Exmouth News 2008 07 10

School holidays are upon us once again and the town is busy with holiday makers, all keen to get out and experience a good time on and around the water. Before the rush, I managed to get out for a few hours one day last week and catch myself a bonefish on fly. This is something that not many women in Australian waters have ever done, so I was feeling quite proud and thought I would show you a pic of it this week! These speedy sportsfish are difficult to catch because they can be so flighty. They are very resilient and not any good for eating: making them great for the sportsfisherman.

Jeni from the Exmouth shop scored a good bonefish on fly on Thursday last week, while the rest of us were working... hmmm... nice catch. West side of the Cape.

Dave Brown from Fremantle is up for a couple of weeks and has been fishing off his kayak inside the reef off Mesa Camp. He's had success on the Squidgy soft plastic lures. He caught a 47cm spangled emperor. He also got blitzed on what he believes was a trevally that came close to his kayak a few times, but the fish ended up winning the battle.

Ryan and Luke Smith from Victoria are travelling around Australia with their parents. The two boys have been catching bream and estuary cod at the marina. They were fishing one afternoon when a huge school of trevally came through and swam past. They tried all they could to try and catch one of them, but had no luck. A few of the local school kids have also been fishing the Marina as often as possible, making the most of their time off, and from what they have been reporting in here at the shop, have been catching and releasing plenty of trevally, small mackerel and the occasional queenfish, all on soft plastic lures.

Tim Miller, local painter from Exmouth was fishing down at Lefroy Bay with friends from Geraldton in a 12ft tinny. They had huge hump back whales jumping within about ten meters of the boat while fishing. It was all very exciting and scary at once. The crew caught some Robinson sea bream, rankin cod and spanglies. Tim caught a red emperor on his brand new Shimano reel and in the shallows they caught some massive squid. They also got some big ornate rock lobster before the end of season and had a seafood fest over the few weeks holiday.

Some massive longtail tuna have been caught out in Exmouth gulf over the past recent weeks. The biggest we have heard of has been 19kg but there has been plenty around the 12-15kg size busting up on big schools of baitfish out from Bundegi and out towards Exmouth reef. Those fishing on the bottom near Exmouth reef have reported good catches of blue-lined emperor, spangled emperor, various cod and a few Spanish mackerel which have been taking unweighted baits fished at the stern whilst at anchor.

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