Exmouth Fishing Report
Well, the weather is well and truly starting to warm up and we've had a few days recently where the south easterlies haven't blown and the conditions have been quite fishy.
Over the past two weeks I've had some mates up from Perth that have done quite well. During the week they spent 6 hours fishing over 2 days and had 7 marlin raised and 3 of those landed. I think there was a sailfish that hit but didn't hookup in there too. Of those 3 landed, 1 was 75kg, 1 was 50kg and 1 was 25kg and were all black marlin which were successfully released. Hearing that news, Ant from Bluewater went out the next day and landed a black marlin of 120kg (easily!) out from Tantabiddi. We headed out the day after that in rather rough conditions and managed to get a 13kg wahoo after 20 minutes of trolling. There are some really good warm eddies starting to show up and an eye on the sounder for water temperature is a good idea.
The gulf has had the occasional spanish mackerel show up but not in any real numbers unfortunately. There are lots of school and shark mackerel in close that will take almost anything thrown at them, just remember wire's a necessity or its back to the tackle store! The water visibility has been sensational when the wind hasn't been blowing for a day and has allowed for some good free diving, especially on the neap tides.
The bottom fish has been a mixed bag with some anglers lucking out and a few missing out. The new moon saw the fishing fire up and with the lead up to the new moon it should get even better. If you are up here and manage to get into some fish, take note of the belly size as a lot of fish are reaching spawning maturity, especially Spangled Emperor. If you are up in Exmouth or planning to come up, please contact me so I can provide you with information that will assist fisheries research in determining spawning patterns.
There have been some good bonefish caught down in the National Park lately for the flyfishers and some nice sized golden trevally as well. The gulf side is still firing for good sized yellowfin whiting, which come up beautifully lightly pan fried in butter.
Cheers,
Adam
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SPESS
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Top report mate. Cheers and
Top report mate. Cheers and i always sounds good regardless.....lucky bugger :)
Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!
tangles
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good stuff
good stuff there adam, geez if i had me chopper licence now id be up there in a couple hours!!
SPESS
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Na you wouldnt tang! You'd
Na you wouldnt tang! You'd have to come pick me up first! hahahaha
Keep it tight, reeeeeeel tight!
Adam Gallash
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aka. Silly boy :)
Yeh, it was Billie Boy :)
He didn't land any, he had all his luck at Gamex. It was Mark that caught them all, but on Boltz's boat.
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dogsoldier
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I bet Bouttime is
I bet Bouttime is twitching to get up there at the moment
Tackle junkie
Andrew
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hi mate we have to
hi mate we have to catch up for sure ,got afue days off over the full moon and hoping for a trip or 2,still looking for that ellusive marlin,witch you are allways doing well on {hint hint }only joking ,working all the time i dont get a chance to get out as much as i like,the season only has afue weeks left then here i come ,im interested in doing a bit of reserch as well :p....
jeff
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Exxy Sails
The Exmouth fishing has started to fire up again, well, not exactly for me, but in general.
Yesterday was a strange day on the water with very light winds and overcast conditions. There were a total of 24 sailfish tagged and released at the usual spots this time of year. There were heaps more that weren't hungry as they were busy harrassing the baitballs. Quite a few of those fish were caught on fly as well.
We decided we'd go for a look today and had skipping gars on the back of the teasers all day for one 1m long cobia released boatside. The other guys out there landed 4 all day, which was very disappointing considering how on fire they were yesterday.
There were also schools of 10kg +++ golden trevally swimming around everywhere on the reef that we didn't bother with as we were concentrating on sails.
After heading in early we went for a dive and speared one coral trout and a bluebone which were just size.
I wasn't able to get to your call today Bouttime as we dropped out of range immediately after. Give me a buzz tomorrow as I will be about.
Cheers,
Adam
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