Its about time I decided to take sometime to tell the story of my Exmouth trip, 3rd one so far. Spent 8 days there and everyday was blasting easterlies. No problemo, just fish the west side til the wind drop and hire the dinghies to get out. No can do, everyday was blowing til atleast 2pm. Last couple of days was completely blown out the whole day. Despite the wind we still managed our fair share of Charlie Courts (mini cods) and the odd little Golden Trevs and Queenies. Highlight was my brother Gordon's 6.5kg Golden on a pink Roosta 80. Fished the marina a fair bit as that seems to be the only place with baitfish, needless to say we got into a heap of queenies on light gear. One of the guys managed an undersize coral trout from the wharf. The late arvo was spent at Naval Pier chasing GTs and boy was it "expensive". 3 of us did the walk arvo and donated atleast 10 poppers and stickbaits to the fish gods. Apart from the jetty's pylons, there's 2 large bommies and 3 sunken barges, all within 100m of the beach. Following are some of the G's we manage to land, as well as a large cod which decided after snaring an occy, wanted the popper as well!!. Total score of G's landed were 11 and just as much were dropped or lost completely. There were quite a few Big Eye trevalies taking big poppers just as eagerly. One of the guys managed to land a large cod on popper. Bloody thing was greedy as it already has an occy in its gob. It crawled out after he landed the cod. FYI, stickbaits and Surface bull GTs worked the best for us.
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