Thread: Coffs, Snapper, Plastics!

Thanks for a post,she has been very quite here lately.
Hoping to get out on a mates boat in town soon,must catch up with him asap and sort it.
Andrew

It looked a bit quiet in this forum, so I thought I'd put my 2 cents worth in. How are things in west oz? What's on offer at this time of year? aside from snapper, I had a crack at the tiny estuary popper fishing scenario the other day in Corindi creek, which produced a couple of fairly spectacular strikes, but unfortunately no hookups. Definitely worth more effort I think.

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Thanks for a post,she has been very quite here lately.
Hoping to get out on a mates boat in town soon,must catch up with him asap and sort it.
Andrew

Is it true that they have recently limited the bag limit and where you can fish for WA snapper.They are a truly mouth watering fish. I feel for them on my visits over there.
Cheers,
John ( disco 44 )

Hey UNDEROVER
We live in Woolgoolga just north of Coffs, i do abit of fishin but mainly into the river and rock stuff in my Kayak. my brother is dead keen and he often gets out off Woolgoolga or Arrawarra chasing snapper, mackeral etc in his Kayak.
So i might have to see if he will give away a couple of spots for you


CHEERS TIM.

Yes new rules John.
We have just finished a 2 month ban on ALL demersal fishing(Dhuies/snapper ETC ETC).
New rules include bag limit of 2 demersal fish per licenced fisher on the boat.Skipper MUST have the licence,any unlicenced fishers come under his licence.All boats must have on board and use release weights for any demersals being returned to the ocean.
Andrew

Originally Posted by long stroke

Hey UNDEROVER
We live in Woolgoolga just north of Coffs, i do abit of fishin but mainly into the river and rock stuff in my Kayak. my brother is dead keen and he often gets out off Woolgoolga or Arrawarra chasing snapper, mackeral etc in his Kayak.
So i might have to see if he will give away a couple of spots for you


CHEERS TIM.

That'd be awesome tim. I'm not after any hard won spots, just a bit of direction to the more productive areas. I guess that there would be a few, but I'm just trying to speed up the process! I'm stoked I came away with one half decent spot after the first outing...

Originally Posted by UNDEROVER

That'd be awesome tim. I'm not after any hard won spots, just a bit of direction to the more productive areas. I guess that there would be a few, but I'm just trying to speed up the process! I'm stoked I came away with one half decent spot after the first outing...

No worries, he reckons the best spots in close are off/around any headland south of Arrawara, the bombies off Darkum (darkum bombies), or the reef around North rock, this is just a few.
He is heading out tomorrow morning off woopi so i'll let you know how he go's.
He seems to land the most snapper around Woolgoolga reef and woolgoolga headland, also often gets them around flat top island south of Woolgoolga

CHEERS TIM.

Hey Tim, how's it going?
I've been up in Brissy for the last little while. How'd you bro go? I managed to get out again just before going to Brissy, and managed a keeper trag jew plus a handful of undersized snapper and pearlies for the hour and a half I fished.
The current was a bit hectic, and thus a bit hard getting plastics to the bottom with all but some fairly hefty jig heads. A point of note though, there was an absolutely massive school of bait in the area that arvo, no visible fish chopping, but my plastic got hammered on the wind in after a drift, but no hookup. I guess the macks can't be too far away either at the moment, if they're not getting them already. The water seems a bit cold at the moment though.

Cheers, Matt.