went for a bream bash down the river today was planning to meet rickets there but he diddnt reply so o well i thought bugger ya ill go anyways, so me and the old boy (sherbert) headed down to arrive about 12:00 sherbs with the bait and me flickin plackys i had a couple of solid hit but that was it and sherbs had two 20cm bream and the wind was shockin, straight in our face.





cheers andyrew

Yesterday produced one of the best days I've seen in Exmouth yet. After finishing tidying up our old place we decided a day out on the water was required to chill out and I'd promised Jay that she'd see some whales. Anyway, 5 minutes after leaving the marina we found our first pod. Next thing we know they were swimming under the boat, slapping tails, jumping, singing - the whole works.

After hanging with them for a good 20 minutes it was time to get the lines wet. With a spread of 4 skirts out we were hoping for a lost sailfish to jump on and provide some entertainment, which wasn't forth coming. After a good hour and a half of trolling we gave up and thought we'd try something else.

Seeing as we didn't have any bait I thought we'd try some soft plastics. After the first 7 charlie courts I thought I'd put a strip on some gangs and see if we couldn't float it past a coral trout. No more than 5 minutes later the line started peeling and a spinner shark of 7 foot launches 5 meters from the boat scaring the living beejeebus out of us and busting off on re-entry. We decided to give up on the bait option and stuck with the plastics in 20m of water. Finally we got through the charlie courts and got into something a bit more solid. First fish was a 40cm Bluelined Emperor, second fish a 47cm Spangled Emperor, then an identical spangled came up 10 minutes later. After a couple of heavy bustoffs (we were fishing with 3kg mono) we landed a 57cm Spanglie that took a good 10 minutes to get up and peeled line like there was no tomorrow. We were fishing in 22m of water with only a light lead head jig which worked a treat. We also threw back a dozen more charlies and a heap of variagated emperor and small blue lines. After a hot two hour session we threw out a spread of divers on the way back in with little interest.

All up we saw nearly 50 whales, had a hammerhead hit the side of the boat on the way back in at 25 knots, sea snakes everywhere, dolphins, tuna schools every 500m, a nice swag of fish onboard, some cold beers for the ride back in and absolute glass conditions for the whole time we were out there. Yes, yes it was good day. :)) Unfortunately the camera batteries died after the first bluelined so we didn't get any of the spangleds, which was the only downer of the day.

Well, seeing as every fishing magazine writes an Exmouth fishing report and so does the local tackle store. I figured I may as well do one too.

Things have been firing up around Exmouth since the change of the moon last Sunday. The surface action is prolific at the back of tantabiddi with Manta Rays in the channel mouth, whales everywhere and an abundance of tuna and baitfish spread far and wide. The last couple of days has seen several marlin landed whilst bottom rigs have been brought up. The guys spending time targetting them with lures haven't had anywhere near as much success. Fishing from the bottom has seen mixed results with the guys having an idea of where to fish doing well on goldband jobfish and red emperor.

On the shorebased front things have been relatively quiet with the occasional spangled emperor being landed at 5 mile and in the national park. With the spring tides Trisel Access is starting to get some bait back in there as well as queenfish and has seen quite an increase in the local fishing population. In the gulf a feed of whiting is never too far away, along with some decent yellowfin bream in amongst them. Things on the mud crab front have been very quiet and the occasional mangrove jack is starting to show up which hopefully won't be too far away.

The equinoxial gales (south easterlies) have slowed down the fishing in a big way the last couple of days and look like they will be setting in soon. We still managed to get out for a fish on Thursday and got into a few Robinson Sea Bream, Longspined Pink Snapper, Goldband Jobfish and a nice coral cod, also losing many decent fish to sharks.

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow's fishing action will produce more goods and a few photos to go with.
Morning
Light winds with a slight chop. Small long period swell.
Winds: ENE 9 to 13 knots
Seas: SW 4 feet at 12 sec.
Afternoon
Light winds with a slight chop. Small long period swell.
Winds: NNE 10 to 14 knots
Seas: SW 4 feet at 12 sec.

