queensland Noosa tuna fire up

[Carter]

The beauty about working for yourself is that on days like today when I was working away peering out at the glassed out ocean I thought I’m going home and going fishing. I knew that tomorrow as a result would be crazy busy but sometimes you just have to follow you instincts. At 1pm I was launching at the boat ramp and at 4 pm I was back. The 3 hours in between was absolute mayhem.

My plan was to hit the outter bay to troll for Spaniards however once I neared the Jew shoal I noticed a few birds working in the distance and went in chase. The further north I ventured the thicker the bird flocks became and after 15 mins or so I had my first shot at a feeding school of tuna. I was casting plastics with the Favourite and 5000 Salina reel and once I hit the target all I had to do was twitch the rod tip and wait for the line to start peeling off a rate of knots. The fight was short but brutal with 20lb main line and a small yellow fin was boated. Hell yeah sashimi for the misses on Valentines day, I’m going to get some loving.

On the second shot another similar sized yellow fin was boated also with a small twitch in amongst the melee. As the afternoon progressed the feeding frenzies became more furious and intense. After boating 4 yellow fins and pulling the hooks on a few I moved to another school in the distance and on the second cast a respectable mack tuna was landed. Vermin!

There were bust ups starting all around me so I started to really pick my schools, it is an awesome feeling when you actually get to pick your targets. I found some slightly larger fish and within a few casts I had 2 stripped tuna landed and released.

These fish fought really well and were very thick in girth. The average size would have only been a few kilos but what they lacked in size was made up for in numbers. I followed the bigger mosh pits toward Sunshine reef and found another patch of yellow fin. Here I had another 2 yellow fin boated before I clumsily broke my rod through absolute stupidity.

The only other rods I had were 2 trolling rigs set up with 50lb and I wasn't going to start throwing that gear around. It was 3:45 so I made the call to head back.

[Angus]

Love it.

Those stripies are a nice looking fish.

Do they eat more like a bonito or a tranitional (yf, lt) tuna?

Angus

[sehrguht]

Nice one Carter i can never resist sight casting either!

Red meat not too far from longtail but properly bled i find the stripies pretty good. They are skipjack tuna which is what most tinned tuna is.

Stupid weather its been 3 weeks since i last fished

[Manni79]

Nice one Carter, who can resist chasing those speedsters

[Do$tylz]

mate - awesome day. Go to work, tell work to go jump for the day because the weather is good, have the water all to yourself sight casting at tuna, get laid for sashimi

Too bad about the broken rod man. Hopefully those pr*cks are nordic help sort you out

[Carter]

Ha ha, it wasn't any fault of the rod trust me, you would have heard about it if it was. I could do with a new top half though as the 7'3 is now a 6'6.

[sunnydays]

Looks like a great session Greg. You didn't take your fly rod?

[Carter]

No Justin, and trust me I was regretting it whilst out there. Would have been easy pickings, at one stage my boat was surrounded by white water

[grantbudd74]

lets hope we get more days like that! I couldnt go but was looking at the bar and really annoyed as I knew it was going to be a great day!Great pics and heres to the rain stopping so I can go throw a few poppers in a few hours!