I’m
looking forward to my trip up to Gnaraloo early next month. Great place to
spend some time.
The
fishing is outstanding, but you do need a bit of experience to navigate the
obstacles that bereft the place.
70
odd k’s of bad road, launch over the beach, salt water showers and no mobile
coverage. It’s pretty remote,
probably
the best thing about the place, but you do need a bit of guidance as where to
go to get a fish. Luckily
I have lots of
waypoints on my GPS from previous trips and most are on the GPS that hirers
get.
Some nice fish were
landed this month, when the weather is good the fishing can be outstanding and
that’s how it is
this time of year!
Weekend trip
Reuben Osborne booked
a trip last month with a bunch of mates, but an ugly accident to his right hand
put him into hospital. A bit of surgery sorted it out
but he had to delay
to mid-June after a bit of physio.
His recovering hand
managed to hold up when this coral trout hammered his bait
and this rankin cod
was welcomed aboard.
A troll first up in
the morning resulted in a double hook-up of yellow-fin tuna. They had just got
to a recommended tuna and mackerel spot on the
GPS and let their
lines out with the usual Halco Laser Pro 190’s tied on when as they clicked
over the break on the reel, both Nick and Ryan
hooked up
immediately, rod still in hand!
Nick Sillen and Ryan
Dodd hold their yellow-fin tuna.
Kalbarri Catches
Anthony Ridd and Cory
Smith had one day out in the 6.5m boat and landed a wide selection of species
such as sweetlip,
morwong, trevally,
tuna, rankin cod etc.
Anthony Ridd got this yellow-fin tuna trolling on the way back to the river mouth.
Cory Smith expressed
his surprise at how hard these gold-spot trevally go!
Nick Furlan and Grant
Hurley were up in Kalbarri mid-June with their boat, however water in the fuel
caused some motor
problems, which would have ruined a good trip had they not been lucky to get a
boat off me at short notice.
It took them a couple
of days to find the fish but ended up with a good overall catch that included
norwest snapper, big
baldchin, cods, trevally, mulloway and this nice sized mackerel for Nick.
Have boat, Have Weather, Go Fishing
A couple of very good
weather days were on the cards. I use www.buoyweather.com
for my weather
forecasts. Usually a very accurate website and so it was on Saturday 15th.
The almanac called it
for a poor day with a minor bite time at 11am not ideal, but when the weather
is so good it is hard to resist!
Toni Trinka, John Millar
and myself did the distance to my good spots and found it fairly quiet up until
the minor bite time.
It was then when things
hotted up. Tony got a snapper and then followed it up with this 6kg dhuie.
I got a nice baldchin
and small mulloway, while John added a big red-throat emperor.
On the way back we
had a troll picking up these two hard fighting yellow-fin tuna for Tony and
John.
22nd June
Sue and I had a blast
last weekend during the Kalbarri Offshore and Angling Club Monthly Competition.
The weather was a bit
windy with a fresh North Easter, but we stayed in close and it was quite
pleasant.
We anchored and set a
good burley trail hoping for some of those big gold-spot trevally to catch game
fishing on light line.
Knowing how hard they
fight, I opted for heavier than my usual 2kg line and upped it to 4kg line.
Good thing I did as
this 7.1kg pennant fish gave me a severe working over for 30 minutes.
I had a second fish
on board before Sue got her first hook-up!
However, she was
fishing 3kg line and her fish went 6.7kgs. Pretty good going as these fish go
like hell!
I got bust off twice
on 4kg line and one blistering non-stop run emptied my 2kg outfit quick smart!
When we got back we
looked on the Australian National Sportfishing
Association Website and found that they are
both pending national
line class records that we are in the process of claiming.
Ron Neumann won the
bottom section with 5 fish one being this big red-throat emperor
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.
Toni Trinka’s big
bite this month wins her a reel. She does not do a lot of fishing, so this big
dhuie was a buzz for her.
Up Coming Events In Kalbarri
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.
Thanks to Murchison Boat Hire for their
generous sponsorship of a BIG GAME FISHING SAFARI package
for the Zest Festival Raffle.
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You have to be in it to win it.
Kids Whiting Competition
3rd & 10th
October
A very popular comp
for the kids, held during the October school holidays.
Any fish counts, put
it in a bucket of water and get a quad bike ride to the weigh-station.
Get it recorded, quad
bike back again. Sausage sizzle, great prizes (rods & reels) for smallest
blowie, biggest blowie,
biggest whiting, most
whiting, most unusual etc etc. All fish released and lots of give-aways.
Some of the 250 odd
kids competing.
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!
