2021 Snapper Season

[Mattblack]

Has anyone else started prepping for this years Snapper Season or is it just me?
It's looking like we'll be in and out of lockdowns until Christmas so I'm thinking I'll start hitting the water whenever I can regardless of the water temp (fingers crossed in the next week or 2!)

So did you stock up on the genuine reedy’s this year or going for born2fush’s run out stock, never to be seen again VENOOOM rigs?

Why pay full price.

Crusher did not last long.
https://youtu.be/Ys7IifPtW7A

His YT account is closed?

Yeah...yepi'mon kept trolling him. I hear he's starting up an Only Fans instead

[cobby]

Provided you're not 30km away, well after curfew, with 20 other people or a **** about it when questioned in my experience the past few weeks they've been far from stringent with 5km. Couple of quick questions through the car window where you're from etc and go our separate ways regardless of being just outside the radius. Think the cops are as over it as everyone else

[fishnut]

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According to this instagrammer you can fish 5km from the boat ramp...is he right or wrong?

Wrong. If you live 4.96km away from the ramp, you can go 400m further away from your house on the water. In your own boat. By yourself.

There's a wall of virus sitting 5.01km from your house....

Yea and from 9.01 pm till 6am saw heaps of Deltas everywhere

[fishnut]

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According to this instagrammer you can fish 5km from the boat ramp...is he right or wrong?

Wrong. If you live 4.96km away from the ramp, you can go 400m further away from your house on the water. In your own boat. By yourself.

There's a wall of virus sitting 5.01km from your house....

Yea and from 9.01 pm till 6am saw heaps of Deltas everywhere

5am

[rb85]

Think on my first few trips I'll concentrate on finding bait balls on sounder and catching fresh bait..
Not going to target snapper till October, stick to the squid ext .

Planing to take a week off work in October.....

Last season there was that much bait in the bay I could not get a single snapper on fresh or live yakka or slimeys
Only got them on silvers and squid heads

last season whiting heads seam to do the trick for me up in the top end of the muddy pond - squid only seams to work catching the whiting up there -- sort of a win win thing though

and I havent started to get snapper fever it's the same gear I use for gummies anyway and normally I fish for then all over winter so the gear is always ready to go

Interesting my PB was on squid way up the top.

[cheaterparts]

last season whiting heads seam to do the trick for me up in the top end of the muddy pond - squid only seams to work catching the whiting up there -- sort of a win win thing though

Interesting my PB was on squid way up the top.
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I don't think they are that fussy and yes squid normally does the job last season though the whiting were pretty thick up in Bouchers so I got plenty and of cause I kept the heads
every time I used squid the whiting would attack the bait and on pilly banjos and squid seamed to wont it I guess thats why we take a selection of baits to tempt them

give the whiting heads a go

[ben475]

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According to this instagrammer you can fish 5km from the boat ramp...is he right or wrong?

Wrong. If you live 4.96km away from the ramp, you can go 400m further away from your house on the water. In your own boat. By yourself.

There's a wall of virus sitting 5.01km from your house....

careful cobby, at 4.96km you can only go out 40m in your boat.

[cobby]

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According to this instagrammer you can fish 5km from the boat ramp...is he right or wrong?

Wrong. If you live 4.96km away from the ramp, you can go 400m further away from your house on the water. In your own boat. By yourself.

There's a wall of virus sitting 5.01km from your house....

careful cobby, at 4.96km you can only go out 40m in your boat.

To many days in lockdown and my maths is shot to prep levels

[Mattblack]

If restrictions don't lift until November it's going to be stupidly busy at the ramps (more agro than ever as well)...think this season may be a write off for me.
Yibbida yibbida, thank your mother for the rabbits

[Andrews]

Sounds like they may already be starting to pop up here and there in my end of the bay.

A couple pan sizes have been caught in Queenscliff harbour, water is about 13C there - same as ocean temperature, they moved on after a few days.

Clifton Springs - Saw a few pan sized pinkies on a dive last night, they're sitting shallow amongst the rocky bottom rather than over sand/weed. Water is still cold 11C. I don't think the cooler weekend is going to help the water temps.