Gnaraloo report
Just back from Gnaraloo and what a trip it was. Our best so far as we managed to get our 20kg per person fillet quota in five days. The trip in was on track was pretty crappy as the corrugations are shocking at the moment. Maaged to rattle a power steering connection loose on the column and lost all the fluid. Luckily just a retighten and fill up of fluid and we were up and running again. Was also peeved when arriving at our accomodation to find no light bulbs in any of the sockets , the toilet not working and no bloody hotplate on the barby. They like had a years notice of our arrival so pretty average. Anyway the important stuff. The weather was awesome for the five days we fished. My first drop resulted in a nice Red and we managed a couple of nice Rankins and a Spanglie to finish of the first day. The fishing just got better each day.With big Rankins , Reds, Spanglies, Estuary cods,Cobia And Mackies. Anyway enjoy the pics.
First Red for the trip.
Second day's bag.6kg Cobia on 8kg outfit (floating mulie)
My double header.
Rankins
Reds
PB Red for the trip 8kg
Another successful day's bag
The Hilton ala Gnaraloo
Just launced for another big day
Although the colours had faded on this Cobia thought I'd post anyway as this was my first ever and at 9kg pretty awesome, it was caught on a trolled blue Xrap. That Xrap is now my fav lure as it caught heaps of other fish on the trip.
13kg Spaniard
Can someone ID this one?
Thought I'd thow this pic on as the colours are pretty good.We only really fished in the 40's only once venturing out to 60m and catching a Cobia. One morning just out of the bay we drove over some promising ground and with one quick drop had two nice Estuary Cod on board. Thanks to the guys who helped with ideas and waypoints etc you know who you are and it's appreciated.Forgot to mention there are even clowns up there. Trolling out of the bay one morning we had a group of 4 boats run over our lures and cut one off. They didn't stop to appologise so I bailed them up at the filleting table that night. The response "We didn't mean it" Mine "Well stay the f#$K away from us then.Dickheads. Next year's trip ia already being planned ;)
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Simo_
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Well done mate some nice
Well done mate some nice fish there.
That fish looks like a Tomato Cod
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till
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Looks like a top trip, some
Looks like a top trip, some great fish there!
soupster51
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Awesome
Top result, well worth the effort. You'll be eating quality table fare for some time to come.
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sea-kem
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Ha ha yeah have to start
Ha ha yeah have to start handing out all the promises ;)
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tot
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Got back from 3 mile in the
Got back from 3 mile in the wee hours on saturday morning myself , 12 days there with the boat out every day .
Same as you sea-kem , one of my best fishing trips yet , good waves for the first week also .
Heaps of cobia this year , landed 11 great size one's and the rest the same as you .
Hit a roo near Cervanties at around 1am - counted over 60 that night between Jurien and Wedge , time for bar work .
Macks were a bit slow , had a whale near the boat that had sharks , raymora(sp) and cobia in the masses around it - now that was fun!!
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scotto
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Nice bag
Good work seakem !
An awse place with some good fish
sea-kem
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Cheers Scotto it's a real
Cheers Scotto it's a real fishing fix up there. We came back down the Indian ocean Drive on the way back Tot and stayed at my Parkhome at Seabird. There was a matter of an undrunk Heiniken keg to sort out and some footo bets to lay. The roos were just starting to come out around 5 so thank F$^&k we didn't hit any.
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tot
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yeah mate good idea , did you
yeah mate good idea , did you go to the concert/gig at the shed on thursday night? gotta say it was very good and one of the better nights to be had up there.
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sea-kem
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Nah we didn't Tot. Watched
Nah we didn't Tot. Watched the rehearsals though from the filleting shed. A few of the muso's were grabbing the carcassess and cooking them up lol.
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Nauti Buoy
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Awesome
Great report mate, we are heading up there for the first time soon- hopefully the weather will be as good.
johnno67
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Good work mate
Well done mate it was good to catchup at Gnaraloo and thanks again for the box of squid it was alive saver especially as the last day glassed off.
We left a day early as we had bagged out and yep what great trip Gnaraloo never fails for atop fishn trip.
Cheers COLIN
johnno67
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Buy the way
That fish I'd looks like a tomato cod if so top eating
sea-kem
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Cheers Col. It filleted up
Cheers Col. It filleted up beautifully white. We ate it in burgers before we left it was awesome.It was good to finally catch up it would have been dangerous if we had both had lay days drinking wise ;)
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joe m
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Well done on the awesome
Well done on the awesome catch
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grantarctic1
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Nice trip
Nice trip mate, some great eating fish there in your pic's .
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Excellent
Great trip and write up Andy!
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Cracker sea-kem, Cracker!
Cracker sea-kem, Cracker!
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looks like an awesome trip
im guessing it might start to get packed up there now the mackerals are closed!! nice effort
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r.gates
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Great trip
Looks like you guys had a ball up there....pity about the Hilton not being up to standard, though.
Great fish there and the conditions looked fantastic.
How does the Cobia taste....we hooked one at Coral Bay but lost it at the boat. Are they on par with the Rankins/Spanglies/Reds?
regards
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sea-kem
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Have yet to try it Rusty.Will
Have yet to try it Rusty.Will let you know, although I did make an awesome Rankin pie last night.
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Tim R
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You have wet my appetite!! I
You have wet my appetite!! I am heading up for the July school holidays, only taking a tinny though as towing up camper trailer. Did either of you guys do anything close in? I am assuming it would fish similar to Exmouth and Coral Bay inside the reef, I have done this a few times so am expecting similar.
Cheers
sea-kem
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We didn't fish in close as
We didn't fish in close as the weather was so good Tim. But saying that gave a hand to a young fella loading his tinny up one day and he fished inside and did really well on Mackies. Hope you score some good weather.
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Tim R
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Thanks Sea-kem, fingers
Thanks Sea-kem, fingers crossed on the weather
Tim
AlwaysFishin
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Nice fish mate, gotta be
Nice fish mate, gotta be happy with that!
rayzor23
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Awsome picsAnd looks like
Awsome pics
And looks like you lucked out with the weather.Hope its the same for us in a couple weeks