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Thanks Drop Bear. It arrived today. It's one of those jaunt tanks. Comes with bracket to fasten to the deck, which I will do. I won't be testing it this weekend. Too busy carting the missus and her girl friend to the wineries on Saturday up the Swan region here in WA. But the weekend weather is not great with rain anyway.
 

I was not going to post as it only upsets Dino but decided he needed some encouragement to do his physio and get back on the water.
We spent the day teaching the shrimp to swim and escape those ravenous fish that inhabit NPD.
We were quite successful as we caught 113 less fish than last Sunday.
First fish boated went 55cm much to Jasons delight. and Rick made it a double hookup with a 52 cm yella.
We pulled another 3 yellas from this spot and then the shrimp had a reprieve fo rthe rest of the day with the bass being quite elusive with only the odd fish boated. They were a good size and mostly located in around 50 feet of water. We tried around one of the new fads and caught 2 bass one 325cmm and the other 275mm.
As normal the redclaw pots were productive except the ones that the redclaw had chewed holes in.
Cheers Ray

Just a quick stop off and a quick boat capture practice with the drone.

Produce_16.mp4 This should be awesome for the Kimberley trip.

no you dont... 🙂
 

I’m just compensating.

I’m just compensating.

Luke the nude. 

Just a quick stop off and a quick boat capture practice with the drone.

Produce_16.mp4 This should be awesome for the Kimberley trip.

Great to see you back on the horse mate. 
Have to get out again soon.

I’m just compensating.

Great to see you back on the horse mate. 
Have to get out again soon.

I think the island is called  Weenandin (Round Island) it’s opposite Big Woody Island. 
The southern part of the bay was calm but 29 km off Rooney’s point in a SSW was not. 
 
 

You are the only subscriber, of course you are number 1. 🤣

Just a quick stop off and a quick boat capture practice with the drone.

Produce_16.mp4 This should be awesome for the Kimberley trip.

Great to see you back on the horse mate. 
Have to get out again soon.

You are the only subscriber, of course you are number 1. 🤣

You are the only subscriber, of course you are number 1. 🤣

Just a quick stop off and a quick boat capture practice with the drone.

Produce_16.mp4 This should be awesome for the Kimberley trip.

Great to see you back on the horse mate. 
Have to get out again soon.

Hello all,
Long time no post! I've been through a couple of years fishing hiatus, life hiatus really, due to health problems. I've lost the obsessive nature and passion I used to have with fishing but I'm happy to be involving myself every month or two in a fishing trip! And enjoying it which is the main thing. 
Unlike other sports such as golf I was pleased to discover that I haven't 'lost it'. It was great to find that fishing is an activity once you learn it you can't unlearn it, maybe just brush up on the basics and wrack the memory and you're good to pick up where you left off. 
Last month with a mate in his boat (I am now boatless and only have 2 rods and reels and hardly any lures! The true minimalist fisho) we headed out into the bay in search of tuna. From past years, the first of the westerly winds brings them in close to the western bay shore. And sure enough we found them within 5 minutes of looking. 
Successful day hooking up to 6 and boating 3 or 4, I can't remember. I don't really bother with photos much anymore but here's a couple of little cuties around 1m from a double hookup.

I literally own 2 types of plastics and 1 stickbait which has actually made it a cool experience. I used to be so caught up wondering which of my 7836 lures to put on next and wasting time doing so. In the end sticking with something that has been proven in the past and keeping it in the water is what caught the fish. Funny that. 
This morning myself and Murray (same mate) went out in search of snapper in the shallows which was a bucket list item for him. Conditions were too still but I'm really glad he got one at 47cm, he has massive hands haha. 
That was about it aside from a couple of squid.
Thanks guys! And hello to all of you I know and those of you I don't, I hope everyone is going well 🙂

Nice one Wayne! Saw it when it popped up on YouTube cos I'm your number 1 fan 🙊

Just a quick stop off and a quick boat capture practice with the drone.

Produce_16.mp4 This should be awesome for the Kimberley trip.

Just a quick stop off and a quick boat capture practice with the drone.

Produce_16.mp4 This should be awesome for the Kimberley trip.

Nice trip well done, I agree golden trevs are great chewing. They go really well in thick cubes and thrown in to a hot green curry

Luke and I headed off on Sunday and launched at Urangan boat ramp around lunch time. First spot we stopped at we jigged a couple of school mackerel and quickly moved on not wanting to lose any more jigs to them.
We head for Wathumba area and saw no birds until we got there. There were small schools of small tuna and some bigger ones around but they were not interested in any of our offerings. We anchored up for the night in anticipation of tomorrow's full day.
The crack of dawn we were up and our plan was to head to Rooney's point and hop from reef to reef before heading onwards to southern gutters. The first 2 reefs didn't produce much so we kept hopping. On our first drift I picked up my first large mouth nannygai or saddle tail snapper.

They fight well and I expect will be nice eating. With a lot of pickers around we decided to head straight to the southern gutters.
There were plenty of fish there but sharks were ridiculous. We couldn't get anything past them, except Luke managed to pull an ander size Red Emperor out of the mouth of a shark and the poor thing had it whole head crushed.
After many bust offs we headed back to the closer reefs for the afternoon. Turned out  be a good decision because we were not being hammered by the sharks and the afternoon bite was good. Luke pulled I think 6 under size Red's up to 48cm, doh.
Luke also picked up his first Nannygai 2 x PB and new species for us both.

Then I upgraded with a 50cm tuskie another PB 
We added about 4 more Nannygai's to the esky and a few Mosses perch. This is the sort of reef fish I love to eat.
I left a micro jig out bouncing and a nice size Mac tuna pulled hard on the jigging rod. This provided most of our bait.

We were pretty tired after the full day and as the sun dipped below the horizon we threw the anchor our and reheated some Spaghetti Bolognese that Luke had pre made. It was amazing and washed it down with some beer and bourbon.
I thought I'd try some Soft plastics after dark and to my surprise they worked well at 35m meters down in the pitch darkness. I scored a nice Mosses perch and then another Nannygai while Luke kept banging fish on bait and still bringing in small reds.

The wind come up and we broke anchor so headed back to Fraser for a calmer nights sleep.
Yesterday morning we headed back to the same the reef but the fish were not co-operating and the drift speed was double that of the day before with the wind getting up.
Considering what we had in the esky we were satisfied and made the call to head back to see what else we could find on the way home.
The wind was a SSW so we punched into the chop all the way home. After travelling for 25 kw back from Rooney's at speed we saw some fish and ground under on the sounder and quickly pulled up to see what it was.
Luckily for us it was bait fish and some Golden trevally. 2 weeks ago I made a new color up at Gobblers while in the lure training a clear but when viewed side on it has a green tone skin look.
I cast the new plastic out (yet to be named) and hopped it of the bottom very subtly and felt the weight. This was a good fish and after a spirited fight we landed my PB Golden at 92cm.


We had another 4 hits that we didn't convert and a braid failure after a hook up, which impressed me no end.
All in all we had a ball as usual and learnt more new things.
To come home with such good quality fish was a bonus.