MONTEBELLO MONSTERS!

 

G'day All,

                 Itz 2 & 1/2 weex later and the yot haz returned to Exmouth after a truly fantastic trip to the famous Montebello Islands. The fish were huge, the company waz gr8, The good food goes without saying and even the weather godz played nice. 

The biggest newz was the lack of sharks ! 

By changing tactics and fishing stylez we only lost 2 fish to sharks during the whole journey. By concentrating on the shallows and employing "don't stop drag it to the top" in the deeper water.

The surface activity on lures proved 2B a huge bonus with plenty of mackerel, a few nice tuna and tonnes of "Big Coral Trout" taking our offerings.

For much of the trip we were below 5 meters in depth and had to sort through which fish to keep and those that were to be released. But the shallows really provided a gr8 area in which to catch some monster sized trout with the biggest over 80 cm and the average at 70 cm, plus lotz of smaller releasable sized trout also

With the trout being so plentiful we had 4 of them on board B4 we even arrived at Montebello Islands with  just a taste of what was to come from our overnight anchorage at the top of Barrow Island  

While Big Ash and I caught plenty the same cannot be said for the guy's on "Reel Serene" as they only managed a single shark mackerel on the inward leg of the trip. Once we changed lures from Tuna-Mackerel styles to more flashy Coral trout stylez (Elton John) the catch rate went up heaps with not only the good sized trout but a few mackerel as well. Then without let up comes the flow of "other" phishes;

Coronation Trout, Long nosed emporer and the spangled variety and untold otherz. Believe me when I say I have too search through untold fotoz to bring you an up to date impression.

While on the journey North I met up with "salty jocks" Google them!

Here I realised that the blog iz not the evil demon I thort it waz. With James the author of Salty Jocks being the first to admit that his updates were 11 months behind the real life version. While the Blog iz generally up to date as long as I have internet service! But what iz most apparent is the need to upgrade from the standard $60 per month to the $160 per month for STARLINK. We were relying on Reel Serene's internet to get weather updates as the yot'z coverage was spotty at best.

Dave from RS caught this stunning green jobfish in 25 meters, biggest we've ever scene.

While the fishing waz gr8 it's all about the people and Ash and I had a ball tearer trip with some stunning meals. Lotz of fresh vegies both from Perth and the now productive garden beds upstairs were turned in2 lots of salad based meals. Plenty of fish, some gr8 steaks,  fresh bread pita's plus a real apple strudel.