Seaway Weekly Wrap Up Friday 6th December 2013

Looks like the standout fish for the summer of 2013 will be the Yellowtail Kingfish.  They fed in some big ways this week but timing and location were critical. Tailor and Bigeye Trevally were also around in numbers on some days(and nights). I fished the afternoon tides on Monday and Tuesday followed by a morning session on Wednesday.

Converting fish feeding opportunities into fish in the boat is quite tricky, casting accuracy is imperative.  Some anglers are still coming home empty handed.  Cricket scores of fish are unlikely but if you find the fish in the right mood you can catch fish for a good hour.




The Kingfish action this week has been covered extensively in the Seaway Yellowtail Kingfish Update posted yesterday.  Give it a read if you want to target these hard fighting sportsfish.  Many other fish have been mixed in with these schools of Kingfish as well, Tailor, Bigeye Trevally and GT's are all being caught out of Kingfish schools.

Tailor are feeding along the North Wall and are mixed in with the Kingfish feeding around the South Wall particularly when they are near the tip.  They are liking they windier days alot more than when it is calm.  Keep an eye on the area's surrounding the ends of both walls and the 100m back from the tip.  You can also work the edges with poppers and minnows around dawn or dusk or around a run-in tide change.  Micro Jigs pulled in good numbers of tailor on the start of the run-out tide about 20 metres out from the north wall along the runway.  Drop them to the bottom, give them 5 quick jigs  then let them sink back down and repeat.  Lures that are working casting at the wall are 20gm Twisties, Rapala Skitter Pop 9's, Skitterbaits and 30gram Storm Gomoku Chrome Micro Jigs.

Bigeye Trevally have been a bit more active this week coming up around the pipeline on the run-in tides in the mornings and mixed in with the Kingfish along the south wall.  They have also been active at night on the run-out tides along the south wall from the pipeline to the tower.  Skitterbaits worked great on these night-time fish but most poppers or shallow running minnows would work.  Slugs like the Gillies baitfish 15 and skitterbaits work fine on the daytime fish as long as you get it into the bustup.

There have been a few Queenfish around 40cm in the southern channel during the day, you'll need to go to small slugs around 5-7 grams, check the dirty water lines on the run-out tides.

There is plenty of action on days when the weather is bad, not only that but the fish seem to feed for longer and are more aggressive so you are more likely to get a decent catch.  If you are only fishing on days with light winds and calm seas(and going by the sheer volume of boats that went out on Wednesday.. many are) then you are missing out.  You still need to pay attention to the tides, and fishing on the first couple of hours of the run-in tide is the best.  Be at the mouth when the tide begins to push in and work your way in the seaway as the tide pushes the clean water further in.  Keep an eye out for any bird activity especially false diving birds as these are usually over Kingfish.

Lastly, sorry about all the Skitterbait mentions in just about everything I write up.  I know it seems like I'm going for the hard sell but these lures work on almost everything at the moment and in so many situations it's hard to put anything else on the end of the line.

Date	Time Fished	Tides
Monday 2nd December	3.00pm - 9.00pm	0039 -0.04, 0729 1.67, 1347 0.08, 1935 1.22
Tuesday 3rd December	3.00pm - 8.15pm	0123 -0.08, 0814 1.76, 1436 0.02, 2024 1.21
Wednesday 4th December	3.30am - 10.30am	0208 -0.08, 0902 1.80, 1528 0.00, 2115 1.18