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Ausfish Silver Member
Longtail capers
Hi all
Left Cleveland last Friday for a trip to the 4 beacons in beautiful conditions. Arrived at the beacons around 8.30am to be greeted with school after school of small mac tuna crashing around the boat. Aftre a brief session of catch and release we moved over to the beacons to gather an amazing variety of baits (slimies, pike, yellowtail, long toms etc) before heading off to the edge of the shipping channel for a session.
After 45 minutes of cubing I hooked up on a large tuna which proceede to drag us about 2 km (over the next 30 minutes) before we got him up to have a look. By this stage we were right in the middle of the shipping channel with a rather large ship bearing down on us. It was now or never for me and the fish but in my haste to finish off the fight, the leader clipped the burley bucket and snap.....all over... ahhhhhhh
Headed over to tangalooma for lunch and then back out to the same spot for another session. My deckie Alan immediately hooked up and lost another tuna, then hooked up again straight away and after an exhausting 25 min fight walking around and around the boat we boated a 16kg longtail tuna...the first to finally make it into my boat...
Overall a great days fishing.. looking forward to getting out their again soon. Thanks to fishinmishin on providing me with the knowledge to make our great day possible
Attached is a picture of a very happy Al with his largest longtail to date
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Ausfish Bronze Member
Re: Longtail capers
After the effort you put in shame you had to put the weight on in the shipping channel, but despite the loss sounds like a good trip.
Cheers Richo
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Ausfish Platinum Member
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I am really doing a Big Kev here, I am excited.
Go effort and bring on the speedies
Cheers Steven
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Ausfish Platinum Member
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congrats on a nice fish there mate.
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Ausfish Silver Member
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Yep that rod I bought off you flickflack almost paid dividends first time out.....must have some of your magic still attached to it!!!
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Ausfish Platinum Member
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Good one mate, was it up to the job?
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Ausfish Silver Member
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Sure was....wasn't the rods problem that I lost the first fish...........something to do with the fact that I had about 3 minutes to get the fish in before my boat was crushed by a rather large container ship!!!!!!
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Ausfish Platinum Member
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Tough one bud,makes it more interesting
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Nice fish....but not much chance of me getting one with 6lb braid in the kayak I suppose....
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Ausfish Bronze Member
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Big Kev for me too.... ooooh yeah!
Well done!
So the Mack tuna were feeding at the surface and the longtails were entised with cubing ... have I got that right? No Longtails feeding at the surface?
Murray.
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Ausfish Silver Member
Re: Longtail capers
We only spent 30 minutes or so playing with the mac tuna and didn't see any evidence of longtails actively feeding on the surface (although there were likely to be some scouting around). The trip was really to try out live baiting as it's not something we've done before (apart from my day out with fishinmishin) so we quickly ditched the lures and headed to the baecons to gather bait. I'm sure if we'd put more time in with the slugs we probably would have found longtails eventually
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Re: Longtail capers
When they are on the surface eating small bait, use small slugs as they won't even look at anything else but if they are nowhere to be seen, they might swim past and eat any offering.
Cheers
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