Curtain Artificail

[starvin_marvin]

Hi Guys

I have only fished Curtain Artificial twice with basically no success and I wondering if anyone tell me what you could expect to hook up to during summer. I believe it is a failry popular snapper spot during the colder months but a mate of mine and I are planning on going over sunday morning.

Cheers

Jason

[reef_raider]

we used to fish their a bit, make sure you sound around, find the reef, anchor past it so that your baits drift back onto it.... we have caught many squire, tailor and bream out there as well as a nice sized leather jacket but nothing to much over legal

[faulked]

it seems like a good juvenile area untill after dark it gets dived on a lot during the day which can make the fish spooky

start of fishing as light as you can then move up if the tide is slow you have a good chance when its going hard damn its hard going

[starvin_marvin]

I noticed to current goes pretty hard there we generally try and pick a time when there is little difference between high and low tide as that seems to be a slower current. The other night we were there we awa a dive boat and about 30 other fishing boats too. Might try somehere else. Thanks for the replies.

[benno573]

generally you get a lot of undersized snapper. fish just on the top of the drop off (18m-ish) around the tide chages and you should be able to nail a sweetlip, snapper, morwong, parrot (tuskfish) or if all else fails a few decent (30cm+)bream. i have caught cobia there - generally on crappier weather days when every other bugger is still in bed. caught an undersized red emperor there last weekend. i think it must have been lost. benowa or bulwer are just as good overall. keep an eye out for a white and green freedom escape out there on sunday, pop over and say gudday. you bring the beers.

[AZZA]

Hi guys not meaning to hijack the thread but just want ask benno how he finds the escape for ride and comfort as looking to go to a glass boat next to ease the pounding on the spine a bit,and they look like a neat package.

[starvin_marvin]

didnt mke it out benno but at least I now what to look for and surley will say g'day and make dure i have a beer in the esky for ya. hoping to get my new(secondhand) halfcab out there before mid feb. by the way what beer do you drink? Would hate to have the wrong stuff for ya

[benno573]

a cold one is fine. find attached a curtain reef cobe i caught in late december. on a chunk of mullet fillet no less...

[benno573]

well the file was too big... goddamn good cameras

[Angus]

Benno: Check out this download Feral from the site created. It will help you resize pictures easily.

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[benno573]

Angus wrote:

Benno: Check out this download Feral from the site created. It will help you resize pictures easily.

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Cheers mate - here is a couple of curtain reef specials for your viewing pleasure. strangely enough, both these fish were caught on mullet fillet. the golden was a funny story - glass day on the bay, no-one catching anything on curtain (about 30 boats there) i rock up on my way back from a trist offshore and within 5 min hooked up on this. to say i was hated for a while is an understatement!! [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/DSCN6004_AFO.jpg

[benno573]

a nice curtain cobe. [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/cobia2_AFO.jpg

[Malcolm]

Awsome mate

[Burko]

caught this beauty there after squidding one arvo a couple of summers back

[Burko]

no I meant this one (oops)

no weight but it was 1450 long and caught on an old pilly. [img size=500]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/cobia_2.JPG

[benno573]

nice one burko!! more of a feed than a few squid i guess?:cheer:

[Burko]

we caught about 40 squid and with the cobe (not all it it) made up a seafood chowder to die for.

[Burko]

back to how to fish curtin. try a tide change just on dark little burley ( not too much too many toothies) and try using some of the squid you caught drifting over the weed just south of the reef, both live and heads. have seen some big fish pulled up there. though it has been about 2 years since we fished it.

[benno573]

Burko wrote:

we caught about 40 squid and with the cobe (not all it it) made up a seafood chowder to die for.

sounds good mate :laugh: mine was destined for the bbq, a few mates, cold beer ahhh... life is tough in paradise ay?

totally agree on the change of tide around the change of light, can't beat it. the fewer boats around the better you will do!!!!!