North West Blowies
Submitted by Ericl on Sat, 2015-07-25 08:48
Hi
Went out from Ocean Reef yesterday and fished on top of the bank about 22 NM offshore. Lots of good soundings but most hook ups ended up as being bitten off - presumably by NW blowies !
Ended up losing about a dozen or so hooks bitten off and only 1 blackass and 1 baldie for the days efforts. We found the day very slow despite fishing areas that had been very productive before. Anyone else have a NW Blowie problem or experience very slow action yesterday
Eric
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Yup, they turned up in droves
offshore of garden island in 50 metres, still got some huge KGW up to 60cm and a good black arse
Shepheard
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Went out of Ocean reef
Went out of Ocean reef yesterday,was bitten off about 4 time's nw blowies,got one to the side of the boat.
Ended up with a 80cm Snapper pb and a 10 kg Dhuie,was a very slow day,
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Plastics seemed to work
Seems like DTrain had a good day on soft plastics. Also heard from other fishos that soft plastics might be the way to go to avoid NW blowies as well as to excite some action if bait isn't working. Will give it a go next trip
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