In search of Crocs Rocks and Great Fishing Spots

See ya Later Bitches

Gene and Donna welcome you to our holiday.  We are heading off for a seven week holiday from Brisbane to the Kimberley's WA.  This is the 2nd time we will have the privilege of visiting the Kimberley region with our first visit being in 2009 with our then 16 and 12 year old boys Adam and Fraser.  We plan to revisit some places and explore new ones as we have found no place is ever the same twice and experiences are always different.

Let me take you back to the year 2009 when we fished at Home Valley Station, Kimberley WA.  The locals in good humor asked if we were fishing for bait as we cast our 12 pound line with number 2 hooks.  Slightly embarrassed and determined to have a fishing holiday as that was what the Kimberleys is renowned for, we drove into Wyndham and purchased a cast net, 100 pound line, with massive hooks and sinkers. We laughed all the way back to camp thinking we had just wasted a couple hundred dollars.

86cm Barramundi - Home Valley Station
Pentacost River and Cockburn Range in background

2009 Adam - Threadfin Salmon

This was the best money we spent that year, learning how to cast net on the Pentacost River inhabited by very large Crocodiles, we caught 3 pop eye mullet and using this live bait had a strike rate of 3/3 catching our 1st Barramundi, Threadfin Salmon and Mulloway.  We learnt many a new skill with fishing that year and each part of the Kimberley's we found offered a different fishing experience.  We tried lures on the King Edward River in Kulumburu where we spent 2 hours catching and releasing fish after fish. Our family holiday in 2009 was all land based fishing and we came home promising to return one day with a tinny.             And so the time has come.....

2009 Donna - Barracuda from King Edward River.

2009 Fraser - Mulloway