Exmouth Report
Just thought'd I'd do up an Exmouth report.
The marlin seem to be around still with it being hit and miss. Some putting in many hours for nil and others getting lucky. The boys on Sugar daddy got 6 bites on Friday converting 2, one being an 30kg black and the other an 80kg black on 10, good fish for that line class. Yesterday I put my mate Poida onto a small black, but we got lucky and it only took 20 mins of trolling to get him on. We also got a 71cm spanglie and got busted up by some solid reef fish when the bite came on.
The weekend saw the first switched up gulf sailfish for the season caught on a live yakka, should only get better from here. Baitfish are starting to show up more frequently in the gulf, but the tuna still seem rather elusive.
The mantas have been everywhere in the gulf still with a few numbers of cobia under them, not huge fish, but still pull some line on light gear.
The landbased front has been a little quiet, 2 10kg+ gt's were landed last night and one solid fish busted off at a hot popper spot. (can't give any more info than that)
The water is slowly starting to warm up and the weather has been suprisingly good for this time of year to date. (touch wood)
Cheers,
Adam
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Congrats on the Black poida,
Congrats on the Black poida, I got my first recently and it's a great feeling :)
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Nice one Adam the pics come
Nice one Adam the pics come out nice and clear ,the water has a nice colour to it am looking farward to getting back up there . well done and happy fishing
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good report and photos adam,
good report and photos adam, those sails sound tops, on my to do list for sure
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Water
The water was suprisingly green and the photo's show it much better than what it was. There was a distinct colour difference on the 70m line and we picked up the fish in 81m straight out the front of the passage. The fish was completely lit up and behaved well, you can just see the purple bars in the first pic, with a polarised lens it would have been gold. Still happy though. :)
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good stuff
good stuff
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Youch
Today was even better. Raised a sail first up had him chewing for 5 mins but no hookup, free swum and video'd a 20kg wahoo under the boat and watched him take a fly line and get dropped, a 100lb plus GT hit the side of the boat chasing a fish to the surface, a 20kg spaniard jump 1m out of the water taking a popper all in near crystal clear waters, got a bit of u/w footage but was too busy trying to get the guys to cast to them. Got a bit of the wahoo taking the fly on film and a shark hooked on the other side, was UNREAL. Ended up with one nice rankin and a few coral cod, but no trout. Was the day that could have been insane if we landed the fish, but was still insane regardless.
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... grumble grumble grumble
... grumble grumble grumble ...
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f*cking wind following me
f*cking wind following me around...
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INSANE
This GT was insane, we thought it was a shark it was that big, came up, tried to take the tail of the fish, turned around, came back, hit the boat, circled under the boat and disappeared. WAS AN ABSOLUTE MONSTER. I've seen some big GT's and my mate Azza has lived here 7 years and fished with Ant and the bluewater boys and this was the biggest he'd seen. WAS UNBELIEVABLE.
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out of tantas aye
out of tantas aye
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just had jay message me
just had jay message me "**kin wind"
haha, feel slightly better.
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Great stuff Adam
That GT must have been incredible.
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Yup
If I see something like that ever again I'll be happy, was a monster.
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wat weight
do you recon it went adam sounds like a monstor!
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50kg
50kg +, This thing was the size of a VDUB. It was in 20m of water so you may have had a chance at landing him, but we were on anchor too so it would have made it hard. After 3 casts with the popper a 20kg spaniard ate the popper like a dog with a bone 1m out of the water.
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keep the reports coming
keep the reports coming Adam. 4 more weeks then hopefully it's my turn.