What have you seen with this warm water?

So what have you guys been seeing with this warmer water?

Goodz, hoookt and I got stuck into some shark mackerel yesterday. I had a double hookup on my boat and the amount of other sharkies that followed the hooked fish was incredible, wouldve been well over 50 fish swimming around the back of the boat.
5mins later we came across a nice big Manta Ray just chilling on the surface!
Was getting a reading of 23.5 degrees in that area.

So are you guys seeing anything unusual influenced by the warmer water yet?
Going by the maps looks like SOR is the place to be for our Northern visitors at the moment.

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I tell you what I have seen this summer

Mon, 2014-02-24 17:30

 Wind!! 

 

Lots and lots of wind!!!!

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Not wrong! The extreme lack

Mon, 2014-02-24 17:38

Not wrong!
The extreme lack of yesterday was verry nice

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the thing I've seen most of is f....... fugus

Mon, 2014-02-24 17:38

I think they are going to be a reel danger to our fish stocks and it will be useless to anchor and berly before long and I don't think they go back up north,THEIR LOCAL NOW

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Seen

Mon, 2014-02-24 17:43

 A black spot tusk fish (bluebone) whilst cray divin off hillaries, seen a couple of spanglies, caught a few red throat of mindarie. Hopefully it all continues!!

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a few months back

Mon, 2014-02-24 20:42

there was a post on here a couple of months ago where a red emperor was caught of hillarys

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Big turtle off the Cut yesterday

Mon, 2014-02-24 17:58

 Just basking in the warm water, but it didn't put either the snapper or baldie off 

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80nm

Mon, 2014-02-24 17:59

80nm round tip, for a top water temp of 22 degrees and sweet FA bait, birds or fish.

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 Trolled both sides of five

Mon, 2014-02-24 18:43

 Trolled both sides of five fathom yesterday and not even a touch, looking at that chart I would have been in the right area, water temp readings upto 23.9. One thing I have seen is a fair few tiger sharks.

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Bait

Mon, 2014-02-24 19:32

 Since early to mid jan I haven't seen too much bait nor and the water is cooler there, when I have trolled no action.   As a bonus I have all of a sudden started catching quite a few swallow tail

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 i woulda ace encounter 15

Mon, 2014-02-24 19:57

 i woulda ace encounter 15 metro land based spaniards this year, plus diving around rotto I've seen lip fish and spangled enporer!

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Seen an

Mon, 2014-02-24 19:58

elephant seal

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There's definitely marlin around

Mon, 2014-02-24 20:04

 There's definitely marlin around :-)

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I just read on facebook!

Mon, 2014-02-24 21:15

I just read on facebook! Crazy

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 Definently multiple marlin

Mon, 2014-02-24 21:21

 Definently multiple marlin around ;)

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 Burlies up around rotto

Mon, 2014-02-24 20:08

 Burlies up around rotto yesterday morning saw a bunch of mackies but didn't come with in range to shoot 

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what type

Mon, 2014-02-24 21:55

what type of mackies , sharkies, spotted , or spaniards

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Seaward reef

Tue, 2014-02-25 06:27

We were out behind carnac around seaward reef, tried drifting the reef without much like, trolled for a bit and saw a crazy bust up on the surface.  Many birds diving, but hitting a really concentrated patch on the surface, as we got closer we could see a shark and numerous fish thrashing on the surface. I didnt see any mackies, but to me definately looked like some sort of tuna species with a dark top upper body around 60-80cms long.  Ben cast into the bustup but with no luck.  We trolled around some more and spooked them.  After another 15-20 mins and we see the same type of bust up and head back towards it with the lures out but unfortunately I was trying to troll the edge of the ball but I went clean through it and we spooked them again.  Still got me wondering what they were!

Ben got a nice skippy and I got F/All for most of the day but managed to pull a beauty of a KGW near home time.

 

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Sounds like striped tuna,

Tue, 2014-02-25 08:05

Sounds like striped tuna, been heapssss of them around tye back of the ffb and up towards Rotto. Some guys even caught a few around in the sound on the weekend

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Hopefully no ones seen any of

Tue, 2014-02-25 09:05

Hopefully no ones seen any of these buggars .. photo of a croc at cable beach on weekend

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C'mon now

Tue, 2014-02-25 09:51

It's clearly lonely and needs a hug.

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Great White Vs Croc. I sense

Tue, 2014-02-25 10:05

Great White Vs Croc.
I sense a B grade movie coming out!!

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 saw a big dead turtle

Tue, 2014-02-25 10:21

 saw a big dead turtle floating into cockburn sound a couple weeks ago. 

long way to float.

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Seasnake

Tue, 2014-02-25 13:16

A curious sea snake swam by us on Sunday - 20 miles out from Rockingham...
I haven't ever seen one down here - plenty up north...

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Ocean currents

Tue, 2014-02-25 20:19

 I hope some research will go into this because from this thread it surely tells us that the change is well on the way. Have mud crabs been caught at Bunbury 20 years ago or are we seeing what some doomsdayers have been predicting ? I know we can not do anything about it , but watch this space , otherwise !