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We’ll as another year passes we look back at what 2013 brought in the way of fishing for the Mitchell clan & friends….
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Kicked off 2013 back in January with a great session up the Island with this beautiful Diamond trevally while fishing with good mate Nathan Nitschinsk ..
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Nath with another cracking Harvey Bay Golden
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Scored my Harvey Bay PB yellowtail King
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Ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald arrived in Harvey bay on the 26th January 2013 and brought some of the widest weather we had encountered since arriving in Harvey Bay back in 2006 !
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The esplanade looked like a war zone afterwards and a number of areas to the North from Dundowran Beach to Burrum Heads also encountered destructive tornado’s ! Luckily their where no lives lost ….
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Managed a window in the weather in February for a run up the island with Aidan Roberts – Pulling off a Tuna “Grand Slam ” which started with this solid mac
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Next was this solid longtail …
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Completing the slam with this lovely yellowfin tuna
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It truly was a glamor day with plenty of surface feeding schools …
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We finished the day with a few tasty spotties as well
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The tuna fishing remained HOT right up to the end of May …
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We lead our 1st long range sportfishing charter aboard freedomwhalewatch.com.au/cruises-charters/fishing-charters/ in May as well. The trip was a great success and we will be doing at least another one or two of these great trip in 2014 – you can contact me directly for more details
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Fishing Lucanus jigs across the various reefs really open our eyes to the effectiveness of these unusual lures which fished as well as baits on most occasions !
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After experiencing some of the fantastic fishing that can be had “long range” out form Harvey Bay – the decision was made to sell our amazing Big/Little Haines Signature 485sf and commence building a new 5.5metre sportfishing machine again with the Haines Group in the form of our new 543sf ( Check out the Our Boats Button for full build details )
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With our fantastic Haines Signature 485sf now SOLD and some great winter weather we went in search of some snapper with local fishing guide Tri – www.fraserguidedfishing.com.au – Fishing wide we came across a hungry school of HUGE longtoms !
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Picked up this cracking gold spot trevally ( turrum ) on a Lucanus jig !
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Tri with a beautiful Harvey bay snapper
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Mate Trent Morgan ( www.makotiling.com.au ) purchased a new boat ( Sea Swirl Striper 188 ) which we proceeded to break in while southern visitor Dale Ward was up visiting from Sydney as well. Running wide to the gutters we had a blinder day with everything for multiple Cobe hook ups to a bag-out snapper session in the afternoon !
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Trent jigged up one of the biggest Goldens I have seen to date with this model
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While Nath showed us how it’s done on the “reefies”
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We finished the day off with a fantastic snapper session
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October saw plagues of Mac tuna arrive in the bay – with some really solid models amongst them !
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They where that thick I even dusted the fly rod off
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I was fortunate enough to be invited to spend a fantastic weekend with some of our countries leading fly fishing guides and anglers – Organised by renowned local Hinchinbrook guide Dave Bradley.
Not every day you get to hang out with Dean Butler and Alan “fish” Phillsikirk
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Managed to christen my new Abel Super 11 with Tribal Salmon artistic anodised artwork
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There where a few marlin about – but no where near the numbers of last years amazing run …..
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We also had the pleasure of fishing with Chloe Taylor ( www.shefishes.com.au/ ) & Tom Laurence . Top of Chloe’s list was Hervey bays famous golden trevally – which she managed to upgrade on a few occasions
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Tom also managed a few quality spanish …
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Along with a few more quality goldens
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This was the last update on our new Haines Signature 543sf just prior to Christmas – so our next update should see it in the water by the end of January – And that will make a great start to 2014