queensland Bay Longtail Tooona Time !

[Allnighter]

Well, the stars aligned this morning for myself and my two sons, we all had time off work this morning and headed out for a quick fish from the Port of Brissy in search of any pelagics.

Bashed the beacons for awhile with no schoolies, so headed to an old mark where we have had success before in the middle of nowhere and was pleased to see on the sounder some massive bait balls

Wasnt too long and off goes the Shimano baitrunner ! 

Nearly half an hour later and finally boated a nice Longtail Tuna which went just over a metre ......

Tried to swim it alongside boat for awhile for a graceful release but it was pretty gassed and ended up in the esky for dinnies.... (Lots of dinners i think)

Happy with that , so decided to make it a short session and back at the ramp by midday leaving behind a gloriously flat bay ! 

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi Allnighter

That is a great longy there, good job on it. I could only dream of catching something that big for now, haha. Shame it didn't swim off but at least it will make a few good dinners!  

Cheers Hamish

[ellicat]

Great when the stars align with conditions like that.

If you get sick of eating Tuna, they make a nice bait for some bottom dwellers.

What breaking strain line were you using and what bait did the trick ?

[Allnighter]

Hi Elli

20pd braid with 40pd mono leader

Bait was a not so fresh Halco slug ...

 

 

[kmcrosby78]

Nice longtail mate and good photo too - conditions look terrible .....  

[Hweebe]

1 hour ago, Allnighter said:

Hi Elli

20pd braid with 40pd mono leader

Bait was a not so fresh Halco slug ...

 

 

Halco slug on a baitrunner? Interesting combo 

[Nog]

Any birds about mate?

 

[Allnighter]

No birds Nog, only the clever birds following the abundance of trawlers in the river which was fun dodging the nets

[Hweebe]

49 minutes ago, Nog said:

Any birds about mate?

 

Always tough when you rock up at first light and no birds are out and you don't have a spot x in the middle of no where like @Allnighter. Nice Tuna would have been good fun to reel in.

[The Mad Hughesy]

nice one mate

[ggg]

Good stuff. Make awesome reef bait and great Sashimi.

[Old Scaley]

Congrats @Allnighter. The Moreton Bay longtail is on my bucket list but has eluded me for years. Because I am a bit limited by boat size I don’t get the opportunity to chase them too often but have spent many a frustrating hour chasing schools in the western bay when they are there. They seem much more skittish than they are up north or in Hervey Bay where I have caught them previously. Might have to stop chasing feeding schools and concentrate on finding bait schools. Thanks for posting.

[Hweebe]

1 hour ago, Old Scaley said:

Congrats @Allnighter. The Moreton Bay longtail is on my bucket list but has eluded me for years. Because I am a bit limited by boat size I don’t get the opportunity to chase them too often but have spent many a frustrating hour chasing schools in the western bay when they are there. They seem much more skittish than they are up north or in Hervey Bay where I have caught them previously. Might have to stop chasing feeding schools and concentrate on finding bait schools. Thanks for posting.

Same here....have spent many hours chasing bust ups to only get one cast in before they dive down in the western bay. What is everyones approach? Stealth / Idle up or hammer down. Neither seems to work for me. The only times I seem to have a chance is i'm in the area drifting about and they pop up for a bit longer.

[Old Scaley]

This old thread has heaps of great info. Still yet to crack the code in the Bay though.

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey Old Scaley

Thanks for posting that thread.