Quobba Report
Got back Saturday from a fantastic week at Quobba
Weather was not perfect but we were able to fish every day and managed to get a few fish past the sharks. Fished mostly at Garths and finally found the caves. Also fished a secret spot that I am sworn to secrecy. Luckily one day we fished there no sharks and we managed to land 8 Sharkies and 2 spannish mackeral. kept 6 of the fish and happy to be putting some back.
Sharkies average 5-8kg and the mackies caught were around 7-8kg.
Managed to hook a few more mackies but found them unstopable. Some we estimated to be 15kg. They either reefed us or sharks got them.
I also managed to get a small GT and on the last day landed a shark of around 5ft. Took a jig meant for the sharkies. Think it is a Bronzie
Overall had a great week catch 16 Sharkies and 2 mackies.
My weapon of choices was Diawa Saltist 6500 loaded with 50lb braid and Shimano Starlo 1006 graphite rod. Lures were mostly Bucktail Jigs we purchase from cabelas in the US and also 85g Raiders.
Will with best Sharkie from the trip at Garths
Me with Sharkie caught at the caves
Shark caught on the last day
Hooked up on good size mackie - lost to sharks
Double hook up at the caves
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Rig
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sharkie
maybe a POTM contender there Iceman. Sounds like the annual Sharkie run is well under way. On the actual shark apparently Bronzies dont go north past the Abrohlis so it must be one of the other plentiful types of whalers that frequent that bit of coast
carnarvonite
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Bronzies
Have caught bronzies up as far north as Barrow island in reasonable numbers, backed up by having fisheries shark research blokes on board at the time.
Sammy the Salmon
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Nice stuff Mark!Need to come
Nice stuff Mark!
Need to come up with you one year, for sure!
Guess I'll see you at the Chrissy do on Saturday? Or are busy saving peoples lives that day? If you are there, make sure you bring your phone with lots of pics for me to flip through.
Sam
Iceman
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Chrissy party
Wont be there - not my thing and still need to do a bit of sorting from the trip. Have to work out what I need to replace. Lost about 30 jigs/lures over the week.
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big john
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Great
Great part of the world. Nice work iceman.
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jeremy-j
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good trip and good
good trip and good pictures.
the water looks green and the fish are still firing. Im jealous.
black gen
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"bronzies dont go past the
"bronzies dont go past the abrolhos"
now that is a funny comment!!
Leemo
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the funny thing about it is,
the funny thing about it is, They don't.
bludgin' since 94'
Rig
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museum guy
yeah I was a bit surprised myself black gen but that guy from the wa museum that is on here stated it a while back and I would back him as he knows his stuff. many of those whalers are very similar in apperance I caught one two weeks ago at cervantes that we called for a bronzie that wasnt
Rig
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more info
ok so I chased up the thread
this is the guy Glenn Moore curator of fishes
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/wa-museum
this is where he states the facts about Bronzies
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/chasing-mulloway-turned-bronzie
Just to clarify not having a dig at anyone, just a bit of info alot of people dont know including me until I read his post.
Good to have a fish Guru on board!!
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garths
well done mate
did ya manage any cobias?
Iceman
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no cobia
No we did not get any Cobia but saw a couple around the sharks and heard of a couple being caught at garths
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jono.s
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No cobia? Good to see the
No cobia? Good to see the sharkies are around ill be back there first week on jan
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I reckon the rare catch of a
I reckon the rare catch of a bronzie that far north is possible like the big Dhuie someone posted on here a year or two back. Like Glen said so hard to tell them apart.
Love the West!