The boat is out of the water and getting a birthday, so I thought i would take a moment to let you know how we have been going over the last few weeks of the season, post up a few photos and let you know about group discounts for bookings early this year.

The fishing was very good towards the end of the season but unfortunately as a lot of you would be aware a lot of the time the weather was not the best. We had a few more windy days than normal lately, but had a bit of luck that most days we did get out turning into really nice ones. Right towards the end of the season we where also fishing a little shallower than normal due to strong currents but this resulted in some good hauls and a few more differnt types of fish being caught than normal. This inclued a nice coronation trout and quite a few really big Rankin. Got to love the look on the punters faces when the first one of these get pulled onto the deck. Also a little bit of lady luck onboard lately, with most guys bringing their better half regretting it after being out fished with a few big hauls and a bit of extra luck with trolling lines including one nice Wahoo. And a nice story of a boys 8th birthday, see the red result below, did it all by himself, no help from dad at all. I was told he won somthing in a perth paper for it but could not find it myself.

Some of our groups on exclusive charters have done particularly well while we tryed out a few differnt things. On our first night charter for a while we cleaned up with the boys all getting their bag limit of reds with 12 of them over 10kg. We ually fish in the 80-120M area wher ther are plenty of Goldband, Red and Pinkys to be found, but a lot of people now keen to go hunt some Rubys we also tryed our first deep drop charter. Allready haveing plenty of marks out wide we headed out to the 2-300M and first drop we had double header Rubys comming up in no time. We also go onto a bunch of Flame/Long Tail Snapper, some monster 8Bar and a rare catch of an Ornate Snapper. I think Flame snapper may just about be my new fav eating fish. After these good results we will be looking to head out that way more often with any groups that are keen.

The big suprise of this year has been the pink snapper. We usally get a few most trips and have plenty of spots where we know they are. But usally up here they are not what we target because they usally don't get too big up this way. But this year they seem to be everywhere and not only that they are all good size. I would normally have to measure every second Pinky we get but I dont think one had hit the measure this season with all being of good size. We even had to move off some spots because we had our Pinky limit but they kept comming up.

With the boat going to be back in the water and ready to go before the end of this month, we are now lookig to next season. We are willing to offer big discount for exclusive group booking for the off season this year. With March and the first week of April usally haveing good weather but not many wanting to go fishing in it we want to try and change that this year by giing really discounted rates over this period. We can arrange accommodation, transport to coral bay or catering if required. Or you can just charter the boat alone and we can help you sort the rest of the trip yourself.  We can do anything from a quick weekend with one day chartering, to a full week of fishing.  If you can get a few mates together, or think it may be a good work trip, give us a call, email or even PM me on here and I can put a price together for what you want to do. If you want to book in the off peak time you would be able to get you accomadation for a weekend and a full day out on the boat for not much more than $200 each if you have the right numbers. But if you a really keen for this let me know soon, I am letting FW members know now but will be advertising these discounted off season rates shortly so let me know if you want me to hold any dates because it will fill up quick. But of course we can do good deals all season but we are allready filling up for the peak season. Make sure to let me know you are a FW member and I will make sure you get the best deal we can do.

I have posted a few photos of catches below, including a good photo of the boat taken by a punter as the boat came into the jetty on a flat morning and at the end a couple of slack beggers that are allways waiting for us at the end of the day for a quick snack. Sorry about the sideways photos, we do better work on the boat then we do behind a keyboard, trust me.

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