Kalbarri last week
Ended up spending 3 days in Kalbarri, great place to take the family to relax.
My boats steering was locked up so hired a boat from Murchison boat hire, good clean solid boat. Fished the cliffs with one dropped fish, fished the 30s but really slow and no bites, ended up drifting and caught 5 silver cobbler of all things. Didn't know you could get them in Kalbarri.
Murchison was chocolate brown, ended up fishing from the river and had a good result catching approx 12 soapies. Kept 6 for a couple of meals.
Caught 1 x tagged fish, sent in the details and they confirmed that it had grown 90mm in 260 days and had travelled 11km.
Also all the Soapies had worms in the stomach cavity. Didn't tell the missus off course.
Also stayed in a hotel and got bitten badly by bed bugs, have let them know, won't make too much of it because shit happens, would recommend to sleep above the blankets and cover yourself with aeroguard. Itch like you wouldn't believe.
Faulkner Family
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sounds like a great few days
sounds like a great few days of relaxation. silver cobbler must have been lost. shows the weather is changing , more of the northern species making their way down the coast.
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
ranmar850
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Silver cobbler are not uncommon anywhere up there
Seem to be more offshore than inshore--they can actually be a real pest when you are trying to catch snapper for a living--when they move in, you just up anchor and go elsewhere
clogwog
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Yeah surprised because they
Yeah surprised because they where in 30 metres, thought they where an onshore/river species.
suzi q
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Yeah that was about all I
Yeah that was about all I could find at the fishing comp up there at this time last year. 100’s of the bloody things. I see in theory you can eat them - did you give it a go?
clogwog
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Yeah kept 3 and gave them a
Yeah kept 3 and gave them a go, tasted reasonable, did have a bit of a metallic after taste though. Certainly no snapper or dhu.
Boyce
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Well done mateSome nice fidh
Well done mate
Some nice fidh there