In estuaries, snapper are very similar to bream and often caught whilst fishing for bream.

The best offshore snapper fishing will usually be from a boat that is anchored around locations like reefs or gravel beds. Berley will bring the snapper close to the boat. With this kind of fishing it sometimes pays to have some baits right on the bottom and some "floating" baits - little or no sinker so the bait is drifting in the current. Snapper, especially big ones, will come up the berley trail and take the drifting baits quite regularly.

Big snapper can be very strong fighters so line in the eight to 15 kilo breaking strain is recommended.