NSW north coast August 30

A top morning weather wise...but no fish to be found at all...this is becoming a common occurance lately!!!!...a newbie on his first trip out landed a good snapper though...down at kingscliff

12 to 20 fathoms of the gold coast 19 august

A few of us hit the 12 to 20 fathoms of seaworld,gold coast.First stop was 1 mile bait reef.heeps of bait in the form of yakkas.Paddled about another 1.5km out.Quite a few boats out,but unfortunately the fishing had shut down...no takers today at all!!

looked at the weather forcast and it was showing 30 to 40 knots westerly so we decided on a paddle in the seaway around wavebreak island.we dropped a few plastics around and some small lures....but zip...and then the wind started to die down so we headed out to the first reef at 12 fathoms...jigged up a few livies and in a couple of minutes a small yellowfin was boated around 5kgs...so being the baby one i managed to release him so he could grow big.rigged up again and then was on a little later...this time a "jellybeen"..mactuna came to the party..got him up he looked around 8kgs...so released him and sent him on his merry ways..rigged up again and bang again...another macy..got him up...looked a tad bigger than the other one but unfortunately the hook was way to deep..so he couldnt be released...but he was not wasted as got a mate who loves mactuna...so he will provide a good feed...and then to top it of mr turtle popped up to say g'day..

A Beast of a Tuna....

Friday 8th August 2008.Took an early moring paddle out to palm beach reef(gold coast).Sea very flat,no swell,but very cold in the moring.Managed to get some live yakkas as bait and wasnt out for very long when this beaty came along...all 26kg of it

watsons leaping bonito and australian bonito

Saturday 16 Augustt 2008.A surf launch and fish at Palm beach(gold coast).the water was very cold and green and as a result there were absolutely no fish about except for two small bonito which were kept as they make such good tailor bait.

surf entry video

A video of a surf entry after fishing.