4 Wonderful Days in Kalbarri
Hey All,
Quick report on a 4 day trip to Kalbarri I undertook last week.
Was my first time to Kalbarri - so super excited. Towed the Mustang walk around up behind the Patrol and made reasonable time - 7.5 hrs from memory. Chewed up some juice though (4.8l)!
The bar was a little lumpy first day - but was fine the rest. Keep me on my toes being first time through it.
Had a great 4 days of fishing - weather was absolutely superb.
We were generally catching 4-6 mackies (95-130cm) a day, with around 4 hours spent on the troll. Tried North and South, but had the most luck approx 10-12 miles north of the bar. In around 18-24m depth. We tried a variety of lures - blue proving popular and we also seemed to have better hookups on smaller sized lures.
We also had some good luck with the bottom fishing - a few dhu's, red emperor, baldies and an estuary cod were the highlights. We were bottom bouncing in around 42m of water. Didn't pick up any big lumps in this depth, just tried to pick out the change in colour of the seafloor on the sounder.There were some lumps closer in (20m) that we also had some luck on. No luck on the craypots - NW blowies!
With such perfect weather, 4 days fishing wasn't long enough, but packed up Friday morning and hightailed it home - 7hrs - though chewing even more juice!!
Cheers,
Pete
Frank F
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Nice fish and a good report.
Nice fish and a good report.
Italiano
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looks like a nice four days
looks like a nice four days very jealous
Paul_86
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looks like u had a great
looks like u had a great trip. im heading up myself on thursday hopeing for some similar action. what was the standout lure for the mackies if u dont mind me asking? congrats on the great fish
Peter Mac
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Yo-Zuri Hydro Magnam in blue were good.
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Paul_86
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cheers
thanks mate, will have to invest in a few of those.
UncutTriggerInWA
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Can't beat kalbarri IMO
Nice report. North of Perth just gets better as you go north. Kalbarri is a good place to round it off if it's too hard to go further..
In my younger days I used to surf that place a lot....If I had known there were so many predators up there maybe i would have though twice.
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till
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Nice work on the emps,
Nice work on the emps, buggered if we could find any of those in exmouth.
fords_rule85
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BE THERE SOON
Sounds like a very productive trip guys, nice work. Im heading up to kalbarri at the end of this month, does anyone know how the landbased fishing is going???? Ive got a 14ft dinghy but wouldnt mind leaving it at home and just doing some shore fishing. Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanx
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max199
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Reds!
nice work....Macs are not to hard to get this time of year, you even see them jumping. So you were trolling them up around the Sand patch?
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Peter Mac
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yep, saw a few jumping. We
yep, saw a few jumping. We trolled mostly at Bald Head and when that slowed down headed further north again.
P
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Mick
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G'day Peter Were you up
G'day Peter
Were you up there with another ally boat, staying next to the IGA. That was me in the other little white tinnie on the Wednesday and then with some mates in the hire boat on Thursday. We were bagging the crap out of each other. The macks where certainly going off. Was up there again yesterday and they are still prolific. Lots of yellowfin too.
Cheers Mick
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saltydog
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we're up there next week and
we're up there next week and wouldn't ya know it
this bloody weather rolls in.
gives me the shites, haven't been out on the blue for 18 months
and we cop this crap!
hope to get one day out of 7 that we can have a crack!
Paul G
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looks like a great trip as
looks like a great trip as you said it could have been longer,some nice fish caught,well done .We went there some years back but didn't have much look..
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Pete D
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Sounds like you had a fat
Sounds like you had a fat time Pete.
That is a nice Kalbarri Red too!
Cheers Pete
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Kalbarri!
A good report Pete and some fine fishing & weather packed into the 4 days.....very nice!