What a beautiful day today. Went out for a quiet fish this morning at the local rock groynes. Pretty slow on the fishing front with the odd herring. Stopped at South Mole to see if I can pickup more squid. Ended up with 13 in under 2hrs. Went home, cleaned up and had squid for lunch and tea...mmmh....squid burger The sizes varied from bite size to better than average. There were more around but it was lunch time so left them biting so to speak.


Sorry no pics as I only thought of it after Ive eaten them.

Woke up this morning and the weather was just as good, if not better than on Saturday so we had to take the boat out.



We headed out and stopped at one of the barges near Enderby Island to score some livies. It wasn't long before we had quite a few yellow tails in the bucket so we powered out to Kendrew.



First drop and Glenn was on. It wasn't long before a nice little Chinaman of around 50cm was on deck and into the ice slurry. No time for a photo, lines were back down to see if we could nail another one. It went quite so we pushed on.

At the next spot I nailed a beaut coral trout that was 60cm. Went quite again so pushed on further to a spot we have in about 40m. First drop Glenn nailed a nice Sweetlip Emperor, a first for us off Dampier. Next drop I hooked up to something that managed to pull quite a bit of string on the PE5 jig gear, felt sharky but turned out to be the mother of all Gold Spot Trevs.

While I was hooked up Glenn hooked up as well so we suspected another gold spot. After a good tussle it turned out to be an 11kilo Cobia. I missed the first gaff shot which he didn't like and made Glenn work pretty hard before I got the second shot in.



After the cobe we decided to do a troll towards Roley Rock to see if we could finish off with a Sailfish. Unfortunately it was a bit queit on the billie front but we noticed some fishy ground on the sounder so we stopped for one last bottom fish. As soon as my bait hit the bottom I got smashed by a decent fish. I was shocked to see a nice 55cm Red Emperor hit the surface, taken in just 27m of water.



Finished the day off filming some whales which was pretty spectacular... and got back to the ramp to find a HUMUNGOUS line up. Ended up waiting about 45 minutes

All in all, a great day with quite a mixed bag, 1x Chinaman, 1x Sweetlip Emperor, 1x Cobia, 1x Coral Trout, 1x Red Emperor.

Heyzzzz...pinkies was really biting for the last few weeks in north mole!! i finally hooked up one last monday !! but lost it simply becoz got no gaff!! wat a shame!!! it was my first but oh well things happen!!


apart from pinkies...can anyone tip me with some tailor fishing ?? havent caught 1 at all since i started fishing but am willing to learnt but i got uni too so pretty hectic with things but thats part of growing up isn't it? i'm up north in joondalup any good fishing spots?only started abt a year ago...and was only reaaly into fishing recently...

Had a terrible day fishing in Exmouth today, winds under 10 knots all day and the fish biting. We only ended up with 3 red emperor, 5 rankin cod, 2 goldband jobfish, 2 rosy jobfish, 1 mack tuna, 1 spangled emperor, 1 blackspot pigfish, 1 robinson seabream and I can't remember what else was in the esky now, released a heap of everything too. Tried for marlin for an hour or so with little surface activity, but then went back to bottom fishing and got smashed by some monster unknowns. Gully's got the pics and I've now got all his video footage of early Exmouth and Rotto Salmon, it will be good! I hope everyone had a nice start to the working week, we did. :)

Went to Hillarys south wall last night to play with the new Sol.

Not a fish in sight, but heaps of crabs were munching my mulies.  Managed to jag one up.  Was a white crab the size of a can.

Every time the baits hit the bottom, a crab would be at it.

Are these Ghost crabs, and do folks eat them ???

Before I rattle off the winners and the all important bragging rights for North versus South I would like again to thank our key sponsors for making this event possible. Without them being involved and being prepared to support us locally we wouldn't have been able to put on the day. 



