Email: lasue@wn.com.au http://www.murchisonboathire.com.au/MURCHISON BOAT HIRE APRIL 2011 ELETTER
A very busy month, with great weather compounding on a strong warm Leeuwin current resulted in extraordinary
good catches of fish this month. So busy was it that I seldom had time to glean info from all excited
anglers as they returned the boats. Everyone caught fish and hirers like Aaron McDonald told me that they caught
12 mackerel before 9am. Details are a bit sketchy so I have left it to the pictures to tell the stories.
On 26th March, my family and I hired the 6.1m boat from Laurie. We went out through the river mouth to do a little bit
of trolling but we had no luck. So we decided to do some bottom bouncing to the north of the river.
When Dad picked up some lumpy ground on the sounder, we decided to drop our lines over.
We drifted for a little bit before I got snagged on the reef. Dad managed to get my line off the reef
and handed it back to me. Just then I thought I was snagged again but realised I had something big on the line.
I pulled and pulled but it just kept on swimming to the reef. I wound in the line so the fish came up to the surface.
Dad got the net and it was my first dhuie, 63cm!
by Lochie Lindemann (age 9 y.o.)
All fired up
Wayne & Marelise Ludewig were back for a second trip and picked the right day.
Kids Karl and Dieter were with them as well as Marelise’s father, Peet.
Wayne got himself a tuna
while dieter did well with a dhuie
and tuna
Marelise landed 2 baldchin groper
and a tuna while Peet got his share as well as this tuna.
Trailer refurbishment
Before
and after
The last of the 6.5m trailers has now been totally upgraded and has already made a few trips the Gnaraloo
On that very rough and rugged road.
Weekend break away
Well it did not take long and Christine was onto her first fish, second fish, third fish etc.
Miguel also got his fair share, but it was Christine who out fished him on the day!
Gnaraloo trip
Anthony Macri and mates hired the 7.8m boat for seven days in Gnaraloo and had a ball landing plenty of tuna and mackerel.
The highlight was a small marlin that hit one of their trolled lures.
Unfortunately it would not go back so they had to keep it.
Fun day out
Dan Brandenburg and daughter Jess spent a day out with me last year, but did not do too well, and was back to have another go.
This time things were different! We powered to an area that I knew was fishing well for tuna and mackerel, pulled up
and sent the first lure out. I then picked up the second rod to let that lure out and the first lure took a strike!
Hook up within 15 seconds! Jess took the rod landing this chunky yellow-fin tuna. 
Dan got one as well.
After that it was full on fish after fish after fish. They went on to catch and release 15 odd tuna.
Jess also caught and released her first mackerel.
It was even getting monotonous! I suggested that Dan have a shot with my light spin gear and he cast to a boiling school
of tuna instantly hooking up. 
A memorable catch on light gear.
Annual Kalbarri Trip
David Brest is a fly in fly out worker and can’t wait for his annual Kalbarri trip with mates, Henry and father in law Max.
This year the weather was a lot kinder making the 5 day hire with the 7.8m boat very comfortable.
There were mackerel, there were tuna, 
David holds them up
Henry got his fair share, and then went on to the light gear casting to the schools. 
They sure gave him a work out!
A pretty good mackerel for Henry 
and Max did not miss out either.
A bottom fishing day scored Max a dhuie 
and David landed his first dhuie, among a bag of snapper & big red-throat emperor.
2 days of full on fun
Mark Tooby and I go back along time, we used to fish Quobba Station 20 or so years ago and
played in the same squash teem. He called to see if he could get a boat just before Easter and luckily scored the 7.8m 
Mark’s mate Glenn joined us and got stuck into tuna and mackerel.
A second bottom fishing day out made Glenn’s day catching this big cobia, 
while mark shows of the sambo
he caught and released. We bagged out on snapper & red-throat emperor, before returning midday.
Gnaraloo trip
Peter Holtfreter is a regular hirer, making multi trips to Gnaraloo. He knows his spots as you can see from the pics.
They got into big mackerel, and some good reds.
A chunky mackerel that took a drifted bait while bottom fishing, and Peter holds his double header of cobia and red emperor.
He could see the double header coming up and thought the cobia was a shark after his red, so he nearly ripped the head
off the cobia and red getting them up and into the boat!
Some of the great reds landed during the trip.
Easter Frenzy
Andrew Phillips hired a boat last year and was back again with a bunch of mates to have another crack.
It all went off in the good conditions, there were fish after fish,
mackerel and tuna,
double hook-ups,
splashes, sharks,
tuna,
and some of the better fish
Bite of the month
Ishka Smith hold up his 18kg yellow-fin tuna for bite of the month. Fishing with mates, Isiah Pedler, Eden Willis,
Liam Sanford and Stephanie Pool, they spent the day in the 7.8m boat catching tuna, one after the other.
On my advice they took a spin rod and Ishka cast a lead baitfish pattern to a school of big
tuna crashing around the boat. Luckily he had an outfit spooled with 15kg line, but it still
took him 40 minutes to land it.
They ended the day with 2 other tuna around 7 kgs and released lots of undersize snapper.
See all the previous Bite of the Month winners on my website.
Popular Northern Destinations
Thevenard Island
There are new managers at the Onslow Mackerel Motel, Colin and Rosa will now look after you on the mainland.
Rosa will take your accommodation booking for the Onslow Mackerel Motel if you would like to stay. Phone her on 9184 6586
Colin will sort you out with a lock up storage area for trailers and your vehicle when you are at the island.
Drew is still the Island manager: 9184 6444,
This year the 6.5m and 7.8m boats are already booked for Thevenard Island but there are still spaces available for adventures in this great place.
bookings@mackerelislands.com.au
Check out the website: http://www.mackerelislands.com.au/
Gnaraloo Station
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Email: bookings@gnaraloo.com.au
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
Game, Bottom and Beach Fishing Action
These links will take you to Youtube showing some great action video clips taken from
my boats and also a very good mulloway from the beach.
Triple tuna hook-up
Dhuie and snapper
Beach mulloway
Archived Newsletters
After a lot of effort on my part, you can now view all my past newsletters in my Blogs.
I have made six blogs; you can view all of my 2005 newsletters with photos @
http://www.murchisonboathirefishing2005.blogspot.com/
And from January 2006 to December 2006 with photos @
http://www.murchisonboathirefishing2006.blogspot.com/
And from January 2007 to December 2007 with photos @
http://www.murchisonboathirefishing2007.blogspot.com/
And from January 2008 to December 2008 with photos @
http://www.murchisonboathirefishing2008.blogspot.com/
And from January 2009 to December 2009 with photos @
http://www.murchisonboathirefishing2009.blogspot.com/
And from January 2010 to December 2010 with photos @
http://www.murchisonboathirefishing2010.blogspot.com/
And from January 2011 onwards with photos @
http://www.murchisonboathirefishing2011.blogspot.com/
They are quite long URL’s so add them to your favourites.
Remember if you rent our accommodation in Kalbarri you get big discounts on our boats.
Have a look on my website for the details, and check out the savings.
5-day weather forecasts, http://www.buoyweather.com/ go to virtual buoys, pick the location you want.
This is the one I go by!
Big bait – big fish
Laurie
