Got back on Sunday night from our trip to Coral Bay and Exmouth, I thought it was time I posted some pics.

Rolled into Coral Bay on the 24th to be greeted by 20kn+ winds, thinkings didn't look good on Christmas night with 40-50kn winds at the boat ramp. Finally the wind died off on the 27th and allowed us 5 days of fishing, I think the cyclone had something to do with it.

First day out on the boat I had Amanda's Uncle Kev and Cousin Matt as deckies, all we wanted was a fish on board, so we went out the north passage and trolled lures down the back off the reef. Within 15 min Kevs reel screamed and a 15kg mackie was the result.

After this Kev and Matt lost there breakfast over the side, I helped them by yelling abuse and taking photos haha

The second day saw us heading out the South Passage searching for some Reds, Amanda was the first to boat a fish with a nice Rankin.

Matt scored his first Red Emp and he was pretty happy about it

I chipped in with a nice Spanglie on the egg beater

The next day Matt and myself headed out and did a lot of driving around looking for fish. It paid off with Matt scoring a huge 7kg Red (waiting for him to email the pic)

I got the biggest Rankin I have ever seen weighed in at 10kg, I thought it was a shark as it took the bait while I was reeling up a lil red throat. The pic doesn't do it justice.

The next day I had to ban Matt from the boat for getting more Reds than me haha. I went out with Amanda and scored Two 5kg Reds. I was happy when I saw that Red come up.

New years eve was a cracker day in the boat, I had Matt and Elliot as deckie, we started out early as I had to be back early to go on the quad bikes.

We started of trolling south of the south passage, after an hour my reel screamed and after a short fight I had a 7kg Mackie

After that we hit a spot to try for some Reds, We got a few small spanglies then Elliot hooked into his first Red.

Not to be out done i got a 7kg 78cm Red on the last drop, the fish swam through everyones lines it was a total mess but I got it up.

Matt also got a nice Rankin and I got a Spanglie.

The fishing was better than I thought it would be and it was great to get the boys into there first Reds. If your going there watch out for the south passage, a 5m+ boat flipped upside down on new years eve with the guys lucky to survive.

I will post some Exy pics in the next day or two.