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YES, I have 5, swear by them, the amount of fish they have accounted for in the bay fishing for snapper is countless

I wish I hurt it on a big fish Kelvin, it would had made the last 2 months of pain worth it. Got caught out in some ugly weather coming home in the dark , 20+knots of NE & following sea I ran over the top of a wave and there was nothing in front of it, just a big trough , boat nosed dived into the back of the next wave which force me around the side of the center console tearing a tendon in my shoulder. Never trust a 5knot forecast.

Count me in Chris, I should be back on the water by then since having my shoulder operated on after a little on water mishap.

100% agree with you @Allnighter these spots we put 1000's of hours into to work out when the snapper are there and when they are not. Time on the water is King, Even at the best of times we still get a donut trip we don't need.

Love it mate, make sure you smack a few more,

Work,kids and house reno's been keeping me busy mate. Wish I could fish more often but have take my opportunity when I can.

Thanks Hamish I don't mind a feed a fish here and there either. im not a fan of the large fish for the table. Personally I enjoy eating snapper around the 50-60cm mark. I find these bigger fish the flesh gets a lots of muscle sinue in the back half of the fillets. Normally keep 1 big one if we are low on fish as the kids love regardless.

Bag limits and are bag limits. At the end of the day it's only a fish. Not worth losing you Car and boat over or a hefty fine. I love fishing for them year in year out.

Hey All, After seeing @Allnighter with his few snapper from the southern bay, I thought Id get myself on the water for a go before this southerly change came through. Managed a quick trip last night fishing for only about 2hrs, Managed a 3 fish, with 2 around the mid 70cm mark & with my last fish going around 88cm and being released to fight another day. Gave a up a good fight in the deeper water of Moreton Bay. Enjoy Cheers Josh <><

Good Fish mate, its been a cracker start to season already.

Last time i went to a show was 2017 - It was the "The Home & Garden Show" to speak with swimming pool builders & get some ideas for home. After 3hrs looking and having no satisfaction with what I sore . I stopped at Northside Marine on my way home and ordered my Surtees 575 profisher. Best show I ever went to .

Curtain Artificial @ Moreton Island has some good sized resident YTK fish, You will need minimum 50lb gear if you want to be successful, Some guys fish 60-80lb and still struggle to land fish. Offshore there are always plenty at Hutchinson Shoals,

I know what you mean mate, i have 1000's of hours logged in a diary chasing bay snapper, its never easy trying to explain how much time , effort & technique goes in to finding productive spots. I can tell you from experience , nothing beats hooking 5-6kg of rampaging snapper in water less than 10m deep its a thrill in its self.

I don't mind a late arvo session normally with a tide change thrown in there... just remember what u learn this yr/season doesn't always mean it will work next year/season. Moreton Bay is forever evolving. I like that your successful with morning sessions mate as I very rarely get quality fish in the bay fishing dawn..

I was across that way late yesterday arvo / last night when the search was going on. Unfortunately couldn't offer any assistance or information. Very sad to news to hear.

Good fish Kat, they fight hard don't they !!!!! Cheers Josh <><

I come back through there on Friday evening 26/2 and it was a very hairy ride especially the last 1km. We had white water all-round us at one stage , It gets worse on a run in tide and a howling North West or Westerly wind. Some trips we have come a cross shore dump at the entrance to comby point.

Don't mind the spangles from the Cape shallows, ice them down real good for day prior to cleaning and shallow flash fry them in bite size pieces and they seem to be ok, if you cook them in large pieces they can be a bit chewy.

We where lucky and didn't have any boats come with in about 500m of us which was great, Not a fan of Jew from around the cape - from experience they normally have worms which is a turn off for me. Only keep them if they don't survive on release - which this one kicked off and swam real well back to the bottom.

There is always hope mate, just have to put in the time. It was never meant to be a session where "big fish " where the actual target, We just wanted a feed of fresh fish & see if I could get myself my 1st Marlin .

@ellicat All caught on 6 month old dead yakkas

Hey All, Been a while since I have posted about a fishing trip, Been heaps slack, not doing much fishing since around late September and with work being very hectic found myself with barely any time to get on the water. Left the ramp early around 4am Australia Day morning headed for some ground south of Cape Moreton with intentions of Chasing a Black Marlin & maybe a offshore snapper if they wanted play the game . Good run across the Northern Bay in the dark although very shallow in a few areas causing some detours around some white water . Anchored up around 545am ish in some wonderful conditions , 1st few baits we had some mac tuna hammering our floating baits which helped wake us up and get the blood pumping . After deploying some burley and the mac tuna thankfully going away - I was up first with a good hook up on what felt like a nice snapper, only to pull the hooks - I quickly retied a new hook on and put another bait out and instantly hooked up to what I called a good snapper - this thing went super hard for the structure and had me in the bottom for a few tense moments, Bit of rod work and up came a nice size Jew. around the 9kg mark, which was released to fight another day. Kept at is for about another 15mins with a few runs and a few bust ups, My mate hooked a good fish which ended up being a nice spangle emperor around 6kg mark and despatched quickly to the esky, I was up again this time with a nice snapper around 5kg which went in the ice slurry as well. another 10mins past and I was blown away 2 more times on 40lb O/head gear with not much else I could do , felt like a passenger holding a fishing rod. re-rigged again, wound the drag up on the Talica 16 and sent another bait back in the burley trail but not as far back to the structure as normal and stopped it , let is float there in the current for a bit and the it started screaming off, this fish was no where near the caliber of the of beast from previous hook ups but still good, bit of a tussle and up popped a nice snapper around 5kg - it went straight to esky also, Seems I was on I fire with hook up and the deckie not getting a single bite. I put another bait out and locked the rod in the holder set ready to go again. I decided to chuck a bit of sunscreen on as the sun was coming out from behind the clouds and was heating up, whilst doing this my rod screamed of again. I asked the deckie to grab this one and sort it out , this fish fought well and in no time I slid the next under a nice snapper around 5-6kg . Straight to the esky he went. By this stage is was getting to around 8am and we started hearing some radio chatter about Marlin to the North of us around the Caloundra Wide area. So we rigged up out last baits set them back around similar distance and I started cleaning all the boat up and the deckie started getting the trolling rods ready , after about 10mins stuffing around , my rod went absolutely nuts. locked it into gear and I was howling - got to work on pretty quick and went hard trying to turn this around. This thing played stale mate and ran hard along the bottom and literality pulling me to the back corner of the boat - Unsure if this was an even bigger Jew or snapper, once I had him coming up I started playing it safe and let my rod do the work. Deckie was on the net & ready and done a top job getting this bad boy in the boat - PB for me for Spangled Emporer going 8kg on Popey's scales last night. From there we headed North Trolling for Marlin managing to hook one out off Caloundra around 11.30am. Jumped off pretty quick, pretty happy to get a bite considering my 1st attempt ever at trolling for marlin.. Headed for home around 1pm in nice conditions. Few pics below Cheers Josh <><

That a really good Grass Sweetlip gents, Well Done.

Interesting site that one

Well Done Team South. Gave us Northsiders a absolute flogging ,