Competition Winners!
Recfishwest and Perth & WA Fishing Reports recently ran a competition on Facebook. All you had to do was tell us your fishing safety story, where you and/or your mates found yourselves in a sticky situation where some fishing safety equipment could have come in very handy, it was that easy! We’re thrilled with the response on a topic that is not always easy to talk about, but needs much more exposure to change behaviour toward safety, the responses were great from you all. We decided to pick 2 winners, 1 land based and 1 boat, considering WA’s recent boating tragedies. Congratualtions to our winners Stephen Bxaxa and Conrad Dalais, we hope you continue to be safe on the water and enjoy your new Fisher Safety Vest: Crewsaver 165N Sport.
Make sure you read their stories, click HERE.
Exmouth Catches
Picture: Two beautiful sailfish being tagged at once. Great to see fishers assisting in research (photo courtesy of @kessisfishing)
Spanish mackerel are being picked up in good numbers along the back of the reef north and south of Tantabiddi. Several black marlin and some big sailfish have been hooked in 100 to 200m of water. A few crews working the waters out wider have been landing the odd striped marlin as well as encountering some nice yellowfin tuna and wahoo. The areas inside of the reef on the west side have been good for spangled emperor and squid.
Some nice catches of red emperor, rankin cod and spangled emperor have been had by a few boats hitting the outer lumps. The bait schools on the west side are attracting queenfish and assortments of trevally. The marina is loaded with yellowfin bream while whiting are starting to show in better numbers along the gulf beaches.
