Johnno's 1st 2017 fish

Johnno followed the signs and got his first tuna for 2017

Ok so he keeps reminding me it's not his 'first' fish of the year, it's just the first one I've taken photos of.  Seems he has caught lots on fly already.. (obviously not a permit, I would have had to get a photo of that!!)

MY fishing tackle of choice while watching Johnno fly fishing.

 It's was two weeks after Black Thing took a rest, that we got 'her' back on the water.  Not wanting to go too far first time out, we had planned to hit some flats of the Exmouth Gulf close to shore.
Or course Exmouth weather had different plans for us once again.  Finally we had beautiful calm water that we are always hoping for in the weekends....only for the cloud cover to stay ALL day, making it so hard for sight fishing any flats we went to.

One of the most wonderful thing about Exmouth fishing, is it's diversity, and this being a top reason we moved here, so when it's not happening MOVE!

Sight casting was 'almost' impossible, (one could cast at fish as they swam under the boat, but one knows it's a lost cast by then??).  But the universe/fishing gods gave us other signs...birds!!  The birds told us to give up on the flats and follow them, and so it was!

Johnno's 1st 2017 Tuna

 But wait the fishing gods were in a good mood this morning, they were not finished with Johnno Marven just yet.. here have another one they said!

Moments later

Work it John Boy work it!

Tuna 2 for Johnno 2017