Bloody hell I better start finding some people who can do the job and not drink more than than the amount of baits they put on a hook a day.
I might have to get some of my own sponsorships from the local fish and tackle shop in PH and the cricket club to help pay for the beer TAB. It's not quantity it's quality. This helps me a little!!
I will have Jamesy on my team that must count for some handicap points. Surely!!
Yes exmouth is defineitely on the mind for the next few weeks and finishing that last week of work while Ads( you lazy $#@%%) is fishing Exmouth will be difficult.
Spooled

don't worry spooled the slow down boys have their own special handicap ;)

Going up in last week of july, actually looking for an extra couple people if anyones interested. PM me. (Not definate yet, but probably am looking)

dunno yet probably light house caravan park , booking this weekend or so my mate said. Wouldnt mind a house in town but the light house has the advantage of strolling across the road and catching fish :)

Yep I'm going up that way @21st July for two weeks....

Might see you at the Potshot Deefa before we head across the Gulf

not looking forward to the sandflies......lucky the fishing is so hot you forget about the itchy little bastards....gee its a hard life

New moon on the 25th as well......

hmm......no ones going on the last week of June?? =(

Got Salmo's Exmouth Gulf fishing video, bloody good I must say! Unfortunately I'm not sure how to rip it off that version of dvd so can't put it up for everyone to see. :( Also its rather long, but the whale footage is magnificent, I will see what I can do when I get some free time.

Salmo, guess ill catch you up there too then! Looks like i now have 2 extra places to drink at night :p

fishwrecked piss up anyone :D

Think Exmouth will be getting sick of fishwrecked pissups by the end of July. Don't worry, we'll let the Pottie bar waitresses know that you hound dawgs are coming. :)))

I am off to the Rowley Shoals for a week in July. I understand the weather can be a bit blowy this time of year but hopefully the sails should be out in force. I will be fishing across the change in moon so it will be interesting to see if it goes off out there.
I have never been out to a place such as this so I cant wait to see what's on offer. Some nice GT's and sails with plenty of others will be well worth the wait and the effort.

Good fishing and good luck on your journeys fisho's

You lucky bugger , Rowley Shoals is a fishing mecca for most , everyone should go there at least once , what gin palace are you going over on , I heard "Flying fish 5" is doing a couple of runs over this season .

once again , you lucky bugger .

The EVIL Rayman.

We gots a house in town now, so its all go. 4 of us going up too, still deciding weather to take a dingy up or just hire a larger boat when up there. We going up on the 23rd for 8 days. As deefa said the moons and tides look great.

Next time you at Oceanside Deefa, ask Gribbo about his efforts with staggering home from the Pottie. Picture this, the Exmouth sidewalk walking back to the cape caravan park, with 20 meters of grass on one side and the road on the other. Now theres this waist high sign in the middle of the grass, under the lights, with nothing but grass in sight anywhere. Nothing in sight except for this one random sign, perfectly placed in the middle of the grass as plain as day for anyone to see. So Gribbo, one extremely pissed pub patron comes strolling through after chucking a slash in the bushes. All of us have walked ahead about 50 meters until we hear this boom, crash and body hit the floor. Poor Gribbo had walked straight through the sign and performed a perfect 10 stack with about 3 commando rolls in front of us, we all just about died with laughter when he said, where the FU*K did that come from..
Anyway, when we finally got back to the park it was time for him to hug the tree and give it some nutrients.

Definately a highlight for one of the funniest pissed Exxy moments.

As Gribbo would say,
Don't worry bout me, just worry bout me rods. :))))

sounds too funny Adam, don't know him too well, but he does comes across as a funny pissed bugger. They type who'll do silly things when drunk, don't we all..........:-)

I saw him online here a couple of mins ago, praps we can get a comment from the stuntman himself.......

OH GRIBBOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Cant say i have any memories of exxy drinkin so far(past few trips have been rather placid), but ill be sure to have a few under my belt after this trip. :D I imagine throwing poppers at night drunkst could turn out to be quite interesting too.

Well wish I could , BUT

I'm looking at selling the trusty 00 ute and getting one of them new rodeo's thay they are giving that chick away with .

I could put her on the street to pay for the car , should only take a couple of months to pay the rig off with miss Wilkes working for me ??

I should get 13 or 14 K for my ute and only need 3 or 4 thou more for the ute and tray .

I just love that the country boys are hunting down VS utes to turn into outback utes and being a 2000 model it's the last of the VS model..

