Tracey Widdup from Australind has been having an absolute ball up here in Exmouth.  She has been catching everything from squid to mackerel, spanglies to coral trout.  One of her most amazing captures was the fish pictured this week, or part thereof!  It was a rankin cod that was caught in just 20m of water.  She was bringing it in when a shark took one bite and all that she landed was the head.  What you can see weighed 5kg!  She still managed to get a good feed from the remains, despite the shark taking the majority of the catch.

Tracey Widdup with her five-kilo rankin cod

Josh Middleton and his father Brian are up again from Perth for three weeks.  These guys regularly visit Exmouth for recreational fishing.  Josh caught his first marlin on a pink Richter Soft Oscar on a single hook rig.  The two also caught mahi-mahi, job fish, red emperor, robinson sea bream and pearl perch during their stay.

Local resident Jason Harrison was helping a visitor launch a boat when he got an invite to go fishing.  Jason caught his first spanish mackerel and was rather pleased with his efforts: good karma resulted in a good fish!  Vi Rew is travelling with her husband Bill and was trolling inside the reef at Tantabiddi last week when something hit her in the back.  Vi screamed and turned to her husband behind. Sitting in the bottom of the dinghy was a massive squid that had jumped in the boat.  It was a super lucky catch, but I reckon the squid ink would have been flying once that squid realised what he had done.

Kaye and Doug Williams have been camped at Winderabandi and Doug was testing out his new custom built marlin stick when a 150kg black jumped onto the Black Magic Super Stripey #3 lure.  They managed to land the fish and release it, leaving a big smile on their faces.  They also managed to land large female mahi-mahi, wahoo and mackerel.