Trip Report - Week Off In Karratha

Just finished a very busy week of fishing with my mate Kevin who was up for a week to catch some fish. We planned to hit it all up, the reefs, the creeks, out wide and any way possible with bottom bashing, trolling SP's the lot with some mixed results. The week was bookended with great days on the fish with the middle of the week slow everywhere we went. We bombed out in the creeks picking the coldest day to fish the low for a barra with water temps as low as 24.6 degrees, even with livies out nothing wanted to play. The muddies where quiet too. The weather allowed some very imited opportunities to get out wide and the bottom species where not on the chew and only 1 mack tuna on the lures for our efforts.

 

All our sucess came trolling shallow reefs for Coral Trout or whatever we could find and boy we found some trout. All up for the two times we had a crack we must have caught 30 between us, plenty of small ones out there and plenty on the size limit but we took the wrong eski and had no measure so if it was longer than 4 coke cans (520mm approx) it went back. Tilsan Big Barra and RMG Scorpians all diving around the 4/5m mark did the damage with bright pinks and orange on the Tilsans and a Red head/black body RMG being unstoppable.

 

I scored a new PB trout at 670mm and caught a double header of a trout and a flag on the same lure plus Kevin well and truly broke his Trout duck with a PB of 570mm which tasted fantastic on a steak with garlic sauce.

 

Some pics below.

 

Kev's first ever trout at 430mm and released.

 

Kev's PB trout at 570mm on a perfect day off damps

 

Hooked up again, double hook-ups and no time to relax was common.

 

600mm cod on the troll, destroyed my lure too.

 

My double header

 

good sized Mack Tuna on a Laser Pro 190 dolphin fish colour

 

My new PB trout at 670mm.

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Nice boys

Sun, 2010-12-05 18:43

Looks like a fun trip

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Love the weather in the pics!

Sun, 2010-12-05 18:49

Love the weather in the pics!

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yeow one week!

Sun, 2010-12-05 18:59

and im up there stoked

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nice couple of trout mate

Sun, 2010-12-05 19:00

nice couple of trout mate

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cheers lads we certianly

Sun, 2010-12-05 19:07

cheers lads we certianly made the most of the good days last week

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the most important thing i

Sun, 2010-12-05 21:31

the most important thing i can see is you got out there with a ate and had some fun. a few good trout the top it all off and well done on the pb. looks like you had a couple of great days

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we had a couple for

Mon, 2010-12-06 08:35

we had a couple for fantastic days Faulkners and some bloody shockers with the weather too but there is a few fillets in the freezer now for some meals this week for sure, can't beat Coral Trout!

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Great report boys, can't

Mon, 2010-12-06 08:52

Great report boys, can't beat Coral Trout and your pb is a corker.

 

Happy days at your dinner table this week

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good stuff brucey, glad you

Mon, 2010-12-06 13:05

good stuff brucey, glad you got into a few mate

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nice trout.   when was the

Mon, 2010-12-06 17:33

nice trout.

 

when was the weather like that? i work about 200kms south of hedland so didn't see it during the week but got back to karratha friday arvo, went out to the islands and stayed there with the hope of getting out wide. it blew it's arse out from friday night to sunday arvo. Frown

 

we got to have a fish in some protected spots and ended up with some small GT's, heaps of NW snapper and a load of tiny trout (like 15cm long...). only decent fish that we kept was a mangrove jack which was dinner on saturday.

 

i'd like to say there's always next week, but it was my mates (co boat owner) last trip out. at least the beer was cold...

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Got the new PB trout on the

Mon, 2010-12-06 21:54

Got the new PB trout on the friday, we too where hiding next to West Lewis Is that day and it was the only way we could be productive and it worked a treat. thre only calm days we had where Sunday last weekend, tuesday and half of wednesday, rest was shithouse.

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Well done mate, some nice

Mon, 2010-12-06 17:51

Well done mate, some nice trout there. Really nice mac tuna as well!!

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good stuff

Wed, 2010-12-08 05:50

Good stuff Bruce, some nice fish and then some quality company - seems your doing alright for yourself!

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Good trip

Wed, 2010-12-08 07:54

Looks like ya had a good trip Bruce, seems the place to be any time of the year. Thanx for the great pics & story & a big thanx for keepin ya shirts on this time. It just wouldnt be the same... haha

cheers Rob

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you don't want to see my

Wed, 2010-12-08 08:40

you don't want to see my breasts Rob, not as pretty as the young ladies ones thats for sure. Fishwrecked 2012 comp Karratha Vote 1!!!

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Yep

Wed, 2010-12-08 11:48

Sounds good ta me Bruce, u got my vote. Hope ya got plenty of room for our crew.  haha.

Cheers Rob

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