Exmouth Landbased
Hey everyone returned from Exmouth last Saturday.
Drove up and a mate would be flying up to join me after 2 days solo.
The first 2 days I spent wandering up and down the coast and chucking lures. Wasn't as successful as I would have hoped!
But did manage to get into some fish. Was hoping for a Spangled Emporer on lure but didn't happen despite a few follows. Did get my first Golden Trev and Queenie though :)
All pictures are from the first 2 days flying solo as I damaged my camera snorkelling. Ooops!
I was hoping to get my mate onto some ripper fish but windy weather, luck and poor tide timings did not help us.
However we managed to catch an abundance of fish. Tiny threadfin salmon were everywhere at night and literally swimming in an inch of water.
Dart, Bloody dart were everywhere with my mate catching the biggest one I've ever seen ( unfortunately his fishing highlight) I released it and took a good cut in the hand.
This thing was built STRONG compared to the other 3000 we caught lol
Highlight of the trip as snorkelling fo sure. Drifted with a turtle for a good 2 minutes with the turtle literally cm's away and swam with a few reef sharks.
Had the best snorkel I have ever had at Oyster Stacks. Fish literally everywhere, crystal clear water and came across an unidentified 2 metre shark! Was incredible to see
but we both slowly turned around and headed to shore after that :)
Here are some pics of some fish I got in the first 2 days all on lures. Some good fights just a shame I couldn't show my mate Exxie's fishing potential.
The cod and Long Tom were everywhere, I think I caught 5 cod in a row on that little orange lure.
All in all an awesome part of the world.....will be up again!
SHizz
Posts: 1556
Date Joined: 07/08/05
Exxy is a great place even
Exxy is a great place even with out the fish. Those little trevs are awesome fun on light gear.
Just A tip for you that will increase your catch 10 fold, change the leader(the line infront of the lure) to something not fluoro green in color, that would spook just about any thing. Ideally go and buy some Fluorocarbon(Just a name, its not Fluoro) leader, its more expensive but practically invisible to fish.
Gjoe
Posts: 68
Date Joined: 18/09/10
Cheers
Yeah I do have some fluoro carbon leader I'm just a little lazy :) butI didn't realise it made such a difference! Will def swap it up and see what happens next time!
Simmo Ryan
Posts: 112
Date Joined: 17/02/10
Prob lose the swivel too!
Sacrifice a bit of line twist for the increased (and intended) action on the lure :)
FISH ON!!!!!!
Gjoe
Posts: 68
Date Joined: 18/09/10
Cheers Simmo
Yeah the reason for the swivel is so I can change lures real quickly and adds a bit of room in case a bitey gets on.
But thanks for the advice :)
robduca
Posts: 31
Date Joined: 13/10/08
Leader
I have a leader on each of my more popular lures with a swivel on the other end and a clip swivel on my main line so i can swap lures quickly if needed and dont have the swivel on the lure itself.
Just as long as all the leaders dont get tangled in the tackle box haha.
Nice fish BTW.
Rob
Gjoe
Posts: 68
Date Joined: 18/09/10
Good on ya Rob
That sounds like an awesome idea and very convenient for the lazy fisherman!
Yes I can imagine if the leaders get tangled it could be hell though haha.....