Well its, been hot to
say the least, when I mean hot, I mean over 40 degrees every day this last
couple of weeks.
Tropical cyclone
Iggy, instead of crossing the coast, just kept on going south west and brought
with it
persistent north east
winds. The swell flattened out and the mackerel and tuna turned on.
Frederick Hydenrych
and crew this week landed 9 mackerel and a tuna, got bust up, sharked, beaten
up and sunburnt
& had an awful
lot of fun the day before with as much action. Photos next month of that trip.
While that was going
on another boat was being beaten up by big tuna!
Yesterday (Wednesday)
I was out with Frank Shelbie and Brian and it was non stop action. Mackerel,
chunky yellow-fin tuna
& a memorable
18kg yellow-fin caught on 6kg line for Frank!
As predicted, it is
going to be another awesome year for pelagics.
3 Mile Fires Again
A short trip out for
a troll in the 6.5m boat along the mackerel patch between Red Bluff and Pot
Ally failed to draw a strike
for John Abelotis and
mates Andrew Buszan and 13 year old son, Andrew, Steven Skinner and Telli
Flessas.
A change of location
out to the 3 Mile produced a small tuna for Telli Flessas first up after losing
a few strikes.
It was 13 year old
Andrews birthday and they were all gunning for him to get a fish, so the next
strike went to him,
resulting in this
chunky striped tuna.
John Abelotis took
the next strike that turned out to be a very nice 16.5kg long-tail tuna, which
kept him
on the go for 45
minutes. Nice fish John.
The weather was
pretty crappy, John threw up after landing the tuna and a few on board felt
less than well so they
called it a day after
Andrew senior landed his small yellow-fin tuna and were back by 11am.
Kalbarri lights up
Each
year Kalbarri has its own Australia day fireworks, sponsored by local
businesses. A casual stroll down to the foreshore
for
a 30 minutes spectacular light show, sure beats fighting the traffic in Perth!
Troy returns for another
shot
Troy Nguyan has hired the boats before and was keen for another shot at some
mackerel.
The big group hired two boats
and followed each other around, calling over the radio when a hook-up occurred
enabling them to maximise being
on the right spot.
The mackerel did not disappoint and
although it was slow to start, they came on the chomp around midday.
Andrew got his first ever
mackerel and biggest fish
while Ann who featured prominently in last Octobers
Newsletter, got her mackerel as
well as a couple of tuna.
Ann with one of her tuna
and Troy
holds up a little stripy that was released.
Chai had a big hook-up on the
other boat and took a while getting it in.
Turned out to be a reasonable
yellow-fin tuna, too big for the esky looks like!
A few other catches
Mark holds up a very nice baldchin
while crew member from George
Oginatis’s trip early January holds
up the only mackerel they got
A pink snapper caught by Ian Casley on the
26th December 2011, while anchored in the bay using squid bait is
notable.
And this whale shark cruising just off the
Sand Patch is an indication as to the strength of the current this year.
Kids
Treat
David Benny hired the
5.3m boat early January, taking his two sons out for a fish.
Weather was not the
best and there was some feelings of seasickness for the kids & they were
back in early without a fish,
much to their
disappointment. David rang for me to bring the trailer down to the ramp as he
was finished
for the day. (I
launched and retrieved the boat for him).
I noted that the
“bite time” was nigh and suggested I take him for a tailor fishing session at Black Rock.
Youngest son Ryan was
not so sure as he was still feeling sick but we he was out voted by older
brother Christien.
David was first up
landing a small one with a popper.
They were all over
the popper with numerous hits before hooking up.
Christien was very
pleased to get a bigger one than his dad, and right at the end of the bite,
Ryan eventually got
his fish after dropping a few.
Anglers Almanac, a little
yellow book with the predicted best fishing times. It works, I swear by it!
$6.60 from any tackle
shop.
Kalbarri
Offshore & Angling Club & Ultra Light.
21st and 22nd
January.
The 2 day
Kalbarri ultra light again drew few boats. Mainly due to the time of year with
persistent southerly winds at this time of year.
This year was not
much better and a big swell a few days before dirtied the water making it hard
to find any fish.
Wife Sue, who
always does well in this comp could not make it and Frank who is fishing with
me this year slipped a disc a couple
of days before,
so it was just me and Shelbie aboard my big boat.
Shelbie dropped a
couple of good fish
and her broad-barred mackerel did not go line class so it
was just the two tuna on
2kg line that
mattered.
Mine went a few grams bigger than Shelbie’s and no other boats
weighed in.
At the last club
meeting it was decided to change the date of the Ultra Light to early May next
year where it will be beefed up,
with better
weather, more fish about and better prizes.
The bottom guys did very well landing good fish such as an
8kg red emperor for Daniel, coral trout, mulloway and dhuies for Lui and
a 25kg samsonfish for Paul.
John Abelotis with
the best fish caught this month, Landed out at the 3 Mile, on a very quiet day,
but the size of the fish makes up for the low
number of strikes
that day. A very nice 16.5kg long-tail tuna, which kept him on the go for 45
minutes.
Nice fish John.
See all the
previous Bite of the Month winners on my website.
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
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.
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 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!
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