Maybe, possibly, probably I will be up there from 16th June to the 24th June. Just need to find someone to look after all of my clients while I am away and I will be confirming arrangements. Have a house and hired an 8m cat with brand new twin 115 4 strokes on the back.

Would have loved to take my boat up there but the trip was planned on very short notice (I am a fill-in for a 5 man crew). All this talk of Exmouth got me sucked in and now I can't pass up the opportunity. Shame no-one else will be up there then. I'll certainly let you guys know the low down on my return. Not that I will do any good. Don;t know the waters as well as I do back home so it will be a few educated guesses as to where to go. Any pointers in the "RIGHT" direction would be appreciated. Pics and video's will be on the agenda of course.

I knew all that gloating I did just before we departed for the infamous Exmouth would come back to bite me in the arse!!

Bloody hell there is a lot of you heading up, wonder if Exmouth knows what is going to hit it - much worse than any cyclone I reakon.

Andy it isnt real hard in Exy mate, for mackies just troll the 25-40m dropoff south of the passage at Tantabiddi and while doing that keep an eye on the sounder and mark any good reefs to bottom fish later. Nice and simple and works a treat.

Well well well Andy, some great news indeed. I look foward to indepth reports of where the fish are, what you caught them on, what minute of the day they were caught, how they were cooked and if theres any new hot backpackers chicks in the pottie for when the hound dawgs get there. Lol. Sounds like you got a pretty awesome rig setup, hope the fish are co-operative. :))) Like that advice Gully, sounds like a winning combo.

Man im getting jealous...by the sounds of it everyones goin up to exmouth but me!! Oh well, look forward to hearing all about it and seeing all the photos, footage etc.. Adam sounds like you'll be fishing for fish and chicks.... oh the glory of being single hahaha may aswell have the best of both worlds :)

Hahahah Davo, nah not me. A few of spooled's crew will certainly be trouble, I can just see it. :)

Dont worry Davo. I just asked my missus and Im not aloud to go either. Just means there might actually be some fish still in perth for us while there all gone

Send the hottie backpackers down the road to coral bay....

I'm getting too old for all that sort of stuff, however just for you guys I will be telling them all that if they see any guys wearing these black shirts with fishwrecked logo's on them, they are from paramount pictures latest production group, shooting a new Brad Pitt and Matthew McConaghey movie and will be filming up here over the next 2 months. My team are just the location scouts, but the filmimg starts in a few weeks, so keep an eye out for the guys as you might be able to meet some of the stars. Several of the guys will be in town with their agents and body guards.

Play along boys it might just be an angle to work, even better if you deny it, by saying "who told you that?" and "I can't comment" just to arouse their suspicions and curiosity.

Oh to be young again!

Did somebody sat flatbackers?
Oops freudian slip! ;o)

Sooo

How old do you feel now Andy? ;o)

Anyone else like me, wish they were in Exmouth with a few flatbackers about now?

Sheesh is it getting warmer in here or is it just me???

No I think Winters over and summers definitely getting closer coz things are warming up nicely!

Bring on the flatbackers I say! ;o)

Cheers!

Seems my eyesights not what it once was!

I coulda swore that said Flatbackers Andy! ;o)

Ohh well, I guess that just leaves one of lifes quintessential unanswered questions!

If the Hokey Pokey - IS what it's REALLY all about, should I put in in, take it out, or just shake it all about?

One of lifes great unsloved mysteries - just like the summer migration north of grey nomads & spring hatch at the beach of flatbackers! ;o)

Cheers!

hey adam, more pictures like those ones and fishwrecked will need a new server itll be gettin so many hits :P

yeah shizz, their bandwidth will be goin through the roof!

TWO WEEKS and I'll be up in fishing wonderland =)

I'll be in Exmouth mid June to July another group coming up from Bunbury,can't wait.

Looking forward to the trip.....

we should all agree to meet for a beer or a burnt chop....

so who's gonna be there at for the last week of June??
Can meet up at the pub??

Yeah we arrive on the 17th for a week so we should cross over. No doubt we'll see each other at the pottie one night. Hopefully they will have the big screen up so we can watch the world cup action every night.

"For as long as it is still called 'soccer', a person will never understand the passion that is football."

Don't mean to target anyone, but good quote that is.
But lets not get into an argument. ;)
Viva le World Cup! Its the time of samba!

