Quick Weekend Exmouth Run
Did a run up to Exmouth to catch up with son Jeff [Deepwater] and his family, left Carnarvon on Thursday and hit the water down the bottom of the Gulf after he knocked off work at the airport around 1100 Friday morning to give the prawns a shot. After much running around and trial tosses with the cast net we finally found a patch of good size banana prawns, finishing up with about 10 litres.
Did a run out to Jeff's goldband spot on the Saturday morning and found things a bit quiet with only a few smaller fish playing the game, we were about to move when along comes a drop in pinger, started his drift about 30 metres behind us so gave him a not so gentle reminder of what I thought of him and his actions before heading well south to try for a red emperor or two.
Travelled some 8-9nm trolling for about half the distance and losing the hook up of a small marlin we arrived at a spot and chatted with one of Jeff's mates and watched his missus pull up a monster Robinson sea bream so drove on another mile or so and dropped the lines over the side. Jeff hooked up straight away and Dazza and I a minute later. Jeff finished up with the red emperor and we both got shark on what we think were reds about the same size. Time to move so headed another mile further south for a good tomato cod, spangly and a couple of honeycomb cod.
Looking at the time we decided it was time to head back to Tantas at a troll as Dazza had to get back to Tom Price that arvo so out go the lures. Got to a mile south of the leads when we get a phone call from home saying the road south is closed due to a truck roll over so its time to fill the quota and no rush.
Head out to another goldy spot , first drop and Dazza pulls in a double header and Jeff follows suit a 3 minutes later. I get a single, Dazza scores a NW blowie and Jeff comes up with our limit for goldies.
Out go the lures yet again, the tail gets snipped off one by a wahoo with no hook up and we spend half an hour circling massive bait schools getting monstered by small striped tuna with no result except for missing the hook up of a big Spaniard.
All up a great day, lot of travelling in excellent conditions and one fish short of our limit but who's complaining.
Meeuwissen
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The prawns are my favourite part
of this report. How do you find them? On the sounder or do you just do random throws?
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carnarvonite
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Prawns
Look for milky patches in the water and do a run through it with the boat and you see them jump out of the water. When we finally found them I could see them on the sounder, having a side scan jobby would have been magic
Madmerv
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Nice report
Looks like a good mixed bag and as they say, a day on the water beats a day at work.
I really dont understand people travelling miles to sit right on top of you. Bloody big ocean out there.
Sometimes when the water is quiet, you can hear the fish laughing at you !
azza1
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Sounds like a great quick
Sounds like a great quick trip with some good feeds to come.
meglodon
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First photo
I see you had a real friendly escort on the bow, I always like watching them as you cruise along, quite often I'm dumfounded how they don't get hit by the boat.
carnarvonite
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Hump back dolphins
Think they were hump back dolphins, lot bigger than the bottlenose dolphins and a smaller , more flatter dorsal fin. Read something recently about them being a rather new specie only found in NW cape area. Haven't seen them before in all the years pro fishing up that way.
ranmar850
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Reckon I've been seeing them inside the reef down at Ningaloo
for years, certainly not a bottlenose. Seemed to be off Winderabandi every day this year while we were there.