STEEP POINT
Got back from Steep point Tuesday last week. What a trip! Weather perfect though hot at the start - about 38 in the water bucket when we got there. Towed my 5.25m Savage Osprey (115hp Johnson) in no worries. Species caught:
Spanish mackerel
Yellowfin Tuna
shak Mackerel
Pink snapper
Spangled Emperor
Blue line emperor
Baldchin groper
Coronation trout
Red throat emperor
Charlie courts
Bronze whalers
Gummy shark
Lemon shark (I think)
Spotted cod (Rankin?)
Long toms
Norwest Blowies
Catfish
Leatherjacket
Squid
And several more we had no idea about.
Had a whale shark come to the back of the boat and shortly after drifted to a disturbance on the surface which we thought was it again. Wrong! it was a bait ball with well over a hundred pinkies under it - I got a 71 cm one by winding up from the bottom through the column. One of the blokes thought he had hooked the worlds biggest mackerel while we were trolling but it turned "turtle". Luckily we were able to get it off the hooks and did not leave it dragging a lure. Saw plenty of Manta rays and huge sea snakes. Had a Tiger shark nearly as big as the boat hanging around when we were dumping frames in the channel.
All up a great trip - when Steep point is good it is FANTASTIC!
Sadly CALM seem to be trying to make it difficult for recreational fishermen to access the area with a reduction of campsites proposed and the remaining few to be moved inland away from your moored boat.. Hard to understand when Paul the Ranger manages it so well and 95% of visitors do the right thing. No restrictions on professionals that I can see though!
Ah well - Quobba in a couple of months..............
And thanks Lamby for the plotter/gps - worked perfect AND it has a few real good way points on it now!
Wood'nfish
WOOD 'n FISH
tailor marc
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great job!! Wish i were
great job!! Wish i were there!!
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cudbfishn
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JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rig
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nice report
sad to hear what calm are proposing
grantarctic1
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Be there soon
Great report and fish . I'll be there soon and hope i have a good trip like you did.
Shame about calm and campsites. I thought it was pretty well looked after up there,
Ben Derecki
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Nice pics. Got to get back
Nice pics. Got to get back up there again soon... 2012 might be the year I reckon.
PattyT
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The fishing sounds like it
The fishing sounds like it was going off, unbelievable variety.
Nickjg
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Nice job
Where is Steep Point?
Everydays a good day for fishing
wooden fish
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location
Shark Bay, Steep Point is the westernmost point of WA - Dirk Hartog island is just across the channel.
WOOD 'n FISH
Chuditch
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Great to hear the pinks are
Great to hear the pinks are on. Will be on DHI in a couple of weeks
Uglyprik
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Date Joined: 13/03/10
In Exxy
Easter Saturday for two weeks................waiting waiting............................................
BORN TO FISH, FORCED TO PUT UP WITH THE CRAP IN BETWEEN
Tigh82
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9 more days for me! 10 days
9 more days for me! 10 days at Blackies East campsite. Calm have been trying to do that for quite sometime now. Well done on all the different species up there!