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First timer this Sunday. Any tips ie where to launch and any spots to try. Also if anyone has fished there lately.

Launch at saltwater arm. Need min 2.5 to get over rocks. Follow the wiltshires up until you find clean water. Classics trolled super slow.

Cheers blw. Is the ramp out off the gun point road. If so is it signed

Hey hally10 you are on the money with directions and signs

Hally hit up google map and follow Gunn Point Road. You will see you have to turn right off of it and then right again to get to Salt Water Arm. Watch the road in as it can have some hard washouts on it which can prematurely launch your boat for you. Salt Water Arm boat ramp can be a pain to get a boat back on the trailer for. An eddy forms at the base of the boat ramp which catches a lot of people out when they retrieve their boat. If you drive your boat on you need a bit of experience. If not hold the boat on the ramp and back the trailer onto the boat. Hook the winch rope up the to back and hold the boat up against the trailer. Back the trailer into the water slowly and have your deckie winch the boat on. If you have a stern rope hold the back end of the boat in place.

Good luck

Dex

Halley10, I mainly launch at saltwater arm boat ramp, just take it easy on the Gunn Point Access Road as at times it can get quite corrugated and / or ripped up during the wet with heavy rains and traffic damage. Plenty of spots to hit out that way. My advice to a first timer would be to get your hands on a copy of Fish Finder magazine as it has numerous hotspot points to have a bash at. I've personally done well at the narrows with barra, brim, snapper and Jew fish. I can't comment on the whilshires as I've never really given them a go. Chad's creek is another goer for crabs and barra... Just make sure you hit chads on a neapish tide as the entrance can be quite shallow.
I'm hitting Shoal Bay for some barra action... Whether pending... Good luck and tight lines!

Cheers guys. All to familiar with how rubbish gunn pt road can be. Got a couple of dickies so they can do the hard work putting the boat back on. Thanks for the tips.

Clever dicks

A couple of pussies would be better ha.

Dickie = kiwi deckie?

Classic. Just saw the typo. Your on the money nomad.

Stupid predictive. Dickie is no more a word than deckie

Is the a tide time difference

Hally10 wrote:Classic. Just saw the typo. Your on the money nomad.

hey mate in headed down wiltshires tomoz morning. Leaving at about 545 from palmo. Im gunna fish the run out for a couple of hrs then get livies. And then go sit on the jew reef till incoming.

Hally10 wrote:Is the a tide time difference

From memory its about 2.5hrs later at the ramp