Back to Onslow
I've just got back from one of the bigest fishing trips of me life, 12 days camping out of onslow. The first week there was 5 of us the last 5 days there was 7 of us. Not as many fish were caught as on previous trips as some days the wind was up and other days the fish didnt want to play ball. 90% of the fishing was in under 8 meters of water. The amount of beer drunk was mindblowing. 2 of the guys had never fished the ocean before and had flown from victoria to sample our style of fishing. I personaly didnt bring a fish home, with most of em released and the rest eaten either on the boat or back at camp.
The biggest fish over the side of my boat was a moster of a esturay cod caught in under 4 meters of water,when i say moster he was the biggest fish i have personaly landed. Some of the trevs were to say the least UNSTOPABLE with popers crunched into pieces, we did manage to land a few of the smaller ones. Over the next couple of days ill get some pics up and sort through the vid footage. Here is a pic of what i think is the prized barrimundi cod caught in 4 odd meters of water. What a hair cut
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mitch
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trev on bait
got this little baby pulling my bait up from about 5 metres of water .it hit the bait right at the back of the boat scareing the crap out of me . i say this little baby cause the ones that we couldnt stop were HEEEEAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSS bigger. this one was the first of 3 landed destroying the drag on the reel to the point where i couldnt wind the drag down any more and had to use my hand for exstra drag pressure
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mitch
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pete the deckie from hell
my fishing partner for the trip .nothing was to hard for this man,and would like to thank him .the best deckie and general camp legend one could hope for .he caught the most fish and didnt do to bad a job knocking back the cold ones either
pete with a nice mackie
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Kasey L.
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green with envy
".it hit the bait right at the back of the boat scareing the crap out of me . i say this little baby cause the ones that we couldnt stop were HEEEEAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSS bigger. this one was the first of 3 landed destroying the drag on the reel to the point where i couldnt wind the drag down any more and had to use my hand for exstra drag pressure"
I'm jealous.
Looks like a good 15-20kg gt.
there might be some comments coming your way about the photo, but any picture of a gt is beautiful.
Wish i was there.
Adam Gallash
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'there might be some comments coming your way about the photo,'
I know what sorta comments, like, you lucky lucky bastards. :)
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davo
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Lucky Bastard
Or some psycho babble from flywest hahaha but i agree awesome fish and great photos!
Andy Mac
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Great report
Top effort Mitch,
Would love to see a pic of that estuary cod you mentioned.
Don't worry about the haircut mate, you've still got more hair than me even with a mowhawk and I let mine grow as long as I can. (That's what you can look forward to when you get to my age - old, going bald & grey.)
Cheers
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Andy
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haircut mate
how many beers it take for ya to want to do that to your head. Not long till coral bay. hopefully we will have some good pics to put up. The wind better not blow this year.....
Heatherg
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Stories
Oh Mitch love the hair cut/cuts AND the fishing stories
mitch
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hair
thanks H the hair was always gonna happen i will probable do it same time next year as the trip is an annual event.got a hawk last year to,andy there was a lot of beer drunk and 3lts jimmy B gone between 5 of us in the morning ,saw the sun come up the next morning .then carked it. timed it well as it blew it guts out all the next day.
the pic of the cod dosnt do him justice .i didnt weigh him as my scales only go to 25 kg and besides that i didnt wont to hang him by the jaw .just wanted to give him a big hug.got him trolling in about 4 metres of water
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mitch
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tender
this was my little blow up canoe which we used as a tender.had no problems with it and was a god send to get to the boats at night .as arfter a week there was a lot of stink in the water out the front of camp.with plenty of bities swimming around
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mitch
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this was the third guy on my Heath
This was the third guy on my boat. The one liners he came out with kept us laughing like school kids even when the fishing was slow. Jack went back to onslow for him and abbs [jacks dad] half way through the trip restocking up on ice booze and fuel. Like they say better of looking at it than for it hicup hicup
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mitch
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boat
i am trying to to get better at this photo taking thingy.shame the horizons pissed or should i say the photographer
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Adam Gallash
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Great Stuff Mitch
Love the photos Mitch! Look foward to seeing the video now. :))) If its anything like Jack Rock, then send it in!!!!!!!
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mitch
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edit
im keen but these fish vids are long as the fish dont like there photo taken . great fun in shallow stuff, even the ever present under size bluebone ,will make ya bream gear piss ,those little buggers GO ,so have to get the boys around and EDIT a lot especialy some of the colourful comments .a lot of big f@#$ing fire trucks were caught
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Adam Gallash
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Send em in
Send em in Mitch, nothing I haven't heard before. If theres any really gold footage in there, then let me know as it could be used for the first fishwrecked.com dvd. Would like to get some footage of you guys that have been supporting FW since early on in there. Would like to see that horse cod go in the shallows too, if you got footage that is. :)
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mitch
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help
ive only been back a week and im already having withdrawals,
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mitch
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trout
these were fw an far between.plenty of under size ones though
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frizza
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withdrawals
my heart bleeds for ya mate .
won't be long before your off to coral bay will it.
