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.
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
as well as this nice queen fish that
followed a hooked mackerel to the dinghy. John made a short cast while it was
still
around and hooked up a couple of metres
from the boat. It tore a lot of line from his Biomaster in a
short space of
time.
I took a lot of GoPro footage as well as
with my drone and will be making a video;
Interesting website
Bite of the Month
Very big golden
trevally for Frank Rystenberg. It was not weighed as it was release but must
have been 12-15kgs.
Caught on bait from a
lump in the Exmouth Gulf and gave him a lot of curry on heavy gear!
Each month I award Bite of the
Month to someone who catches the best fish
from one of my boats.
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.
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
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.
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