Snapper West Beach
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:10 pm
My nephew was keen to get some Snapper before the 3 year Snapper Ban starts next week, so Monday arvo was the go.
Brother in-law, Nephew a myself trundled off to West Beach to a 4 - 5 km spot to see if we could get him some Snapper. We made a judgement call to go to a spot that we knew there were some Snaps, be them not monsters, rather than risk it and try for the big boys at another spot that fires sometimes and not other times.
Rods loaded and an array of rigs were the order of the day.
Rods set, feet up and what a nice arvo.
A bit of fresh bait doesn't go astray.
All in all, 9 Snapper were landed. This being the smallest one at 28cm
This was the only Snapper that was kept, at 45 cm. Here in SA the starting size requirement for Snapper is 38 cm, the other 8 Snapper were under that. We did repeatedly measure two but our efforts were in vain as they remained at 37 cm and didn't wishfully magically grow.
So 8 Snapper were released. Ironically, and enviably, all the Snaps would have been legal length in Victoria.
An additional "bait theif" was landed. This sorry guest is going to be my nephew's Grandma's dinner, Blue Crab Linguine. Even though she makes it with spaghetti
Another surprise was this odd looking "Flathead'
Which actually, as we found out (thank you Google & PIRSA) is a Congolli
So, I thought that was amusing , , , , Congolli-ne , , , ,
Congolline
All in all, a great evening out and one happy Nephew
Cheers, Bugatti
Brother in-law, Nephew a myself trundled off to West Beach to a 4 - 5 km spot to see if we could get him some Snapper. We made a judgement call to go to a spot that we knew there were some Snaps, be them not monsters, rather than risk it and try for the big boys at another spot that fires sometimes and not other times.
Rods loaded and an array of rigs were the order of the day.
Rods set, feet up and what a nice arvo.
A bit of fresh bait doesn't go astray.
All in all, 9 Snapper were landed. This being the smallest one at 28cm
This was the only Snapper that was kept, at 45 cm. Here in SA the starting size requirement for Snapper is 38 cm, the other 8 Snapper were under that. We did repeatedly measure two but our efforts were in vain as they remained at 37 cm and didn't wishfully magically grow.
So 8 Snapper were released. Ironically, and enviably, all the Snaps would have been legal length in Victoria.
An additional "bait theif" was landed. This sorry guest is going to be my nephew's Grandma's dinner, Blue Crab Linguine. Even though she makes it with spaghetti
Another surprise was this odd looking "Flathead'
Which actually, as we found out (thank you Google & PIRSA) is a Congolli
So, I thought that was amusing , , , , Congolli-ne , , , ,
Congolline
All in all, a great evening out and one happy Nephew
Cheers, Bugatti