Exmouth Pics.... finally.....
Its about time I decided to take sometime to tell the story of my Exmouth trip. Spent 8 days there and everyday was blasting easterlies. No problemo, just fish the west side til the wind drop and hire the dinghies to get out. No can do, everyday was blowing til atleast 2pm. Last couple of days was completely blown out the whole day. Despite the wind we still managed our fair share of Charlies and the odd little Golden Trevs and Queenies. Highlight was my brother, Gordon's 6.5kg Golden on Roost 80 popper. Fished the marina a fair bit as that seems to be the only place with baitfish, needless to say we got into a heap of queenies on light gear. One of the guys managed an undersize coral trout from the wharf. The late arvo was spent at Naval Pier chasing GTs and boy was it "expensive". 3 of us did the walk arvo and donated atleast 10 poppers and stickbaits to the fish gods. Following are some of the G's we manage to land, as well as a large cod which decided after snaring an occy, wanted the popper as well!!. Total score of G's landed were 11 and just as much were dropped or lost completely.
For those that wants to chase the big G's.....change all your popper's hardware. There's no such thing as overkill. 290lb split rings, 5/0 trebles or bigger if possible and crush all barbs if you dont have barbless.
dogsoldier
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Sounds like you had some fun
Sounds like you had some fun there Honsu some great pics
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Some very nice GTs
Looks like a great trip
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deefa
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Still trying to pick just
Still trying to pick just what sort of Trev they are in pics 3 & 4
Looks like your bro cleaned up eh Honsu?
good report and piccies('bout bloody time too!!!)
Did ya do any night time bait soaking?
EDIT: Just saw those pics elsewhere hereabouts where you name 'em as bigeye, never caught m'self, how do they go?
Adam Gallash
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Good stuff
Great photos there Honsu. Rumours about your fishing efforts were all over town. Stories about 12kg gt's being landed even with a broken bail arm, the pier gaurd getting into you guys, the day when we saw you down at pilgs and the queenies off the beach, hiring a boat on one of the windiest days theres been up here. :)) Certainly did well on the fish account thou!!
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hehehe!
Less fishing and more working Chinny....... hehehe :)
Nahh j/k mate, well done concidering the howling winds :(
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"Still trying to pick just
Big eye trevs I'm pretty sure...
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Made it happen
Congratulations Honsu, tough conditions but you still made it happen.;)
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I'm dissapointed Honsu!!
Cheers
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SHizz
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Honsu's dentist told him he
Honsu's dentist told him he had to stop doing that :p
Very jealous honsu! Great pics,cant wait to get up there.
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G'day Honsu, how many casts
G'day Honsu, how many casts between fish?
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Tim
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Broke
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Nice GTs (and cod)...must be
Nice GTs (and cod)...must be a buzz sandbased! PS: What is a "Charlie"?
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charlie court, common reef
charlie court, common reef fish in the north west. Can be very pesky fish at times, alltho even tho they are small i hear they actually taste nice.
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Those poppers are very tasty looking!!
The popper with the painted scales look very tasty indeed!! Those are some seriously big fish from land.. Well done boys!! OOOhhh yeah what popper is that? Do they make them in smaller sizes for Tailor?
Cheers.. Jangles