Pete
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get back to work you.
get back to work you.
jay_burgess
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Mitch, did you weigh the
Mitch, did you weigh the estuary cod you caught? We found a patch off samson that consistantly produced big estuary cod... couldn't get them in on our standard gear and had to resort to 200lb hand lines. Weighed one that was 50lbs and lost many more way bigger than that.
They're a bit average when it comes to fighting abilities but when you can catch them that big they're a bit of a challenge.
mitch
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not weighed
na didnt weigh him.frizza wont to get back to cant tell ya after cbay.gonna be taken me boys for 1 nights camping and get them on this sand island as the tide is changing ,pic any lure cast it and the 2 foot trevs are lining up will be sending down a vid to adam .hope it gets on
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frizza
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back to the bay
that sounds great mitch we will have to lock in a date .
i'm sure chloe would love to go.
solly and i are off to pardoo to catch some threadfin and mulloway soon (no date set yet ) i will let you know when we have.
Jack
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Nut's Trout
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Here's a mate from over home ( Vic ) with the first fish for the trip at Can't Tell Ya Bay recently... Five blokes on an island for a couple of weeks was terrible as you can all imagine!! Then we were met by another couple of Castaways to help get through the green tins... Ey boy's... When are we going back?? Tomorrow sounds great. I'll attempt to throw a few more pic's on....
Jack
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Frog's Trout
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Another mate that came over from Vic to enjoy the fishing the Northwest has to offer. This beauty was a perfect end to what was a pretty quiet day... But as they say... A bad day's fishing is better than a good day's work!!!
Jack
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Nut's Cod
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And just when we thought the day was over!! Look what wanted the Barby!!
Jack
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The Beasts
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Bring It On (mitch's weapon) and Bilzere (jack's stoinker) closer to the beach... Two of the smelliest boats in the Pilbra at that stage. The only girls allowed on the trip!!!
Jack
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Frog's Qeeny
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And from memory i think the call was " You boy's are on in a second" as three or four of these shot under the boat. This one only got a 7 for its double backflip reverse pike though... Great to watch.
Jack
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More Fun
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Yet another Trev for a little fun on the way home. Wish it was home anyway.... back to camp.
Jack
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The Wilderbeast
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One of many Wilderbeasts spotted on the island over the two weeks!! Hehehehe
Jack
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Pete's Trev
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Another Trev made the effort to come in for a visit, this time smashing Pete's dirty old red and white. Not that it mattered what colour you had on, they were smashing everything!!!!
Jack
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One More
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Mitch thought the Gold twisty might be in with a show.... and guess what.... EVERY BLOODY THING WAS IN WITH A SHOW!!! Bonous points for the shirt big boy!! Mine will be out next trip.... pack ya boat, we're gone!!!!
Jack
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Esky's Loaded, Boat's
Esky's Loaded, Boat's Ready...... Lets Go!!!!!!
Jack
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Ab's Trev
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Try again!! You may see this picture somewhere else too, Anyway you shoulda seen the old man when we were throwing these things back!!! Couldnt believe it!! We all had a ball catchin em though, look at the grin!!! Good to see the sunscreeen's on too mate.
Jack
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Sunrise??
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A sunrise at the island which im sure four other blokes can't remember. Three litres of bourbon and two thirty packs of green tins for sweets will do it every time!!! The biggest night on the island without a doubt.
Jack
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FFF
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Two mates from over home ( Vic ) enjoying the Northwest for two weeks. FFF is the name of a team made up of skilled,keen,thirsty anglers from Nth East Vic that go to Dartmouth Dam each year for a pissup/fishing comp/bloody good week. Great spot for trout fishing if any of you are ever over that way. Freeburgh Freedom Fighters.
mitch
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the sunrise
think i might of still been awake for that pic jack so i got tolled anyway!!!!!!.although my hair do had changed.beer an bourbon arhhhh "THE LIVER IS EVIL IT MUST BE PUNISHED"
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Jack
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Were'nt alone
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Yeh im hearin ya!! I ended up sporting a Mr T lookalike number, Nut's had the fat Hawk, you went the skinny hawk and big Frog went the reverse hawk... Check it out.( By the way peoples, if the fish that big Frog are holding look under size.... think again, he's about 6 foot 8, Man Mountain.)
mitch
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the T
well jack the pics a bit blurrie but ill post ya T hawk .have to addmit 5 leggless blokes 4ish in the morning not to bad an effort on the hair.ggggeeeesssss !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mitch
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pirates
the pirates crew is growing.alias F.F.F these boys can come fishing with me any day .can fish can drink can cook CAN EAT,and can rock,there walking MP3s with great music every night.pic a song and sing along
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Jack
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Frogs Trev
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Looks like he's about to pop through the roof!!! Put up a reasonable fight but the funniest thing was the effort to gaff it... Only from poor instructions for your's truely though. I told Nut's to just smack it cause it was playin around a bit so he smacked it allright..... with the back of the gaff....Aaaahhhhh... Had to be there.... Great recovery though with a clean one under the gills. Round two... K Jack... 3 votes.
Adam Gallash
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Lovin the haircuts
There some special mo's just there! Couple of cracking shots that tell a great story of what looks like a wicked trip.
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frizza
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vids and pics
jack i caught up with mitch who showed me most of the footage.
can't wait to see it on fish wrecked.