Andy I'm off to onslow on Friday 22nd Sept be over there for 5 days could you check these days and let me know if any of these are hot. THANKS

Lunch time thurs 17 Aug , we landed about 10 good snapper ,baldies and black arse all in an hour or so .

Check it out please ??______________________________________________________

Strap yourself in , and feel the GGGGG's

Big disclaimer here but this is what it says... Looks great at 80% which is the top reading I have seen on the reports. The Thursday before you go is also at 80%. Looks like you should clean up.

date minor major minor major ranking
22 04.58am 11.02am 05.11pm 11.21pm 80%
23 05.27am 11.40am 05.59pm 12.00am 80%
24 05.57am 12.20pm 06.48pm 12.40am 80%
25 06.28am 01.01pm 07.39pm 12.40am 70%
26 07.02am 01.45pm 08.33pm 01.23am 60%

Sunrise is about 06.12am and sun set 06.17pm during that period.
I would make sure I am on my best spots around the midday major time slots.

Good luck!

No match with the computer, it says the major bite would have been between 3.41pm and 6.11pm, ranking was 60% for the day.

Shows why there needs to be a big disclaimer with these things.

Its all to do with the moon and the major times match with moon up above and moon below, with minor times when the moon is setting or rising. Something to do with gravitational pull on swin bladders making them hungry or not.

Looks like you landed on a patch of obese fish that like to snack in between meals (don;t we all?)

Can refute that evidence. We headed out wide at 1.30, based upon the hotbite of 3.40 pm on the chart plotter, the fish were biting but it certainly wasn't feeding time, maybe that was the minor peak. Because Tapout and Bouttime were out there early and were into a few sambos and skipps, Mav was out there at lunch and the bite was hot, and we were there in the arvo and it was average.

im off to exmouth on friday 25th of august for 2 weeks.can you
check if there are good predictions for that time.thanks

I'll give you a tip for that time bibs, judging from the latest Exmouth Game fishing report and the report I got from someone about the FWA crew success, theres a heap of fish going off at the moment!

Are you taking a boat up with you?

yeah mate we 3 boats and 10 guys
cant wait

Sounds gooooooooood! Just been watching Andy Mac's Exmouth vids, sure you guys will be in for a good time as long as the weather holds, but with 2 weeks your gauranteed to atleast get a few good days at minimum.

What do you guys like fishing for mainly? Bottom bouncing/trolling etc?

hopin for reds on the bottom and lookin for my 1st sail trolling.will
be happy with anything really.got some nice coral trout and spanglies
last year but only a couple of reds.also landed 21kg wahoo which was a bit of fun.thought that was big till i saw seansurfy's pics

Awesome, should be in for another good trip then. I was speaking to Mark Richter last night and he said that the FWA boys have been catching a few billfish on the soft grassy lure. If you haven't then it might be worth grabbing one, I've only heard good things about them recently.

Hi Bibs,

As the guys have pointed out, the fish don;t necessarily read these computer generated reports and have a mind of their own. However for what its worth this is what it says about Exmouth for the week commencing 26 Aug 06.

date Minor Major Minor Major Rating
26 06.57am 01.05pm 07.16pm 12.45am 70% (Apogee)
27 07.27 01.43 08.05 01.23 60%
28 07.56 02.23 08.55 02.02 50%
29 08.28 03.05 09.46 02.44 40%
30 09.04 03.50 10.41 03.27 40%
31 09.44 04.39 11.38 04.14 30%

It can only get better from there for the following week.

Besides Exmouth is chock a bloc full of fish so you should do well even on a so called bad day.

I think the Apogee is when the moon is closest to Earth in its orbit, hence the greater gravitational pull and stronger feeding time. (Although I could be getting that mixed up with the Perigee, long time since I did highschool science.)

thanks andy.lets hope the fish have read the script

Andy Mac, could you look at Dampier for the 1st of September to the 7th? I'm over there next friday for a week for job interview and hoping to get some fishing in while I'm there.

Jay, the news isn't good I'm afraid, looks like some pretty low numbers while you are there, picking up with the best days 21st to 24th Sept.

Day Minor Major Minor Major Rating
1 10.22am 5.21pm 12.23am 4.54am 40%
2 11.16am 6.19pm 12.23am 5.49am 50
3 12.16pm 7.19pm 01.23am 6.48am 40
4 02.21pm 8.19pm 02.20am 7.48am 30
5 02.28pm 9.18pm 03.14am 8.48am 60
6 03.35pm 10.14pm 04.03am 9.46am 50
7 04.40pm 11.07pm 04.47am 10.40am 30

Oh well.. can't be too bad. Dampier fishing is good at the worst of times ;)

Thanks for the info :)