Glen Jakovich's footage of pink snapper spawning in Cockburn Sound!

AFL legend and passionate angler Glen Jakovich shared with Recfishwest this great footage of a pink snapper spawning aggregation he recently came across in the Sound. Glen said he was out fishing for herring and squid when he spotted some dolphins breaching in the distance and a disturbance on the water.

“We drove a bit closer and I could see the pink fins breaking the surface and knew straight away what we were seeing,” said Glen. “I turned the motor off immediately and carefully set the drift to not disturb the school, but to get us close enough to have a look.

“It was just majestic to see, we did a couple of drifts and left them doing their thing. We see them schooling up like this every year and it never gets tired. How good is it having this on our doorstep?”

Glen has a lifelong passion for fishing in Cockburn Sound growing up fishing there and says he spent many hours as a young bloke fishing for pink snapper.

“I haven’t fished for them for years now, though,” said Glen, who says he’s more than happy catching bread and butter species these days. ‘But it’s just great to see and shows just how important the Sound is.”

If you manage to see this spectacle happening in the Sound, take some snaps or videos and send them in to us!

[wellhookedWA]

Great footage and the Cockburn Sound Snapper aggregations are now quit well known. But what about the Northern beaches areas? Mindarie Marina holds hundreds of very small juvenile snapper and seems to be an established nursery. But where do these fish emanate from? Are there local spawning aggregations taking place? Research is important and I hope to see more.