Noob Fishing off Little Island
Hi
I am a relatively inexperienced skipper having purchased a 15ft glass runabout just over a year ago. I have recently started to head off hillarys to get stuck in to some fishing. Usually I head out to little island and fish in front of that and along marmion reef. However lately I have not been catching anything anywhere along there. Is anyone else having much luck around this area????
I am now starting to gain familiarity with the area/ reefs and where I can and cant go. I have also purchased a chartplotter and fishfinder so I am keen to try and find some good spots. As a beginner I have been focussing on herring, skippy and KG. Whats the best way for me find good ground??? simply troll around and watch the plotter??? I am hoping to head out to the three mile reef and have a crack there.
Any advise would be much appreciated
Cheers
sea-kem
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Mate if your fishing for
Mate if your fishing for Herring skippy etc. All you need to do is anchor up near Little island and berley up and let the fish come to you. Fish the surface with ganged bluebait and a berley cage setup.
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svranjic
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Date Joined: 28/03/11
Cheers for the reply
Cheers for the reply mate
Anchored up inside little island yesterday and today with no luck. Mixed up some pollard with chicken fat/oil to make my berley and had a pretty decent trail going from behind the boat but still got nothin.I also threw in some off the bigger berley pellets. Was out there from 6am - 12pm today. Ended up bottom bouncing on the northern edges of the reef and got into some wrasse which was a bummer. Maybe I need to try the other side of little island.
sea-kem
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That is bloody perplexing.
That is bloody perplexing. (Big word for a Saturday night with a few drinkies under the belt) Sounds like you had a good trail going. But then some days they're there and some they're not. Just keep trying.
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sammy85
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hey mate have u tried fishing
hey mate have u tried fishing some squid jigs around little island?
2 weeks ago i got 4 good sized squid in an hour from there. u can then use the fresh squid legs as bait around the watermans scabs area around the 15m mark...although the other week the mrs. caught a kg whiting in 8 m near watermans good luck. regards sammy.
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sea-kem
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Forgot to mention that. It's
Forgot to mention that. It's awesome KG territory around there. Caught a 600mm speciman there about 100m from the marina wall.
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Corza
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Date Joined: 25/11/07
Mate before i sold my boat I
Mate before i sold my boat I used to take the misses out there for herring, ( she loves em eating and catching), I take the yak out there now but I still can't believe the amount of people I see wondering why I am catching herring and they aren't. I don't eat fish so I lure fish for the fun and and keep some for her.
If you want herring just use chrome spinners, so much more fun watching the chase and get better results, and the squid are building atm..
There is also some good tailor around some certain rocks at times too..
svranjic
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Date Joined: 28/03/11
Cheers for all the replies
Cheers for all the replies and tips!!
Went out again today off hillarys..... Whats the deal with people parking thier cars in boat bays??? is this alowed because I drove around the carpark for half an hour looking for a place to park the car and trailer after launching, what a joke!!! anyhow ended up parking on the verge at back of the parking lot along with some other boaties.
So I was out from around 1.30pm to 6.30pm. Tried inside little island focusing on edges of weed patch. Go nothing even after burleying and using bits of bread. Tried the northen ledge of the reef and got nothing again. So I drove south around scarborough way and also got nothing. So then I drove north again and went behind little island in deeper water and only got wrasse. Aaargghh!!!
I dont think I will waste my time in front of little island, next time it be out behind little island where it drops off in much deeper waters and try to get out of the weed. Also want to hit up 3 mile reef on a nice day and head south to Centaur off trigg.
randall df223
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Date Joined: 08/08/11
We fished around the outside
We fished around the outside of three mile yesterday. be carefully not to get in too close! we drifted most of the day and picked up a couple of small breaksea cod (released) and a skippy (kept). Lots of wrasse that I filleted for the bait bucket. Others we spoke to at the ramp anchored up in about 15 - 20m of water almost due west of the reef and berleyed up and got a few skippy which are good fun on light gear.
Fish! HARD!