Moreton Bay Snapper, Big Schools in the Shallows

Corey and I started off early, landing a couple good fish before the cameras even started rolling in pitch black darkness. The bites came thick and fast the moment the sun started coming up, very average sized fish, but still great fun on the finesse gear. Unfortunately the first school of fish was spoiled by boat noise, so we had to move on. A bit further away we found big schools of snapper, still no size to them, but lots of fun picking them off using sidescan. Another move, a couple more fish and we decided to shoot out wider. After a couple decent little snapper in 20m+ I finally hooked the big one I was looking for, a short fight with locked drag ensued, and I was pipped by bad luck at the death, that’s fishing.
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[@firstlightflicks]

Nice session spewing about that big dog

[@Jackomac]

Yea that was pretty devastating, would’ve been a proper 70-80cm model judging off the fight and what Corey said, I’ll get him next time.

[@mickthefisherman1562]

We all feel your pain but not a bad outing, well done.

[@Jackomac]

Cheers mate

[@joshparry2867]

unlucky bro .. hate looseing those big ones we work so hard for them too

[@henrydangg]

Nice sesh boys, what gear and tackle are you running?

[@Jackomac]

1-3kg UL zodias, 2500 shimano miravel 8lb braid, 8lb leader.

[@brucehornet1454]

SPEWIN OH THE PAIN

[@Jackomac]

Sucks when nothing goes wrong and the hook just pops out hey, give me a knot failure or getting bricked all day 😂

[@BradleyClayton-j4x]

Mate, where is this? Down south around Russell island or Macleay island? Never fished Morton area, only Caloundra area

[@keithgodfrey-vf3ot]

hey mate what sounder are you using? seems like sidescan is the key to finding fish :)!

[@Jackomac]

In shallow water it is, not going to find snapper in 2m anywhere near the boat. In this video I was running a humminbird Helix G4. But I’ve just made the switch to a Garmin echomap 125SV. Both have great sidescan.

[@keithgodfrey-vf3ot]

@@Jackomac ​​⁠ the price of the Garmin! wow. i have a budget max $2500

[@Jackomac]

@keithgodfrey-vf3ot that’s what I paid for mine, 2300 on special at BCF

[@keithgodfrey-vf3ot]

@@Jackomacsorry for all the questions. which sounder are you referring to? your old one or the new one? cheers mate

[@Jackomac]

@keithgodfrey-vf3ot new one the 125SV, they were on runout a while ago cause new models are coming