Tuesday, June 2, 2015

May 2015

  

          
 

Email: bookings@murchisonboathire.com.au           www.murchisonboathire.com.au
          
   
Another busy month with lots of hires. The weather has been good enabling anglers to get to
the further away spots and get onto some better fish. Wish you guys would send the phots so
I can showcase them for you.
It is the start of the big dhuie time now when they all come in to shallower water and school up
to spawn.
Cave Fishing
    
A mate of mine, Frank Rystenberg has found a cool mulloway spot at the bottom of the southern cliffs. It does not always fire but when
he took me there one afternoon, I dropped two very good fish in this cave. You can only fish it during a very low
swell and the cave goes in about 75m before turning around a corner where you can’t get to, so it might go on for a lot further!
There is a fair current flowing back and forth and big under cuts under the ledge we sit on, but the fish seem
to stay in the channel and fight back and forth. Frank landed a pending ANSA line class mulloway here this month, a 7.3kg fish on 4kg line.
5.3m day out
Andrew Fagg and mates were out in the 5.3m boat and landed some nice fish. Mainly baldchin groper and stripy sea perch.
    
     
  I completed my full Coxswain Grade 1 licence this month and am now able to take paying passengers out in the 7.8m boat on charter.
We have been chartering since December last but my son Ben has been the skipper, with me tagging along when I can.
I took the gang out for a celebration fish on a nice day.
Frank lands a nice baldchin groper 
and Ben grabs the leader on a snapper.
          Bens girlfriend Ana got onto a shark and was so exhausted at the end and handed it over to Micky
   We got a few fish, 
Micky got the best catch, a dhuie and red emperor.
Some YouTube stuff
Here is a new quick easy way to tie an FG knot,
This is the one I will be using in the boat if I break off above my leader.
New simpler FG knot

 If you have not seen all my fishing videos, here is a link to my YouTube Chanel where they all are
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVvKy5Bp2fsZOGUnGPbhzg
Drew Doan was up last weekend, hirer the 7.8m boat for two days and asked me to charter the first day.
No problems, the weather was good so we went the distance and landed some very nice fish
        
Dave Huyen with one of the 6 cobia we got 
and Bang Lee with his cobia.
I got a big estuary cod which was over a metre so had to be returned.
            
Bang Lee was reeling up his bait quickly when it got hammered half way up by this 15.5kg yellow-fin tuna!
Drew Doan with his big 9.25kg dhufish on jig
and Jeff Cui’s jigged up rankin cod.
    A second dhuie for Bang. 
       
 Andrew puts the gaff into Jeff’s cobia on a jig.
  Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club Local Comp.
23rd May 2015
  
Cheryl landed good bream in the river 
and a surprise golden trevally from the river for junior angler James  
    I got a nice 8.25kg mackerel on 3kg line for good points down Wagoe way
while Robbie shows his malabar cod from the river.
Bite of the Month
Drew’s big dhuie wins bite of the month. Caught on a slow flutter jig that he changed to from a knife jig
that he felt would be more suitable to entice a dhuie. It went 9.25kgs, a big one for Kalbarri area!
Each month I award Bite of the Month to someone who catches the best fish
from one of my boats.
See all the previous Bite of the Month winners on my website
 
    Need a boat for up north?
Remember I will deliver a boat out to the turn-off for free for those heading north.
Just pre arrange and ring me from Geraldton and I will meet you there.

