Took an rdo Friday and headed inshore to muck around try find some squid, tailor and kings as the forecast was for a short period of light winds then strong southerlies. I couldve murdered the blokes at seabreeze as I would have much rathered to head out wide to jig some sambos, it was pretty much glass the whole time even when we came back in at 1pm.
Stopped on Parmelia Bank for a squiddly jig but only managed 2 in an hour, one of them the biggest ive caught in a while.

Then pushed out to the reefs to try our luck at some tailor. Took a while to find a school and after a couple hookups and a couple fish lost at the boat the school spooked.

Didnt bother looking for them as I could see birds working a patch of reef where Ive caught YTK last summer so we scooted over to have a look. Heaps of kings were busting up bait in about 1m of water over the bombies, had 4 or 5 hits on poppers and stickbaits but none of the hooks stuck. Quick scoot over to our herring reef to get some livies then a slow troll back when this lil sambo decided herring was on the menu.

Next couple hours we frustratingly chased this school of YTK around and a small of school tuna for no fish boated. We lost 4 kingies on livies and 1 on waxwing, dropped the hooks on a tuna on stickbait, and had some absolutley huge unknowns destroy our slow trolled herring behind the boat.

Satruday drove down to Mandurah to see if the whiting numbers had inproved on the flats after a couple warm days last week. Started off slow with cool temperatures and overcast skies in the morning but once it cleared and the sun warmed the flats up the fishing absolutley fired up. Packs and packs of yellowfin chasing down poppers in ankle to shin deep water. 3 way hookups werent uncommon and for a while it was fish every cast. Mate took home a bag of 18 of some of our best fish which weighed in at 3.5kgs. We would have easily released 30- 40 more. Quite a few over 30cms and my biggest for the day a 37cm fish.

Went out for a jig today in the 40s and I manged to convince Dad to come along(he hates catching sambos) by telling him that we would look for some kgw( I did stop at a set of cray pots ine 30s, let him have one drift, oh, no fish ohwell lets go jig sambos).

Got to the spot and had some good showings on the Lowrance. First drift no mucking around Cody grabs my pe6 gear and drops down a big 9inch zman. Jig jig bang he's on. I dropped down a jig on pe3 and almost instant hookup too. First drift we managed a couple sambos and a small pinkie that suprisingly took my jig a long way off the bottom. Meanwhile Dad is persisting with his kgw gear and not a bite. Caught numerous sambos then a boat starts homing in on us from miles out, stops a hundred metres away then starts jigging! My first thought was "Shit, Goodz is gonna kill me, I just let someone ping his spot!" Went back around to start the drift then saw it was fisho-ron's boat Such Is Life with Troy at the helm, shit Troy has taken the boat out while Ron is working away up north I thought! I knew of 3 people that Goodz had given this spot to and Ron was one of them so I let out a sigh of relief. Couple more sambos boated then ANOTHER boat starts homing in on us, stops between me and Troy drops jigs, and hooks up! Turns out its fisho-ron haha so all good there!
Had a blast with these blokes watching em hook-up and boat fish. The sambos shutdown on the jigs after a while and by then I had convinced dad to drop down a mulie on his heavy gear and he started hauling them in! After every fish he said he hated it and wasnt dropping down another line, next drift he'd be the first one with a line in the water!
He got blown away numerous times but managed to boat an absolute pig of a sambo which I think everyone was impressed by! Reckons he hated every minute of it.
Bullshit I reckon!

This is where Dad fell down and couldnt physically get back up with the fish ontop of him, hilarious!

Cheers.
Beau