The Kalbarri Offshore Angling Club held a monthly fishing comp on the 28/5/16. The weather wasn’t looking that good but it was good enough to go out in. It was Dad, Laurie and I.. Laurie owns the Murchison Boat Hire in Kalbarri, he has a range of boats that you can hire. So dad and I met Laurie at the boat ramp ready to put the boat in and get out onto the water.
After about a 45min steam we reached our destination that was about 18miles offshore and about 50meters deep. On the first drop there wasn’t much down there other than a few little bites so we decided to move spots. As we started to wind up Lauri got smashed by something big. After a few laps around the 7.85meter walk around boat and a 10 minute fight we Laurie got up and on the boat it was a good sized amber-jack that went around 10-15kg. Once we moved to the new spot and dropped the anchor we were instantly getting good bites, straight away Laurie hooked up to something good. Once he got it up it was a good sized mulloway so we got that on the boat, looked up and dad was hooked up to something good as well, so he got that up and that was another good sized mulloway, so we decided to put down some line class gear to try and get a game mulloway. Dad and I put down 4kg line and Laurie put down 6kg line. And again it didn’t take long to hook up; Laurie and I were both hooked up. It didn’t take Laurie too long to get it up, it was also a mulloway but back to me unfortunately my double Bimini twist snapped which wasn’t good but that happens when you fish with a light line. Dad also got a mulloway on line class.
As the day went on the fishing went quiet but we were still getting some bites. When there was some action when dad hooked up it didn’t take long to get up and it happened to be a good sized red emperor which was a good catch.
Soon after that Laurie hooked up again which didn’t take long to get up and it ended up being another good sized red emperor. And the finally my rod went off again the fish was putting up a good fight but I still won the fight getting it up. It was my biggest and first Rankin cod which I was pretty happy with, and again dads rod went off with that being a solid pink snapper.
The fishing went even more quiet where we were only getting small fish then a bigger fish came through and smashed my bait but this fish didn’t fight very hard. We got it up, it was a solid red throat emperor.
After the bite was pretty much non-existent we had a long bumpy trip home. We came home with a good bag of 4 mulloway, 2 red emperors, 1 Rankin cod, and 1 red throat.
Gear I used:
I used a shimano stradic FJ 4000 with 40lbs depth braid on a shimano bushy bait king 15-24kg rod.
And a shimano charter special 1000 with 4kg mono filament on a custom rod.
