FISHING nuts take on Great Barrier Reef
Waking up with excitement, knowing the day your about to have will be one of the better ones, great weather, an incoming tide for a morning bite, and two young -sorry to any older readers yous guys still can fish too š – fit and able frothers who just love to talk fishing. Sounds like we could be onto some goodies today
Jetted down to unnamed reef off Portland roads – pretty remote to say the least. We fished a channel between two reefs, on an incoming tide and life was showing all top to bottom on the sounder , with the fellas that keen on dropping jigs to chase dogtooth tuna. First drop a big Dino trout for Jordy and fat red bass for Blake
Continuing trying for bigger models , jigging in 40-60 metres of water takes a determined fisho. Arms knackered, many more fish were landedā¦ with the tide coming to its peak the bite slowed and we went for a look on the flats , always a good shout. We found them along an edge multiple trout hitting lures with some busting off into the reef. Lading coral trouts and passionfruit trouts, putting a few in the sky but releasing most.
The edge but then fully fired up as an outgoing tide was ripping the water off the reef and feeding bonanza followed. One throwing stickies up over the flats and then along the edge and the other dropping a squidtrex into 30m right next to the reef.
Going fish for fish they landed their dream fish – MÄori wrasse!
Bite lasted close to 2 hours with multiple trout species and an occasional blue fin treallly whipping through.
After lunch we did much more of the same, but first I wanted to show them some of our boat secrets, fishing some water I canāt disclose. Multiple cods landed but unfortunately not the fish we were after so we bailed on this and heading back to the edge of a reef, again finding a spot where it was backedying and literally putting our boat into a whirlpool. Another hot bite.
