Stuart and Deb Newnham from the Isle of White are here in Exmouth again for the fishing. The couple have been fishing the shoreline around the Westside and getting good runs from the spangled emperor using squid for bait. This has been during the middle of the day around the high tide. Stuart’s brother Cliff and his wife Sandy are also here this time and the two went out from Coral Bay on a charter and Cliff caught his first marlin! What a great start to their first visit to the Northwest.

Seth Nafte from Sydney and Neil Silver from Perth are up getting a bit of practise in for Gamex. The boys fished last Saturday and tagged five marlin: not a bad practise day! They also brought one marlin in to weigh, which turned out to be a state record fish of 155kg on 24kg line class. The weighed fish gathered plenty of attention at the gantry at the Rec centre and the fish was soon filleted and smoked up. There have been a few sharks about in all areas of late. A 2m shark was spotted under the footbridge in the canals, while a large tiger sharked spooked a couple of free-divers off the Muiron Islands.

Some people were observed dumping fish carcasses into the water where people swim around the west side and we’d like to request (once again) that people be mindful of sharks and place carcasses in the shire bins or well offshore, rather than where we all swim. The Shire of Exmouth will be doing excavating of the sand in front of Tantabiddi Boat Ramp on the 11th -13th of March. This will limit the use of the ramp for those days, but hopefully it will ensure a better launching and retrieving area for the ramp. The boating community including the Exmouth Game Fishing Club would like to thank the shire of Exmouth for their efforts and hope that the ramp will be in good condition for Gamex, Easter and the start of the whaleshark season.

Brothers Damian and Shane Bowman from Margaret River and Adelaide are here on a fishing holiday with their 12ft tinny. The boys have been having a ball inside the reef near Ned’s camp and targeting sports fish on light spin outfits. They had success with golden trevally, chinamen cod, spanglies and even got on to a few mickies and coronation trout outside south passage. They were using sift plastics and c’ultiva shads. This week’s pic is of Braden Cooper with a fine cobia caught using a soft plastic golden glitter lure and 10lb braid off Tantabiddi. Braden is one of the local keen anglers that we’re sure will be competing in Gamex in years to come. If you haven’t got your entry in for Gamex 2009, you’d better hurry up or you will incur the late fee. Don’t forget that there is a Pirates dress-up theme for the presentation dinner and if you want to be involved or find further info check out the club’s website on www.egfc.com.au Mar 05 ‘09

Stuart and Deb Newnham from the Isle of White are here in Exmouth again for the fishing. The couple have been fishing the shoreline around the Westside and getting good runs from the spangled emperor using squid for bait. This has been during the middle of the day around the high tide. Stuart’s brother Cliff and his wife Sandy are also here this time and the two went out from Coral Bay on a charter and Cliff caught his first marlin! What a great start to their first visit to the Northwest Seth Nafte from Sydney and Neil Silver from Perth are up getting a bit of practise in for Gamex. The boys fished last Saturday and tagged five marlin: not a bad practise day! They also brought one marlin in to weigh, which turned out to be a state record fish of 155kg on 24kg line class. The weighed fish gathered plenty of attention at the gantry at the Rec centre and the fish was soon filleted and smoked up. There have been a few sharks about in all areas of late. A 2m shark was spotted under the footbridge in the canals, while a large tiger sharked spooked a couple of free-divers off the Muiron Islands. Some people were observed dumping fish carcasses into the water where people swim around the west side and we’d like to request (once again) that people be mindful of sharks and place carcasses in the shire bins or well offshore, rather than where we all swim.

The Shire of Exmouth will be doing excavating of the sand in front of Tantabiddi Boat Ramp on the 11th -13th of March. This will limit the use of the ramp for those days, but hopefully it will ensure a better launching and retrieving area for the ramp. The boating community including the Exmouth Game Fishing Club would like to thank the shire of Exmouth for their efforts and hope that the ramp will be in good condition for Gamex, Easter and the start of the whaleshark season.

Brothers Damian and Shane Bowman from Margaret River and Adelaide are here on a fishing holiday with their 12ft tinny. The boys have been having a ball inside the reef near Ned’s camp and targeting sports fish on light spin outfits. They had success with golden trevally, chinamen cod, spanglies and even got on to a few mickies and coronation trout outside south passage. They were using sift plastics and c’ultiva shads.

This week’s pic is of Braden Cooper with a fine cobia caught using a soft plastic golden glitter lure and 10lb braid off Tantabiddi. Braden is one of the local keen anglers that we’re sure will be competing in Gamex in years to come. If you haven’t got your entry in for Gamex 2009, you’d better hurry up or you will incur the late fee. Don’t forget that there is a Pirates dress-up theme for the presentation dinner and if you want to be involved or find further info check out the club’s website on www.egfc.com.au site designed and built by