Seaway Weekly Wrap Up Friday 17th January 2014

Well after such good reports from the weekend I was hopeful of a few good days fishing this week.  Unfortunately that didn't happen when I fished on Monday and Wednesday. Thursday and Friday were better.

On Monday the day started at 4am just as the first light broke the horizon. A few bigeyes over the pipe early morning, the occasional bustup from Kingfish after sunup and that was it.  The morning showed a complete lack of interest on the part of the fish, a few fish were caught but you had to work for them. I managed a foulhooked bigeye and longnosed trevally on microjigs drifting the north wall runway on the runout tide though. I didn't get out in the afternoons other than Monday so that may have been when most of the action happened, nothing happened on Monday afternoon though which was disappointing considering the hours I put in. 13 hours is a long time on the water for so few fish. Off the water at 7.15pm

Wednesday was no better in terms of fish landed or sighted, same start time but no bigeyes a couple of undersized jewies on plastics near the pipe on the tide change, a small bigeye near the tower during the run-in and not much else. Gave it away around 10.30.

On Thursday the action picked up alot more with Bigeyes feeding from the time I arrived at the pipe for a good hour or so with fish ranging from 30 to 55cm.  20 and 30 gram twisties did the job. Tailor were scarce, a few around the North Wall on Minnows, Microjigs  and Twisties, biggest about mid 50's on lures.  Barry did pick up a massive 90cm Tailor while on a SeawayFishing tutorial on a live pike though. Kingfish were caught on the first hour of the runout tide on the pipeline by sinking flies or plastics down deep and jigging them back fast but it's a bit like winning lotto. Definitely not a sure thing.  They also showed up on surface a few times near the Canyon but the few casts I did manage to get in there were ignored.  The Cross channels Kings were around during the run-in tide and because the bait is quite large you are in with a shot if you can get your lure in there.  Chris's son got a very nice 115cm Kingfish on a 30gram Twisty(20lb braid 30lb leader). Picked up the usual couple of small Jewies in the North Wall Eddy during the first and last hour of the run-in on big plastics as well.

Friday was much the same as Thursday, Good bigeye action early over the pipe, some scattered but reasonable tailor near the north wall and erratic kingfish action though I did see a very nice school of Kings come up near the wavebreak marker for about 30 seconds. Managed a follow but no hook-ups.

The difference in results between one day and the next were quite large, on Monday and Wednesday the fish weren't even slightly interested, on Thursday and Friday they were.  Just goes to show what a difference a day makes.

115cm Kingfish

A massive 90cm Tailor in comparison to a 50cm Tailor, that ruler is 80cm long

Microjig bigyeye

Pipe bigeye

Longnose trevally on Microjig