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Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:18 am
by wem21
Hey all,
Was visiting my cousins who live up that way, headed to the pier at around 6pm, me on the lure and my cousins on bait. At around 6:15, third cast in, as I was reeling in my lure to recast a massive snook came out of nowhere and smashed it on the surface, it looked like it was as long as my arm
unfortunately I didn't get the hookup as it was the last thing I was expecting. I fished for about another hour but had to leave because the storm had come. I did manage to catch a snook, not nearly as big as the other but still alright, gave it to my cousins for gummy bait.
My cousins on the other hand were smashing it with freshly caught squid, ended up with 4 kgw and a pinky in the hour, pinky went 30cm and the kgw were around the 30mark, with one standout going for 42cm
Was a good night, shame we had to leave the fish biting as bad weather decided to pull up on us.
Cheers
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:31 am
by Bugatti
Sounds like an awesome evening wem
And I'd have to agree, those snook can come out of nowhere , , , , BAM , , , , would have got your attention right away.
Nice to see you and your cousin got a few, and yep "the leaving em biting" makes for more excitment for planning the next trip.
Well done to you both
Cheers, Bugatti
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:08 am
by Lightningx
Great evening mate!
I’ve had that as well while casting a plastic a big snook came out of nowhere and I saw the hookup!
Nice catch by your cousins as well
Cheers
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:25 am
by ronan
wem21 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:18 am
Hey all,
Was visiting my cousins who live up that way, headed to the pier at around 6pm, me on the lure and my cousins on bait. At around 6:15, third cast in, as I was reeling in my lure to recast a massive snook came out of nowhere and smashed it on the surface, it looked like it was as long as my arm
unfortunately I didn't get the hookup as it was the last thing I was expecting. I fished for about another hour but had to leave because the storm had come. I did manage to catch a snook, not nearly as big as the other but still alright, gave it to my cousins for gummy bait.
My cousins on the other hand were smashing it with freshly caught squid, ended up with 4 kgw and a pinky in the hour, pinky went 30cm and the kgw were around the 30mark, with one standout going for 42cm
Was a good night, shame we had to leave the fish biting as bad weather decided to pull up on us.
Cheers
Sounds like a good sesh mate, similar thing with the snook happened to me in port melbourne for 2 days in a row, was kicking myself...
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:53 am
by gregmaka
It's a great pier with deep water ,pitty about the parking fees.Grab some top salted Blue bait from Mario's and you never know what you catch.
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:12 am
by wem21
Also, does anyone know how much scent you're meant to put on?
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 1:44 pm
by Sebb
wem21 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:12 am
Also, does anyone know how much scent you're meant to put on?
Just a thin smear is enough. Don't have to put too much.
The intention is to put a bit of smell to trigger a 'tap' and when they tap they be like smell and taste like food and turn that tap to a full bite.
Or so I was told.
Well done btw
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:50 pm
by McGOOLEY
gregmaka wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:53 am
It's a great pier with deep water ,pitty about the parking fees.Grab some top salted Blue bait from Mario's and you never know what you catch.
Its free parking now 24hrs unless there are events there if you had a station wagon you could back in and fish from the car, left side of pier, my home pier. park and fish, get out of the car and walk 3M and your there Ha.
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:42 pm
by bowl
gregmaka wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:53 am
It's a great pier with deep water ,pitty about the parking fees.Grab some top salted Blue bait from Mario's and you never know what you catch.
I went there today....but they wanted 12 bucks for parking ...bugger that
Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:17 pm
by gregmaka
I wonder what the water clarity is like there at the moment.I never caught whiting on that pier,but the one before CunningHam,iwas catching nice 41 and 42 cm fat ones.