2022 Snapper Season

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by bowl » Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:33 pm

Mattblack , head out now for reds, black rock.
To many boats kayak, helicopter , catch a fish,catch a fish

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by Seniorfisho » Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:43 am

Mattblack wrote:
Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:36 am
cobby wrote:
Thu Aug 25, 2022 12:41 pm
Mattblack wrote:
Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:08 pm
cobby wrote:
Tue Aug 23, 2022 1:02 pm
Mattblack wrote:
Tue Aug 23, 2022 7:45 am

Is this due to netting bans or just because the bay is getting healthier each year?
The 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
What's a good example of 'thinking outside the box'? I tried everything last year & only got 1 :oo: (my secret weapon this year is a heap of frozen tuna I caught in June)
Find 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.

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.
Thanks 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?
They've been catching genuine Snapper off the wall at the tower in Willy, all after dark but decent in numbers

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by Mattblack » Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:21 am

Weather has been a disgrace....hopefully head out this weekend and open the account (either Black Rock or Williamstown by the sounds of it)

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by Lightningx » Fri Oct 28, 2022 4:35 pm

Got a couple last week 58 and 52 but no big ones yet.
Good luck Matt .

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by Fish-cador » Fri Oct 28, 2022 11:33 pm

Mattblack wrote:
Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:26 am
Anyone had a crack at the reds yet?
A lot of pinkies but there are good ones in between.

3 nice fish so far this season, all LB
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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by purple5ive » Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:54 pm

Took 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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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by fisho999 » Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:57 am

That sounds like a great day purple5ive, well done.

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by Lightningx » Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:25 am

Well done Steve!
Your old man would have been very happy with that.
Cheers 👍🏻

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by purple5ive » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:19 am

Cheers guys.
Yes dad was very happy, it's his first proper snapper, he has only got 35cm ones before , so this fish and the others certainly gave him a run for his money. I made him grab every rod that went off hahaha, until we had multiple hook ups.
As soon as this fish took off I knew it was the one!!!!

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Re: 2022 Snapper Season

Post by dazz999 » Sun Nov 20, 2022 12:35 pm

purple5ive wrote:
Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:54 pm
Took 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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Well done stevo great pic,s and some good eating fish

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