Fishing Summary May 2017

Facebook provides an excellent and simple facility for conducting group discussions in text form, including unbeatable support for adding still pictures, movies and "shares". As a result, with our Facebook Group we have better media-rich communication within Noosa Yakkers than ever before, with lots of info and useful material appearing quickly on our Group because it's so easy to post, to view and to make comments. Not on Facebook? I encourage you to dip your paddle in the Facebook sea and give it a try. If the oldest members of Noosa Yakkers can do it probably you can. Not convinced? Don't despair. We have no intention of dropping our tried and true Google Group email or our indispensable blog of Trip Reports and generally useful yak fishing info. But if you're not on Facebook, you're missing out.

To help retain contact with our established world wide blog audience we've decided to publish this monthly summary of our fishing activity. The info has been extracted from our closed (private) Facebook Group. Constructive ideas to improve this summary and/or volunteered editorial skills are welcomed.

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Overview, weather and species

Early in the month we were still getting over the dirty water effects of Cyclone Debbie, but at least the wind was showing signs of dropping.

Noosa sea temperature 01May17 25°C/77°F and at 31May17 25°C/77°F

Fish species mentioned or featured in Noosa Yakkers' reports this month in Noosa area: longtail tuna, mackerel tuna, spotted mackerel, snapper, spangled emperor

# 02May17

sunshiner and several others:

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YT video by sunshiner

https://youtu.be/GCBSO8PW4aA

# 15May17

doctor dog (solo):

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# 16May17

sunshiner and five others:

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sunshiner's yt video of the trip

https://youtu.be/ZgpoE-YDDF8

# 17May17

weeksie plus willy:

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# 25May17

arjee:

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# 28May17

jonny:

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sunshiner/stormin and others:

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Video by stormin:

# 29May17

Doc dog and jimbo

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So, fairly quiet, but at least we had some spotty macs show up early on and one of the biggest longtails we've seen was brought in late in the month. Here's hoping we get some great offshore weather for June.

Kev Long
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