Bynoe: Pete O hit Bynoe on Saturday and went to the secret location above Jennifer, think its called the 'Rubber Flat'. They got Barra but could not hook up on the salmon that were around in schools. Flats were clear out of the wind.
Darwin: Its been a while since I fished the main part of the harbour, and its a bit of an eye opener if you haven't been there for a while, should you launch from the Elizabeth or East Arm you will feel like a ball in a pin ball machine. You have to bounce or zig zag from side to side, to avoid all the buoys and bits and pieces as well as boats and barges being used for the Inpex developement. We also saw some dead turtles in the area,( interesting, never seen that before). Once you managed to get through the obstacle course and panther crawl under the barge hoses the harbour, away from all that, was its usual self. Except for the bloody wind. If you opened your mouth it blew the bum out of your pants.
There were plenty of pelagics around on the lower part of the tide, if you could get out of the wind, and threadies in the clear water, but they were hard to hook up with the boat rocking around in the swell.
Edon Bell has been hitting the outer harbour, around Lee Point recently and got some beauties, "catching 8 GT's 85-90cm, 2 Goldies in the 55-60cm range, a Queenie in the 90cm range and a bunch of Ox Eye Herring. I was exhausted at the end but had a smile ear to ear".
Nice fish.
Can you get me details of the turtles, anything would be useful.
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Dion
Mate they were both near south shell island, one about 3 feet plus and the other only around 2 feet. Just dead in the water. The water was clear.
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