Well we left Perth on last thursday morning and headed down to Walpole for 5 days of fishing. We stayed at the Coalmine caravan park, which was great..and very close to the action!

Friday morning we were up at 0530 and hit the water on sunrise.

 We had 4 of us piled in the runabout, beers..bait and a couple of rounds of vegemite and cheese sangas...and we wanted to go and try for a few fish around the mouth of the Nornalup Inlet. After a red bull, a couple of winny blues and some pushing..we finally got our boat to the river mouth, as we had struck a mega low tide ! Who would of thought the tides raced so much this far south. We pulled the boat up on the shore near the house boat mooring and all 4 of us walked up the right hand side of the mouth, and fished off the rocks.  After a few hours, we ended up with a nice feed of Tarwine! We then went across to the sandy side of the mouth, and casted around into the shallows..but found nothing on the bite!

Sat morning..kicked Claire in the guts and were on the water again at sunrise. We were greeted with fog this morning..and decided that today we wanted  to catch some king george. We were working the coalmine beach flats...and found heaps of bites any where there was structure. Claire hooked onto a nice bream and i caught my first size kg..so all was going well !  We landed 12 size kgs this day and found them to come on the bite when the sun was well up and starting to warm the water. They were very tricky to hook up...which provided a challenge for us. We used prawn  for a while, but when we changed our bait to Cockles..shit did they go off!  Once we had taken the cockle meat out of the shell, we were throwing the shells  in front of our boat, which proved to be good burley for them. We also tried fish baits(mulie,whitebait) but found that brought in the pesky Trumpeter! We had a lucky find in the arvo, when I spotted a big blue manna in the shallows. I jumped out with my landing net..and scooped him up...we measured him and he went 174mm

Sunday morning we worked the flats again, for a few more King george. Claire once again caught the biggest fish of the day, with a nice 34cm bream.  Then after yesterdays 174mm crab...we struck it lucky again....but this one was a little bigger at 185mm. We had a great day and headed home for a few cold redbacks.

The crabs tasted great (better than mandurah ones)....and were full of meat! First time ive ever filled a cereal bowl with meat from 2 crabs. My first taste of King george was great to..they are some tasty buggers. All in all we had a great time in Walpole, bugger all wind, nice and warm weather......but just watch those bloody march flys..there the size of a small finch!