Whyalla Fishing Charters’ Stories

G’day everyone. Went out with Steve Storic owner operator of Whyalla Fishing Charters on Friday, here’s a report of the eventful day...

Left the ramp at a very fresh 5am, greeted by a smooth 2-3knot wind and zero swell – awesome. Headed out to the first spot that had been firing with a few fish of late. Had an awesome sight of day break just as we anchored up on the horizon... plenty of action on the sounder.. needless to say boomerang city! Me and my brother (lucanus1) had our new SP outfits rigged up with GULP but decided to try and get off the mark with baits just incase... Had 4 lads on board and within 5 min of baits hitting the bottom it was on like donkey kong with all 4 of us hooked up on snapps that were peeling line at will... we dropped 1 and landed 3 of them at around 8-9KG that took whole squid heads!

Got the call up from Steve that massive school has showed up on sounder and next 20 minutes will be HOT ACTION! Get the GULP in ASAP... in goes 7inch Cajun chicken (black & hot pink) brother dropped down Curried chicken... brother got smashed on the drop i had a few jigs before getting destroyed by a another good fish... lighter gear is awesome fun on the plastics... and again another 2 solid snaps of around 8kg... swapped colours of SP still GULP and pretty much got smashed on every chicken colour, pink shine ETC that hit the bottom.. within half an hour we had our 6 big ones all about 8-9KG and caught another 10 or so on plastics that we released after a quick photo back to the depths.. not even 7am bagged out numb arm!

Off for some pannies and hopefully a bronzy... no bronzy but got 6 or 7 pannies and alot of smaller ones to. All in all a awesome day. Steve is a gentlemen and can’t speak highly enough of how he looks after his customers and his fish. We could of caught big ones all day but he wasn’t keen on catch and release as it’s not good for the fish which I think is good. Awesome boat with plenty of room and we were extremely well looked after and can’t wait to get back out with Whyalla Fishing Charters!