Exmouth Trip

Just a short report on my Exmouth trip last week with a mate.
Weather was pretty good, hot obviously, and we seem to catch more fish on the days with a bit of wind/swell.
We trolled off Tantabiddi early most mornings for some big Spaniards, caught 5 and released 3. We lost another one right on the strike to a shark. We lost 2 fish to sharks for the whole trip, but they were never far away.

Had a Trevally session inside the reef one afternoon which was great fun. Caught some big Gold Spot Trevally and heaps of Queenies and Bludger Trevally. One Gold Spot turned into a large whaler shark which I got boatside before it had one last dive under the boat, snapping my jigging rod. (not cheap a PE8 Seed Shiren!)

Fished the beaches most nights for some Spanglies, Queenies and Baldchin, also a couple of sharks landed and released and a Coral Trout caught from the beach.

Here's some of the better fish.

Cheers, Pondy

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 Good work mate solid trout

Sun, 2015-02-08 22:07

 Good work mate solid trout off the sand!

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Nice work

Sun, 2015-02-08 22:50

Nice work Pondy!

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Gotta be happy with..

Mon, 2015-02-09 07:50

 a trout from the beach!! 

Solid goldy to!!

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That trout off the beach/shore

Mon, 2015-02-09 12:08

would be on my bucket list. Not easy to achieve. Well done.

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 Cracker beach trout!

Mon, 2015-02-09 13:29

 Cracker beach trout!

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Thats a big shark

Mon, 2015-02-09 16:08

That shark would have given you one hell of a fight from the beach. How did you get it back into the water (I presume it was released)if not it would have filled the esky pretty much.

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Thanks lads

Mon, 2015-02-09 20:10

Hi Meglodon, the shark was landed in about 10 minutes with heavy spin gear. They slide back into the water pretty easily with a good push from the tail, then you can walk it out a bit or just make sure they swim off.
Landing them quickly can mean they're a bit lively on the beach.. but they release well.

If anyone's interested, the link to the video is below. I've edited it to just over a minute.

http://youtu.be/DAbUAEj1EzA

And the coral trout from the beach video

http://youtu.be/n7lgSYhON4o

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 That is an awesome trout

Mon, 2015-02-09 20:33

 That is an awesome trout anywhere let alone the beach. 

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Trout location

Tue, 2015-02-10 15:48

I know it, others can work it out for themselves. Bluebone and BIG Squid also on offer there at the right time of the year :P

Nice pics! Shark is a hooter.

Cheers,
D80

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