Re: 2022 Snapper Season
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:33 pm
Mattblack , head out now for reds, black rock.
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They've been catching genuine Snapper off the wall at the tower in Willy, all after dark but decent in numbersMattblack wrote: ↑Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:36 amThanks Cobby...awesome advice. I've never stopped on a bait ball without an arch nearby (makes perfect sense there would be a predator stalking nearby) Still a bit confused as to why early season snapper are sometimes off Williamstown and sometimes not....is this something to do with rainfall and temperature and the Yarra?cobby wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 12:41 pmFind a pattern as to why certain things trigger the fish to be caught somewhere specific at a given time. Water temps, rainfall, wind, barometer, air temps, moon phase, even sunrise/set times. What is attracting the fish there. Bottom structure, nearby structures, tidal flows around headlands creating ever so slight collection points, creeks/rivers/drains inflows and the directions they travel. The bait that's actually there. Sardines, anchovy, small gars, crabs etc. If one is more prevalent than the next and there's billions of them then try to match the hatch. They're hunters first and scavengers second. Don't just putt around hoping for a Christmas tree or a heap of fish. They're not a solitary species, that 1 mark could be the straggler of the school on the outside your sounder just picked up or it isn't even a Snapper, try to find out instead of dismissing it and moving on. Anchor on tightish patches of bait without sounding up anything else. There's something nearby forcing that bait into a tight ball and it could very well be a closeby school of Snapper. Run a bait, lure or even slow jig mid depth instead of focussing the whole lot on the bottom. Just slow troll around a couple of hardbodies for something different. Don't follow reports. Use them to find a similar area away from the traffic that may be just as or even more productive than the report area filled with sheep.Mattblack wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:08 pmWhat's a good example of 'thinking outside the box'? I tried everything last year & only got 1 (my secret weapon this year is a heap of frozen tuna I caught in June)cobby wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 1:02 pmThe bays just healthier and nothing to do with bans. First time I've been out there in near on a decade and there's at best a poofteenth more showing up on the sounder compared to then. Might mean a repeat of last year where thinking outside the box gets the best results and just sticking to the usual means it's a **** season for you
And ******* keep a detailed diary, catch or donut. Fish are habitual by nature, otherwise we wouldn't even be carrying on about a Snapper "season" every year at the same time of year. The more detailed you can make the diary the better your understanding will become, in 5 years time you can be 90% confident every trip you go out irrespective of where some **** who sent a picture to Worstlings report line caught some instead of relying on often incorrect information.
Well done stevo great pic,s and some good eating fishpurple5ive wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:54 pmTook dad out for a fish yesterday, which also happened to be my birthday. We had a ball and caught some awesome fish with both of us bagging out
The big fish was caught by dad. 71cm . Ive been waiting a long time to put him onto a fish like tbT and it finally happened yesterday..
We got bitten off a few times and had leader knots pop a few times too, was a great day out..
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