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Fish Unweighted One of the best tips I have received over the years is to fish unweighted baits, were possible. There are a number of advantages to this type of fishing method. Firstly, it will help to present your bait more naturally in the water column. Another advantage, is this method allows your bait to float down at a slow rate, and cover the water column, which is good when the fish might be feeding higher in the water table. When snapper chase whitebait or pilchards they usually hunt them at the top or the middle of the water table,...

  It was rumoured that Capitan Cook himself gave snapper their name. It was believed that he may have named snapper after a fish that they resembled in and around the Americas. Is this really true? Well, I’m not sure but it is an interesting myth. Without a doubt more snapper are taken by anglers whom are fortunate enough to have access to a boat or kayak, rather than off a pier. That being said, there are still some great opportunities to land some good snapper off the end of your local jetty. It should be said, that the accomplishment...

Over the years we have accumulated some handy tips for catching snapper, for the most part our tips have come from picking the brains of experienced anglers at our local angling clubs and also from many years of trial an error of our own. I highly recommend joining your local angling club, or at least dropping in and shouting the old school anglers a few beers, as they will most likely part with some nuggets of gold which will improve your catch rate.    The first step in being a successful snapper angler is definitely preparation. Snapper are worth the...

It was a cold winter’s night and I had been out on the water for about an hour and hadn’t had a single bite. I was freezing cold, wet and beaten, the pieces of pilchard I was throwing into the water were floating back toward my kayak, and I was contemplating pulling up the anchor and heading home. Suddenly my reel started screaming, and line was pulling fast off my spool. At the same time I was both excited and worried I was about to be spooled by a big fish. After the fish an I traded blows and I...

The first piece of the puzzle to catching a bag of snapper is to locate them. First off, try reading as many local books or blogs as you can, that cover the topic of snapper hots spots in your local area. Another good way to find out where snapper are hanging around in your local fishery, is to use YouTube. Try typing in a few keywords like the following example: ‘Port Phillip Bay Snapper Fishing’. Then filter the related videos by date, this is a good tool to find out where they are currently biting. In some videos you will...