Coral bay with a tinny

 Gday,heading up to Coral Bay for New Year, taking up my 3.7mt tinny ,was just wondering what the fishing would be like ,weather permitting,would be stoked to hook up a Spanish Mackerel,was wondering if you get them inside the reef at Five Fingers,any any advice would be much appreciated,cheers.

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 G'day,heading up to Perron point in Shark bay with my kids ,have got a 12ft timid we are taking ,was wondering which camp would be best for us , kids love catching squid and fishing in general ,will be going mid September any advice would be great cheers ,both kids are teenagers. No 


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 not much chance of mackies

Tue, 2019-12-17 17:42

 not much chance of mackies inside but you will get xos spanglies inside. 

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 Thanks for your help ,you

Tue, 2019-12-17 17:54

 Thanks for your help ,you reckon on a good morning you could get on the outside of the reef for a trawl?

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 G'day,heading up to Perron point in Shark bay with my kids ,have got a 12ft timid we are taking ,was wondering which camp would be best for us , kids love catching squid and fishing in general ,will be going mid September any advice would be great cheers ,both kids are teenagers. No 

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 Yep good day you can get

Tue, 2019-12-17 19:55

 Yep good day you can get outside for sure. If u go south just be super careful of obviously swell and tide movement. Catch fuck all inside reef these days IMO

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 If you get a good enough

Wed, 2019-12-18 09:24

 If you get a good enough day, go out the north passage and troll to the south passage or vice versa depending on wind direction. 

 

BUT......expect to loose most to sharks. 

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 with a 3.7 it's a long way

Wed, 2019-12-18 10:35

 with a 3.7 it's a long way out the north passage but safe if you don't mind doing the ks.  on a perfect day the south passage is easy and plenty of tinnys do it.  

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Drift bait mulies

Wed, 2019-12-18 10:37

Perfect for getting good spanglies and should a Spaniard wander through they will take it every time, just make sure your reel drag set super loose or your rod can quickly disappear.......from experience.  Same technique outside the reef, can be a quiet deadly at times.  If the current running really hard add a small running sinker but you want it to drift down the water column  

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Every

Wed, 2019-12-18 11:39

Every chance of getting shark mackerel inside the reef, particularly up toward North Passage. Just keep an eye out for fish feeding under small flocks of birds (preferably terns).

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 Thanks everyone for your

Fri, 2019-12-20 19:16

 Thanks everyone for your help 

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 G'day,heading up to Perron point in Shark bay with my kids ,have got a 12ft timid we are taking ,was wondering which camp would be best for us , kids love catching squid and fishing in general ,will be going mid September any advice would be great cheers ,both kids are teenagers. No 

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 We had a 3.5m inflatable up

Fri, 2019-12-20 20:55

 We had a 3.5m inflatable up there last year. Got out over the reef easily. Went back in after a few hours to pick up the kids. Went back out and it wasn't so easy with a wave breaking over us. Thankfully it wasn't big but scared the little people.

Quickly got on the fish which distracted them and followed the south channel on the way home.

 

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Wind

Sun, 2019-12-22 13:03

have look at the weather before you bother taking it. Very windy up there this time of the year. I am there now and all the boats are just sitting on their trailers. 

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Windy as hell up here .

Sun, 2019-12-22 16:43

 I'm waiting for April . You get the odd window every now n then but it is the windy season after all ! 

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