Tuna abound
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Went out with Bouttime and Adam on the Wednesday morning and we decided to troll to see what turned up.Not long into it we managed to see a couple of tuna breaking the surface and launching into the air.As we came past the general region we had a double hook-up and pulled in a couple of bonito.Continued trolling and found a huge swarm of birds that were activly feeding on the surface.Trolled around the edges and had several 3 way hook-ups with all fish landed (southern blue fins to 2-3kg).Got enough for a good feed then went bottom bouncing after the tuna shut down from feeding.Only managed a few pickers and a sand snapper (to ADAM HA HA HA HA!), tried for kgs (no luck), then went into the weed banks for squid (very slow going).All in all really had a great day so thanks go to bouttime and Adam.Great to meet you both and look forwatrd to getting out in the future.
Cheers OX
Adam Gallash
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Good stuff
Yep, was good to meet you too OX. As for the sand snapper, bugger bugger bugger, though I had picked up a nice sized little dhu as it had a few solid headshakes. Damn disappointed when I saw the sand snapper, ahh well, can't win all the time. The tuna were awesome fun anyway, just had the second feed, mmmmmmmmm.
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Adam Gallash
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Bit of everything
We had a bit of everything out, red n whites, mackerel patterns, deep divers, 2mtrs, when you found them I don't think it really mattered too much what was in the spread, as long as it rattled n hummed they'd hit it. They were literally everywhere underneath the boat at one stage.
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OX
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As Adam replied
Yep just about everything worked but I did notice that the red head bibbed minnow (190's) did work really well (correct me if I am wrong Adam/Bouttime).The tuna also were mainly caught off the middle trebble on the lure as opposed to the tail trebble.We were lucky to hit a decent school and as Adam said they were under the boat on several occasions, while we pulled in tuna we tryed to get a hook up with casted minnow lures (several follows but no takes).Awsome to watch and be involved in.
Cheers OX
deefa
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Did ya try wangin some small
Did ya try wangin some small metals(10odd gram's) around on smaller(bream) gear when the school was hanging tight round tha boat? Just a method i've used in the passed with reasonable success. On those smaller tuna, its a great way to target them.
mike79
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i noticed it too
out from point peron when ive found them too the red headed white bodied lures were only tappped compared to the other two darker colours i had out and they seemed to hit my lures less than a meter under. the deeper dvers were onlt nudged.