Tuesday, June 2, 2015

May 2015

  

          
 

          
   
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.

 If you have not seen all my fishing videos, here is a link to my YouTube Chanel where they all are
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.
 
    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
Gnaraloo Station
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
Steep Point
Steep Point Ranger for booking campsites.  
Phone: Paul Dickson - Steep Point 9948 3993
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.
Archived Newsletters
You can now view all my past newsletters in my Blogs.

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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