Exmouth Today - Friday 6/3/09
Had a magic day up here in Exmouth today, forecast for under 10 knots all day and that it was. Day couldn't have started off much better with an absolutely gorgeous dive charter bird holding the boat with a bit of chit chat, was thinking it was going to be gooood! Heading out the channel the water was crystal clear, could see a couple of squid cruising about but had bigger things on the mind.
Soon as I was out the back I put the spread out, no teasers as I was doing the solo. Within 5 minutes had a sailfish come up and chew the skirts on both sides without a hookup, was looking promising. 10 minutes later picked up a 2kg striped tuna and released him and soon after found a school of dolphinfish which provided some aerial entertainment. After releasing a couple of these I headed deeper and saw some serious splashing going on, trying to figure out what it was I went in close to find 50 spinner dolphins having the time of their life. After about 20 minutes of playing with them and jumping in for a swim I decided to get back into the action. (Got some cool video of the dolphins, unreal fun)
After 2 hours of nothing on the surface I went and did a bit of bottom bouncing and got stiched up a few times, but with little movement it was rather frustrating. Gave the lures another quick troll and found a small black marlin on the 80m line that zipped line for about 30 seconds then reared his head and gave me the bird whilst spitting the lure all in the one action. Wasn't happy. :(
Had one last bottom bounce on the way in for some tea and picked up a nice moses perch, spangly and the little coronation in picture. All in all a bloody good day that could have been unbelievable but in sensational conditions, I'm still more than happy. The mojo is almost back!
Anyway, have to cut the report short, time to get the bbq cranking for a feed with the boys.
Cheers,
Adam
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good report mate cant wait
good report mate cant wait to get up there myself
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Just got in from twelve
Just got in from twelve hours of work ,to read your post,you suck.. looks like you had a good day, that ocean is to die for ,well done be there soon..
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good effort adam, not fair
good effort adam, not fair but
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Hot Diggety Damn!
Looking forward to my 12 days there coming up!!!
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nice one Adam, I wish it was
nice one Adam, I wish it was like that here today.
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Looks like you had a great day Adam,
hope it's just like that when we get there
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Nice, looks awesome on the
Nice, looks awesome on the water, nice and CLEAR!
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Was looking out the window all day, knew someone was out there having a fat time!
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yeah, i pretty much hate
yeah, i pretty much hate you! hope we have a few days like that when we get up there! beauty trout as well
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Excellent Ads
Well done mate ,thats great mate looking for the same action tommorow mate off out there first thing in the morning i hope well done mate
explains y i didnt c you around town mate {mojo is coming back excellent }
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Mojo!
Excellent to hear the mojo is comin back, yea pretty much jealous... marlin, dolphin fish, dolphns! hot chicks haha and the mojo is only almost back! haha you'vee got it too good up there adam
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Top pics Adam
Looks like a brilliant day, on days like that a fish seems a bonus..
Booking 2 weeks in Exmouth for May next year, going to drag the boat up and try and nail my first beakie........
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solo!
Good solo effort Adam. Was driving to learmonth airport that day going Tanda's & the Gulf are soooo sweeet. We had a great trip, plenty of fish caught and good to catch up....i'll be back very soon
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Good to see you have really got your Mojo back
Some classic pics there, especially of that dolphin fish.
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Awesome stuff mate - cant
Awesome stuff mate - cant wait to get up there ... Come on April 2010.....
I may be striking it lucky and may even be able to sneek a trip up there this year....
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Fantastic - Ya Killin Me
Looks fantastic - love the dolly shot Ads. Weather down here has been cr@p for fishing - except for work days of course
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