Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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
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
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
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
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Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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
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
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Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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...wem21 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:18 amHey 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
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Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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.
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Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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
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A fish is a fish
No fish is worth a life, stay safe
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Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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.
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Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
I went there today....but they wanted 12 bucks for parking ...bugger that
To many boats kayak, helicopter , catch a fish,catch a fish
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Re: Cunningham pier 4/11/2019
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.