Hi Crew,

Not a specific report as such, but just a whats biting and been happening around the place.  Went out today and had a bit of a troll around for some dollies, plenty of weed and current, but no love unfortunately.   The surface has been pretty quiet of late and there hasn't been a lot of marlin reports around, mainly because we haven't really had the weather to head wide.  The back of the reef on the westside has pretty much been a no-go zone since the new year with very few good days going.  I've heard a few reports from the inside, some good painted crays in the shallows up near the accesses and last week some donkey GT's were in around Trisel.

Theres been plenty of life in the gulf, heaps of meter long queenies up on Bundegi flats with livies being the best.  Theres been quite a few queenies along the beaches as well (as Deepwater showed this week)  When launching from bundegi this morning there were 2kg GT's smashing up oooodles of hardyheads, when we got back 4 hours later they were still there and easy to sight cast to in less than a meter of water.

The marina has been fishing well for jacks (apart from the prick that went spearing in there and cleaned out one of the rock walls) some good fish coming on the right tides.  A work mate has been fishing it hard lately and got spooled on 2kg by a 15kg+ GT last week and local Bluewater reports suggest its not uncommon at the moment.  Another interesting find was the same mate on the weekend had his bait chased into the rocks by a 20kg black jew, not unheard of in Exxy, but definitely uncommon.  Along the shores of the gulf the yellowfin whiting have been thick if you can be bothered filleting lots for little reward, still a very easy feed though.

The tides have started picking up this week which has slowed the diving down a bit.  I went twice last week after work and managed a few small bluies and trout in great vis and plenty about which is promising, hopefully I'll be able to get out the next set of neaps for another look.  A mate said he also managed to get 6 squid the other day, but had to work hard for them so I would guess that the waters still a bit too warm.

I have to say its the quietest I've seen the longtail tuna in ages, they just seem to have disappeared, mind you, I haven't been chasing them regularly.  Heaps and heaps of the small tuna around, but not much chasing them.  Another random catch was a monster sailfish down at Schofield shoals and quite a few spaniards down around the islands.  If your up here and blown out fishing wide, then heading down the bottom if you get good tides is more than likely worth a shot!

Cheers,

Adam