Dan South's Coral Bay Photos - Mitch's Report
I'm back from from the bay and would have to rate it as one of the most memerable weeks of fishing ive had. Dans boat is a bloody great ocean boat and I want to thank him and his family for a great weeks fishing. I think when it comes to highlights, trolling along with 2 pushers out the back and a teaser chain of old cds out the back we had been at it for about half an hour with nothing happening. Do those teasers work ? the call was made to stop the boat bring in the cds and skirts and hit it wide for a bottom bounce. So with the boat stopped I lent out to grab the line to pull in the cds, and hollie bloody shite directly under the cds was not one marlin eyeing them of but 2. Gun it was the call and within 30 seconds there it was a big billie slapping my lure. What an adrenilin rush and with a short hook up it was all over. The same thing happened the next day but this time on dans tld 50 im still shaking just writing this down.
So i can tell you give it a crack - 12 or so old cds about 500 mm apart tied together with some old heavy mono and drop them out the back about 4 or 5 metres there's nothing to lose and i reckon it works.
I didnt get any moster fish in the boat but did catch a few good red fish and learnt a lot about how to go about it. A big tip is to have a good sounder as theres not alot of lumpy ground out there. The trick was to find the schooling fish on ya sounder drift over them pull up and go around again. We actually spent half the time dropping baits down and the other half the time finding the school and setting up for another drift. Small circle hooks were the go so thats it from me. I will be back in the bay next year for SURE.
p.s Got a couple of pics but no cigar on the billies. Im gonna give it crack again that is a definate!
Mitch
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Andy Mac
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Shania Twain CD's work best!!!
Yeah we do something similar Mitch. Having been sick and tired of listening to the same old CD's of my wife & Kids they mysteriously vanished and ended up getting stuck to a big block of 4x2 wood cut with a bevel on the nose. We stuck em all over it then tied a trail a stack of 5 or 6 behind. Never raise a billy with em though, so you are way ahead in those stakes. Probably all the fish are sick of Shania Twain too, maybe its time to change my cd's over, any hints on which ones they were. (Hehehehe)
Great report Mitch, you guys certainly got into a few up there and wet the appetite for a few more travellers to head up in the near future.
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Sure Andy - Shania Twain
Sure Andy, blame the wife again. We know you like listening to Shania in your little Scooby Doo, anything to reduce the noise that Vdub engine makes. :)
On another note, if it wasn't for Gribbo having two awesome teasers this year we would have been using the cd's as well. You guys should invest in the birds which flutter at the start of the teaser, don't know their exact names but boy did they go off! Made it look like we had our own bait city out the back.
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Andy Mac
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Shania
Man I feel like a woman.......
Wasn't that the song that was blaring out of your little 4wd the other day.
Vdub engine...Huh! I'll have you know that is a 3litre Boxer engine that makes a very nice sound indeed. That is as long as the 13 speaker macintosh sound system is turned down low enough to hear anything above Shania's beautiful music.
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Hehehe
Nope, I take it they are words from a Shania song Andy??? :D
Certainly a nice piece of machinery, don't worry mate, just jealousy. :)
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mitch
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birds
we did run 3 birds in front of the cds. ebay again. i booked yesterday for a trip back to the bay same time next year .they are already full .but did manage to get the last cabin and am on the waiting list for an updated cabin with a dunny and shower.rock on july next year ha ha.
always in it just the depth that varies
dan south
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c bay
cool mitch so u did book for july we did yesterday aswell got the same camp site cant wait already its not three weeks this time its a month.
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A month!
Sheesh, a whole month, I know who I'll be asking for info next time I go to Coral Bay, you guys will be locals - if you aren't already! ;)
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gina
yeah dan ya sister rang my wife to see if we had booked because when she booked she got the last shallet .so with a bit of wheeling and dealing.thanks gabby we got ya sisters shallet.so there you have it coral bay is fully booked for july next year..the shallets anyway
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Andy
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locals
We want to become locals...
dan south
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c bay july 07
ye mate its all booked i cant wait already another year we could be half locals haha its good to no that we can go up there and not worry bout catching nothing because boy do we have some spots now.