queensland Bay Action

[francomas777]

Wednesday 5th May 2010

Left pinkenba boat ramp at 4am heading to some spots around Moreton as it was such a good day today, hoping to get some nice reefies on plastics and maybe a have abit of fun if the tuna were around.

Setups i brought with me was: Steez 2508 spooled with varivas 20lb sea bass pe onto a 8-16lb Loomis Mossyback. Zillion HLC with 30lb Sunline Super PE onto a Loomis Heavy Baitcast. Ran 30lb Leader on the Steez and 40lb on the Zillion

Head straight to the wrecks and sounded out some good structure around 2km out from the wrecks.

No reefies apart from a couple dickehead fish and some small snapper.

After a while of trying with the plastics we started to see some tuna bust around us on the surface. These are some of the specimans caught

After some fun we decided to head home.

On the way home i spotted some birds and some big splashes so i was straight over there and to my suprise there were around 10 bull sharks 8ft and bigger smashing bait on top of the water. As i moved closer i realised there were some big tuna and spanish mackeral all underneath them.

First cast hooked up straight away and got bitten through in a matter of seconds.

Michael casted his lure and he was spooled within 10 seconds.

Next cast bitten through again.

Next cast bitten through again. (we had no wire)

Finally i hooked this guy on my Zillion nearly had me spooled but did the chase and 30 mins later this big boy came up.. Guessing the fish was around 20kg.

Hope you like the pics.

All fish were caught on Raider Slugs between the 20 and 40 size.

[big al]

that last one is a ripper

[Eug]

nice one! the bay looks great!

[dassa]

nice day on the water boys and how much fun are they to catch what do you think bit you of sharks or the spanards and what size is you boat

[francomas777]

cheers guys was an awsome session and great day in all

[francomas777]

dassa wrote:

nice day on the water boys and how much fun are they to catch what do you think bit you of sharks or the spanards and what size is you boat

yer mate so much fun to catch. definatly was the spaniards cutting us off we could pretty much see them take our lures and do the runner on us.

should have thrown a big popper if i had my GT setup and tried for one of those big bullys

[Do$tylz]

WOW... that longy is frikkin sweet as. How much line did you have on that Zillion??

[Funfisher]

Bloody EPIC tuna franco that is one to remember and on bc gear!! and i spot a jade python in the mix of tackles their lol slant bridge looks better though :laugh:

[francomas777]

Do$tylz wrote:

WOW... that longy is frikkin sweet as. How much line did you have on that Zillion??

not much at all probably bout 120m im guessing it pretty much spooled me then i pinned it towards him recovered a fair bit of line and was back into him. one of the best fights ive had in a while

[Zim man]

nuff respect mate :cheer:

[Schmuck]

Wicked bay tuna! :ohmy:

[woody1]

That is a killer session mate!!! good on you. Nice to see some big tuna around

[chris_stewart14]

Well done man! That last one is a beast! He'd have bin a bastard to pull outta his broadsided circles. Tuna for dinner for the rest of the year?

[francomas777]

chris_stewart14 wrote:

Well done man! That last one is a beast! He'd have bin a bastard to pull outta his broadsided circles. Tuna for dinner for the rest of the year?

cheers, haha yer had to pretty much thumb him when he was closer to the boat just to get him up to the surface

[mick fillet]

nice one fellas.thats a good northern bluefin franco.few diferant species of tuna caught.You should have put the skip jack tuna on a few hooks and trolled him out the back. :laugh: well done on getting amongst the action.

mick

[Leighton]

nice work

When the LT's start circling drive forward away from them, brings them to the surface in no time at all without fear of pulling hooks

[Ashhley]

awesome stuff

[zan0_15]

i have dreams about fishing the bay..........and none are as good as that! well done boys

[yoyo]

that last one is frikkin awesome. i hate you guys... ;-) hahhaa...

what a great sesh...

[nadders]

What can i say franco, cracking fish! well done mate must have been a rush

[daveylad]

Thats it you blokes WHATS YOUR PRiCE? as deckies for the classic

Davey

[Angus]

Well done Franco.

Thanks for the text. Made me feel great while I was at work

Angus

[Old Scaley]

It might be great fishing, but the weather looks like cr*p! Jealousy is a curse :dry:

[webbfunk]

Awesome fish!

The water looks nice and calm in the background. Sounds like a brilliant day out.

[kreel]

Some great fish there Franco, I see your problem though - if you put the rods in your hands rather than your teeth...

[sweresy]

looks like 'one of those days'..... brilliant seeing nature doing what it does best ie. the bullies/tuna feeding frenzy

[Scope]

Tremendous looking fish there mate. Looks like an awesome day on the bay..

[kmcrosby78]

Awesome tuna there Franco - congrats. Out of curiousity, are the tuna around the bay in reasonable numbers all year round or are there recognised 'seasons'? I've just got a 14ft tinny so plan to fish alot more near the mouth and the bay (when conditions allow) and have done most of my fishing near Mackay, so trying to adjust to the different seasons.

[elops]

Very nice Longtail Franco, would certainly have given you a workout on the baitcaster outfit.

[the1fuzz]

Good report fella's.

[dog pound]

Awesome fish guys ,think im a bit jealous i cant sneak a midweek fish and get fish and great condions ,good photos. Bring on the sashimi .....

[wesfish]

unreal barrel you got there franco :woohoo: nice fat tuna

[francomas777]

kmcrosby78 wrote:

Awesome tuna there Franco - congrats. Out of curiousity, are the tuna around the bay in reasonable numbers all year round or are there recognised 'seasons'? I've just got a 14ft tinny so plan to fish alot more near the mouth and the bay (when conditions allow) and have done most of my fishing near Mackay, so trying to adjust to the different seasons.

not too sure mate ive seen them all year round but when i come to think about it they seem to come on abit thicker when it is cooling down after a summer.

14ft tinny is all you need

cheers

[daveylad]

Franco what was the reel that you used I see the Zillion, the spinning reel

Dave

[Death Ray]

I don't understand the need for the rod in the mouth stuff???

Good fish also.

[Angus]

Death Ray wrote:

I don't understand the need for the rod in the mouth stuff???

Good fish also.

Very common tactic to show off the gear used.

When using really nice gear like this bith in quality and gauge vs the fish its good to know whats being used! For example that Tuna on the BC combo is sweeeeeeeeet.

Angus

[snapsnap]

hey frac, what size is your tinny? must have been perfect conditions.

[francomas777]

snapsnap wrote:

hey frac, what size is your tinny? must have been perfect conditions.

yer great day i have a 4.2 tinny with a 40hp cheers :cheer:

[Death Ray]

Angus wrote:

Death Ray wrote:

I don't understand the need for the rod in the mouth stuff???

Good fish also.

Very common tactic to show off the gear used.

When using really nice gear like this bith in quality and gauge vs the fish its good to know whats being used! For example that Tuna on the BC combo is sweeeeeeeeet.

Angus

Thanks, so it's really just showing off toys of the day then. That's Ok, if that's what your in to I suppose. Fishing for me is about more than that.

Still good fish also.

[jeff f]

the blue on bc gear is up there

respect