Full Moon
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Sebb
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Re: Full Moon
Glad you asked, now you know Dennis' famous rig!
If I got that right, that is, lol.
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A fish is a fish
No fish is worth a life, stay safe
A fish is a fish
No fish is worth a life, stay safe
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meppstas
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Re: Full Moon
Back in the day when I lived and fished in Sth Aust I often fished for Snapper on a full moon and had some very catches. I remember on a mild November night (back in 1972) night when fishing Barker's Inlet behind Torrens Island when my mate & I caught 15 snapper ranging from 9 lb up to 26 lb. They were all caught in three meters of water too and were full of blue swimmer crabs.. In all my years of Saltwater fishing I never really bothered all that much about full moons or dodge tides when fishing for Snapper or Mulloway. Fishing for smaller species such as KG Whiting etc that's when the tides meant something, two hours before and after the turn was always the best time to fish then.
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Adrian
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cobby
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Re: Full Moon
Which is why when fishing for Snapper or Gummies in WP in particular its wise to throw out a Whiting setup. Usually what you'd associate with Cod/Barra, a 6-10kg baitcast rod with a sensitive tip and a small overhead like an Abu 5600/6500, something that's capable of bringing up a fish aswell as 6+Oz of sinker plus handle the inevitable bigger bycatch without being to heavy in the hand. People would be surprised the amount of very good size Whiting you get in 20+m of water that they've previously fobbed off as **** fish that won't hook up with bigger hooks...
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ducky
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Re: Full Moon
Never really like full moon for anything but shark fishing.
Fished last Friday out of flinders. Cruised around for a couple hours in the 4-7m range for a solitary squid and a cuttle. Water quality was pretty good. Conditions weren't perfect but they were good enough. I'm a firm believer that the only reason we didn't catch more was due to the full moon. Never done well for squid on the full.
Headed up to somers for a gummy bash for the remainder of the tide and was bitten off 4 times (80lb fluro/mono) with a couple being gillers and the others potentially desirable.
Got a 7kg gummy for our troubles.
Happy to get 5 shark bites plus a bit of bycatch in a 4 hour sesh. Would have been nice to get them all boatside..
Fished last Friday out of flinders. Cruised around for a couple hours in the 4-7m range for a solitary squid and a cuttle. Water quality was pretty good. Conditions weren't perfect but they were good enough. I'm a firm believer that the only reason we didn't catch more was due to the full moon. Never done well for squid on the full.
Headed up to somers for a gummy bash for the remainder of the tide and was bitten off 4 times (80lb fluro/mono) with a couple being gillers and the others potentially desirable.
Got a 7kg gummy for our troubles.
Happy to get 5 shark bites plus a bit of bycatch in a 4 hour sesh. Would have been nice to get them all boatside..