Tuna Time

 G'day 

With every weather report saying something different, we decided to chance it and head out early for a morning bash. We were at the 'west end of Rottnest' as the sun came up and had a few drops - all the right fish were coming up they were just size or a bit under, so all went back - bald chin, dhu fish and pink snapper.

 

We saw some birds causing a racket so went over to investigate, we could see Tuna free jumping clean out of the water, they were Southern Blue Fin Tuna around the 4-5kg mark. They spooked quite easily, so we needed to go wider around the school to keep them on the surface. Chased the school around for a few hours, kept these 5 for a feed released some more and dropped a few more.

Good fun for a sunday morning!

Sorry about the kill shot. Conditions out there on Sunday morning, were OK and not great. Well worth the trip out.

 

 

Cheers, 


Alex


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seems like you had some fun

Mon, 2015-03-02 10:37

nice little fighters on light gear

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Awesome

Mon, 2015-03-02 11:13

You gettum trollin or casting? Love the kill shot, good pic, some beaut lil steaks and sashimi there

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 They are great fun on the

Mon, 2015-03-02 12:02

 They are great fun on the light gear. Few nice feeds too. 

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 looks like theyre getting

Mon, 2015-03-02 12:08

 looks like theyre getting bigger too, could only find 1-3kg fish earlier in the year

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 Nice fish and a nice jarrah

Mon, 2015-03-02 20:10

 Nice fish and a nice jarrah fish bench also

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 Tim-o: We just got a new

Tue, 2015-03-03 07:37

 Tim-o: We just got a new tub, and the previous owner had a canvas canopy installed all the way to the back of the boat! We haven't had a chance to get it modified (this week), so casting is an issue. Got them all trolling bibbed lures - Rapala X-wrap and a Halco Scorpion did the damage. I think casting would have been a better option though!

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Tuna close to shore

Wed, 2015-03-04 11:14

 Over the weekend we saw numerous schools of tuna close to shore from Scarborough all the way up to the Alkimos wreck. Closest was no more than 100mtrs of Beaumaris Beach between Burns Beach and Ocean Reef.

They weren't big fish around 4-5kg.

Unfortunatley on rescue duty so had no rods onboard

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yo went past us on the way

Fri, 2015-03-06 21:08

you went past us on the way out and back then mate? in the big cat.

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 Nice one Iceman. Hopefully

Thu, 2015-03-05 17:05

 Nice one Iceman. Hopefully next time you have a rod on board!

 

Can't decide what we will do this weekend... try look for some more tuna or go for some YTK's.

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Yeah! bring out the Wasabi!

Thu, 2015-03-05 17:47

Yeah! bring out the Wasabi!

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