Exmouth tackle box must haves
Tafe finishes for me in a week and a half with STCW95 for the last 6 days. I am heading up to Exmouth as a Kayak Coastal - Sit on Top Guide for approximately 3 weeks work experience around school holidays followed by a weeks fishing holiday.
I am taking the 4wd, camping gear, fibreglass 14' dinghy 25hp, a 15kg mono trolling outfit, 50lbs sunline fin nor offshore 30l on a berkley sea tec 15-37kg rod for bottom bouncing if the going gets tough, 20 lbs sunline on a shimano symetre 4000 for use on a sp/jig rod, yet to be bought and a 8-9' beach casting rod, yet to be bought.
I am planning to scout territory while kayaking and beach/boat fish in my time off/after the work experience.
What is your must have lures/sp/popper/stickbait/jig must haves for Exmouth? Any suggestions for good rods on the cheap side would be appreciated also.
Bryan
Alan James
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A 200lb handline
and a good pair of gloves.
marble
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Leave the gloves behind and
Leave the gloves behind and take a few spoonfuls of concrete
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HuggyB
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Halco
Roosta poppers - 105 / 135 / 195: Gold Chrome
and if you have a trolling outfit, make sure you have at least one Richter Soft Oscar - Luminous or Pink (maybe Adam can disagree with whats more popular).
Trolling a swimmer, I like the rapala x-raps 20 / 30: Blue pilchard colour or a purple.
Just any old soft plastic and jigs you use around Perth will be fine.
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till
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McArthy 5" finesse minnow in
McArthy 5" finesse minnow in pearl.
Richter Soft Oscar in pink.
Xrap 20 in dorado.
Jackson Pintail 35.
troy fuller
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roosta poppers worked
roosta poppers worked excellent when i went up there a few weeks ago, dont have to cast far at all, most hits were 10m out.
deepwater
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BUG SPRAY jeff
BUG SPRAY
jeff
troy fuller
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haha yes! we were harassed by
haha yes! we were harassed by sand flys, and bugs at night are shocking!
aussie_breamer
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sp
Attomic 3 1/4" paddle tails in glitter gold on a 1/8th oz Jig head........... enough said!!!!
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kinga86
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From shore 3 1/2" Atomic
What he said ^^
From shore 3 1/4" Atomic paddletails in GOLD are amazing! Also 15-30g gold Twisties for light tackle fun :D Also small-medium Roosta poppers. This is what I used shorebased up there.
GrahamM
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lots of sinkers as the bottom
lots of sinkers as the bottom isnt too bad but the sharks tax a lot of gear and sinkers are expensive up there. We used lots of different jigs up there and had hits on nearly everyone we sent down but again the sharks liked the new jewelery too. Alos if the bugs get you take some tea tree oil as that helps with the itching.
Stevef
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I found the 5" & 7" Snapbacks
I found the 5" & 7" Snapbacks were good up there as they seem to resist teeth a little better than most plastics........... I did also catch a heap of fish on the Squdigy Flickbaits in the larger sizes, the green and orange/pink ones seemed to be go
Cheers Steve
sarcasm0
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Thanks for the good advice guys
Got some things there to think about:D
Bryan
Adam Gallash
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Don't go overboard
Just don't go overboard, I speak to so many people that bring thousands of dollars worth of stuff and use about 1/50th of it. Just stick to your essentials and stick to your game plan.
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sarcasm0
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Not a chance with my budget!
Im seeking advice to cull to about 5 items and I was calling a few mates scrounging old lures and bits last night.
I generally keep it pretty simple and just bait fish, but I want to have a good crack with soft plastics, poppers, metal slices and bibbed lures this time so I think that is what I will focus on.
Bryan
uncle
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trebles
I saw a bloke down the beach where the queenies had pushed the baitfish in, he had on a treble , would jag a hardy head throw it back out and hook a metre queenie, and like it has been said heaps of good bug spray
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
sarcasm0
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Argh you are making me sick
Im trying to study for my coxswains engineering exam tomorrow, im finding it hard not to read all the threads on exmouth in the search function.
Oh well, only a few chapters left in this book and just over a week to go now.
Lucky Tim
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just to rub it in there were
just to rub it in there were queenies smashing bait this morning with quite a few landed up to about a metre. Sun slowly rising and the cool sand under foot with bait going everywhere was a great way to start the day
uncle
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queenies
don't the SADs[tourists] love those queenies, shoudler to shoudler
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Oceanside Tackle
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Gday mate, i would have to
Gday mate, i would have to agree with a number of the suggestions given already such as halco roosta poppers, halco twisties and one trolling lure that i didnt spot being mentioned was the lazerpro 190xdd redneck.absolutely dynamite lure that accounted for a few macks up in exy and more recently the mackeral here in perth. as for a good 9'0'' rod the new shakespeare beach elite series even though a touch cheaper (eg;$120) its still an awesome rod that will do all you need up there.6-10kg line class so spangles, trevally and the likes should be a breeze. oh and the most important thing in my opinion would be a can of bushmans repelent....only stuff that actually works!!! Feel free to swing by the store if you have any other questions at all or to pick up a can of bushmans!
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snappermiles
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trace line
i go up a couple of times a year and laugh at all the guys using 80 and 100 pound trace line whilst fishing for demersals they get smashed up by cod and lose heaps of gear! i go a little overkill and use 200 pound black magic tough trace i do lose some gear but no where near mate the guys i go up with do!!
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Sammut
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halco twistys near the naval
halco twistys near the naval pier. supposed to be 100m from it but u can go to about 70m and cast at it :) good gt's, sharks etc.
when i was there for 3 days that was the most productive session i had. was at night tho
pom down under
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steel trace and some big 10/0
steel trace and some big 10/0 cirlces for shark fishing at night at bundigi :0
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Dan
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halco roosta 105, + skin deep
halco roosta 105, + skin deep 90 (Gold)
tango dancers, or any other surface stick bait in the 10cm range
1/8 and 1/4 oz 1/0 jig heads with atomic 3" paddle tails, and 5" snap backs
40lb leader for shore based stuff
10lb for bundegi arvo sessions (small poppers/plastics)
Halco laser 190's for trolling (wire traces)
mini lip grip is handy when shore bashing
lots of owner ST66 or 56 trebles in #1 and #2 + #6 split rings (varivas or owner) to upgrade hooks on lures
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terboz123
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Halco roosta poppers 105
Halco roosta poppers 105 GOLD GOLD GOLD - change the trebbles...... we hooked gts, spangos, coral trout, sharkies, spaniards, longtails, macks tunas,goldspots,goldens, queenies cods the list doesnt stop............ find those certain kind of bombies......
Any kind of mcarthy placcies... Pink and white worked the best....
Lures...Halco deep divers king brown, purple chrome, white/red wire is essential!!!
a hard days fishing still beats work
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