queensland Gold Coast marlin hunt

[Yellow Peril]

we held our annual Brisbane Sportfishing Club Australia Day marlin trip on the 26th of January off the Gold Coast. Good conditions with very small swell and 12-15 knots of S-SE early which dropped back during the morning. There were 8 boats from the club with about 25 anglers onboard.

I headed North to Couran Cove initially to find heaps of birds working bait on the surface, but there were no fish to be found. Found some more good bait schools in about 30-37 m NE from the Seaway and saw the charter boat Reel Chase hooked up to a small marlin about 500 m away from me. Could not jig any bait off the schools.

Kept trolling and eventually found some bait which I could catch in 33 m SE of the Seaway. Put out some yakkas on the drift and saw a free jumping marlin which did not take our baits.

Came back in to the Seaway about 1.30 pm.

None of our club members caught any marlin. There was one wahoo about 10 kg and a cobia 6.6 kg caught. Fishing was very slow with even the game charter boats talking about how slow the fishing was on the radio.

\"That's fishing\"

Jeremy

www.brisbanesportfishingclub.com.au

[werewolf]

thanks for the report mate. Pitty nothing decent was caught, but such is fishing:)

[Angus]

As you quite rightly said Jeremy thats fishing!

Oh well im sure the blokes who caught the Cobia and Wahoo are telling the story differently

Angus

[James W]

a 10 kg wahoo...mmmmmm:) ...that would be nice for dinner:)

[Yellow Peril]

here is a photo of the wahoo. It was taken on board Kakele by Gary H. Photo by Rob A.

Jeremy [img size=341]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/wahoo.JPG

[Angus]

I have never eaten Wahoo.

Based on their appearance, do they taste much like Mackeral?

Angus

[James W]

wahoo are the best eating fish i have had...dolfin fish are way up there too...taste like mackeral?...nah i dont reckon..way better...but no other fish comes close to those two fish..wahoo and mahi mahi.....mmmmmm..salivating now,,,,thanx!

[Brian D]

When I caught my wahoo last year it went great on the BBQ fresh but I didn't like the frozen stuff. I'll dig up the photo. I haven't been out this year.