Gday all,

Well unfortunately had to come back from Coral Bay, Really did not want to as its such an unreal place. So heres my run down on the trip.

We left perth at 6pm friday arvo for the trip straight through to coral bay. 12hrs 45min later we were in Coral bay. We could not check into our house until 2pm so the only thing to do was get a feed from the bakery, put a few beers in the boat and head out for a fish. unsure of where to fish and the wind already blowing its arse off( set in for the week) we headied soiuth just past the south passage. anchored up around a few bombys and burleyed up. Nothing spectacular heap of undersize splanglys and cods and a few reef fish. It killed the time anyway.

Day 2 we got up early and was greeted by a 15+knots of SE so we thought we'd go check it out anyway, we were pretty keen to get out there. headed out the north passage threw the lures in as there was a bit of bird action. headed out to a spot about 3-4km past the passage and picked up a couple of tuna on the way. thats a start. ended up picking up a heap of small red throats, blue lined emperors and charlie courts, with a couple of sized fish for dinner. Mate in his boat also picked up a 4.7kg coranation trout.

Day 3 staight out the north passage again and out to the same spot, condition about the same as yesterday. found a school of fish on the sounder soo set the drift up and got some good sized red throats, a couple of travelly and the charlie courts. still no action on the lures, I really wanted a mackie.

Day 4 we decided to head out and snorkle around the coral and have a look then home to have a few beers, couple rounds of poker and head down to happy hour.

Day 5 Hung over

Day 6 we went out on Sea Force Charters. we were all keen as mustard to get out there amongst it. winds were still pretty shit house but out we went through a bit of swell at the south passage to about the 80m mark. fish were showing up all over the sounder but werent taking much. we still ended up with a few though, spanglys, tomatoe cods, honey cone cods, sand snapper, robinson sea bream, amberjacks, one undersized red emporer, pinkys, gold band snapper and a couple of big trevelly. Although rough as guts out there it was still a great day out on the charter. Thanks to Dane and Sam on Seaforce. So the only thing left to do was head in and have a few beers cos we knew the winds were to bad to even think about wetting the boats tomorrow. down the pub we headed to improve our fishing stories.

Day 7 hungover and time to pack the boats up and clean the house(shit what did we do last night). one last snorkle in bills bay.

Day 8 up at 430am and on the road by 5. home back in perth by 6pm

All in all was a great trip even though the winds didnt let us play as mucha s we liked, Fishing, poker, beers and good times.

Perfect cant wait to get back up there again.  

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