Mark Weeks from Tokyo booked for a chance at a record longtail tuna in hervey bay and after landing a ‘too close to call’ fish that was released he landed an 18.2 kg fish on 8kg tippet smashing the old record by 5.2kg, well done Mark, here’s a few pics of the past week.
As of 2012 we are expanding to fish new areas further north along the queensland coastline, This is the new 6 meter galeforce, fitted with a 140 suzuki four stroke,the boat has a long range fuel tank for extended trips, lowrance HDS 10 sonar with structure scan and is licenced to carry up to 4 anglers.
The last week has seen some reasonable flats fishing, only average numbers of fish but they are big, shallow water golden trevally and queenfish on fly have been great fun.
This past week has seen some great weather and the flats have been fishing well for golden trevally, clients from Brisbane caught nice goldys and lost a 20kg longtail on fly after an epic 1 1/2 hour fight.
The past week has seen plenty of golden trevally, mac tuna, spanish mackeral and other species caught on lure and fly, looks like a great season ahead.
The annual run of big longtails tuna has just begun with several big fish caught this past week, fish up to 20kg caught on plastics and saltiga dorado stick baits, Big schools of mac tuna are also working bait balls and are great fun on fly and light spin gear.
Our run of summer species has finally started to turn on with offshore pelagics like tunas,queenfish and golden trevally arriving in numbers and inshore predators like these biting well.
With our fleet of guide boats in Hervey Bay we now have clocked up over 2000 hours on several outboards, the suzuki’s have been fantastic and continue to perform day after day with the only downtime being regular servicing at barneys marine, Hervey Bays local suzuki dealer.
Running four stroke outboards gives us extended range due to minimal fuel consumption.
The end of winter is tough in Hervey Bay, this winter season saw a great snapper run on the deeper reefs with good fish on plastics, hardbodys and fly. Big golden trevally were plentyfull and hopefully we will see a good run of fish on the flats very soon. Already we have started to see schools of good mac tuna entering the northern bay and water temperatures have already risen to over 20 degrees.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of Patrick and Christine Dwyer and Christines father Michael from tasmania, the trio were holidaying in the bay for a couple of weeks and decided to book a charter for a days fishing. They caught some great snapper to 7kg and last spot we fished in the afternoon, Michael hooked and fought a nice snapper which shot to the surface with a 4 meter white pointer right behind, the snapper was taken in one bite only 5 meters from the boat, this is the first white shark I have personally seen inside the bay and was an awesome sight.
