Pilbara Dinghy Missions
We are currently working up in the sunny town of good ole Port Hedland for the winter (escape before the heat hits too hard as I'm getting a bit soft these days!).
Manage to finally get a nice day on the water on my days off and zoomed around the shallow reefs off the back of Finni Island in search of a feed.
Got smoked a few times on light gear and soon learnt my lesson that it's not a good idea to let anything have any line up here!
Still hoping to land one of these mystical BlueBone that I hear so much about so I'm going out rock crab hunting tomorrow to up my bait game and see how that goes!
Thanks for watching and will keep ya posted on my BlueBone Hunt....
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Faulkner Family
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Your one of the lucky ones up
Your one of the lucky ones up here to get out . Damn wind has been relentless . Good luck with the tuskies . Yet to try for them yet but now with the tinny I will be giving it a bash. Been told the big ones are in the shallow water . Don't give them an inch
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
tcarroll
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Date Joined: 17/12/13
I havent tried for them in
I havent tried for them in the boat yet, but the big blue bone I have caught landbased here in Exmouth have all been out of super shallow water. Lost an absolute monster about 2m from my feet last week fishing in knee deep water when my 60lb leader went.... Changed out the leader for 80lb and couldn't find another one but managed to pick up a horse Spango over 60cm which are also very fun in shallow water!!
I have tried fishing with rock crabs but am useless at getting them to stay on my hook, especially when the smaller models are around they just destroy them. Every big blue bone I have landed has come on fresh occy tenticles that I have pulled from the rock pools on low tide.
OldMateAdventures
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Date Joined: 03/10/18
Nice one mate!
Yeah I've spooked a couple of big dogs in the shallows and hooked a couple but they absolutly destroy me... I need one of those 200lb handlines I think! haha.
Yeah I found the big big rock crabs, chopped in half and I hook it through near the flipper seemed to stay on good. Occy is a good tip!
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OldMateAdventures
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Yeah not wrong!
Mate the wind has been terrible, I have been super lucky with timing between work up here to get out on some small windows of calmness... Yeah been trying since but no big Blueys yet...one day!
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dodgy
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Try the shallows just out
Try the shallows just out behind Weirdee Downes, Oyster Inlet area. 5-8m of water incoming tide. You'll troll up a few trout same area too.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Faulkner Family
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Have you tried around the
Have you tried around the chanel markers out from the port. Have heard of some good catches. Going to be giving it a go myself in the tinny
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
OldMateAdventures
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Date Joined: 03/10/18
I have mate
Yeah I've given the channel markers a bit of a crack. Really hit n miss and I think alot of crew give em a crack. I have a fair bit of luck on 34 and 24 marker. Only got to 24 once in the tinny though as it's a bit of a trek in the little boat.
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choc
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I've been watching your
I've been watching your channel. I enjoy the south west videos as I see alot of spots I go to. Keep it up
OldMateAdventures
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Cheers mate!
Cheers Choc, much apprecitated! Yeah the south west has so much unreal coastline to explore hey, I do have a few favourites that are hard to go past though. You get into a few Redfin mate?
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jighead
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Date Joined: 03/02/12
Special brownies
Ha ha
jighead
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Date Joined: 03/02/12
Loving the old stihl chainsaw
What model is that in your wrap up video. Pretty cool to see with all your axes