Gunnamatta - Busier than Bourke Street

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Gunnamatta - Busier than Bourke Street

Post by StarrangerAU » Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:55 am

Folks,

I'm a bit late in sharing but I thought I would anyway....
Earlier in the week I had planned to do a run down to Gunnamatta on Sunday morning after dropping the missus off at work early.
Whilst I knew that the tide wasn't going to be perfect, the weather conditions were looking to be very comfortable.

Now I am rather a novice at fishing at Gunna's and imagine my surprise when I topped the sand dunes....it looks like half of Melbourne had the same idea. I had to walk 15 minutes to find myself a decent piece of water where I could wedge myself in between two other folk.

Despite my early start, the favorable conditions, and my enthusiasm I went home empty handed after 3-4 hours of drowning the pilchards. Certainly there could have been worse ways to spend a Sunday morning.
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Post by Lightningx » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:03 am

Thanks for the update mate.
I was thinking of heading that way but kind of glad I didn’t now.
Did you see anyone catching?

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Post by smile0784 » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:09 am

Sounds like a good morning tho.

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Post by Bayrock » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:13 am

I was there on sunday morning throwing slugs. Was busy as and very few fish came out. They're not around in numbers yet

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Post by Lightningx » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:14 am

But sounds like it was a bit better 2-3 weeks ago?

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Post by DougieK » Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:24 am

Seriously walk past them. Almost everyone fishes there within 500m of the stairs. If you walk towards the Schanck for 10 minutes you'll get a gutter mostly to yourself.
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Post by StarrangerAU » Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:08 am

Lightningx wrote:Thanks for the update mate.
I was thinking of heading that way but kind of glad I didn’t now.
Did you see anyone catching?

Personally, I only saw one landing which from a distance looked only about 25cm.
My neighbor who had been there earlier than I said he saw 2-3 others in the 30+ cm range. So yeah, very quite.
Granted this was all at the bottom of the tide.

For my part, I can't say I got a single bite in the 3-4 hours. Mind you I am expecting the salmon to bite very much like they do off the piers, with a solid double tap.

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Post by Lightningx » Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:41 am

Dam that does sound very quiet!
Hopefully it picks up soon.

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Post by Brett » Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:27 pm

DougieK wrote:Seriously walk past them. Almost everyone fishes there within 500m of the stairs. If you walk towards the Schanck for 10 minutes you'll get a gutter mostly to yourself.

Oh shut up you, that's not correct, no fish there, never has been never will be :o_0:

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Post by KeenAds » Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:05 pm

They will fire up soon don't you worry. Going by the first picture it looks like it was pretty sloppy conditions so no doubt that didn't help.

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