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    Snapper for dinner tonight

    Snuck out for a quick afternoon session, fished the river first, and struggled big time. I eventually picked up a few bream on Gulp minnows on the rock walls, but it was slow going. I got smoked by a good fish that could have been a big bream or snapper. Conditions were improving, and Mud was calling, so I made the call home to secure an extended leave pass and got lucky. Arrived at mud just before 4pm, and first cast I was onto something decent, awesome! Got him up, nice 55cm snapper, yes! how good is this!

    He was followed by a heap of rat snapper, and a few pike. I was fishing two rods, the light outfit had 3lb line, 6lb leader and a 3" minnow. The medium outfit was 15lb fireline, 10lb leader and a 4" Minnow or 5" jerkshad. Action was fairly continuous on the light rod, with snapper after snapper nailing it. Nothing over about 28cm though. The rats were also hitting the bigger gulps, but not as regularly and not hooking up much, also not destroying the gulps as much. I ended up getting another legal on a 5" jerkshad that went 45cm. As the sun set, conditions pretty much glassed out. Beautiful evening, with not another fishing boat in site. Unfortunately as it got darker the bites dropped off. I got a couple more rats by charging up the glow in the nuclear chooks and lime tiger glows, but no more legals. The fish were still there on the sounder though.

    Back at the ramp by 7.30pm. Great little session, Snapper for dinner tonight!

    Cheers,

    Matt

    Struggling to upload pics with this new format, will get back to it later when I have the time.

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    Re: Snapper for dinner tonight

    Well done Matt. I just had the same problem with the photos in my post, took a while to learn the new system, but its all good.

    ...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~William Sherwood Fox.

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    Re: Snapper for dinner tonight

    Well done matt sounds like you will be having a nice dinner to me. I am convinced now that I have to start using plastics when I venture out to Mud.
    Cheers Axl

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    Re: Snapper for dinner tonight

    well done matt,a couple of nice eating sized snapps there mate
    cheers rosco

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    Re: Snapper for dinner tonight

    Good going Matt good to see the light gear come as they do hit it more. Hey everything is going good for yah with that gear and plastics i use the same at times. I was out as well and pulled a stonka as you will see soon once i pot but i cheated on 30 pound with squid as i was on a deeper water session being new moon and all but good feed there and 50cm and up pull hard. My brim mates tell me when they get smashed by snapp when they look for the brim and i always have a look. Cheers DD.....

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