napper Port Phillip Bay Surf Flasher fishing tackle rigs
Snapper Fishing in Australia's bays and oceans Melbourne & we also fish perth and Adelaide Brisbane and sydney but on this day went for a fish out near the shipping channel in port phillip bay in Melbourne . was a awesome morning fishing and caught a nice red that went 95cm . i left the boat ramp at 4am to go fishing and head out to the middle of port Philip bay anchored and through out some burley as per normal , i also use a burley buck and get it down to the bottom of the bay . i find that having it down there is the best way to lure in snapper close to your boat . I still throw out pilchard of the back of the boat . My fishing gear consist of shimano reel combo up with a shimano rod 6 to 8 kg pretty lite tackle for big fish which you will see in the fight it took me a fair while to pull in this snapper , i was running 20lb mono line & Pre-rigged snapper rig not on Snapper Snatcher but a twin hook by reedy's rigs . it surely was an awesome day fishing and i really dint expect to catch a snapper this big it tipped the scales at 9.15kg just over the magic 20lb , i could not believe it and weigh it many times the length of the fish was 95cm and it took a full pilchard bait on the rig .
we fish over in Adelaide for snapper as well which is an excellent place to catch a big red snapper around xmas time adelaide snapper fishing . perth snapper fishing is great in the winter too so we go there for a fish . we also do a little bite of land base fishing for snapper from piers in the right season , spring is a great time to fish for snapper they start to spawn and head in close or into bays or gulfs like Spencer gulf or st Vincent , bays like Queensland Moreton bay in Brisbane and port phillip bay western port . we get sent alot of fishing reports for various charters around australia and they test our fishing rigs on big red. you can fish a few types of fishing rigs like a twin rig by reedys rigz or you can make them your self . snapper rigs are a great option as well they are made by black magic and many other companies like reedys surf range
sydney snapper fishing is great offshore in winter