The BeaR
09-08-2007, 09:15 PM
Hi All...
Decided it was time to go out and get some LT as it has been a while, so organised the day with good friend Mark to go and see if they were still there, as haven't seen too many reports of there whereabouts lately.
Left Spinnaker sound around 7am, and headed straight across to Moreton, due to the fact that previous trips out off caloundra and on the way home, not seeing any LT's along the front of Bribie, most likely due to the fact of 15 degree water and no bait, and also trips out off the Cape and coming back via Combi, the water temp being 19 degrees, along Moreton was the most logical place to look.
On arriving around Combi, having seen no birds working on the trip across, decided to head south in search of the telltale signs of Tuna.
Had travelled along the main channel to just short of Tangalooma and this was where they were.
Some small schools of Mac Tuna that were reasonably approachable made for a bit of fun while looking. Managed a few of these, and as we were out looking for food for our dog, these went into the esky, but not much action from the Longtail.
From there, we decided to go for a look around the bay. Went from Tangalooma all the way to Mud island back through the middle of the bay past the measured mile beacons down to the red drum at the pearl channel, then back out to Tangalooma again without seeing a bird working or fish anywhere in this area.
The water temp is a little cooler in this area than what it is in front of Tangalooma.
Once we got back here the tide had turned and started to get more flow coming in and the bait had started to become more dense and this was were we ended up finding the Longtail, where the water was warmer and the bait was more concentrated.
There wasn't a lot of them and they were little shy of the boat, but they were moving reasonably slowly and it is easy to work out their direction of travel and where to place the boat to have the fish swim up to you.
The fishing systems that were being used was The Egrell S10 with a Certate 4000 spooled with 30lb spiderwire and 40lb black magic leader. The other was The BeaR S10 also with a Certate 4000 spooled with 30lb spiderwire and 40lb BM leader. The Soft plastic that did it for the day was a 3" Slider grub in Clear/Gold fleck. This is my first choice of lure when there is a lot of Mac Tuna around but the longtails were taking it as well, so there was no need for change.
All in all a great day out, the weather was absolutely magic and managed to get some food for us as well as the dog;D
Eric&Deb
Decided it was time to go out and get some LT as it has been a while, so organised the day with good friend Mark to go and see if they were still there, as haven't seen too many reports of there whereabouts lately.
Left Spinnaker sound around 7am, and headed straight across to Moreton, due to the fact that previous trips out off caloundra and on the way home, not seeing any LT's along the front of Bribie, most likely due to the fact of 15 degree water and no bait, and also trips out off the Cape and coming back via Combi, the water temp being 19 degrees, along Moreton was the most logical place to look.
On arriving around Combi, having seen no birds working on the trip across, decided to head south in search of the telltale signs of Tuna.
Had travelled along the main channel to just short of Tangalooma and this was where they were.
Some small schools of Mac Tuna that were reasonably approachable made for a bit of fun while looking. Managed a few of these, and as we were out looking for food for our dog, these went into the esky, but not much action from the Longtail.
From there, we decided to go for a look around the bay. Went from Tangalooma all the way to Mud island back through the middle of the bay past the measured mile beacons down to the red drum at the pearl channel, then back out to Tangalooma again without seeing a bird working or fish anywhere in this area.
The water temp is a little cooler in this area than what it is in front of Tangalooma.
Once we got back here the tide had turned and started to get more flow coming in and the bait had started to become more dense and this was were we ended up finding the Longtail, where the water was warmer and the bait was more concentrated.
There wasn't a lot of them and they were little shy of the boat, but they were moving reasonably slowly and it is easy to work out their direction of travel and where to place the boat to have the fish swim up to you.
The fishing systems that were being used was The Egrell S10 with a Certate 4000 spooled with 30lb spiderwire and 40lb black magic leader. The other was The BeaR S10 also with a Certate 4000 spooled with 30lb spiderwire and 40lb BM leader. The Soft plastic that did it for the day was a 3" Slider grub in Clear/Gold fleck. This is my first choice of lure when there is a lot of Mac Tuna around but the longtails were taking it as well, so there was no need for change.
All in all a great day out, the weather was absolutely magic and managed to get some food for us as well as the dog;D
Eric&Deb