Took the family down to Golden Bay for Easter and a bit of beach fishing / crabbing.

First day on the boat and we struggled to find any size crabs, having at least one undersize crab per dropnet per pull. I guess its not unexpected at this time of year with most of the size crabs being female.

I tried the open water and also Sticks Channel and managed to get a feed. The father-in-law was happy to get out on the water and do the fishing while I drove the boat.

It was great to see my youngest getting a taste for crabbing and having a great deal of fun in the process.

She evenmanaged to get a few of the biggest crabs for the day.

Day 2 saw us fishing the beach with burley floats for Herring. My youngest was again in the mix using the old green tubing on a longshank hook.

We caught a heap of herring and gardies, the former being smoked that night (yum!) The gardies were retained by yours truly for some quality trolling baits for Exmouth.

The beach action continued the next day and the gardies were in plentiful supply. There were reports of a small school of 5 Salmon several hundred metres up the beach but I didn;t bother chasing them.

The missus even got into the action with some herring and it turned out a great little morning session.

Good to get the sand between the toes every now and then and get back to your roots of bread and butter fishing. Watching the kids have fun is what its all about.

Nothing major to report from down there but at least if you are heading in that direction with the kids, make sure you take some gear for gardies as they are thick about 100m north of the Dampier Ave main beach. Burley is essential.

Cheers

Andy Mac