Compleat Angler Joondalup

Oceanside Tackle & Marine

Compleat Angler Rockingham

Mandurah Pest Control

Hogsbreath Cafe Mindarie

Jody Pallett (Interior and Exterior Landscape Design and Construction)

Coates Cleaning Products

and others (you know who you are, and a big thank you for your silent contributions)



To the winners go the spoils, and whilst the NOR comp didn't have as big a catch as the SOR event, the diversity of species was pretty good I must say. It certainly appeared that everyone enjoyed the day, not necessarily so much for the quality of fishing but more the chance to catch up and put faces to names.



A personal thank you on behalf of Adam and myself goes to Tim for all his hard work behind the scenes in making the day a huge success. Also to anyone else who lent a hand, offered advice or simply showed up on the day, a big thank you too.



A quick reminder to all the anglers that caught dhuies and pinkies on the day that the research guys would love to take your frames. Just look for the Dhufish Frames thread and it has all the details. A total of 11 Dhuies were weighed in during the NOR comp and believe it or not that was the most common species weighed.



So here are the winners:



Biggest Baldie: ...........................Steve (Dean's dad)

Biggest Blackarse.......................Kal

Biggest Dhufish...........................Rob

Biggest KG...................................Cody

Biggest Leatherjacket.................Kal

Biggest Pinkie.............................Rob

Biggest Skippy............................SPESS

Unusual Catch.............................Salmo (Bonito)

Unusual Catch.............................Max (Red Throat Emporer)

Most species...............................Kal (5 species)



And the two biggies!!



Champion Angler........................Steve (712 points) That Baldie was a cracker!

Champion Boat...........................Kal, Khalid (boat average 503 points) I have some more prizes for you Kal)



And finally the big one...........







SOR..............................................243 points average per angler

NOR..............................................261 points average per angler





WELL DONE NORTH OF THE RIVER !!!!!!!! Bragging rights until the next comp.



As we mentioned on the day we still have the overall champion Angler trophy to be awarded and some money left over from the entry fees. We will endeavour to organise a Swan River "land based only" BBQ piss up gathering where some additional prizes will be available for a suitable Swan river category. This will allow all the shore based deckies that didn't get a crack on a boat a chance to win a prize. Details will be posted as soon as we can agree on a date, so watch this space.



Congratulations again to all the winners.

i was out at mindarie yesterday from about 9 o'clock am to about 6 o'clock pm and we caught a 35cm leatherjacket and a 30cm skippy . there was a girl there that also caught a leatherjacket slightly bigger but it snapped the hook just as she was putting it into her bucket
a guy and his wife came around 2 o'clock and they were catching skippy after skippy around 30cm each and there was also some biggggg ones in the mix.
Dad had his alvey in the water and we were just fishing with our spinning combos and then his alvy screamed off and we decided there wouldve been a tailor approximately 5kg's but it pinged him the same thing happened about 3 hours later but with a smaller fish and he brought it in close but it pinged him b4 we could see what it was but altogether it was a great day
ps. we got annoyed with you guys zippin into the harbour so fast!!!! and so close to the point

Went down a had a play with a new bream combo down at hillarys just flicking a few 25gm raiders and sp's around when i hooked into something a little bit bigger than what i expected! Almost got spooled twice and was giving me the upmost hert at one stage. Turned out to be a sambo around the 10 to 12kg mark! The bluddy thing finally busted me off near the edge of the rocks.Not bad for a 10lb fluro leader and 8lb line. Would have been one of my best shore based captures by a long way.......nevermind i was just happy to get my new line back.

It was on the 3/4 mark of the south rock wall near that reefy system there, there must of been a few because i got a few big hits when i let the lure sink down before i hooked up. 25gm raider youd think wouldnt hold up to the task but it was clean in the jaw but starting to get alitle straight on the old trebble side of things. Going to try with something alittle heavier next time and take the camera out ready to go. Wish me luck....ill need it. hhehehehehe

June 30th COMPETITION RESULTS

After a deferment from the 23rd due to really crappy weather the comp went ahead on the 30th despite the really crappy weather! No boats went out offcourse but the river and beach section still fished.

Not a lot was caught but 5 juniors and 8 adults had a go in the river.

A big thanks to our sponsor this month, Wayne at the Kalbarri IGA who donated five $20.00 vouchers.

