Half way up the gulf, an hour into the 2.5hr haul, and the wind wasn’t veering or dropping. We launched at Denham to a moderate breeze of 15kn or so, expecting it to veer more easterly than the SE we had, and die out in the afternoon to 5-10kn variables. So, weather forecasts here thoroughly review, the decision was made to make at least a day trip of it, and if the weather panned out to forecast and wind dropped to next to nil, make an overnighter of it. The expression involving Rocking Horse Poo springs to mind. They tell me it glasses off here regularly.
50nm across the lumpy, choppy water that typifies Shark Bay. Well, after sorting out the snapper situation, it was time to head for a long haul trip again, shooting up to Turtle Bay and the top end of Dirk Hartog Island.
Hamachi’s newly released XOS GT’n’Doggie PE2-4 overhead, one sweet rod! Maaannnn….I still got to get one of them big bad boys, I did my trophy sized Bluebone this trip, maybe with luck next trip will be cobia time. The Same result really, although a jumbo cobia was lost boatside due to a knot failure sadly on one of the other boats. Next day we were back again, doing the same, this time with Noel and Andrew in their respective boats. With the three of us, coming home with six big 15-20lb fish was not a bad result, and even better it was only a short 12 mile haul across the choppy Shark Bay, not like the one to Peron Point, which is a a coupla hours of banging. Hamachi’s XOS GT’n’Doggie PE2-4 loaded with 20lb braid Thumping Malabar Cod pulled from the pylons with It was a very very very carefully and repeatedly measured 99.a whisker cms. Without a doubt, though the best fish caught in those couple of trips was a beaut big Malabar Cod (so similar to an Estuary Cod as to be indistinguishable, just a bit dottier) that was within a centimetre of being too large to keep, maximum size limit being 1m long. Solid pink snapper, awesome fun in the shallows on light gear What followed was a ripper of an hours fishing before we had caught and kept our limit, putting back several ten pound “tiddlers” in order to maximise our fillet weight….the bag limit here is only 2 snapper each so it pays to be pretty careful which fish you choose to keep. No poncing around with nibbles and taps, these fish just came in and yaffled them, the first was a sweet hump headed girl of 21 lbs, not a bad way to break the snapper duck over there. Schooling wide of the superstructure, we drifted big baits back into the shadows under the pylons, and bang! There they were, big snapper, hitting hard. Well, once we went around the back of the jetty inside the ship loading channel, we found them. Snapper city, what better place to load up Hamachi’s new jigging range Since we picked up the thumper bluebone off the loading dock of the Salt mines here at Shark Bay, we did a couple of subsequent trips to see if we could find the snapper and cobia Pete remembered catching in the years of his yoof.
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