Email: lasue@wn.com.au www.murchisonboathire.com.au
Quite an awesome
month again with lots of very good fishy days out there. Mackerel have been
very good, if you can get away
from the tuna. Those
fishing the bottom have had hit and miss days, but they could be just missing
the bite time.
I am looking forward
to the Kalbarri Sports Fishing Classic on the 2nd to 4th
March. Long range forecast looks like it will
be easterlies most of
the time and the predicted swell this weekend did not eventuate.
However you can never predict the fishing
conditions!
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Practice Session
Frank Rystenberg and
wife Shelbie have been fishing on my boat for the Kalbarri Offshore &
Angling Club local comps and I am training them up to fish line class
for mackerel and
tuna. We have had a few training/practice runs resulting in some very good
fish. Frank and Shelbie are fishing 4kg line
& have been
landing mainly tuna that not quite make the 4kg mark. On one trip out early
this month, I had my 6kg outfit out
Among the 4kg outfits
when it went off. It was peeling a lot of line so I told Frank to take it while
I reeled in his 4kg outfit.
45 minutes later,
frank brought this 18kg yellow-fin tuna to the boat. Very good catch on 6kg
mono which
would have earned him
300 points in a comp.
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Kalbarri lights up
Trolling
the 'Sand Patch' proved successful over the weekend for Darryl & Chloe.
They are from Perth and had the 5.3m for a couple of days.
The
weather was great and they trolled the reef edge in 21 meters of water, scoring
2 spanish mackerel, 6 yellow-fin tuna & 1 small long-tail tuna within
a
couple of hours on the Sunday morning. Chloe had never experienced 'trolling'
& had not caught a 'big' fish before.
She
was well rewarded & excited to see plenty of big fish. Her excitement also
encouraged her to give a few of the fish a kiss on the cheek.
When
the water is this colour, you will get mackerel!
Darryl said the water temperature was quite warm, with the boats sounder
recording 26 degrees. Early morning proved important for mackerel, however,
the
tuna were seen feeding well into the later end of the morning. Best lure for mackerel
was the trusty Halco Laser Pro 2m in hot pink (Chloe's favourite colour),
whereas
the smaller Rapala Magnum proved deadly on tuna. Double hook-ups were common on
tuna & if you had a spread of 3 or 4 lures, it would
only
be a matter of waiting until all lures were hit.
The
pelagic action will no doubt be exciting over the next couple of months with
such warm currents & plenty of bait schools.
Thanks
for the boat, Laurie. It was a good change to be able to hire a reliable boat
(gotta love 4 strokes).
Looking forward to hiring it again, hopefully within the next couple of months.
Regards,
Darryl.
Looking forward to hiring it again, hopefully within the next couple of months.
Regards,
Darryl.
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Scuba Diving Port Gregory.
Nick Crettenden and Connor Aherns have hired the 6.1m boat
before and were up with a couple of mates for a shot at spear fishing.
They had all the gear and took the boat down to Port
Gregory the fist day and went south to a spot I recommended.
Good sized coral trout south of
Port Gregory.
They then spent a couple of days
in Kalbarri landing mackerel, tuna and an assortment of bottom fish.
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Tackle and Tactics
Harry
Bouman from Fishing WA dropped in some of his latest imports for me to have a
play with.
He
has just come back from his trip to China.
Octopus
style jigs in various sizes and rigged with 2/0 hooks. I am a big fan of these
jigs having caught just about
every
species around on one. I will be trying them out over the next few months and
let you know how they go.
They
will be available from his website and tackle shops soon. http://www.extremetackle.com.au/
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Another Good day out
Dan Brandenburg has
made a few trips out with me. Last time the pelagic action was extraordinary
with multiple tuna hook-ups and
daughter Jess getting
her first mackerel. This time was a bit different with mackerel a bit elusive,
so we stopped over a nice lump
not far from the Sand
Patch and let the lines to the bottom.
First up it was Dan
landing a nice little coral trout,
followed by a few yellow-tail kings for Jess
and Dan amongst other fish.
Not long after, Jess
got her first dhufish, a 65cm specimen, which was the envy of dad Dan as he has
not caught one yet!
The yellow-tail
kingfish sure put up a good account for themselves.
On the troll back, they landed a couple of
small yellow-fin tuna, making for a very enjoyable day out.
Kalbarri
Sports Fishing Classic
Besides myself
entering the Classic with wife, Sue and John Hoye from Perth, I will have two
other boats hired out
to fish the Classic
this year.
Skipper, Dayle
Serfozo and partner Janelle Kelly, nephew Tyson Sita and local girl Toni Trinka
make up one team. They have one
of the 6.5m boats and
will be fishing the bottom section. Their team name is the “Kalgoorlie Master
Baiters”
The other 6.5m boat
will be fishing the game section, consisting of skipper, Paul Youngman, who won
the Champion Angler
Game, last year and
new team mates Alan Stewart, Terence Boyce and Glenn Di Carlo who owns Getaway
Outdoors Bentley.
They will be fishing
under the boat name “Getaway Outdoors Bentley”
The weather is
looking good for the comp with a low swell as well. The river is clear and is
not going to flood as it did last year,
Boat numbers are up
with quite a few new boat names entered so far.
I will feature some
of the best fish in my March newsletter.
Kalbarri
Offshore & Angling Club Local Comp.
18th February.
Pretty ordinary
weather presented itself for this comp again, but those who went out got some
good fish.
A couple of nice
mulloway taken from a new spot out wide for Ian and Lui
Sue and I got a
striped tuna each on 3kg line. These are real tough fish on light line.
Mine
went 5.63kgs.
I had one on 2kg
line for about half an hour, but it ended up busting my 80lb leader? It must
have been tail-wrapped
and bust the
leader when it straightened itself. No it wasn’t a shark either!
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Frank’s 18kg tuna on 6kg line gets bite of
the month.
His first line class fish ever, caught while
practising light line fishing!
He followed this up with a 12kg mackerel on
4kg line a week later.
Well done Frank.
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Popular Northern Destinations
Island Manager: 9184
6444, Drew Norrish &
Traci Nathan
This year the 6.5m and 7.8m boats are already booked for
Thevenard Island but there are still spaces available for adventures in this
great place.
Check out the website: www.mackerelislands.com.au
Ashburton
Resort
Nikki and Scott
Dagan are the new managers of the new Ashburton Resort. Phone 9184 6586
email: admin@ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
Website: www.ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
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Gnaraloo
Station
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Email: bookings@gnaraloo.com.au
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
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.
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