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Sarah Lewin with a cracker bluey pulled from a cave found by The author got a quick photo with a good bluey before releasing using the method described in the article. it.
WBreaking new ground for bluebone
ELL, it has certainly more detail than a standard sonar. been a while in between On a regular sonar you would see articles for us as life sort what looks like the bottom, but then
Moreton Bay
by ADAM FOLEY
of got in the way, but we are back in you see a gap with another bottom
the swing of things now, so we’ll be writing monthly articles again.
every place we knew bigger blueys were caught was in sandy areas with higher currents and where contours started to get close, which basically means a steep drop off.
reading under it – when you see this on a drop off there’s a good chance you’ve found an undercut or cave.
As restrictions start to ease from COVID 19 our guess is everyone is chomping at the bit to get out and about and explore! One of the first places we’ll be heading is the Bunker Group on the southern Great Barrier Reef, though word on the street is every man and his dog from Brisbane will be heading that way too.
Tide after tide rushing through these areas meant no sand was able to build up, and thousands of years of water rushing through caused steep drop offs to form undercuts or ‘caves’, similar to on land with waterfalls and streams. So we went searching and sounding in a few ar- eas on the charts where we thought potential spots would hold caves and ledges.
Once you’ve located an undercut or cave there is a real chance that a bluebone brute is lurking inside, that’s when the real work begins. Patience, concentration and a little luck are the three main ingredients you’ll need when targeting these fish, which in our opinion would pull a red emperor of the same size backwards.
We’re writing again about the blackspot tuskfish, also called blue- bone, and what we’ve been doing re- cently to find new ground for them – and how it’s been working a treat.
Studying the ground, ledge or cave you are fishing and experimenting with different tides and ways to anchor can play a strong part in the success of landing a big bluey, as you want to pull them away from the structure if you can.
We sat down having a few bever- ages a couple of months ago, and had a good look at the charts from between Morton Bay and Fraser Island. We soon realised that nearly Page 36 – Bush ’n Beach Fishing, June 2020
A standard sonar sounder is fine if you know what you’re looking for, but having StructureScan is a big help because the extremely wide beam covers much more ground in
As for the rigs and bait we fish with,
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