Hi wez, I will be up there on the 12/4 with the family for our annual trip can't wait. My parents live up there so hopefully we get some good weather to get out. The old man has a 7 metre and a little tinny and lately he has been leaving the big boat at home and just taking the tinny out by him self getting his bag limit he heads south of the ramp not far, old boy reckons there a some good Bombies and fish about 1km from shore in about 4m of water. If we take the big boat out we head to the bar flats for pinkies and blackies if you can get past the sharks and blowies other than that we head to dirk hartog shallows and get coral trout, bold chin, estuary cod and all sorts good variety there. I will say g'day if I see you at the ramp 

Hi Rob b, thanks for the info mate, much appreciated. We have rented a house in Denham, Hartog Retreat. I will keep an eye out for you & may even follow you if you venture across to Hartog. enjoy your stay.

ps, I am super bloody excited

Although I haven't fished there for a while we would head to turtle bay. lots of ground around there and all sorts of fish. even within 1-2 km of the bay itself
don't have to be in deep water for good fish and have caught pinkies over the 1m mark in 15m water.

turtle bay is a long trip and we would cover around 100NM in a day.

thanks mate, that's a long trip.
Not sure about fuel, as I only have a 120lt fuel tank with a 200 ETECH pushing my boat. with 2 x 25lt jerry cans of fuel, do I have enough to get to Dirk hartog Island & back, comfortably ??

wez0062,

I'll be up there from 9th April until the 28th and staying at "Sea Breeze" which is in the same street as you, Hartog Crescent.

Boat is a red 6.7 metre Coraline Walkaround.

We have fished there quite a few times and you are more than welcome to accompany us any time you like.

Not Shark Bay experts by any stretch, but we always come home with plenty of quality fillets.

We usually leave the ramp very early to beat the traffic and when doing trips to Turtle Bay and Steep Point we usually do an overnighter and come back the following day. Saves a lot of time and fuel.

Still undecided if we will do Turtle Bay this time, the fishing was awesome but the sharks were out of control last time we were there, will see what the locals reckon.

Not sure what your boat is like on fuel, but if you are going to fish inside Denham Sound or over Monkey Mia side I expect you will be OK

If you want to try out from Steep Point or Turtle Bay,  It might pay get hold of another couple of jerry cans just to be on the safe side.

My tank is 170 litres and I carry 3 x 20 litre jerries on the marlin board for emergencies but have never had to use them.

Recommend you get yourself a load of soft plastics and jig heads, they are very effective up there, and loads of fun.

We get our bait from the "Fish Factory" up the top end of town, whiting heads, and they work a treat. Were $7 for enough for a couple of days fishing but I believe they are now $10....bloody inflation !

Hope to see you there................................

 ...so leave some fish for us, eh :)

 We will be on the other side (monkey mia) if you get over there keep an eye out for a grey 5m goldstar runabout 'bon peche'.

Will keep an eye out for all the members coming up, be good to catch up and put a face to the names we read on here.

A word of warning, watch out for bush chooks, there have been quite a few emus hit on the road from Overlander through to town

Thanks for the warning carnarvonite, went oh so close to cleaning up a roo between Overlander and Denham last time, don't know how I missed it !