PO Box 63 KALBARRI WA 6536 PH/FAX (08) 9937 2043Email: lasue@wn.com.au http://www.murchisonboathire.com.au/
The good thing about the river flooding is the great fishing that it creates.
As long as it is not too much of a flood, the bream turn on and the mulloway go ballistic.
This year everyone was catching up to 10 mulloway a day each. They were releasing them, but a lot were caught.
The mulloway fishing started to slow by the Classic and was nearly over by the Sunday.
Average size was quite good around 7 – 19kgs as opposed to other years when they were all soapies.
It is all but over now but two ways of catching them were to cast from the Chinamans at any time of day
& hang on, or anchor a boat just out from Black Rock & hang on. There were a lot of sharks among the
mulloway but when the sharks went quiet we all caught mulloway.
Steve and Bob Fowler were up mid February for a pre Classic practice run as they had entered in the new 7.8m boat but
unfortunately the boat was not quite ready, so had to down grade to the 6.1m!
There were birds everywhere, but the fishing was slow?
Bob holds up an early morning yellow-fin, 
followed by Steve.
They did pick up a couple of nice little yellow-fin and a mackerel for Steve on 4kg line
Local Steve Wiseman holds up his first wahoo, caught early Feb. We don’t get them here very often.
Might have come in with the warm current that brought the 100kg marlin that was caught out on the 3 mile this month!
Very busy month due to the Kalbarri Sports Fishing Classic last week end. I have been under
the pump with helping to organise the proceedings, but we got there in the end.
A big scare was that the river started to flood a couple of weeks before the Classic and was due to
peak on the Wednesday before. Fortunately it wasn’t a big river and everything went to plan.the pump with helping to organise the proceedings, but we got there in the end.
A big scare was that the river started to flood a couple of weeks before the Classic and was due to
The good thing about the river flooding is the great fishing that it creates.As long as it is not too much of a flood, the bream turn on and the mulloway go ballistic.
This year everyone was catching up to 10 mulloway a day each. They were releasing them, but a lot were caught.
The mulloway fishing started to slow by the Classic and was nearly over by the Sunday.
Average size was quite good around 7 – 19kgs as opposed to other years when they were all soapies.
It is all but over now but two ways of catching them were to cast from the Chinamans at any time of day
& hang on, or anchor a boat just out from Black Rock & hang on. There were a lot of sharks among the
mulloway but when the sharks went quiet we all caught mulloway.
Steve and Bob Fowler were up mid February for a pre Classic practice run as they had entered in the new 7.8m boat but
unfortunately the boat was not quite ready, so had to down grade to the 6.1m!
There were birds everywhere, but the fishing was slow?Bob holds up an early morning yellow-fin, followed by Steve.They did pick up a couple of nice little yellow-fin and a mackerel for Steve on 4kg line
Local Steve Wiseman holds up his first wahoo, caught early Feb. We don’t get them here very often.Might have come in with the warm current that brought the 100kg marlin that was caught out on the 3 mile this month!
Kalbarri Sports Fishing Classic
The following are a few pics from the Kalbarri Sports Fishing Classic held over the Labour Day
Long Weekend. We had all our boats booked with the 7.8m crewed by Paul Youngman, Bob & Steve Fowler,
I had the 6.1m with John Hoye, my wife, Sue, and son, Jared fishing as a junior. The 5.3m boat was
skippered by James Scovell, with crew, Andrew Wooley and Joe Abberton & Brett Maloney.
Congratulations and well done to all as all the three Murchison Boat Hire boats won their categories:
Champion Boat Game under 6m, 6-7m and over 7m!
Paul Youngman also picked up Highest Point Scoring Mackerel for his 13.1kg mackerel on 4kg line.
He also won the Highest Point Scoring Game Fish for the same fish, while Steve Fowler won the top prize: Champion Angler Game. My son Jared also cleaned up and won: Champion Junior Angler Game
A great success for the boats. All will be back next year!
The winning 7.8m team
The following are a few pics from the Kalbarri Sports Fishing Classic held over the Labour Day
Long Weekend. We had all our boats booked with the 7.8m crewed by Paul Youngman, Bob & Steve Fowler,
I had the 6.1m with John Hoye, my wife, Sue, and son, Jared fishing as a junior. The 5.3m boat was
skippered by James Scovell, with crew, Andrew Wooley and Joe Abberton & Brett Maloney.
