2023 Snapper Season

[Mattblack]

Still a bit early I know, but has anyone started targeting snapper yet?
I heard the landbased guys are doing ok in PPB & WPB is slowly starting to fire up.
This weeks weather has got me pretty motivated to start the season early!

[Sneaky1]

Just watching the water temps, hoping to get the yak out next few days.
Although a bit sceptical about snapper in numbers, looking forward to the first outing this season

[bowl]

Still a bit early I know, but has anyone started targeting snapper yet?
I heard the landbased guys are doing ok in PPB & WPB is slowly starting to fire up.
This weeks weather has got me pretty motivated to start the season early!

Plenty of other fish in the sea to catch ATM

[Scraglor]

I got a 3kg one off Hastings a few weeks ago. I sorta classed it as a winter red though, rather than the first off the 23/24 season.

[Mattblack]

Still a bit early I know, but has anyone started targeting snapper yet?
I heard the landbased guys are doing ok in PPB & WPB is slowly starting to fire up.
This weeks weather has got me pretty motivated to start the season early!

Plenty of other fish in the sea to catch ATM

How have you been going on the squid?

[bowl]

Still a bit early I know, but has anyone started targeting snapper yet?
I heard the landbased guys are doing ok in PPB & WPB is slowly starting to fire up.
This weeks weather has got me pretty motivated to start the season early!

Plenty of other fish in the sea to catch ATM

How have you been going on the squid?

Haven't been.
Boat gets fixed Monday.
Boats been in shed for over 8 months or so ..

[Tim399]

Fished Altona from the kayak last night with 7 others, no decent models caught just small pinkies. I Picked up a salmon and snotty Trev. There are some big schools of baitfish around. Not long now!

[Mattblack]

Anyone got some advice on where the PPB snapper might be lurking on the weekend? By the looks of the graph below, the north end is the warmest, but I'm not sure how all this rain/runoff is going to effect everything. I always had luck fishing Williamstown this time of the year, but last year was terrible thanks to all the floods.

[Andrews]

They've been getting a few off Clifton Springs, 6M of water, with smaller fish around that 3-4m mark.
Portarlington have had a few shallower, plenty caught from the pier on bait and plastics.

Can't comment on much elsewhere!