Email: lasue@wn.com.au www.murchisonboathire.com.au
Fairly quiet this month, which is normal, the weather is
not that crash hot and it is cold making it difficult fishing.
The whales are just about finished their migration so it is
only a matter of waiting until the weather gets better and
For the mackerel and tuna to turn up in December.
A couple of good Youtube videos to watch, so enjoy.
My Gnaraloo snorkelling video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N622QUZuv38
Billbash 2013
Arnie Slabber
has produced a second marlin and sailfish video of his last trip up to Exmouth
for the Billbash 2013
See
it here https://vimeo.com/74302802
Arnie and mates hired
2 of my boats for the event and here is his story.
Billbash is a ‘catch
and release’ tournament organised amongst friends, held off Tantabiddi
each year. 2013 was a very successful year with
plenty of sailfish
and black marlin caught. Interestingly, the majority of billfish were caught
‘in close’ this year, in the 40m - 60m depth range.
All billfish were
caught using skirted lures and were released as soon as possible after a couple
of photos.
Our team, fishing
from Murchison Boat hire’s 6.5m boat ‘Ehzzah’, consisted of Nick Markham,
Rory Crundall, Mark Arkell, Stu Jardine and myself (Arnie Slabber).
We placed second in
the competition this year with a total of 5 Billfish caught (3 sailfish and 2
black marlin).
Nick Markham caught
this sailfish on a pink and blue Richter metal head skirt with a TLD 25.
Rory Crundall caught
his first black marlin on a pink Oscar Skirt which took him around 40 minutes
to get to the boat.
Arnie Slabber’s first
sailfish. Caught on a white soft Oscar skirt. Took about 20 minutes to get to
the boat on a TLD 25.
All sailfish caught were nice big healthy
specimens.
The coral trout in
the photo measured 79cm and was caught by Rory Crundall. The trout was
caught as by catch after it smashed a
marlin lure which was
allowed to sink to the bottom!
The 25kg barracuda was caught by Arnie Slabber. The barracuda was hooked by trolling a whole bonito through a bait ball close to the surface.
The bonito was in the
water for about 30 seconds before the barracuda nailed it!
Mark Arkell caught
this sailfish on a white soft Oscar Skirt with a TLD 50. Again, a nice
large sailfish which took around 30 mins to boat.
Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club Local Comp.
15th September
Cheryl had a good
sizes bream,
while Frank had the biggest tailor for the year so far at 3.52kgs
Second cast, I
dropped one! Third cast got the bigger one. Bagged out I went home for
breakfast at 6.30am.
(You can only keep 2
tailor over 500mm)
Here is a spectacular
fish caught by Arnie Slabber. The barracuda was hooked by trolling a whole
bonito through a bait
ball close to the
surface. The bonito was in the water for about 30 seconds before the 25kg barracuda
nailed it!
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.
Up Coming Events in Kalbarri
The Zest Fest went
off well except for the gale force winds that came through on the Saturday
night
and trashed every
marquee except the main big one and the bar tent.
Pretty much put an
end to the festivities for the Sunday, but most things were done on the
Saturday.
Here is a short video
of the event shot by Chris Lewis of ABC Open. He had a marquee set up showing
short films from
Kalbarri residents.
My crayfishing video was one of them.
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 last year.
Kalbarri Sports Fishing Classic
28th Feb, 1st and
2nd March 2014.
I am starting to
organise next year’s Classic. I will be sending out sponsorship requests to all
our regular
sponsors, but if
anyone wants to showcase their business to the fishing, camping and outdoor
people who
participate, your
sponsorship is welcome, now is the time to get in, just ring or email me.
If you want to
compete and need a boat, just ring or email me.
(I have only got the
6.1m and 5.3m left for that weekend)
Need a boat for up north?
Remember I will
deliver a boat out to the turn-off for free for those heading north.
Just pre arrange
and ring me from Geraldton and I will meet you there.
Popular Northern Destinations
Thevenard
Island
Island Manager: Art
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 @
www.murchisonboathirefishing2011.blogspot.com
And from January 2012 onwards 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!
Things
are quietening down now that the end of the season is looming. It has been a
good year and
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