Snapper: Floating or bottom?????

[DaveSue_Fishos_Two]

I have never caught a snapper. There, I've admitted it, but I always thought they were bottom dwellers and hence the need sometimes for big lead to get the bait down. Lately I have been reading about floating baits etc. What's the go please folks? ??? Are these fish taken on the TOP and the bottom??

Thanks for any advice, one day I hope it will be my turn!!

Dave

[damons33]

well your a bit north of the snapper areas, i thought snapper kinda finished at gladdy?
but for any demercial fish a naturally desending presentation is the way to go,too many anglers are fishing for the largest sized of their target species, instead of tuning in on the mean sized fishes.
damon

[mackmauler]

up and down and all around, clear as mud.

[basserman]

floating snapper are easyer to see
nah you will get them both ways however for floating baits down a berly trail seems to see better fish
what your doing isn't fishing the surface but sending a lightly weighted bait down to the bottom in a berly trail so really fishing the bottom still just in a diffrent manor
as rob said clear as mud now hey

[goanna1]

Dammon 33
We do get snapper in the Winter around CQ if you could only see fridays rocky Bulletin.

goanna

[NeilD]

Floaters are really slow sinkers. You would be suprised how fast a ganged pilly with a pea sinker gets snagged in 60m of water. I would use floaters during the day and fish bottom at night.
Neil

[Burley_Boy]

Fished today in 40M of water and the two paternoster rigs only caught reefies while the two floating pillies kept scoring Squire.
I use a light peasized lumo sinker and a pilchard and send it out the burley trail and the only thing that would touch it today was squire well before it hit the bottom. My report last week had a pickie of the rig.

[-spiro-]

snapper love slimies
Better alive if you can get them.
I wish i was like you, trying to get my first. I can still remeber it 8)