of the lighthouse - caught 4 or so spanglies a day, up to 70cm and a decent queenie. this was fishing an hour before high tide and leaving about an hour and a half a later.

 Lighthouse bay out in front is a no boat fishing area, that's why it fishes pretty good. Also go up to the wreck and throw your poppers between the shore and the wreck, like a small highway.

Actually you can fish from a boat in Lighthouse Bay in front of the Caravan Park. The Sanctuary Zone dosent start until the area in front of the turnoff to the road to the wreck and extends around the cape for about 1km. I agree with EKUL, heading around to the right from the caravan park provides the better fishing than to the left.

 Heaps of snags out in front but worth it for the blue bone use sand or rock crabs for bait running ball sinker straight to the hook then hang on. Good luck mate

only lost 1 rig down there, had a running bean sinker to a circle hook with occy on it for baits... but flick lures and you'll no doubt be catching something.

marina rock wall always an option too.

Inside the marina for small mackeral,

right at the end of the Marina Wall, cast at the nav marker there. Send a lure or bait down next to it. Good trevally there.

Or Bundgegi beach. Walk left right up to the boundary of the no fishing area towards the pier and fish just off the reef that meets the shore there (was in the legal zone when i was there last - but check signage). Good bluebone, mega squid (though this was in November). Was actually great fishing that day.

Pilgramunna is another good spot south into the cape range park. Don't fish the rocks there, you will lose silly amounts of gear. Walk to the sand point (about a 2 beer walk south of camp site). Ripper current /  tide and nice deep gutters / holes carved out. Fish placcies or baits down in the holes and you never know your luck. Massive trevally there last time, pike were a pest though.

Cheers,

D80

 I would start with a better campsite!! It may have improved but it was a dire mess last time I was there. Anyway, we had some good fun out near the wreck. About 300m+ (12 beer walk fro Crasny) to the right (NW) of the wreck there is a rocky peninsula that can be walked out on, as well as any other fingers of reef which might be exposed. We had some good fun fihsing baits and lures. Mulies and squid (as recommended by the guys in bluewater) got smashed by sharks - every time without fail and also within a few minutes of hitting the water (and to be fair to the bluewater crew they did say 1 good trev for every 9 sharks - well I got bitten off 3 times, went to a trace landed two reasonable toothies and gave up tired - so couldnt qualify the 9-1 ratio), so if you take some traces and have a deep spool the reefies will give your arms a stretch. on prawns we scored some good flathead, didnt get the chance to go hunting for crabs, but small SPs got hit by little trevs and flatties. lures were picking queenies and trevs. Nothing massive but good fun on twisties and poppers.

 Lighthouse is the only place to stay. Crabs as above. Poppers anywhere from Ulus around to the Mildura. Backpack, water, slip, slop, get belted.

 Heaps of crays out front there if snorkelling mate!

caught the biggest spanglie of my life using a whole cray head as bait!!

I have literally fished for hours over the course of three trips to Exmouth using poppers and slices all for one 40cm trevally.

Alternatively 3 weeks ago when I was there I fished bundegi at night with bait. Endless fish as many species/ sizes as you want. Mulies: Endless sharks, milkfish, barracuda snook. Smaller hook + squid: fingermark, spanglies etc

Honestly no idea how may hours people lure fish there for their catches but I've fished for probably 30 hours combined at bundegi, wreck, lighthouse bay and national park for one small trevally. Either Im hopelessly unlucky or people fish for 20 hours to get that one photo you see.

 Haha, yeah just lucky when it comes to using lures. Our first trip there was about ten years ago in my old XY falcon. Loved every minute and the wife still says it was one of the best holidays we have had. Got into town late after fishing too long in Carnarvon the morning we drove up. We didn't realise that it was another half hour outside of town otherwise we would have stopped and got dinner. Finally got to the caravan park and we found that we couldn't get dinner or bait as we had arrived after hours.  So I daid to the wife don't worry I will go catch a fish. At the time she probably thought I was nuts. Went over the dunes with an old beach rod and a gillies popper and cast out. On the first retrieve there was action, there were a couple of fish chasing it down but kept on bumping each other out of the way. I couldn't believe it, this lure had got me nothing in Kalbarri and Carnarvon. I cast out again and retrieved it in a little faster and bang I was on. The clunky old reel was screaming and I was running over the rocks in thongs trying to stay on. It wasn't long before I finally hauled in a big mangrove jack.

The wife was pretty impressed and we were hooked on Exmouth for good.

 The last trip up there was around July this year. Unfortunately nothing big was caught but I was up there fir work anyway. Plenty of trevelly, bream and spanglies of the marina wall. All on lures, from 2.5" zmans to metal slices and stick baits.

 I've fished most of the shore from mildura all the way down into and beyond the national park. Some days it can be hard, but I've always caught. Slices, poppers, they're all good. 

RobK, I think you must have been unlucky. On some days I've had 30+ queenies and trevally from that side, and would always expect a minimum of 5 or 6 fish in a couple of hours fishing. You just need to pick your spot by looking at the tides and what time of day it is. It makes a real big difference.