Terns
How good are their eyesight? Was just down the beach and they were hovering about 10m above me. Each cast they tried to nail my baitcast mulie, then on retrieve they tried again.
When I actually hooked up they came closer to inspect my catch. When they realised that it was a blowi they buggered off. I eventually managed 1 x miniscule whiptail and they came over absolutely FROTHING for me to give em the whippy. They were literally like 2m from me hovering for the fish. Bugger that hooked im up as livey and pitched im back out. This time a tern dove and nailed it - line doubled over and I was on, albeit to a tern that soon let go once it realised what was going on. Cheeky buggers
30sec later the whippy was gone, maurauding bloody blowie school *BAH*
Still impressed with the eyesight on these terns though.
Faulkner Family
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cheeky little shits their
cheeky little shits
their eyesight is pretty good ,when you see them iving from 20 mtrs in rough seas for a fish that would be the size of whitebait a meter below the water
hooked a couple myself and they are verry fiesty when hooked
RUSS & SANDY
"A family that fishes together stays together"
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Jim
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cheeky buggars!Ive caught a
Cheeky buggars!
You have to cast when they are not looking ;)
Bend over
Auslobster
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Very good indicators..
...of fish schools. When I was at Christmas Island last year, most offshore bird activity was terns or young boobies. The boobies weren't too bright and would dive on anything, including seaweed and tree leaves. They would even have a chew on the boat's aerial. If terns were spotted diving, however, you could be virtually positive it was bait schools being pressured by yellowfin and/or wahoo.
In the metro area they regularly tip off bonito and southern bluefin schools and are usually the first birds on the scene anytime there is a bustup going on.
wrassinator
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..or the first ones on the
..or the first ones on the scene when an easy meal is on offer. These ones were shore based and clearly have had easy meals in the past. Their behaviour was just so clever, wait for human to catch fish, and scab off the human. Failing that, dive bomb the humans' baitcast mulie. Gotta give it to 'em very clever for a bird.