Weekend trip to Steep Point. absolutely unreal!!!

managed to get a quick trip to steep point last weekend at very short notice. 
got a call on tuesday from my good mate Rene about wanting to do a quick weekend trip north somewhere, a few phone calls and pleading with the boss and i had thursday friday and monday off work giving us enough time for a steep weekend getaway.
wednesday night myself and Tom left albany after work, got to perth at 11 and loaded up the tinny with Rene and carried on, lunch time thursday we where at shelter bay and boy where we excited.
dropped the boat in and went for a quick few hours spearing and managed a heap of demersals including my first snapper on spear and barra cods.
had an early night as we where buggered and the plan for friday was to go for mackies. got up early and away we went, had a just out of this world day on fish with some horse spangos speared to 71cm, macks to 15kg landed, big GT's, milkfish and permit seen. the days catch we ended up with, 7 spanish, 5 spangos, 3 baldies, 2 rankin a GT and a cuda for burley.
filleted the fish up at shelter bay and we where about 8kg off our possesion limit in just a day and a half!!!threw the frames in the water and attracted a very big and friendly tiger shark around 4m long and following it was a very good cobia!! sprinted to the car and grabbed a rod and tied on a stickbait and second cast i was on!! 20 minutes later a very nice 15kg cobia was on the beach after dodging both the tiger shark and anchor rope of the boat in waist deep water!!

i would like to go into more detail of our trip but after getting back early from steep i went for a dive on monday as i had the day off work still and had an incedent with the boat and ended up shattering a bone in my hand so no more fishing or diving for 6 weeks after the surgery to screw it all back together, worst part is i didnt even get photos of my catch for the day as i went straight to the hospital haha.

anyway ill let the photos explain the epic time we had at steep out of a little 4.2m tinny

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Reward

Wed, 2015-04-01 17:03

 Awesome trip, reward comes to those who put the effort in. Too many people would see at short trip like that way to much effort. Good on you guys for going hard. Shame about the hand.

 

 

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 Awesome variety of fish.

Wed, 2015-04-01 17:09

 Awesome variety of fish. Good stuff

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Ah man....

Wed, 2015-04-01 17:48

 I am so effin jealous! I tryto get to steep every year but an irregular work pattern makes it impossible to commit to dates... I will hopefully be there early June and I hope to have half your luck....!

Well done mate cheers for makin me jealous! haha....

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Amazing Effort

Wed, 2015-04-01 18:20

Do you blokes ever rest, Great report, photos and trip.

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Well done

Wed, 2015-04-01 20:39

  That's looking pretty nice. Even the Tiger liked your results 

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Haha

Wed, 2015-04-01 20:54

How long did that take to type one handed. Again, another awesome trip but man, a brutal injury, blue balls for weeks lol

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a long time

Wed, 2015-04-01 22:13

 You have no idea how long that took haha got plenty of time sitting in the hospital waiting on them to sort their crap out and get my surgery done.

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Farrk

Wed, 2015-04-01 22:40

Youre guna go burko incapacitated, can still work a ratchet one handed, plenty of time to work on the troll

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 Great report lads, good to

Wed, 2015-04-01 21:28

 Great report lads, good to see. 

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unreal. nice holiday away

Wed, 2015-04-01 21:33

unreal. nice holiday away from Alby waters and very enjoyable no doubt.

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Top quick trip, love those

Wed, 2015-04-01 21:36

Top quick trip, love those last minute ones. Don't have to wait for ages for em to come round.
Good mixed bag of quality fish, love that haul of baldies.

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 Great trip!  such a

Wed, 2015-04-01 21:40

 Great trip!  such a wonderful place!  

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 That's an awesome cobia!

Wed, 2015-04-01 21:43

 That's an awesome cobia!

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Good Trip

Thu, 2015-04-02 05:39

You are a fish magnet mate ,ever where u go mate they  just come ,good fish to well done

 

 sorry to hear about your hand mate

 

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What was the incident with

Thu, 2015-04-02 08:30

What was the incident with the boat that caused you to and shatter a bone in your hand? Awesome report.

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 With the tinny when it's a

Fri, 2015-04-03 07:53

 With the tinny when it's a bit to rough to beach launch with the trailer we drag the tinny up the beach then winch it onto the trailer and yeah had a bit of a problem when trying to drag it up and my hand got smashed and stuck a bone out of the skin. Far from ideal and I'm looking at 8 weeks recovery time and a couple of surgerys so no fishing for me.

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 What an awesome trip. Il get

Thu, 2015-04-02 12:09

 What an awesome trip. Il get up there one day.

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Good Stuff

Fri, 2015-04-03 00:27

Awesome effort guys, would have been a great trip

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Going there next month

Wed, 2015-04-08 07:55

Hi mate sorry to here about your hand gotta suck,a few mates and i are going there next month for the first time.

I have a 4.6m tinny,just wondering if i could have a few tips on where to go around there i'll be spearing also.

Hope my trip is half as good as yours, cheers.

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Thanks guys

Fri, 2015-04-10 14:19

What a great post and trip you've had.
Many thanks for sharing it with us.