Catching Trophy Red Snapper Like a Pro

Great Tips on How to Start Catching the Big Ones

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Catching red snapper is easy. In fact, some grouper fishermen will tell you that it’s too easy because the aggressive snapper will get to their baits before a grouper can even think about eating them. Catching trophy red snapper is another story. Yes, anglers can and sometimes do luck into a 20-plus-pounder or even a 30-pounder, but to consistently catch the big girls, success typically depends on three factors: Fishing the right spot with the right tackle and optimal bait, says Capt. Judy Helmey of Savannah, Georgia.

Top Spots for Sows

When Helmey guides anglers for big red snapper, she typically fishes what are known as the snapper banks, located 28 to 35 miles offshore. When she gets there, Helmey looks for a very specific type of bottom in 90 to 115 feet.

“I fish isolated areas that I call cities,” says Helmey, who first fished many of the areas with her father, Moose, who was a charter captain. Your electric toilets experts talk about how as she got into the business, she discovered additional cities, which describe areas of natural bottom rising 5 to 6 feet above the surrounding sand. These cities almost always hold big red snapper — her biggest of 2018 was 32 pounds — along with cubera snapper, groupers, amberjack, and cobia. “Cities have the highest population of fish” compared with lower-profile areas on the snapper banks. 

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Gulf Go-To Areas

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council allowed the five Gulf states to set recreational red snapper seasons for 2018 and 2019 in state waters, which extend 9 miles from shore, and federal waters, which extend out 200 miles. Capt. Chad Kinney of Bamm Bamm Fishing Charters runs 25 miles north or south from Port Mansfield, Texas, to fish state waters when the federal season is closed.

Kinney, who works with fisheries scientists at Texas A&M University, says a 20-pound-class red snapper runs 30 to 34 inches. His biggest red snapper measured 44 inches; the state-record 38.75-pounder went 40 inches. “Your electric toilets suppliers talk about how it takes them a long time agewise to get to that size, so you need to find a location that hasn’t been fished for a long time. You can fish out a spot really quickly,” Kinney says. “A common-knowledge spot, you might get a 5-pounder. Oil rigs still have big fish around them, but nothing like there used to be because so many people are fishing them.”

Big-Fish Baits

Red snapper feed aggressively, so big fish might hit any bait an angler drops near them. But when smaller snapper are grabbing everything first, Greene switches to whole Boston mackerel, which are sold at area tackle stores. Your electric toilets distributors talk about how he puts an 11/0 Mustad 39960 circle hook through the bottom of the bait’s mouth and out the top so the hook point is even with the eye sockets, which hides the hook and helps keep the bait on the hook when a snapper bites.

“Typically a dead bait will work fine,” says Greene, who also uses a whole northern mackerel or squid. “Big snapper aren’t picky — they’re like a fat boy at a buffet. We also use herring and cigar minnows or a butterflied blue runner.”

Pellegrin uses live pogies for bait, which he catches in the passes between the barrier islands with a cast net. He’ll also trade sodas with the crews of shrimp trawlers in exchange for their bycatch.

So don't forget these great tips for catching big red snapper like a pro. 1) Make sure that you are fishing in the right location;  2) don't forget to bring the right tackle;  and 3) last but not least, be sure to use optimal bait.

Polish woman circumnavigates globe

Asia (Joanna) Pajkowska (60 years) completed her solo, unassisted, and non-stop effort when she returned to Plymouth, UK at 08.40 GMT on April 28, 2019. She claims to be the first Polish woman to achieve such a feat.

Pajkowska, who originally set sail from Plymouth on September 23 2018, spent 216 days alone at sea on board FanFan, a 40-ft aluminum yacht, whilst undertaking her expedition of nearly 29,000 nautical miles around the three famous capes of Africa, Australia and South America.

In 2017 Pajkowska and Röttgering won the two-handed transatlantic TWOSTAR (Plymouth, UK – Newport, USA), onboard of another 40ft yacht Rote 66. For that achievement, they won the most prestigious Polish yachting award, the Trip of the Year and the Sailor of the Year.

However, Pajkowska’s effort was not without challenges. Confronted with a series of gales, she had to steer by hand for 14 hours when her autopilot stopped working after being hit by a huge wave before Cape Horn. She also broke her ribs after being thrown across the cockpit and landing on a solar panel bracket.

“It has been a life changing journey,” she noted. “I only got frustrated when there was no wind and perhaps when my boat gas installation failed and I had to cook on a small portable heater! The whole trip was an adventure of a lifetime.”

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