North westerners @ Palm Beach Jetty 27-2-2012
Submitted by Turbo Tim on Wed, 2012-02-29 18:00
*Edited- added photos. Sorry about that- They were on my preview, now I see 2 of all photos... Oh well *sigh*
Saw a couple of North Westerners at Rockingham on Sunday 27-2-2012.
Phone camera, didn't have long to catch a pic but you can see its tail in the blow up. Sea snake about 2-3m long, seen by about 5-6 of us. It swam under the jetty where the kids jump off, about 10m to the west then dived down out of sight.
The next pic is a google one- but it shows what he looked like going underneath us, except much longer and skinnier. There were lots of different ones at google images- but this is the type we saw for sure.
Then later I thought I hooked a car tire! Turned out to be the biggest blowfish (78cm) I've seen in years:-
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fatboyholla
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photos didnt work for me
photos didnt work for me
worst fisherman ever
fishy fingers
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May have been a dugite
seen plenty in the water down here
Turbo Tim
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Dunno about a dugite,
I thought they were more a solid brownish-olive greeny kinda colour. This fella was yellow with brown markings, you can just see about the last metre of him in the blown up photo. Long and skinny, thin pointy head with a flat probably 50-80cm tail end as he swam away.
fishy fingers
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yep your right
not a dugite and looks the same as one we saw last week in exie
Faulkner Family
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no pics either. the blowies
no pics either. the blowies are a regular catch in the sound. have seen quite a few caught at woodies. when you think you have a great fish on and one of them comes up all you want to do is kick it
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Faulkner Family
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looking at the pic, i would
looking at the pic, i would have to say a seasnake. never seen a landbased of that colour. stranger things have happened, like a mackie being caught off a local beach
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
dkonig82
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decent blowie that
decent blowie that
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
scottnofish
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always see sea snakes at palm beach
but there usally all white and about 1 ft long the dolphins love to eat them
Daniel Y
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Used to always see big
Used to always see big Silver Toadfish in the bins/dead on the jetty at Woodies Ammo jetty. They aren't that common off the shore though, but you do get quite a few off the boat in the sound etc. They are bloody annoying, biting through hooks etc. I've had them bite my bloody whiting in half right beside the boat too haha.