walpole trip

 headed down to walpole last week for 6 days hoping to get out wide with the bar crusher and see how she handles the southern seas.  Weather was not looking promising but we were crossing our fingers and hoping for the best. Woke up monday eminutes singleknot winds. Glad to see winds where low and barely moving the trees the call was mad the boat wad packed before you know it we where doing our 30knots across the nornalup inlet. Reached the mouth and it looked nice we ventured out to the grounds and before long we had a double hook up my torsa was getting stretched by a nice fish and my mate corey FW member had his talica smoking on hoping for a good for first fish on the reel. I boat a respectable  queenie and my mate his first sambo we where all stoked. The day went on we caught a heap more sambos and amberjack all around 8-10kg a few more good fish some horse harliquin 60+cm two nice gummy sharks skippy kingies and the sort. The day was sucessful and there wgere smiles all around.

 

Day two came we awoke a bit earlier winds where down and again we headed out. We went to our secret nannygia spot which didnt disappoint before long I had 8 nannies in the boat was safe to say my old man fw member and mate corey where  behind the 8 ball and I was kicking some but. Again we had another good day more sambos harliquin black ass and the rest. Highlight for me was hitting a ledge 40m up to 30m dad and mate both busted off on the reef me being only one in water had a big bite sunk the hooks in good and came up solid the fight was on the runs where hard and fast instantly calling for a sambo or big king. After an intense 10minutes a few screaming runs my torsa subdued the beast revealing it to the surface a monster yellowtail king a new pb for me 138cm a tad over 20kg photos qhere taken and fish was released.  Endind a good day out 

 

 day three was a short day late start wind came up ealry stayed in close still landed a heap of sambos queenies black ass small pinks. We called it quits headed around to the mouth to clean the boat a bit i lobbed a a mulie out and within 5 minutes I hooked up big massive first run epic fight on 6-8 kg rod landed a huge sambo 128cm roughly 15-16kg photos and released.

Ended the holiday with a few days landbased inlet fishing heap of bream herring salmon and tailor where caught was a good 6 day trip.

Enjoy the read and the pics sorryits a bit long. JordanI 

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 Some nice fish mate! Love

Sun, 2013-08-11 18:17

 Some nice fish mate! Love Warpole ey! Sound like a great trip.

baits or artificial ?

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Geez mate, great hauls there.

Sun, 2013-08-11 18:28

Geez mate, great hauls there. Well done.

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Good stuff

Sun, 2013-08-11 18:37

always heard things about the fishing out from Walpole.

Wish we had the south coast bag limits here on the west coast

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Nice photos

Sun, 2013-08-11 18:43

 Good fish too! The cuttley looks pissed off

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Nice one mate.Im hoping to

Sun, 2013-08-11 19:50

Nice one mate.

Im hoping to get down there next break if the weather is nice to me. Wouldnt mind trying to jig some of those kings.

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Great report.

Sun, 2013-08-11 23:28

Well done to all. Mmmmm gummies.

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 Nice, how far did you have

Mon, 2013-08-12 21:16

 Nice, how far did you have to go out to get all them fish?

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Solid Ytk. They are all girth

Tue, 2013-08-13 00:08

Solid Ytk. They are all girth at that size! Awesome fishing.

 Good variety

Jealous

 

 

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 br3nno we only went out

Tue, 2013-08-13 12:46

 br3nno we only went out about 5-6km 

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 Awesome hauls mate.Very

Tue, 2013-08-13 14:26

 Awesome hauls mate.

Very similar fishing to some of our offshore areas in south oz

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you just about

Tue, 2013-08-13 15:31

you just about caught each type of fish that lives down south. well done some good meals there