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The author with a solid tusk sh caught out wide. Mitch Cooper with solid winter mud crabs.
Young Jullian proudly holds up his rst snapper.
A nice cobia taken onboard Double Island Point Fishing Charters.
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No bastard were caught, but we did man- age a couple of nice golden in slightly trying conditions.
I recently sounded a school of fish that was 5m to my starboard side, which was 20m wide and about 30m long.
If you want to have a chat about how sides- can works, pop down for a yarn and we’ll be happy to interpret and explain what we see on the screen.
Warmer days bring Gbay fish on the bite
’DAY crew, I hope everyone had a chance to
Tin Can Bay
by CHRIS RIPPON
wet a line over the past few weeks – I know I sure did!
micro jigs on 6lb braid and 14lb leader makes for awesome fun.
six of them were over 60cm, and all were caught on metal jigs.
I managed to get a few good trips in be- tween work, family life and coming down with bronchitis for a week.
We have been hav- ing success with Palms Slow Blatt in 20g and Miniature Dax in 10g and 14g.
If I wasn’t using my sidescan, I wouldn’t have even known they were there.
I had a good trip to Hervey Bay with a friend, hunting the flats looking for blue bastard and golden trevally.
This style of fishing is made easier by using a sounder with sidescan because the school may not be under the boat.
Using your sounder and its sidescan feature to mark schools of fish can save you time blind casting and improve your catch rate dramati- cally.
I also managed to get out to Borumba and spend the day with Pe- ter Morse chasing bass on fly, and have had a couple of good sessions in the local creeks ear- lier in the month, tar- geting the trevally that have been in Tin Can Bay in considerable quantities and size.
I managed to pull three nice 60cm fish out of the school before it moved on.
Anyway, enough about my fishing ex- ploits, let’s have a look
At this time of year, good numbers of golden trevally can be caught from in the creeks.
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An average size golden from one of the creeks inTin Can Bay.This one couldn’t resist a Slow Blatt jig.
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Using your sounder to find schools of fish and targeting them with small prawn lures, vibes, flies and even
I end up with nine fish for the session and