Popular Northern Destinations

Thevenard Island
Island Manager: 9184 6444.
There are a few cabins available, just ask and see if you can get one.  However Direction
Island is always open and still a good option and bookings can be made.
bookings@mackerelislands.com.au
Check out the website: www.mackerelislands.com.au
Ashburton Resort
Ashburton Resort. Phone 9184 6586 email: admin@ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
Website: www.ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
Gnaraloo Station
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Email: bookings@gnaraloo.com.au
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
Steep Point
Steep Point Ranger for booking campsites.  
Phone: Paul Dickson - Steep Point 9948 3993
Email: Ranger@steeppoint.com.au
Dirk Hartog Island
Kieran Wardle:  08 99481 211   Mob: 0407 383 449
www.facebook.com/dirkhartogisland
http://www.dirkhartogisland.com/
Game, Bottom and Beach Fishing Action
These links will take you to YouTube showing some great action video clips taken from
my boats and also a very good mulloway from the beach.
Triple tuna hook-up
Dhuie and snapper
Beach mulloway
Exmouth Marlin
Day in the life of Cray fishing
Gnaraloo 2013
Snorkelling Gnaraloo
Cobia and bait ball Kalbarri
Triple Tuna Sundae
Archived Newsletters
You can now view all my past newsletters in my Blogs.
www.murchisonboathirefishing2005.blogspot.com
www.murchisonboathirefishing2006.blogspot.com
www.murchisonboathirefishing2007.blogspot.com
www.murchisonboathirefishing2008.blogspot.com
www.murchisonboathirefishing2009.blogspot.com
www.murchisonboathirefishing2010.blogspot.com
www.murchisonboathirefishing2011.blogspot.com
www.murchisonboathirefishing2012.blogspot.com
http://murchisonboathirefishing2013.blogspot.com.au/
http://murchisonboathirefishing2014.blogspot.com.au/
http://murchisonboathirefishing2015.blogspot.com.au/

They are quite long URL’s so add them to your favourites.
Remember if you rent our accommodation in Kalbarri you get big discounts on our boats.
Have a look on my website for the details, and check out the savings.

5-day weather forecasts, www.buoyweather.com go to virtual buoys, pick the location you want.
 This is the one I go by!

 

Life’s too short to safely remove the USB!

Laurie


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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

April 2015




We are right in the middle of the best time of the year:
 The fishing has been very very good with all boat
hirers getting good fish. The weather has been outstanding and the 
Murchison River flow has just about stopped.
The dirty water out the front has been has attracted the mackerel and the tuna have been going off!
Those bottom fishing have been picking up all sorts of stuff like cobia, dolphinfish, coral trout, snapper, cods, dhufish and so on.
The great weather continues with lots of boat hires which is usual for this time of year. The mackerel and tuna have been a bit patchy towards the end of the month and as an example the guys who hired my 6.1m boat for the last 13 days had only caught about 10 mackerel up until the third last day and then between 3 boats caught 25 mackerel between 10kg and 15kgs at Wagoe that day.

We are getting out and chartering quite a bit now that the season is in full swing. 

Joseph Kiss and his group got into some nice yellow-fin tuna and a surprise big mac tuna. We don’t get them often, but this one would have been around 8kgs.


    Highlight of the charter was a double hook-up of cobia
I made a short video showing the action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bra7K3Kg3xA
 
Two Boats To Gnaraloo!
Hi Laurie, just thought I would send some photos through for your newsletter.
 This year was the first year in all the years we have been going north fishing, that we have been disrupted by a cyclone. And what a biggy it was.
Winds up to 190kmh lashed the Gnaraloo/ Carnarvon area 3 days before we were due to arrive. Extensive damage, heavy rainfall and road closures,
 meant we had to put the trip back for about 5 days until Paul from Gnaraloo was able to assess what damage was done and how
quickly he could repair it to cater for fisherman to start arriving again.
Fortunately for us the Fisherman’s Lodge escaped with only minor damage and his crew were able to
clean it up quickly to accommodate us.
We headed off on Thursday with a crew of 7 collected the 2 hire boats and completed the necessary paperwork at the T/O with
Laurie and Sue. As we were going to be the first ones in after the cyclone and not knowing the condition of the track, we decided to
bunk down at the blowholes and travel on in to Gnaraloo in daylight Friday morning.

        
Reggie with some of the two boats catch. Peter with a nice Red
Apart from lots of sand blown onto the track which caused our 3 tonner to get bogged a couple of times, there were no other dramas and we
scooted in to Gnaraloo pretty quickly. We weren't planning on fishing on that day but the wind forecast for the next 2 days was average so
we dropped the boats in about lunch time and thought we would try a couple of spots close in north and were rewarded with 7-8 Pinkies and
 a couple of Reds, so it wasn't a bad 1/2 days fishing. The next 2 days were blown out as forecast but then it
flattened right off for the remainder of the week.

