Fishing Report 19th Jan 2006 - Courtesy of Scott Forbes

The persistent winds have kept most anglers at home this last week, although some have managed to catch that part of the day in the right area where the winds have been favourable. This has mainly been the gulf side around late morning to early afternoon. Che Carson took to inside the reef at Tantabiddi with Ben Knight with a choppy sea and southerly wind blowing over twenty knots. Despite the less than pleasant conditions, the boys had an absolute ball catching many hungry spangled emperors on various lures including soft plastics and small minnows.

Inside the marina has been the pick of spots this week with a variety of species. Even I managed to land a good tarpon on dusk, which jumped and circled the small tinny several times before we successfully landed it. After a few quick snaps, he was off swimming again. Baits of pilchard and hardy heads seemed to work best and we also landed a spangled emperor and large mangrove jack. All were released.

Did you know that the Exmouth Game Fishing Club will be holding an auction on the 24th March at the end of Gamex for the new EGFC number plates? The smart looking plates will have the letters EGFC on the left, the EGFC logo in the middle and the numbers 01-99 on the right. Anyone is welcome to come to the Potshot gantry and the auction starts at 8pm. If you are interested in putting an absent bid in for a particular number please contact president Kurt Decker on 9949 4360. Plates will start at $200 each and a big thank you goes to Scott Forbes for organising the plates.

Another exciting part to Gamex this year is the involvement of Andrew Ettinghausen and the film crew from Escape with ET. Andrew will be fishing aboard the boat Reel Teaser and filming the event, including the presentation night at the Potshot Resort. Dive presenter Giovanna Fasanelli will also be filming various dive segments. The EGFC would like to thank Larry and the Potshot Resot for providing accommodation for the film crew and charter boat Reel Teaser for providing a boat.