Shaun, Byron, Steve and Butch are up from Perth and are having a competition while on holidays. They walked in to the shop wearing no shirts and Shaun had a wooden spoon around his neck??? Apparently Shaun got the wooden spoon prize for the day for the lowest points scoring after losing rigs, hooking sharks, [...]

Familiar faces are starting to show up around the town as the weather cools down. One such face is that of Owen Suckling who has been coming to Exmouth for many years and staying at the Lighthouse Caravan Park. Despite Owen now needing a walking stick due to a back injury in his late 70’s, [...]

Local angler Ben Knight caught a memorable fish last week. It was a black marlin.  He has caught many before, but this one was tackled on fly gear. Ben was fishing on the boat Weapon when a marlin came in to the spread of hookless lures. The skipper pulled the boat out of gear as [...]

Andrew Bowie is up here for a few weeks from Perth enjoying the autumn weather. He was out in his 5m fibreglass boat off northwest reef using a deep diving lure when a 1m long barracuda took a shine to the lure. Andrew landed the fish and happily took a few pics before releasing it.
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Ben Griffin from Mandurah is up on holidays with his Dad and friends. They were fishing in under 20m of water off Tantabiddi using Ockta jigs when they hooked up to a variety of fish including spangled emperor coral cod and a robinson sea bream. The robinson sea bream are usually only found in deep [...]

WOW…….what a tournament 2010 was! It was all about breaking records; from the amount of billfish tagged, to the dozen pending state, national and world records: it was huge! This year 65 boats competed with 237 anglers. Sadly two boats pulled out due to mechanical reasons, but the anglers still enjoyed the events at the [...]

Summer is finally over and autumn has kicked in as the temperatures have dropped and cool nights have kept the air-conditioners off around the town.  The fishing hasn’t really slowed too much though with reports still coming in daily of interesting catches. The small black marlin photographed by Tayla Clatworthy this week is just one [...]

The week after Gamex the marlin are still fired up. Rosco, Marie and friends on Reel Easy fished Easter Saturday after missing the tournament due to house building commitments. Rosco thinks he should just be committed.
 
The crew fished outside Helby bank and hooked a small marlin almost straight away that jumped off after 20-30 seconds. [...]

Mike Owens is up from Perth with his mates for a fishing holiday. He told us about a previous trip that was so amazing, that we had to share it with you. He was trying to target pelagic fish from the shore down the west side with a floating bait and balloon. He didn’t have much success, [...]

Records were the theme for Gamex 2010 with over 12 pending State, Australian and World records achieved for the event. It was also a record for the amount of billfish tagged with 446 billfish tagged for the 6-day tournament. This astounding result will be ringing in the ears of anglers around the globe as the [...]