Great work guys and amazing conditions…I’m a massive fan of circle hooks …..the drag needs to be set right, count to at least 5 before you begin to wind and don’t strike. Since swapping from big red suicides to owner circles my catch rate has improved significantly.
Interesting. So you run a really light drag? Then tighten once the fish is running. We just set to fighting drag and leave in the holder, works good on big reds but sucks for circles
Yes that’s right. A fairly light drag set and I tighten the drag after the hook up which helps set the hook into the corner of the mouth. If you strike it just pulls the hook right out of the mouth.
@@Saltfix circle hooks should be tied with a Snell knot so the gape in the hook kicks back towards the leader line I fish with drag set and always hook corner of the mouth on load up 👍 hope this helps
@@michaelwest188 yeah I know you don’t strike with em. Don’t know, we have a decent conversion rate with suicide style. Snapper still have that bony mouth that hooks just scrape along. I’ll give em a bit of a try
Thanks to you we've released a couple of the big girls too, feels great. We're still at odds about circle hooks hah. Personally I'm a fan of size 6/0 tho, tends to reduce deep hooking
@@Saltfix I can see why you were watching it!! Looked magic out there mate. Nice to get top notch conditions every now and then and then quality fish on top! You beauty mate
Yes if someone recaptures and reports it I get the info on roughly where and how much it’s grown. I’ve had one recapture so far was in a similar area and grew a few cm in six months. Hopefully this kind of data is helpful to fisheries in the future
Have to rig circles differently to big reds hold hook point towards you line through the eye and Snell hook will sit up this gives it the angle to hook up in corner of fishes mouth
Not sure how you tie your circle hooks but I find that will get a better hook up using a Snell knot through the front of the hook first. A uni knot is 50/50 and can draw the hook from the mouth. Great fish.
That makes sense I was using a uni knot, I find the smash and grab approach of shallow water pinks just doesn’t give the circle hook time to do it’s job. If fished on a bait runner or in free spool the fish wold have more time to swallow and the hook could work as it’s supposed to. For me , I like the big red pattern
I'm just stoked that you are giving them a flick. Sinking the stickbait below the bait ball may have gotten one of those pinkies. I was fishing my 95mm stickbaits in 12m slowly and they got smashed by snapper. 😁
always love youse with that sort of mindset too many people not thinking and killig everything they get
Cheers mate, it’s important to think of the future
Very cool to look after your fisheries ,inspirational
Very cool and important,
Cheers Dazza
Great work guys and amazing conditions…I’m a massive fan of circle hooks …..the drag needs to be set right, count to at least 5 before you begin to wind and don’t strike. Since swapping from big red suicides to owner circles my catch rate has improved significantly.
Interesting. So you run a really light drag? Then tighten once the fish is running.
We just set to fighting drag and leave in the holder, works good on big reds but sucks for circles
Yes that’s right. A fairly light drag set and I tighten the drag after the hook up which helps set the hook into the corner of the mouth. If you strike it just pulls the hook right out of the mouth.
@@Saltfix circle hooks should be tied with a Snell knot so the gape in the hook kicks back towards the leader line I fish with drag set and always hook corner of the mouth on load up 👍 hope this helps
@@michaelwest188 yeah I know you don’t strike with em.
Don’t know, we have a decent conversion rate with suicide style. Snapper still have that bony mouth that hooks just scrape along. I’ll give em a bit of a try
Well done Snapper Kings! Stonkers👍👍
Cheers Dom🦑🦑
Nice catch and release lads, wish we had those conditions here on the Goldie instead of the 2-3m swells, shitloads of rain and 30 knot winds🤷👍
Angling ethics 101 👏
Thanks to you we've released a couple of the big girls too, feels great.
We're still at odds about circle hooks hah. Personally I'm a fan of size 6/0 tho, tends to reduce deep hooking
Good work Trung, I use 7/0 now mostly mount hook ups
You must, must, must, tie a circle hook by bringing the line through the front of the eye and tying off on the shank. Check the net you will find it.
Awesome fish boys 😁
Cheers Lauchie
That’s when it all comes together.
I was watching that window for a few days
@@Saltfix I can see why you were watching it!! Looked magic out there mate. Nice to get top notch conditions every now and then and then quality fish on top! You beauty mate
@@Lachiewhit every now and then it all lines up👍
jizzen actually LOLed🙃
Snapper spoont
Yea the boys🤙🤙🤙💯🔥
Yeeew👍
Great session boys. Do you get notified if someone catches one of your tagged fish? Would be great to hear how far they have gone/grown.
Yes if someone recaptures and reports it I get the info on roughly where and how much it’s grown. I’ve had one recapture so far was in a similar area and grew a few cm in six months.
Hopefully this kind of data is helpful to fisheries in the future
Have to rig circles differently to big reds hold hook point towards you line through the eye and Snell hook will sit up this gives it the angle to hook up in corner of fishes mouth
Yep don’t usually use em.
I’ll make an effort to try with a modified set up
Not sure how you tie your circle hooks but I find that will get a better hook up using a Snell knot through the front of the hook first. A uni knot is 50/50 and can draw the hook from the mouth. Great fish.
That makes sense I was using a uni knot, I find the smash and grab approach of shallow water pinks just doesn’t give the circle hook time to do it’s job.
If fished on a bait runner or in free spool the fish wold have more time to swallow and the hook could work as it’s supposed to. For me , I like the big red pattern
@@Saltfix the winds of the Snell along the hook shank pull in inwards and downward.
@@snappyvalleyfishing I’m going to try circles on a baitrunner style of fishing to see how it goes
@@Saltfix I will be waiting. Lol.
Big pinkies, stellar conditions, not jealous at all. The stickbaits aren't meant for birds though 😉
Haha, I’ll catch on em eventually Sam
I'm just stoked that you are giving them a flick. Sinking the stickbait below the bait ball may have gotten one of those pinkies. I was fishing my 95mm stickbaits in 12m slowly and they got smashed by snapper. 😁
@@78samrobinson yes I did try sinking it and flicked around for a while, just boring to show on camera
hey you said they were too big. What do you mean by that?
The big ones don’t taste as good plus they are our breeding stock so we tend to put anything over 75cm back.
What hooks do you use mate love the content
At the moment I’m running black magic CPoint hooks but generally I run mustard big reds 7/0