Joel came to the party with a nice nannygai, found on a small patch of rubble while drifting.
Ryno landed a beautiful juvenile red emperor – undersized but looking amazing with its vibrant colours.
Trying to tackle new bait
Dan with a couple of local Moreton Bay snapper captured before the closure.
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HE only way I could start this article was with a cracking smile from one of our great clients ‘Dan the destroyer’, with a couple of local Moreton Bay snapper captured before the closure! I sometimes think Dan and Jack spend more time fishing the local area than they do at work. But they certainly know how to find the fish, as we have seen in previous articles. Whether pearl perch, snapper, cod or threadfin salmon, the preferred bait are local octopus, squid and IQF pillies. In saying that, not every trip ends up in an Esky full of fish, they too have off days. After August 15, we
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should be seeing more local snapper being caught in Moreton Bay, if the weather continues to play the game, and great catches for land-based fishos around Redcliffe, Margate and Woody Point too. More people are trying out new bait, with cuttlefish and octopus the newest in this range. Often seen as a messy bait – with cuttlefish being able to produce black ink at the same rate as an active oil rig – my advice is to work with them when they’re frozen or partly thawed. I normally put a small
slice at the top of the cuttlefish, pop out the hard plate and then put it on a snelled rig and send it down. At other times, I’ll remove the head, put it on a single hook about 7/0 size, with a small sinker and float it down. I save the body and cut it into bigger strips, which slow down the pickers and rubbish fish until the larger species can have a go. But there are a whole host of bait that will be readily smashed by snapper that you can either gather yourself or buy from your local tackle shop. * continued P21
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