Cervantes - New Years

We all know summer isn’t the best fishing weather but it’s nice to just get out there or get away. My cousin Jimmy asked if I wanted to come up to his holiday house again in Cervantes and with a twisted arm I hooked up my boat and headed up there!

I enjoy Cervantes as a nice quick holiday destination and with a lot of family up there over the New Year it was very enjoyable. I took my Baja petrol powered car up also and ran amuck on the oval and up in the dunes!

We had a great time with the ski biscuit, electric helicopter, kites and very relaxing indeed. Fishing was good with a handful of trips out and bagged out on Dhufish and bycatch every trip including baldchin, pinkys and black arse. It was nice to fish half a day (if that) and then head in to clean fish and do other activities!

I stuck with artificial every trip as I do and did very well. My cousin Jimmy got some nice fish also on driftbait including a solid dhufish. It was very noticeable that the artificial’s caught more and bigger dhufish per trip!

I was using a mixture of artificial’s as I do and the standouts were the Abrolhos softplastics both the 6.5” McPaddle tails and the 7” Bullwhip minnow. Due to fishing faster winds & sometimes a bit deeper I opted to use heavier jig heads (TT Headlockz) and some of my dhufish had the softy right down into its mouth!

Thanks Jimmy, Casey, Kids, Steve and Caleb for a great holiday.


 



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Tue, 2017-01-10 12:58

 Some hooter joo's there Ryan, nice to see the plackies working.

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Sshh....

Tue, 2017-01-10 12:58

 you are not supposed to mention how good Cervantes is....

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Lol thinking same thing

Tue, 2017-01-10 13:34

 Certainly is great place for big dhues . Top feed 

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Good haul

Tue, 2017-01-10 16:03

Nice fish, I just want one that size! My new year resolution is to land an 8kg dhu on jig.

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Cervantes

Wed, 2017-01-11 14:41

Dale, yeh mate I mixed it up using all different jigs but the sofplastics were a standout indeed 

West Coast & J/Johnny haha I was thinking that also ....ssshhhh  
 

Thanks Bing .... if we can help with info to land you that fish we will. My staff are happy to help so pop in or send them a PM
 

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 Good fish good pics happy

Wed, 2017-01-11 15:54

 Good fish good pics good people happy holidays. Winning 

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Yep!

Mon, 2017-01-16 20:48

Cheers Gilly, yep allround a great holiday with family and friends. Plenty of dhufish to 12 kg on jigs .... Happy days  

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Weight

Wed, 2017-01-25 17:45

How heavy were the jig heads you were using and what depth  

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info!

Sun, 2017-01-29 15:16

It was very windy most days so 2oz & 3oz TT Headlockz and depth wise 40-70m!

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Cheers!

Mon, 2017-01-30 11:53

Cheers mate.