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purple5ive wrote:

4liters wrote:

MsShimano wrote:

ChrisAbout wrote:You must have launched after us, we didn't see you there.
As Ian said, we also came back empty handed for the 3rd time in a row now.

Last time I caught a tuna was in February.

I saw you pulled over just before the west gate bridge. Only noticed it was you as I drove by otherwise I would of stopped to make sure you were ok, but you guys looked like you were getting ready to leave again.
Dont give up. Tuna is quite late this year. I expect it to pick up in a few weeks. I'm off to Portland next week for 3 days so see how things go

I don't remember pulling over before the bridge, it was probably someone else.

was defenitely you guys, i seen chris at the back of the car with the boot open checking for something.

barra mick wrote:Just a update on the area.....its fished great on sunday and early monday before lunch.

no need to go to the 60 km mark as on fri and sat.it seems alot of fish closer

Its worth the trip for anybody with a day spare.

If your a regular poster I can pm you detail and pics

Cheers bm

purple5ive wrote:All aboard Next Stop Appollo Bay :banana: :banana:

barra mick wrote:Just a update on the area.....its fished great on sunday and early monday before lunch.

no need to go to the 60 km mark as on fri and sat.it seems alot of fish closer

Its worth the trip for anybody with a day spare.

If your a regular poster I can pm you detail and pics

Cheers bm

MsShimano wrote:

barra mick wrote:Just a update on the area.....its fished great on sunday and early monday before lunch.

no need to go to the 60 km mark as on fri and sat.it seems alot of fish closer

Its worth the trip for anybody with a day spare.

If your a regular poster I can pm you detail and pics

Cheers bm

Awesome thanks for letting us know bm. Shame it didnt fish well while we were there but thats fishing.. not catching!

barra mick wrote:Just a update on the area.....its fished great on sunday and early monday before lunch.

no need to go to the 60 km mark as on fri and sat.it seems alot of fish closer

Its worth the trip for anybody with a day spare.

If your a regular poster I can pm you detail and pics

Cheers bm

Born2fish wrote:

Blueyed1 wrote:I went out of Portland on Saturday. Trolling out towards the shoe and about 5 miles from the rock there was a heap of activity - with a bird frenzy with dolphins and seals working the water. Worked the area for 30 minutes struggling to avoid getting cut off lures by other boats - lots of them.....So we moved on. Witnessed no hookups .

About 10 miles towards the shoe I headed towards a large flock of birds sitting on the water. As i passed them my dekky Ivan saw 2 tuna jump out on the water. I headed towards the area and passed over a bait ball about 5 metres below us. As we passed we got a double hookup and landed a tuna and dropped one. I marked the area and worked it for another hour for no further strikes.

We kept trolling towards the shoe and then towards our blueye spot. When we arrived we did a deep drop and got smashed - never saw a rod shake like that with 600 metres of line out. We winched the line up but there was zippo. The lumo squid was smashed as was the real squid on both hooks. The swell was 2 metres with a crosswind and we struggled to keep position. We did 3 more drops and called it quits and trolled back to the ramp.

The bins at the new Portland boat ramp had very few tuna carcasses as did the bin at the original ramp. So not much tuna out there at Portland. Heard from a guy at son's soccer game that the place for tuna at the moment is Apollo Bay. He said that his mates have been bagging out there.....this weekend

Joe

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