Snapper Blues for Fluke

[stevelikes2fish]

Snappers, dead or alive, are the ticket when they are in season. Fluke can't resist them. Also, when the spots come in, usually in the surf, fluke candy. Don't be afraid to fish them whole, bigger the better!

[MoparCharlie]

Sabiki rig tipped with cut spearing works every time....

Cut a few spearing up and chum the water....

An aerator is a MUST to keep them alive....

I like to use them on the first drop of the morning and at slack tide....

[Dawgs]

When you say butterflied.....how exactly do you mean?

[Honger]

cut it 4-way deboned and head on

[Gerry Zagorski]

I watched Steve aka ALS Mako butterfly one up on the RFA trip.

If you are familiar with filleting a fish it's very much like that, but you leave the fillets on each side of the snapper...

You need a very sharp fillet knife. Make a cut right above the tail where the meat starts and run your knife up the bones of the fish and stop just before the gills. Turn the fish on the other side and do the same...

Send a hook through the nose and your done... Those 2 attached fillets flutter real nice in the water giving some life to the dead snapper.

I've seen the same done with whole mackerel and bluefish for shark baits...

Learning something new all the time thanks to the people on this site.

[No Fluke]

Is it me, or are the snappers not falling for the Kastmaster as in the past? They must be getting smarter.

In the past, they'd bite as soon as you reeled in by Atlantic Highlands. My last time out, it took me a half an hour to snag just 4.

[dfish28]

Originally Posted by No Fluke

Is it me, or are the snappers not falling for the Kastmaster as in the past? They must be getting smarter.

In the past, they'd bite as soon as you reeled in by Atlantic Highlands. My last time out, it took me a half an hour to snag just 4.

I feel ya: I think it's just the size of them still, been having better luck with the smallest sabiki I can find: the # 8... And small cast master as weight of not too much current, if more I go to a really small diamond jig- like a 003 or 005 - been spotty at best lately though like the see what's going on and stay away, really wish I could find the small boxes of chum like they sell down south like Florida packed in what I call sandworm boxes to keep them around- mesh bag and drop it down... ^^^ Insert light bulb...