Coral bay - October
Submitted by oldy on Sat, 2014-07-26 09:47
Off to Coral Bay in October with our 6.8m barcrusher.
know the wind will probably blow whole time were there but just after some info on where to fish if we can get out. Not after gps co-ordinate more so direction / depth. Haven't fished out if here before.
Cheers
beeroclock
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Was there in early october last year and yes it was blowing its
friggin box off for the whole week most boats in town didnt even come off their trailers so be prepared for that. Ive only got a 19 foot voyager and never been out of there before either. There was a short break in the wind predicted one morning so we went out north passage as swells were big and south passage was not crossable. Trolled 3 deep divers (halco's and rapalas) up and down the reef in the 20 - 25 metre line south of north passage hoping for a mackie. I had heard it was easy to catch mackies in that area - couldnt believe it got nothing after 2 hours up and down that area. Decided to head west, south west of the passage pulling the deep divers as i had seen birds working in the distance as soon as we hit the 45metre line bang double hook-up of yellowfin tuna -got one to the boat and it got sharked straight away managed to pull the other one onto the boat just before being sharked couldnt believe it as soon as we hooked up there were sharks surfacing at the back of the boat. Tuna was 12kg and the one we lost looked the same size before it became shark breakfast. If I wasnt using 80lb braid would have lost both - basically you have to scull-drag em to the boat before they get eaten I reckon trying to play with them on say 15kg gear wont work out. Trolled same area again for about half hour then the wind started blowing its box off and that was it. You got a more seaworthy boat than mine so hopefully you can get out more than I did and hopefully will see a good post from your trip on here
Walfootrot
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If its blowing you can always
If its blowing you can always go for a squid, between north passage and the mainland ( stay out of the santuary zone ).
If the weather is kind and the swell is down, head out south passage, troll the outside of the outer reef for macs etc. head out to the 40m line sound for some ground for rankin, reds etc.
If the weather is playing realy nice, go deeper 120-150m for your goldies, sharpies, robbos, reds etc.
IMO, the wind blows a fare bit that time of the year, but you do get some good days. if its to windy for your boat then a charter may be the option, see Adam from Seaforce, great bloke as is the crew.
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
Wannafish
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Give Exmouth gulf a try if
Give Exmouth gulf a try if it is too bad on the west side. We launch at the bay of rest (beach launch) when the wind is blowing from the south. Heaps of good ground there...
oldy
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Date Joined: 23/07/12
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info.