Very
busy this month with lots of hires and everyone getting into some good fish.
However
not everyone sending through their pics so difficult to show you what they
catch.
http://www.facebook.com/MurchisonBoatHire?ref=hl
7.8m Spectacular
David Brest and Mark
had a great 5 days with the 7.8m boat early this month. The weather was
fantastic the first 3 days and then fairly
ordinary for the last
couple, but they got into some good fish.
There were cobia
harassing bait schools where they got close enough to be just floating a mulie
down into the bait
school and watching
the cobia take the bait. See the Youtube clip below of the whole thing, quite
specky!
Both Mark and David
got into yellow-fin tuna.
I shot some underwater video on a school of
cobia harassing the bait ball. Awesome stuff:
Knife Jigs in Favour
My first real attempt at serious jigging was an eye opener for me. Rob Sceresini and Andrew Doen was up here this month and all they did was use jigs, nothing else! They did very well landing all sorts of stuff. They were telling me about how they were getting snipped off by mackerel while winding up real fast from the bottom as well. Rob very kindly gave me one of his jigs to try out. My first flat out retrieve with the jig over a known mackerel spot resulted in an instant hook-up on a mackerel!
Second drop over a show
of fish on the sounder and this dhuie showed up!
Now jigging is quite hard
work so I changed to bait for a rest and picked up this nice red emperor!
It was a good day out
for me.
Check out Rob Sceresini’s
facebook group West Oz Anglers, I am a member.
Kalbarri catches
Brian Avila and Kirsten Mason
together with a group were out and about in the 6.5m boat on a very nice day.
They
got their bag limit of dhuies, snapper and miscellaneous reef fish.
Kirsten
Mason hold her snapper.
She
says in an email.
“Thank you so much for the hire of your 6.5m boat we had an
awesome time & had no problem getting our bag limit!
Your assistance was fantastic, we will see you on the next holiday”.
Your assistance was fantastic, we will see you on the next holiday”.
Auto Edge mechanics trip
Steve Brennan and a
bunch of work mates had a couple of days with the 7.8m boat mid-month but
unfortunately the weather was a bit harsh
limiting there range.
However they did get a few good fish such as these baldchin groper and coral
trout.
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Steve owns the Auto Edge
vehicle servicing workshop in Midvale.
He will convert your
vehicle to gas as well as service and repair.
Good day out! Good fish!
Cameron Macpherson
and Bruce Bagshaw had a week with the 6.1m boat slipping in 3 good days just
before
the wild cold
front on Tuesday last week. They spent a couple of days waiting for the storm
to clear by going for a land based fish at Port Gregory.
After the storm was
settling and too rough to go too far Cameron spotted some structure less
than 1 km from the river mouth in 20 metres of water.
Dropping down right
on the spot resulted in this 90cm pinky
They had a good trip
all round landing a 9-10kg Mack 2 cobia 6 plus baldies, 1 Bronze whaler shark
200-400kgs after a 120min fight had to cut it lose!
all in the first three days.
20 plus fish species. Red-throat, cod, flathead, eel, scaley mackerel, tuna (cod cod cod, wrasse, NW blowies, other spotted blowies.........
all in the first three days.
20 plus fish species. Red-throat, cod, flathead, eel, scaley mackerel, tuna (cod cod cod, wrasse, NW blowies, other spotted blowies.........
LeisureCat Ultralight Kalbarri
Leisurecat Australia Compleat Angler Nedlands
Shimano Fishing Western
Australia
The Sutherland
Family Murchison Boat Hire
BCF Geraldton Kalbarri Community Resource
Centre
The LeisureCat
Ultralight that I had been organising for over 12 months finally came about. It
was a nail-biting few days prior
to the event as the
weather looked pretty crap, but in the end just got better and better.
We got 17 anglers
entered, not bad for an inaugural event, with 3 juniors. The prizes which were
Shimano Charter specials 2000LD
on Shimano rods for
the line class winners, and overall champions got Shimano Trynos 8 and rods.
