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It has been a great month with lots of big tuna around; some caught this month were around 30kgs while other experienced anglers reported seeing 100kg size fish swimming with dolphins.
Everyone
who went out when the conditions were right got into the yellow-fin tuna.
However
mackerel
have been a bit scarce except for the odd few small fish caught just out of the
river mouth.
The Kalbarri Sports Fishing Classic is on
this week end, weather looking great,
low swell and good bite times in the Almanac. All five of my
boats are competing, so good luck to:
Glen DiCarlo, Paul Youngman, Ben Malton, in
a 6.5m boat.
Lance, Tanya, Lee and Des Christie in the
5.3m boat.
Colin Strydom and crew in the other 6.5m
boat.
Bruce Henwood and crew in the 6.1m boat,
and Sue, John Hoye and myself in the 7.8m
boat.
Watch this space
Top 10 boat launch fails
Tuna Tango
Catherine Rawcliffe returned
for another shot at some fish. She was last up here during the demersal ban so
had to release most of the fish caught,
but made up for it this time!
The group hired two boats and got into the yellow-fin both days and had a great time
The photos say it
all!
Small Black Marlin
It’s not often we get
billfish out from Kalbarri, but semi local Peter Kubiak landed this little
black just south of the river mouth
along the cliffs where this hook-up came from.
Nice one Peter.
Yellow-fin tuna frenzy
Local comp day
Saturday the 15th, and I went out with son, Ben in the 6.5m boat.
First up Ben gets his personal best yellow-fin
of 15.2kgs, landed on
6kg line. Took him about 15 minutes to get in!
My hook-up later in the day on
4kg line took an hour to
subdue this 14.3kg
fish!
Skydiving Dan’s day out
and First up he got into
this 9kg mackerel.
Then can a triple hook-up
of yellow-fin that caused chaos when a big shark tried to eat two of the
fish boat side.
The panicked fish
were lost, but Dan got his.
Bite of the
Month
Each month I award Bite of the
Month to someone who catches the best fish from one of my boats.
Hard to split these two fish so well done Pete and Catherine
15th Feb
2014
Cheryl scored a
1kg mangrove jack up river
while Frank had the biggest tailor for the year so
far
Up Coming Events in Kalbarri
LeisureCat Ultralight
A line class
gamefishing event in its second year.
Riding on top of last
year’s success, this will be another comp not to miss for the serious game
fisher
or a first timer to
learn a lot about the sport.
Need a boat for up north?
Remember I will
deliver a boat out to the turn-off for free for those heading north.
Just pre arrange
and ring me from Geraldton and I will meet you there.
Popular Northern Destinations
Thevenard
Island
Island Manager: Art
and partner Jade, 9184 6444.
There are a few cabins available, just ask and see if you
can get one. However Direction Island is
always open and
still a good option and bookings can be made.
Check out the website: www.mackerelislands.com.au
Ashburton
Resort
Ashburton Resort.
Phone 9184 6586 email: admin@ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
Website: www.ashburtonresortonslow.com.au
Gnaraloo
Station
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Email: bookings@gnaraloo.com.au
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
Steep Point
Steep Point Ranger for booking campsites.
Phone: Paul Dickson -
Steep Point 9948 3993
Email: Ranger@steeppoint.com.au
Dirk Hartog Island
Kieran
Wardle: 08
99481 211 Mob: 0407 383 449
Game, Bottom
and Beach Fishing Action
These links will take
you to Youtube showing some great action video clips taken from
my boats and also a
very good mulloway from the beach.
Archived
Newsletters
After a lot of
effort on my part, you can now view all my past newsletters in my Blogs.
I have made six
blogs; you can view all of my 2005 newsletters with photos @
And from January
2006 to December 2006 with photos @
And from January
2007 to December 2007 with photos @
And from January
2008 to December 2008 with photos @
And from January
2009 to December 2009 with photos @
And from January
2010 to December 2010 with photos @
And from January
2011 to December 2011 with photos @
And from January
2012 to December 2012 with photos @
And from January
2013 to December 2013 with photos@
And from January 2014 onwards with photos@
They are quite long
URL’s so add them to your favourites.
Remember
if you rent our accommodation in Kalbarri
you get big discounts on our boats.
Have
a look on my website for the
details, and check out the savings.
5-day
weather forecasts, www.buoyweather.com go to virtual
buoys, pick the location you want.
This is the one I go by!
