Redcliffe Snapper

[ddobson]

Well done it is a painful change while working out the plastics but if you are like me and many others you will never go back to bait unless beach fishing. Try the nuclear chickens that glow in morning and hang on.

[JRBK]

Snasman, you sound alot like me.
Have more soft plastics and lures than i know what to do with. I stick with the bait, and occasionally use the soft plastics. The one time i did, landed myself a nice flattie at scarborough reef and had no idea what i was doing with the plastic retrieval.
Great snaps tho. Being a newbie to the Redcliffe area, being wanting to try anywhere from Scarborough to Woody Point because of fish like yours haunting the area. They're out there somewehere.
Mark.

[Mark Malcolm]

Thanks heaps for giving up that info Snasman, I have been using 5 inch plastics with a few results and when you get a hit ... they are big chomps in the plastics!! but only one 57cm snapper on them and a few fishless trips. Also think I have been overgunning it on the hook size so will give the 2/0's a go and hopefully the grinners will leave me be long enough to get onto a nice fish .

Nice catch and all the best.

Mark

[T1]

Also think I have been overgunning it on the hook size so will give the 2/0's a go and hopefully the grinners will leave me be long enough to get onto a nice fish .

Mark

Mark, no such thing! We use nothing less than 3/0's for Squire on 4-5" SP's & 3/0-5/0's on 5"-7" SP's inside the bay. Up the hook size on the 7" SP's offshore.

Hope this helps...
T