Hey Guys,

Got back from Coral Bay the other day and haven't got around to putting up a report, so here it is.

Left perth late moring on the friday and arrived late arvo at the murchison river, we stayed the night  and then proceeded to coral bay on saturday. We arrived late afternoon again and set up camp at the Bayview caravan park.

Sunday morning we sussed out some places to fish and to not fish(turtle season) from the locals. We decided to head north of own to spot known as the Sandbar. Fishing of the sandbar itself saw plenty of dart and some follows by some goldens. My dad and i were the only ones using lures, casting little 15-30gram twisties, and these outfished bait by a mile and claiming the biggest for the day.

While everyone was content catching dart, i spotted a nice reefy looking point about 1.5-2km up the beach. Off i went in search of something more powerful. Halfway up i decided to have a litlle flick and first cast was followed buy a massive longtom, no hookup. Second cast followed buy a largish  dart, so i stopped the lure dead and it hit it and took off, after a short little fight i had him on the beach only to realise that i had left the camera back with everyone else. So off he went back in the water while i went back to get the camera.
 
I finally made it to the point and started casting. About ten minutes in i had a solid hookup which took a far bit of line as it swam up the beach, after a few tense moments i had a nice golden on the beach of about 2.5kg. Unfortunatley for me and the fish, it didn't swim off when i tried to release it. I spent a good five to ten minutes trying to revive it to no avail. So i had to carry it 2km back to were everyone else was, we had it for tea later that day.

The next day we headed back to the Sandbar for some more action. I landed some more dart as well a little queenie and also dropped a few others. I decided i would trek it up to the point again, but this time i wasn't alone. I had my little cousins follow me (they wanted to catch a golden as well), so instead of doing some serious fishin, the next few hours were taken up with trying to untangle, unsnag their gear and aslo donating 5 or so of my lures to them (GRRRR!). i did manage to fish for a bit and i ended up with another golden this time alot smaller.

The next day was a scorcher (most days were!) so we decided to spend most of the day down the beach snorkelling and playing beach cricket.

Wednesday was very hot again so we done some more snorkelling and waited for it too cool down in the late afternoon and then head out for a fish. This time we headed south to a likely looking stretch and set up there. I flicked lures around until the sun went down and then i set up a bait rod (first time i touched bait for the trip). It was a quiet night  apart from a double hookup, one which burried my dad, and the other turned out to be a little GT. We also had the usual dart etc.

Thursday was another hot one  and we didn't get out till the afternoon, we did a bit of 4wding and got lost. we found our way back and went to pick up the gear and then head down to the boat ramp. It was another quiet night for us but the people up from us landed a couple of decent spanglies.

The next day we packed up and headed for home. So all in all wasn't a very special trip but it broke a few firsts for me and its always nice to head north. I didn't do as much fishing as i would have like but that they way it is.

Thanks for reading guys, it was a long one.

I'll post some pics when i figure out how.

Cheers.