Koks Island Wednesday
Weather looked good so off over to Koks Island,decky for the day is Sebastion,a tourist from France.Tried to anchor a couple of time without much success with the tide turning and SE wind so gave up and did a few drifts while waiting for it to settle down.First fish up was mine and he asked "are they all that big?"And of course the answer was "No"
Next it was Seb's turn with another the same size as the first.Not too far from us another local boat got a nice estuary cod that was getting up near the limit by the look of it,watched them as they released it.
Gave it another go at anchoring with a win this time round.Seb got his second and third ones in quick succession while I was briefly hooked onto what felt like a nuke submarine only for the hooks to pull out.Straight down again and I got my third and Seb got a charlie court[released].Down we go again and I'm on,give two or three cranks and felt gears go crunch crunch munch and no go any more.Little problem of some 50-60 metres of 80lb braid out with a pinkie on and having to pull against the tide.Had a big handline there so started winding the line over the top of the line already there.Out with the knife to cut it off from the rod as keep getting tangled up in it.Found a glove]shrunken about 2 sizes ]and somehow managed to get some of my hand in it.After a few minutes I had my 4th and last on the deck.Seb had his within 3 minutes.
Upped anchor and dragged a cople of lures round without even a nudge so gave up and headed for home.Seb was having a ball watching whales breaching,turtles cruising etc and all the while complaining the day was too short.
Late news,a mate who Seb is staying with rang up to thank me again from him and said he was nearly going to sleep in the back of his ute the night before so he wouldn't forget to drop hom at my place in the morning.Keen is not the word,haven't seen anyone that bad[good] for a loooong time,Makes it all worth while and 8 nice pinkies to show for it as well.
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Faulkner Family
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well done with the pinkys
well done with the pinkys and your generous hospitality (as always ) looks like you guys had an awsome day on the water. when he asked if they were all that big you should have said these were only the small ones Lol , congrats to you both
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Bodie
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yep well done mate, great to
yep well done mate, great to hear your taking the tourists out for a trip, very generous.
roberta
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What a good days fishing
bet Sebastian will go home with lovely memories of WA. Good haul of fish, raining down here at the moment, but quite warm.
Ginger Tablets Rock
deepwater
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Well done Dad was there much
Well done Dad was there much bait fish out there? we seen no bait at all yesterday up at the island off exxy ,good fish as well
jeff
carnarvonite
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Bait fish
Spotted one school of bait fish half way over with no birds working and that was it.There was a patch of small tuna playing around right on Koks but wouldn't even touch a metal slice that ran right through the middle of them.
No sure what the water temp was but didn't see a flying fish or sea snake so must be colder than usual.
damo6230
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well done guys
good fish and good hospitality. some nice pinkies there Carvonite