Just got back from 5 days landbased fishing in Kalbarri which I have to say was a whole lot better than when I was there this time last year, didn't catch what I was targetting but got some pretty good bycatch in the process.

First night fished the sand bar on the river and hooked a monster shovelnose, stuffed around for about 40 minutes trying to get it shallow enough to land but everytime I got it into the drop off next to the beach it would take off before I could get a hold of it. I'd had enough so grabbed the line to hold it in close while I tried to get a hand on it but it was to much pressure and the line snapped.

Second and third night were spent fishing the jetty where the missus caught the usual huge amounts of small silver bream and finger marks plus a few small estuary cod, only notable catches on the second night were two size Javelins by the missus and a small shovelnose by me. On the third night the jetty was going off! Baby mulla's were smashing bait fish right along the jetty while giant herring were leaping all over the place with small tailor following suit. To say I regretted not bringing my bream rod along would be a massive understatment! This was also the biggest and only tailor caught the whole trip after hours of throwing poppers and waxwings at a few different spots.

Fourth night hit Red Bluff beach where my second cast with a half eaten mullet fillet must have landed right on this little mulla's head as he hit it before I could put the rod back in the holder. Third cast resulted in a little gold spot with it going quiet after that and no more bites except for the pickers.

Last night so went to the jetty again so the missus could have some fun on some smaller stuff, again the usual countless undersize silver bream and finger marks with the occasional cod. Had an AUSTRALIAN couple near us who were filling their bucket with undersize cod, until what appeared to be some locals had some words with them after which they reluctantly released the next few caught until the locals left. Later that night hit Red Bluff beach again but was having trouble getting baits out behind the waves, after a couple of hours of no bites even after sliding out a half mullet well beyond the waves we made the move back to the sand bar. Few slightly larger finger marks from here and the one and only big run was from this nice little cod, not much of a fight but was nice to get one a bit bigger than all the little ones around.

Apologies for the shit fish photo's the missus hadn't used my camera before

Cheers,

Brett

Ps. For anyone going up for the classic, there was cops set up on the main road in front of the pub during the middle of the day doing random breath tests which I never seen there before