The Tuna are Thick!!!

Well it’s fair to say that the tuna are here, between macks, longys and yellowfin, they are THICK!! Right from up at Inskip all the way down to Moreton Bay, right in close to the beaches on the inside of the shark nets to 5km out. The tuna are everywhere.

So many people have been out there catching, young and old have been getting among them! Over some days in the past couple of weeks there have been busts up within a kilometre of each and every inlet/mouth in SEQ (South East Queensland).

The tuna have predominantly been macks and longys however, some people have been lucky enough to get onto a school of yellowfin.

On the edges of the tuna bust ups there have been a couple mackerel getting around. The spotties have definitely showed up this season, and they sure showed up in numbers. They have been smashing anything up to 120mm stick bait which is unusual but makes them a lot easier to catch. If you see a bust up and there are a heap of short, sharp slashes really close together and you can’t see what they are, they are most likely spotties.

Grey mackerel (broadbarred king mackerel) have also started to make a come back after pretty much disappearing over the past few seasons!

And last but definitely not least the old faithful spannos are always lurking around all the action. If you’re not lucky enough to catch the odd one off the edge of a bust up, troll a 120-230mm hard body or swimming dead baits around the bait, birds or bust up is a good place to start targeting them!

Just a reminder that the East Coast Spanish Mackerel closure ended on the 21st of March 2023.

With the winter months coming up the early morning winter westerlys are slowly but surely becoming more common. It doesn’t take long to go out and get into them, so it’s possible to get stuck into them before work or school.

Have a watch of the following video if you want to see Bryce and Oska have a pretty hot little session casting into bust ups, they caught a heap of spotty mackerel, a couple too many mack tuna and a nice long tail.

Chasing bust ups can be one of the funnest things you can do. It gets the heart pumping even if you have never done it before or if you have been fishing for years.

Get out there!