Congratulations and well done to all as all the three Murchison Boat Hire boats won their categories:
Champion Boat Game under 6m, 6-7m and over 7m!
Paul Youngman also picked up Highest Point Scoring Mackerel for his 13.1kg mackerel on 4kg line.
He also won the Highest Point Scoring Game Fish for the same fish, while Steve Fowler won the top prize: Champion Angler Game. My son Jared also cleaned up and won: Champion Junior Angler Game
A great success for the boats. All will be back next year!
The winning 7.8m team 
Champion Junior Angler Game. 
Jared & John Hoye with tuna on 3kg line
Champion Junior Angler Bottom: Mitchell Westland. 
Heaviest dhuie 9.1kg Josef Duff
A shark got one tuna! Just the head left. 
River mouth mulloway, Jared was runner up junior bottom.
Josef Duff with his river mouth mulloway & Champion Angler Bottom, and “Top Gun” day one.
Ken Nylander holds his Baldchin. 
Heaviest Snapper 8kgs Josef Duff.
Highest Point Scoring Mackerel& Highest Point Scoring Game Fish 13.1kg on 4kg line to Paul Youngman.
Howard Blair had a successful trip at the beginning of the month landing a couple of macs, but it took him a couple of days to find them & made sure when he did.Brian Townsend was in Kalbarri showing his Dad around WA and dropped in for a fish in Kalbarri for a few days in the 6.1m boat before taking it up to Shark bay for a couple of days.
Look at the size of this amberjack he trolled up!Here is his story,
My dad was over from Zimbabwe on holiday and we were up in Kalbarri, we went out and were trolling for mackerel and tuna.
We had two 15kg outfits with hard bodied lures and a 10kg spin outfit with a skipping gar which accounted for
3 of the four spaniards caught that day. We were about 10kms past the sand patch and there were lots of working birds.
We trolled through them and the 10kg spin outfit began to scream and with only a few coils of line left on the spool
I told my dad to put the boat in reverse, he did and I managed to get some line back. After about half and hour we boated a 20-25kg
Amber Jack and had a Penn spinning reel with a burnt out drag...
Look forward to the next trip
Thanks for the great tips and GPS points
Brian Townsend
7.8m Thunderbolt Walkaround
At Last, I have the new 7.8m boat completed. I have been out a couple of times, but was unable to blood it myself. (That was done by the crew during the Classic)
At Hillarys Boat Harbour for the Stability Test by D.P.I.
In Kalbarri on the flooded choc milk river.
I was hoping for some great photos for my new brochures, but I will now have to wait
until the river cleans up!
Built with a beam of 2.5m, which still allows towing at night and without oversize signs.
Powered by new twin 115hp 4-stroke Yamaha’s giving you 34 knots or nearly 60km/h with close to the same economy as the 6.1m boat, about 1.4km/litre.
Licensed for 7 persons to 10nm offshore & plenty of deck space and with walk around hull.
Fully enclosed cabin, you won’t get wet! 
Lockable cabin that sleeps 2.
Electric “Stress Free” anchor winch. I chose this one for the speed of retrieval.
Some of the other ones are so slow that you may as well pull it up by hand!
Full electronics: Koden colour sounder, GPS and the new Yamaha gauges that have fuel management.
They will accurately tell you how much fuel you have used as well as litres/hour and km/litre.
Built by Kevin and sons Greg & Shaun of Preston Craft
Check them out at http://www.prestoncraft.com.au/
I have worked out some rates and they can be viewed on my “Hire Rates “ page
The 5.3m boat dipping and diving on anchor out from the river mouth during the Classic.
(It was very windy)
The 7.8m is in the background. There were a lot of mulloway and sharks around.
We hooked up on 3kg line and pulled anchor and chased the fish out into the ocean, had the leader up
3 times but in the end the 60lb leader chaffed through. Shark or mulloway?
The 5.3 guys also had a fish on for an hour or so on 4kg line, eventually busting off.
Shark or mulloway?
Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club, Local comp 16th February 2008.
Brett Bain releases the 19 bream that were caught, tagged and released after weighing.
He also shows an eel type fish he caught in the dirty flooded river during the comp.
