CHANCES are many of you have never heard of the fish known as cob and shad, but you may well have caught them! That’s hardly surprising as here in WA we don’t use those names. But we do catch these fish under different names. Cob are our mulloway and shad are that other shore-based favourite, tailor. The names cob and shad come from all the way across the Indian Ocean in South Africa.
Have you ever noticed how the sand keeps coming and going from your local beach? If you’re an avid shore angler who fishes the same spots year round you will know what I mean. And what about trying to find that special little section of beach where you had where that great session a few months back? You could swear it was just up from that little platform reef, and now the reef stretches for nearly a kilometre north.
OLYMPIC Weightlifters curse it. Skydivers embrace it and fishermen don’t give much thought to it. Well most fisherman probably don’t. Gravity, that is. Unless of course you happen to fish a long way above the water. In the world of shore-based angling the high stuff doesn’t appeal to the majority. The challenges of high cliff fishing are numerous and the act of raising your quarry from water level to body level rates as the most difficult challenge of all.
EVERY June long weekend the town of Kalbarri lets its hair down for the Canoe and Cray Carnival. The event started back in 2007 and has grown steadily since. The main attraction is a series of paddling events designed to attract paddlers of all levels from the elite right through to those who just fancy having a go. For the last three years the Murchison Dash has been held from Murchison House station to the river mouth. A distance of 16.5 kilometres along one of the most scenic rivers the state has to offer, although as a competitor I can advise you don’t tend to spend much time taking in the scenery.
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