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The author captured this glassed out scene on Moreton Bay.
Snapper and whiting dominate recent catches
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60-100 litres, while the
so they moved a little further east looking for fish.
got a text from Graham Bell holding a 95cm fish he’d caught in the bay at the other spot they had contemplated heading to earlier.
ties and excellent size, with some hitting the 30cm mark.
been quite favourable too.
tinnies off Scarborough Reefprobablyburnt6-10 and caught better fish.
The first fish in the Esky was a big flounder that made a tasty din- ner, followed by a tuna that Rob had hoped to be a longtail but turned out to be a huge mack tuna, so back it went.
Since then I’ve been out on several occasions with mates Pat Moore and family, Brad Jones, Niel Trubshaw and even the commodore himself Rob Schomberg.
On the last trip with Niel, you could have water skied from Tan- galooma to Nudgee without a problem. Meetings
Fishing can be damn cruel and frustrating at times.
Not wanting to die wondering, Rob headed out to Graham’s spot the next day and man- aged one nice fish... don’t ask about the oth- er three he dropped!
Tallies ranged from donuts to a massive to- tal of three fish.
They then decided to go to a ‘super-secret’ spot at Redcliffe that had been given to Rob by a mate, but when they saw several boats anchored, they knew it wasn’t such a secret.
Each time we’ve man- aged good bags and learnt a few things along the way.
Please note that meet- ings are now held on the first Wednesday of the month at 6pm for a 6.30pm start, at Club Manly bowls club, 26 Faine St, Manly.
Word around was that offshore current was running in the vicinity of 24C, while in the bay it was a more suitable snapper temperature of 17C, which would make sense because there were certainly plenty being taken throughout the bay.
Snapper aren’t the only fish that have been around in good num- bers.
Besides the fish turn- ing up again in abun- dance, the weather has been nothing short of spectacular.
Next meetings are scheduled for Wednes- day September 2 and then Wednesday Octo- ber 7.
Social media stories finally got the better of Schombie, so he organ- ised a snapper trip in the northern bay.
Surprisingly, big gar- fish were smashing the bait jig, so Rob filled up on them.
A few months ago, they were pretty scarce, and this prompted me to try out a couple of new areas.
Feel free to come and join us to see if it’s for you.
They eventually found a spot, anchored, soaked a few baits and got a bait jig going.
As usual, I’ve been out on a quite a few trips chasing winter whiting.
You need to get out of bed early to experi- ence the sunrises at this time of year – they are stunning.
A gentle start had them leaving an hour later than normal but arriving at the first spot after about 15 minutes on a glassed-out bay.
One was sent out live to accompany a yel- lowtail pike, but no big munchies were in the area – though Pete did manage a nice squid on a Zerek Live Shrimp.
I was sure they’d be there somewhere, but I just couldn’t locate them.
Only a couple of boats were in the area, so they could see if there were any fish around.
After an hour, it was clear Mr Snapper wasn’t home.
Next I decided to head south to see what I could find.
No one was catching,
It was then that Rob
The fish around the Rous Channel have been in ample quanti-
Winter whiting have been in good numbers.
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I found plenty of fish up around Cockle banks, but nothing of decent size.
Bay conditions have
Until next month, safe boating.