Monte's Sept '13
Submitted by Camo.W on Mon, 2013-09-23 15:31
Got back last week from a trip from Exmouth to the Monte's and back on Top Gun 2. My brother books the boat out every year for the past 4 and this was my second trip, and what a trip it was with so may PB's and first time captures it was amazing.
4 of us fished nothing but artificials for the trip, between Ockta jigs, Knifes and soft plastics, with the Ockta's out fishing everything about 5 to 1 including the bait.
My most memorable captures would be the double header 77cm trout (new PB) with a 22kg Malabar cod on ockta jig, my sailfish, 17kg Mackie (new PB, heaps of GT's on jig and 10 trout all on jigs.
Anyhow here's some pics for your viewing pleasure.
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Ben Derecki
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Some FAT trout there!Great
Some FAT trout there!
Great fishing at a killer place.
brayds
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those are some monster coral
those are some monster coral trout. great catch
Damage82
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jealous
Why yes yes I am.
Congrats!
big john
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Quality
Some good fish there Camo.W!
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carnarvonite
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Aldo
Aldo does his best to please everyone and it looks like he's done it again.
slugger
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some monster trout there for sure
how were the sharks ?
jighead
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Top quality fish there
Will be doing a trip there late october. Hope to see some quality catches like those. Dinner will be fine.
petermac
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did you get any
did you get any of the monster muddys there
sea-kem
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Fffffffark!!! Top Trout.
Fffffffark!!! Top Trout. That's gotta go on the bucket list. Do you guys look for numbers when you go?
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fingermark
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Awesome fish
Looks like I'll be off to buy some more Octa jigs tomorrow then.
Leaving for the Montes on Sunday with Mahi Mahi 3 and I was pumped before reading this thread.
Now I'm almost beside myself!!!!
Brucesta
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I'm on the charter after
I'm on the charter after yours mate, leave us some reds will you! might see you boys at the Pot Shot on the return i guess we'll look for guys bragging about fish then
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Colt_Striker
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Some top fish & pics, looks
Some top fish & pics, looks like a great trip
catch.fish
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Congrats
Monster trout, Mackies, GT's, Billies - looks like you guys got into a bit of everything out there! Congrats mate great fish you gotta be happy with that!!
fingermark
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lol...Hey Brucesta
lol...Hey Brucesta,
Was looking at either the first or second week of school holidays when I booked this trip and ulimately settled on the first!
My mate is super pissed now as he's mad Dockers supporter and told me to sell his ticket on the fishing trip to anyone who wants it cause he's going to Melbourne for the GF.
Was contemplating advertising it on here to see if anyone was interested but as it turns out he ended up with crap seats from the ballot and I ended up selling his GF tickets now anyway so he's coming whether he likes it or not now!!!
Sandra said don't bring any fishing gear with you due to the baggage allowance on the flights being only 20kgs. I started of with a rod and some jigs at first and now I'm up over 16-17 kgs of fishing gear and still going.
I'm off to go get some more Octo jigs right now!!!
Do look out for the bragging guys. It might not be all of us but I'll be one of them for sure...lol.
The miserable looking one will be Feral cause The Dockers flogged the Hawks and he missed it....hahahaha
dkonig82
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looks awesome - gotta say
looks awesome - gotta say I've never seen octo jigs outfish anything in my life - but looks like they came through with the goods!
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Camo.W
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ship your gear up
Hey Fingermark, we ship all our fishing gear up with Exmouth freight. We sent up all our gear there and back again and then used our baggage allowance to bring the fish back. It worked out to about $40 each, and it was around 200 kilos of gear. As for the Ocktas ordered a couple of boxes to take up, 70 in total and we went through almost 60.
Slugger, there were plenty of sharks unfortunately and we lost some trophy to them as well. I had a GT on the line for about 20 mins and got it to about 3m only to have them tear into it and night me off, and it was a proper stonker would have finally cracked the 20kilo mark no doubt.
Sea-Kem, we havn't had too much trouble so far finder the numbers, which is good.
thanks again boys. fingers crossed next year is as good.
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fingermark
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Hey Camo
Thanks for that info.
Couple of quick questions if you don't mind?
What sort of depths were you mainly fishing in and what do you think is the ideal octos weight you mostly used? A couple of the pics look like they are 200-300g octos?
Any particular colour better then the others?
Also noticed a Saltiga rod in the background attached to what looked like a Saltiga 4000. Is the rod a Saltiga 62s? Reason I'm asking is I have the same outfit and curious as to how it performed up there? Was thinking the 62s might be a little on the light side but taking it regardless.
Cheers mate..
little johnny
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some great
photos there .well done,
DavidBaricevic
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Awesome pics mate
Awesome pics mate
Brock O
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Great Report
With some cracker fish there, double sail fish and massive trout.
Great boat, crew and skipper, we had Ando at the Abrohlos top bloke.
Bucket list that Monte's trip!
Dale
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Nice fish
Very nice fish, I love them Octa jigs, got several in the tackle box.
Cheers
Dale
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eug87
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Awesome fish!!
Excellent to see, I'm also about to head over to the monte's next sunday on the Mahi Mahi 3. looks like your the other guys from Karratha going Brucesta....
Can't wait to be hanging onto one of those horse GT's or any of those fish!