John Stewart had a good catch from the river landing a nice soapy mulloway and 2 tailor. Brett Bain had 5 fish mostly chopper tailor and Leah Skinner had one live bream gaining her double points. But Di Stewart topped it all with her bag of 4 big live bream to win the river section.

John with his river mulloway.

Carly’s winning bream.

Carly Dyer just snatched the junior river section from Martin Stewart with a bream just bigger by 100grams.

Daniel Tarasek again had no competition winning outright with these two mulloway the biggest at 12.15kg the biggest this season and a tailor of 1.15kgs that is so far the biggest to be weighed in this season as well.

Daniel won the RSL Meritorious award of a $50.00 voucher for his mulloway. Leah Skinner won the restaurant draw, while Cheryl Eley scratched up the lucky ticket to win the scratchies raffle.

Mug of the Day went to Di Stewart, details are scratchy but it seems she had a couple of near misses sinking her ute into the river.

Next comp is on the 21st July.

Hi all, just a quick note to tell all that i was at hillaries for a look on the weekend (sunday) and when it started to piss down there was a couple of brave anglers casting small metals off the north wall. They got into some great fish including some skippy to nearlly 1kg id reacon and there was plenty of smallist bontio around as well which dont frequent the area as much as one would like.

Only seen one 1 nice tailor come up but im sure there was many more out there. plenty of small bait schools were the damage for bringing them all in id say. 20 to 30gram raiders and twisties seem to be the best.
Shame i didnt take a rod down.

Its about time I decided to take sometime to tell the story of my Exmouth trip. Spent 8 days there and everyday was blasting easterlies. No problemo, just fish the west side til the wind drop and hire the dinghies to get out. No can do, everyday was blowing til atleast 2pm. Last couple of days was completely blown out the whole day. Despite the wind we still managed our fair share of Charlies and the odd little Golden Trevs and Queenies. Highlight was my brother, Gordon's 6.5kg Golden on Roost 80 popper. Fished the marina a fair bit as that seems to be the only place with baitfish, needless to say we got into a heap of queenies on light gear. One of the guys managed an undersize coral trout from the wharf. The late arvo was spent at Naval Pier chasing GTs and boy was it "expensive". 3 of us did the walk arvo and donated atleast 10 poppers and stickbaits to the fish gods. Following are some of the G's we manage to land, as well as a large cod which decided after snaring an occy, wanted the popper as well!!. Total score of G's landed were 11 and just as much were dropped or lost completely.
For those that wants to chase the big G's.....change all your popper's hardware. There's no such thing as overkill. 290lb split rings, 5/0 trebles or bigger if possible and crush all barbs if you dont have barbless.

hi all was driving the cray boat we had all the gear on the back of the bank and there was every where ,small lumps,big lumps and out on the weed the fish wear every where from yanchip to 5 mile north of two rock ,hope it helps for the comp :}

Hi has any tried the 210m jetty in the swan river its near como and im wondering how far out i have to go out on the jetty and if its a good spot to fish . it is opposite preston st near the kwinnana fwy.

Has anyone else noticed that the old tailor population has slowed down? I know its really not the right time but last year at this time my usall spots still where fireing for good fish. Even the winter thumpers from yanchep arent around at the moment. Someone was telling me that there catching them comercially of shore and theres been lots of people walking into tackle stores saying the same thing.

Has any one got any good spots in the Mindarie Marina.

Well we wen't out yesterday for a bit of a fish and test the repaired motor out.

Left oceanreef at 7.20 am and headed to 3mile reef testing the motor for about 1 and a half hours around there. Plenty of wrasse, but not much else.

So we headed out to the 40M mark to a couple of spots searching for dhuies. When heading out we ran over a bit of good ground so turned around for another look. The ground looked real good and at one stage had about 15 fish on the sounder. So down went the dhuie lure did a drift - nothing.

Second drift the lure hit the bottom and BANG it was off heading west and not slowing, had the fish on for about 20 seconds and snapped me, end of the dhuie lure!