MMM exmouth. I expect reports by the 2 or 3 groups ahead of me :P

me and jack are gone .6 hours and ill be dipping my feet in exxie gulf.as HEWIT would say 'COME ON'''''big fishie fishie
hopefully ill give the you fishwrecked crew a good early report for all your june july trips
always in it just the depth that varies

try get some shore bashing in too, thats more of a challenge anyway :P

AWESOME FELLAS, got me well and truly amped! AB's spanglies a beauty.

All these exmouth photo's arent helping the fact ive still got a month to go! Dag nammit i wanna go now!

Mitch, those coral trout, what sorta depth you trawl them up in? And is that a 3m diving 125scorp or a 7m?

We got a hire car for this trip, still a bit scared of the biddi ramp. Just have to wait for the tide I guess. Sounds like there were a few fish about, can't wait!

flying up adam?

Nah, driving up. All the cars we have available are a bit underpowered to tow up the boat and its not worth risking something happening and ruining our holiday for how much it costs to hire one.

so hiring boat and car eh? Sure the prelude wont be able to tow a boat outta tantabitti :P

thanks for the tip mitch, will give that a whirl when i get up there

so getting back on track, what dates is everyone going up and for how long?

Well, we are off next Sunday until Thursday week, 3rd until 13th. Believe Honsu is up there at the moment, not sure if Andy Mac's back yet. Big Kev's up there until Friday I think and then there's Salmo. I Think Deefa and Ryan might be heading up around the same time as you thou Shizz, not 100% thou.

Well it lived up to all my expectations, had a ball, lengthened my species list and even had a big marlin connected for a very short space of time.

When I get myself organised I will post a few pics (didn't take too many - too busy catching fish) and if I can get the right software convert a few vids for everyone to see. Unfortunately the vids were taken using a borrowed camera and I don;t have the right drivers etc installed.

I will open up a new forum and give you all a run down on what to catch and where.

Ryan and I are heading up for the last week of July thru to the 8/8/06.........gettin excited now, especially after AndyMacs' report....

awesome, will definatly have to catch up for a fish/beer deefa and ryan. We going on 22nd for a 8 days. Ill PM you closer to the time and we can tee somethin up.

Sounds like a plan Shizz, looking forward to it....

You know Honsu's & others are up there as we speak don't ya, lucky sods.... our time will come!!!

Well I'll just be going to a boring old cray fishing town called Kalbarri....how boring...I'll be up there from the 14th July to the 19th July. Will be hiring Laurie Maltons 6.1m Ali for 2 days ina row. Got some good marks up north. Hopefully the macs and tuna are still hanging around town if not north of it. Happy times to all.....ATB MAXY

well honsu, kayc rob and co had a good trip, hopefully mine can be at least half as good and ill be happy!

You taking a CDMA up deefa? ill get ya mobs so we can catch up for a beer. Just a heads up, we may be younger than youse but we can sure as heck drink ya under the table! haha oh dear, what have i got myself into.

But the guy i'm with will have his, dunno if he'd want his mobi number given out though, you may have it already anyways Shizz.
Do "normal" mobiles not get coverage up there? I woulda thought they would. Does anyone know if they do? If they do, i'll PM ya my mobi...

Your challenge is accepted btw, we'll have to set aside a night for a serious session, praps tie it in with a shore fishing day the next day, you dig? Drinking us old boys under the table.....pfffffttttt!!!!

By the looks of deefa shizz you beta start putting in some serious drinking hours....NO offence deefa. I'm sure it'll be a walk in the park! ATB MAXY

None taken Maxy, its a fair assumption you've made that i enjoy a quiet drink or seventeen,...... for those that know me, know that is an understatement....hehehe

Still waitin to hear if anyone knows if "normal" as opposed to cdma's get coverage up there?

Deefa,

Only Telstra has coverage. I was the only mug with a Telstra phone so I reckon my bill will be massive this month.

Luckily(or is that unluckily????) i'm with Telstra... My wife-n-kids'll be happy, safe in the knowledge that they can keep track of me.

PM sent Shizz....

haha hey max199 this body is drinking machine! my ultra fast metabolism helps me disolve the alcohol quicker hah Pitty your not there too ya prick or id give you a run for ya money too! haha :P jk max...if that is your REAL NAME :p

and yeh as andy mac said usually telstra works up there, 3g which roams onto telstra is supposed to but doesnt for some reason.

As soon as SAT phones become more affordable thats what I'll be getting , phone available anywhere anytime .

AND it won't be long till they are affordable.

and cheap call rates.... ATB MAXY

Ya dreamin!

