fishing for snapper hardbodies lures

fishing for snapper  hardbodies lures 

While lipless crankbaits have been around for years, I’d always considered these lures to be pretty much exclusively used for bass. It took a year or two of organising but I finally made it up to port phillip bay, along with good buddies ty and peter, to spend a bit of on-water . A couple of sessions fishing the reef systems in port phillp bay revealed some interesting developments in the whole catching snapper on artificials story. The technique the is not dissimilar to that used when plasticking. Basically you need to find suitable ground reef edges with fringing gravel beds, drop-off and bommies or if its snapper season use your sounder to sound out them up and present the lure in a way that appeals to the predatory instincts of the snapper. My experience with reds is that while they obviously feed on crustaceans and other bait items in and around the reef, they also keep an eye out for any food items coming down from above. Like bream will shadow tailor schools in an estuary.Starting a berligh trail and waiting for it to float down to them helps put them in a frenzy I have had times where lures have out fished bait . snapper do the same in a reef environment. Look at the basic profile of a lipless crankbait like the Jackall tn or similar lures like Rapala’s Clackin Rap and you’ll note that they are designed to sink with a slight downward bias at the head. This is my way of thinking anyway, Weighted with the jighead, a jerk shad should sink pretty much horizontally with the head section, which is weighed down by the jighead, providing momentum and, depending on the shape of the head, even a bit of subtle action. Both lure styles are highly realistic with the lipless crankbaits having the added bonus of reflective colours and noise in the form of rattles. There’s no doubt that these lures work on snapper. As with snapper on plastics, the gun retrieve seemed to be a slow lift and a jerk hereand there and let it float back down or leave it in the rod holder 4 winds off the bottom and the boat will do the rest . You want the lure to “suspend” as much as possible in the bottom zone, too close to the reef and you’ll risk snagging up, which is not something you want to see happen to expensive Japanese lures ...pretty simple ...


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