G'day to all,

Have been living in Port Hedland for just over a year now but have recently purchased my watercraft. It is great to be back on the water again. Although not a huge decked out boat, at 4.35m she gets to up the creeks for a bit of crabbing and fishing. Workmates here have bigger boats which they invite me out to the deep blue for some serious fishing and it has been great. I dont know how much longer I will be invited though because I seem to catch the bigguns and let them know all about it..... hahahaha.

These pics are a few of my time over the past year but hope to get out more now I am on a new roster and put up some more from time to time.

Fishing with the kids at 6 mile creek Port Hedland. OOPS I appear to have snagged a mangrove with my brand new out of the box lure.

The best idea was to send the boys in to retrieve it. That water looked cold....hahaha

Teaching my little girl to fish. She seems more interested in the breakers.

The latest addition to our Pilbara family, Abbey. C'mon girl, everyone has to learn to retrieve fishing gear.

One of the perks of the top end of this fine country. The MUDDIE............I knock the muddies out in an ice slurry as soon as they are in the boat. When I got home the little one wanted to hold one. I stuck my hand in the ice and pretended one of them grabbed me. It took me 1/2hr to get her to pose for this pic...hahaha

Good mate of mine owns this fine water craft and it is pictured here anchored in the clear blue waters off of Delambre Island near Karratha.

My young lad with a Chinaman caught in the deep blue off of Delambre Island.

Same trip but back at my mates house. The young lad with his first Couda.

Dropped a live stripey in near Dixon Island and hooked up with this little beauty. Gotta love Cobia they pull like a freight train.

A couple af spanish mackies caught off the front of Port Hedland whilst we were chasing tuna.

She loves posing with the big fish....

This spanish mackie weighed 24 kgs and measured 145cm. Went for a 200m run and swam right back to the boat.

Hooked up with a man in a grey suit.

55min to bring him to surface only for him to get the shits when we gaffed him, he broke the trace and drifted away.

Bulk Iron Ore carrier leaving Hedland for China with some of the finest Aussie dirt onboard.

They push some water out of the way and create a nice wake to get the boat rockin and rollin....

I thought I had hooked onto the bulk carrier as it was going past but pulled this cod in instead.

Mate Russ with a spaniard he caught with me rod. Can't keep pulling all the fish in so I have to share it around....couldn't wipe the smile off his face.

To put this in perspective. I am 6ft4in tall and weigh in at 130kg (What can I say, I am a beer drinker with a fishing problem after all). This is a big cod......over a metre of cod. Sent him back to bottom to live another day and because he is protected over a metre.

Not as entertaining as pilbarabrad of course but I am only starting out and reading the tales in here hope to pick up a few tips and share more moments as time goes by. Loving my time in the Pilbara and there are plenty more good times ahead.

Going out on the weekend to try for my first WA barra but only time will tell.......

Tight lines everyone and stay safe out there.