Went on a trip to Shark Bay. Was planning to arrive on Sunday arvo 3/6, but as weather forecast for Monday was filthy, got there about lunch time. Unpacked and got the boats in. Went out into the bay and caught some black snapper. Left on dark, was nearly back at boatramp and Nathaniel's boat started making horrible noises.  So we had to tow him in. Rained in Monday/Tuesday so took grandkids to Ocean Park. Nathaniel went to Kalbarri and picked up hire boat. Wednesday forecast looked great so went back out into the bay. Could only find undersize pinkies but caught some more black snapper. Thursday Nathaniel, Rach, Josh, Bud and Jo headed out to Steep Point but was too rough so settled for more fishing in the bay and came home with their limit of blackies, black spot tusk fish. Friday we all headed out to the Shoals, caught 2 nice pinkies then the hoards of sharks moved in. Went into Turtle Bay into deeper water found more pinkies which only fed the sharks. We decided to move back to the Shoals and shallower water to try and get past the sharks - no joy. Then Nathaniel and crew who stayed in Turtle Bay called us to say they had caught a wahoo and 2 spanish mackerel. We decided to head back out and try our luck. We managed to boat 2 mackerel and watched Nathaniel catch a his PB wahoo at 1.6m long guessing at 35-40kg. They managed 3 wahoo and 2 mackerel on the hire boat. Next day took it easy, then on Sunday (our last day) we all went back to Turtle Bay, still couldn't manage to get anything past the grey coated taxman. So put lures out and trolled for mackerel. Josh managed a nice 1.3m wahoo and we also caught 2 mackerel. Bud got nice big eye tuna. On the way back in decided to troll close along the cliffs of Turtle Bay and saw about 12 manta rays cruising round. Awesome day. Grandkids saw turtles, sea snakes, manta rays many sharks etc. All-in-all great holiday with family.

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