3 nights in Exmouth - a few more photos
G'day all! Last thurs at 3pm a mate and I hooked up my boat near Australind and drive through the night to Exmouth, arriving at the bottom of the gulf at 7:30am fri morning. We headed straight out from the bay of rest for a full day of fishing picking up a few black snapper, cod etc. We headed into Exmouth at about 5pm to filet the fish and set up the swags in the caravan park. With strong southerlies blowing the next 3 days were spent getting up at 5, spending the day diving, trolling, fishing, squidding and prawning down the bottom of the gulf and arriving back in Exmouth around dark to fillet the fish... We got our days limit of prawns in 2 hours with 1 throw net, and 15 squid over the 4 days. I also got a treble in my thumb still attached to a mackerel that I got out with pliers as it was early in the morning and we had a full day of fishing ahead of us.... On the Monday we fished until 3pm, then back to Exmouth to pack up camp and head south - arriving in australind 11am tues morning... It was a fantastic trip!!!! Anyway - here are a few photos... Drew
Colt_Striker
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Nice reward for a long quick
Nice reward for a long quick trip.
bouttime
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Well done, with all these
Well done, with all these southerlies here at the moment must have been tough fishing. Good to see you got a few.
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Thats some reward for effort
Thats some reward for effort there
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Callum24
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thats a beaut queeny mate
thats a beaut queeny mate some dedacation there all.night driving allday fishing love getting in the swag after a sucsessful mission
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Paul_86
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Love a good quicky! Looks
Love a good quicky! Looks like a great trip and you guys definently made the most of your time up there, nice to be rewarded for your efforts.
deepwater
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Exxy trip
great work there mate ,good to c u got stuck in to them and afue prawns as well ,did u find them easy enought ??
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Wannafish
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Thanks for the comments
Thanks for the comments everyone, and a huge thanks to Deepwater for the info on the prawns!! Yep - there were about 5 other boats not far off the mark when we arrived, and prawns started jumping around the boat, so I started with the throw net. Prob got an average of 6 per throw, with a max of about 12 - heaps were getting out because of a couple of big holes in the net due to casting it over a couple of big fish in the shallows the day before...... The fishing was very good - bagging out on fish on the third day and going close on the fourth - with most either on lures or on the end of the spear! We got smoked on 50lb braid with close to locked drags a couple of times - probably from big cod due to what else we were catching.... Once again it was a fantastic trip, and we'll worth the drive!!! Drew