Working in Onslow
Submitted by TAPOUT on Tue, 2013-02-12 08:09
Looking at taking a job in Onslow. Be there for 4 weeks each trip. Just looking for info on what's in town and what the land based fishing is like. Anyone else working up there? Wondering if it's worth bringing the family up once in a while to break up the time away from them. Just not sure if there is much for them to do if they came up for a week or two. Any advice or info would be much appreciated.
trymyluck
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Date Joined: 06/05/12
I have been to Onslow twice
I have been to Onslow twice when travelling around, despite the stories of great fishing I turned around and continued to head north both times. I remember the guy at the fuel stop saying to me "not stopping mate.. haha " He had watched me drive around, look at the caravan park etc and then eventually drive off with some purpose to the fuel station . Not a place for families or kids I wouldnt have thought ... "sh**hole" ..springs to mind lol
snappermiles
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the fishing can be great
there are plenty of queenies around the boat ramp on high tide and i have seen a barra swimming around the jetty mud crabs not too far away! not sure what the catch of the rock groyne at the entrance to the ocean but there are always guys fishing there! i would certainly be taking my rod! and there is a charter boat that operates from the mackeral islands who catches plenty of fish! (not sure whether he is still there since they closed the island though)
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dodgy
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Date Joined: 01/02/10
Charter is no longer there.
Charter is no longer there. Thevernard is taking bookings again.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
sherbert
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Date Joined: 10/09/06
Talk to big john
he was there for years, More boat fishing not to far from the town in 20 meters of water And great speargun fishing
Big john your man
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EL SYD
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Date Joined: 16/08/10
will be travling down around
will be travling down around july and would also like some info too, will be heading to exmouth again and have some time to kill before getting there, after info on cabin style accomadation and landbased fishing, not into small stuff, is it worth a stop.
cheers
Tank
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Date Joined: 12/05/12
Keep driving
For what it's worth my misses will not be returning....visited a couple of times for a beach fix from Pannawonica...misses reckons the water is upside down...stayed at the park on water front in town...they have cabins....visit it once to tick the box but keep the car running....
NOHA
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Date Joined: 24/06/07
Not a great holiday spot
Unless you have a boat
Either a tinnie for the creeks or a bigger one for offshore.
The creeks have crabs but they are small systems and soon depleted
Small trevs/queenies come in with the tide and many fish for them at Beadon creek or 4 mile entrances
The bay out front has bluies over winter and plenty of small northern species including trout from the coral patches
All the serious fishing however is 30 odd kilometrs away past the islands
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sideshow
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Date Joined: 21/01/13
I was getting mangrove
I was getting mangrove jacks,malabar cod and heaps of bream off the rock groine at the beadon creak mouth, unwaited mulies just pick the tide right or it will end up under the rocks as quick as u can cast it out. I saw a lot of trevs and queenfish being caught by the other guys i worked up there with, but that was 18 months ago I think it has changed a little bit up there.
If u have a boat or can ever hire one the salt jetty is pretty good but i think its a bit of a no go zone not sure , some of the guys got a few cobia not far from it
All work and no fishing makes me a dull boy!!!!!!!!
JasFishing
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Date Joined: 02/02/11
Working on Wheatstone
Hey mate, will you be working on the Wheatstone pRoject???
Gone Fishing
TAPOUT
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Date Joined: 27/01/06
Yeah on a dredge mate.
Yeah on a dredge mate.
Jelle
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Date Joined: 21/12/11
Wheatstone project?
Wheatstone project?
shonky
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Date Joined: 22/04/12
Onslow
Roebourne on the coast
This habit is getting expensive!
big john
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Bullshit
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Lastchance
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Gday Tapout, Onslow is what
Gday Tapout, Onslow is what you make of it. It's a small NW coastal town that doesn't have the fishing pressure of the other towns (Dampier, Exmouth etc), but doesn't have the amenities of the said towns....yet. Id be jumping in now and getting into what it has to offer before its all gone. In my opinion, the NW would be much further developed by now if the NW coastal highway passed through more of the towns instead of passing around them and Onslow is probably the best example of what it used to be like fishing up here.