Thought I would give a summary of the week I had in Albany.... Cheers to a couple of members on here that gave me some good info.

Headed down South last Tuesday and got settled in. There was no wind at all and there had been bugger all wind since the Saturday aparently. Weather looked primo for the Wednesday although the swell was up arond 3.5m which I was a little concerned about but yeah after a bit of advise wasnt really a drama. We got up reasonably early on the wednesday nothing too stupid and headed out.. We launched at Emu Point and its a great boat ramp, perfect for all size boats. Main reason why we decided to go from here was that it had a fillet table.... Glass off in King George sound until we got between the islands around Bald head. Due to the swell and tide it was a litte wishy washy through there but nothing dangerous was like that for about 1-2 nautical mile and then it cleaned right up. Gentle rollers with the occassional large roller coming through but nothing bad. Headed out to the 70s like a few people suggested (It isnt that far off to be honest) Found a heap of flat coral with alot of fish showing but didnt really catch much besides Nannygai and Seargent Baker.... Caught one of the biggest seargent baker I have ever seen, I rekon it would have been 700mm plus. We kept it coz one of the guys wanted to try eat it. Anyway we moved around and found around 7-8 spots with perfect ground, heaps of fish, heaps of bait but could only get nannygai. It was around 10am and we werent having much luck so we came in shallower to give it a go... Once again found heaps of ground with cracking fish showing but nothing that wanted to take the hook..... Some of the spots were in 50m and you were literally only 1-2 mile off the shore, was pretty awesome!

Anyway ended up with a handful of nannygai and thats about all. Headed in and just did some cruising and a bit of squid fishing on the way in. Fillited the fish and fed the pelicans that come cruising up to the fillet station as soon as they see an esky... The Seargent baker was filleted and after removing the numerous bones in it we got a fair bit of meat out of it and it tasted bloody nice, I thought it was better than the nannygai to be honest!

While we were filleting a local came down and emptied a heap of crab shells in the bin. Had a bit of a chat with him and was a good sign that people had been getting a few crabs which was next on our list to do.

For the rest of the week it was windy as shit... Typical Albany. Did all the touristy stuff (Whaling station, beaches, drank, ate, explored)

We decided to go scooping one night just for a look.... We didnt know where to go just looked on google earth and found a spot in Frenchmans bay... To our surpise we got a decent feed of very large crabs. It was about 50/50 some where full of meat the others were empty. As it was real windy for the rest of the week we didnt venture out much in the boat. We decided to take all the kids to the Kalgan River dropping crab nets not expecting too much but once again we got a heap of crabs and the kids enjoyed it. Went scooping another night after this and got a few more crabs as well - FYI there were 18 of us down there so well within any bag limit etc.

All in all pretty good joint, if I go down again I wont worry about taking the bigger boat down I would just take the tinny and have fun with the crabs and squid. The way Albany is there is always a sheltered bay, beach, river that you can get to and have a good time no matter which way the wind is blowing!

Next trip is Gnaraloo....... CANNOT WAIT!!!!

Cheers

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