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Mr FeLiX

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Morning all,

I'm looking at getting stuck into some trevs on the new outfit but as far as locations go i'm a bit stuck. I know they travel around a fair bit and can turn up randomly in weird places, but can anyone throw me a bone on a 'decent location' to target small bigeye and GT trevally on light gear?

Also, i'm land based which won't help.

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I'm only using 6pnd braid and 8pnd leader by the way guys. Wanna give the t-curve and CI-4 a good run in. Will they take the more 'finesse' style stickbait surface lures or do they need the splash of a popper to get them going?

Thanks for the advice so far

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Hey mate, I've only had limited success but things to look for - natural bait in the area (matchthehatch), high current areaswih structure + eddies created in the form of bridges, jetties, pontoons etc .. I've caught them on both plastic + popper so just work the different parts of the water column would be your best bet. Wish I could help more but I would like more info myself so I'll wait for someone more knowledgeable to post :)

goodluck and let me know when you head down I might tag along if i'm free

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No dramas 51MPL, i'll give ya a bell when I head down. If ya know a decent piece of canal real estate to fish, i'll be in on it. PM me if you are thinkin of headin out. I don't know anywhere that can reliably be feached on foot within the canals, that's all, except for the mouth of the canals near Wellington point...I think. Work is screwing with my thinking organ...

Haven't had any luck there, except on hoards of what I think are juvenile cale cale trevally. The lures they eat are bigger than themselves

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Don't know if I can call my spots reliable, Ive been three times and 2/3 I've caught some trevs - nothing spesh between 30-40cm. Have some new ground I want to try so which days you free? I'm going to be working tommorow-Monday so we'll hav to work it out :)

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If your fishing stick baits just a medium burn with plenty of pulsing of the rod tip and no pausing.. Poppers are by far the more productive night surface lure though as the bloop seems to fire them up and give them a better idea of where it is. Needs to be relatively quick though and constant to hold their interest. I do most of my Trev fishing at night hence getting alot more Big Eyes. This is also due to the Big Eye population being far greater in the GC canals than the GT's. Big Eyes are a night Trevally and GT's are a dawn and dusk / daytime Trevally though and there are still plenty of GTs round.

All this is purely surface fishing for them.. Some of the better Trev spots I know are in deep eddies that cop a $hitload of current out in the middle of big main waterways. How they hold in there is anyones guess but dropping stickbait plastics down with plenty of action and quickly twitching them back will bring them unstuck. Trevs are mad lure feeders. One of the few fish I would say that are easier to get on a lure than bait.. Trevs and Flathead anyway.

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So, poppers might be the go? I've seen the R2S poppers several times, but never thought to give them a go. Might have to stock up next week and give em a burl on the T- Curve.

Do you think blades would be effective on the fish holding deep behind structure in the eddies? :blink:

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That's it mate, upto you I like how the feather sits when the lure is in the water. That's my fav colour too :)

thanks for the tips chris, so doesn't matter if the water is deep + fast flowing? I thought I couldn't target deeper water because they'd need to be in the top of the water column to see the poppers actions.. Opens up alot more areas for me to try when I get a chance

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Most trevally generally are labelled as a pelagic meaning they predominantly feed in the upper water column. So in other words it should not really matter how deep you are fishing with the popper as the trevally should be cruising in the top of the water column.

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Yep thats them dude... I leave the tail feathers on all my poppers. Anything with movement will get them when they're around. Haven't used blades for them myself yet so really cant comment. Trevally will be wherever bait is (like most fish) whether that be deep, top, middle. But like Keech said, most often you'll find them up high. You need to experiment though. I've fished an awesome Trev spot with a mate thats at least 4m deep. I was popping my a$$ off round the surface and after he had landed his third off the bottom on gulp 3 inch minnows I decided that you cant always tempt fish that are predominately surface feeders if the bait isnt up near the surface. They were there and actively feeding but hitting smaller herring down deep - thats why you need to be versatile with acouple of different tricks up your sleeve..

But yeah deep is A okay for surface even.. Most bridges which are a good spot to start looking are deep.

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