WHAT WAS IN MANLY HARBOUR

[SNAFU]

hi all,
was going out about 6-30 am on sat from manly harbour when we saw schools of bait fish getting hammerd out of coast guard jetty in harbour.
i think bait fish were hardie heads but dont know what was chasing them, but it was bigish and fast :o and there was several of them .
i tried slugging for them but no luck.did anyone see what they were. the shags were having a good time there on sunday about lunch time filling up on the bait fish.
snafu

[Captian_Zero]

I caught some small school mackerel to about 45cm from the William Gunn Jetty in Manly Boat harbour mid last year so that could be a possibility.

Regards

Chris

[Maria]

Yeah I'd put money on schoolies. Quite commonly caught down there.

Cheers

[TheSSminnow]

yeah id say schoolies too mate, but then again, ive seen tailor and trevally in there so could be a number of schooling fish in there.

[youngfisho]

never mind the tailor or trevally, i was fishing the rock wall some years back and noticed a school of LT's all around the 9-10kg bracket leaping from the water chasing a school of bait fish. they were only there for around 15 minutes but they would have been a struggle to tame in such tight waters.

it may have been a longtail. but you never know, until you catch em


andrew

[nabs12]

Hey Guys
I reckon it was probably those schoolies aswell... I know i have caught a few of the jetty there and im sure it would be them taking those baitfish...
Cheers

[chief]

Yeh, I'll throw my two bobs worth in, have caught schoolies there but it was always around september. there are some pretty big tailor floating around at the moment.

[rando]

I have a couple of mates with boats on moorings at RQYS everytime I go out to one of their moorings I see monster jacks lurking under the pontoons (Breaks my heart,,, no fishing in the marina).
Ive also see pods of dolphins in there feeding and a school of tailer flogging a bait school trapped in the angle where two pontoons meet, so bait busting up could be any number of things.
Certainly shows there is variety .
But I would not eat anything from there, all those years of Lead anti- foul, and Tributyl-tin, you could end up growing appendages you dont want or need :)

[Dylan_Rylatt]

i have caught squire, bream ,Scoolie macs good tailor,trevs, sweetlip, good cod, jacks..... i dont believe the lt sighting as have lived in the ares for year and i call the harbour just about my home....

my guess is with With Ben (maria) most likely scoolie macs or evan a decent school of pike...

if anyone catches the mysterios chopping fish would be keen to hear about it

Dylan

[DaneCross]

hi all,
was going out about 6-30 am on sat from manly harbour when we saw schools of bait fish getting hammerd out of coast guard jetty in harbour.
i think bait fish were hardie heads but dont know what was chasing them, but it was bigish and fast :o and there was several of them .
i tried slugging for them but no luck.did anyone see what they were. the shags were having a good time there on sunday about lunch time filling up on the bait fish.
snafu
SNAFU we must've launched at the same time. Were you in the open tinnie throwing a slug around? We tried until we hooked an old crab pot lol... My guess would be a shark.

[Az]

i saw the same sort've activity at the southern wall of the mouth of the brissie river, i never got to see the fish but they were also into a big school of hardyheads i was thinking big tailor, mackeral or longtails as they had been caught on the western side of mud

[richieboy]

Hey fellas. Was down there this morning around 630am to have a flick with SP's. After hearing all the reports I just had to investigate. Being a local lad myself it's only 5minutes down the road. Not as much surface action as what was reported but there was a bit of chop on the surface. Baitfish are hardy heads (I jagged one). As for the fish doing the chasing I landed some nice chopper tailor. Didn't take long for them to move on though as the sun was up but the baitfish were still hanging around. I spoke to another bloke who said that the 2 days before he'd seen another bloke pull in a decent scool mac.
Hope that answers a few questions.

Rich ;)

[chief]

Az those big tailor out at the wall are not there yet but not far away caught 3 decent tailor on the weekend on slugs and a mate told me he picked up a reasonable mac not far from the wall.

[SNAFU]

DC,i was in the fisher c/c with 2 others slugging for mystery packages. one or two others were giving it a go also.i also have heard about BIG jacks in harbour as well,this being from a diver who cleans hulls in water. says they can be quite aggresive at times.


SNAFU.

[Dylan_Rylatt]

fished down there during the week pulling a 40cm tailor off the gunn jetty.......

Hooked a scoolie mac round 70 cm never seen anything like it.. done on 6 pd

great session ended up with 11 tailor..... all on slugs....


Dylan