Landbased Exxy 05/10/2008 - 12/10/2008
Submitted by Dasho on Mon, 2008-11-10 12:11
Hi folks.
Flew up to exxy between 05th of October to the 12th and hit the following land based spots:
Marina - only saw a lady land a 50cm cod
Learmonth - caught heaps of big whiting, heaps of bream, 2 squid and a remora
Bundegi ramp - 30cm+ bream on tap
Jacobs - charlie cod, variety of small reef fish and baby blue bone
5 mile - same
Bauden - same
Neds camp - bugger all
The fishing was very average compared to last year, when i got into sharks, mackerel and queenies. Still had a great holiday.
For you local guys, has this year been particularly bad for bigger land based fish up in exxy ???
Adamp
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Sounds good, i will be
Sounds good, i will be heading
up there in january, hopefully hiring a
dinghy. Where any fish taken on lures?
Cheers Adam
Dasho
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Date Joined: 24/03/06
all taken on bait, except
all taken on bait, except for the squid.
i tried most of my lure collection, but nothing big enough was out there to attack it.
Adamp
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Date Joined: 08/11/08
Ok thanks. Just wondering
Ok thanks. Just wondering what car hire place you used, as i am trying to get some different prices ect.
Cheers adam
Dasho
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hey mate, we've used
hey mate, we've used europcar + budget up there.
we pay extra for the full cover package, as there is an 80% chance you will hit a roo, emu or sheep while you're there.
Adam Gallash
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School
Saw a school of 50+ queenies upto 2kg swimming in the marina yesterday as we were taking the fisheries boat out. Jacks under the refuelling jetty. Spanglies at 5mile on the lead up, queenies at bundegi. 15kg spaniard on popper taken at Mildura last week, 20kg GT taken north of the pier, all landbased
Don't really bother much with landbased though, but the fish are there. Things are really starting to fire up big time, baitfish everywhere in the gulf. Oh yeh, the heat is coming big time too!
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jus
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Date Joined: 09/09/08
hey dasho slightly relieved
hey dasho slightly relieved to hear that someone else also had a pretty average fishing trip to exmouth! was there for a short trip 6/10-10/10 caught jack all landbased (just some little bream/cod/cuda's) and three 35cm+ charlie courts on the charter...very disappointing!
Tried lures/bait/soft plastics/metals!! on the boat we even trolled within a massive bait school, birds diving n all but still no takes!
jus
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adam now thats just mean!
adam now thats just mean!
now im gonna have to think of a way to get back up there asap!
Dasho
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Hi jus. An old fella who I
Hi jus.
An old fella who I met on the jetty told me he had been going to exxy every october for the past 20yrs and never seen it so dead.
Sounds like we were in the right place at the wrong time.
Oh well, hope next year cranks.
jus
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Date Joined: 09/09/08
This happens to me too
This happens to me too often!!
In march 2006 had the chance to house sit a mates house in broome for a week, along with permission to use his 4.5m runabout - sounds like the perfect holiday doesnt it? ....except the sat we got there was the day the cyclones came! stayed indoors the whole week with gale force winds, 10.5m tides and zero fish caught.
I guess this just means we get to catch double as much next year!
SamC
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Date Joined: 30/08/06
Exmouth
Just came back from exmouth last night and fished land based all week. Worked hard but we got fish
Plenty of massive bluebone
plenty on mid sized spangos
queenies
Little-medium GTs
Never seen so many sharks on the flats in my life
Big Barracuda
And a few miss hook ups from 10-15kg Gs and XOS Queenies
Had a ball....all caught on lures except the bluebone were on crabs!
Cheers,
Sam
Cheers,
Sam
desmond
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Date Joined: 27/12/06
Land Based
Hi Sam,
Im headed up that way in like 12 days, land based as well but on a 2WD. Looking for big Gs and Qs. Never been up that way before. Any specific locations I should try?
Dean
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Date Joined: 23/02/07
Good stuff sam
Good stuff sam
WODF
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Date Joined: 16/10/08
Sam, not a bad trip. Where?
Sam, not a bad trip. Where are the hotspots(landbased) for encountering spanglies, XOS queenies and GT's!? not familiar with Exmouth landbased.
Any tips will be appreciated.