So we did another 5 or so drifts over this spot each drift showing huge numbers of fish. Though we didn't hook up again.

Then we moved we moved out to a lump and this spot had 2 cray pots, in 40M of water and the pots had approx 100M of line out, so I hooked up to a fish and within a couple of seconds I was around the line and lost it!

Try number 2 the boat was left running and we stopped right over the the top of the lump, after about 30 seconds I hooked up, again the fish was heading straight for the the ropes but, I managed to turn it, so after 20 or so minutes of fighting we begun to see some colour but the fish didn't like that so back down it went to the bottom. Another 10 minutes later I got the fish up enough to see what it was a bloody stingray 6ft wide, so again it started to run as it didn't like the look of the boat, at this stage 30mins had passed so I clamped down and broke the line.

In the end we ended up with a couple of breaksea and a few wrasse.

I among other anglers would like to thank Tim,Andy and Adam for organising the first leg of the South vrs North today was a great day with nice conditions got to put a few faces to a few names,some of us caught some didnt ,everyone came back in safe overall top day

Way to go guys

Went out Friday talk about a perfect day it was mill pond conditions,fished shallow to stat off to pick up some wrasse for bait then headed out to the 30mt mark first drop dhuie 1 which was undersize,second drop another drop another undersize this went on and on till I had caught 5 undersize which were released to fight another day when larger using a release weight.Dropped down again and caught a nice 6kg dhuie,then a 9kg,my mate Feral was busy catching some decent Skippy to a kilo or 2,he then landed a nice dhuie that went 8kg,followed by a nice sized wobblie gong that gave him a workout on a threadline outfit.By the end of the day we caught
7 dhuies only kept two
10 Skippy
1 Wobblie gong
1 large Banjo shark released
1 black ray released
2 Fox fish 1 released
5 pink snapper all released
2 Nannagi released
4 Small blackass released
3 scorpion cod released

Well its been over a week since Deefa and I have got back from Exmouth so here’s a report. We fished 100% off the shore hence our trip name ShorEX and about 95% of the fishing was done with bream gear on soft plastics except one night chasing spangos where we geared up.

We got into Exxy on Thursday at 2pm after blasting up in 11 ½ hrs and the first stop was the marina for a lazy arvo flick. Started off slow but we got into Queenies ~2kg, Diamond Trevally and Deef got a nice flatty which went hard for its size (unlike the others caught later). Here’s a couple of pics of the diamonds.

Unfortunately the swell was up (the same time as those massive surges at Shark Bay) which made fishing the west side very difficult the next morning, nevertheless we bashed Bundegi up towards the Pier for a few hours. Caught a nice mixed bag comprise of Dart, mini Gs, a Flutemouth and a Grinner.. all on SP.. the Flutemouth was the weird capture for the week how it managed to pick up a plastic I don’t know…

That night we hit the marina again with some stinky mulies chasing Jacks and Gribbo’s girlfriend Bel was lucky enough to get one. Deefa met his match with the rocks and ended up worst for wear.. thanks to the ladies at the servo who helped us find some Dettol and gave us a bag of a dozen pies for free (really fixed the munchies)

Day 2 we hit the west side again to be plagued with big swells this time we wet a line but had no luck. Back down to Bundegi were we found a bait school but nothing wanted to play.. had a couple of follows but no hookups. Due to Deefa’s leg we decided to camp and berley up and see if we could find some bities that night but we were plagued with small bream and fingermark. Deefa got a slightly bigger mini G that night which kept him happy.

