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Broome Catches
Picture: The boats that have been working the 10m to 20m depths have been picking up some nice catches of trevally.
Boats
Billfish enthusiasts have been encountering good numbers of sailfish off Cable Beach and near Disaster Rock. One crew reportedly found sailfish less than 400m from the shore off Willie Creek last week. Spanish mackerel ranging from 10kg to 25kg have been responding well to trolled rigged garfish and bibbed minnows off Cable Beach and out from Gantheaume Point. The boats that have been working the 10m to 20m depths have been picking up some nice catches of blue lined emperor, trevally and coral trout. Red emperor and saddletail seaperch have mostly been coming from the ground in excess of 30m of water.
Shore based
Barramundi catches have been increasing in the Fitzroy as the water clarity in the system improves. The local creeks are also starting to produce a few more barra together with bluenose salmon, and threadfin salmon. Big schools of baitfish that have turned up along Cable Beach and Roebuck Bay are attracting an assortment of predators including queenfish and threadfin salmon. Spanish mackerel are worth targeting from Gantheaume Point on a live garfish suspended under a float.
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Top Water Lures: Poppers
Technical Rating: Intermediate
Top water fishing is at the forefront of exciting salt water sport fishing action. Top water lures particularly are varied in their size, weight, form and function, from poppers to stickbaits. There are basically two types of popper, blooping and pencil poppers, with other styles loosely falling into one of these two types or stickbaits. The most basic principal with poppers is they float, with a somewhat concave, cupped face and no diving bib.
Those with wide, round bodies and large concave faces are for “blooping” where a stroke of the rod causes a spray of water from the cupped face. They are designed for maximum splash and commotion on the surface, drawing predatory fish from deeper water to attack the surface.
Various forms of pencil popper retain a cupped face but in a much slimmer profile. Although there are some sinking models they are more of a stickbait than a popper in performance. Pencil poppers are designed to be either skipped along the surface in a high speed retrieve or in a slower “walk the dog” retrieve where winding in sync with a side to side rod action causes a constant zig-zag lure action on the surface.
