My folks are up ther at the minute. Said that people are getting squid off the jetty but the beaches are full of weed to the point that there is no point wetting a line.

Sleeping on the beach would be great. Temp wouldnt get far past 15-18 degrees trusting you could get out of the breeze.

Pm, the nights aren't really cold, think they are going down to abou 15c, good swag and wind break yous hould be fine.

way from the track behind the caravan park (Leeman), took granddaughter fishing and caught some nice herring and 3 undersize flounder which went back.  The beach half way (to LA) is blocked off with big gullies of weed (nearly got our dif stuck old fart had to reverse back quite away to turn around and go back from where we came from) , weed on all the beach but some areas to fish.  High tide in the morning water is nice and clear, no muddy looking water but unfortunately beaches are full of mountainous weed.  Damn kids on their dirt bikes and buggies have destroyed some of the tracks ggggrrrrr

Monday its lovely and 28c, sea breeze came in about 11.00am, not strong, still ok to fish LB.

Hey roberta theres a track a few clicks north of Leeman puts you onto a sandy point , do ya know what the weed is like up there? i know our last trip there was loads of weed in leeman but said spot was crystal clear. its a bit past the eneabba rd

were you turn right to Enbabba Rd and left to the little crayfishermans jetty.  Last week the beach was full of weed but didn't drive around the point there.  The Bay at Green Head (where jetty is) is full of weed also.

In the 16yrs I've been coming up with old fart (him over 25yrs) never seen the beaches so bad with weed the last couple of years, since the bad earthquake in Indonesian (archa I think) the weed seems to be on the beaches all year round.  Normally the beaches are clear for summer months, not any more ggrrr.

The herring are biting and caught some small flounder, under size so went back, to grow big, damn as they are a good eating fish.

Dolphins and seals were catching occie further out.

My family used to have a shack up there 20 years ago, and I spent alot of time there as a kid, fishing beagle island etc.

Anyway the Jetty that was spoken about is at Desperate Bay, about 10kms ahead of there is another group of Cray shacks, there are Gum trees close to the beach that you can see from the road, the turn off is on a sweeping bend that turns to the left as you head toward Dongara, you should see large sand dunes farther ahead on the ocean side.

When you find it, there is a track that heads to the right as you get to the beach (there is a shack right on the beach), follow that for a few kms and there is a hill on the right as the track turns to the left over another limestone hill, to the left here there may still be a wind mill, if not the well will be there, and the water is fresh. from here head to the right and you will see some large sand dunes.

At the base of these sand dunes is an old airstrip, there used to be quite a few shacks here too back in the day, and it is a great place to camp...although the signs say no camping as you first turn off the road.

I went up there a couple of years ago to show my wife, and the tracks were a little overgrown, my hilux had 3000kms on it at the time and I scratched the shit out of it as the tracks are overgrown (not recommended).

Maybe you didn't know about it and you would like to have a look, the airstrip is on the water, just behind small sand dunes that offer protection, nice sandy beaches also.

worth checking out.

 Has dongas from $60 a night

accom sorted(not that wel be there too much ) plan on hitting up gum tree, as thats produced well in past for me was on a full moon though hopefully there biting this w'end.

landed a few rays and shark up there too so hopefully be a good weekend regardless a day fishing beets a day working . as long as i can catch a feed its all good

accom sorted(not that wel be there too much ) plan on hitting up gum tree, as thats produced well in past for me was on a full moon though hopefully there biting this w'end.

landed a few rays and shark up there too so hopefully be a good weekend regardless a day fishing beets a day working . as long as i can catch a feed its all good

 HI Roberta thanks for that , is the squid still firing off jetty (if so is it the little jetty at end of road as ya drive in near servo.

were heading up tom arvo but possibly to late for a fish up at gumtree , but perhaps a quick squid session of the jetty or anything else near town if ya have a suggestion.

Where abouts is illawong?

for the week end, might help your packing before you leave

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