banana longtail, 05Jun11

Subject: fishing today 5 June 2011
From: "Jeff"
Date: 5/06/2011 5:18 PM

Hi Hookers,

The plan was to launch at 5.45 from MG this morning. Shortly after arriving I was met by Eyetag who as usual was as keen as mustard to get out there. We were waiting on Gemini to arrive, but as launch time was upon us, with the break looking fine, we hit the water.

Our plan was to hit Sunshine Reef as Ian had a successful day out there yesterday. We paddled straight out there without trolling a lure so as to maximize our speed and start fishing as early as possible.

We got to our mark at the northern end of Sunshine and started our drift. The wind out of the west was blowing 15-20 knots, making things very uncomfortable and difficult to get my plastic to the bottom. I was fishing a 1/2 oz jighead, and even with the drogue out, we were drifting at a fair clip.

It was now about 7.15am or so when I heard Gemini say he was on the water, but I unfortunately could not contact him.

Fishing wise, things were pretty slow. Ian then radioed up and said he just got smashed on the drop. After a 15 minute battle, he ends up landing a nice Longtail Tuna, (yes another one). Ian is now known as "King Longtail". lol.



There were plenty of little bites happening, but the fish were pretty finnicky.

As the wind was still up a bit and fishing was pretty quiet we decided to have a couple of last drifts before heading home.

With the last couple of drifts, Ian managed a nice squire about 55cm and a nice Grassy and I managed a squire of 46cm.

Ian's fish were all caught on bait, whilst I fished soft plastics only for 1 keeper.

We saw Stu on the way out in his stinky, don't know how he ended up, I also talked to Turtleboy in his stinky on Sunshine Reef, he told me he had on board a small Coral Trout and a squire.

We left Sunshine Reef for home at around 10.30am with a few fish between us paddling into a weakening westerly.

Enclosed are a couple of pics of "King Longtail" with his fish.

Cheers, Jeff (Richmond)

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