Exmouth report - 4-3-10

Well, knocked off at 3, got the boat in the water not long after 3.30 with Deepwater.  Got about 500m out of the marina and there they were, tuna after school of tuna feeding on the masses of baitballs.  After seeing the action last Saturday we knew they weren't going to be far off.  First few casts had hookups to be sharked after a fair while.  Second lot of casts were with stickbaits which also got destroyed, we then went to plastics and got destroyed.  A few sharks moved in so we moved to another school (schools everywhere over a 5km radius that we checked) We ended up landing a few, hooking heaps, loosing a few and sitting back and watching the mayhem quite often just not casting in awe at the feeding frenzy on the baitballs.  Highlight was Jeffo hooking a tuna at the boat and 3 10ft tigers chasing it to a screaming reel (caught bits of it on vid cam) and a solid 1m ++++ queenie coming up to check out Jeff's lure in the middle of the tuna feast.  Here's a few pics, will edit up the video when I get some time. We caught and released all fish landed, awesome fun.

Cheers,

Adam

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Basta@#s . well done guys,

Thu, 2010-03-04 22:18

Basta@#s . well done guys, looks too good to be true with water like that and fish everywhere

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beautiful

Thu, 2010-03-04 22:19

great fish and beautiful conditions

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Exxy report

Thu, 2010-03-04 22:20

that was a excellent arvo thanks Ads

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wouldnt little tuna like

Thu, 2010-03-04 22:22

wouldnt little tuna like that make good baits for marlin ?

or are they too big ?

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could do

Thu, 2010-03-04 22:29

You could do, probably better off running little school mack, rainbow runners, queenies etc, slimmer body mass means less pressure at the rod end and less pressure you can run on free spool to allow them to eat without feeling the 'weight'

I'm not really a bait runner coz I can't be bothered stitching and lures have always been good to me.  But if I was into comps and the like and wanted more of a hookup rate then I would do so.  I like the 'easy style of billfishing' rather than watching teasers every second and being ready to switch etc etc, even though that is very exciting, you just have to be on the pulse all the time and if its a slow day, it gets pretty tedious and you start seeing things after a few hours!

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looks like fun

Fri, 2010-03-05 05:19

looks like fun pritty tuff conditions good work

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You have got to love days like that

Fri, 2010-03-05 06:39

Hope the conditions stay like that for awhile Adam.

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Pretty Rough out there

Fri, 2010-03-05 07:50

Pretty Rough out there :O

looks like you had a great time....

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Great pics Adam. Looks like

Fri, 2010-03-05 07:56

Great pics Adam. Looks like the weather hasn,t been to bad up there of late. Hope its like that when Im up there. 6 weeks and counting.

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only thing missing is a beer or three

Fri, 2010-03-05 08:24

what a way to spend the afternoon.

must be masses of baitfish looking at the photo.

great photos

hitting the pole this weekend so let you know how we go Adam

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Great to see

Fri, 2010-03-05 08:32

Great to see Adam as we will be down your way on the 28th for month. I hope some of those tuna and billies are still around.

 

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magic. god I miss having

Fri, 2010-03-05 08:40

magic. god I miss having that 5 minutes down the road. You guys have got it made.

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Great little session

Fri, 2010-03-05 08:58

We are all appropriately jealous

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great pics Adam well

Fri, 2010-03-05 09:04

great pics Adam well done.

500m off the marina? you mean in the gulf side?

Wouldnt have thought Tuna would come in there?

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Probably the biggest

Fri, 2010-03-05 09:15

Probably the biggest longtails we saw on the last exmouth comp were in the gulf and not more than 2 mile from the marina.

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Great Pics

Fri, 2010-03-05 09:10

Some nice pics there. The fifth one down is a ripper - nice light, good composition and great colours on the fish. Looks like great fun.

Just got back from Exmouth myself - certainly didn't see any conditions like that!

Cheers, Cam. 

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Lucky B#*ard do you ever

Fri, 2010-03-05 11:17

Lucky B#*ard do you ever work. Nice pics and lovely conditions.

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haha

Fri, 2010-03-05 11:58

Always working mate, just happens that often working is fishing. ;)  Monday's billfish was at work, just not what we 'needed' to catch.

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Nice work boys, great

Fri, 2010-03-05 11:46

Nice work boys, great photography, I really like the 5th pic down.

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whoa, perfect excuse for fly!

Fri, 2010-03-05 11:58

whoa, perfect excuse for fly!

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yep

Fri, 2010-03-05 11:59

Was peeved I didn't take it KC, said that after getting into them on Sat as well.  Just keep forgetting to take it as I'm not really a fly fisho.  Once you see the vid though, you'll be going, OMG, you don't even need to cast....

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Bangin...

Fri, 2010-03-05 13:03

Had it like that April a couple of years back, insane to say the least

10 days time and im in on that...:)

 

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perfect conditions & beaut

Fri, 2010-03-05 20:12

perfect conditions & beaut fish.

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Awesome Stuff...   Keep

Mon, 2010-03-08 09:13

Awesome Stuff...

 

Keep the action and the weather like that Adam - for when we get there...