South West Pelagics

I remember it was about this time last year when marlin, sailfish and mackies were being hooked round Duns and cape nat, has anyone heard any reports so far this year? I dont know what the water temp was like last year compared to this year but i heard it was pretty warm around eagle bay over the weekend like 22+ degrees? Is that too cold for these northern pelagics?


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i have heard of marlin at

Mon, 2012-02-20 20:25

i have heard of marlin at duns (200kg+ plus one) and macks as far as augusta at 11kg and one at yallingup at 9kg

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have heard of a few macs

Mon, 2012-02-20 21:10

have heard of a few macs being caught down here ,but i havent had any luck yet this year,we draged bibbed lures and skirts around for hours on friday between cape nat and down past yalingup and back ,and then again on sunday all the way back to dunsbourgh,water temp was around 23 a weather was c--p.

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Tuna

Tue, 2012-02-21 01:32

 We caught some Tuna 2 weeks ago from Dunsborough, only about 2km out as well.

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 Geo bay is a couple of

Tue, 2012-02-21 06:31

 Geo bay is a couple of degrees cooler than this time last year. Lets see what the next few weeks bring. 

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 i think we are in for some

Tue, 2012-02-21 08:20

 i think we are in for some hot weather in the next month so maybe the fish will start showing their faces as the temp rises. one thing about that place down there is you just never know whats going to show up with all these changes to the water curents. hope it starts firing up for you guys soon

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I was out on sunday and saw

Tue, 2012-02-21 09:43

I was out on sunday and saw some odd whitewater out from quindalup on the 4 mile, but when I drove over there it was weird like a small surge of white water heading across towards bunbury.  Followed it for a bit as I originally thought it was something smashing bait but there was nothing on it.  Though next time Im out deeper, I will have a flyrod and baitfish imitation ready just in case I come across something.

Yes geo bay had a small cool pocket of water in it a week or so ago but now its looking like it has mixed in.  Over the next week or two I reckon trolling around the cape will be interesting!

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