Haven't been to the Monties Scotty but just back from the Mackerel Islands and the standout lures for me were 120mm vibes from Mackdog Tackle, his 95mm sinking stickbaits and orange/red soft plastics from him. The vibes in coral trout colours got hit virtually every time they hit the water! I know someone who was at the Monties a couple of months ago and he also cleaned up with vibes. The stickbaits caught tuna, mackies, queenies, various trevally and a few others.

Cheers Dave, all good mate and appreciate your opinion, I believe I have alot of those lures covered and hopefully the weather plays ball as well to chase down a few of the fish you have mentioned.

 Monte bello safari boys have been going there longer than anyone. They know where the muddies are. 

All good Dave, I'm not a big poster to tell you the truth and enjoy reading more. This will be the first decent trip or actually a holiday since covid, so you could say I'm bloody hanging lol.

Cheers Dodgy, I will look them up mate, I have a pretty good idea of what to look for so I dont see myself having too much trouble looking for muddie's.

Catching them ?? lol that might be tricky.

 the little creek 600m or so on north side of where the pontoon for montebello safaris are used to work well, looks like nothing, only fills to about 300mm depth or so and almost dries fully on low tide

staff had a agreement to not talk about it or net it

dont know what happened in the 12 plus years since i last drove Kylin

Cheers Shark, very handy to know mate

 Agree with the dodgy. I was up there in October last year and the safari boys will help out with some directions. Aa shark says, there is a great little creek to the nother side of the pontoon. Take one of the dingies up there. We saw some small sharks, turtles in crystal clear water. Magic!!

Enjoy your trip.

Brando

 Enjoy it Scotty. Will be a fun place to test some of your creations! Definitely on my list of places to go.

Thanks Brando, I will hopefully get up there for a look.

Thanks Dave, I been to the Montie's quite a few times and this will be my first on a charter staying at the islands so a little different to what I'm use to.

I have quite a few ideas in mind to work with in regards to fishing but really unsure of how the charter will pan out in regards to having a dozen people on board.

I will definitely get photo's for sure as I need a bit of promo for the lures. I checked the weather and shouldnt be tooo bad as wind and swell so fingers crossed lol

 I used to feel bad about taking muddies at the Montes because I figured they came from a very limited breeding stock. I thought they were best left to the charter guys that really saw them as a exotic compared to the pilbara guys that can chase them any weekend. 

Then I went for a walk through the sanctuary zone mangrove area at low tide and realised there are thousands of them there. Eat as many as you want. 

Cheers Dodgy, just got back from the Montie's, with a bit of research it was really easy to find the muddie's, I've also had plenty of experience but has been quite a long while since I have actively targeted them.
We found the open bay with mangroves I wanted to target quite easily from the house boat in the dinghy one afternoon as the wind had blown us off the water
and proceeded to have a walk around with 5 of us, literally within the first 50mtrs we had seen 5 big bucks out the front of their holes, everyone had a turn hooking them out and we chose to keep a couple for a feed. There were also plenty of other muddie's openly breeding and left them alone to do their thing as well as heaaaaps of smaller females, I was actually quite surprised at just how many muddie's were within easy access.

Haha, nah just 3 claws Andy, which was quite good lol

Yep, one more charter left for the year, the accommodation could do with a birthday as it was pretty run down, what wasn't already broken was on its way out.

I believe its a 20hr something steam back to Exmouth and needs pretty calm weather to execute.