mud island fri june 16

[solwota]

i left pinkenba at 5am for a great ride out to mud. water was dead flat with no breeze. got to mud in the dark and threw some plastics at spots that have produce for me before for nil result. by ten am i didn't even look like getting a feed so i opted to catch a few tailor which i could see chopping sporadically but genrally in the same are. 6 casts later i had 4 nice choppers in the boat and 2 sps bitten off. good that's dinner i thought. then, on a hunch, i dropped an sp dead drift down through the tailor and immediately was rewarded with a nice squire. lesson learnt! in the next hour i caught nine squire with 5 nice keepers and a few other sundries including a diamond trevally. i have not caught one of these since i lived in bamaga, it was only small (approx 20cm) and had quite a different shape to the ones i caught up north. does anyone know if there are more than one species of trevally with long trailing fins the one i caught may have had a different body shape because it was juvenile or could be a differnt species.anyway it was and interesting bycatch. by midday the tide had slowed and so had the bite and i shot home over a completely glassed off bay.
very nice morning
cheers
richard

[charleville]

Goodonyer, Solwota. A good result for having some persistence.

I went to Mud on Friday morning after an unsuccessful start at Green and had no success at Mud at all, neither on the eastern side nor in the northern bays. I was home by 10am though.

Very reassuring to hear of your success.

[FISHING_ROCKS]

any pics?

[snapper_snitch]

It's good to hear that someone has been getting into them, nice job.

cheers steve