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Exmouth Catches
(Picture: Small Golden Trevally taken on the western beaches of Exmouth)
Boats targeting billfish off the west coast are encountering fair numbers of black marlin and sailfish as well as plenty of dolphin fish. There has been heaps of Spanish mackerel hooked along the back of the reef north and south of Tantabiddi and near the Muiron Islands. The 15 to 25m depths are where most of the mackerel are being hooked. Many of the mackerel however have been lost to sharks, which are also snatching plenty of the reef fish such as red emperor caught out wide.
A client aboard On Strike Charters landed a red emperor that looked as though it would have been close to 10kg had the sharks not taken a piece of it before it was landed. Shore-based fishers hitting the accesses along the west coast and near the tip of the cape are picking up a few spangled emperor, queenfish and small trevally. Fly fishers are continuing to catch bonefish and the odd permit. Try the seagrass beds in the gulf and near Tantabiddi for squid.
Tackleworld Exmouth provided us with the following: The queenfish are certainly showing up in bigger numbers along the coastal shoreline and are a great visual feeder. They respond well to fastly retrieved metals, as well as poppers and soft plastics. They usually travel in pairs or schools, which make the bite very aggressive as they compete for the food. The queenfish are not the best frozen, so we would suggest getting enough for a fresh feed and releasing others. We also always suggest using barbless single hooks because their gills form part of the lower jaw and retrieving barbed trebles from this area can be damaging to the fish.
