Marlin in the Bay!!!!!!!!!!

[JackBarrett13]

Yesterday i just got back from moreton for a week and fished 24/7.

but on the second last night we tryed fishing off the tangalooma jetty. after the dolphin feeding we floated a whole pike on gang hooks for about 1 hour.

my cousin hooked a mackeral and his line was screaming then my mate grabbed my rod to reel it in and then we saw a black marlin do 3 jumps and snapped us off.

And also my mate caught 2 marlin in the bay last week just trolling lures.

good luck

[Taz]

i been there for the past week as well. Fished the wrecks each morning. Didnt fish the jetty cause of the rules they list.

Ended up with a few squire, bonito, gt and a kingfish. A yo zuri 3d popper done the damamge. Got the kingy on 8 lb. Lost a bigger one from thumbing the spool as there was no way i was going to stop it

All from the beach on the turn of tide.

[noname]

JackBarrett13 wrote:

Yesterday i just got back from moreton for a week and fished 24/7.

but on the second last night we tryed fishing off the tangalooma jetty. after the dolphin feeding we floated a whole pike on gang hooks for about 1 hour.

my cousin hooked a mackeral and his line was screaming then my mate grabbed my rod to reel it in and then we saw a black marlin do 3 jumps and snapped us off.

And also my mate caught 2 marlin in the bay last week just trolling lures.

good luck

you sure they were marlin. .

[maxi]

worlds biggest garfish

[MichaelJ]

could of been the dolphins weve hooked 1 there in the past lol

[tingler]

nothin like a bit of flipper on the barbie :pinch:

[Jords]

i read in a magazine about 6 or 7 months ago about sight casting chunks of bait to juvenile marlin in the bay

ill see if i can dig it up

[billythakid]

heard a few stories of them inside mortern last week

/>http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?t=142643

maybe its a goer :fishing:

[MichaelJ]

threadybuster wrote:

MichaelJ wrote:

could of been the dolphins weve hooked 1 there in the past lol

do they go hard lol?

nah i skull draged it in on the bream gear

tasted good;)

[waldo]

I had a mate fishing the back of Green Island (Moreton Bay) for squire and he had his line take off at warp speed. Apparently a juvey marlin had pounced one of the baits and proceeded to get airborn a few times before busting him up.

No pics but he seemed pretty genuine when he was telling me and he's not the type to lie.

Ive seen a lot of things in the MB that aren't supposed to be there in my time on the water, so you never know, especially around the top end.

[Jordan]

Rob and troy got two a k offshore two weeks ago... 1 k isnt far for a fish like that to travel inshore. seems possible to me

[planetfonz]

It was common knowledge in hervey bay at certain times of the year for juvenile marlin to be caught in waters who's depth was under 10m right down the inside of fraser island to moon point.. wouldn't surprise me at all if moreton was the same

[jeff f]

planetfonz wrote:

It was common knowledge in hervey bay at certain times of the year for juvenile marlin to be caught in waters who's depth was under 10m right down the inside of the island to moon point.. wouldn't surprise me at all if moreton was the same

my thoughts exactly fonz i,ve caught heaps of the little fellahs around roonies pt and off wathumba in hervy bay. why mot moreton

[MichaelJ]

the blacks wouldnt be hangin around the bay with the water being how dirty it is also with the amount of bait outside

[mrsjimmybob]

I know a decent marlin was caught in the bay back in the late sixties...just rang my grandma to confirm...she'll try and dig out some old black & white pics of my grandad....it made the newspapers at the time....