HOLIDAYS OVER BUT BITE IS ON
WELL we are getting back into that time of the year when the holidays are over and it is all ahead of us.
The good news if you’re one of the many who now only have the weekend as an opportunity to go fishing is this weekend the weather looks great and the fishing even better.
There have been excellent catches of big whiting in the Broadwater using yabbies on the sand banks at high tide, big flathead are still in the estuaries and best of all the prawns have turned up too.
If you have never caught your own prawns it’s a lot of fun and you’ll never taste a better prawn in your life.
Try around the mouth of the Logan River in the deep holes, look on your sounder and throw your net.
Good tip: if you can’t throw a cast net there are tutorials on YouTube and plenty of videos and you’ll be surprised how easy it is.
Offshore is where most of the action has been though.
The water temp out wide has hit a staggering 28 degrees which should bring big blue marlin on the bite.
Closer in the pelagic action just keeps getting better and better. We are continuing to see some awesome small black marlin action in 50-60m of water but now they are turning up out at slightly wider areas like spot X.
While every other boat is trolling lures try something different ... look for bait on your sounder and go after them using live bait. This is easily my favourite type of marlin fishing.
Place a live bait down using a small sinker and keep your reel in free spool waiting for the marlin to take it.
What I like most about this type of fishing is the non-stop action, firstly catching the livies to then waiting for the bite.
A couple of years ago out at spot X when the marlin were prolific I never went an hour without a hook-up and this year the marlin are even more prolific so it should be red hot.
I once even hooked up a small black on my live bait rig.
The dolphin fish are still around too and some massive ones have been caught. Most are around the 7-10kg mark. Some beasts have been caught out wider but not in the numbers of the smaller ones in close.
On top of all that we are also enjoying a great season of crabbing. Sand crabs are around everywhere in the Broadwater and there are heaps of really big muddies in the rivers.
The spanner crabs are in good numbers too but I expect they will drop off slightly now the season has been open for some time and they have copped a hammering over the Christmas period.