Tracey Ivey had the biggest bream for the day
Thevenard Island
Last year the 6.1m boat spent a lot of time up at Thevenard Island in the Mackerel Islands group off Onslow.
It is also up there this year.
Helen will take your accommodation booking if you would like to visit. Phone her on 9184 6444
bookings@mackerelislands.com.au
Check out the website: http://www.mackerelislands.com.au/
Gnaraloo Station
I will be up at Gnaraloo Station for 10 days or so in June trying out my new 7.8m boat.
I take over the boat from Brett & Roger Simm who will have it the week before me.
If anyone wants to take the boat after me, I will finish with it on Sunday 8th June.
It will save you the tow all the way up.
The 6.1m boat will also be up there and the hire finishes on the 28th May if you want it after then.
It will save you the tow up as well.
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Email: bookings@gnaraloo.com.au
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
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
Or go to the Adventure Bound website and view them there. Click this link.
http://www.adventurebound.com.au/news/latest/youtube_kalbarri_wa_offshore_episode.html
Noel and Robyn are willing to accept bookings for my boats at Port Gregory
I will deliver the boat down there for 2 or more days hire for free.
& return it to Kalbarri for you.
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
At Last, I have the new 7.8m boat completed. I have been out a couple of times, but was unable to blood it myself. (That was done by the crew during the Classic)
At Hillarys Boat Harbour for the Stability Test by D.P.I.In Kalbarri on the flooded choc milk river.I was hoping for some great photos for my new brochures, but I will now have to wait
until the river cleans up!
Built with a beam of 2.5m, which still allows towing at night and without oversize signs.
Powered by new twin 115hp 4-stroke Yamaha’s giving you 34 knots or nearly 60km/h with close to the same economy as the 6.1m boat, about 1.4km/litre.Licensed for 7 persons to 10nm offshore & plenty of deck space and with walk around hull.Fully enclosed cabin, you won’t get wet! Lockable cabin that sleeps 2.Electric “Stress Free” anchor winch. I chose this one for the speed of retrieval.Some of the other ones are so slow that you may as well pull it up by hand!
Full electronics: Koden colour sounder, GPS and the new Yamaha gauges that have fuel management.They will accurately tell you how much fuel you have used as well as litres/hour and km/litre.
Built by Kevin and sons Greg & Shaun of Preston Craft
Check them out at http://www.prestoncraft.com.au/
I have worked out some rates and they can be viewed on my “Hire Rates “ page
The 5.3m boat dipping and diving on anchor out from the river mouth during the Classic.(It was very windy)
The 7.8m is in the background. There were a lot of mulloway and sharks around.
We hooked up on 3kg line and pulled anchor and chased the fish out into the ocean, had the leader up
3 times but in the end the 60lb leader chaffed through. Shark or mulloway?
The 5.3 guys also had a fish on for an hour or so on 4kg line, eventually busting off.
Shark or mulloway?
Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club, Local comp 16th February 2008.Brett Bain releases the 19 bream that were caught, tagged and released after weighing.He also shows an eel type fish he caught in the dirty flooded river during the comp.Tracey Ivey had the biggest bream for the dayThevenard Island
Last year the 6.1m boat spent a lot of time up at Thevenard Island in the Mackerel Islands group off Onslow.
It is also up there this year.
Helen will take your accommodation booking if you would like to visit. Phone her on 9184 6444
bookings@mackerelislands.com.au
Check out the website: http://www.mackerelislands.com.au/
Gnaraloo Station
I will be up at Gnaraloo Station for 10 days or so in June trying out my new 7.8m boat.
I take over the boat from Brett & Roger Simm who will have it the week before me.
If anyone wants to take the boat after me, I will finish with it on Sunday 8th June.
It will save you the tow all the way up.
The 6.1m boat will also be up there and the hire finishes on the 28th May if you want it after then.
It will save you the tow up as well.
Gnaraloo contacts for accommodation:
Barbara: 9315 4809
Email: bookings@gnaraloo.com.au
Website: Gnaraloo.com.au
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
Or go to the Adventure Bound website and view them there. Click this link.
http://www.adventurebound.com.au/news/latest/youtube_kalbarri_wa_offshore_episode.html
Noel and Robyn are willing to accept bookings for my boats at Port Gregory
I will deliver the boat down there for 2 or more days hire for free.
& return it to Kalbarri for you.
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
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