peel snapps.

[Why-ting]

Headed out to peel yesterday morning and this morning. Found alot of fish over some hard bottom and mussle beds on the hds stucturescan and pined 8 nice fish for the two session. Yesterday the sharks had also found them and took alot of our fish before we got them to the boat. We also had some good smokings from some large snapps. Also got a couple of jew around 70cm and the heads of some 80-90cm fish.

Fished some ground i found last week up the rainbow and hooked what i think was a big cobe. fought it for 8-10mins and pulled the hook which was a little straightened.

All fish were caught on 5in mcarthy shads in all colours, mainly 1/2oz pogy heads,20-25lb main and 20-40lb leader.8-14lb loomis rods with 2500 sized daiwa reels We stepped the leaders up to 40lb to try boat the fish before the sharks had a munch but still diddnt help that much.

We hooked in excess of 35 solid fish and only boated 8. was a bit dissapointing to lose so many but still stoked with the quality of the ones we boated. Good weather both mornings with a glassout this morning which shut the bite down. back at the ramp by 8am both mornings

Got most of the action on the gopro so might do up a vid with some of the screen shots of the schooling snapps and jew i took on the hds aswell.

Cheers Whytey

[littlemac]

fantastic effort, some really nice snaps

well done.

cheers

brett

[BillyT2382]

Awesome stuff whytey nice looking snapps, sounds like you and the guys had alot of fun apart from those pesskie sharks..Great pics mate. look forward to hearing more of your adventures.

Cheers
Billy

[Giveitacrack]

Nice work Nick. I might try some of the deeper water around peel with heavier jig heads and upsized leader now.

[OB1]

Well done Whyte boys!

That is the best bay snapper session I have heard of in years. Those McCarthy lures are proving versatile - are they retailing here now or are they still an online job? Sounds like you are applying your usual deep jigging technique. Awesome stuff guys.

Ollie

[Why-ting]

Hey ollie, was a pretty good couple of mornings. We were just finding the fish on the structure scan and casting to them. The Mcarthys are my favourite plastic. 5in shads are my fave profile and have caught me jacks in the sticks rigged weedless, flatties, jew and snapps jigging off the bottom and slow rolling for barra. Very versitile lure mate. I think that nomads may stock them otherwise get them offline from west Aus mate.

Cheers Whytey

[Horse]

A great couple of sessions there Whitey. There are some good sized fish lurking in the Rainbow. I have pulled a big GT and lost a number of solid fish over the years

[Billy C]

You certainly do better than I do at Peel. Last visit two weeks ago I managed one undersize squire and 3 grinners!

[daki23]

good effort mate.

If you are happy to share some light, are you able to point me to which part of the peel is good for snaps, I've went on Sunday for the first time without much luck as I"m a bit clueless where to look.

cheers

[Silent]

You found good snapper country and must be HDs stucture scan's big helper...
Thanks for post and Pic, forwarding to see your GoPro vid post up soon...

[Coodgee]

would love to see some photos of what a snapper looks like on a structure scan image. that would be very interesting.

[Agrav8_and_Lulu]

Nice work, seeing photos like them, makes my erg get stronger, to land my first big snap.

[ddobson]

You got the moon phase worked out and proven now and that side scanning system is the bomb. I only wish i had the bucks to change over but boat loan maxes me out to date but one day i will fall onto the school but i like you boyz are hookin em as after brim its a good shake up on the gear but the last few months crikey you have brained em. Well done Nick bloody good to watch to. Cheers DD.....

[fisho8]

Awsome work guys some real quality fish there good stuff.

[whatscracken]

Another great session mate, Did you manage to get any weights or lengths on some of those Snapper?? They all look like 70cm+ models.

[Why-ting]

Didnt weigh any mate but biggest were 77 and 75 rest were all late 60's. we did tangle with some real big fellas but the noahs were getting them before we could. Had a couple of fish take over 80-100m of line on their first runs, running pretty solid drags A couple did chew us off on 16and 20lb leader early. the sharks always seem to start up when the sun pokes its head up.and once the start its hard to get a fish past them. We were hooking a fish a drift and lost about 5 good fish in 10 mins. When it gets like that i either move spots or head home.

[Why-ting]

good effort mate.

If you are happy to share some light, are you able to point me to which part of the peel is good for snaps, I've went on Sunday for the first time without much luck as I"m a bit clueless where to look.

cheers

Mate all the deeper water is going to hold your bigger fish. Some of the well known spots like the hole in the wall on the s/e side, off the green beacon out from S/W rocks, the deeper water all down the western side from half a k north of the spit beacon down to s/w rocks beacon. cucumber point on the northern side is good on the last of the run out. Try and find were the reef edge comes out to a point through the sunken reefs, fish this area toward the bottom end of the tide so you can see the reef edges and try casting to the bottom of the edges as the fish will patrol round them. the points in the reef divert the water out from the edges and make for a perfect ambush point.

At the end of the day you can catch good fish nearly the whole way around peel. look for good water movement, lots of bait and use your sounder. drive around and spend half to an hour lookin for fish. No use fishing where the fish arent. i find the snapper will go off the bite around the turn of the tide but last of the runout is usually a good time. In saying that we got all these fish from mid to last of run in.

Play around with a few different spots and tides and keep a diary. its amazing what info will line up very similar when you get a few good sessions in it.

Hope that helps a little on your next trip mate.

Cheers Whytey

[daki23]

Mate all the deeper water is going to hold your bigger fish. Some of the well known spots like the hole in the wall on the s/e side, off the green beacon out from S/W rocks, the deeper water all down the western side from half a k north of the spit beacon down to s/w rocks beacon. cucumber point on the northern side is good on the last of the run out. Try and find were the reef edge comes out to a point through the sunken reefs, fish this area toward the bottom end of the tide so you can see the reef edges and try casting to the bottom of the edges as the fish will patrol round them. the points in the reef divert the water out from the edges and make for a perfect ambush point.

At the end of the day you can catch good fish nearly the whole way around peel. look for good water movement, lots of bait and use your sounder. drive around and spend half to an hour lookin for fish. No use fishing where the fish arent. i find the snapper will go off the bite around the turn of the tide but last of the runout is usually a good time. In saying that we got all these fish from mid to last of run in.

Play around with a few different spots and tides and keep a diary. its amazing what info will line up very similar when you get a few good sessions in it.

Hope that helps a little on your next trip mate.

Cheers Whytey

Mate this is more then I asked for and thanks heaps. Makes sense now and I got college at work that is familiar with some of the stops you mentioned so I've found them go google earth. So thanks heaps and one day u might see a few picies around here :)

[Wet Deck]

Hey Whytey nice report mate, awesome... Where you getting your painted pogy jig heads from these days, I'm down to my last couple and can't find em anywhere?
Mick

[Why-ting]

I get them ordered in for me Mick. i think tackle warehouse stock them and maybe nerang disposals have them.