Sunday Report
We headed out at about 5 this morning on the waters by about 5 30 and greeted by schools and schools of small longtail or bluefin tuna not to sure which but they were everywhere also picked up my first tuna on fly :) so we grabbed a few for bait and headed out to the north barge first drop resulted in a nice sambo of about 10kg. Next drop resulted in my mate getting an absolute horse of a leatherjacket. Then something that put a dampener on the day my practically brand new saltiga Xhfs jig rod snapped 3 eylets from the top. So after that decided to come on closer for a bit of a bottom bash in the 30's. Sounder was looking good and from when the baits hit bottom they were getting smashed resulting in 4 or 5 blackass 2 small pinks 1 small dhuie and plenty of other reef fish and a few unstopables. As the weather was turning sour we started coming back in at about 1 30 and there was still schools of tuna hanging around but we couldnt get a hookup. Went for a quick fish and dive in close to garden and picked up a nice 50cm flathead and a few whiting. Great day in all and a nice sunburn to go with it
JACKO W
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Sounds good, were heading
Sounds good, were heading out of Mandurah on Wedenesday.
hope to get into some good fish.
Theres absolutely nothin like hookin up to the first biggun of the day. JACKO W.
Faulkner Family
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sounds like a fun day, pity
sounds like a fun day, pity about the rod but things like that happen.
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hlokk
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Great fun getting onto those
Great fun getting onto those tuna on light gear. Great to hear you got one on fly too. What weight were you using? Curioustoknow the fly ( but maybe it's a secret ;) ). If the tuna were several kg or less I'd think SBTs. definately a few schools out there ATM
Paul G
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Sounds like a great day
Sounds like a great day ,shame about the rod.any good size fish .remember slip, slop ,slap its so easy to foget to put the sunscreen on as you may miss something ,Jesse is allways getting burnt never learns.
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Ganged
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Pretty Good day out, those
Pretty Good day out, those blackass taste bloody good hey?
Still learning
Riaz
synthos
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nice
tunas pretty close i only ever seen them in 45m did u cast slices into the school or troll it? I'll be oout on wed aswell I think finally gota get some action after the closure u guys leave me any ? :)
fisherman1992
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i was ment to be with you
fishing isnt a sport its a lifestyle
Walker
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Date Joined: 04/10/09
with the tuna look for when
with the tuna look for when the school of tuna push bait up in waves, then cast your slice. they seem to syncronise there attack all at once,,,then thats when the birds dive. last week i caught heaps of longtail tuna 5-6kg which was great fun. the school was bigger than ive even seen up north...thousands under my boat. i could clearly see them.