Goldcoast Seaway Report

[james1990]

Hi guys

Well got on the water at 6.30 saturday morning,,, straight out to the 36 fathom line to have a troll...well when you read the weather reports and it warns you that it is only averages and can be 40% larger at times...don't be fooled....was choppy as hell out there we trolled for about 6 hours for a small mack tuna, also had a reef fish at the 12 fathom reef a boat next to us got a double hook up on mack tuna about 15kg each and dad landed a small trag.

MONDAY-- Well wasnt it a magnificant day.....i dont think the wind blew at anymore than 5 knots all day.

But lets get to the fishing.

Had my girlfreind on board who has never being fishing before myself and dad left the grandhotel boatramp at 6.30am

As we entered the seaway i could help but notice birds working along the south wall of south stradbroke island next thing all i see is the water go balistic..i thought that the bustup would have been a school of mack tuna.....yelled out to dad 2 kill the motor so i quickly rigged up a few rods with metal lures and i pegged a laser 50gram in black on 8lb mainline 10lb leader on a small shimano saratoga outfit into the working school next thing rod buckels over ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ $#!t yehh im on, watching the 8lb braid disappear from the reel at a rate of knots was abit of a worry so i worked the fish to the boat slowly but steadily 9 mins later we see colour and dad nets my FIRST and PB giant trevally of 61cm

Now for jades turn i cast the rod out for her and told her just to wind in fast about 3 seconds after the laser hits the water she is on and fights her first fish EVER for about 5 mins and lands a nice 41cm giant trevally.

By the time we get set back up again theres about 30 working he school and the school had dispersed into smaller schools all over the seaway.

There was a school of small whitebait must have been about 2 footy feilds in size that was being worked by birds and the gt's and probably serveral other species.

Fished a small reef just out of the seaway for about an hour along side mark burg and his crew which were filming some footage,, we managed a big ass toadfish and a few whiting about 25cm long

Decided to shoot out to the reef where we had seen the boat next to us land a coupla nice mack tuna on saturday just before we got to the reef i set 5 lines out the back a mix of skirts and halco laser pro divers with wire traces.

As we get over the reef the diawa saltist starts goin nuts dad runs down the back and just before he grabs the rod 2 of the other rods start goin nuts WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO triple hook-up on mack tuna...get jade 2 keep the boat in idle in a straight line so the lines don't tangle, dad lands his small mack tuna of about 5kg's i land one almost the same size and we dropped another.

Set lines back out and did a few laps of the reef landing another 5kg mack tuna and dropping to fish 1 of which had taken a screamer of a run on the 24kg gear.

It was about that time of the day when we were hangin for a bottom bash so down with the squid, pillies and tuna peices for a coupla hours managed 4 pinkies ranging 24cm-27cm, sargent baker, tuskfish and busted off a few times on the lighter 8lb outfit that was intended for the pinkies.

Also saw a small shark about 4-5 foot cruise past the boat.

cheers james

By jameslad1990

Edited May 5, 2008 by james1990

[Adz]

Hi guys

Well got on the water at 6.30 saturday morning,,, straight out to the 36 fathom line to have a troll...well when you read the weather reports and it warns you that it is only averages and can be 40% larger at times...don't be fooled....was choppy as hell out there we trolled for about 6 hours for a small mack tuna, also had a reef fish at the 12 fathom reef a boat next to us got a double hook up on mack tuna about 15kg each and dad landed a small trag.

MONDAY-- Well wasnt it a magnificant day.....i dont think the wind blew at anymore than 5 knots all day.

But lets get to the fishing.

Had my girlfreind on board who has never being fishing before myself and dad left the grandhotel boatramp at 6.30am

As we entered the seaway i could help but notice birds working along the south wall of south stradbroke island next thing all i see is the water go balistic..i thought that the bustup would have been a school of mack tuna.....yelled out to dad 2 kill the motor so i quickly rigged up a few rods with metal lures and i pegged a laser 50gram in black on 8lb mainline 10lb leader on a small shimano saratoga outfit into the working school next thing rod buckels over ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ $#!t yehh im on, watching the 8lb braid disappear from the reel at a rate of knots was abit of a worry so i worked the fish to the boat slowly but steadily 9 mins later we see colour and dad nets my FIRST and PB giant trevally of 61cm

Now for jades turn i cast the rod out for her and told her just to wind in fast about 3 seconds after the laser hits the water she is on and fights her first fish EVER for about 5 mins and lands a nice 41cm giant trevally.