All supplied by
Shimano and Compleat
Angler Nedlands 9389 1926
To win a particular line class you have to catch
the biggest fish on that line class, 1kg, 2kg 3kg 4kg and 6kg line.
Overall champion is the angler with the most
points overall.
Line class and overall champions shown below
Anna Sutherland with
her 2.2kg snapper on 1kg line.
Donny Sutherland with a 3.97kg snapper on 2kg
line
Nik Bramwell’s mulloway of 8.60kg mulloway on 3kg line
and also landed one of 9.16kg on 4kg line.
Shelbie Arnauld was second place with this 7.95kg cobia
on 4kg line.
Nik Bramwell was
champion angler overall helped by this 10.57kg samsonfish on 6kg line
and Junior Line Class and Overall Champion was Luke Dooley
with his 3.19kg tuna on 3kg line.
Yes I caught mackerel
and tuna on 2kg, 3kg and 4kg line but coming second is not winning!
Next year’s comp will
be on the 3rd and 4th May 2014.
Each month I award Bite of the
Month to someone who catches the best fish from one of my boats.
Each month together with
Striketech reels I am giving away
a Striketech reel to the Bite of the Month winner.
Cameron Macpherson wins
this month with his big snapper 90cm specimen caught 1 km from the river mouth from
the 6.1m boat.
Up Coming Events In Kalbarri
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Zest Festival 21st -22nd
September 2013
After the success of last year’s
inaugural ZEST festival which commemorated the 300 year anniversary of the
Zuytdorp shipwreck, this year’s
ZEST festival will cast its eye over
the ocean to Cape Town in South Africa – a critical place for sailors to rest,
restock and re-man their vessels.
Kalbarri will be exploring its cultural connections to the Cape and celebrating these through dance, movement, art, music,
Kalbarri will be exploring its cultural connections to the Cape and celebrating these through dance, movement, art, music,
performance, food and adventure. Check
it out at www.zestfest.com.au and find
out what exciting activities are happening.
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Thanks to Murchison Boat Hire for their
generous sponsorship of a BIG GAME FISHING SAFARI package
for the Zest Festival Raffle.
You have to be in it to win it.
Need a boat for up north?
Remember I will
deliver a boat out to the turn-off for free for those heading north.
Just ring me from
Geraldton and I will meet you there.
Popular Northern Destinations
Thevenard
Island
Island Manager: Ash
and partner Jade, 9184 6444.
There are a few cabins available, just ask and see if you
can get one. However Direction Island is
always open and
still a good option and bookings can be made.
Check out the website: www.mackerelislands.com.au
Ashburton
Resort
Ashburton Resort.
Phone 9184 6586 email: admin@ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
Website: www.ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
Gnaraloo
Station
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Email: bookings@gnaraloo.com.au
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
Steep Point
Steep Point Ranger for booking campsites.
Phone: Paul Dickson -
Steep Point 9948 3993
Email: Ranger@steeppoint.com.au
Dirk Hartog Island
Kieran
Wardle: 08
99481 211 Mob: 0407 383 449
Game, Bottom
and Beach Fishing Action
These links will take
you to Youtube showing some great action video clips taken from
my boats and also a
very good mulloway from the beach.
Archived
Newsletters
After a lot of
effort on my part, you can now view all my past newsletters in my Blogs.
I have made six
blogs; you can view all of my 2005 newsletters with photos @
And from January
2006 to December 2006 with photos @
And from January
2007 to December 2007 with photos @
And from January
2008 to December 2008 with photos @
And from January
2009 to December 2009 with photos @
And from January
2010 to December 2010 with photos @
And from January
2011 to December 2011 with photos @
And from January
2012 onwards with photos @
And from January
2013 onwards with photos@
They are quite long
URL’s so add them to your favourites.
Remember
if you rent our accommodation in Kalbarri
you get big discounts on our boats.
Have
a look on my website
for the details, and check out the savings.
5-day
weather forecasts, www.buoyweather.com go to virtual
buoys, pick the location you want.
This is the one I go by!
