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RAL INN said..

the point is having a group and a decent boat will make Corner Inlet a great speed spot.

On the other hand, I have very real reservations about the fact they catch a lot of very big fish around the entrance channels of Corner Inlet!! Spookiest place I have ever sailed!

You guys can have that spot.... renowned GW breeding ground & nursery.

Ill pass on that spot, know too many stories. Young ones are a bit nippy and will taste anything

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kato said..
Ill pass on that spot, know too many stories. Young ones are a bit nippy and will taste anything

Mate! You'd be right. Just don't fall in and dangle your body!

You'd be going so fast they could not keep up!

I am a bit curious as to how far up the shallower channels they would go, but I don't want to be the bait to find out! Maybe some obliging kiters can find out for us... Ral?

The interesting article above explains why we have never seen any on the East side of the prom diving, let alone sailing.

The Pro fishers say that January is when the big sharks come in to drop their pups.
And most sightings are in Sinapore deep and the Bennison channel.

I met a guy a few years ago who's sport was Shark fishing and after much exploring settled on a spot just inside Port Phillip heads where he claims he has caught most all types of sharks. in an effort to find other spots they talked to a pilot of the shark spotting planes. when asked where are all the biggest sharks?
he replied "20m outside all the main surfbreaks".

No surf in corner inlet. SO!

all the local regular sport fishermen only get the odd Bronzy outside the entrance and if you want to target bigger sharks you need to be at or past Rabbit island, which is 30min outside entrance at Kraken speed.

Now Flathead whiting, and snapper, the're a different story. Nothing worse than having your leg swallowed by a killer Flattie.

The holy grail of speed channels in Corner Inlet would be to find some that run North-South or 20 degrees either side. That would allow tapping into the westerlies and WNW gales that are so common all year 'round. From what I can see, there are not so many of these. Most of the major channels run more East-West. The Port Franklin channel may have some potential as Ral Inn has said. If it is deep enough at low tide and the banks get dry on medium low tides. I was hoping the Port Welshpool channel would be good but is does not come out enough on anything but the lowest tide with big High Pressure cells (Easterlies in Summer).

The inner Franklin channel and the foster channel are exactly this. but need some accurate exploring for right sections.
and far enough away from man eating Flatties.

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RAL INN said..
The inner Franklin channel and the foster channel are exactly this. but need some accurate exploring for right sections.
and far enough away from man eating Flatties.

Great! I can see some Tinnie exploratory trips in the near future.

When the new Lowrance chirp tech depth sounder/GPS turns up for the Kraken I will be able to map the bottom profiles of the channel and get some PVC condute to mark a course.
these depth sounders have memory storage that is linked to the GPS an which can be uploaded to a Lowrance site that produces a map of the area you want which can then be added to the chart plotter.