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Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Trolling the breakwalls

Townsville Trevally

Launch:	- 9:00 AM
Landed:	- 12.15 PM
Tide:	- 6:30 AM,High
Weather:	- Hot, 30 °C, 5-10 knots
Caught:	- Trevally
Method:	- Trolling hard body and soft plastic lures

Before making the journey out to Maggie island (which I intend to do tomorrow) I thought I'd spend today trolling lures around the breakwalls around the southern end of Townsville. I was hoping to get lucky with a salty Barramundi but my bad barra luck continued as per usual. Another species I'm equally keen to get onto is the oh-so tasty Threadfin salmon and I did think I was in with a chance on that front because I spotted a school of them playing around the surface close to northernmost breakwall soon after launching. Unfortunately for me, however, they simply weren't interested in the little soft plastic shads I was casting at them.

I soon gave up on that idea and continued on my path, which would take me around the network of breakwalls and around to the Ross river mouth. I was only about a kilometre away from where I launched before my first (and only) hook up came. A nice Trevally of about 35cm was brought aboard in no time at all. He didn't put up much of a fight to be honest about it, so I was surprised when I noticed what kind of fish it was - usually they go harder than this little guy.

I was sure I'd hook up here, but I was wrong

I pushed on to the Ross river mouth, hugging structure wherever I could find it, but like the other anglers in the area, was unable to hook on to any more fish. By this time it was starting to get pretty warm and I figured the fish must have been in siesta mode. For a short while I considered paddling out to one of the reefs at the south west side of Maggie island but soon thought I'd save my strength in order to do that tomorrow instead. There's coral trout in them-there reefs and by hook or by crook (hopefully hook) I'll be reeling one of them in before leaving Townsville.