Back from the Montes.. Pic Heavy
Hi All, Yeah we had a great trip and weather was good for all but one day, (that day we explored in and around the islands and done a bit of free diving. (we got 2 mangrove jacks free diving and the biggest was 5.5kg, Stonker, but forgot pics.. Duh)
All the guys caught good fish and all had a ball, but I was lucky enough to end up with the 3 biggest fish of the trip..
1, Mackie (Nearly got spooled by him and had to chase him around in the boat) I could not lift it, hence why I am sitting on the Gunnels, we reckon it was 40kg+ (took 2 of us to lift it out of the water..) Released
2, Was a good Coral trout that went 77cm, all on soft plastic.. Yeah Baby.. LOL
3, Was a Brassy trevally that was too heavy for our scales and too long for our stickers (We reckon approx 1050mm), I caught it out of the Tinny and on my little overhead bait caster rod, yes the one I usually use for squid.. ;-D, also had to chase it down so I didn’t get spooled.. No Pics of that one as I didn’t take the bloody Camera out.. Released
Mind you the young blokes Long nose Emperor went 89cm so I suppose that takes 3rd spot... (That will get a bite for sure) LOL
I didn’t catch any Reds though, but everyone else did.. Never mind..
As for trip info the basics were - 530kms done in big boat with the total fuel used of 630 ltrs..
In the Dingy we used a total of 40 ltrs and also ran a 2 kva gennie 24/7 which also used approx 40 ltrs..
As for that poor coral trout being smashed by sharks, unfortunately that was one of many fish that got smashed, the sharks were just ridiculous, you would find a spot on the sounder and drop over and boat a couple of fish then drop over any would not get them 2 feet of the bottom before the sharks would smash them.. :-( Overall rating for the Montes, (7 1/2 out of 10) IMO, it was good to go there spend a week doing what we done but would I go back.. Mmmm NO, Abrolhos for me.. ;-)
Some trip pics just from our boat below..
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ahh montes, sooo good. nice troutz!
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Excellent
Great part of the world, every West Ozzie fisho should do it at least once.
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Outdoneit!
Nice one big fella, far kin ball reared of a trip!!
i reckon that mackie would defo be nudgin 40 kegs too mate, well done!
jighead
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Will be there next week.
Will be there next week. Your getting me all worked up.
leighroy
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Great fish
Some great fish there. That mackie is a wicked looking specimen, and huge
tot
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fantastic pics and fish!
one power ball!!
out of interest how did the 2 boats compare with fuel consumption?
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outdoinit
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Hi tot, the boats were similar with consumption
Our boat was carrying approx 780 ltrs total fuel, plus we had the dingy and 15hp ob strapped across the gunnels for both trips over and back, and as mentioned we done approx 530 kms for approx 620 / 630 ltrs.. our boat is 7.6mtrs and has single 300hp Suzuki ob which to get it on a good plane fully loaded we had to run around 5300rpm.
The other boat is 8mtrs and has 2 x Yammie 225 hp out boards and had approx 800ltrs of fuel + the freezer and kayak etc and had 3 people onboard for over and back trips, they done a few less kms (Approx 500) and they used approx 600 ltrs for total trip.. But because of the 2 donks out the back they could run at a lot lower rpm to get a good plane. (Approx 3500 rpms)
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Mitch1
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Great pics mate, very
Great pics mate, very jealous, what is the fish in the 8th pic?
outdoinit
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The fish in the eighth pic
is a green Job Fish, they rate 3 stars in the fish id book, so we invited it back to camp to join us for dinner that night..
And quite tasty it was..
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bazzab
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monties
Very nice fish mate good size jobbie.
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weather looks good compared to the forecasts
nice pics, glad it all worked out
look forward to catching up soon
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awesome mate - love your work
awesome mate - love your work
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That mack is a
That mack is a horse.
Interested to know how you carry that amount of fuel?
outdoinit
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Yeah agree it was a shit load
of fuel to carry for the trip, our set up was 350ltrs in the main tank, 270ltrs in a collapsible bladder which fits inside our kill tank and we also took 160ltrs in Jerry cans of which 80ltrs was used in the dingy and running the genie 24/7..
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Pauldarie
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great report
out of interest, where did you launch from - was it fortescue river? if so, how was it?
outdoinit
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Yeah mate we launched from Fortescue
No probs at all with launch and retrieve and vehicles safe and sound once we got back.. Happy Days ah
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mullows
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Great work on a what sounds
Great work on a what sounds and looked like a top trip. Love the montes but the sharks found us everywhere we went last time there. Lost a mack and the head alone weighed in at just over 10 kegs, devo!
We passed you guys north of the Burkett road on our way down to C Bay. Thought you might have been k town locals heading down here.
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choorles
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mostah mackieeee!
monstah mackieeee!
Cant wait to get up there
outdoinit
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Yeah certainly one that you need
to cross off the bucket list ah..
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RoseyOne
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That Mackie is a horse.
Great report.
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Whered you launch from?
Whered you launch from?
outdoinit
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From Fortescue
We had the 2 Stagg boats..
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Stagg Boats
Awsome boats you have there mate.
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Love that place
Top trip guys.
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