kalbarri landbased fishing report
So been managing to get out a little bit and do some landbased fishing. There has been some good tailor starting to move in down the cliffs from pot alley to eagle gorge. When swell permits you can get down to the ledges and get into them. Wittacarra has been good for tailor as well just before sunrise and on dusk. Been some good bronzies being hooked as well in the early mornings if your into that type of fishing! The river has been going off with really good numbers of bream being caught from the refuel jetty all the way up river. Some decent size Javlin fish being caught up river as well. Mullaway are starting to make a bit more of an appearance off the beaches from chinamans and up the coast. Tailor off frustrations are in pesky numbers on dusk through to night. Crabs have been pretty quiet but hopefully will fire up as this moon comes on to full shortly. With the dredge in town now pumping the fish are starting to get fiesty. There are still really good numbers of yellowfin whiting in the river as well up to and over 30cm. Been an amazing year for whiting on the flats here in ankle deep water but they can be found in numbers up river past castle rock on the flats as well. Hope this helps.
Lowza
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Tailor
Tangles whats the Tailor numbers / size like typically in January for Kalbarri, my usual annual trip is april at witticarra and has been great for numbers.
tangles
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well
well the other day up at the sandpatch no swell crystal clear water and you could see the tailor on the surface like baitfish! you have to remember that tailor are a migrating fish and will travel up and down the coast. they seem to be spawning most of the year now and when that happens they are everywhere. Dont go to whits too much as it get way too crowded and i hate crowds!
MetroMako
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cheers
good report tangles ,keep them coming
Lowza
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Good to hear
I would love to know the technique on those bronzies at wittacara, surely ballooning out?
tangles
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nope
went down there the other morning w me brother maxy and just had a slab of mullet on a mullaway rig out and in they came! only problem is 100lb doesnt last long in the mouth of a noah! i hate the things but they are around! no need to balloon up here for them mate!
Lowza
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Ridiculous
In saying that april this year at wits saw a Spaniard jumping like 50m from sure well within casting range.... Kalbarri is gold for landbased.
tangles
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jakes
on the flat days you get out the back of the point and cast out raiders and you hook them one after the other hehe! yep and thats why im addicted to this place. 14 years of landbased fishing here and im in love!!
garethgkr
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I'm feeling all fuzzy now
I'm feeling all fuzzy now reading this!! Heading to Kalbarri in 6 days with a few mates. Should be a blast.
Callum24
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good on ya tangles plannin a
good on ya tangles plannin a trip to lucky bay for a few nights i'll pm ya wen settled on a date hopefully get stretched by some big mullas
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tangles
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no probs
no probs callum. i know theres been a few bein caught up near the lagoon nth of lucky bay. The gutters south of lucky should start coming on with the mullet starting to come into lucky now. Im off to hutt river tonight for a camp n fish so hopefully be a cpl down there. hopefully the tigers stay away cos i dont really wana be tangling with them down there and there are some large specimens down that way being a big breeding area for them.
Rig
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hutt
how did you go down at the Hutt mate?
tangles
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good
good rig. pulled up bout half mile south of nobbys. tailor were pests all night non stop mate! there was mullas around, mate got a soapy but as the same as up here. the mullas would pick up the bait play with it then as soon as they drop it the peskies would come in and nail it! Got a good size stretch limmo tailor bout 70+. Nice shovel nose next morning that kept me entertained for a bit. Only cpl local crew stretched out the whole way so heaps of room. Lovee the place but gona love the north of town even better doing tour hehe!
Rig
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yep
sounds ok, when there is heaps of those choppers around at least the good fresh bait supply is healthy. I caught a whopper shovel nose down there last year was 2.5m long big white spot. Thought it was a trophy mulloway initially lol took a bit of getting in. No whalers around? no sea weed?
tangles
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roji
roji rig, yeah only weed was at nobbys mate the rest of the beach running south to hutt was clean as. Yeah same with me with the shovel nose, got a bit excited thinking mmmm big mulla! then i saw the fin!! still put up a good account for itself. ill post up the cpl photos i got wayne to take! No sharks round thank god!! but im sure they are there just a off day for em hehe!
Callum24
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couple mates were at lucky
couple mates were at lucky friday night for a few small mullas and a hot session on giant herring on feathers in the river the following days
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tangles
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herring
yeah callum the giant herring in the river are off tap atm. its great to see them in force up there. There have also been little queenies caught up river a while ago from a cpl local boys. The murchison is the healthiest ive seen it in the 14 years ive lived here and its great to see. Bream stocks are amazing as well.
Callum24
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certainly is healthy when i
certainly is healthy when i was up there a a month or 2 ago i went with the torch for crabs but ended up finding bait small prawns millions of bait fish mullet garies heaps of smaller fish. havin a beer with me mate that was just up there recons he got done in by a big mulla up river is there any thing else that gets up there that can pull serious line this fish was hooked on his beach fishin gear 50lb and a livie spat the hooks after bout 10 minutes
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tangles
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mulla
thatd def be a mulla callum. there are bull sharks in the river but if the hooks spat then def a mulla! you get them 10+ ks up river so they are there. these fish were probably finglings that made their way up there and have stayed there.