Hopetoun landbased?

 Hi all. I'm heading done to hopetoun (boatless) for a few days. Having never been before I was hoping someone on here would have some tips on the place. I'll be taking a range of rods so any type of landbased will be good. I've heard there's good black bream in the river down there. Also some monster skippy of the beach/rocks.

Thanks in advance.


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Not sure about the river

Thu, 2016-09-22 19:27

 Never seen a river there at all to be honest. But the ocean rock wall would surely hold some good skippy and herring etc. if the wind is coming from the right direction, probably wouldn't hurt to send a live bait out under a balloon. 

 

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 Thanks scano. I just had a

Thu, 2016-09-22 20:11

 Thanks scano. I just had a look on google. Jerdacuttup is the river there....closer to ravensthorp really. Someone told me it holds good bream tho, might be worth a look.

Looking forward to it.

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Was

Thu, 2016-09-22 20:15

 there last week n the inlet on way into the national park had broken through the sand bar n it is running to the ocean at the moment ,that beach might be worth a try . Was running that hard it cracked the road so the shire had closed it. Basically I didn't do much fishing however caught a few feeds of herring and a heap of just under size skippy by using unweighted baits and a handful of burly from the small jetty.

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 Usually plenty of herring

Thu, 2016-09-22 20:45

 Usually plenty of herring and skippy from the town jetty, mostly on the smaller side tho.

If you hit the beaches to the east of town some very reasonable skippy, the odd salmon, and the occasional mulloway can be caught.

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 Pallinup holds some of the

Thu, 2016-09-22 21:35

 Pallinup holds some of the biggest Black Bream in Oz. Swap a few beers for a couple of mullet from one of the netters, fillet and strip bait and flick out weightless on circles at night whilst sitting in your campchair with a brew. Make sure you use circles as you won't want to eat them, they taste like shit, on par with Buffies. Good fun though.

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Jerdacuttup is definitely the

Fri, 2016-09-23 01:29

Jerdacuttup is definitely the go.  Unfortunately plastics  get  smashed  by  the  smaller  bream. Not  sure if you are a bream fishing purist  and only use  artificials but my main advice is  big bait =  big bream. I pretty  much   used  the  heads  of  Herring  and  Whiting in order  to  catch  the  bigger bream. The   small ones   pick  away  buying  enough time for the   bigger  bream to come along.  let it  run a  couple  times   before trying  to set hook. My mate used to own a property   against the  jerdacuttup  and  he  told  me  theres nothing  but  tiny  bream. He  was  using  coral  prawns  and   cut mulie  as  bait haha All the rivers  are  productive to tell you the  truth.

The  town  jetty as mentioned  is  great for  herring and squid  at night. Around  the   groyne  area  theres heaps  of  Abalone if you are prepared to  snorkel for them.  Just be aware  there  is a  seal colony  nearby.  Off the  caravan park is a bit of a  spit  called  flathead point  for  obvious  reasons.  Never  got  any  monster  flat head  there. but they  are there.  just out  from there   at the  right  time  of year  is  KG Whiting   country. Accessible  by kayak.

Beaches running  east  from Barren beach are  great  spots as well fish the  channels and holes in between the  reef.  You can spot them easily  from the  top of the stairways and look out spots.  Theres a nice camp ground  at  barren beach as well down from the  ranger hut.

All the beaches east  of   town  are   pretty much the  same. cant remember  if  it  was  called  10 or  12 mile  beach   but   theres  a  reef that  runs  parallel to the  beach   with  a  obvious  gap  in  the  reef.  Right time  of  the  year  has   salmon.  Maybe  not at the moment though.

Goodluck.   That part  of  the  WA is beautiful.

 

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 Awesome thanks guys.Im

Fri, 2016-09-23 04:25

 Awesome thanks guys.

Im definately glad I asked the question.

Wow fish heads as bait for bream.......thats unreal.

Im not a bream purist by any means. All my bream have been on baits for sure.

Lookin forward to soaking a bait off the beach too.

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 Really nice spot, one of my

Sun, 2016-10-02 07:38

 Really nice spot, one of my favourites along the south coast. Caught heaps down there including some good blue morwongs, but they called them something else down there. Might get back down there next year.