Seaway Report Friday 22nd October 2010
Conditions
- Wind: SW 5-10 knots
- Swell: 0.5 m SE Swell
- Water Clarity 0.5-2m
- Tide : BOM: Low tide at 01.08am, High tide at 7.36am ( 0.11-0.23) Actual top of tide 8.50am
- Time Fished: 03.30am to 08.30am
- Moon Phase: 1 Days before full moon.
- Temps 12-23 Degrees C
Notes
No weed, alot of suspended sand in the water around the north wall even at the top of the tide. South wall water clean from half tide up. Water not so green. Negligible swell. Sunny.
Report
Moved into the seaway for dawn, started off with vibs and metals but no takers. Changed to shallow divers (megabass vision 110) and pulled 2 smallish tailor but nothing else. Tried plastics on the bottom as well but no takers. I noticed livebaiters also struggled to get fish. Moved around a bit looking for fish but saw none. Decided to try some dropshotting the edges and moved over to the south wall. One cast into the edge got slammed by a reasonable fish which gave me quite a bit of a workout on 6lb, turned out to be a feisty yellowtail king at around 55cm. He was followed up by half a dozen of his mates some slightly bigger than him. Once I had put him back, I moved back into position and cast again and hooked up immediately, the fight was odd but it had alot of weight behind it, wasn't long before a very grumpy turtle popped up to the surface with the hook stuck on his shell, I removed the hook and sent him on his way. The tide was slowing by now so I moved back to the north wall and sent the dropshot rig down hoping for a jewie. That didn't take long and after a very vigorous fight a 70cm Jewie popped up to the surface and went into the net. He was followed by another 63cm specimen shortly after. Changed to a standard jighead rig then proceeded to drop the next 2 fish. Changed back to the dropshot rig and landed 1 tailor at 42cm and 1 more jewie at 65cm. By this time the current had stopped and so did the bites so I called it a day at 9am.
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October 23, 2010 7:50:21 am
Hi Marty, I’ll put up a more detailed article soon but its basically a 3 metre 16lb trace, the dropshot hook is attached with a special knot about halfway up. The sinker just slides on and can be moved at any time to adjust the depth you want the plastic to sit at. Most of the time I have a drop of around 1 metre to the sinker, but go higher if I’m casting right into the rocks. The plastic is attached once through the nose about 5mm in. I’ve messed around with it before on Tarpon and it works with them too, this was the first time I’ve used it as a more general searching method. Works well though and opens up alot more new territory. I’ll be using it alot more in the future.
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Nice session Craig – some great fish there.
Are you able to explain your dropshot rig in more detail? I don;t recall you mentioning it earlier – is it a new thing you are trying?
How long is the drop between the lure and the sinker?
Thanks
Marty