Seaway and Broadwater Report Saturday 14th July 2012
Managed to get out for a fish on saturday at around 1pm til 8pm, pretty quiet though. Managed a couple of tailor on minnows around the north wall but that was all we landed. We did find some nice yellowtail kingfish (70cm-90cm)feeding on the southern side of wavebreak for about 5 minutes but they wouldn't hit any lures we tried. Apparently they were feeding on the wavebreak flats on sunday morning but I didnt hear of any captures. Nothing over the pipe or in any of the usual areas we looked at. Plenty of bait holding on the wavebreak flats and on the south eastern point of wavebreak but I didn't see anything into them. Lots of boats around and nice conditions but for some reason the fish weren't that interested. Saw Kane out there but not sure if he got anything.
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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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July 16, 2012 3:16:00 pm
Hi Shannon, welcome to the site, thanks for the report, at least you got some fish. I’m not familiar with the croc hole(though I may fish it already), care to share its location?
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July 16, 2012 3:26:35 pm
Of course I make up names for them If no one has a better one or told me already, If you follow the north wall of the seaway around inshore till to get a part where It goes Rock To Sand To Rock, that little inlet is north east of North Wave Break…I’m pretty sure you would of fished there…This Inlet in the Flathead months its a great place for people who are learning how to use soft plastics and you get some Big Crocs there (Flathead)…I usually drift this wall for GT’s with live bait and when I come across the inlet I always throw that plastic to see whats there. Hopefully you know what I’m taking about 🙂
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July 16, 2012 6:17:46 pm
Yeah I know that area, pretty famous as a flattie spot. I don’t fish it myself as I’m not real interested in flathead. Do you get many GT’s along that rock wall? I’ve caught a few there but only when the big schools are around, not usually as random fish.
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July 16, 2012 3:07:55 pm
Sorry this was on the Sunday the 17th 🙂
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July 16, 2012 6:48:52 pm
Hey Craig. Made the effort for a quick sesh’, I got out there at 3pm and stuck around till sundown. Very average session, only picked up 1 dart in front of north wall. Didn’t have time fish the night but sounds like i didn’t miss out on much. Back at the ramp i spoke to a guy who saw a pack of GTs come up twice in front of wave break where all the bait and jumping mantarays were. He said they only came up for a few seconds and it was just on dark. Weird afternoon, we couldn’t find any schools of fish on the sounder. Found loose arches on the screen here and there, threw plastics and slugs down but only one half hearted strike. Nothing else. All this fresh around wouldn’t be helping our cause either. I knew our lucky run had to end sooner or later… Lets just hope the Salmon thicken up around the Broadwater and Seaway.
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July 17, 2012 8:19:31 am
You get a few here and there, like you said when the schools come its a lot better, really like to just drift both walls as well as casting at the rocks. good fun when the bite is on…Still haven’t got my Salmon this year have you got a report on that?
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July 17, 2012 12:39:43 pm
There was a small school of salmon that were feeding between wavebreak and crab a couple of weeks ago but they disapeared quick. It doesn’t look like we will get the big schools this year but there may be a few more smaller ones come through. Just have to be in the right place at the right time.
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Hey Craig
I didn’t go out Saturday but we did encounter a few bust ups around south wall of wave break towards the tower but no luck on the slugs… through out the day we drifted the bream reef and drop at north wave break using live bait had a few busted off so no rewards there. Shortly after we trolled the banks of wave break with pink mullets hard bodies and picked up a pair of flathead in the 40’s then moved over to the croc hole with soft plastics using pink curl tail grubs only 1 undersized flathead and an undersized moses perch the rest of the day was pretty ordinary with loads of bream and small flathead.