hey everyone,
We went to Albany for four days on Friday for some fishing,
As soon as we got there and unpacked we went for a quick fish down at the Emu point jetty, we only spent an hour there because my younger brother was getting bored and we were catching nothing.
The next morning dad and I got up at six o'clock for a "quick" fish down at the town jetty, we got there and berleyed up, we had a fun couple of hours catching and releasing multiple Bream, Skippy and Tarwhine, nothing was really sized but they were still fun to catch on light gear.
Later that day at around ten we went down to Emu point jetty for another fish, this time we took our little cousin to try and catch him his first fish, we caught a lot of Mullet, Bream and skippy which kept us occupied for a couple of hours, the skippy were pretty small, around the 20cm mark, the biggest Bream we caught was 28cm, I was very surprised in the amount of mullet we caught, about 15 mullet were caught ranging from 15cm to the biggest at 34cm. My little cousin managed to catch to Bream, after that we couldn't hear the end of it about how much he loves fishing, which was a good thing. Later that night, we went down to Middleton Beach, dad assuming that we were going to catch lots of fish seeing though our last name is Middleton. Anyway we got there at about five, we weren't there for long because I only managed a small Flathead and a Squid. Later that night we went fishing at the Town jetty but with no luck
On Sunday morning we went back to Emu point, the fish were a bit harder to come by but with a bit of berley and patience we got onto some fish, we caught the same species as we had the whole trip, Skippy, Mullet and Bream, I also got a little Leatherjacket, my little cousin got two Mullet and a Skippy, it was good fun watching a 6 year old real in a fighting 27cm Skippy trying to dodge the hungry pelicans who were causing trouble. Him being new to fishing wanted to keep every little fish he caught and put it in an aquarium or jump on them. Later that day we headed out to Two Peoples Bay just east of Albany, we were catching lots of chunky sand Mullet, small Whiting and a few Flathead, at around five we saw a few rays cruising around in the shallows, I decided I was going to have fun and try and catch one, I chucked a mulie on a set of 5/0 gangs and waited, eventually I hooked one of them, I hooked the biggest one of them, after a blitzing first run it has spooled 350m of 20lb line, after the initial run it gave in, I got about 200m back, but then he ran off again peeling line from my reel, after 35 minutes of my arms hurting I beached him, he was a nice sized eagle ray, I got the hook out and released him and he swam off fast.
Next day we went out to Camp Quaranup where I caught a little colourful Wrasse. 5 minutes later I saw a salmon cruising around the reef, I chucked out a whole mulie and I was on straight away. surpringly it didn't really fight much, he had swallowed the gangs all the way down, so he was pronounced dinner (I don't know what people are talking about when they say salmon isn't good to eat, we stuffed this one and put it on the Barbie and it tasted quite nice) Next spot we went to Emu point to pick uncle diesel from the oyster farm where he works, I decided to have a fish as I didn't want to waste the opportunity to walk out on the sand bar at low tide, I went out to the end of the sand bar and got 3 nice chunky Bream which would of been about 28 - 33cm. as I walked back I found a few little sand wholes around the weed on the drop offs, I managed 14 King George Whiting ranging from 23cm - 36cm. I walked further towards the jetty and caught a nice flounder, I let him go just near my feet, he camoflauged really well straight away.
Well the last morning, we decided to go for one last fish before we had to come home, we went to Emu point before light to see if we could improve the size of the fish we were catching, anyway we got there at about 6:30, after an hour of catching just one little yellowtail our hopes weren't that high. but then we started talking to the skipper of Spinners charters who had been out for 2 days, he said the mulie boats are going to come in soon so you should get some nice fish. within a minute of the boats coming in we were on to the Bream, fish after fish after fish, all of these fish were about 20 - 30cm. One of the deckies on the mulie boats gave us a couple of fresh mulies, if you see the difference between a fresh mulie to a bait mulie you will be surprised and probably not buy bagged mulies again. Anyway back to the fishing, I cut dad a little chunk of mulie within 2 minutes he was on and on to a bloody big fish, it was taking line and going under the pylons after about 3 minutes he landed it it was a 46cm Tarwhine, he was pretty stoked with his efforts, about 30 minutes of catching smallish ones, it was my turn. I hooked on to a massive Black Bream, I got it to the surface and gone spat the hooks, we estimated this one about 45cm it was a beauty!!! I was dirty with my myself and wanted another one, 2nd last cast of the day my turn comes again I hooked a big bream. this time I wouldn't let the same mistake happen and I got it up on the jetty, it measured 47cm, I was so happy, because ive always wanted to catch a 40cm Bream, people spend years trying to catch that big bream and we hooked and landed 2 in 30 minutes, its just a matter of being in the right spot at the right time and when the fish are hungry, anyway I told dad I would have one more cast, another mulie boat came in, I saw a big salmon swimming around at the back of the boat, I sprinted back to the car to get my beach rod that had a set of gangs on, I chucked a fresh mulie on, after 3 minutes of the salmon sniffing out the bait, he took it and he was off, after a 7 minute fight I went down the ladder to get him, he measured 86cm, I unhooked him climbed back down the ladder and let him go
All in all it was a great fun trip with a few fish caught
I only got pictures of the first day sorry and the salmon we kept because I put the camera in the bait bucket and mum got a bit angry so im not allowed to use it anymore so I just gotta save up and buy my own
I also only got a video of the ray because mum filmed it but I don't think I can upload it
Cheers for reading
Vinnie

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