SNAPPER DOWN DEEP
A fair chunk of my time was dedicated to chasing snapper in a deep water, offshore environment. It required a slightly different approach in regards to technique and gear in comparison to usual inshore shallow water tactics.
Whilst our hands are temporarily tied here in many popular parts of South Australia due to a drastic management plan, the same methods are still completely translatable and relevant to other deep water snapper fisheries, not only in the south-east of my home state, but all around the country too. So in order to speed up the learning process let’s take a further look at what’s involved to get in on some of the snapper action that the deep water zone is capable of delivering.
“While our hands are temporarily tied here in many popular parts of South Australia ... the same methods are still translatable around the country.”
PROSPECTING THE DEEP
Locating deep water snapper populations requires a bit of work prospecting the systems that lie within trailer
