Nice, we were up from the 4th of May for 10 nights. Saw less than half the fish you did I would say. Great spot none the less.

 We had no trouble retaining our personal limit of 2 each over 50cm each day. Didn't actually boat anything over 56cm from memory,  heaps of fish just under / around the 50, caught a fair amount of legal baldchin. The only place really small fish bothered us was in the channel,( I think this happened to you too?) stacked top to bottom with tiny pinks when we tried once late afternoon. Maybe we needed big hard baits to get past them?

The place (and the Bay in general) really does take some decoding, and big fish seem to be mainly limited to fishing after dark. We fish fairly light, using G.Loomis 7'2' light spin rods which are really not much more than heavy bream rods and 20 lb braid/long 20lb Nitlon leader on 4000 reels, SP's do really well, it's what we normally use full time--this year was the first time we had ever taken bait up there.  We might get serious next year and actually fish after dark for some big ones.

 So was beach launching the boat there easy mate?

 At the west end of the camping area, which stretches over about a kilometre, there is a gap in the rock shelf. Pretty uneven, but no dramas with a 6m boat. You need about half tide or more, as it shelves down a bit then is a very flat run for a long way, no deep water. If the tide is up, no problems at all, don't even need to let your tyres down.

 After stirring up the fish population in the shallows for several hours in the same  spot with a continuous hot bite, 2 or 3 little ones turned up--I think you get to see one underwater towards the end of that video, but they weren't an issue.

The Bay is home to a lot of big tigers, you'll see them crusing the shallows at the edge of the channels, but we didn't see any this time.

 We fished there back in the bad old days of rape and pilleage and never caucht a snapper over 6 kilograms.  Last time I went there there were plenty of decent sized snapper. You have to work them out as its wierd catching decent fish in 1 - 2 metres of water.  I think of them as similar to a herd of cows that move around. Cruise the mussel beds on the top of the tide. Once you find where the schools are feeding  over the following days they should be in the same general area.  They are usually in big schools and you can actually see them if you cruise around at speed with polaroids on.  Never seen a shark over 3 foot at tea tree. Apparently there are tigers there in summer but in winter the water ends up freezing.  

 You could just about walk on the fish at times right through the day, but nothing over 60-odd cm. So we go back and fish the same places in the dark foir the bigger fish? Only mussel beds, if we are talking about the same thing, were some distance from the camp. We also found them on shell beds, those tiny little cockles that live in mud and cause the creation of places like Shelley Beach- when you caught them there, their stomachs were full of them, no wonder they went mad for mulies.

Good bit of video thank you for sharing it.

 So the fish will be very twitchy anyway. If you anchor and burly, they will get interested, but, of course, you then have to wade through hoards of butteries,etc.  We have an island which has a large sandplain off it. Looks like a desert. But it is good for a couple of drifts in broad daylight for above average size fish, and there is one tiny  patch of reef which holds nice baldies which are catchable if you get a hook to it before you drift too close. All about accumulated knowledge, I guess. if they can see you, they are very hard to catch. Pity small crabs aren't available easily.

 My love of catching  big black spot tuskys came from tea tree.  As an 8 year old I think was the first time we went there, I use to row the tinny around by myself and think of how to catch them. Id spend all day at it. It didnt take long. Got one on a prawn and then used blue manna crabs which we caught the in the mullet net sometimes. Every year I couldnt wait to get back there and catch more. Its still one of my favourite things to do, 100lb handline, crabs and a lot of patience. Lots of big tuskys in exmouth. 

 Nice vid - how you rate the swiftcraft? heard only good things about those boats.  

 They are not deep-vee'd at the transom, they round out which gives a very stable platform downwind/crosswind and when drifting. Very sea-kindly, to use an old term. Not as good as the better deep-vee's heading straight into it, but good enough.  Plenty of beam and deck space, even with the cuddy cabin layout, and a very dry ride, even with no clears on the sides.  I mean, we even caught a marlin off it   ( see my First Marlin vid on this page)