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Understanding Snapper Behaviour will Improve your Catch Rate? Snapper Behaviour Snapper can be found dwelling in and around shallow and deep reefs, with a particular liking to rubbly grounds, within the sheltered bays and also in the deeper offshore systems.  A snapper’s diet consists of octopus, mussels, crustaceans, squid and small fish like bluebait, whitebait and pilchards.  Additionally, Snapper have a special taste for prawn. This is a very inexpensive and accessible bait for all anglers around Australia. Snapper are a grazing fish and usually feed whilst they are on the move. This principle is true for both their feeding...

Snapper Season in Victoria Australia  Snapper can be captured right around the southern mainland coast of Australia. It has been identified from years of research by Victorian, South Australian and Western Australian state government authorities that there are five separate subspecies, which carry different genetic makeup.  Western Australia’s snapper inhabitants are made up of two separate species. South Australia has one distinct group, whilst Victoria has a subspecies to its western side and the fifth species stretches from eastern Victoria right up to the central coast of Queensland. Snapper typically migrate in a slow pattern, they may inhabit the same...

  Now this is quite a debatable subject does the lunar cycle play a part in your success rate of landing snapper? Most anglers will acknowledge that the lunar cycle does have an effect on fishing for snapper, the old time anglers argue very strongly that it does have an impact on the behavior of the fish. But what role the lunar cycle has is very hard to determine.  It is not only anglers that believe that the moon has impact on environmental behaviours, also some gardeners farmers often plant around the lunar cycles. The interval between one full moon...

  In the United Kingdom it’s known as ground baiting, in America it’s known as chumming, while in Australia we call it berleying. Whatever you want to call it the method of putting food particles and smells into the water in order to attract fish and then entice them to bite is a proven way of increasing your catches. Although some fishermen have their doubts about using berley, in situations where it can be distributed correctly, burley can make the difference between catching the odd fish or going home with a full bag. The basic purpose of berley is to...

Considering its closeness to Australia’s second major city, the fishing in Victoria’s expansive Port Phillip Bay is extraordinarily good. Victoria’s biggest body of water and the state’s most prevalent recreational play ground has a well-earned standing for turning on some excellent fishing for species such as snapper, flathead, King George whiting, garfish, kingfish, mulloway and squid with fine bream in neighbouring rivers and estuaries. Flathead would probably be the most common catch from Port Phillp Bay and during the summer month’s countless numbers of flatie fall to some pretty simple baits and rigs. Drifting is the conventional method for securing...