Final Exmouth Report Murion mayhem.
Final report for our exmouth trip.....
Headed out to the murions for our final trip on the thursday. We headed home last night.
and boy was it interesting, with our local neighbour on the boat, giving us a few pointers here and there, we basically had one of the best days fishing i have had in a long time. We had recently fished the murions hunting spangos on poppers, and we did well boating fish to 700mm. Today was different, showing us different ways to fish the murions.
We ended up chasing bait balls all day long in 2-3 m water in the gap.....Using popper's we hooked up to sharkies, spaniards (that free jumped out of the water smashing poppers), goldens,school mackeral, gold spots, spangos, coral trout, GT bust offs, Huge estaury cods, red throat and some unstoppables.....
Unfortuntly my gear wasnt up to scratch and the first few casts in the morning i got smoked by a big GT and the drag basially busted so i was unfishable really, and turned into boat guide.
For around 2 hours we had spaniards, goldens, sharkies, gold spots under our boat chasing anything we threw at them. But it was all about the poppers, the poppers seem to struck gold on the bigger stuff smashing the bait balls.
I learned alot about my boat and its handeling, how to navigate through big ass bombies that would of sunk my fiberglass boat instantly, and it all comes down to team work. Also my understanding of tides and moon phases, is a bit more knowledgable.
Photos will be up soon
Exmouth ill be back next year to hopefully have an even better time as the last 2 weeks. Mind you all in our last 3 trips to the murion we would of boated over 60 fish over the 3 days, and i can confidently say 90% of these fish went back in the drink, with the odd spango and trout staying for dinner.
a hard days fishing still beats work
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good work mate and nice to
good work mate and nice to see the hard yards paid off in the end. Those spaniards are awesome to see when they get airbourne chasing poppers. You inspired me to chase some muddies last weekend and now I think I might hit the islands for some shallow fun next time. Looking forward to the pics.
kinga86
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Sounds like a killer session.
Sounds like a killer session. Think you might have to invest in some better fishing gear for next year :D
Paul_86
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Sounds like an awsome days
Sounds like an awsome days fishing uve had, hard beat shallow water popper sessions with airborn spaniard strikes!! Very jelous
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funnny thing was, a couple
funnny thing was, a couple days before i was telling our nieghbour that i didnt believe mackies would smash poppers! and boy was i wrong
tim: we went mud crabbing yesterday again and only found small females, though we didnt try to hard, as we were super super hung over, and when our mate neally got bitten by a sea snake it was game over!
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Sounds like great fun, would
Sounds like great fun, would have been so frustrating only having one (busted) combo on the boat when your mates are all cleaning up on the fish though!
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
Browny
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Gidday Brett,Sounds like your
Gidday Brett,
Sounds like your mates had good fun on the fish, even if you couldn't after being smoked!!
Absolutely fantastic fun up round the Murions and Peak isn't it!
Look forward to seeing the photies up here when you get back.
Cheers.
Browny.
I just love Exmouth: Its a quaint little drinking town with a fishing problem!
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hey browny im back in town,
hey browny im back in town, and when i get the chance ill stick some photos up.
just im a bit busy at this stage getting back in the work side of things/instrumentation at tafe as well... now im back chasing that big elusive dhue (or even a dhue that is size!)....got a bit of maintenance to do on the boat, just waiting for my tax return to come back. Maybe we will partner up for a fish in the near future, or even better get you on my boat and well fish NOR. Going to start focus my fishing mindarie way and north.....
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Howdy Brett,Will PM you when
Howdy Brett,
Will PM you when back from my Sydney work trip!
Mal.
I just love Exmouth: Its a quaint little drinking town with a fishing problem!