Yeah I've been thinking exactly the same thing, Joel. You could follow the exact same principles, only with filthy, stinking bait! I wish I'd known about this type of fishing when I was still a baito. Sight fishing is a very different type of excitement to watching a rod-tip go tap-tap-tap and then that beautiful drawing of line as the fish moves off. Both great ways to fish, but I'm loving the sight fishing at the moment.

In fact, I think Craig got into this type of fishing because an old geezer told him about noodling up big snapper with kinas, then get them on a handline!

Another very interesting and useful point that Craig/et.al have raised here is that kings behave very differently when they know you're there. Perhaps this is one of the reasons behind those infuriating kings that come in and just stooge around ignoring everything? Maybe a stealth approach would bring in more bites?

As always some great info on stalking fish and snapper habits here that I reckon is applicable accross the landbased board, always thinking you SWFers!

A couple of camo options:

So long as the clothing isn't bright and totally outlandish and is fairly neutral then it should be OK.  Main thing is to hide any movement at all, e.g. if in the snappers sight then don't wave arms saying "look at that!" etc and instead of moving sideways - slowly move directly backwards (so the "rock" seems to shrink in size & doesn't register as movement).

Of course if you turn up in pink tights then all bets are off and I doubt it will only be the snapper taking off into the distance.