Seaway Report Monday 13th August 2012
Into the seaway at 3.30am, tides weren't the best(a run out tide from dawn), the swell was up and the wind was varying between 10 and 20 kts. Spent an hour casting for tarpon with no hits so we trolled around for a bit and found a bunch of small bigeyes feeding on surface over the southern end of the pipeline, we managed 3 all around 30cm but it was hard to get a hookup on them.. who'd of thought small bigeyes would be fussy feeders? Anyway just on dawn we moved down to the north wall(big big swell) and on the second cast along the front of the wall my vision 111 was inhaled and after a good fight up came a GT in the high 50's, it was right down his gob too. We tried for a bit longer with a couple of different lures but got nothing so we moved on.
Went for a run in the broadwater but saw nothing then came back to the pipeline and pulled a 35cm longnose trev on a twistie jigged near the bottom. That was it though, went back to the north wall and the swell had dropped a bit, found a decent show on the bottom and jigged a 30g twistie through them hooked up on a good fish and landed one at 63cm, skinny fish though. Dad picked up a little one going mid 40's. Couldn't find the school again so we had another look in the broadwater but saw nothing. Called it a day around 9am, not heaps of fish but a couple of decent ones. Tons of fish holding around the pipeline at the moment, just need the right time and tide for them to feed properly. Water temps remain stable at 18-20 degrees, water visibility 5m+ at the top of the tide.
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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.
Hey mate, nice mixed bag of trevally. Hope the GTs are still floating around later on in the week.