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Now that people are starting to move around again, anybody want info on Stanage Bay/Plumtree near Rocky?
Hello Ronje1,
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How to get there by road
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Geography once you get there
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Navigation info from boat ramp going down the Sound towards s/w.
Be very wary inshore near the Red Cliffs as tide drops.
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Heading up for a week in March.
Want to fish o/g tides there so picked a week with early morning high tides. That way can fish the dropping tide and can get back to ramp ok to get boat out before wind and heat builds up too much.
New ramp now so gotta do a bit of investigating tide heights etc over next week or so.
Von's business bought by John and Karen under Stanage Bay Accommodation. Ofishal Unit | Stanage Bay Fishing Accommodation
Won't know ourselves up on "Hollywood Bvde" on Alligator Point. Not within staggering distance of pub.
New VHF marine repeater out at Percys and existing one still up on hill behind Plum Tree (covers the Sound). Used to be a UHF CB repeater up on hill also. Used by property owners, travellers and Bevan (from store) on multiple weekly trips to Rocky.
VHF marine monitoring carried out locally with "unofficial price" of a crab or two.
Anybody want info on tides and boat ramp?
Going up for fingermark, barra, threadies in Thirsty Sound and reefies if weather OK. and of course...mud crabs.
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How to get there by road.
Stanage Bay Rd.jpg
Geography once you get there
Stanage.jpgPlumtree village.jpgStanage Bay.jpg
Navigation info from boat ramp going down the Sound towards s/w.
Be very wary inshore near the Red Cliffs as tide drops.
Thirsty Sound.jpgThirsty Sound bottom rock bars.jpgThirsty Sound bottom rock bars 2.jpgThirsty Sound 2.jpg
Thirsty Sound bottom rockbars low tide.pdf
Heading up next Friday for 9 days so went and drove the road yesterday to see for self.
Some of our companions from the south haven't driven it for quite a while.
The attached xl sheet is what I found. Road pretty good up to the army gates (57 km from highway turnoff).
Mixture of bitumen and reasonable gravel. Was able to do 80 - 90 kmh over most of it (not towing).
The last 40 km from the army gates up gets pretty ordinary and there's still one particularly bad bend (tight and corrugated) at the 76km mark. Be wary there.
The quarry for the road upgrade material is up north of the army gates and that top 25 km of gravel gets a daily pounding from B-Doubles carting south to roadworks.
Beautiful spot. Get sea-sick on new ramp pontoon.
Clean water (for what we Fitzroy estuary prowlers are used to). The attached XL sheet is protected to stop accidents but there is no password. Just unprotect the sheet and you can add/subtract from it if u want to.
There is mobile phone coverage along road due to 2 new bases stations at Couti Uti and Stanage hill (BUT only for Telstra users).
Coverage also extends down into Thirsty Sound and out past Marble Is group etc. About 30 - 40 km radius from Stanage hill.
Stanage road 2021.xlsx
people seem to be using a mangrove hugging way along redcliffs back to the ramp ,especially when windy ,i was following a bit wider out and only see what rocks you miss at a lower tide,
same as crossing through the middle of long island ,we used the top channel at high tide but trapped by a rock bar at half tide while a pro used the bottom channel and cruised through 100 mts away.
Went through the Long Is 'top channel" on Friday with tide up. Turned right at junction and went right through Long Is via the cut-through. Rockbars in cut-through too.
If u're down Red Cliffs way beware isolated rocks close to mangroves on dropping tide as you head home. Ditto for the channel behind the small island on mainland side. Rockbar right across channel brings disaster at lower tides about 800m south of the yellow buoy.
Got some barra and grunter despite pretty ordinary fishing and crabbing. No rain. Drought on land = drought in estuary.
Did manage to get "Mudzilla" though. 220mm male mudcrab.
220mm male mud crab.jpg
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Carton of Great Northern on end.
For those who know Stanage there are 2 mudcrabs mounted on boards behind bar at pub.
One is 230mm and other is 215mm. Both very impressive.
This one is in between size of 220mm. Brother getting it mounted for about $450.
Will put up photo when done though it might take 2-3 months.
A casting or an actual mount of the crab itself? Do you have to hand over the whole thing entire and uneaten or is there another way?
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