Broome Catches
Picture: You never know what will turn up when stick baiting up north, like this cheeky brassy rocking up in the shallows off Broome for last week (Photo: Courtesy of Andrew Rowland).
Billfish enthusiasts encountered good numbers of sailfish and a few small black marlin off James Price Point during the past week. Spanish mackerel have been responding well to trolled bibbed minnows and rigged garfish off Gantheaume Point and Entrance Point and there have been a few fish appearing near the moorings situated in Roebuck Bay at times.
Tackle World Broome’s Jake Bazelmans has been picking up some nice threadfin salmon to a metre and the odd bigger fish through Roebuck Bay. Mulloway to 1.2m have been picked up in the holes located in the bay.
Shore-based fishers have been kept entertained at Barn Hill Beach with the hoards of bluenose salmon about. Barramundi have generally been hard to entice in the Fitzroy River, however there were a few fish between 70cm and 90cm caught during the recent competition.
