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Title: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Ivan Verhage on February 01, 2009, 08:39:56 PM

hi guys

im hopefully heading up to shoalwater bay in the easter holidays for a week
we will be staying up at stanage bay
my main question is do the GTs feed in the shalower water around the islands or do they prefer the water dropping off quickle
the moon phases look good (full moon) 8)

has anyone got any more healpfull tips?

pm me if you will be up that way at easter

cheers
ivan

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Warwick Joyce on February 03, 2009, 03:51:25 PM

Look for bait and anywhere with current and structure. That shouldn't be to hard to do in that country!

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Brandon Khoo on February 03, 2009, 03:56:35 PM

We tend to focus on rocky outcrops with a lot of current but you will find GTs in deeper wateer toom you will never go too far wrong if you find the bait.

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Ivan Verhage on February 03, 2009, 05:43:01 PM

thanks guys

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Graham Scott on February 03, 2009, 06:56:19 PM

Ivan,
Working from Stanage, make sure you throw in a lighter outfit for queenies, goldens, mid size trout etc. a lot of shallow fringing reef that can be fun, and a bit out of the wind if it blows.
Shallow areas like Ten pin, Collins, Leicester, Mumford are all good

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Ivan Verhage on February 03, 2009, 08:26:28 PM

cheers graham
ill definatley bring a lighter outfit hopefully to catch some trout because we donot plan to bring up allot of food

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Travis Heaps on February 04, 2009, 09:42:39 AM

We've only been up a few times but the Gt's can be frustrating - all the best looking spots yielded nada.  The only thing we didn't try was sinking stickbaits - when we went the water temp was very warm (30 degrees or so).  The only explanation I came up with was the fish might be hanging deeper off the shallow points in the cooler water.  So I suppose the tip is to take lures to cover all options as there's a bit of everything up there. 

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Jay Burgess on February 04, 2009, 01:27:58 PM

Quote from: travis heaps on February 04, 2009, 09:42:39 AM

We've only been up a few times but the Gt's can be frustrating - all the best looking spots yielded nada. 

Had similar experiences over here, good tides/moonphase, weather etc... and cast poppers into a really likely looking spot for nothing. Try every trick in the book and leave shaking my head in amazement.

On other days you get obliterated on the first cast  ;D

Title: Re: any tips for shoalwater
Post by: Ivan Verhage on February 04, 2009, 06:17:58 PM

thanks guys

i hope it isnt to bussy with the comp :'(
but there will be allot of ground to fish

cheers
ivan