Tips for fishing the Monties?
Submitted by Ben Derecki on Tue, 2010-07-13 13:34
Just wondering if anyone who has been there can pass on any tips / advice for fishing the place to a few newbs who haven't been before... Bluejuice have said that everything is on the cards, from deepwater (200m+) to trolling, popping from their tender, shorebased off the islands plus the normal bottom bouncing for reds, etc.
Me and a mate are heading to the Montes with Bluejuice (http://tiny.cc/qyqzj ) next month - woohoo - so we're starting to have a salivate about what new gear we can take up to give a workout.
I guess I'm hoping for some general ideas on tackle tips, maybe some thoughts on what country to look for to have a GT pop (assuming we can take the tender out for a hoon by ourselves)... anything else that comes to mind.
crasny1
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Take lots of lures!!!!
If they go around Tryall Rocks the Mackies will be thick.
Lures like R2S Triho's and Halco Scorpions around the shallows, SP by the bucket load. The big Trout and Thumper Mangrove jacks will eat them.
Have fun mate. Jealous to the max.
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slam
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Soft Plastics
Definately sp's are the go. Great fun on light gear for all species from cods to trevallys. Can't really miss on bottom bouncing with bait. Knife & butterfly jigs work well. Take some skirted lures for the sailfish if they are about. They can't resist them!
In all, its an awesome place that you will never forget in a hurry.
TWITCHEMUP
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Hey Mate...
Same Deal I'm heading to the Montes at the end of this month with Bluejuice can't wait, an I've got the same problem i've got so much new gear not sure what to take, i'll probably just take it all ha ha.. i'm hanging to get a few of those monster jacks on sp..
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POC
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If you get the chance
Get in mongst the islands for a fish or a dive............mud crabs out there too if your keen. ALSO some good surf if conditions are right.
Cheers
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Take heaps of beer
Take heaps of beer
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Dont ask when!
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Sorry megga jealous!
Jacko
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Beer
Agree with Pale Ale
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Ben Derecki
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Haha, lots of great ideas
Haha, lots of great ideas and I can understand the jealousy, I'm copping it enough from some mates.
Lures are definately on the menu, going to take up a stack of jigs for deep and shallow water work and will be loading up on placcies too, those 7 inch shad type sizes should be the go I reckon.. if it's similar fishing to Coral Bay then I think all I need will be 7' Berkley Gulp jerkshads in nuclear chicken and satay chicken, killed the pig with those colours up north last year.
Anyone done any landbased fishing on the Islands? If so what sort of gear did you use there / what did you get onto? Some of those deep gutters look like they'd hold some solid fish? Couple of the Pilbara boys' posts talk about plenty of spanglies so I'm excited enough about those... great fun on light gear, but I'm intrigued about what that deepwater might hold.
PilbaraBrad
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plastics plastics plastics
plastics plastics plastics mate
your guide should hopefully have a bit of an idea about the place
Dr Trunk
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Island hopping
Lead head jigs. medium to large Marabu and Halco whip tails.
Cleaned up Coral trout and all sorts of different cod on light gear. Got lit up numerous times and lost a few, so stock up.
Each morning we came across 3-4 big GTs just sitting in the shallows of the ledges, but wouldnt have a bar of poppers or stickbaits. (They weren't active, they sat and eyeballed us and didnt move until i scared them off with my whiptail.)
It pays to take both light gear and a heaver outfit just in case the GTs are a bit more turned on then we got.
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Ben Derecki
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Yeah baby...
Seriously hoping Willy Weather and Weatherzone are good to their word...
http://wind.willyweather.com.au/wa/pilbara/barrow-island.html
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/wa/pilbara/barrow-island
We're off on Friday and the wind / swell is looking mint!
tommyqueenfish
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whiptails
Halco whiptails are the best lures on the planet and watch ifish for landbased as there is an ep. up there.
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