Weipa Fishing Report
August 2006.
Like July the off shore fishing was the hi-light of the month. Long Tails & Mack Tuna schools where smashing into bait schools down around Pera heads. Manta Rays where still out and about with Cobia up to 15 kg’s found under most Rays.
Weather:
Southeasterly winds were 15 to 20 knots for most of the month, with a temperature of 18 to 32c.
Fishing:
Rivers; River fishing was a little quiet this month. The best Barramundi fishing was at the bottom of the run-out tides looking for fish on the shallow flats and gutter mouths. Finding warm water was the key for successful fishing.
Beaches; Fishing the rocky headlands on the early morning high tides produced some good size Barra. Shallow diving lures or floating fly lines where best in between the oyster rocks, once the fish is hooked it’s rods up high and do what ever it takes to keep them from cutting your line on the razor sharp oysters.
Bluewater; Casting poppers to boomies and reef drop-off’s accounted for many big Queenfish, with a few poppers donated to huge GT’s that we couldn’t stop, even on heavy spin tackle. Reef Jack’s where also caught on poppers and bigger swimming lures most 4kg plus. Although they would hit the poppers as readily as the swimming lures, a Jack hitting a popper on the surface would give the angler a much-needed advantage.
Spotted a few Manta Rays out on the reefs, I always keep a lookout for Manta’s while I am traveling down the coast, they are often followed by Trevally or Cobia. Some of the biggest Cobia’s caught where up to 15kgs.
The harbor pylons still producing good numbers of Trevally, Giant, Brassy, Golden and Tealeaf.
The smaller Tealeaf where the most dominate, compared to the other species of Trevally the Tealeaf are small in size, but not in fight.
Most fish are between 2 to 4 kg. Fish are hooked just off the bottom close to the pylons, as they are brought to the surface the hooked fish are followed by other school members right up to the side of the boat keep the hooked fish in the water and the school will stay up on the surface. Dropping a lure or fly in front of any of these fish for an instant hook-up.
A double hook-up of Mack Tuna for these Japanese Fly fishermen.
Ray with a Cobia caught from under a Manta.
Another big Weipa Queenfish.
Fly casting in crystal clear water
Craig Jenkins,
Strikezone Fly & Sportsfishing
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