Broome Fishing Trip, fishing in W.A! Options

[A pirate]

Hi guys,

Im just back from my recent trip to Broome, though i had a shocker. We went to the Rowley Shoals which is about 170nm due west of Broome and other remote reefs and islands. Allot of trolling was done and a bit of bottom bashing produced some fine fish.

Before we sailed we chatted to the guys at Tackle World Broome, and was advised Sailfish were a plenty and the record was 60 Sails in one day!!
We purchased a fair bit of gear and look forward to getting out there. The seas were calm with a maximum of 0.5m seas and the wind never got over 14knots so it was sensational!

I unfortunately could not keep it together, 1stly my lures did not attract anything worth keeping even though they were the same as the guys catching fish, then the insides of my reel decided they didnt like where they were and exploded while battling a 1.6m shark, i managed to land him and after a few hours of work i managed to rebuild the reel into a working order. The final failure was the roller in the tip of my rod fell out! why meeee what did i do so wrong!

I still ended up with a Spanish mackerel, dog tooth tuna and the spangled emperor so it was not a total loss.

What i have now learnt is buy expensive gear as it will last, my rod and reel were bought in a combo gear buy Now their retired im hunting for a TLD20 and a good ugly stick to replace the broken equipment.

we hit a few reefs and this is what we came up with.

3x Sail fish
many Dog tooth tuna (20-50kg)
many Spanish Mackeral biggest was 1.39m
few Green Job fish
few Spangled emperors mine 0.60
monster corral trout (lost 1/2 to a shark)
Heaps of sharks from 0.60m to 2.3m
plus other stuff

FLY sail FLY!!


I was the skipper that help landing this great fish (me at the tail)


my spango!!


Mixed grill


this guy is a wopper!! 1.39cm Spanish Mackerel taken on a fresh garfish




This post has been edited by A pirate: Apr 22 2008, 04:41 PM

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Poorly made reel poly

What alot of peeps dont realise is that reels get outsourced out with different Co's puting their name to them.

BUT !

It's consumer demand & when peeps dont want to fork out that little bit extra they get stung

With overheads I'd really stick to the better known brands like the Shimano's / Daiwa's etc

[CATCH22]

love the pics looks like you guys had a good time just being out there is a buzz keep the pics coming lovem goodonyaboys...

[A pirate]

okies have looked around and read many posts here and I have still gone and bought a brand spanking NEW Shimano TLD 25 which is now sitting on my table all for $149.25 got to love K-Mart 25% fishing equipment.

the 3x sail fish were all caught on TLD20's as were the dog tooth tunas and mackies so they seem pretty good for this type of fishing.
If the fish is any bigger .... well ill deal with it then.

This post has been edited by A pirate: Apr 24 2008, 04:16 AM