The first cast for the morning got the guys screaming, a sky rocketing mackerel launched on the lure and screamed off with line before we subdued him for a picture and set him free. Not a bad start and with excitement still high we set ourselves for another drift, second cast saw an awesome fish from the bommie edge and absolutely destroyed the lure and 32kg later a solid GTs was held up for pictures…….
There is just something about Bligh reef that gets you excited before you even get there? Partially the journey that most anglers take just to get out there is the first part and secondly the variety of fish that one can expect to encounter is extraordinary….
The Easter Bunny definitely delivered his fair share this month with wild weather and hungry fish all in the same month. April saw 40kilo wrasse trying to destroy poppers in the shallows along with packs of GT’s screaming for attention on the ledges and not to mention giant spannish mackerel up to 35 kilos making an appearance. Fresh breeze one week followed by absolute glass out the next, nevertheless this didn’t affect the fishing action at all and steady numbers of fish were caught over April…….
The Easter Bunny definitely delivered his fair share this month with wild weather and hungry fish all in the same month. April saw 40kilo wrasse trying to destroy poppers in the shallows along with packs of GT’s screaming for attention on the ledges and not to mention giant spannish mackerel up to 35 kilos making an appearance. Fresh breeze one week followed by absolute glass out the next, nevertheless this didn’t affect the fishing action at all and steady numbers of fish were caught over April…….
Almost a month had passed over the Christmas break and all of the guides were starting to get the ‘itch’ again. Just as well we had an early charter this year dodging the low pressures off the central Queensland coast this time of year can be pretty interesting, but the GT’s will still be there waiting for us…..
The fishing we experienced over the past two weeks up at Jewell reef was nothing short of amazing, everything from the shallow flats fishing to the heavy tackle Black Marlin to the GTs and everything else in between. The special things about this area at this time of the year are the variety of fish available and the quantities, that’s not to mention that it is the best place in the world to catch 1000lb Black Marlin and the spawning aggregations of fish that only gather around a 5 mile area here at this time of the year….
Bligh Reef is a pretty special place, it has something for every angler, as we have seen over the past 5 weeks. Whether you want to wade a sand flat and sight cast on fly to GTs, troll the outer edge for big dogtooth tuna, giant spaniards, marlin or wahoo, cast poppers for heaps of GTs or cast light tackle over a reef flat for a massive variety of species, then Bligh Reef has it all….
Everyone got into the mix in the first few hours of the trip and each of us had caught at least one tigerfish and settled down to the sights and sounds of Africa as the sun set which in itself is something unreal…..
Damon spotted a piece of reef as they flew over that just spelled FISH and he wasted no time in getting there, it was on fire and they were seeing fish all over the place. They managed to put 12 GTs in the boat during the afternoon and that doesn’t even include the biggest Spaniard that Damon has ever seen, it was….
I have just had the pleasure of guiding Matt Watson from the ITM fishing show here in Tauranga filming about targeting Kingfish on top water lures, with flat seas and sunny weather we were off to a good start…..
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