Why head north
Submitted by Kingfisher549 on Mon, 2010-01-25 11:39
Spent two weeks at Peaceful Bay over the Xmas break. The fishing was outstanding. never had any idea what was cominig over the side next.
One trip we landed 13 species
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Lucky Tim
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nice catch, gotta love the
nice catch, gotta love the southern bottom bouncing. We ducked into Peaceful Bay quickly for a look and reckon it's worth a return trip. Did you get any dhuies?
carnarvonite
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variety
A good variety of fish from a nice spot,as you say it beats heading up north for a good feed
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good stuff mate
is that a wirrah ?......howd it go on the plate?
Kingfisher549
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Peaceful Bay
Didnt get any Wirrah or Dhies, I do like eating the odd boot (wirrah). Only 6kms out in 53ms of water that came up to 36m. Most days only fished for 3-4hrs then got a feed of abalone of the rocks.
Not a bad life.
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HuggyB
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Nice mixed bag!
I have a few killer red snapper spots and a couple of queenie spots in PB. Haven't cracked a dhuie there yet though which bugs me.
But when you are kicking back having a beer and cooking some red snapper, those concerns tend to disapate very quickly.....
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Hmmm Peaceful Bay sounds better by the day
Great group of fish there Kingfisher. Cool pic too mate.
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Can't wait
Spending Easter week down there. Was just going land based for Salmon, might have to rethink that :)
Top effort, good feed in that lot, bet ya had loads of fun.
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Adam Gallash
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coupla dhuies
Only ever got a coupla dhuies out from Peaceful's heading out Rame head way, know there are some stoinkas there, but hard to find. Never any shortage of queenies and reds though.
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Kingfisher549
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Peaceful Bay
Great KG fishing of the beach and inlet. Abalone found very easy.
Best morning fishing was 43 fish, 13 species in 4 hrs only 6 kms from the beach in 53m of water.
Reserved a few sites already for next xmas, and i live in geraldton, mad i think not
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top stuff . great mixed bag
top stuff . great mixed bag with that lot. sounds like you had a ball down there, and as far as going south instead of north at xmas its not stupid at all because its much cooler. could be worth a trip
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So
So its a wirrah cod or not?? we caught a few of them of the rocks in Walpole...fulnny texture flesh..tasted like shite. Looked in my fish id book, and said Southern Wirrah cod dont have spots on there heads. Not sure if that one in the pic is the same?
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that breaksea looks big?
that breaksea looks big?
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yeh
Too right, thats a corker of a breaksea ... lovely size
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Kingfisher549
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Peaceful Bay
All the fish in the area seemed to be above average size. I dont think the area gets that much pressure.
Not yet anyway. if im prepared to drive from geraldton to the south coast it must be good.
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Anytime Brad
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Dhuie
I am sure you will crack a dhuie out of there at some stage, I seem to always get 1 or two per trip down to walpole (not per day though), often over towards rams head which is also accessable from peaceful bay
I would rather be fishing
bod
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fishing report peaceful bay
http://fishwrecked.com/content/fishing-peaceful-bay
just found this undated thread. It's had a lot of reads so I guess it's an oldie. The fishing looks good.
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Just saw this on 'Random
Just saw this on 'Random Image' - what are the silver fish to the right of the photo?
striker
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I’m
going with sea sweep
Coyote_Dave
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Ahh righto - just looked a
Ahh righto - just looked a bit more elongated than usual, probably the picture angle.