Not only did I catch more fish, I hugely enjoyed myself and ended the day with more than enough gleaming fish for my kai moana needs. And as I have discovered since, this happy result turned out to be par for the course. So why did I choose to experiment with smaller soft-baits?. Well, firstly I’d seen Facebook posts showing some surprisingly large snapper caught using 2.5cm soft-baits. This meshed nicely with my own observations when fishing micro-jigs: predators of all sizes find small, well-presented lures at times impossible to resist!
Secondly, I’d been disappointed in the average size of snapper in my local waters, possibly due to three years of conditions, which have only just lifted. So it
