set of gangs with a strip bait I have caught more of them at night time in which I then add a glow stick never eaten them but they are good bait for dhuies as they are very oily

This has caused more fights than a shelia, more bustups than the footy, and more bullshit than at a dairy farm

Every secound publication names them different and most people call them what there dear old dad called them.

We go on pike are less than say a foot long , lighter coloured and do smell a bit.

Snook on the other hand grow to 3 to 4 foot long , are darker and taste better than most give credit.

Theres some great snook trolling around the south west and perth, and we always targetted them over mixed sand and weed.Best depths for slow trolled lures around 2-3 knots was

3-5 metres.

Best lures at the time were nilsmaster invisibles around 100mm long in a darker colour.We caught them to around 3kg around carnac and in the sound

and were a welcome adition to our squid and hezzas.

They catch some monsters in south oz, where they are highly reguarded chewing wise.

We did try para vanes etc etc over the years but with so many good lures that go deep it wasnt worth it.

By not using lures  any bigger than 10cm or so the small trebles hook up better in those hard toothy gobs.

We used 2-4kg line but dont expect to many screaming runs as they give up quicker than a eastern states afl team in a final.

good luck. ( just looked at web , sa fisheries says grows to 1.5 metres and 6kg!! with a bag limit of 20 and a boat limit of 60!,, holy overload of snook fillets bat dude)

Bloody hell both the oldies would be rolling over in their graves with me calling them Pike, yeah Snook is what they used called them!!!!!

Cheers for the info quadfisher and also Nathan. I thought they were out on that patchy stuff. I also readed in a mag that they were good on the fang.

I really appreciate the sharing of knowledge again cheers.

 Went trolling up at Grey years ago and caught the about a metre long. Just used Mulies on a long leader. Tasted good cooked up whole in foil. Must do it again one day with the boys. And yeah it was only around 5m of water over the weedy ground.

 I caught one a while ago while inshore reef bashing for pinkies. Went around 1m long and after hearing reports of them being quality table fare, I necked it and put it in the ice slurry along with my pinkies. When I filleted it, I noticed it to be really oily with a strong smell. Cooked it up and after eating it, promised myself that I'd never take another one again. Just my opinion.

Yeah Ive caught some big ones over a metre in SA, usually trolling broken back style lures or as Quadfisher says Nilsie slow rolling Barra lures, usually over reef and weed beds. Ive never eaten one as the general story was they weren't good to eat, full of worms etc. But others would say they were ok if eaten fresh. We used to fish for them for fun although they didn't fight much for their size.

 caught them under the garden island bridge on squidjy flick baits in pacific pearl.

Very easy to catch, just about any surface lure will do the trick. Gang hooks with just about any bait will also do the trick. I have even caught them on herring straw.   I use them as tailor bait, the best tailor bait in the ocean even better than mulies. 

 Really good on the chew when smoked

 Recantly caught some nice Snook (short finned pike) down south on stickbaits. They smash the surface lures and sometimes missiled out of the water like a mack when trying to hit the lures. Have heard people troll deeper diving lures for them also though. Have never caught any metro before though but I'd be give the surface lures a go as they make for some visual excitement to make up for the rather poor fighting qualitys. 

Also the Snook (short finned pike) get bigger and taste great with a nice white flesh where as the Pike (long finned pike) don't grow so big and are much smellier and oily with a sort of grey flesh that makes a great bait.

 Seakem were u say u used to go trolling up at grey u mean grey the old crayfishermens squatter shacks yeh if so we go up there aswell there was one spot were we used to go around the reef areas amd used to see them schooling in the shallow clear water in about 3m of water used to use the halco laser prosbin 120 size  they prefered the mullet colour and another colour but forgot the name werent to interested in the red heads but definately caught more on the lures than a mulie on set of gangs unforunately cant fish there anymore as is sanctuary zone aswell as our snapper spot that was a km ofshore but lots pf s,all undersized so all went back but now no longer can fish for them there 

 Yeh we still got a shack there still now right on the beach right nextbto the boat ramp/ old weigh station for the cray boats back in the day. Family has now owned thevshack for close to 20 yrs now but me dads older brothers used to have one couple hundred meters away from the one were in now but got washed away in a storm 20 odd yrs ago but yeh road in was a bastard 45-60 mins wit a boat or trailer to do the 9 kms was a pain but def is a nice spot 

sorry to hi jack ur thread butters

thanks chris

Troll something like a Halco Laser pro around. Something about 80mm long. Snook will hit them

when i go herring  fishing with twisties -everytime i try a Vibe lure i get  snook

about 3 -5 cm size lures seems the trick

Troll some minnows from Eagle Bay to Rockys bloody shit loads there Ryan

Snook will take almost any lure, just need to get it down and just above the weed beds were they are lying in wait to ambush.  Get some big ones here in SA sometimes up to a metre or more and fat too.  If off a jetty will often pick them up on the egde of the light at night.  They do not freeze well but not too bad fresh (better fish in the sea though).  Smoke up pretty good though and not bad bait due to the oils.  Used to catch them on old nilsies and wonder wobblers or any metal lure.  Manns 5+ and 10+ also work but they are not that fussy.  Gouple of ganged hooks and a peice of rag or fish strip will work well.  Slower troll speeds work best