Giving away secret spots......????

[Jeremy87]

I think in the salt there isn't really many secret spots left, most of the time i'm quite happy to share were i go chase squire etc because there are so many boats who fish it anyway. When the mackeral are in the bay i'll let people know the general area they are in, but i'm not explicit to the point of saying in between these two beacons etc. This is for a couple of reasons, firstly the macks won't always be there, your not actually helping people become better fishermen by spoon feeding them (they are better off learning how to read the water and search for birds themselves so they can find their own school) and finally because mackeral can be affected by pressure. I can remember a couple of years ago they hung round the east side of peel nearly all season and as time progressed more and more people knew about it until you'd go out on a good weekend and there would be 40 boats casting slugs and pillies at just a few schools and the fishing was almost ruined. Of course you could go several other spots in bay and find better schools with no boats on them but if you had found those fish on your own accord and didn't know were else they were bitting you'd be p!ssed. Jack spots are always a tough one. I won't tell most people my major jack spot unless i'm taking them to fish there even though they probably couldn't fish it without a canoe anyway. Same with small water bass spots, the number of places i've heard of being good bass spots compared to the number i fish is pretty low. But still i think i have some spots down the tweed which i'd say only a handful of blokes do go to the effort to fish and i'd like to keep it that way.

[Volvo]

I'm in agreement with ifishcq1..No such thing as a secret spot..Might be to you but not to everyone...
And no, i dont mind sharing marks , oceans a big place n room enough for all to enjoy..
Only thing that peeves me off is when someone lays claim to a certain spot n thinks they are the Kings o the castle regarding that area and get the buns when someone else turns up .......
I would have a collection of marks that ide say i havent even visited 98% of and never will and as most know we always seem to head back to the same ole halfe a doz spots over n over cause we know we will get a feed there, Correct??..

[ThePinkPanther]

That reminds of a post on Ausfish last year from some guy saying that he had caught some 50 kilos of reef fish on the sunken reef at the Spit Beacon to the north west of Peel Island.

This reef looks great on the sounder but has been dead for many many years.

Anyhows, thought I would have a look at it the next day after the post and you didn't need a GPS to find it - it was crawling with boats with dirty great sinkers, jigs, lures being chucked all over the place!

I sidled up to a guy in a tinnie to ask how he was going and and got roundly abused to get off "his spot" as he had been there all night. After he settled down he fessed up that he hadn't had a bite - nor had anybody else.

Boats were charging all over the spot and - as usual - the sounder showed absoutely nothing.

Everybody left by late morning with nary a scale to show for their efforts!

The phantom poster must have been having a great larf!! Does show you how desperate fishos are to get anything decent in the southern part of the Bay though!

[Mac1952]

Us inexperienced guys can only look and learn from you blokes. I'll be watching out for the boats!

[iceknight]

ILL give yous a hint use a 2/0 7766 at hervey bay jetty. any sinker u want. about a 4 i reckon 2 meter leader, and a livie herring lip hooked. at end of jetty. ull get as many trevs as you want! on 50lb. theres nothing about secret spots. its how you FISH ::

[xrnath]

PS: please email me ALL your marks and I'll check them out!!!

haha very subtle

I'm happy to share with friends my favorite fishing spots, providing they take me along for a fish

[wayneoro]

those that dont have good marks want to share them those that do dont its the humen way

[Dignity]

I go out and find that there are often boats sitting on tiny little reefs about the size of a tennis court that I nutted out myself, could be the other boats have found them or in the past gone past me and taken a mark. Doesn't worry me too much these days as lately I ususally don't turn the GPS on any more until I am pretty close to where I think I should be but keep an eye on the sounder, found many more good marks tis way as I think I got a bit lazy with the gps

[dhess]

Interesting approach Dignity. I reckon it would be a really neat way of bringing back some interest in an area that you fish very regularly and start gettingbored with.

[Dignity]

dhes, I am finding isolated patches of reef where I don't expect to see anything and getting some interesting results

[finga]

here's mine....
Head out off Evans.
Go south past snapper rock.
Just past sanpper look at the hills and you'll see 3 power ploes (or was that 4?). Line up the 3 poles going up the hill.
Head due east 3 km and throw out.
Easy

PS watch out for the breakers
PPS not really a secret spot but you'll probably catch a fish or two if the breakers don't get ya

[oldboot]

Then as has been raised..... how many people give away their "secret spots", that are infact rubish or common knoweledge just to put people off the sent and have some other spot to themselves.

A classic example.... a recently claimed 20KG snapper... suposedly caught " just of wellington point".......I spoke to a bloke who has coppies of the pictures and saw the actual fish........yeh just of wello'.......western side of moreton...... or so the story goes.....or is that a red herring too..... perhaps It wasnt a snapper maybe just a very big herring.


cheers

[TheRealAndy]

I give away all my secret spots. That because if you dont know how to fish them you wont catch jack shit. Also, my secret spots always go hot/cold anyway.

[webby]

Why shouldn't you keep your secret spots or what ever you want to call them ??
Fishermen are like sheep and will flock to any spot where they think they can boat a fish.
You could anchor in the middle of a desert and if the weathers right, it wont take long for others to be parked around you.
You could give away numerous spots ???, but if you dont state how/when to fish it, it could be like parking in the middle of that desert.
regards

[TheRealAndy]

too true webby. I dont have may spots anyway! Sometimes I sound out a bit of interesting ground and pull up to try in out then next thing you know there is 2 or 3 boats hanging around.