Day 3 we pushed right round the cape and well into the national park and tried a couple of spots. The first spot we tried looked very fishy with some nice structure close to shore and a sandflat.. I managed to pull two big lizards both close to 60cm from the sandflat but we didn’t get anything else despite deef throwing the tacklebox at the reef. We pushed onto spot #2 which we had planned to hit just before the high and fished a sandspit and channel… first cast and out comes flatty #3 for me, another 60cm monster. Out went a bit of berley and in came a nice 3kg golden for me on 2kg… Just when deef thought he was having a slow trip he managed to hook up to number 8932174892374109 charlie court which was then swallowed by what he called a very large golden… out flew the line into the backing and then close to being spooled on 4lb and his tiny heartland z. he managed to get the line back and the fish close to the sandbar we were fishing when the golden decided he wasn’t hungry anymore and the Charlie was kindly returned to deefa.. he wasn’t happy. He plugged the same spot where he hooked up to be reefed pretty quickly… there were some decent fish there. We finished off that day with one more fish for me … ANOTHER 60cm flatty from that spot. Surprisingly all of them caught that day fought like a dead sock… lucky they’re very tasty!

That night was spent chasing spangos out on the tip of the cape with Gribbo… we 4wd-d a track which took us past where we wanted to go and after a mammoth hike we found water… I took the GT gear out that night and churned up the water for no result then switched to bait. Gribbo showed us in true local style how to catch spangos and pantsed Deef and I 4 to 1 undersize to 0.

Day 4 we fished the west side at one of the closer accesses as the swell was down a bit where we found a baitschool and several large turtles… deef managed to hookup to two of the bohemiath turtles … accidentally… well they fell for what the locals told us was “the plastic of choice” chartreuse atomics they seemed to only catch Charlie courts and turtles! (to all the greenies out there… he busted the line off as soon as he knew what he’d hooked) There were a few queenies around but it was mightly hard to set the hooks on the SP jigs we were using and so we only managed few trevs. Lesson learnt when catching queenies on plastic really set the hook hard!

Last stop was a quick trip down to Learmonth after sampling some of the best gold band fish n chips I’ve ever hard.. yummo!... we fished the flats near the jetty for another couple more mini Gs then decided to see what was happening on the jetty only to find a heap of squid hanging around the pylons! And there was my dinner!!! Key to catching squid.. small pink jigs… sorry to the poor girl with the huge blue jig that I showed up handlining squid in off my loomis.. one of the guys on the jetty lost a huge queenie on a live hardyhead close to the jetty.. only shows you shouldn’t rush things when you’re close to landing the fish of a lifetime!

That was pretty much all the fishing we did.. we were spent and hit the hay early on the last night rather than trying to fish again… There’s a few pics we didn’t take many concentrated more on the fishing. 4 days in exxy shore based was hard work but still great fun!

[img_assist|fid=184404|thumb=0|alt=Mini G|caption=one of many mini Gs we got on plastic]

[img_assist|fid=184383|thumb=0|alt=Deefa in action|caption=hooked up to a little diamond]

[img_assist|fid=184387|thumb=0|alt=deefa's diamond|caption=deefa's diamond.. aint it pretty]

[img_assist|fid=184412|thumb=0|alt=Hooked up|caption=hooked up to a nice golden on 2kg]

[img_assist|fid=184407|thumb=0|alt=jack lives here|caption=Gribbo's girlfriend Bel's Jack]

[img_assist|fid=184425|thumb=0|alt=the chaser|caption=Deefa chasing down the bohemiath that took all his 4lb line! i wont post up the pic of his face when the bait got thrown back :P]

[img_assist|fid=184419|thumb=0|alt=the golden|caption=pretty little 3kg golden.. sorry photo is a bit over exposed!]

went out fishing out of rockingham yesterday,stayed in close most of the day and fished near the cray pots on the other side of the 5 fathom bank,picked up 4 dhuies,returned 3 (undersize),the keeper was 55cm.also caught a xl large king george,1 black ass and a skippy and released 2 pinkies.took the camera on board but no batterie in it,and to top the day of went to leave at 3pm and the boat would not start,i think a starter motor prob ,will take to mechanic this morning.had to call sea rescue for a tow,got home at 7pm,wot a day.
how did anyone else go ,i heard the boats out deeper did very well.
cheers ray

its been 6 days since the pirates got back from our annual may camping fishing trip and as none of the other boys have reported i thought ide better share a bit of trip with the rest of the fishwrecked readers.

