Email: lasue@wn.com.au http://www.murchisonboathire.com.au/MURCHISON BOAT HIRE MAY 2011 ELETTER
But all did extremely well, even those who were inexperienced landed good fish.
The mackerel were patchy but the bottom fish exceptional. Some hirers saying that they were releasing
10 dhuies each day, and getting their bag of big snapper on top!
All the great bottom fishing is due, I think, to the reduction from 3 charter boats to one, and that one does not go
far from the river mouth. All the fish are coming back, and the best is still to come with the start
of the breeding aggregation of dhuies for the next couple of months.
Weekend break away
Robert Yamil fished with me last year with a large group of guys and this year came with his mate Henry Tumewa.
Henry lives in Indonesia and made the trip especially to fish with Robert. Robert is also from Indonesia where he owns a holiday
resort south of Jakarta, but also lives in Perth. We had a couple of great days fishing, the mackerel were absent, but the bottom went off!
Robert and Henry show off a couple of good baldchin gropers
and Robert a very good coral trout.
The red-throat emperors were big; it was a top new spot we found!
These were just a few of the great fish they caught.
Gnaraloo trip
Peter Holtfreter’s trip was a success landing good fish from the 6.1m boat this month. Peter is a regular
and has been fishing out of Gnaraloo a long time.
They caught good baldies
Red emperors 
and they even caught a sail fish! Just look at the conditions!
Boat Rescue from Gnaraloo
Peter Holtfreter rang me from Gnaraloo, 6.30pm the evening before they were to leave. The 6.1m trailer had a broken spring and
broken U bolt. Nothing else to do but get another trailer up there and bring it back. Now this did not give me much time!
I launched one of the 6.5m boats in the dark and put it on a mooring and set my alarm for 1.30am.
The above pic is dawn at the blowholes; I was in Gnaraloo at 7.45am.
We changed the 6.1m boat onto the 6.5m trailer and made the old bust up trailer safe enough to tow back on its own.
I am now frantically building another new trailer, but this time beefed up to the max.
The under carriage has now been built from 14” Landcruiser axles, hubs and bearings, it can now be classed as “off road” as it is
grossly over engineered for the size of the boat!
Kalbarri Trip
Mick Thompson got hold of the 6.5m boat for 7 days, scoring fine weather, (except for a bit of unusual rain) and did well most days.
I dropped in on them when organising a survey for the boat, and they showed me their catch.
Billy Thompson had a very good baldie
while the group, Alan Wiseman, Mick Thompson, Billy Thompson and Jason Loverage
hold up their catch for the day.
Another day they went north and landed another great bag which included a red emperor for Alan.
Nice fish saves the day
Hi Laurie/Sue,
Just and update of our trip to Kalbarri and the boat hire for the day.
"Having a 4.8 meter glass boat my wife was a bit bemused as to why I wanted to hire a boat from Murchison Boat Hire.
Needless to say bigger is better. I decided to hire the 5.3 meter (smallest in the fleet I believe).
My father in law and I left pretty late in the morning and headed south along the cliffs hugging the shoreline.
The current was pretty ferocious and we were not able to bottom bounce in the depth we wanted to (20+ meters) and as the swell
was pretty high we couldn't anchor either. So we decided to head back to the river mouth in shallow water and see what was on offer.
We then anchored about 500 meters out from the mouth. After a few nibbles I thought I was snagged on the bottom as
I tried to lift my line but no luck, that was until I was almost pulled over the side of the boat.
I knew that this was a good fish and fought it for a while until I saw the mouth pop out of the water just below the port side of the boat.
Gob smacked, excited, and just plain stunned (with completely numb forearms).
My fist mulloway, and what a mulloway it was. I didn't have a scale that could lift this weight,
but I judged it at over 20kg's.
I would highly recommend you hire a boat from Laurie and Sue, their knowledge, experience and just plain old good customer service is second to none.
And the prices, well you will NOT find better. For four guys I would suggest to hire the big beast (7.8m) as this is truly fantastic value for
money and you can head out as far as you like with no problem to worry about. Those four stroke engines sniff petrol
and the fuel bill should not even be a concern."
I WILL be back…...
Erich DeBruyn
Michael Mac Shane was up again for his annual trip, this time bringing a large group. He took advantage of the boat and accommodation package,
saving himself and the group on the cost of the boat hire. He took two boats and both accommodation units over a weekend this month.
They had an awesome time with lots and lots of fish, here is his story.
We took two Murchison boats out again this year and a third private boat. The water was a lot warmer than last year so we had our fingers crossed the Mackerel were going to show. The first day arrived with strong easterlies and overcast, all day, and then it rained! We fished The Sand Patch and north of Bald Face but found the mackerel were quiet. The other boats headed further north and did well, bringing home nice bags of mackerel and a few snapper. One boat scored a 10kg barracuda and decent Samsonfish.
The mackerel were averaging 12kg plus. We got among some nice snapper in close and had a play with some of the
many schools of Tuna, boating about 7, managing to finish the day with a lone mackerel of 20kg. Everyone got among some good fish, big hits and the occasional bust-off, a great day.
The next day was almost identical to the first, overcast and windy. We all fished north of the river, looking for some good bottom ground.
Our boat raised a few smaller mackerel and a tuna but couldn't get the bottom fish to fire like yesterday. One of the other boats had a great day on Snapper, bagging out and catching a few mackerel as well, whereas the third boat had a quiet one.Another fantastic year, good fishing, the boats did their job well and everyone enjoyed themselves.
Thanks Laurie, see you next year!
Exmouth trip
My much anticipated trip up to the Eastern side of the Exmouth Gulf had to be cancelled at the last moment.
It was a pity we were all set and quite excited about it. My mate Paul Youngman decided to come up to Kalbarri
from Perth anyway and fish out from here. The first couple of good weather days, Paul went out in Daniel Jenk’s boat,
Daniel was to come with us on the Exmouth trip and they headed south to the end of the cliffs, bagging out each day with mackerel.
The next good day I suggested we challenge ourselves to the max and try for one on 2kg line!
We got them, but it took over 45 minutes per fish, quite an achievement!
They went 9.1kgs and 9.3kgs, serious fish for 2kg mono line!
WTF
This odd looking gardie jumped/flew into the boat, while on hire this month.
The big book shows it as a long-finned garfish. It is another fish added to my fish species picture
gallery on my website www.murchisonboathire/fish_species2.htm
Bite of the month
Robert Jamil boated this big coral trout while out in the 7.8m boat early this month.
Fishing in 50m of water north of the river mouth, the big bite came with a thud.
It was part of a double header with a big red-throat emperor on the bottom hook.
See all the previous Bite of the Month winners on my website.
Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club Monthly Comp.
May 21st
Not a lot caught this month, due to the less than perfect weather. Few boats went out
And not able to get to their spots, caught few fish. 
Daniel Tarasek landed this mulloway at the Chinamans Beach.
Popular Northern Destinations
Thevenard Island
Onslow Mackerel Motel managers, Colin and Rosa will 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.
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
Email: 
Hook up within 15 seconds! Jess took the rod landing this chunky yellow-fin tuna. 
Dan got one as well.
Jess also caught and released her first mackerel.
A memorable catch on light gear.
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.
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
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
Some of the great reds landed during the trip.
Ishka Smith hold up his 18kg yellow-fin tuna for bite of the month. Fishing with mates, Isiah Pedler, Eden Willis,