When out on Sunday, I pulled up to a guy on a boat at same distance as me (2 km). He was just leaving and had his 7 snaps. I’d been fishing about 200m away from him and only caught a kahawai. He said he was using berley (I wasn’t). Do you guys use berley from your kayaks? Is this how you manage to catch snapper and I don’t ... remember, I’m really very new to this
I’m currently using an assortment of softbaits ... the usual nuclear chicken, etc plus many other colours and sizes (caught the kahawai on dark green). I also use squid on a ball sinker with hook on trace below that.
Remarkably, I caught the king fish on a bare hook with 4 ball sinkers above it. I had only added this a metre above my softbait to get it down to the bottom in reasonable current (bit similar to how a trout fisherman ties a dry fly to his line and then a dropper from that to a nymph).