Hopetoun landbased?
Submitted by sackshaker on Thu, 2016-09-22 18:40
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.
scano
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Not sure about the river
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.
Scano
sackshaker
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Date Joined: 22/04/15
Thanks scano. I just had a
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.
striker
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Was
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.
Hutch
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Usually plenty of herring
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.
smicko
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Pallinup holds some of the
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.
Busted Arse
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Jerdacuttup is definitely the
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.
sackshaker
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Awesome thanks guys.Im
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.
Doc
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Really nice spot, one of my
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.