2011 Annual Exmouth Pilgramage
This trip there was 7 of us that went up and we rented a nice two storey house in town. We took up a 5.4m Trailcraft & 11ft tinney and hire the 4.2m Dory up there. Weather was great for the week (28 May - 5 June).
We fish mainly outside the reef from Tantabiddi with just a few hours inside the reef. We caught all the usual species...Spanish Mackeral, Tuna, Golden Trevally, spotted trevally, giant trevally, spangled emporer, coral trout, coranation cod, sharks and long toms.
Only landed 1 GT on the second day, didn't have the right gear but the little daiwa 3000 on an old ugly stick (as i snapped my rod 10mins before on a golden trevally) managed the job of this little one. On the second day alone (first real fishing day as day 1 was no good) 3 of the 7 snapped our rods.
Here is a few photos from our recent annual trip to Exmouth.
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milsey
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Some nice fish from the
Some nice fish from the dingho mate, you did well to get the GT up with the sol. Well done
Heinz
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Nice fish there mate, that GT
Nice fish there mate, that GT would have been a damn good fight on that gear!
VaSSagO
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The GT catch was made
The GT catch was made slightly harder having to reverse the dinghy away from the breakers on the reef at the same time....plus my deckie was too busy unhooking a longtom resulting having to gaff it myself aswell
The previous cast I got onto something much larger (I assume a much bigger GT) but I didnt have a chance in stopping it with the Sol 3000 and it busted me off on the reef......this one was pretty easy in comparison. Took got the GT rod and the Spheros 14000 everyday after that but no luck.
This trip I really wanted to get a GT....now that I have crossed that one off my list, next year a marlin!! (might need a bigger boat tho).
MattMiller
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Good stuff mate,
sounds like a good little trip that one, love Exxy for that.
Don't worry about your boat being to small, heaps of Billfish have been successfully landed/boated every year by crew in tinny's. Just have to be careful, organised and smart.
Adam Gallash
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2 storey
2 storey joint, hmm, I'm guessing 30 Tambor drive....
I do remember seeing those boats next door. Looks like you had a good trip.
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Lucky Tim
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nice one mate, those trevs
nice one mate, those trevs would've gone hard
aalfred
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well done!
well done!
bigbadbustling
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Date Joined: 03/03/10
Bloody good week
That was us at 30 Trambor...I did say to the other blokes that I thought THE "Fishwrecked" guy was next door. You weren't as "friendly" as the bird living on the otherside, she just let herself into the place with a fag and VB in hand (the same hand) to say Hi. Is that a pet roo you had in the backyard or a passer by, we couldn't work it out?
Highlights of the week was the Monday - massive current line running near the Tantabiddi passage, thick with bait boiling, casting hard bodied stick baits to endless tuna schools, floating weed beds with Dolphinfish sight casting to them (lost both hookups to jumping fish), then following the current line back into the reef (low swell) where the bait was holding with countless golden trevally, small mackies, tuna, and GTs smashing oversize poppers (we were too undergunned as previously pointed out). Lost so many fish to sharks. 3-way hookups on spaniards. And one of the newbies catching a monster YFT (the ones with the big yellow sickles), bringing it boatside with minimum fuss, then the first time gaffman slapping the fish rather than hooking it to awaken it making the beast bolt again only to throw the lure. Oh and the 2 blondes that launched one of the whale shark charterboat tenders, definitely a welcome sight early at the boat ramp each morning, then seeing them on the way back to the ramp in the arvo putting on a show washing their boat's windows down in their little black bikini get ups.
Thats why they call it fishing, and helps keep our local tackle stores in business.
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Percula
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fuel
Gatesy - how did you go with fuel - did ya use much??
Or should I say did you waste much??
Marky
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Nice work fella's....olid GT
Nice work fella's....solid GT Gatesy, well done
Paul G
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Well done sounds like a hell
Well done sounds like a hell of a trip and good weather and plenty of fish top stuff.
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