Had a great first day on the water, with the morning session a Google Earthed bushtrack to the top of L'Haridan Bight, and some decent looking ground that turned out to be large weedbeds in a barren sandy wasteland. Was good fishing tho, with many small Baldchin caught to 30cm+, and a couple of nice school Mackies on soft placcies and ultralight gear. Certainly gave a great fight, and we got some excellent footage!


Amazingly clear water of the Bight, this is nearly 4m deep. The Southern half of the Bight is a sanctuary zone, and seems to be a fish nursery by the number of small prize fish caught.


One of a few Mackies caught for the day, both on 10lb line, light leader, and 70mm Squidgy Flick Baits. Certainly great sport!!!!


Toward the end of the day, we were kicking back with Coronas overlooking the bay from our front porch, when the guy next door suggests there are some good size Yellowfin whiting on the edges of the weedbanks. This was all i needed, and the yak was of the roof in  minutes, and armed with some soft placcies and a bream rod, i cruised out and scored some good size whiting, and was home to fry them up for dinner!!


The soft placcies proved deadly on these guys, with a brace caught for dinner!


A sensational sunset to end a perfect day.

Bit of an anticlimax fish wise here in Shark Bay, with the weather reducing my 3 last fishing days to one... Still another incredible day on the water and off it, as we did the full on 4x4 trek to Point Peron, 50km north of Dehnam, on the peron Penninsula, and the most northerly point here. Amazing scenery, especially at Skipjack Point, where we witnessed a school of sharks swimming amongst the schools of fish in the bay, and Manta Rays swimming, truly breathtaking.

We searched many spots up here looking for ground to yak, and eventually hit the water at Herald Bight, a nasty little 4wd track onto a gorgeous sandy bay, where we head out into the occasional drizzle, and hooked into a few smaller fish.

This part of the Shark Bay area is incredible, beautiful scenery, and very remote. We got some great footage and a few pics too.


The crossroads on the Point Peron track, at the end of a huge salt lake. Really strange, almost alien country, with sandy tracks heading in all directions.


The beach at Herald Bight, ominous clouds in the background contrast the white sand.


Best fish for the day for me was suprisingly this monster Flounder that took a whole mulie destined for much bigger prey, this fella was pushing 40cm.....


We headed back to town after spending the majority of the day out in the Francois Peron National Park, and put away the gear. Cracked a Corona, and kicked back on the porch. Unfortunatley the staring out onto the glassed out bay proved too much for me, and soon i was ripping Shufoy of the roof of the Prado, and pedalling out onto the sandy flats to chase whiting on placcies once more. Unfortunatley no Whiting today, but a series of Bluelined Emporer proved great game on superlight tackle, as well as a few new species for the trip, like big toothe Longtom, well i think there Longtom..


This hardfighting Bluelined Emporer took a 2" Gulp Worm on 4lb gear that was out trying to decieve a whiting, fought hard as, and gave awesome sport on the light tackle. He was around the 40cm mark.


Cruising over the flats on the drift, a few errant splashes that gave me a target resulted in these guys, a think they are Longtom, another new species for me.


So as i return from the Pub, watching the Eagles go down over a Rack of Lamb and a few Wild Turkeys, we pack the last of our gear and prepare to leave this place for our next and last destination, Kalbarri. Sad and happy, who knows what we will find there....