The BeaR
24-02-2007, 10:52 PM
Went out yesterday 23/2/07 as we were sick of waiting for good weather. The withdrawals were setting in ;D
Anyways it was suppose to be morning showers clearing(never did trust those weather reports), so we decided it was time to get out and target some more Tuna in Moreton Bay.
Went back to the NW3 as that is where they were on the 6/2 but with no success as there was no bait, no birds and no apparent activity.
Recently we have had some stronger SE winds. Usually what happens is that the fish and bait move into the direction of the wind. With this little bit of knowledge we decided to head over to the main shipping channel off Moreton Island. Got to the M3 beacon and found the bait again along with a few single feeding longtail.
As usual we had The BeaR S10-H rigged up with Soft-Plastics.The plastics we used this time were Bass Assassin 4.5" twitch in Albino/firetail, and the Atomic 3' minnow in th pearl white/light blue.
It turned out not to be a particularly nice day when it came to weather. It poured off and on all day. This didn't seem to effect the fish.
A word of advise, always double check your knots when fishing for these fish, as the first hook-up for the day was a beauty of a fish but the knot let go at the jighead. This was quickly rectified.
The first fish boated was a nice 16kg speciman that took 15 minutes to get to the boat. Within 30 minutes, the second one, a 13.1kg fish was hooked, in the boat, photographed and released.
By now the rain had started again, we were happy with our success, so we decided to call it a day.
Looking forward to another round. :) :)
Eric&Deb
Anyways it was suppose to be morning showers clearing(never did trust those weather reports), so we decided it was time to get out and target some more Tuna in Moreton Bay.
Went back to the NW3 as that is where they were on the 6/2 but with no success as there was no bait, no birds and no apparent activity.
Recently we have had some stronger SE winds. Usually what happens is that the fish and bait move into the direction of the wind. With this little bit of knowledge we decided to head over to the main shipping channel off Moreton Island. Got to the M3 beacon and found the bait again along with a few single feeding longtail.
As usual we had The BeaR S10-H rigged up with Soft-Plastics.The plastics we used this time were Bass Assassin 4.5" twitch in Albino/firetail, and the Atomic 3' minnow in th pearl white/light blue.
It turned out not to be a particularly nice day when it came to weather. It poured off and on all day. This didn't seem to effect the fish.
A word of advise, always double check your knots when fishing for these fish, as the first hook-up for the day was a beauty of a fish but the knot let go at the jighead. This was quickly rectified.
The first fish boated was a nice 16kg speciman that took 15 minutes to get to the boat. Within 30 minutes, the second one, a 13.1kg fish was hooked, in the boat, photographed and released.
By now the rain had started again, we were happy with our success, so we decided to call it a day.
Looking forward to another round. :) :)
Eric&Deb