Exmouth fun
Had a wicked day out with Gribbo today with good conditions and light south westerly winds keeping the temperature down. The fishing was slow until we found some bait and with the 10 o'clock magic hour called it all happened.
First to chew was a nice saily that hit second time round after checking out the spread. Lots of airtime ensured a good fight and plenty of fun, with the first sailfish landed and released after a few photos we went back to it.
After 10 minutes of trolling my skirt got smashed and had line peeling off into the distance. Gribbo was on the ball and snapped some action shots of a small black marlin heading westbound. He dived deep for quite some time and some manuevering had him beat after 15 mins. A quick photo and he was released to fight another day, stoked, a marlin and a sailfish landed before 11.
With the lines back out the third strike came faster than the second and a black marlin of 35-40kg hit Gribbo's lure hard and went airborne. About 5 minutes into the fight he shook the hooks to our disappointment. With the baitball shutdown we headed deep and could only find a fun sized yellowfin tuna.
Heading in closer to the back of the reef we raised one more junior marlin that took a sniff but wasn't into it. Whilst dragging divers over the shallow stuff we had a mack tuna sharked in a bloodbath and a small spaniard that was released to jaws. Here's a few pics of a sick day on the Exmouth water.
Cheers,
Adam
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Jamie Chester
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World class day mate - as I
World class day mate - as I am sure you are aware.
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Good day
Gotta be happy with a day like that Adam. Well done.
How's that new bonefishing/permit charter business going over there?
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ya getting me excited....
ya getting me excited.... sounds like an awesome day .lucky buggers.
always in it just the depth that varies
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Lovin the action shots...
Lovin the action shots... Gribbo budding into quite the photographer ain't he..? Onya boys, sounds like a top day out.
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Excellent Adam
Great day and some great pics, specially the close up and the jumping shots.
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Great day out boys. Very envious.
Yummy Tuna to finish off with.
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Excellent!
Excellent pics Gribbo and good report Adam....gods country eh!
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Cheers
Cheers guys.
Hi BJ,
The charter is going really well from what I know, Brett's a really good bloke too. Here's his website if you want to have a look.
www.truebluebonefish.com.auCheers,
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Nice work Adam
Lucky buggers....very green
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Adam you dont get detter than that mate
excellent mate we were out there sunday and it was uncomfortable ,not for to much fish but we where fishn, so it is all good, well done mate look forward for a beer as soon
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haha
Yeh mate, saw you coming back from tantas on Sunday, when I got over there it looked very average!
Will catch up for a brew in the next few days.
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dude, those jumping pics are
dude, those jumping pics are sick! way jealous over here! congrats on the big day!
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Sweet
Nice work mate -keep them biting, not long now and we will be up there into it :>
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Awesome mate....
congrats on the capture , not too long and we'll catch up for a brew , counting the days. Deegs and I are both gonna sit our skippers ticket while were there couple of days before gamex
Just one more cast , honest !!!
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Good work
Good stuff Steve. Just hope you get one of those calm days, been blowing its tits off here for the last 4. Haven't seen a boat anywhere.
Tell ya what, I wished this day had been the start of gamex, would have been up there on the score board. 1 sail, 1 marlin, 1 dropped, 1 fin on 15. :( Just hope the comp fires up with similar weather to last year. I'm in town for the first three days and am away the rest. :(
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Me , Deegsy ,,,,,
and Toad are staying at that same house that I was in with Whitey , will get in on Wednesday around lunchtime . There'll be a beer in the esky for you
Just one more cast , honest !!!