Sharks, Sweetlips, Seaweed and Sun at Ningaloo

 Joel and a kanga.

Say hello to Joel, our resident fisher and part-time blogger.

When we were in Ningaloo, before the famous floods, we went fishing. The fishing at Ningaloo is considered by some to be world class. If you have a boat or a kayak, it makes it much easier and you can catch more fish. We did try several times off the shore but only got seaweed.

Whilst we were there we caught a big Painted Sweetlips for dinner. We also hooked heaps of Spanish Flag and Spangled Emperor. We also managed to catch an octopus, who was not very happy. Numerous times big Golden Trevally would cruise though but they never touched any of my baits.

Also while we were there, we saw numerous sharks, they would swim around and you would see them. They are mainly harmless black and white tip sharks. We even hooked a few sharks who tried to give us a lift out to sea.

The tranquility of it....

On one memorable occasion, we had been fishing on a reef with big boulders, and had decided to go snorkelling to see some of the fish that we knew were there due to the hook-up we had. I decided to drop a big bait out on the big rod on the edge of the reef. We hoped for a mackerel, or something besides a shark.

Bethany had opted to stay in the kayaks to watch the rod, and Josh, Chloe and I slipped in the water to go snorkelling. Just as we were preparing to go down and do some in-depth exploring of the depths, Bethany started yelling.

Trying to get a fish from the shore, but not as good as from
the kayak.

Something had got the bait! The drag was way to tight and the line was only just not snapping, I yelled to Bethany who was being towed out to sea to loosen the drag. But as luck would have it she tightened the drag and the line snapped.

On another occasion we hooked a shark on a 60lb handline the shark jumped out of the water several times before we ran out of line.

Joel and Chloe relaxing. Soon after the photo, you could
just see the legs swing into the kayak well clear of the
water.....
I wonder why......

Whilst we where there there was a fellow fisho who had a 4.2 metre boat which he took offshore He would always come back with some mackerel and give us some and the ones that got eaten by sharks we used as bait.

See Ya.

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Gliding in after a hard day's fishing on Ningaloo