Exmouth
Well im finally back from what was an amazing trip, exmouth did live up to the expectations i had for the place. Landbased side of things we landed plenty thumper Spangleds, plenty of Golden and Gold Spot and a few Queenies, couple of nice estuary cod, all on either soft plastics or poppers or metals and most were realeased except one or two Spangleds. Managed to pop up some thumper GTs landbaseds aswell..fish of ~12-15kg were the ones landed and bigger fish not stopped which managed to bend out 5/0 ST-66s.
On the bouttime rig we chased billies and managed 4 fish up to 1pm on one day, we had a double hook up on ~50-60kg blacks and the other fish were around the 40kg mark, even managed ~40kg fish on 8kg line which was a hoot! Driftbaiting and jigging in 20m of water was amazing aswell catching countless rankins averaging ~4kgs, chinaman, robo sea bream, long-nose emperor, spangled emperor, goldband, dark-tailed sea perch, coral trout, lost some thumper reds. Were going to pop the islands that day but ran out of time, Steve n Kasey managed to go back the next day and pop some big fish 30kg+
We spun up long-tails on 10lb in the Gulf on metals which was fun, the mackys were a bit quite only hooking the one and loosing it (tought me not to run light gear for them and can't set the hooks)!
Caught up with Adam a couple of times, fished with Kasey and Steve (bouttime) most of the time, caught up with Jeff (deepwater) and of course can't forget the boys at Lighthouse chezza (Troy), holth (Paul) and Shane, geez those boys are a laugh..good to hit the burbon with after a hard days fishing!
All in all, was an amazing trip and won't be long till im back up there!
TAPOUT
Sounds like a trip of a
Sounds like a trip of a lifetime Sam. Well done.
carassius
Great Trip
Sounds like a good plan coming together, well done. Can't wait to see sum photos or vids!
jay_burgess
Sounds like an awesome trip
Sounds like an awesome trip Sam, get any good pics?
Paul G
Good stuff im glad to here
Good stuff im glad to here the fish are going off, as Jesse and I will be up there in four weeks hoping for some sails and marlin, but a few of the above mentioned will do just fine.
big john
Excellent
Great work Sam. How did the tinnie go?
John
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Leave the cities behind, out of sight of mind,
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SamC
yeh was a good trip fellas,
yeh was a good trip fellas, tinnie went good John, didnt miss a beat! except we only we got her out just the once..with tantas ramp stuffed and strong SE's in the morn made the gulf messy, or we were just soft lol!
yeh got some good pics of the billies and GTs Jay, i can't upload pics on this site for some reason so i will have to get some one else to post them for me..
Yeh Paul, you and your young fella will have a ball up there, plenty of fish to be had!
hoping to get back up there in July, otherwise September for sure
cheers
sam
Adam Gallash
good to meet ya
Good to meet ya Sam. :) Just saw the footage of the marlin hookups with 3 of you on the boat. Nice, very nice!!
GOATRUTAR
Well done Sam it sounds like
Well done Sam it sounds like a Fishwreck orgy!
IF IT SMELLS LIKE FISH IT MUST BE GOOD FOR YOU!
Ryan Thipthorp
report!
Well done Sam, plenty of fish & action.......also look forward to some pics!
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NoWorries
Great report Sam
Im Green with envy
Sounds like you had a very Fishy trip.
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jay_burgess
Hey Sam you can email me the
Hey Sam you can email me the pics at and I'll post 'em up for ya.
SamC
Cheers Jay
sending a couple over to you now!
should be in your account in the next hourish
cheers
sam
BlackSonEmpire
where abouts were you
where abouts were you landbased fishing fot the gt's?? think i might be boatless due to a hole in a piston so keen to hit the right spots from shore...
Andy Mac
Good onya Sam
Sounds like a hoot.
Cheers
SamC
on the Westside
on the Westside BlackSonEmpire
cheers
sam
jay_burgess
no worries sam I'll post
no worries sam I'll post them up when they come through :)
jay_burgess
hey sam got your PM, go into
hey sam got your PM, go into your account settings and make it so you can receive PM's.