Coogee and Gordon's Bay

[BrassRoots]

Spent the morning at coogee with some soft plastics trying to repeat some success I had the other day landing a 40cm flathead but no luck. There are some pretty nice gutters formed up in coogee at the moment if you can get a good high-tide at sunrise or sunset.

Once the crowds showed up I walked round to Gordon's bay and started with the soft plastic near the divers ramp area. Not much interest in the Gulp except for toad fish but I could see plenty of Luderick swimming around. There are some big ones hanging around the bay at the moment if that is your thing.

The excitement for the day though was catching my first frigate mackerel. It chased up some bait fish right around my feet so switched to the metal. It took a little while for it to round up some schooling fish again but once they started jumping it was just a matter of throwing the metal in its direction and i was on. A nice little 34cm frigate and a good fight. I thought it was a bonito at first as I'm still not very familiar with fish types and was excited for a good feed. However, looks like it will become bait for my next session.

Edited April 11, 2016 by BrassRoots

[Krispy !]

That frigate is actually a mack tuna nice fish either way

[stevefish]

And you're still not eating it

[BrassRoots]

Oh yeah, i see the dots you are talking about. The Mrs just got me a fishing encyclopedia (after telling me I'm spending too much time on fishing, go figure) and I looked it up. Thanks for the info.