What you'll catch
Golden snapper
From 13 segments across the archive.
What you'll catch
From 13 segments across the archive.
Fingermark — structure fish worth targeting. Every quote below is from a real segment — follow it through for the audio and the full transcript.
We got lots of golden snapper. We got lots of finger mark, I should say, not golden so much.
Fishing on Arvos — 8 July 2026 Fishing on Arvos
Mangrove jack, golden snapper, stripes. So we assume that they need brackish water at least to spawn? When I look at them, they look like a mangrove jack, like Arnold Schwarzenegger version of a mango jack.
Guys in the Gulf — Ep 046 Guys in the Gulf
Well what's number 3 then? Well, for me, up here would be golden snapper, because I enjoy catching them.
Fishing on Arvos — 18 February 2026 Fishing on Arvos
I, you're allowed to bring 4th or have 4 fish or 5 barra in your um, possession and uh, 3 golden snapper each.
Bag a Barra — 12 December 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
So, yeah, it bodes well for, you know, the next few trips that are coming up, and of course, we all know that the Golden Snapper and Dewey's coming closer at this time of year making them a bit easier to catch, and of course, it's, I don't think there's ever been a bad golden snapper served up on a plate, mate.
Bag a Barra — 26 September 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
So, it's actually wheelchair access, and you can go right out onto the end of the rock wall, uh, and fish, fish off there, and I mean, there's plenty of barramundi that get caught there, golden snapper, Jew fish, threadfin, all the fish that we fish for, from a boat.
Bag a Barra — 5 September 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
And I, and I do know, like I said, the other day that, um, the reefishing is going really well, which it usually does at this time of year too, that, those golden snapper and dewies that everyone loves to catch and eat, um, they come in a bit closer and, and it gets easier too, for sure.
Bag a Barra — 14 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
I was in the boat shop getting some stuff, um, that the Golden Snapper and the Jewies are running pretty hot at the moment too.
Bag a Barra — 17 January 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Kissing cousins of the mangrove Jack, finger mark, or golden snapper, are great fish, and they grow a lot bigger than this.
Darwin's best kept fishing secrets Starlo Gets Reel
It's also the time of year when Golden Snapper come back in a bit closer to do their spawning activity.
Bag a Barra — 16 December 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
Golden Snapper and Barramundi, mug crabs, and we do have a seafood night one night too, where the boys bring some oysters and prawns on as well.
Bag a Barra — 5 August 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
But we've been doing the sort of light tackle extra fishing and the Trevalli and Queenfish and some really good golden snapper, biding there, and in the golden Trevalli, which we spoke about last week as well as the um, the barrow that, you know, we're trying to catch and um, and get that tagged fish.
Bag a Barra — 10 December 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio
We probably do less of that and and do, and focus more on the, the fish that, that increasing water temperature um stirs up, which is the barra, the Deweys um will come back in closer to shore to start to spawn and so do the golden snapper.
Bag a Barra — 10 September 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio