Seaway Weekly Wrap Up Friday 13th December 2013

We had Northerlies this week which not only dropped water temperatures down to 19 degrees, but also created a dirty plume of water coming in the seaway during each run-in tide. Thankfully, the northerlies have abated and the dirty water has now gone but water temps are still around the 20-21 degree mark, occasionally getting up to 23 degrees on the bottom of the run-out.  Baitfish numbers are still high but the fish species taking advantage of it hasn't changed since last week.  This weekend has very small seas and light SE winds so don't expect too much action in the seaway. The tides weren't great this week so I fished mornings only on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

A run of very small (15-20cm)Tailor has mixed in with the larger fish and they are feeding off the end of the North Wall on the run-out tides.  These little fish will hit anything and it's quite entertaining to see them hitting a big popper until they hook up.  The larger fish are in very close to the wall, I got Tailor from 45-55cm by fishing minnows and skitterbaits right next to the rocks.  No sign of anything around greenback size though.  I still caught Tailor in the dirty water caused by the northerlies too so if it happens again, it's still worth a few casts. Time of day doesn't seem to matter, I was catching good Tailor at around 10am in the morning on Thursday.

Small Yellowtail Kingfish (55-65cm) are still hanging around the south wall and they are feeding from just after sunup for anything between 15 minutes and a couple of hours depending on the day.  They are moving along the wall and picking a feeding spot on the day.  On Monday and Tuesday morning they were feeding at the end of the south wall, busting up for about 15 seconds then sitting on the bottom for 15 minutes or until another school of baitfish came through.  On Thursday they were feeding around the southern end of the pipeline and only fed twice.  Skitterbaits and 20gram twisties work well on the surface feeding fish, 20gram twisties dropped into the school of kings on the bottom got a few hookups but no fish landed so if you see them on the sounder it's worth dropping a twistie down to them and cranking it back to the surface at speed.  In general, if the tide is running out on sunup look for them at the end of the wall, if the tide is running in on sunup look for them around the pipeline.  I didn't see any big Kingfish this week.

Didn't see any Bigeyes this week but apparently a few were caught on Monday around the North Wavebreak Rock wall.  There is none around the North Wall.

Queenfish are still around in the Southern Y and over the pipeline at times, the usual small slugs work on them but you'll need a few casts to get a hookup.

Most of the GT's are still up the rivers, I know that some are located in the stretch above Sovereign Island and in the lake at the top of the Coomera.  Hopefully they will make their way back down soon.

Date	Time Fished	Tides
Monday 9th December	3.00am - 10.30am	0116 1.08, 0650 0.30, 1328 1.40, 2003 0.13
Tuesday 10th December	4.00am - 11.00am	0227 1.12 0804 0.38 1429 1.28 2100 0.15
Thursday 12th December	3.30am - 10.00am	0438 1.29, 1039 0.40, 1634 1.12, 2244 0.13