Seaway Weekly Wrap up Friday 20th December 2013

Afternoons provided the best fishing this week, with the morning sessions seeing few fish landed. I fished Tuesday and Thursday Mornings with a full day session Wednesday to catch the afternoon tide as well.

The afternoon run-in tides saw some excellent surface feeding by Tailor, Bigeye's and Dart, which were quite happy to hit anything thrown in the vicinity. Twisties and skitterbaits worked well but I'm sure anything thrown in the vicinity would have worked.  I didn't see or hear of any Kingfish feeding in the afternoons though.  The Kingfish did feed on the morning run-in tides on Tuesday and Wednesday, but not Thursday(which I would have picked for a better day for it).  Only a couple were caught though, feeding times were short, between 5 and 10 seconds for the most part.




It's been a funny week, the fish seem to of only fed in the afternoons and thats it, they were done for the day.  Morning sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday only yielded a few Tailor around the North Wall and small kingfish feeding over the pipe in very short bursts, though some big kingfish did show a couple 0f times in the Canyon.

After dark there has been some massive Hairtail around Hairtail Reach on the run-in tides, from 1.2 to 1.5m long.  I picked up a few on plastics, got cut off plenty of times and trolled up a couple on Rapala XRD10's.   I also managed to find(I ran right over them on a troll run) some jewies busting into bait in the same area and picked one up on a Rapala XRD10.  With the amount of bait coming through it's worthwhile keeping an ear out for surface feeding by jewies in that area at night and casting plastics or minnows at them.

Overall it's been a disappointing summer season, very short bite periods, no greenbacks, bigeyes have been rare, little dawn feeding and the edge fishing has been poor.  Still there has been a few excellent sessions if you were in the right place at the right time.  Fishing the seaway in summer is always different every year, you never know what it is going to happen.  This summer has been tough to consistently pull good fish, lets hope the new year changes things a little.

This is my last weekly wrap up for 2013, the next article will be Looking Back on 2013.  If you are heading out, Good luck and stay safe on the water.