How do you hook a snapper

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Depends if it's live or dead. If live through the nostrils is good. If you do not have an air pump do not try to keep them in water. They will die with tier mouths open gasping for oxygen. This will cause the bait to spin in circles. Undesirable.... What il do is take the snapper and throw him in to my bucket with no water decently hard. This will stun the fish and they die with the mouths closed. Hook the dead snapper the same way you would use a killie. Start under the lips and go through the top of the head hooking his mouth closed.