Kalbarri at this time of year?
Submitted by snapper_seeker on Thu, 2013-04-11 20:35
Hi guys, heading up to Kalbarri for the holidays and I was wondering what there is to catch at this time of year. We will be taking the boat up so where are some good areas to troll/bottom bounce ect. Also are there any mullys/tailor around land based and what's there to catch from the jetty. As a side note, is ballooning for sharks/mackeral at this time of year any good? Cheers, Snapper_seeker
Tank
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Same
We will be there the second week look out for Chopper now not Tank....must edit my user name sometime...my son got a 7 kg snapper at the mouth last time so I'm sure he will be keen to try his luck again...bringing down the crab pots to try for a muddy...undecided going out the mouth will check it out when down there...don't catch all the fish on the first week aye
dj dvd
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I went up last week. Went
I went up last week. Went out on the local charter Reefwalker (worth going if you don't end up taking the boat up) and got a good back of snapper, redthroat, baldies, cod etc. Also a couple of school mackeral showed up but only one was landed (by me on a float bait
). I obviously wasn't driving but we about 9 nm direct west from the river mouth and in 50metres of water from what I could tell. Apperently the mackies have been off the bite due to the quality of the water (too cloudy).
We got some bream and stuff in the river. I found waiting for night time better to avoid the blowies. Also some herring, tailor and dart from the cliffs.
Hope that helps. Good luck.
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Wheatbelt_Boy.
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hey mate fished there on way
hey mate fished there on way back from steep. spent the night at lucky bay and only got a small mully. other than that went to blue holes which looked promising but swell was average so couldnt get the popper out far but have a crack there with a lure. Red bluff got another mully about 60cm and a large dart and tiny tailor, thought the tailor would be a shoe in, was not to be...
best of luck
The man from Meekatharra
snapper_seeker
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Cheers
Here's for the help guys. What's the jetty like and is there any decent spots that are SAFE to balloon for sharks/mackies
stevewiseman
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Kalbarri
Plenty of snapper of the sand patch in 28/30m and a few macks showing up again with water clearing.
steve wiseman
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Spinnerak
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So many options at kalbarri,
So many options at kalbarri, we did damn well this time last year on bream, mangrove jacks, and a host of other species further up the river on bait and lures,
including a few giant herring. the cliffs usually have something to offer there, but im no expert. We never managed a tailor from the river mouth but a few mulies retreived without tails was evidence that they were there, just be persistant. (I was anchored in a kayak at the edge of the mouth casting into frothing water).
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