By the time we get set back up again theres about 30 working he school and the school had dispersed into smaller schools all over the seaway.

There was a school of small whitebait must have been about 2 footy feilds in size that was being worked by birds and the gt's and probably serveral other species.

Fished a small reef just out of the seaway for about an hour along side mark burg and his crew which were filming some footage,, we managed a big ass toadfish and a few whiting about 25cm long

Decided to shoot out to the reef where we had seen the boat next to us land a coupla nice mack tuna on saturday just before we got to the reef i set 5 lines out the back a mix of skirts and halco laser pro divers with wire traces.

As we get over the reef the diawa saltist starts goin nuts dad runs down the back and just before he grabs the rod 2 of the other rods start goin nuts WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO triple hook-up on mack tuna...get jade 2 keep the boat in idle in a straight line so the lines don't tangle, dad lands his small mack tuna of about 5kg's i land one almost the same size and we dropped another.

Set lines back out and did a few laps of the reef landing another 5kg mack tuna and dropping to fish 1 of which had taken a screamer of a run on the 24kg gear.

It was about that time of the day when we were hangin for a bottom bash so down with the squid, pillies and tuna peices for a coupla hours managed 4 pinkies ranging 24cm-27cm, sargent baker, tuskfish and busted off a few times on the lighter 8lb outfit that was intended for the pinkies.

Also saw a small shark about 4-5 foot cruise past the boat.

All in all it has been a great weekend filled with lots of fishing.

I will put some picks up of the GT'S tomorrow sometime.

cheers james

Most awesome write up. Being in QLD myself, made me think I was in the wrong spot today. Only managed a couple of flatties myself, up the Nerang River. DID find quite the spot today however, by chance, and am super keen to get back there on the tidal flows to meet up with the parents of my 'just' legal flatties.

Top read James!

[kikila]

you a relo of lance tomson by chance??

nice fish BTW

[Steve07]

Great report there James,good to see you starting to get amongst some nice fish up off the gold coast &

well done on your first big giant tevally.

Sounds like you guys had top fun out there!!

cheers mate

Steve

[slinkymalinky]

Great report mate... you're finding the fish pretty well up there then!!

If you want to get some nice table fish when the weather is no good for getting outside, get yourself some live herring with a throw net or using a really small bait jig. Drift either wall (the North wall is better) with live herring pinned through the nose with a small (1/0) circle hook on about a 60cm 15-20lb mono or fluorocarbon trace underneath a medium sized (2 to 4) ball sinker. You can use a bream outifit. You'll pick up plently of big bream, flatties and occasionally Jacks, Trevally, Tailor and Jewies. Drifting with the current means you don't need much lead to hold bottom and its a relaxing way to fish. Try to keep your drift along the line where the rocks meet the sand.

Cheers, Slinky

[james1990]

The southern wall of the seaway iv heard is a gun spot for gt's at first light trolling small divers.

Theres a hole at the end of the southern wall that holds jews

And iv also been told along the pipeline is a good spot for jews and gt's.

Goin out again on saturday hopefully with the knowledge we have know will get some better fish.

cheers james

[shefford]

Nice work!

Had massive runs of mack tuna on southern goldy last week, lets just say the cat was happy

Nice work on the GT

[james1990]

Some of the other catches being made at the moment are...

My neighbour went out on saturday and got a 7 foot bronze waler on the 36fathom line also went out on monday and caught a nice feed of snapper and he also went out today and got a few snapper and aussie salmon.

At the ramp on monday spoke to a coupla other blokes that had gone out and they got a small yft bottom bashing and a few mack tuna.

Iv been throwing a few halco divers around in the canal hoping for a small gt, mangrove jack or maybe a flathead so far for about 2 hours of lure fishing in the past 2 days iv had 1 hit and 1 big swirl behind my lure.

cheers james