Quick Fish on Saturday
Went out for a quick fish for a few hours on saturday, into the seaway at around 4am swell was big 2.5m+(again!!), wind was 5kts from the SW. Had some casts around but nothing there. At dawn had a few casts around the ends on the walls but again nothing. Moved back into the broadwater to look for GT's and spotted some feeding, a couple of casts had me hooked up and I soon landed 1 Gt around 50cm. 2 other boats had 1 fish each as well. They went down and I spotted another school further down and headed down. Unfortunately these fish werent interested and noone else hooked any either. That was it for the morning, I didn't see any more fish come up. Had a look around the front of the seaway, and south of wavebreak as well but nothing.
Plenty of bait around still, water clarity was ok considering the rain from the previous weekend. Dirty around the north wall with alot of suspended sand due to the big swell. Edge fishing the seaway has proved fruitless the last few times, although thats quite common this time of year as the fish feed either in short bursts on the surface or closer to the bottom. I wish this big swell would bugger off, it seems like it hasnt been under 2 metres for months now.
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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.
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May 06, 2012 8:25:22 pm
I tried end of North Wall at Sat night high tide with live herring and mullet. Only one take on a mullet which turned into a long sharky fight. 15 mins later and was getting a bit uncomfortably swelly off the seaway so gave it some stick to a least see what it was. As it neared hit it with the spot light to see a 6-8 ft shark which then took off again but i was happy to lock up and bust off. So yes same for me not a great result in seaway at the moment.
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May 06, 2012 8:48:08 pm
Hey Craig. Yea, just the one GT for us as well where you picked up yours. Not much action that morning. Didn’t see anything to big in the pack either. Do you think that might be it for the big pack of GTs?
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May 07, 2012 5:56:54 pm
i think they are still around Kane, early mornings with a run in tide already halfway in on dawn usually only yield a few bustups. Tides that change to run in after sunup seem to be better.
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May 07, 2012 11:03:48 am
On Saturday afternoon at around 1630 onwards they were busting up like crazy between Wavebreak and Crab… We were heading back from a day with the kids at South Straddie and ran straight into it.. We stuck around for about 1/2 hour and it was still going and it covered a radius of around 30-50meteres, eventually had to head in because I haven’t got nav lights yet.. I was watching Kingies to a at least a metre, GT’s 60+ and there were a few sharks in there as well…. No hook ups though unfortunately, my mate got a birds nest first cast ha! ha! and I hurled a 20gram Raider in amongst it a few times with no luck.
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May 07, 2012 5:58:14 pm
Sounds like some big action there mick, pity you couldnt get a hookup out of it. Good to see theres still some big fish there though.
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Hey Craig,
Similar results for me any my mates. Headed into the seaway around 6am, drifted along the north wall with live bait (herring) until one of us hooked around a 45 cm flattie. Stuck around the pipeline for the turn or the tide to only get a few bream. Headed to crab island to drift for flattie as the tide ran out. Managed 5 flattie 2 on size. Didn’t see any bust ups.