We endured the effect of the mud after the Queensland floods, the after-effects of Yasi and then some tremendous southerly busters and now we have some really good conditions. Divers have been getting great bags of mackerel both Spanish and Spotted. There are large numbers of other pelagics around too and jewfish, wahoo, amberjack and cobia have made good shows. We still need to move around to find fish but that definitely beats having no diving at all.
We took a good bag of mackerel and amberjack about a week ago, north of the big island and even ended up missing out on jewfish, cobia and wahoo. There was still a lot of coral spawn and plankton in the water with quite a large number of blue-bottles around. In between the mack tuna, we also saw a number of yellowfin tuna, pity I was not carrying any burley. Trying to track these flighty fish underwater is virtually impossible.
There are odd days when the swell is too rough to head out but when it settles, you can be sure divers are out there. Even rock-hopping is paying dividends. There should be new club Best-of-the-Best leaders in pearl perch, Spanish and jewfish with some great fish landed on Friday.
Tursday last week had one diver coming in close contact with a White shark and a Tiger at the wash, so even the big predators are getting into the fish on the menu.
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