brief bremer rock flick
I’m just back from Bremer Bay, on WA's south coast, where I spend last night and yesterday.
I haven’t been rock fishing in years and spontaneously decided to head down for a quick solo fish.
The spot I intended heading was bottoming out the Triton, so I reluctantly gave it away and had to suss out a new spot.
New spot didn't have very deep water for kingfish and snapper, but was safe and contained plenty of species to keep me intrigued on light gear. Most fish released, but got a feed.
Pretty amazing variety of species, makes every bite interesting. Breaksea cod (black arse - nice on the fang), wobbegongs, skippy (silver trevally and this one turned yellow for a photo), leatherjackets, herring (tommy rough), western rock blackfish, zebra fish, wirrah cod, buff bream (silver drummer), sea sweep and different wrasse.
Also saw heaps of seals, 2 mallee hens and vibrantly marked tiger snake.
A big effort/drive (6hrs one way) for an overnighter, but just swimming in that big rock pool with beach all to one’s self was worth it.
makai
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Sounds like a great trip
Looks like great conditions, and awesome to have a place like that to yourself.
darren monks
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yeah Makai it was initially
yeah Makai it was initially perfect conditions and might've been more than an overnighter if wind speed and direction didn't change. but it did, and rocks getting dicey and casting into wind etc.
Snags
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Nice mix there mate!also
Nice mix there mate!
also love the Penn SS, they can sure take a beating
darren monks
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yes Snags, I dusted off my
yes Snags, I dusted off my old school Penn and Alvey and they've still got the guts/goods.
meglodon
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Where's the photo
I want to see as photo of the tiger snake lol
eziliving
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Good stuff monkies. Good to
Good stuff monkies. Good to see you having a crack again. Hopefully more reports to come
Get busy living, or get busy dying!
eziliving
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Good stuff monkies. Good to
Good stuff monkies. Good to see you having a crack again. Hopefully more reports to come
Get busy living, or get busy dying!
darren monks
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thanks blokes. tiger snake
thanks blokes.
tiger snake and mallee hens I saw when driving and almost stopped to get the camera out. I won't pack it away again on drive home.
2 mallee hens I reckon I disturbed at sun up this morn, making their way across the road from grazing boxwood hill golf course to mallee/gimlet woodland. beautiful but dumb birds (road wise). heaps of parrots/galahs/cockies as well roadside - gotta be careful driving as I had to slow and swerve a few times.
did so for that sunning middle-of-road tiger as well. black and yellow so stark, be about a metre in length - but like a bandy bandy amazing coloured tiger snake - akin the zebra fish I posted photo of above.
no pic's sorry.
mc
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Love that part of WA, nice
Love that part of WA, nice catch
Industrymanboy
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what is this one?
I caught one of these off the boat near Rotto and I had no idea what it was.
darren monks
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sea sweep. grow a bit bigger
sea sweep. grow a bit bigger and not as prominent black stripes as banded sweep.
marrisy
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great place
back before Christmas, was walking along the beach at john cove when the granddaughters saw a small bobtail. as we were watching, a tiger snake grabbed the lizard, and after a few minutes, swallowed it. Good lesson about nature.
Is the estuary still closed to the public due to supposed algae ?
Marrisy.
darren monks
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?? I didn't go near the
?? I didn't go near the estuary so no idea.
woody
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Good to see you back on here
Good to see you back on here Monksy, get back into rock fishing more often and keep putting up pics....just like the old hotbite days.
darren monks
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yeah I'm slowly getting back
yeah I'm slowly getting back into it Woody.
i've been side-tracked by serious deer/pig hunting for the last decade, and nearly getting killed (wave) on the last rock fish prior to this trip put me off.
back on the horse, heading to jurien for an overnighter Monday.
thanks mate.