Last week i was lucky enough to be able to get a ride from denham to exmouth on board a boat my mate skippers for apache charters, the plan was to drive Lady Grace from denham to exmouth with 4 days to do it in for the start of their monties season. 

On the first day we left Denham at 4am and steamed up to the northen end of dirk and did a few troll's past cape inscricpion for 2 shark macks and a dropped spaniard before heading north and going past dampier reef then on to the top end of Dorre island for the arvo and to anchor for the night. got to anchor about 2pm and weather and water looked incredible for a dive so while the crew got the tender off the roof i suited up and jumped in. beore the guys got the tinny off the roof i already had a decent cobia, 6kg baldie and 13kg macky in the boat all shot with my little 1.1 rob allen gun. by the end of the arvo we all had a heap of fish including my PB rankin, Trout, Baldie, Cobia and Rene got a fish of a lifetime spearing with a 3.1kg Robinson sea bream from 11m of water!!!

At anchor that night i picked up my PB spango on line before sleep and the plan to leave the next morning after a dive. we ended up staying the day and bagging some great fish including my monster Amberjack, PB trout at 780mm, PB estuary cod at 930mm, Rene with his 15kg Golden trev and a heap more fish to add to the bag. Added another decent spango after dark on line and off to sleep then up at 4am to steam up the coast, change of plans and it was decided to drive the rest of the way straight through to exmouth and just have some drops line fishing along the way, found an awesome spot about 18nm off cape cuvier and did 3 drifts over it with the 4 of us getting about 50-60kg of demersals including double header reds, spangos, pinkys, baldies and red throats. continued on and dropped a few more spots on the way up for a couple more red throats. just south of coral bay we had one of the pushers we where trolling at 11knots get munched and Rhett the decky got his first wahoo on the boat. continued on but after getting north of coral bay the fish just shut down and with a decent northern current and no fish biting we continued on to exmouth arriving around 2am the following day. 

this was hands down the best trip ive been a part of and was so lucky to get perfect weather the entire week all the way up the coast, fishing and diving was just out of this world in those hard to reach places. 

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