it might not be in order of events but ya get that after at least a million brain cells have been burnt from my memory bank in just a 12 day trip.glug glug
in all there was 4 boats involve and 9 drunken fisherman
first day its anearly start for jack and his 3 crew Ab Rod and heath.they leave tomporice at 3 in the morning as theyve got the biggest boat and its a 5 hour trip to onslow.myself pete frizza and spurrie get away at 4 and on the last bend into onslow we catch up with jack .
we all meet at the boat ramp and load the boats with all the gear.and of we go .hours later we are all at CANT TELL YA bay unloading all the stuff .the weather is tops.needless to say all of us are half cut already.and buy the time we all go to bed three blocks of cans are gone
the first morning we hit the water all three boats are in sight of each other cruising aroun looking for some ground to bait fish .its not long before the call on the radio is BLUE DOTS in the boat.cool the first good fish is landed.after that its a fish fest with blue bone. chinamen cod, sharks and what we are all after coral trout being landed
that night is much the same as the first .and pretty much every night pans out the same .i think i can actually remember going to bed 2 nights out of 11 .
next day its time to find somwhere new.an hour or so on the plane and the sounder stars to light up with good ground .we do a bit of trolling a bit of bottom bouncing and all 3 boats land good fish .
myself and my deckie spurrie are starting to get into a good routine spurrie catches all the fish i let him know he sucks as thats the same fish i just dropped im sure.
well spurrie with out dout was best on ground for fish . i saw it with my own eyes this bloke was a fish magnet.for the trip he had bought out 2 overhead combos one to troll with the other baits .the bait combo was a tica gemmini.on a solid rod loaded with 50 lb braid .the thing had barely been used.buy the end of the trip it well was farrrrrkkked.he got that many unstopable fish that we didnt even see im surprised the rig held together .for example buy day four the anti reveres was gone .when casting 50 persent of the time the spool would lock and thered be a hook and a sinker sailing around ya ears. on one occasion less than a minute after toseing a 5 foot shark one side filleted of for bait over the side .spurrie does the usual flick and bang the whole lot goes over with spurrie nano seconds behind.im pretty sure that the rig is gone ,nup spurrie pops up and like JC is back in the back holding his trusty combo.i sweaer to ya theres not a shits chance in hell i would of gone in as we had already been sharked about 3 times in five minutes ,bloodied the crap out of the surounding area .another fish was a 15.6kg china man this fish made the man piss blood for a good ten minutes absolutly bruitilizing spurrie ,only doing short runs but hell power..we were fishing in real dirty soupy water of about 5 metres deep .and when we could finaly get colour i picked it for a monster coral trout.it took me 3 attempts to gaff the fish as it was coated in scales that were like thick finger nails BULLET PROOF a few photos and the fish was released .buy this stage of the trip i called the other boats telling them what we had landed .and the return call was "let me guess spurrie caught it "."bloody spurrie who invited you".he was loving it burnt drag thumb an all.

[img_assist|fid=180346|thumb=0|alt=my deckie spurrie|caption=spurrie was bye far best on ground for the trip .hauling in over sized everything]

day 5 saw jack and his crew head home .leaving 4 of us out there to continue enjoying our selves .a freind of ours Dan, back in TP had called saying he might come over for the weekend .cool .jack and the lads caught up with him at the onslow boat ramp with a list of suplies to pick up for us and a mud map on how to find us .he made it night with more grog a pie an sausage roll each .next day we had a shore based fish flicking lures of a rock ledge with frizza landing a nice 54 cm mangrove jack and the rest of us pulling trevaly evewry second cast of about 50 cm.next day dan was gone
somwhere in all this spurrie and i had found some new ground which looked real good.i let frizza and pete know i was gonna give it a crack .faarrrkk was it real good.5 drops later myself and spurrie had landed 2 trout 2 spangled emperor and i had dropped a horse at the boat ,we just stood there laughing at each other as the boat got tossed around in some hell chop created buy 10 knots of run and a bit of wind
it was getting a bit uncomfortable so out went the lures to troll home.bang double hook up on trevaly not huge but fun a couple more double hook ups and we decied to head home only problem was winding in the lures without hooking up as the trevs were schooling around tthe back of the boat .wind real slow i said as to hopfully not get a hit WRONG another double hook up but this time it was no average trev

