Hot Little Snapper Bite
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Hot Little Snapper Bite
Happy new year to all! Late report from a couple of days ago before the big heat.
After half a dozen sessions targeting whiting at all ends of the bay with no success - north road, werribee, yorkies reef, point cook - I decided to throw the dice and have a crack at some snapper. Despite the season proper being over, I've marked plenty of fish crossing the bay in search of the spotted bones so knew there should be a couple floating about.
Launched at Altona and punched out to the spoil grounds to fish the Midday low tide change. Wasn't really planning on going out so didn't have anything ready or rigged up apart from one rod with a snapper snatcher.
After a bit of cruising around found a nice little cluster of marks hard on the bottom in 15m and anchored right on top of them. Put the snapper snatcher down while i rigged up the other rods. Had not even unzipped the tackle bag when rod buckles and boat a 3kg red. Put the snatcher back down and immediately buckles for another 3.5kg fish. Send her back down and straight up another near 4kg snapper hits the boat. One rod, three drops, no burley and got my bag in 15 minutes.
Ripping day on the water and made the whitingless trips easy to forget!!
After half a dozen sessions targeting whiting at all ends of the bay with no success - north road, werribee, yorkies reef, point cook - I decided to throw the dice and have a crack at some snapper. Despite the season proper being over, I've marked plenty of fish crossing the bay in search of the spotted bones so knew there should be a couple floating about.
Launched at Altona and punched out to the spoil grounds to fish the Midday low tide change. Wasn't really planning on going out so didn't have anything ready or rigged up apart from one rod with a snapper snatcher.
After a bit of cruising around found a nice little cluster of marks hard on the bottom in 15m and anchored right on top of them. Put the snapper snatcher down while i rigged up the other rods. Had not even unzipped the tackle bag when rod buckles and boat a 3kg red. Put the snatcher back down and immediately buckles for another 3.5kg fish. Send her back down and straight up another near 4kg snapper hits the boat. One rod, three drops, no burley and got my bag in 15 minutes.
Ripping day on the water and made the whitingless trips easy to forget!!
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Re: Hot Little Snapper Bite
Smashing it...
Bugger all kgw out front Werribee lately,
Wedge Kirk's point side and Clifton springs about 1k out in front of old jetty , mate been getting for last few months...
Bugger all kgw out front Werribee lately,
Wedge Kirk's point side and Clifton springs about 1k out in front of old jetty , mate been getting for last few months...
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Re: Hot Little Snapper Bite
Good work mate thats awesome!, gotta be happy with that. WP has the Whiting chewing, well it did... dunno where they all went. Might have caught them all
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Re: Hot Little Snapper Bite
Another top effort on the Snapper.
Plenty of Ting in Point Wilson, look for Sandy beds in Grassy areas, 1.5m - 3.5m of water
We were out last week and catching them in the middle of the day in 2m of water
Plenty of Ting in Point Wilson, look for Sandy beds in Grassy areas, 1.5m - 3.5m of water
We were out last week and catching them in the middle of the day in 2m of water
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Re: Hot Little Snapper Bite
Thanks for the tip bowl, will give said locations a crack and report backbowl wrote:Smashing it...
Bugger all kgw out front Werribee lately,
Wedge Kirk's point side and Clifton springs about 1k out in front of old jetty , mate been getting for last few months...
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Re: Hot Little Snapper Bite
Would love to fish western port but it's just so far from where I am. Hopefully will get a window of opportunity at some stage.STriplett1997 wrote:Good work mate thats awesome!, gotta be happy with that. WP has the Whiting chewing, well it did... dunno where they all went. Might have caught them all
Well done on the whiting front, you seem to be killing it. Might need to hit you up for some WP pointers when i venture that way