Hi Guys. I've been lurking on these forums for a while and I figured I would put up a report for my recent trip to False Entrance.

Me and a couple of mates were up there for 5 days just after New Years.

We left Perth at about 6am and arrived at False around 5pm. We took about an hour to set up camp and then headed out for a quick spin. The action started almost straight away with a couple of hits and fish following the lures, but initially we couldn't get anything to stay on the hooks. After a while my mate Jimmy hooked onto a shark mack and managed to get it up to the cliffs and gaffed.

Then it was my turn and I hooked onto a decent sized longtail tuna. I had a fight that lasted about 20 minutes, with the fish going left, right, left, right back and forwards. Eventually when it was just about ready to come up for a gaff we spotted a shark circling. So I flipped the bail arm and let the tuna swim back out into the deeper water. I wasn't sure what to do next, so I tightened the drag up and tried to skull drag the tuna back in past the sharks. It didn't work, and a shark bit the end of the tuna off before I could get it in close.

It would have been a good sized tuna, the remaining head section was still 7 kgs and we managed to get some decent fillets off it so it wasn't a complete waste. It made beautiful sushimi. We also landed a small Gold Spot Trevally which we released.

It then got dark, so we went back to camp and finished setting up. Then we went out for a bottom bash off the point. The bottom bash scored us a couple of stingrays and that was about it so we headed off to bed.

The next morning we got a few more shark macks and one just sized spanish mack. I didn't take my camera so don't have any photos.

We moved further into the bay to try and do some bottom bouncing. This resulted in a couple of rock cod, an octopus caught on gang hooks, a tarwine and a buff bream that managed to get foul hooked. All across the bay we could see shark macks jumping out of the water.

In the evening we went back to the point to spin and caught a few spanish macks, unfortunately we couldn't get any of them past the sharks. The sharks at False all sit further out so you can't see them coming and can't throw rocks at them either so there wasn't much we could do.

The next morning the swell started picking up and the water was getting whitewashed, so the spinning wasn't working that well. I still managed to get a decent hookup between the sets of swell and landed a decent longtail tuna. This one must have already been tired when I got it, because it came straight up to the cliffs and was gaffed easily.

It was 110cm and 13 kgs.

The fishing died off completely at the point after that. I think that the fish couldn't see our lures through all the whitewash that was coming in from the big swells. So we decided to go further into the bay and try our luck there.

At the other spot I landed two barracuda and a Tailor which at 63cms was a PB.

After this the swells picked up to 4-5 meters and combined with a howling southerly wind it just made fishing impossible anywhere. Our camp started getting damp from all the spray crashing over the cliffs and we were getting sand blasted too. The swell didn't drop off for the rest of the trip so we gave up on the fishing and did some 4wding and exploring and just relaxed and drank beer for the rest of the trip.

The blowholes were pumping from the big swell which was impressive to see, but the swell pretty much put a damper on the end of an otherwise good fishing trip.

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