Mangrove Jack in 120ft of water and a few other nice species.

[warti]

How far can you flick a 3/4 head with the S10 and are you happy with the rod? Thanks and good fish.

[wak69]

I always look forward to your reports eric, great stuff...

cheers sam...

[The BeaR]

thanks for the replies everyone.
Angla...Can't help you with how for north exactly but what I can tell you is that they have a pretty sweet snapper fishery during the cooler months here in Hervey Bay and ther are some quality fish caught.
Ben...Unlike estuary Jacks that do go hard, to give you an idea, I'd say a pearl perch of the same size would give a better account of itself. As soon as I put the hook in this fish it gave up, but he was only a small specimen.
Steve...Good to here you a getting out into the big blue stuff a little. Eight great fish...well done. Keep the family in fish fillets for a short while. Will have to catch up again soon mate.
Swano...Yeah mate the weather hasn't been real kind to anyone lately. Good to see you got make good use of a couple of days also. Nice fish with Poppa BeaR there, might see you about the photos for our website if that's ok.
Warti...Mate 3/4oz jighead with 7" plastic, total weight 40g. I use a Saltiga 4500 or Certate 4000's on the S10's, these reels are spooled with saltiga PE3 jigging braid which is coloured every 10mtrs so I know exactly how far I flick a plastic. Usually it depends on the depth of water that I am fishing, but to get that lure out 7 colour changes or 70mtrs is quite easy for me. Fishing with big plastics is what I love to do, so I dezigned and built the S10 so it was capable of doing everything I needed it to do.
Sam...If this weather played the game a little nicer, we'd be able to put a lot more reports up. I must admit I wouldn't be complaining about that. I'm glad you enjoyed the read.

Eric&Deb...

[Frank OO]

Hi Eric and Deb,

I can't believe I missed your post. Maybe it is the fact that you guys are always working and don't have much time to enjoy that fantastic fishery you have on your doorstep.

I have been studying all the latest fishing rules that come into effect this weekend but I don't think you have to worry about the minimum size too much. You may have to consider the number of those monsters though.

Looks like you had a great time out in the Bay.

I am hoping to go out and try my new BeaR Essential on the weekend. I love the new guides. I can finally have an "Egrell with Bling".

Good to see you getting out and catching something other than those boring 120cm Barramundi..

Frank OO

[Xtreme]

Hi Eric & Deb,

Great to see you able to get out amongst the reefies, you've certainly managed to wire the place pretty quickly and as always, share the little things that make a big difference with us all. Looks like I need to plan a few days mid week into my schedule.

Cheers, Steve

[dkbikes]

nice fish mate looks like you had a great day,

[brisboys]

Great stuff there guys, thanks for the pics! really good stuff

Sam

[Spot82]

Were you fishing the southern gutters? If so I think we were fishing near you on the same day, 625 Cruisecraft and there was another boat anchored up there as well, I think a haines.

Well done on the catch they are some awesome fish especially on plastics, the scarlets can be finicky to catch and have always thought they wouldn't go much for plastics, but well done for proving that theory wrong!

[bicko1]

in winter we catch snapper in mackay

[jarhead]

Congrats on what looked like an awesome trip and some nice fish, cheers for the read.

Wal

[Chris_2184]

Queensland Fisheries regard Baffle Creek (just south of Agnes Waters) as the northern limit of snapper however at certain times of the year snapper can be caught as far north as Gladstone.

Cheers
Barry

I've caught snapper 25mile out from Stanage Bay, was Easter Weekend last year to be exact Caught 3 in total, they went 9kg, 7kg and 6kg if I remember correctly