b"Tom with a nice pannie speared Feature that was resting in a gutter.PRIME SPOTS and cranny.This must be doneand sneak your way along quietly The first and most obvious part of asilently, calmly and without erraticusing the gutter and seaweed as snapper snoop is finding the target.movements so being comfortablecover, become one with the reef.As we now know snapper dontunder water is super important, just hang out anywhere. Areas withany unnatural movement willGEARgood current, plenty of cover andspook all snapper in the vicinity. When snapper snooping what deepwater nearby are ideal snapperWhen snooping we need to staygear you use becomes a lot more haunts. Flat sandy bays are nocalm and on the bottom for asimportant. Camouflage helps to good for snapper snooping as therelong as possible. But as mentionedbreak up your outline so that if a fish is little cover, a snapper will seeabove not all spots are suitabledoes see you whilst edging towards you from miles away and be gonefor snooping, and large swells willthem, they may be confused just before you can get anywhere nearmake your slow calm movementslong enough to pull off a shot. Simple it for a shot. Very deep drop offsparticularly challenging so its bestblack, brown, green, and red all make arent ideal for snapper snoopingto avoid those rough exposedfor great camo. As for the pattern?either because there is no coverlocations. Instead look for calmWell, thats up to your choice of suit.until you get to the bottom andsheltered bays with good boulderMost seasoned snapper spearos by then you would have notifiedcountry and rocky reefs. Big blocks,also use a reel, just like you would every fish in the area that you wereboulders and sticky-out bits of reefuse on a fishing rod, it is a great tool there. A deep drop to get to theare ideal for snooping in, you canto use alongside your float line. A bottom is also not ideal as the keysneak along them and over themfloat line, although important for to snapper snooping is spending asfor many metres without fish seeingsafety by marking your spot and much time on the bottom as youyou. Its important to treat everyalerting boaties that you are in the can, and a deep dive may mean yourock and drop off as if there was awater, can cause problems when have a very limited bottom time. fish on the other side of it, dont getsnooping. There's nothing worse On the topic of bottom time,complacent because if you get intothan creeping along extending to a good breath hold is essentiala good habit of sneaking over everytake a shot only to find your float for successful snapper snooping.piece of promising terrain it wont beline wrapped around a rock. For this You need to be able to dive downlong before you get on to snapper.reason, many spearos unclip their and become one with the reef,Gutters leading off into the deepfloat or float boat from their gun and drifting in and out of gutters, overare also great places to snoop, againleave it anchored a short distance boulders peering in every nookyou want to get as low as possibleaway from where they plan to snoop.30FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE"