The water on the flats was milky but right on the edges it was a bit clearer. Saw heaps of barra but only a few landed. Most were released a fair distance from the boat! Water was like glass most of the days with a bit of wind in the storms on Sunday.
Did not see a lot of threadies, but if you got into the holes, like the one in the creek near Turtle Island, there were heaps of blue salmon on the low tide. High tide in these holes had waves of tarpon, all rolling in different groups. It was a fish a cast into the rolling group at times. They were suicidal. What was interesting was there were tarpon nearly everywhere we went, both up the top and down the bottom.
On the shallow rocks around little Turtle, Hutt Point and and shallow rocky outcrops that we went to there were schools of small (30cm to 40cm) queenies going crazy. If you sunk a line under these schools there were some big fish running under them. Hooked a tarpon that had to be 80cm near Turtle under one of these groups. Lost it but over the four days the biggest Tarpon we landed was 75cm and the smallest 42cm with heaps around 50cm.
As well as tarpon under these schools, we pulled out trevally to 53cm (a goldie) plus a heap of reasonable GT's.
This was basically the same for each day, we started on the flats chasing the barra and then on the low and the rising tides fished around the rock bars. Knife Island had some of the best just as the tide got over the rocks as it was coming in.
Jim got some early starts and covered some of the areas that we missed but we did a lot of miles checking everything out. Just watch launching in the dark though. Jim launched at 5am one morning then lost his bearing and went the wrong way from the boat ramp. It may have had something to do with the fact that he probably was suffering from the night before.
Rain stayed away most of the time but I did get some shots on the little cam corder...but I'm afraid I am having trouble putting them onto this site. I will try something else with them and use a you tube connection.
See if this worked (Cathie hates the wide angle lens!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYMYAI6wrA
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