Gnaraloo report

First of all thanks to everyone for the 1st timer to Gnaraloo tips.

Left 6am sat morn 15th to long drive to Carnarvon, got to Carnarvon stayed at the Gascoyne motel highley recomended good place to park car and boat right outside your room bargain $120 bucks for the night and very secure.

Got up at 7am sunday morn and headed of for Gnaraloo.

Fortanately the track was not as bad as everyone said it would be sat on average about 50km hr in the 200 series towing the 5.89m stacer coralmaster.

Arrived at Gnaraloo around 1030ish got early checkin to the cabin wich was sposed to be at 12, right time to unload and look around.

Very ancious decided at 2pm the weather was lookn good so took the boat down to the bay to do atrial run out of the bay all good ,mate Wade through out a lure within 10 mins was onto a 7kg yellofin tuna now this is the shit we reckon.Cut the tuna up for bait and headed out 8ks south dropped down a line and caught some nice spangled emp and red throats plus the 6 foot reef shark that wanted to have ago, where convinced this is gonna be a good week headed back to the cabin only being out for a couple of hours for a taste of redthroat and spangled on the barby and a few beers.

 No rush dragged out selves out of bed 8.30 mon morn headed out north for our 1st real fishing adventure got onto some nice ground every where is nice ground and before you new it we were heading back to the filletting shed bagged out of red emperors 3 big rankin cods, baldys and a bag full of mixtures 18 quality fish in total where rapped everyone in the filletting shed thought use guys have been here before wher you fishn what depth how far we been here for 9 days and havnt got fish like that haha we reckon.

Tuesday came it whas blown a gale ok this a good excuse for some serious beer drinkn time sat in the cabin and quite a few sherberts.

Wednesday looked at the seebreeze report at the homestead this looks ok 2m swell 13-15 knot n/e lets go heade north 12 mile yeeha bagged out again on reds rankin couple of baldys best one went 8.5kg baldy p.b but did the wind turn southerly 12 mile trip back in 8 knots 1hr45 to get back in now i know why everone goes south and west it was crap ride in got to the filletting shed about 4.30 same thing how deep how far out ya back to the cabin nice feed of fish and afew more sherberts.

Thursday winds still blown lets be smart and head s/west where everbody else is goin,heade out to the 70m mark lots of fish on the sounder thats if you like pullin up 6ft sharks stuff this this is too much hard work.

headed back in 50m mark and again driftn around lookn for bait fish on the sounder hit the spot 5 reds rankins spanish mackeral and cobia of the bottom the boys at the filletting shed arnt gonna be happy again pissed them of when we told them about all the redthroat and spangled we through back.

Ok friday do we wanna go out the 3 of us are stuffed from the last few days of fishing but after lookn outside of the cabin it was the flattested day of our trip.9.00 got in the water and headed north again for our last fish of the trip dead calm no sea anchor no drift what so ever it was a millpond this is no good for fishin haha,within a hour we had bagged 6 reds smallest was 8kg with old mate Steve pullin in the 13.5kg red fish of the trip and 3 rankin cod.

Headed back to the bay sittn on 22knots to be the only people at the filletting shed which was 1 oclock ,3hours of fishn scored us 19kgs of filletts on our last day.Overall count fot 4 days of fishin 60kgs of fillets between 3 people and yes fisheries did turn up on the thursday at the bay to check your catch.

This is the first time ive ever done a trip like this and cant wait for next year would highley recommend it to everyone p.s dont be put off about the track  and the harsh conditions its not that bad its a adventure every fisho should expreriance.

Will post up photos soon

Cheers Col


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hook

Mon, 2010-05-24 20:51

Sounds like a good trip, what about the guy with the hook in his thumb, or was that the other boat?

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yeh we were in the filleting

Mon, 2010-05-24 21:00

yeh we were in the filleting shed and i heard some guy had a set of trebbles in his hand someone came to the rescue and rushed him out the back for some quick Gnaraloo surgery i believe

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Ah mate you've got my juices

Mon, 2010-05-24 21:36

Ah mate you've got my juices flowing.We're heading up in August and can't bloody wait.Your plan sounds like our planHAHA, well done by the way .I'll be rapt if we get half as much as you guys. I've heard that getting through the reef is a bit tricky, any pointers?

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Ha ha well done..

Mon, 2010-05-24 21:46

They must have had the grader thru the track since we left.  WELL DONE WHERE THE PICS..

 

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sounds like the trip came

Mon, 2010-05-24 22:13

sounds like the trip came together well. congrats on the great catches and your mate that got the 13plus kg red. a fish and a trip to remember. 

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The reef is a piece of cake

Tue, 2010-05-25 08:45

The reef is a piece of cake you can see the breakers on your left on the way outas long as you star far north you wont have a issue if your slill not sure give me a calland i can show you on my gps andgive youth safe markaypoint

Chs col  P.S phots still comn waitn for old mate o download them

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Quality

Tue, 2010-05-25 09:21

Sounds like some quality bottom bashing col. Look forward to the pics.

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Tue, 2010-05-25 10:04

for the love of god, please tell me you have pictures

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ok old mate carnage just put

Tue, 2010-05-25 10:48

ok old mate carnage just put up a few pics of our trip check out last post gnaraloo pics

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just checked out the pics,

Tue, 2010-05-25 17:19

just checked out the pics, very nice.