Coral Bay 2017
Just finished 6 weeks in coral bay with the best weather you could imagine which we deserved after the crap weather last year.
There was hardly a day you could not get out and lots of awesome days we just went to the beach as you would end up with too much fish if you went too often.
There did not seem to be as many boats this year and there was heaps of good weather days when none of the 3 charter boats went out [Mahi Mahi has 2 boats now]
Everybody was catching heaps of squid and the fishing was great with heaps of reds around and lots of big ones at the cleaning tables, the best we got was a 9 kilo.
I saw some huge fish caught by the deep droppers with a couple of cod I reckon would be 40 to 50 kilos but I am still happy to play in the shallower water close to home.
Sharks were worse than last year with heaps of fish lost to them although it did get a bit better the last couple of weeks. I did have one victory over them when th missus was pulling up a red on the top hook and a shark about 1.7m long grabbed the bottom hook on the way up and we got them to the top and cut the line so got rid of the shark and kept the red.
One day the missus had me 4 nil on the reds when I pulled up a double header and she got one at the same time. We had to throw one back so I threw hers back so I could claim a 4 to 2 result instead of a 5 to 1 result.
Back to the real world now and wait for 2018.
Sorry about the upside down pics but they are up the right way on the puter.
Coastrunner
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Magic
Stevo81
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6 weeks? Yes please! Top
6 weeks? Yes please!
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sea-kem
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That is just sick!!
That is just sick!! Hopefully it's on for us Tuesday.
Love the West!
Paully
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WOW
Well done - dream stuff that
. Good luck Andy.
Simo_
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Nice fish mate. Living the
Nice fish mate. Living the dream.
Bring on April
Pedro the fisherman
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Coral bay
hi crano didn't see you up there but I see bluey fished with you a bit . Fishing was great as I can see in your photos I will have to wait awhile before I can post my trip antics you smashed it
COLLINGWOOD ARMY...
Krusty
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Wow, 6 weeks of great
Wow, 6 weeks of great weather and awesome fishing....Yes pleeeeeese......well done
My fishing spots are so secret........... even the fish don't know where they are !!
hunterdive
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Date Joined: 24/02/09
Grreat selection of pics
Grreat selection of pics there Crano, you def have those in-close red spots down pat.
You towed me back in from inside the Sth Passage btw, just putting a name to a face. See you next year mate, thanks again
Deleted
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I see red I see red I see
I see red I see red I see red....... Well done
straith
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Drool.... turning green
Half your luck and holidays!!
Cruise Control
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Nice . . . . the lucky
Nice . . . . the lucky Haines strikes again !
bsir
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Nice work
How far you travelling to get into the reds?
crano
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Pedro
Pedro Blue was there for the first 3 weeks but had to go home to work but he caught some great fish.
Hunterdive Happy to give you a tow [just glad you were not in the 25 boston though] and enjoyed the bottle of red you bought me.
Bsir We do our fishing from 50 to 65 meters on spots starting about 3 mile out from the reef.
Sea-Kem Sounds like you are having a similar trip.
Simo You are the king of Coral Bay I think.
Minesy
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Date Joined: 16/09/12
Looks like a good trip.
The weather gods played their part this year, if only we headed down.
Nice work.
Troyboy
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Very jealous! Nice work mate!
Very jealous! Nice work mate!
meglodon
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Just so envious
playing in a fisherman's garden, some great catches their.
atrperth
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Great job!
Great job, pass on the luck to me please :-) We head up on Friday with the rest of the school vacationers.
Faulkner Family
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well done. gotta be happy
well done. gotta be happy when you get a feed like that and have a choice of days to fish. gotta love the north warm weather
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together