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Kununurra Catches
Picture: “Another great day on the water with perfect weather conditions, great tides and some excellent fishing!! Congratulations Lindsey on your first ever Barramundi” (Photo courtesy of Northbound Charters) If you are looking to head up to Kununurra for some barra, give these guys a call!
Lower Ord River
The fishing down the Lower Ord has been quite productive when fishing it at the right time with only small windows of opportunity, especially on the spring tides. The most productive method has been trolling 3.5-5m Classic Barra Lures into the submerged snags. The best report we’ve heard over the last week involved myself and a mate when we boated over 40 barra for the day. Lots of small fish but at least 15 fish over the 65cm mark. Pretty good fishing for July.
Shore-based
The Pentecost River has been a bit slow which is surprising as there is an unusual amount of mullet and boney herring getting around. A few barra have been caught around the 60-70cm mark.
Broome Catches
Picture: Sail season is a cracker this year, with consistent catches at James Price Point and The Peanut!
Boats:
Billfish enthusiasts have mostly been encountering small sailfish – fish of about 12kg – during their outings offshore. While a few schools of the small sails have been found in waters out from town, most of the fish raised during the past fortnight were wide of James Price Point and near The Peanut.
A few small marlin have also been found among the sails as have spanish mackerel and longtail and yellowfin tuna. More mackerel have been caught on trolled bibbed minnows and rigged garfish off Entrance Point and Gantheaume Point. Reef fishing has been reasonably productive with blue lined and spangled emperor being caught within Roebuck Bay and red emperor and saddletail seaperch wider.
Shore-based:
Bluenose salmon were around in fairly good numbers at the local creeks and adjacent shorelines during the recent run of spring tides. Threadfin salmon have been coming and going near the creeks and are a little hard to pin down at the moment. The lower reaches of the Fitzroy River continue to produce barramundi in the 60cm to 80cm category. The beaches north of town are fishing well for whiting.
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