These days, many of the young-gun fishos target snapper with hard body jigs and soft plastics and they do exceptionally well at it. Many of us oldies though still like to use natural baits and for those anglers who like to do the same thing there are a few tips here you might find handy.
I love catching snapper and over many decades fishing around my home town grounds off Jibbon and Stanwell Park and up north off Coffs Harbour, I’ve caught thousands of them. Along the way I’ve learnt the best terrain to find snapper and the best baits to use to catch them. The type of tackle and special rigs I found the most effective only came after a lot of experimenting.
I found the best way to fool a big snapper into taking a bait is presenting it on a lightly weighted, fine line floated along in the current looking as natural as the burley cubes. I found the best tackle to achieve this floating bait method is using a good old Alvey reel. The control and feel
