Weather could not stop us
With Cyclone Olwyn bearing down on Perth over the weekend and predictions of heavy rain and wind, all hope for a fishing outing was being "blown out of the window". When I woke on Saturday morning without experiencing any significant indication of rain or wind overnight and Willyweather, BOM and Meteye all indicating improved conditions, it was time to revisit weekend plans.
I called Nick and suggested we convert our Saturday evening barbecue into an evening session on Cockburn Sound. It did not take much convincing and we decided to include the girls in the evening session on the Sound. Previous evening outings in the Sound have resulted in decent Mulloway, Snapper, Shark and other species, and every session was different from the previous one.
We launched from Woodman Point at around 17:00 and followed a squall moving in a South Westerly direction whilst staying just out of reach of the falling rain. Our target was Sulphur Rock - a spot that had provided us with some good fish in the past. This "fish attractor" which is located about 700m east of Garden Island would offer us fair protection from the predicted South Westerly which would turn Westerly as the evening progressed.
We circled Sulphur Rock twice to see where the greatest concentration of fish were and selected a likely piece of ground to anchor over. It did not take long to get the fish on the bite and soon after burleying we started to catch an array of species. We caught butterfish, striped trumpeter, herring, tailor, snoek, pinkies, tarwhine, whiting, skippy, fiddler ray, shovelnose ray and bronze whaler - 12 species in all. Highlights of the evening included a two meter shovelnose that Nick caught and several bronze whalers that the girls caught. The predominant bait was blocks of snook (which were around the boat in plague proportions) attached to a 6/0 or 8/0 circle hook. Even though no large pinkies were caught the girls had a great opportunity to catch a couple of fish and Nick and I were able to quell some of our addiction (to fishing that is).
By midnight the wind had started picking up and had turned to a southerly which made the conditions challenging. The changing conditions sent us back to Woodman Point content with another great outing on our doorstep.
Fisheagle Ed
ChrisG
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Nice
Nice
Ben Derecki
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Sweet. I love those local
Sweet. I love those local nights with the lights in the background knowing you're just around the corner from the ramp. Nice one.
sea-kem
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Great post! Girls look to be
Great post! Girls look to be enjoying themselves.
Love the West!
psion
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Nice
Nicely done Squire
another good trip
cheers
chris raff
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Good stuff getting the
Good stuff getting the ladies onto the fish .. only downside is they may want to go out all the time now lol ..
“Intelligence is like a four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.”
dw72
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good stuff
nice night on the water
dont mind the bronzies at that size..
burnz
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Theyre spinner sharks, or as
Theyre spinner sharks, or as most people in Perth call them, Black Tips.
Fisheagle
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Cheers mate
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burnz
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Common mistake, I thought it
Common mistake, I thought it was a bronzie when i first caught one too.