Headed down south to Augusta with fellow fishwrecked member Dylan (Hutch).

Arrived at Augusta at around 4:30pm on Wednesday and went for a fish straight away. We just went out the front of our caravan park (Flinders Bay) we only fished for about an hour with minimal success we only had one run and landed one barely legal Tarwhine.

Later that night we headed down to the marina for a fish, we caught lots of yakkas for bait the next morning.

Thursday morning the alarms went off at 6:30 and we went out in the kayak for a fish. We paddled about 500-600m out before dropping the anchor. The fish were on straight away but unfortunatley they were only wrasse and lots of them, after half an hour of pushing through the wrasse Dylan finally hooked something that pulled about of drag on the light gear, after fighting it for a couple of minutes up popped a lovely little 35-40cm pinkie, during the next couple of hours we had fun with skippy, eagle rays and an undersize blackass. The call was then made to throw out the big rods in hope for something a bit bigger, every bait was smashed by squid but didnt land any since we forgot the squid jigs. 5 minutes later the snapper came on in there thousands with every bait being smashed, unfortunatley they were all 35-45cm so they were all released. Suddenly we here my drag scream, straight away we knew this was a much better fish then small pinkies, we called it for a sambo since it took a surface bait but after a small and exciting fight up popped a 1.17m hammerhead, after a bit of struggling we got him in the yak. I was excited since the banter about my gosa not catching any fish could finally stop. After this fishing slowed down so we headed back to camp.

Later that night we cooked up the hammerhead on the gas stove, in my opinion it was one of if not the best fish I have ever tasted. After dinner we headed down to the marina again only to find the same species as the night before along with some herring.

The next morning we woke up in hope of a land based sambo, we headed to a likley looking spot, the first step was to catch a live bait, in this case a herring, unfortunatley we only got one, but it got smashed twice by nice sambos unfortunatley no proper hookups, after not being able to catch a live bait, we changed to poppers, Dylan had a monster 35kg+ one follow his lure right to the rocks then a few casts later he hooked up to a smaller model only to lose it not long into the fight. Nothing else happened so we called it a day.

Later that night we went for a shark fish at a likely looking beach, Dylan yakked a couple of baits out only to be smashed by port jacksons

The next morning we got up and packed our gear up to leave Augusta. We went up to Dunsborough to meet up with Max Sampson (doubleheader_king) to catch some sambos at a spot he knew, unfortunatley this plan failed as we were on a tight schedule. Lucky enough we heard of the salmon being on around Bunker Bay, we had no luck though, luckily Max had another spot in mind so we fought the crowds and got into a couple of nice salmon. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: if youre going to take a couple of salmon home for a feed, please only take what youre going to eat as these fish are an amazing sport and a great fish to catch, also please dont bleed your fish all over the rocks, its uncomfortable and slippery trying to chase a fish on blood invested rocks.

Cheers Dylan and Max for coming and we should definetley do it again sometime

Cheers for reading

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