Broome trip
Just got back from Broome this arvo after a few days out of the winter weather of Perth.
Hang on... wait...
Unseasonal rain? Yeah just our luck! 3 out of 5 days rained. Monday absolutely pi**ed down all day and night, flooding the town and forcing the closure of half the restaurants. Took a trip out to Willie Creek and jesus that road gets hairy in bad weather.
As far as the fishing goes, I hammered the crap out of the town beaches, entrance pt, willie and crab creeks with all sorts of lures, on both tide turns, for one bloody catfish... on squid... on my girlfriend's rod. On the last cast at willie creek hooked a big salmon but it threw the hooks. Maybe the weather shut things down... but I think maybe I was just trying too hard.
Oh well at least 2 days were beautiful weather.
Goatlobster
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wow rain in july in
wow rain in july in broome!!! i wonder how the thousands of blow in tourists delt with the rain in there tents.. haha.. Pity not many fish around.. not even at willie creek?
Faulkner Family
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hope you made the most of it
hope you made the most of it even if it rained over half the time. pity the fish didnt want to play fair . better luck next time
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
lunker
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Date Joined: 08/01/10
Yeah we couldn't believe
Yeah we couldn't believe it.. not quite the weather anybody was expecting! The tent campers must have had the worst time, the rain just didn't end!
Still had a great time though... being stuck in a great hotel in Broome still beats being at home anyday. But then again I did have some pretty big dreams of queenies, salmon and trevally before I went up
Willie creek, although it didn't produce bugger all at the time, would definitely be on the cards for another trip. I wouldn't attempt the drive in a small 4x4 again though, I had to drive back in second gear haha so bloody slippery and boggy
Did see plenty of baitfish and what looked like small bream/trevally schooling near the rocks, but yeah only hooked the one salmon (pretty sure it was) after a good thousand casts. Took a halco rooster popper
The highlight was seeing the big croc floating nearby... the tour guide for the pearl farm was telling me there's two of them and like to hang around where I was fishing on a high tide. So must be careful.
So yeah already thinking about the next trip... may try flying to karratha or hedland and exploring around there.
Oh yeah and if anybody is planning a trip to broome, we stayed at the Oaks Resort in town and I would thoroughly recommend it to everybody!
Billcollector
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So you brought the shite
So you brought the shite weather with you Lunker
. Seriously though it was because we had a 6 day comp on . 105 mm of rain for the month of July, more than the last 25 july's put together. about 10 hours of sunlight for the duration of the comp, not good to chase billfish in and as usual weathers great now the comps over