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[awesum]

Anyone here caught a red snapper on a fly? Chumming them up and throwing a Clouser Minnow to them is getting popular with some folks.

I have a vintage Penn International 8 wt. on an Orvis rod and was thinking about stowing it on my next trip.

As for a leader I just thought i'd tie a 4' butt section of 40#, then 3' of 30# and top that off with a 2' section of 20#.

I'm pretty sure a snap over 6 - 7 pounds would beat me up but it would be fun.

[bulldog1935]

yes, caught suspended snapper at a rig out of Port O'Conner on a guide cutty, opening day, with 2 other friends.
Was fishing a 10-wt with a TS-450 sinking line, and counted down 15-20 seconds before beginning retrieve.
We were bait fishing, eventually fished through our bait, and I got on the bow to try the fly rod - a couple of fly rod snappers and many blues.
The fly was a 2/0 blue hi-tie

It was basically slow-pitch jigging with a fast sinking line.
This wasn't the fly rod snapper, but the trip fish - it was caught on cut bluefish that I, in turn, caught on the fly rod.
He's the deck hand.


You could throw a Teeny TS-350 on your 8-wt.
T-series lines are spliced shooting heads, and with a little practice, easy to shoot out to 100'.
One day in the surf and w/ basket, I was consistently shooting my TS-250 to 140' including 10 yards of backing.

For leaders, I was using a 2-1/2 - 3' 30-lb butt with Allbright knot to equal-length 12-lb braided wire and crimp sleeve on the fly.
If you've never tried titanium wire, it's killer - easy to knot, and stretches before it breaks.
Have also caught kings and smacks bobbing off the SP jatties on the TS-250 with the same leaders.
No photo of the kings (was too tired to lift the camera), but here's me and a fly rod smack.

[awesum]

Nice going! I bet that was a blast

[bulldog1935]

as good as fly fishing gets, bro

[awesum]

Check this video out ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfP3fXwjCzA

[bulldog1935]

keep in mind with the TS-350, you can throw weightless flies and fish them any depth, shoot them consistently to 100', and count down to fish them 30' down (and still cast to pelagics and flotsam with the same tackle).
Heavily weighted flies on floating line and long leader is one of those obstinate things. The weight of the fly on the long leader hinges when you try to cast, the fat floating line has air resistance and nebulous feel through the rod.
The only place I fish floating lines are less than knee-deep in the salt, or coldwater trout fishing. The rest of the time I'm fishing a sinking line, and usually a T-series sinker.

[awesum]

Good stuff. With only an 8 wt I usually don't throw to anything but Smacks and chicken dolphin. I have a fair assortment of flies I think will work for snaps but plan to cruise by Roy's today or tomorrow.

[bulldog1935]

btw, Teeny lines come with a casting video to teach you now to shoot these lines to distance.
Rigging them for the salt, I attach leader butt with a needle-nail knot, but a good double nail knot also works well (T-200 temporarily on a freshwater reel)

In freshwater, I can Zap-splice them, and they glide over rocks for bottom-bouncing (T-130).
but you can't make this joint for saltwater, because the drying salt crust breaks the glue bond

[DawnPatrolVeteran]

There's a great fly fishing show on Amazon Prime that shows them fly fishing for Red Snapper I believe it was in Florida.

Its just jigging basically and it looks very enjoyable.
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[AZ_squid]

Man a king on the fly would be awesome! I've been trying for a while but haven't been able to hook one off the jetty. My 16' skiff offshore is never gonna happen, haha.
Thanks for the snapper setup lesson!
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