Fished Mud Island yesterday. Got out there just after 6am to find my preferred area was already a carpark. Started a drift a bit wider than everyone else. We noticed straight away there were a few dolphins around.
Not long later we noticed that a bloke on a nearby boat had hooked up. Twenty seconds later a dolphin started vertically breaching very close to their boat. The first breach must have been at least a dolphin length into the air, and it continued diving and breaching about five times. It was like a seaworld show, very spectacular. Never seen that in the wild before. The bloke lost the fish, and I wonder if the dolphin was chasing the fish or not.
A bit later I noticed it happening again, but was too far away to see if someone was hooked up. Was anyone else from here out there and see it ?
Only stayed there for an hour before I got the shits with the boat traffic and morons motoring past way too close. Moved to a quiet spot on the other side of the island and first cast got a nice snapper just under 70cm. My mate got his first ever snapper at 47 cm, and I got another one just over legal size. Those were the only three fish we caught all day and we bailed about midday. The last two trips now I havent caught any undersize fish which is unusual, as my catch rate is usually a few unders for every keeper.
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