Horrocks Beach / Moore River Report

Me and my missus (channy) went on a 2 week holiday, first at horrocks beach then back down to moore river for the second. First time up at Horrocks we didnt know what to expect. Mixed weather on the way up there, but was greeted by beautiful weather when we arrived. The water was great, and the sun was out.

We settled in and headed down to the river mouth, fished the beach that afternoon and we both got our pb Tailor (pic 2 and 3). Got some good hook ups but failed to pull anything else in other then some small other fish (herring/wrasse). Both happy with our Tailors, we hoped to get into some bigger ones in the coming week (which unfortunately never happened).

Day 2 greated us with more great weather, i caught 2 of these (pic 4) but cant figure out exactly what they are? i thought maybe coral trout or a cod? caught a few Tarwhine but no luck with the Tailor. We fished from the jetty on night 3, i picked up a small tailor and some pike but nothing else. We kept getting huge bites and big runs but couldnt figure out what it was. We thought maybe a Mulloway or Stingray. After line break after line break i figured it was getting pointless when we finally saw a massive ray go under the jetty (pic 5) it hung around for awhile but we gave up as we only had 20lb line on.

The rest of the week got worse with bad weather and no luck with the fish. We ended up catching nothing for the rest of the week. We packed our bags and headed down to Moore river for the last week before heading back to Perth. The river mouth was open into the ocean for the first time ive been there. However the weather was mixed again (some days were so damn windy), with only a few days good for fishing. We headed down river on the boat and managed acouple of bream on lures with yellowtail grunter being everywhere! luckily we had no trouble with blowies.

 

 


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 Well done guys, cant wait to

Wed, 2011-11-16 17:58

 Well done guys, cant wait to get away post exams.

The cod like fish is a wirrah also.

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Hope you ate it, then you will know how good all other fish are

Mon, 2011-11-21 15:21

Boil it in milk, fing the most anoying cat and feed it the old boot. Wont bother you again!!!!!!

Neels

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couple of decent tailor there

Wed, 2011-11-16 18:14

would have been a nice feed...would've been good getting away for a while..the only criticism I have would be your mrs needs to do her nails properly for the photo shoot...only joshing lol...well done onyas

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-.- shoosh! :) knew i should

Wed, 2011-11-16 18:38

-.- shoosh! :) knew i should have filled them in with paint haha

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nice work

Wed, 2011-11-16 19:22

sounds like you had a fun trip.   cheers

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Well done guys. Sounds like

Wed, 2011-11-16 19:34

Well done guys. Sounds like you fun. Well done on the Bream.

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nice report

Thu, 2011-11-17 19:02

stonka tailor

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Cool report

Fri, 2011-11-18 12:40

Cool report guy's, glad to see you got there and had a go, nice tailor and bream.

Cheers Grant..

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thanks guys, was my first

Mon, 2011-11-21 12:20

thanks guys, was my first proper attempt at beach fishing and im pretty hooked on it now, despite the fact i broke the last 15cm of the rod in the car >< 

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Ha ha did that with my first

Mon, 2011-11-21 12:29

Ha ha did that with my first ever graphite on a ceiling fan.

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Im sure everyone has done it

Mon, 2011-11-21 20:14

Im sure everyone has done it atleast once haha, was so tired, just slammed the door shut and forgot about the rod.. made a nice crunching noise