Dirk Hartog - November 2017

Hi all,

Myself and 4 mates just spent 9 days on the island staying at the Urchin Point shack.

We departed Perth at about 4am and arrived at Blackies (Steep Point) at around 5pm. I jumped in the water with the speargun and within the hour we were having Baldie for dinner.

The following morning at 6am we boarded on the barge and began the to Urchin Point. The trip itself is about 90km from the bottom of the island and that took us about 4 hours with some stops along the way for photos.

We spent the following 9 days at Urchin Point fishing predominently the western side catching plenty of fish along the way.

The pelagic action was a bit slow but we sill managed a few tuna and lost some very large Macks at the rocks.

The Turtle Bay area is a must see and the hill climb certainly tests the stamina on the way back!

We had a run in with a Brown Snake on the way back from a fishing spot. It had a crack at my mates leg and didnt miss him by much so keep an eye out if any of you are heading up there!

We had an amazing time and I'll be doing all I can got get back up there in the future!

Here are a few pics of the trip.

Turtle Bay Trev

Baby Trout

Cod

15kg Long Tail 

 

Pinky

Nice Mulloway

Big Spango

Urchin Point from above!

A mornings work

Cobia

Fillet O fish

Turtle Bay from above

Nice Cod

Baldie

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Pics?

Tue, 2017-11-28 12:45

I can only see 1 pic (the Trout). Is this just me?

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same

Tue, 2017-11-28 12:52

 same

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 Sorted. Thanks for letting

Tue, 2017-11-28 13:09

 Sorted. Thanks for letting me know!

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 Nice work lads that spango

Tue, 2017-11-28 13:40

 Nice work lads that spango is a horse

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 Top pics & fish mate, looks

Tue, 2017-11-28 13:43

 Top pics & fish mate, looks like good time had.

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Cracking trip... I didn't

Tue, 2017-11-28 13:55

Cracking trip... I didn't realise landbased action was so good there!

You have a better bag of fish there than we managed with a boat back in August (Denham not DHI)

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 Sweet shots man, the

Tue, 2017-11-28 16:14

 Sweet shots man, the aquarium looks pretty choppy 

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Great shots, looks like you had a great time

Tue, 2017-11-28 17:08

 But that "baby trout" is actually a small species called a Peacock Cod, rarely grows over 30cm. Easy to tell the difference if you look at the tail, it is convex rather than slightly concave like a real Coral Trout. And the spots are more vivid on the Peacock Cod.

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 very nice. some nice fish

Tue, 2017-11-28 18:13

 very nice. some nice fish there. well done

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How ridiculous

Tue, 2017-11-28 18:55

 How ridiculous mind the pun one for the bucket list

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Cracker

Tue, 2017-11-28 19:17

Cracker longtail Hicko.

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DHI

Tue, 2017-11-28 19:23

Counting down the days (8) myself till I head up there. Spending 6 days there and can't wait.

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Great catch

Tue, 2017-11-28 20:06

 As ranmar said, coral cod's dont get much bigger than 30cm. Looks like you had an epic trip though, plenty of fish.

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 Top stuff lads! 

Tue, 2017-11-28 20:44

 Top stuff lads! 

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