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Hit the bay on Saturday in search of a few squire/snapper, headed straight over to curtain to fish the turn of the top of the tide for hardly a touch on the plastics amongst a carpark of others who had the same idea. Due to the direction of the wind blowing, we decided to head around the top side of Moerton to see if we could pick anything up around there whilst getting some protection from the elements. We found some great bait grounds, where we quickly picked up several pike, squid and about a dozen trevally of some type (i think they may have been silvers or tea leaves).
Around 2pm, the ocean glassed out, and there were yakkas boiling up on the surface everywhere "nervous water", they must have been feeding on some type of microscopic insects right on the surface, but interestingly enough there didn't appear to be anything piscatorial chasing them, only the ever hungry sea birds. After flicking plastics around the schools for a while for not a touch, we decided to hit Smiths Rock on sunset with a full moon rising. First cast bang zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, my bream gear starts going nuts and after some solid runs on the 10lb outfit, soon after a nice 56cm snap comes abord. It managed to swallow my whole jig so I cut the line (after releasing him into the esky), and re-rigged, cast out and 1, 2, 3 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz SP got nailed and this one felt bigger than the last, and after several enterprising runs, a nice 62cm snap comes abord.
All up we managed to boat 5 snaps / squire, couple of barracuta, and the abovementioned bait & trevs. Interestingly, the colour on the 2 snaps was absolutely amazing, really dark red with plenty of irradescent blue spots and head markings. The photos taken the next day really dont do the fish justice.
All in all a great day on the water and some nice snapper for dinner this week!
Just finished some crumbed snapper, so tasty!! Its amazing how many snapper have been caught in the last week, the offhore reports have been showing some solid catches. Does anyone know how long the snapper spawning run lasts for?
nice fish!!
as far as the snapper spawning run goes some will spawn on the full moon in june the majority spawn on the full in july and the rest go on the full in august.
My favorite time to fish for snapper is the lead up to a full moon from june thru to september.the lead up to the new fishes well too.
I went out of the moreton bay bar on saturday got 4 snapper, baked them aswell dident have as much stuffing as that but o well still great eating. Then we had fish cakes last night yum yum. Hope ya get more
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