snapper on s/p

[chaser]

Gday every one ......
Im going on a fishing charter off Mc loughlans beach casing the big reds ... biggest we got on last years trip went 23-24lb great fish ... This year i was thinking of taking a pocket full of s/ps and have a crack . We are going for 2 days and i cant wait..
So any one got any secret softies they want to give up so i can go get some.... PLEEEEEESE.....
CHEERS chaser
:D

I know that Ecogear make some AWESOME plastics for snapper and other offshore fishing activities!:D
SteveB off this site had a mad session on htem very recently. Im not sure exactly which lure it was unfortunately...but im sure Tony, aka MadFisho will know a thing or two about that style of fishing!

Dave

[chaser]

kant wait to find out what it is .... ill b checkin this thread 200 times till i go........
chaser

[jimi]

Hey Chaser, I am planning on doing the same thing here in WA over the summer (starting this weekend :D) using my own boat in Cockburn sound.

Certainly it has been proven to work over here. I think the main difficulty will be finding the likely spots where the snapper will be. Using a charter boat should help there.

My plan of attack will be to find some likely looking spots on the sounder (I've got a few in the GPS to start me off ;) ) and then start a berley trail. In shallow water that is hard fished, it will probably be critical to get a decent burley trail going. Then I guess its a matter of fishing the plastic slowly down the burley trail. Snapper will definately move up into the trail if you are in the right place. I've ordered some 6" slug-go stickbaits, and have some large squidgies also.

I was thinking of rigging the slug-gos weightless on those mustad offset worm hooks for starters. Should give them a nice action, and keep them in the trail. I guess it depends on how much current there is about. Don't know what it's like over your way, but we don't get too much here in close, mostly just tidal flow.

This is all just a compendium of ideas from what I've read and heard. Don't know if it will work, but I'm going to spend a lot of time out there this year finding out. Hopefully I'll have some results soon.

Hope that helps.

Cheers
James

[dantheman]

G'day you can't go past a 3 inch slider they have worked for me,put some catch scent on the tail if you want,

cheers Dan:D

[chaser]

jimi ,
over here (at Mc loughlans) there is a series of off shore reefs ... I have even seen crays caught on lines while using ab gut for bait:eek: ......
It is a great fisherey .. every thing from monster snapper to sharks (portjackson to white pointers) whiting .... every thing..
chaser

[jimi]

Sounds awesome. Let us know how you go. Should give me some more ideas :cool:

[Mad fisho]

HI Chaser,

I have lots of good feedbacks from Charter Business in Gold Coast and Sunshine Coasts about Ecogear Power Squid 5.5' and 7', Power SHad 5' and 6'. Basic depends on the current. You can use different jighead to the situations.

Many people use Drop shot method as well. Basically with Ecogear, you can use it just like bait because of the built in scent. Fish like Big red, Pearlies, Sweetlip, and Finermark just love it :)


Cheers

Happy fishing:)

[rigzz]

Hi,
This is slightly off topic but some years ago I was determined to nail a Tasmanian striped trumpeter on a jig/lure. As you would all know they are a fairly deep water fish so I imported some 5 oz jig heads and 10 inch soft plastic tails from Bass Pro. I was fishing these in 200m (600 feet) of water. Never did get a trumpeter but wasn't able to put much time into it. Big morwong went berserk on them though. So keep plugging away and you never know what'll happen.
Cheers,
Rigzz

[jimi]

Well, I managed to get out into Cockburn sound and chase a few snapper today. I did managed to achieve my target, although as you can see, it is not exactly the size that I had in mind. :p

Weather conditions were not exactly fun so I didn't get to try all the spots I wanted to. I ended up using some 3" berkley drop shot minnows and boy did they go off.... is there anything they can't catch. They outfished all the other plastics I tried by miles. Just drop them down, deadstick them for a while, then a couple of jerks and you're on.

I didn't manage anything too big this time, but got heaps of skippy (silver trevally for you east coasters) up to 30cm, snook (or is it pike, I can never remember the correct name?) by the hundred and even quite a few tahwine. Geez those trevally can pull on bream gear - all fish were caught on my usual bream luring outfits.

All fish were released as per usual. Can't wait to give it a go again on some snappery looking lumps I found on the sounder on the way home. ;)

The snapper grounds are only 10-20m deep so I only needed light 1/4-1/8oz jig heads and a steady burley trail. There are some big snapper up to 6-7kg in the area. I can't wait to tackle one of them on light gear.

Heaps of fun for a few hours until the sea breeze became too much. :D

Cheers
James

[jimi]

One of about a million of these pike/snook thingies. The fight like a wet sock.

[jimi]

30 odd cm of Silver Trevally (Skippy). They go very hard.

Good work Jimi.
A couple of friends and I tried the other day for the same thing in Cockburn sound. We had a crap berley trail goin so I gave up on fishing plastics after a short peiod of time and went to bait.
I ended up with some wicked skippy up to 40cm+ and a few tailor ranging between 40-50cm.
On my bream gear it was mad!!!!!!:D I got smoked by an un-known which was cool...had my loomis squealing for mercy!!!
Lookin forward to doin it again...

Dave

[jimi]

Hey kingpin. Yep, it was a good start. Nothing huge, but I didn't get to spend much time out there with the wind and all. The main point of the trip was to run my sounder over some likely looking ground. My goals for summer are to catch a 5kg plus snapper on a plastic and also get some bonito on plastics.

I've just been a bit over bream lately so I'm trying to branch out for a change (it's as good as a holiday - or so they say :D ). Still, a few more rough days like this and I'll be back up at Guildford on the smooth stuff!!

Cheers
James

[Matt Fraser]

There has been a small group of keen fishos having very good results in Moreton Bay (Brisbane) on Squire, Sweetlip & Cod (& the odd big bream) using soft plastics.

Squire are the no. 1 target, and the best couple I've heard of so far went 72cm - 3.8kg and 78cm - 5.6kg. Berkley powerbaits and Zooms fished on Nitro 1/4Oz 3/0 heavy wire Gamas have been the most productive presentations.

To reduce the number of bustups, the guys have stepped up to 10lb braid and 14lb leader, any heavier and the bites drop right off. The are still getting done over on a regular basis by better fish!!!

Hoping to get out there myself tomorrow,

Matt

[fooltothabream]

Jimi, puled this link off my site for you
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tugboat/gpscoor.html
Most of the gps co ordinates around perth, plus a map, bit hard to see but best I can do till I get a new scanner.
Dennis

[jimi]

Dennis, thanks very much for the coords. I've been looking for the D9 ones in particular (had some but they were wrong).

Hey Matt, thanks for the advice. Sounds like some nice fish being caught there. I've put some 8lb braid on a spare spool I have for one of my bream reels. I was using a 16lb Nitlon fluoro leader, but might try downsizing. At least snapper fight clean (well most of the time!!)

Cheers
James.

[dantheman]

G'day got out on saturday off inverloch,best conditions i have ever seen the ocean, flat as a tac. no wind very little swell .the bar was easy.

fished in water from 8 to 24 metres for small snapper on plastics, 3 inch berkley's. fish were about 40 cms, nothing huge but alot of fun on a breambuster bream gear,

cheers Dan