Touring Western Australia: Fish of WA....a post by Hugh.

As we drove into Exmouth on a fine sunny day we decided to stop in the Exmouth tackle world for some advice. We were talking to one of the guys who worked there and he was saying where we should go but he finished with saying" but, it's Exmouth, there are fish everywhere" boy was he right!

The fishing in Exmouth in fact the fishing all up the coast has been nothing but plentiful. We have caught upwards of twenty five fish species on this trip. These consist of:

- parrotfish

- Estaury Cod

- Gold-spot Cod

- Black Bream

- Flathead

- Spotted Javelin

- Yellowfin Bream

- Mulloway

- Spotted Grunter

- Surf Parrot Fish

- Painted Sweet lip

- Spangled Emperor

- Mangrove Jack

- Breaksea Cod

- Darktail Snapper

- Moses Snapper

- Stripey Snapper

- Blue Spotted Tusk Fish

- Western Butterfish

- Tailor

- Yellowtail Barracuda

- Giant Trevally

- Western King Wrasse

- Bump Nose Trevally

And some other unidentified fish.

Now some suggestions from my dad in what to say...

The biggest fish was caught by him that was the painted sweet lip. We also ate this fish but it wasn't as good to eat as my estuary cod that I caught. ( But don't tell him that)

The two fish I mentioned above were the only two kept besides a bream that was stolen by a pelican. The rest of the fish were released and lived to see another day ( I think).

The most fish was caught by me. The number that I caught at least doubled that of my dads.

Now for some photos