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Birthday boy Sean got the fish of his young life.
Trevally, tuna and mack thrills
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Sean smashed a few trevally.
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UTUMN is coming to a close and it definitely shows. Longtail tuna are tapering off, but mack tuna are still around, and bait is shrinking in size. So, yes, the usual stuff is happening in Hervey Bay for this time of year. April had us often chasing trevally, going from school to school of tuna and occasionally finding trevally feeding with the tuna.
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It was a heap of fun, though not always easy. But because the fish were so mobile, the sharks were often far away, thankfully. In most cases, I saw the trevally under the tuna, using electronics to scan them up and keep us on them. The priority was to keep the lures in their faces. They move, you move… and hopefully you hook up. Occasionally, we saw the fish actually break the surface, as tuna would. There are certain differences in how they break the surface, which indicates a non-tuna species. The bird activity is
somewhat different on trevally too. I think it reflects on how the trevally feed – this is evident when the birds follow a trevally school that has broken away from the tuna activity. The locations or depths were never fixed. Some days we could be with them for one shot, other days it was half a tour. Some days they were fussy, some days they were easy and ate whatever you threw down there. One thing was certain, the bait was tiny, I rarely saw it. I think it was a plankton of some sort – zooplanktons such as
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Paul scored a nice queenfish.
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