Moreton Bay Snapper

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Sorry that it has been a couple of weeks since my last video. Life in general and bad weather in particular have conspired to prevent me from getting out. Coming into the Christmas period will be as busy as it always is but I will endeavour to keep a regular video schedule.

I wanted to do an overnighter for this video and I even went out when the weather wasn’t as good as I would have liked for an overnight trip. I was just a bit frustrated about being landbound for so long. I had planned a trip a few days before but my car battery picked that day to fail on me. Really though, I was quite lucky that it failed when I went to start the car in my garage, rather than when the car was sitting on the boat ramp. If it was going to fail, it picked the best time.

Despite a poor forecast, the weather in the morning was quite good. I got off to a later start than I really wanted, but that was down to me and a very comfortable bed.

Finding fish was hard work all morning. I’ve certainly been out many times when there were a lot more fish on the sounder. By the same token, I’ve been out when there have been a lot less as well, so I shouldn’t complain too much.

The thing that made it really hard going was that I couldn’t find any live bait and when I did find fish, they didn’t seem to be hungry.

But that old saying that “perseverance pays”, was certainly true in this case. Keep doing what you know works and with luck, you will find a cooperative fish.

Not long after I landed a really nice Snapper the wind changed direction and picked up a bit. I thought about my options for fishing overnight and decided that the chances of catching anything were not all that good with the prevailing wind so I decided to call it off and head home.

00:00 Introduction
00:35 Heading out
00:51 The forecast
01:21 Looking for bait
02:53 Not the bait I wanted
03:39 The fish are down there
04:21 Baiting a Pilchard
04:48 Where there are dolphins there are fish
05:07 Adding some weight
05:33 Tying a rig on
06:11 Baiting a pilchard another way
06:46 Trying a troll
07:24 Over to the Foul Ground
07:52 Bite off
08:26 On at last
12:48 A second chance
22:14 Shinkei-Jime a different way
24:19 The weather is changing
26:05 Where I went
26:55 Tackle talk
31:31 Epilogue

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[willkitching]

Great video mate, well done on the snapper!! There were some great tips in there too. 👍
I’m hoping to give Harry’s a try at some stage, it looks like you can just drive straight there from Raby Bay? Cheers mate

[seastrength]

Perseverance certainly pays off, a well deserved snapper. I was out there this morning looking for spotty macs but could not find any. Hopefully they will turn up soon as the family have placed a Xmas order for two. :(

[constable]

Lovely fish, I wish you had been able to pick up the first one too.
I enjoyed the tackle talk also.
Thanks for sharing.

[deefa_damo]

Nice fish you landed. Almost always better to be out fishing, and losing fish, than being at home wanting to catch them.

[SandmannOZ]

I was half expecting you to pull up the big mackeral I missed a week ago. I had it up to the boat and was working on landing him when he looked at me sideways, said "nup", and bit me off. I'm sure I heard him laughing at me. If you catch a roughly 1m mackeral with a #3 spoon in it's mouth give it my regards.

[thomascoyle]

I wish i knew where to start when it comes to chasing snapper in the bay, I have all the gear and no idea

[russellstrickland]

Did you put a squid skirt over the pilchard? Trying to understand how you rig your bait. Thanks.