Coral Bay Minor Success
Headed up to Coral Bay for the first time last month and took up the 4.7m tinny with us - on a side note; was pretty stoked to average 16L/100km towing with a petrol Prado for the whole trip .
Without having any experience In CB the fishing was pretty tough, got very conflicting reports in regards to being able to catch decent fish inside the reef. Didn't manage to get out either of the first 2 days due to the wind. Day Three we headed out towards North Passage and had a troll around the edge of the reef which produced nothing and then came back inside the reef as the swell was pretty sizeable and a little disconcerting! Inside the reef using soft plastics I was just picking up little Charlie Court and other small Cod in about 7m-8m of water...then BANG all of sudden I was on and was calling it for a shark early as it went straight for the sand and was surfacing, it was peeling the line off my Pfluguer Salt 60 with 30lb line at high speed and got about 150m from the boat and then we decided to pull anchor and chase it down and then turns out it was a decent sized trevally - thought it could have been a GT but I've been informed it looks more like a Brassy - thoughts?? My estimate was that it was about 18kgs.
Day 4 then saw us head out of the South Passage (got to follow a bloke out through the passage who I met at the ramp - good to see some locals are willing to help out a CB Newbie!) and we trolled for about an hour all up and had one hook up which almost saw my mate Christen his Saltist with a nice mackie until the lure pulled out about 5m from the boat - a few expletives were thrown about!!!! Talk about whales - my sister counted about 25 of the moving hazards!!!
Day 5 was our most productive day and rewarded us with our only table fish for the trip - half a dozen Spanglies which were delicious! My mum also got a nice golden trevally which I guessed to be about 13Kgs or so.
All in all was a drama free trip which is all that you can really ask for and got away from the cold weather in Perth!!
elliotbirch
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The first trevally went
The first trevally went 115cm from memory - I know I took a photo on the brag mat, I just need to find it!!
Shark1
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Nice work
Nice work
baron 88
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Nice work mate, that's a
Nice work mate, that's a ripper trev! We've just come back from cb as well, we found it hard work fishing in close as we'll with all our good fish coming from 80m plus.
elliotbirch
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Yeah didn't manage to get
Yeah didn't manage to get out that far unfortunately
SEAFORCE CORAL BAY
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Nice work
Good to see you got onto a few for your effort, we have had plenty of unseasonal wind lately making it a bit harder.
Don't discount the little Charlie's, they don't get big but do taste good.
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crasny1
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At that size
I would call the trevor a GT. Its very pale though and I can see why you might think brassy. However Brassy's arent near this size, and if it was it would, well -- be a world record.
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elliotbirch
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Hopefully!
I hope it's a GT Crasny, yeah it would be a huge Brassy if it is one but I'm not too sure...maybe a few other people could give their input?
Cardinal
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brassy
Id say brass trevally. And a big one at that
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BIGO
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Spanglies were they outside
Spanglies were they outside or inside the reef? I am heading up this weekend with a 4.75m cc I have my two boys with me so would be nice to no if they are plentiful on the inside....
Mason85
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If you want spangleds, head
If you want spangleds, head to the north, inside the reef (outside the sanctuary), in 12-18m of water, burley up with mulies then send down unweighted baits (squid works pretty well for us) and wait. Youll get heaps of pickers, mainly charlies, but schools of spangleds will show up, good size too, weve had regular catches of 60cm+ fish. There are big cod in the same area too....
Yewiefish85
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100% brassy! Bet it went
100% brassy! Bet it went hard
Bunny
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I'm calling Brassy too. Nice
I'm calling Brassy too. Nice fish and lovely Golden as well!
bitten
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deffinatly brassy the yellow
deffinatly brassy the yellow fins are the give away