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on holidays, welcome to Tin Can Bay!
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Let’s have a look at what’s been caught around the place over the past month in the
A nglers who have been fishing the high
The lure and fly fishos have also been seeing their share of red fish, going out in the last couple of hours of a run-out tide and work- ing the lure hard in the snags.
been big fish by barra- mundi standards, most have measured around 600-650mm.
Jed Lee with his nice 50cm mangrove jack. A good model tusk sh caught by Neil Moy.
ITin Can Bay attracts a decent variety of species
HOPE you’ve all tide at night with fresh ful of good fish over been out having a flesh bait and small live the past couple of play in this little bait have been doing weeks, with all eat-
Tin Can Bay
by CHRIS RIPPON
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slice of paradise we call well. ing soft and hard lures,
home.
And to anyone here
lead up to the silly sea- son.
storms along.
This is a sure-fire sign
Best for getting the bite are 4/0-7/0 hooks and lightly weighted leads.
and all of them caught by tourists.
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If you haven’t noticed yet, the old mercury has been on the rise these past few weeks, helping a few ripper afternoon
that mangrove jack are going to be on the chew in our local waterways.
While they haven’t
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Like an old friend of mine said, “There is no point in rattling the let- terbox when you need to be knocking on the back door!”
The astonishment of
the anglers has been pretty cool and hearing
the stories of the un- expected captures has
been awesome. Your
And that’s what you need to do, get those lures to the back of the snags – this will in- crease your catch rate tenfold.
the fish were released very soon after a quick picture was snapped.
They definitely break up the bream and cod by-catch!
Speaking of photos, don’t forget to upload your pics to our Face- book page, to be fea- tured and go in the run- ning for our monthly
“Barra down here – I could not believe my
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eyes!”
All reports were that
Barramundi have also been showing up in creeks as a welcome by-catch for fishers casting for jack.
Remember barra are a no-take no-target spe- cies from 12pm No- vember 1 – the season reopens at 12pm on February 1, 2021.
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