Has Anyone Been to Gladstone on the Inner Shark Bay Gulf WA Fishing?
Submitted by Hook_er on Wed, 2014-02-26 09:17
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Hi lads,
Just thinking about heading north up to Gladtsone and wondering is anyone has had a crack fishing there ... whats the story? is the fishing any good?
If anyone could share some reports on what to expext and catch it would be much apreciated.
Cheers
sunshine
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Reports of weird ulcerated fish
In Gladstone Harbour - be buggered if I would eat anything from there - heavy metal contamination blamed - looks great but it is what is below the surface that causes concern
Hook_er
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is that WA
Is that the gladstone in WA?
Sean66
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Drove past..
Drove past there on Monday. Stopped at the lookout. Didnt see anyone fishing but it looked great.
I'm here for a good time, not a long time. Lets go fishing!
carnarvonite
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Channels
if you follow the channel till it joins up with bigger ones then anchor.
Good spots for estuary cod, black snapper and pinkies [inner gulf regulations apply] with the odd shark and cobia thrown in.
randall df223
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Are they the channels to the
Are they the channels to the south east of pelican island? Could reach those from monkey mia on a nice day.
Fish! HARD!
bitten
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plenty of sharks shovelies
plenty of sharks shovelies and tigers mostly
great spot for a camp and a fish loads of crabs, black snapper and pinkies as carnarvonite said used to be a regular quick getaway when i lived up there
sounds like sunshine is talking about gladstone in queensland nothing to contaminate water in the wa one
Hook_er
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Muddies
Do you catch muddies tha far south?
scottnofish
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You get them at steep point
So can't see why not
fishin mad
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Gladstone is great for
Gladstone is great for camping and fishing .Have to watch the tides as it deep enough close to shore but is bit of a sand bank further out.Lots of blacks and pinkies cod mulloway cobia there.Been to forrie island and is a small inlet there which may have mud crabs there as you can get them at Monkey Mai which is not that far away.Also good netting for mullet bream and whiting along the shore.If going in winter it does not take much rain to close the road.Used to be able to hire a small house at yarringa station which is right at the turn off to gladstone dont know if they still do or not.Closest place to get fuel is wooramel road house.Hope this helps a bit
Cheers Davo
Hebbs
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Fished up there a few years
Fished up there a few years back, my brother and I got some cracking 15+kg mulloway out of a spot NW of the camp grounds. We were given the spot by the locals, it is a big area of sea grass.
"They come on the bite on dusk" we were told and sure enough we pulled both out of the spot within half an hour of sunset.
Fished the channels over a couple of days for some small blacks snapper but generally didn't do too well there.
It's not rocket surgery...