Carnarvon.Thursday 16th April
The forecast looked good so the plan to go deep was the plan untill we got half way to the islands where the wind was sw at 10-12 knots,change plans and have a look at some spots in close if the breeze is already in.Went back about 4 miles when the wind dropped out,had a short drift at a spot for one small nw snapper.
Change plans again and we head off to where we finished off on our trip last week.First drop and Cooda [Collin] is onto something big but lost it after 30 seconds,I'm on and for the next 5 minutes lave lost 100 metres of 80 lb braid off the reel.What ever is on there we don't want so crank up the drag and straighten out 3x7/0 tarpons
Move to next spot and Cooda is on straight away again and I'm not far behind,he brings up a double header of mulloway of around 6-7 kg each[both released with drop weight,and I get a size pinkie and a red throat emperor,keep pinkie and back goes red throat.over the next 30 minutes we have another 3 pinkies in the box and have put back heaps of just size and undersize nw snapper,time to move.
Have a drop at 2 more spots for more nw snapper,all released.Move again,down we go again Cooda comes up with a pinkie and I come up with a double header of nw snapper and a good rankin cod.Drift through again and Cooda comes up with a double header of n westers and I bring up a red emperor and a n wester,next drift and up comes another red but has to go back as juuussst under the limit.Last drift and an you can decide ,to me its an undersize dhuie with the band through the eye visible but the body stripes are faint or its a pearl perch.About a year back near this spot I got a definite dhuie but it was the same size as this one.
Time to go finished up keeping 6 pinkies,one red emperor and the rankin cod,the pinkies were a lot smaller fish than what we got last week and there were heaps of both sizeand undersize nor westers that were missing last week,but thats fishing,no 2 days are the same.
Enjoy
Fozz
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Nice Haul
Great mixed bag there Carnarvonite, can't imagine your freezer is ever empty for too long. Top stuff.
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Nice bag
Well done John, good haul.
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Good olnya Carnarvonite Some great fish there
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Great report
you will have some of us southerners immigrating if you keep this up.
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Weather
The weather for boating is only just starting to come good with the exception of 5-6 good days since the southerlies started last September so expect some more reports soon
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Great mixed bag
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Terrible conditions you had
Terrible conditions you had to cope with there John. Glad to see you got out again mate. Well done. Looks like a pearl perch to me, but thought they were isolated to east coast?
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cheers for the tease..
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Pearly
Pearl perch, get lots of them north of Canarvon in water over 75m generally.
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well done DAD
good fishing ,good 2 c soon one is catching afue fish good one dad
jeff
just when you think you have gone deep enough go deeper
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yer pearl perch mate got heaps at the montes big ones
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Nice report mate. How far
Nice report mate. How far out is it to Bernier and Dorre islands? What's it like out there?
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Islands
Its about 26nm to the gap between the islands and 29nm to Koks island at the very top.The western side is much like the Quobba coast with cliffs of varying heights and just a 100 metre or so strip of good bottom then sand from there on out.The inside has some sandy beaches,a few good anchorage spots,some good coral with most on the top NE corner,a lot of low limestone ledges.The vegetation is low scrub to about 2-3 foot high.
Divers get mostly red crays with a few coloured mixed in from most areas.
Most of the bottom is rather flat with only a metre rise most times and usually only in small patches.The latest ground I've found is flat with with a smidgen of weed,only noticed it by a change in bottom hardness.If I was years younger it would make an interesting dive to have a look at it,we were catching good fish with none showing on the bottom lock on the sounder.Probably full of small holes etc for them to hide in.