Flatrock Frolics
With the promise of a beautiful day and light wind conditions, Sherbs, Andrew (Son of Sherbs or SOS), Topper and myself decided to make a quick dash up to Flatrocks to try our luck.
After a few unscheduled detours we arrived to find a misty cloud setteld over Flatrocks and the Flatrock itself already covered by a bit of water.
With high tide still a few hoyrs off, we decided to head a couple of hundred metres down the beach to where there was a nice patch of water between the beach and some offshore reef.
Peppering the water with a good dose of Spess' Spessial Brew we were soon into a good school of quite decent sized herring.
Sherbs soon switched to his favourit "blue bait" and began to pull in some nice double headers, Topper landed a nice double header of a sand crab and a herring, my surf popper outfit accounted for a few quite nice herring and Andrew had a lot of fun on some acrobatic herring on his 1000 Okuma and Strudwick bream rod outfit.
Topper provided some of the highlights of the day when a quite sizeable stringray smashed one of his outfits and a particulary feisty sand crab tried to take the top off of one of his fingers.
Topper prepares to do battle with a big stingray and a crabby crab.
Andrew is pretty happy to be back on his feet again.
Sherbs the master of the double header prepares his beach gear
The surf popper rig was very tempting to some nice sized herring
Topper and Andrew show off Toppers crab and herring double header, seconds before the crab turned the tables on Topper.
Andrew does a "Honshu" with a herring while I was pretty happy with this hard fighting Skippy.
A found a nice little area with a reedf system within casting range.
Some of the mornings fish, many of which will be head up to Exmouth for use as bait with Andrew.
All in all it was a great morning with great company. How can you beat being away from the rat race, on a beautiful beach, with great weather and friends.
All the best, Colin Hay
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Great story and pics as normal Colin
Always a good time with friends and family getting the fish is a good bonus
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Couldn't agree more Faulkers. Always great to be out with
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Well done guys!
Another entertaining read # 1, glad you haven't lost your 'skippy master' mojo.
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Thanks Colin. It was quite a nice Skippy and I was pretty happy
to land it as I had lost one shortly before.
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mmmmmmm fresh bait for
mmmmmmm fresh bait for exmouth
not a bad bag of fish there guys, sherbs has flatrocks sussed out thats for sure
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Andrew reckons he has the arsenal and the bait to catch the
first sailfish Matt
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the way im thinking the more bait i can get
the less we have to buy and also if we dont use it its left for you guys for the comp :D
anythink in particular you want mako???
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lol yeah squid and garfish
lol yeah squid and garfish lol
but in all honesty, herring etc is all good, as you said saves a few bucks
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hahah
Good stuff guys, looks like a great way to spend the day. Sure SOS will turn those herring into reds and rankin. :)
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He is aiming to catch a marlin or a sailfish on a herring Adam
He is hoping you can point him in the right direction.
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Hi Ya, Oh great Colin #1,
Hi Ya,
Oh great Colin #1, is there anywhere you don't catch skippy?
Good report. Next time you'll have to get video of the crabs revenge though. Would have been funny to see.
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Hi Ody (Lol) I dont know what it is, but wherever I go I somehow
find a skippy or two. I tell you what, Topper didn't think the crab was too funny when it wouldn't let go of his finger. That was a seriously angry crab. But a video camera would have been gold.
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Anyone actually done alright
Anyone actually done alright on herring fillets out wide at exmouth?
I tried once and got squat, only use fresh local bait now
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i carnt comment hey
i carnt comment hey never been before this is my first time going further north that kalbarri...
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