queensland Terry v Tuna on Thursday

[Terry H]

Yep just looked, start work at 5pm on thurs, that means one thing! Plenty of time for fishing

So assuming the forecast doesn't get worse (or much worse) I'm going to hit the bay and bag me a tuna. Or that's the plan

Not sure where I'm going to launch from yet, might search the web and see if theres any tuna reports to see where I should be going.

Anyone is welcome to come - it will be about a sunrise - 2pm'ish trip.

[pcsolutionman]

so you didnt get out today mate?

Lee

[Terry H]

I got out man - posted a report "Bribie Island (Offshore) 6/05"

[Terry H]

Anyone heard the latest 'word on the water' (cheers Jimmy!) ??

Like where those LT's are?

[Leighton]

I am thinking about heading out Thursday morning myself.

I ran from peel to 4 Beacons on Monday, no birds working anywhere

[Terry H]

saw a report from " a spot in the northern bay " of a big queeny and long tail, I'd guess somewhere in between moreton and bribie.

If you go out Thurs, I'll be the guy in a safety orange coloured Hobie Revolution

[Leighton]

where are you leaving from mate?

[Terry H]

Not sure yet mate. The two areas I know about for tuna are off bribie and around peel - :S So not sure, any idea where they (fish) are? lol

[Leighton]

Tough call, Peel is close but the action has been poor.

Strange year for pelagics, not even any schools of Watsons Bonito

[Terry H]

Yeah, where abouts are you thinking of heading?

[Leighton]

no idea, will make my decision up in the Morning depending on winds

never fished Mud, might be worth a shot mid week as peel has been very quiet. It may have something to do with all the boat traffic or the new moon.

Got to blame something

[Terry H]

Boat traffic sounds good - bloody boats :evil:

[Terry H]

ok, out off Bribie it is. I figure I'd rather go 6km paddle from there, than 6km peddle from mouth of river (difference is long peddle to get to fishable water vs 20m peddle to fishable water at bribie)

I'm getting up at 7-7:30 then heading up, hopefully launch by 9

If you see an orange yak half way to moreton, dont run him over.. could be me:P

[pinkey]

Good luck Terry, tomorrow could be the day.

[werewolf]

I'm fanging for the next TH yak attack report tonight lol. His epic adventures make for some good reading!

[Mack_attack]

How did you go Terry?

[pinkey]

hes still fighting the LT

[bretto]

Just had a look on google earth and I think I spotted him being towed and nearing the coast of NZ :p

[pcsolutionman]

dont think he is around not on msn

But I hope he got onto a few

Lee

[Jords]

isnt he at work(origional post)

[faulked]

ive heard from 2 sources now that tuna have been going off at the mouth of the river both eyewitnesses;)

[pinkey]

is there anywher around fishermans island landbased that you can cast slugs ect at any areas that tuna or mackeral even taylor could be?

[Mack_attack]

when i caught that cod on the bay side of fishermans island a couple of weeks ago there where a few schools of longtails leaping out of the water, probably around a metre long, but they were pretty spooky.

If it were legal to fish landbased from the rock wall, which i don't think it is, the tuna were probably just within casting range at about 60m from the wall.

[Dan23]

Actually it is slightly worrying he hasn't posed to be honest. he told me last night he was heading out at 7am. I think he had to work though so probably only got back in time to rush off. Hopefully he isn't 5k East or Bribie right now:ohmy:

[fishyman]

haha he is still chasing that tuna

[Terry H]

ok I'm back. Not sure I should post a report

there was the odd school of mac tuna, pretty small bunch cruising around. They were moving around pretty fast, I was doing a minimum of 8-9km/h with bursts of 12km/h trying to catch up to them, but it seems they were moving at the same rate I was.

I saw a few small schools of SMALL tuna, I think probably small long tails, few of them lept clear, lokoed like small longys, if they were, only about 50cm long. None of the bust ups I saw out on the water lasted longer than 5-10 seconds. One occured within 30m of me, but I was too busy rigging a different slug onto the rod

Then just to tease me, there was a large bust up occur after I had landed and packed a few things away, It would have taken me about 1 minute to travel the distance down with the current, but couldnt be bothered by that stage lol

did 15km today, headed a couple of km out off bribie, came, saw, peddle next to and continued going out past those shark bouys

I'm going saturday morning out of brissy river then!

I'll post up a thread.

[pcsolutionman]

bad luck mate im sure all these efforts will pay dividends some time soon

Lee

[Terry H]

Yeah nothing big out there man, can't remember if I said it above, but most I saw was like 2 birds working one small group of mac tunas bait lol for about 10 seconds, then one bird buggered off