Hi crew well I have just recently returned from a trip to Exmouth and what a great trip, altho the weather was a little hit and miss we still managed to pull a few good fish most days and Team Twitchy did very well in the FW comp...

I headed up to Exxy with Elise aka MRSTWITCHEMUP, Steve aka PLOP and Mak aka FISHNCRAZY we arrived at the lighthouse by midday the 5th of April and were off to launch at Tantabiddi by 2pm which is where we did most of our fishing over the week due to the wind.....

Great way to start the trip with a healthy little Coronation Trout on placcy from Tantas..

FISHNCRAZY with his first sized Coral Trout a 60cm specimen caught at Cooper shoals in the Gulf on plastic..

MRSTWITCHEMUP with a cracker 11kg Golden Trev that made her piss on 20lb, caught at the bottom of the Gulf on placcy..

The first few days were spent fishing the windows in the weather/wind so back to Tantabiddi we went where FISNCRAZY caught the best Rankin of the trip in 24m on placcy..

Next up for me was this healthy Coronation Trout jigged up in 25m.. such an awesome looking fish..

PLOP with a nice Golden Trev, we found heaps of these fellas in the north channel at Tantabiddi feeding under floating sea weed and by casting lightly weighted 2 - 4 inch plastics at em we landed 10 and dropped 4 more in one awesome 2 hr session...

My 5 - 6kg Golden on PE 2 in 3 - 4m soooo much fun....

FISHNCRAZY with his 7kg Golden..

The daily double.. we had heaps of double and triple hookups the Goldens were smashin anything that moved..

2nd day of comp which was blown and rained out and saw most teams sit it out but Team Twitchy decided to hit the shallows inside Ningaloo Reef south of Tantabiddi, lucky we did as I managed to catch 2 x 1m plus Cobia in 2 casts in 2 m of water off the one bommie....

This second Cobia was slightly bigger.... notice the storm front in the background..

PLOP with a solid 63cm Spango that drilled his Halco Scorpion in 3 m... We were about to measure this fish in for the comp when......

This 65cm Spango crunched my Cultiva Savoy Shad 20 seconds later.. This Spanglie WON us the biggest Spanglie prize in the FW comp...

After smashing the Tantabiddi Shallows and doing it tough in the wind and rain the weather started to improve by mid afternoon so I headed out to the corner of north passage where FISHINCRAZY picked up this tasty 50cm Trout...

I found some good looking ground with a nice flare up holding lots of bait and dropped down a plastic in 28m jigged the plastic back up through the bait schools and "smack" something had come at least 15m off the bottom to inhail the placcy.. My PB Coral Trout at 77cm and around 7kg's.. also WON the longest Trout prize at the FW comp with this fish...

Another Veiw of the beast... check out those teeth..

Last day off the comp day 3 and after a slow morning start MRSTWITCHEMUP nails this 8kg Golden Trev again under the sea weed measuring in at 91cm.. This Golden also WON the longest Trevally prize in the comp...

With only half a day left in the FW comp and with awesome weather I decided to head out to Helby Bank and drop a few plastics out along the back edges after catching lots of small emperors, trout and other small fish and getting sharked repeatedly on anything that half resembled a decent fish.

After continues moves to get away from sharks and to sound for ground there was only a half hour of fishing time left in the day when we hear a huge splash behind the boat we all turn around to see a Beaky free jumping 20m from the boat then next thing we know "bang" Steve's rod loads up and points towards the free jumping beaky we then realise the beaky has smashed Steve's plastic on the drop and he's on... YYEEWWW...

After a 15-20min fight with boat in chase Steve lands his first Sailfish and on plastic caught on a Stella 5000 SW PE 4 S-Extreme rod... After a couple of quick photo's I held the Saily over the side swam him for a min or 2 and off he went such a great feeling releasing an amazing sport fish like that. A first for my boat and awesome capture and most unexpected, the perfect way to top off an amazing trip we also were one of the 4 teams to land 1 Bill Fish each in the FW comp so we shared 4 ways in the prize money with the other teams another win for us...

So all in all a very succesfull trip for Team Twitchy we didn't really go in the comp to win it just used it for an excuse to fish hard over the 3 days and we somehow managed to win 4 of the prizes in the comp which I must say again a huge thank you to Adam and crew for putting together a very well run event and all the sponsors for the prizes. It was great to catch up a with a few fellow members, sorry if I didn't get to meet all of ya's, but don't worry Team Twitchy will be back next year but for 2 or 3 weeks next time 1 week just wasn't long enough...

Cheers for the read all..

Lloyd

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