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Headed out the seaway with Lance and Brock on Wednesday it was a late birthday fish for Lance and we went to chase pelagics before the extreme weather we are seeing now the conditions were great with 5 to 10 knots of wind all morning. We found some livies and sat on a good looking spot with some activity on the sounder it took a while tomget some action but i was expecting more around the turn of the tide at 9am.

 

The 1st fish was a cobia on a livie he was only small in length but stocky and was boated after a short fight, we started to burley and that brought the mackerel in with the floating pilchards starting to get hit. 1st fish was a good school mackerel and it swum around a couple of other lines before we boated him finally, we kept up the burley and got plenty of hits losing about 5 mackerel but boating another school mackerel. 

 

Final fish boated was a good spottie mackerel before the fish went off the bite we also scored another anchor and rope we saw floating next to us while we were anchored that someone had lost to a break off. We headed home late morning to clean the gear and catch and got all done just before the rain started was a good trip to see if the pelagics are around before we plan a wavebreak island weekend.

 

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13 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Nice one Mark, good to see they are (or at least were ......) still around. Did someone say Wavebreak ........ :frantics:

Will have to wait for all the dirty fresh water to dissipate before the mackies will be back would love to go to wavebreak island next weekend if we get some good weather now

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Sadly the amount of dirty fresh water that will come down the coast will put an end to most of the pelagics for this season.

All of the fish like Marlin, Mackeral and Tuna ect will now push out wide and travel in the cleaner water until it clears up.

It should make for a cracking snapper season in the bay though with the tons of nutrients going out.

 

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2 hours ago, Luvit said:

That's all bad news to me. Including the snapper :lol:

It's not all bad news Wayne.

Get out wide and find that line where the dirty water meets the clean water and you can have some insane sessions on the fish as they will concentrate along there.

Some days you can catch a myriad of species feeding along the edges

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It really stands out in the picture how much shine the fish still have even many hours after capture and it all comes down to the salt water ice brine we put them in the esky. The fish were really firm to fillet as well as the brine got really cold with plenty of ice in the water this time, this kept them in perfect condition.

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15 hours ago, straddiebrad said:

yer was thinking of this weekend but might go  crabbin,if my boats back from the painters

 

The weather looks crap for offshore and the dirty fresh is still pushing out after thr floods off the goldie

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