March 2005

PO Box 63 KALBARRI WA 6536 PH/FAX (08) 9937 2043
http://www.murchisonboathire.com.au/

MURCHISON BOAT HIRE MARCH 2005 NEWSLETTER
The best time of year is here now. The weather is at it’s best and the mackerel and tuna are out there to be caught. After a good start with the mackerel around Christmas they went quiet for a while but the mackerel sure have come back in their multitudes! Everyone has been getting them and Kalbarri is still the easiest place to do it.

Dave Van Oossanen, Dennis Taylor, Beau Taylor, Lance Taylor were up again this year and stayed at Wagoe. The easterlies were not blowing for them and they had little luck catching anything! Booking the 6.1m boat as they did last year was their chance of catching some fish. The day out this year in the 6.1m was quite good and they managed to drift fish most spots. It was hard for them to catch a fish at first but later in the day it started to go off and Lance pictured here was happy with his 7.5kg dhuie. Dennis got a smaller one while everyone else picked up red throats, cods, snapper, skippy and the like.
Lance’s biggest dhuie to date

Now look at this guys, if Sue Craig and friend Linda can catch mackerel like this, any of you guys can do it as well! Early morning start and they had the first mac within the first 15 minutes, dropped a second, landed a third, went for a bottom fish, released two sambos and released another mac on the troll home! Well-done girls!

These macs were the biggest fish they had ever caught, Sue (left) & Linda


Daniel Kwek and his extended group of friends come up each year at Easter and spend 4 days out having a bit of fun. They have been coming up here for 5 years now and know the waters well. They always strike it lucky with the weather and the fish. A 17kg samson fish for Kenneth the first day among some other good fish, a 15kg mac for Daniel on the second day. Good bottom fish mixed with a blinder of a mackerel day on the last with everyone on the boat getting their bag limit rounded off another very successful trip for the group. New species for the boat was Kenneth’s unicorn leatherjacket!
Daniel’s 15kg mac,

Kenneth with his 17kg samson

and a thumper of a sand snapper.

Daniel with a very nice surf paroty (female blue-barred parrotfish)

and Kenneth’s weirdo unicorn leatherjacket

Remember if you rent our accommodation you get big discounts on our boats. Have a look on my website for the details, and check out the savings.
Check out http://www.oceanoutlook.com.au/ and go to the Geraldton weather for local 5-day weather forecasts, or http://www.buoyweather.com/ and go to virtual buoys, is not a bad one!

Big bait = big fish

Laurie