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back at camp spurrie an myself told the other lads about what would later be knicknamed hurtville shoal as the last few days concisted of a bottom bounce then hit hurts ville for the arvo troll and basicaly get hurt .buy trevs a tuna or two some good size queenies,oversized barracuda, mackies like sharkies doggies spanish with the odd coral trout,all sorts of cod just to keep it interesting we left behind a lot of lures a lot of busted owner swivels hooks an split rings to unstopable trevonskis that i would estermate be up there with any trev WORLD WIDE,and next year im gonna pin one of these beasts get a pic and give a good old war cry then send him home

geeze it looks a bit rough
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mister fish magnet

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this one was about 4 foot long
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not the best way to handle a big cod but he did swimm away strongly

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[img_assist|fid=182753|thumb=0|alt=another trout]

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so ya:s get the idea .it was bye far my best camping trip with a few PB,s added to my personal list and a few more PB,s added to my boats list and could ramble on and on about what we caught and what our days and nights consisted of .hopefully frizza will get online with a few more quality pics and a bit of bullshit to go with it.
thanks to everyone that came out and made the trip great .only another 11 months and ill get to wake up looking out at the sunrise from my tent

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friz has got some great pics and footage that hopfully youll all get to see soon.and im betting hes gonna be right up there for photo of the month with some great fish and alltime back drops

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if any of you want to know where this adventure was
it

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CANT TELL YA BAY and thats all i can tell ya

MAY 19th COMPETITION RESULTS

A strong river section again this month with 14 anglers catching 13 fish, all of them bream kept live to be returned to the river.

The beach section and boats were down again, but some outstanding fish were weighed in.

A big thanks to our sponsor this month, Rob from Jakes Bistro who donated five $20.00 vouchers.

Cheryl Eley won the river section with a thumper bluenose among her 3 bream weighing in at 1.368. This will probably be the biggest for the year, but we will have to watch the weigh-ins this year.

Di Stewart had 4 bream, Gary Ivey 3, while John Stewart and Leah Skinner 1 each.

Junior river winner went to Beau Ivey, the only junior to weigh-in, so is off to a good start.

Daniel Tarasek again romped it in for the land based section with 4 big pink snapper and a spangled emperor, easily beating Karen Hartig and Lui Palamara who had 4 garfish each.

Charlie Messina with Tony Smith were out around Baldface but failed to put any fish on board. Same with Bulawayo Buoy with Sue and Laurie Malton and Junior Steven Eley, they tried game fishing but the water was cold and dirty and came home fishless.

New member Nic Bramwell went south of the river mouth fishing from his 4.5m tinny & recorded an outstanding catch of 4 big pink snapper & a big samson. His 6.4kg snapper and 15.25kg sambo are the biggest for the year and will be hard to beat.

Nic made a big splash by winning the RSL Meritorious award of a $50.00 voucher for his snapper and went on to pick up the $20.00 mystery fish voucher as well! The restaurant draw was won by John Stewart and Bill Tolson won the $50.00 worth of scratchies to celebrate his 50th comp fished! Of note to date Di Stewart has fished her 56th comp and juniors, Amy Stewart 43rd and Steven Eley 38th. Daniel Tarasek has fished 44th, and Laurie Malton 78th.

Gary Ivey was the mug of the month after nagging his kids to get out the mud, don’t fall in & stay away from the mud, promptly fell in himself!

Next comp will be on Sat June 23rd.

hey just came back from palm beach jetty and caught a bag limit of herring few squid around and during the week a few mulloway were caugt off yacht club jetty on live yellow tail from 9.30pm to about midnight cheers jettyboy

Went for a flick at the "stones" this morning and yesterday. Got drenched wet!

Caught about 4 Bonito :)
The one 2nd pic below was a very good sized one!

Took 2 home and just whacked em on the BBQ! Very nice!

Out of everyone on the mole i was the only person catching them :oops:

Here is some pics......