Daryl with his Coral Trout
       
Peter, Dad and Daryl with some nice cod.  
Highlight of the trip had to have been 45 minutes of mayhem in 60 m of water. Still don't know what happened, but we had been anchored on flat seas
in an area that had been good to us in past years for about an hour and had nothing to show for it, when all hell broke loose. First the floating
mulie took off and then Daryl locked up on something good. I dropped my bottom bouncing rod in the rod holder and grabbed the floater
out of the rocket launchers and after a brief struggle boated a 4-5 kg Saddletail! Can you believe it? On a floating mulie in 60m of water!! 
Daryl was still arguing with his fish and now Reggie was on as well. I grabbed my bottom rig rod and started cranking it up and half way up it
suddenly went tight and I was on as well. Mine was a 12-14 kg mac on a bottom rig which cut off Daryl's fish while it was
circling the boat and Reggie dragged in a 4-5kg Mulloway!

 Dad (83), Reggie and Daryl with Pinkies.     
 Peter’s crew with their last days catch.
Meanwhile the floater was off again with another thumping 15kg+ Spaniard. As fast as we could get the floater out it was off again. Then as
quickly as it turned on it stopped and we didn't get another fish. We had dragged lures for about 50 km for not a touch and now we
had 4 thumpers in 45 feet on floaters on an eggbeater with 7kg braid!
 
Caught a great assortment of fish this year including Coral Trout, Baldchin, Estuary and Rankin cod, and numerous Pinkies and Reds.
Sharks were again a big problem with all the crew having those un-winnable tugs-of -war at some stage over the week.
Laurie the pictures are in order 4- my crew with our last days catch. 5- Reggie with some of the 2 boats catch for the day.
7- and then again but with Rob and his cod and then last. 8- Me with the biggest Red of the trip caught on the last day 1/2 an
 hour before we packed up to head home.
 Cheers
Peter Holtfreter
Shark Bay over Easter
Eric Prichard and family had a lightning trip up to Shark Bay over the Easter break.
Hiring the 6.5m boat for 5 days- meant 2 days travel leaving only 3 days of fun. He struck it lucky
with superb weather & all got onto some great fish.

      
There were cobia and mackerel among the good times.
       
Mulloway, a sandwich, red emperor and trevally were among the catch.
I don’t know how the flats fishing went but it looks idyllic.
         
  Peter Hardie, Jacqui Young and family went out on our Charter, Tuesday 14th landing lots of fish.
                       
 They said it was full on with fish almost every drop after landing 3 spotted mackerel and a small tuna on the troll earlier on.

                 

They ended up landing 4 dhuies, (releasing 2), a cobia, rankin cod and releasing countless red-throat emperor and sand snapper.

   
They spent 45 minutes on a shark, which by the underwater photos looked like it was probably a grey nurse shark.
It was released of course.
 
A two day charter last week with David Masters and his mates, Mark, Paul and Fergus had a
couple of good days on bottom fish.
    
  
Paul landed some nice fish including this baldchin groper and 70cm pink snapper.
     
    
David got the biggest baldchin of the trip as well as a very nice coral trout.
 Mark hails from England and had not caught anything bigger than a trout before!

These chunky sand snapper, big pinky and yellow-tail kingfish stretched his arms.

 
 Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club Local Comp.
16th & 17th April 2015
Local comp this month incorporated the annual LeisureCat Ultralight.
The Ultralight is a game fishing comp for lines 1kg, 2kg, 3kg, 4kg and 6kg.
   There were not a lot of game fish around but I got a mackerel and tuna on 4kg line,
winning the 4kg line class section.
while Sue got a mac on 6kg line.
    
Donny Sutherland got this 10.7kg mulloway on 6kg line to win the 6kg line class section.
Young Harry Waite did very well with this  9.31kg mulloway on 3kg line to win the 3kg line class section.
Harry’s fish is also a pending ANSA National Record which he is claiming at the moment.
  
Harry won the junior overall and I got the senior overall.
    
 Bite of the Month
David Masters’ big coral trout was an outstanding fish this month,
Nice one david!
Each month I award Bite of the Month to someone who catches the best fish
from one of my boats.

See all the previous Bite of the Month winners on my website
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