I have 2 sat phones and neither are worth a knob of nannygoat poop IMHO!

Spent 3 days at the abrolhos islands once with no signal at all!

Turned out their was a power failure at Meekatharra (over easter) where the down station recieves the data from the sattelite!

There was a backup generator there - but some enterprising passing truck driver had stolen all the diesel outta the tank, and they couldn't get anyone to drive a tanker to Meeekataharra for 3 days to refill the tank bye which time the power was restored anyway!

Such is the reliability of globalstar!

When it works it's OK - but you wouldn't want to be treading water with noah's circling while your dialing up for help! ;o)

They are better than nothing but about as reliable as two tin cans with a piece a string between em - don't let any salesman tell you otherwise!

They are as dear as poison too - calls at 3 bucks a minute soon add up, because your paying for all that sattelite delay time, plus the time for the other end to answer etc etc, soon as your signal hits the sattelite your paying whether anyone answers at the other end or not!

Also - you pay if anyone rings you (incomming calls)@ the same rate.

I have a few bills from global star here for over 2K closer to 3K...
Best get a healthy cashflow, if you want to pay to run a sat phone is my advice!

Theres a lot of things you CANNOT do on a sat phone too - for eg - you cannot talk to any number that answers with a computerised voice! (i.e telstra banks etc etc) because the sat delay time trips the computer into thinking you didn't hear understand and starts repeating the menu again when your data finally gets thru and so on and on you go in a contiuniuos loop trying to trick the computer into letting you talk to a real person - due to the sat delay - all of this at $3 a minute!

It's a friggenn scam designed to empty out your bank account!

I.e. you might want / need while on that offshore island to pay your monthly sat phone account with your credit card, so you don't get cut off! But because their system is rooted - you burn up your last available credit trying to make a cll to pay the bill - talking to a computer at the other end that can't handle the sattelite delay to allow you to pay your bill!

How screwed is that - you end up broke and cut off because the company selling the sat Phone can't program a computer to allow you to talk to a real person to pay your bill!

Sat phones are FAR from what they are cracked up to be!
They are better than nuthing but barely!

Best to understand the pitfalls before you spend the $ IMHO!

Cheers!

12 days for me....

me tooooooooooooo!!!!

Hmm.....I wonder how Adam and the boys are doing???

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CDMA work up at Exmouth...you don’t need a Satphone (agree with Trouty I had one for work a while back and it was crap....then the company Skysat went bum up....

You can hire Satphones in Perth if the wife is desperate to talk to you (check up on you more like it)

My CDMA works 60km east of town and around 10km west (furtherest I been west)
My laptop is has Centrio CDMA so I can use it while we are up there....good to check the lastest weather reports....might see if we can do trip updates for the suckers stuck at home!!!!!

.....so there'll bve no escapin the good lady....

Are you still headin up and headin over the gulf Salmo?
11 days.....!!!!! :-)

i wanna go up again =( =( =(

booooooooooooooooooo

this time next week ill be almost wetting a line, well at least my lips with a coldie as we arrive in exxy!

heres 1 of the 2 trays for GT's and what ever else takes these big freakin poppers :P

Can't half tell your excited Shizza! Make sure you take a boat with ya, we were trolling the back of bundegi reef and still getting a heap of fish on the tide that were punishing the light gear.

we doing alot of shore fishing this time, its what we are concentrating on. How ever there will be 2 days we are hiring a boat so should be a good mix.

........a couple more days, leaving sunday night/monday morning for 2 1/2 weeks od sportfishin bliss........... roll on friday

Not that you guys will need it, with Mr Fish Magnet himself Ryan T leading the expedition.

Hope the weather holds out for you and you get a good break from the wind.

and thanx Andy....

Sure you guys won't need too much luck, as long as the weather stays good you'll be in for an awesome time. All the best, drive safe!

You guys keep referring to the weather, do ya's know something i/we don't???????

Oh, and thanx Adam

Just that those bloody easterlies, south easterlies anything nearly easterly make conditions pretty horrid. They blew strong most of the time we were there, just hope they are better for you guys.

yeh i think they are pretty common the ole easterlies, but oh well, 2 more days ;) bit of wind never stopped me, after fishing the north mole in 50knot winds and 5 meter swell on the rocks i think a bit of wind is the least of my worries.

oh yeah, and one more for good luck......... TWO DAYS!!

Now going into work shut off mode, good luck gettin tackle advice of me for the next 2 days heh my head will be elsewhere.