Full moon and bottom bashing???????

Just wondered how everyone did today, we went out around south west bank got two sized snapper two b/a and a few undersized duhies. Seems every time we go out bottom bashing on a full moon the fish dont seem to want to swallow the bait they tend to just pick at the bait even the fish we caught today didnt bite hard like normal they more or less just picked at the bait and when we hooked them it was just a lucky strike. All in all it was a great day out just good getting out on such a beautifull calm day, litle bit choppy till about 11 but after that it was like a mill pond. So how did everyone go and has any one else got any theories on full moon bottom bashing.

 

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full moon

Mon, 2010-03-01 20:03

didnt get out today dhu to working now but have never done to good on a full moon bad day fishing is better than a good at work ha ha

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I agree..

Mon, 2010-03-01 21:27

Never had any great days out with the full moon.Always try to steer clear of it where possible.Having said that ill take any opportunity to get out on a boat.

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for once we didnt have that prob,

Tue, 2010-03-02 06:11

, we got out today and had some monsters smashing our baits real hard but only managed to land 1 pinky at 4kg 1 red snapper at 2.5kg 1 red snapper at 1.2 kg 2 average bbums and 1 queenie at 2.5kg along with 1 pinky just under size and a small queenie both returned well. it was a nice day out after the wind dropped at around 9:30 and only got better, had a ball out there and didnt want to return but had to go to workFrown. one thing that could have been a factor in this situation is the strong current

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also never had a good

Mon, 2010-03-01 22:50

also never had a good success rate chasing reefies around a full moon. It's always been better on the lead up & fairly after.

Must have been a blue moon - conditions like today & yesterday are superb.

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I didn't bother

Tue, 2010-03-02 08:01

I was gona head out yesterday but realized tha full moon n didn't bother.    Last time we went out on a full moon tha only thing we got was a school of blowies!!!  Gona give it a couple of days then hit it hard.

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was out at the montes for

Tue, 2010-03-02 08:08

was out at the montes for the last 3 days, bottom bouncingt was hard work, lots of fish showing, not much biting tho.

Surface and shallow water plastic action was pretty good tho.

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Full moon!

Tue, 2010-03-02 11:37

Biggerfish, I find shallow water demersal fishing isnt the best on the full moon but often jigging will entice a bite....still doesnt stop me from fishing shallow water however!

Went out yesterday and nailed some deepwater species, they dont mind the f-moon.........too dark down there to effect  ha ha =)

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What did you end up with

Tue, 2010-03-02 21:25

What did you end up with Ryan?

With conditions like yesterday... could have sailed to South Africa.

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Pelagics & Demersals!

Tue, 2010-03-02 21:50

Conditions were awesome indeed, took a mate out that wanted dolphinfish and deepwater demersals. He got his bag limit of both pelagics & demersals. Deepwater was one drift, he got a double header of Blue-Trevala & Hapuku!

Tigh was a happy man with all fish being firsts for him & PB's =)

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That would have been a work out?

Wed, 2010-03-03 17:07

Great effort Tigh and I've never caught a Blue Trevalla or Hapuka Ryan.  Hint Hint! LOL.

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well done guys another

Fri, 2010-03-05 23:06

well done guys another quality day ryan. It would of been hard yakka pulling them up on that hand line though

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Will keep it in mind next

Tue, 2010-03-02 13:04

Will keep it in mind next full moon but as everyone has said fish or no fish it's good to get out there so it prob won't stop me heading out next full moon

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No complaint on moon......

Tue, 2010-03-02 21:43

Im not complaining about the moon.....yesterday was just fine. Only thing to complain about was people in big game boats parking on top of FADS so close they could touch it and spooking every Dollie in sight after 5 casts 5 hookups and four fish on board to 100 casts and not one follow! Yell

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Yep!

Tue, 2010-03-02 22:17

Yep fully agree Tigh, after many years of fishing the FADS i still see ppl shutting down fish. They sit on top of the dolphinfish school and/or FAD chain. They then wonder why they arent getting fish even with livies?!?!?

The fish either spook or shut down......not productive!

Every cast we cleaned up on artificial & 2kg spin in the arvo then the big gameboat(s) shut em down by sitting on top, the blank look on their faces as they say "they arent feeding"....we'll they "were"!!!!!

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now that you mention it,

Tue, 2010-03-02 21:54

now that you mention it, bruce and i were talking about it today. we only got a few good hits, and they resulted in nice fish, but there were hardly any smaller 'peckers' ie. cod and flag. that are usualy in large numbers.

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FADS

Tue, 2010-03-02 21:56

Freo sailing club comp on over the w/kend. Big bill drop and another raised was the word at the pub on sunday night.

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Thanks

Wed, 2010-03-03 17:26

Thanks Wazzbat, was a good work out at the end of the day. Was nice to see them pop up. Had an awsome day on the water and conditions were ideal. Been deep before but they were two firsts for me. Will be tasting very soon thats for sure! What were those lures on the Dollies again Ryan ;) ;)

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Nice fish tigh!

Wed, 2010-03-03 23:36

Conditions look pretty average though.