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What Gear to Use.

  • Silver or gold spoons, Gotcha lures
  • 12" light wire leader, light spinning rod
  • Live Whitebait, Sardines, Threadfin Herring
  • NOVEMBER - Use heavy flourocarbon leaders with spinning tackle.

Where to look.

  • SEPTEMBER -Watch for flocks of white birds over cutting fish. Look around bridges and piers early in the year.
  • OCTOBER -
  • NOVEMBER (5) - showing close in around the beaches and passes.

Methods

  •  APRIL - fish low over areas of hard bottom or man-made reefs.
  • MAY -
  • JUNE -
  • JULY -
  • AUGUST -
  • SEPTEMBER -
  • OCTOBER -
  • NOVEMBER - "watch the birds to find the fish". Wheeling skybirds pecking at the water are a sure sign of mackeral or little tunny.

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