Murchisonboathirefishing2015: October 2015

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A busy month of holidays for me this month. First a wedding in country Victoria, which was very

pleasant and I am glad I went. Then a big camping/boating/fishing trip up to the Exmouth Gulf for 7 days.

The fishing was great again and a report on that is below.

A few catches from my October Charters

Adrian Sutton booked a charter in the first week of the school holidays this month and only asked to go a short distance out and catch a fish.

He wanted to get his kids, Kate and Alex onto something. I headed south along the cliffs and fished a couple of points on my GPS.

It did not take 11 year old Alex long to land a morwong

and then followed up with a big coral trout.

Not to be out done Kate brought this 99cm estuary cod aboard, which kept Alex quiet for a while!

Alex rebounded with a small estuary cod

and Kate replied again with a just under size dhuie.

Peter Stuurstraat, up from Perth over the school holidays took his kids, Maggie and Clyde out for a fish on Murchison Fishing Charters.

From the beginning, it all went off with Clyde bagging a good pink snapper.

Not to be out done, Maggie followed up shortly after with a bigger version, that made her day!

After releasing lots of painted sweet-lip, blue-lined emperor and stuff,

Peter got this thumper painted sweet-lip and

Clyde made good with a couple more baldchin groper.

Exmouth Gulf Trip

It took a few false starts and cancellations, but in the end we went. A bit later in the year than I wanted but in

hind sight better fishing and it was not as hot as expected.

Wife Sue came along this time as well as Frank Rystenberg, Wayne Ludewig and John Curnow.

We towed the 7.8m boat and two small dinghies up to Exmouth arriving in the afternoon and got friendly with the

local emus that roam around town, and set off for the big tow across the gulf the following morning.

I took my new Phantom 3 Advanced drone and got some of these pics.

Camp life was pleasant, not too hot with cool nights. We took everything with us, fuel, water, food, firewood

and kept everything else to a minimum.

Fishing was quite good and very dependent on the tides. Bait fishing usually resulted in sharks and shovelnose and small lures

such as shallow diving 120mm Rapalas, Halcos and such did the damage together with poppers, stick baits and the incredibly versatile chrome slices.

Big golden trevally were the catch of the trip, once you found the pattern, place and timing they got caught.

5000 size Stellas, Biomasters on light flick rods with 20-30lb braid was the tackle of choice.

Trolling or casting along the reef edges produced the best results.

There were a lot of species on offer, giant herring, cods, 3 species of small mackerel, barracuda, pike, grinners, tuskfish, yellow-fin bream,

whiting, mangrove jacks, small GTs, queenfish, garfish, bull and black-tipped sharks and my bucket list, milkfish which I was hoping for but did not get.

Sue with one of her golden trevally

and the dinghy we fished out of.

When the tide goes out there are lots of interesting things in the sand, and a long walk to the channel to fish.

At the end of the island was a great sand spit that produced a variety of fish

and our Telstra Tower. We took a pre-paid internet dongle thing and attached it to the top of this rod tube that was able to transmit to our phones and laptops.

Wayne was well pleased with his golden and John had the best trip getting most of the good fish