Soft plastic fishing for snapper has been very popular for a while now. This style of snapper fishing is really effective and really exciting; particularly if you like to keep active whilst fishing.
There are a couple of tips that we could give that are a little lesser known strategies while fishing soft plastics for snapper. One is to use two outfits with light 7gram jig heads, casting them alternatively at 45° to the direction of the drift. Cast one and just as it comes close to the bottom, cast the other. This method employs a very slow sink rate and is very effective when the fish are slow.
Another unusual alternative is to replace the soft plastic with a squid or baby octopus tentacle. A length of degradable garden twine is useful to secure the tentacle to the jig head and will rot away when it comes free. Snapper love squid tentacles and when one is worked through the water column with all the movement of a plastic lure, they can go mental over them. The advantage being that fish that eat a tentacle and escape are not left with soft plastic material in their gut and it's a cheaper option.