sammydubs

I've never targeted snook, but the above has a lot of advice, so may give them a go this year.
 
Good luck Sammy and let us how you go.

Haven't fished for them since 7 years ago,if i recall 3/0 circle hook.(could be wrong?)
Bait was suspended about 60-70cm,but i will stress a small light pencil float just enough to float as snook are finicky and any resistance they'll drop the bait.All caught on those calm smooth seas evenings

Hi bud. Snook can't resist a slowly retrieved unweighted blue bait or frogmouth pilchard. Fish with a fluorocarbon leader around 20lb. Thin but thick enough to cop a few nicks from the fish etc. Can also fish them under a small float too like previously mentioned. Small fish strips present well under a float too.
Lures work well too like plastics or hard bodies,metals.
Something to think about also is if u are fishing light u may need a decent crab net handy to use to land the fish. Seems over kill to some but school mulloway and rat kings take these baits also and have seen too many good fish lost to unprepared anglers. Just a little tip. Good luck. Cheers.

I'm showing my age here.I used to go to the fish markets and buy gar fish fillets for around $1.50 a kilo and turn them into an esky full of snook. I would use 3 1/0s ganged on 20lb line with no weight.With the wind to your back cast as far past the light as possible (at night) and a very slow retrieve pausing to let it sink.This method worked well on the old Rapid bay jetty, Wallaroo and Port Vic.Good luck

I generally use soft plastics between 2.5 and 4 inches off the planks. Jig head between 1/12 and 1/6 of an ounce.
 
Favourites include Flick baits,Money minnows, Z-man grubz and streakz

Never tried fishing bait for them, but have caught my share metro and at Moonta fishing 3" blue or white flick baits on a 1/8 jig head.
 
Still find them a super frustrating fish to target, and as mentioned, fish 10-20lb leader and rod way enough backbone to lift them onto the jetty

I'd be getting your tommy and gar gear ready, especially burley, and fish for snook incidentally. When tommies and gar are around I find often that the snook often hang around further out. Can usually snag one or two on soft plastics

Bream gear, 20lb to 30lb leader, 2 inch to 3 inch soft plastic or whitebait, bluebait or froggie on 3 x 1/0 hooks cast and slowly retrieved on the edge of the lights at night time.

Under the jetty light, unweighted half garfish or pilchard and you will have a ball. Any clear surface lures such as the bassday sugapen will also work if the snook are I'm the mood which they often are. Using heavier gear when chucking $20 lures near planks. Sometimes a crab net will come in handy if you hook some of the larger models.
 
I don't bother trying to catch them during the day.

I've had a fair bit of luck off the Moonta Jetty at night before on the snook using white flickbaits on a decent sized jighead cant remember what weight i use, but a quick jerky retrieve, like working a squid jag but slightly quicker is the go. Hope this helped!

For the local guys,this spot works well

Not the location you are after but my best success has been shore jigging for them while wading off Marino rocks.
 
Caught a lot on slim metal jigs such as leadfish and also silver halco twisters.
 
Definitely a viable target wading if you can cover rocky and weedy ground.
 
Had some nice follows and sightings wading on the northern flats out over the deeper weedbeds but not in the channels.

Always watch others catching them as snook will accumulate in a certain area,so once you know where they are then you can have a crack at them.
We would target then at night with a small chunk of bait exposed hook under a light pencil float
 
I should add that it was at a darker part of the jetty with a weedy bottom,they didn't seem to get caught anywhere else on that jetty