Australia day in the Strait

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Australia day in the Strait

Post by Duffman » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:44 pm

Heard a few reports of SBT off Cape Shanck so had a crack today. Out early from Stony good run to the Shanck and put out some lures. Couple of Xraps and 2 Pakula skirts. Trolled all day up and down the coast and out to 40 fathoms to no avail. Lots of boats out but no one got squat. Always the way. Should have been there last week or the other day. Nice day for boating! :banana:

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by Lightningx » Fri Jan 26, 2018 5:48 pm

Still would have been a beautiful day to be on the water. Good effort :thumbsup:

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by smile0784 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:02 pm

Would have been nice out there

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by rb85 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:42 pm

Duffman wrote:Heard a few reports of SBT off Cape Shanck so had a crack today. Out early from Stony good run to the Shanck and put out some lures. Couple of Xraps and 2 Pakula skirts. Trolled all day up and down the coast and out to 40 fathoms to no avail. Lots of boats out but no one got squat. Always the way. Should have been there last week or the other day. Nice day for boating! :banana:
How was it off the Schank? and if you don't mind me asking what do you look for when targeting tuna?

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by smile0784 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:57 pm

Tuna jumping at bait, birds diving, tuna on the sounder, bait balls busting up

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by rb85 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:04 pm

Smile it's a big ocean so onto of that is there anything else?

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by cobby » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:36 pm

rb85 wrote:Smile it's a big ocean so onto of that is there anything else?
That's basically all you can do. Cover the miles to get the smiles (fish). Always look for clean blue water as opposed to **** green stuff.

They have been closer to the island than the schanck the last week, so it's likely they were further east meaning the report chasers were in the completely opposite direction to the fish.

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by smile0784 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:59 pm

rb85 wrote:Smile it's a big ocean so onto of that is there anything else?
Not really.
Some people drive all day for 5 days in a row with no fish.

Thats fishing mate.
Not much else you can do except keep a eye out
Bigger the ocean the worse your luck is mate.

No other real tips.
Try reading current reports and good luck

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by Paulanderson » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:12 pm

As a good example of fish moving around Bateman's Bay GFC had a tournament a fortnight back and on the first day about 65 Marlin were tagged - and on the next two days almost nothing! The fact that pelagic fish like Tuna and Marlin are around one day may mean very little the next.

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Re: Australia day in the Strait

Post by smile0784 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:26 pm

Paulanderson wrote:As a good example of fish moving around Bateman's Bay GFC had a tournament a fortnight back and on the first day about 65 Marlin were tagged - and on the next two days almost nothing! The fact that pelagic fish like Tuna and Marlin are around one day may mean very little the next.
Thats frustrating but thats fishing

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