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Dropped the boat in at woody pt with the assistance of Bugman and we set off for the days mauling, expectations brimming after a glassout view from the hornibrook on the way.
We head towards the pearl banks about 25ks out casting at a few longtail on the way, but no real distractions other than suncream to halt the progress, yes if you didn't put it on today you don't own any,hot day
Okay where there lifeless flat sea is the view ??? Beacon bash time, good call if only for sport, little amberjacks act suicidally, just what we need, unhook about 20 and with the itch scratched we can relax, Tangas time
Nice spot, should be still there really, no mackerel there but some well sunned bikinis by the looks, we are still empty in the fishbox the ajs didn't make the grade, 5 k out from tangas big longtail, many longtail, very skittish bastard longtail, Brett has some 10 seconds of fun before one snaps off, they were flighty so we took the hint, before we run the juice down to much.
More longtail but this bunch has our target, macks, we have our late comeback and boat 10 spotties, Still they were hard to catch, we cast at fish all round the boat for nuffin many times, If anyone needs hooking tips Bugman will point you in the right direction, only it will mean if you leave the hooks in youll taste em at dinner
So thats a rap, revenge is sweet the seabreeze picks up, and where outa there, to easy.
Certainly sombre day today, and running the gauntlet with so many rings on the water, Brett wasnt out there with his jet ski was he, passed one some clicks off mud. suicidal bastards
They were certainly nervous the old macks today
regads
Webby, When we found them (macks) they were very frenzied crashing the baitschools like tuna, might of been the dullness but they new the difference between lures and what they were eating, was about 6 boats working a huge school of them and they were all around the boats for an hour, nobody seemed to get close to a fish a cast though, the only method I didn't see tried was ring netting, lucky for the macks. No jetskis around where we fished.
Hey Rob....had 1 big run on a whole pilly but the bugger threw the hooks...next time....theres always a next time.10 spotties is a good feed mate but id rather eat the sweeties provided they don't have that iodine taste..lol
Cheers Brent
My method of hooking the macks on the back of the head of even the side of the flank is a well practised and much unheralded angling form. For me it's too easy to go for the mouth - that's where everyone tries to hook-up - only the really skilled angler can catch fish by sneaking up and shoving a set of trebles in their back.
Mackmauler is just jealous guys because he was flogging me in the numbers stakes there for a while but with my new technique I boated the last three to make it 5-all.
Bloody good day - The beer in Tangalooma bar watching the bikins may have been a highlight but the fishing wasn't too bad either.
I might put a vote up for the Tangalooma bar as being the venue for a future Ausfish M&G.
Webby: If I had any chance of landing the longtail I hooked I might have need the jetski to chase the bugger down. They were very impressive sizes, jumping clear out of the water. I wouldn't have seen one under 10k for the day. Would have loved to boat one for fresh sushimi for dinner but the blighters were as skittish as a virgin in the army.
My brother George and I got over to Tangalooma this afternoon.
Jigged some Yakka from the 4 beacons.
George broke in my new 15kg outfit(Jeremy, the TLD20 you sold me has it's drag worn in now) on a 18kg longtail. He knocked it over pretty quickly, the tuna didn't do more than 1 lap around the boat.
I lost the next longtail. Main line broke. Maybe a mackeral cut me off.
Lost a bit of gear due to tackle failure or mackeral attacks.
Flogged the water to foam with the flyrod. Missed a golden opportunity, when the longtails had the bait balled up and were turning the water white like a washing machine. Lost a spottie and landed a small one.
Wes,
don't you hate that!
i can wack a 100footer out most times,but you get a school of fish blow up 60ft away and the whole show goes out the window
why do we do it? why? why? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???
Hookin,Brett
And very nice spotties they are too, mackmauler. Are you going to tell us where and when ??.
I was out on the top end of the bay around m3, 4, 5, and 6 all morning on Monday, and it was dead as the proverbial Dodo.
It was as flat as a millpond, and a small tide, which I suspect were two reasons it was so quiet, but I wonder if the netters had been hammering them on Saturday or Sunday.
There were lots of bait, but nothing working them except a few birds.
When the breeze picked up late in the morning, there was a bit of surface action, but not much. They were very small schools and very spooky.
Ive heard they have slowed, ring netters arn't allowed to operate on wk ends, those fish were caught the day the report was written, was out from tangalooma.
Changes almost daily out there, that was the worst trip for them this year, when they were thick 20-30 a session was the go, Few tuna around im told.
That forecast is fishable Wes, all we need is a chopper and a good pilot to put us over the tuna, I've studied the gold lotto add carefully Just a little worried about your fly line and the rota with this method
Mack - I'm glad you didn't get them somewhere else in the bay on Monday morning, while I was up the top end getting zilch.
A fisho friend went out Sunday morning and worked hard between Tangalooma and the 4 beacons for just one schoolie, then stumbled onto a big school of spotties near Mud on the way home.
They lost more than they landed, mainly bite-offs, but boated enough to save the day from disaster.
WES - Like you, we saw just one small school of tuna in the morning, and a few of what were probably spotties early afternoon, but they were few and far between. Most times we didn't have time to get close enough for a cast before they disapeared again.
I agree with you about the bigger tides, so I'm hoping the weather might hold just long enough to get a couple of hours out there if I take a flex day tomorrow. I also have a gut feeling about the run in being better than a run out tide, though I have no data to back it up.
lifeless flat sea is the view ??? Beacon bash time, good call if only for sport, little amberjacks act suicidally, just what we need, unhook about 20 and with the itch scratched we can relax, Tangas time
