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Fishing on fire around Tin Can Bay
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good numbers and sizes. Getting up
they should be thick.
Offshore fishos have also been
The bigger fish were quite sus- ceptible to well-presented live bait, that’s if you can find them. They have been a little hit and miss late- ly, and spotted mackerel have been playing havoc with bait jigs lately – a full string soon turns to no weight at all.
creeks and giving the pots a good soak with decent fresh bait is work- ing best. The sand crabs should start to become more active now, and the number of sandies I’ve seen in the shallows when walking back in the afternoon is a sign that this season
cleaning up over the past few weeks. We have seen great catches of scarlet sea perch, grass sweetlip, tuskfish, jewfish and redthroat emperor. A lot of the good catches have been coming from the closer grounds inside the four to ten nautical mile zone.
The fish aggregating device has been producing small to medi- um-sized dolphinfish. Small stick- baits, 4-5” soft plastics or flies should work for them. If not, try trolling past with Christmas tree or small-skirted lures at about six to eight knots. If all else fails, try pumping a burley trail and feeding unweighted pillies back into the FAD to see if that gets you hooked up.
Rylan Day landed a ripper of a trout.
Ed from Keely Rose scored a weapon of a red emperor.
Loads of pods of tuna have been outside the Wide Bay Bar, with a mix of longtail and mack tuna, and there were big longies hanging around Inskip Point and the green
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