . Very annoy that we wasted our hard earned bait on a dolphine.

[reef_raider]

we have been there a few times and no fish showed up on the sounder and then i have heard of cobia being caught there so maybe we just needed to be there at the right time

[Angus]

Last time i was fishing in the bay was with Brian.

No snapper but a lot of squire.

This was at Russell Island.

Although no snapper were caught im a big fan of the \"where there are small ones, there must also be big ones\". So maybe with some more live baits (our 3 livies were smashed and demolished that day) we could have landed some more. Either way, if you looking for squire East side of Russell aint bad

Angus

[BIG DAVE 1]

i got my first legal one at the bottom on the bottom of couchie island. it was quiet amusing. i casted it out and like just after it hit the bottom POW! i was on.

So much for me not coming on the site till the end of term

DAVE

[Gerty_92]

was this with a lure or bait...and ye you shouldn't be on here dave:P

[Brian D]

Angus wrote:

Last time i was fishing in the bay was with Brian.

No snapper but a lot of squire.

This was at Russell Island.

Although no snapper were caught im a big fan of the \"where there are small ones, there must also be big ones\". So maybe with some more live baits (our 3 livies were smashed and demolished that day) we could have landed some more. Either way, if you looking for squire East side of Russell aint bad

Angus

Actually it was Maclean Island

[Angus]

Woops.

Cheers Brian.