ANTICIPATION (WKOA) RED LETTER DAY!

 

G'day All,

                 Itz finally happening! Big Ash leaves the Stormz in Perth behind on hiz weigh up 2 the Yot for a mega trip of a lifethyme to the amazing MonteBello Islands !00 nm North of here.

But, B4 that trip beginz I spent one last day round at Tantabiddi chasing bottom fish and trying to entice a fish on the trolling linez. No luck on the lurez but we did manage an impressive selection of bottom fishes. 2  tomato cod, 1 coral trout and a honeycombe cod to make up a nice collection of fillets for Reel Serene. I already have more fillets than I kneed in the freezer.

After a night of chasing Spango's in the shallowz with Dave from Reel Serene I wanted to try my luck with the lures and also try to get Dave on2 a quality fish or 2. Unfortunately the biggest fish of the morning waz destroyed by a shark! better luck next thyme Dave.

Over nite we caught a few nice spangled emporor but we were hungry for bigger fish so we trolled from Tantabiddi to South passage with zero results, thyme to change the gear and try bottom bouncing in 40 meters of water, here we had more suxcess.

Quality fillets at last!

With 4 nice table fish we returned 2 Tantabbi to have a lunch of chicken ceasar salad B4 I left Reel Serene behind and headed back to Exmouth to await Big Ash's arrival tomorrow. Itz a 15 hour drive so Ash iz leaving at 2 am the morning.

It'll take a few hours once Ash getz here to load up the gear for a 3 week trip to the Monte's.

The opening foto showz a lovely 5 kg GT that took my ever popular red and white Halco! 

Unfortunately the GT swallowed or inhaled the Halco so he couldn't B released but I found a dinghy off Exmouth marina who waz happy to receive the trevally.  The last 5 fish have been on this lure while the ever reliable blue mackerel pattern Rapala hazent had a touch.

We did manage 7 nice emporor last nite while at the Tantabbi Mooringz