Seaway and Broadwater report Thursday 11th March
Conditions
- Wind: SW 5 knots
- Preceeding 3 Days Wind : SE 5-15 knots
- Swell: 1.5 m ESE Swell
- Water Clarity 0.5-1m
- Tide : BOM: Low tide at 05.14 am, High tide at 11.08am ( 0.41-1.13)
- Time Fished: 01.30am to 08.30am
- Moon Phase: 3 days before first Quarter.
- Barometer 1015.1-1015.8
- Water Temp 24.2-24.9 Degrees C
Notes
Some clouds mainly sunny, occasional showers. Water quality was poor at the bottom of the tide. Easterly swell made it lumpy around the ends of the walls. Trevally still holding on the pipeline. Water temps were way down on last week.
Report
We moved into the seaway at 1.30am with Garry as my decky, found some active bigeyes occasionally hitting the surface. We fished with poppers and managed 5 from about 35 to 57cm before they shut down. Looked for some Tarpon along the walls but found none, none that were feeding anyway. The seaway was quite lumpy due to the runout tide and easterly swell. We moved back into the broadwater to fish around some lighted structure, I picked up a reasonable flathead at 63cm on a rapala xr6 and Garry got busted off by something next to a jetty, cod or a jack maybe. It was pretty quiet though. Moved back into the seaway for dawn, and we fished around the end of the north wall for a bit, but I only managed one dart. Water was quite dirty due to the bottom of the tide which may have been a factor. Picked up one small jewie around 55cm on a plastic. We left there to go and get some livies, being the bottom of the tide the fish were a bit tricky but we managed 15 or so. Back at the seaway the tide was at the very bottom with no movement, so it was quite slow to begin with. As the tide started to move Garry hooked up first on a nice GT of around 48cm. I followed shortly after with a bigger one around 60cm. The next fish we got were 3 jewies, 57, 70 and 63cm, 1 tailor at 53cm. I also hooked up on an unstoppable which made a beeline for the edge of the rock wall about 20m away and found a nice cave to sit in, the line shredded about 5 seconds later. We did drop quite a few fish today with at least 6 livies coming back with substantial teeth marks. We ran out of pike and called it a day.
Not too bad a trip today, with some nice fish landed, nothing too exciting but a nice mix of species.
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Craig is the creator, web designer, admin and chief contributor for seawayfishing.info. He has fished the Gold Coast Seaway and Broadwater constantly for more than 10 years and loves the constant challenges and variety that the area provides. He is also constantly analysing fish behaviour to work out patterns, trying new techniques and trying to understand just why fish act they way they do. SeawayFishing.info is the result of that.
4 Comments
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March 13, 2011 3:59:09 pm
Hi Rob, the trevally can feed in there at any tide and in any place, best thing you can do is motor into the middle, turn off the motor and just listen for the sound of them hitting bait on the surface. Herring are fine for livebaiting, you’d want 3/0 hooks though. Your boat is fine for fishing the seaway but I recommend getting your confidence up with a few trips before venturing east of the pipeline(seaway tower). Its not a place for beginners and can be very dangerous for small boats at any time.
Cheers
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March 13, 2011 6:27:01 pmTHANKS HEAPS CRAIG FOR YOUR ADVICE . YEAH!! THE SEA OUTSIDE THE SEAWAY LOOKS TO DANGEROUS FOR ME AT THIS STAGE ,I NEED TO LEARN FROM EXPERIENCED BOATERS IN THE FUTURE. WITH MY SMALL TINNY ,I DONT NO WHERE TO GET THE LIVEYS ANYWAY. I WILL STICK TO FISH WITH LIVE HERRING .LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU IN SEAWAY ANYTIME. WHAT SORT OF BOAT DO YOU HAVE? SO I CAN SEE YOU IN THE FUTURE. P.S. SHOULD I USE WIRE LIKE YOUR NEW RIG ON THE ARTICLE YOU WROTE ON WEB SITE BUT USING 3/0 HOOKS. ALSO DO I USE THEM AT THE PIPE LINE AS WELL? WHEN IS THE BEST TIME OF THE TIDE TO FISH THE PIPE LINE? AND SHOULD I TRY PLASTICS AND VIBES AS WELL AS THE LIVEYS? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND ADVICE AGAIN CRAIG
REGARDS ROB T-
March 14, 2011 6:54:38 am
Hi Rob, I’ll be doing a detailed livey article in a few weeks time, theres plenty of places in the broadwater to catch liveys, the bridges are a good start. I have a white 4.1m Polycraft Challenger with a 40hp yamaha 4 stroke. If you are only going to be fishing around the pipeline then you can use mono straight through, but if you fish around the end of the north wall then I recommend the wire due to the large amount of tailor there, doesn’t need to be heavy 20lb would do it. Lures are a personal choice, I still use them alot but they won’t catch as many fish during the day as livies do.
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HEY CRAIG!! I AM NEW ON THE SEAWAY FISHING SCENE . I SEE YOU CATCH TREVORS AT NITE ON THE RUN OUT TIDE ON POPPERS . WHERE DO I LOOK FOR THEM IN THE SEAWAY? I KNOW WHERE TO CATCH LIVE HERRING IN THE BROARDWATER. ARE THEY OK FOR LIVEBAITING? . AS IM NOT SURE WHERE TO CATCH LIVEYS OUTSIDE AND I IAM UNSURE ABOUT GOING OUTSIDE IN MY BOAT.ITS A 4.2 REELMATE ALLOY CRAFT.30HP REAR STEER ELECTRIC START MERC. WITH A BOW MOUNTED I-POILOT MINI KODA. SO I CAN FISH IN THE SEA WAY WITHOUT AN ANCKOR.BOY YOU GUYS HAVE COUGHT SOME GREAT FISH .AFTER READING YOUR ARTICALS ON YOUR SITE AND WATCHING YOUR UNREAL VIDEOS IM HOOKED .THANKS HEAPS KIND REGARDS.. ROB T