One of my little secrets is out..
Well guys i couldnt resist it any longer.
I fished in a location most of you all will laugh but i hooked a ripper!!!! Im keen on feed back and what you all think about it.
Story goes i was photographing the old abandoned powerstation in south fremantle
As i was walking past the water in the front of the powerstation , the bit where the water used to run out to the ocean. I saw a big splash and saw some fish swimming around. Similar to big herring. May have been mullet.
Seeing as though the place has been abandoned since the 60's i started to wonder if there were any MONSTER fish still swimming around untouched from fishermen. The water goes right back under the building so anything could be there..
I didnt even bother taking pictures anymore i was so keen on getting my fishing gear but it was 5pm n a sunday and i live in morley ( too far away)
I decided that the next weeked i would head there and give it a crack.
The next week seemed like an eternity but finally the saturday came and i was off down there armed with a pack of prawns. I found a nice safe spot and cast. Straight away i got a couple bites then bang! Hooked up to a fish. Got it in and it was a baby black bream. Really silver in colour though . Very surprising to get one here.
What happend next is beyond belief. I put a bigger hook on and found the biggest prawn in the pack and cast it out unweighted and waited. All of a sudden i was hooked up to something massive!!!! It went left right and came up to the surface and i know its hard to believe but it looked like a bream about 6-9 kg!!! Yes it been a snapper?
Then it shot towards the underneath of the powerstation before it snapped me off under the pylons. After that i never hooked it again. Only small black bream. I kept it really hush hoping i would snare the big one again. I have been back even with mulies but no luck.
One local said to me that there are black bream in there up to 5 kgs but no ones hooked one yet.
I tasted the water and its pretty fresh, just a hint of salt.
I will post the pics of the bream when i get home and of the bit where i was fishing....
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beau
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You shoulda kept this to
You shoulda kept this to yourself Marc!!
tailor marc
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No point man. I have been
No point man. I have been back countless times and i cant get it. I will give you guys a crack now ;) The pondering of what it may be is getting to me lol
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beau
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they could be mutant bream
they could be mutant bream haha, 3 eyes maybe! I live about 15mins away from there so i will give it a crack maybe when the conditions are lousy on the beaches!
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Yeah river prawns and coral
Yeah river prawns and coral ones seem the best. I have tried lures there. Way too many snags
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Ps this water bit is in an
Ps this water bit is in an area you are allowed NOT behind fences
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grantarctic1
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Nice Pic Marc
Cool photo marc. If someone lands a monster it would be nice to see a photo and hear they put it back.
I remember what happened to a certain lake near mandurah many years ago.
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Yip
Lake Clifton was and is full of a genetically different yet still Black bream, ie a subspecies. Because the word got out about the size of them people abused it and treatened the stock. Now it is illegal to fish there, and walking out on the jetty there you can sometimes see some whoppers.
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Spence
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Beat me to it by a few
Beat me to it by a few seconds...haha
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LOL
I actually thought you beat me to it. When my post loaded it sat below yours, and I went oH well, at least I got the lake right. I was wondering whether it was lake preston, but I know there is Bream in all the lakes in that area.
When I first got a BabyVib, I took off the little hooks, tied it to a line and tested the action of the jetty in lake Clifton to figure out which of the attaching holes on the top had the best action, or the one I liked. The blade was smashed 3 times by a beasty bream or 3. So I stuck with the spot the lure was tied on then.
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Spence
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Lake Clilfton
Bit like the infamous Lake Clifton Bream hey?
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Yeah my plan was to put it
..........
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Yeah my plan was to put it
Yeah my plan was to put it back and the small bream went back. Would be mad to eat anything from there lol
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championruby
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Great story and photo Marc.
Great story and photo Marc. 5Kg bream would be something special, some kind of powered up mutant.
Had no idea where you were talkin about so had to google map it.
Does the tide ever come high enough to replenish the water or is it cut off totally?
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During big storms a bit of
During big storms a bit of water comes in but i doubt fish get out
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till
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mmm pcbs really add to the
mmm pcbs really add to the flavour.
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LOL mate
Its where Berkley make the Nucleur Chicken plastics. Had a picture in my head of a 3 eyed Polychlorobenzed out Monster Bream.
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LOLwith three eyes like the
LOL
with three eyes like the fish from the simpsons
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LOL
Thats it exactly.
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tailor marc
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Here is one of the million
Here is one of the million bream i caught. Very fat and healthy...
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sarcasm0
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Marc my friend Ben fishes around there
From a dinghy in the ocean, Ben has landed some cracker fish including bream, just undersize pinkies, tarwhine, flatties, kgw, leatherjackets etc from all the rockwalls/pylons around the area. Im down that way from time to time also and would be keen to have a crack.
Bryan
PS For a bonus point which metal band recorded a filmclip in the powerstation mid 2000's as they wanted to be in the most isolated city in the world?:D
Reefmonkey
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1 point!
can these points be redemmed for anything??? fear factory!!
#edit#... ahh crap shuda scrolled down a bit more before posting!! anyone go? i was stuck at work that night most of my hairy mates got there tho
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My mates are on the amp stacks in the clip:D
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whoo bonus point haha
fear factory - Cyberwaste
edit: bahah after scrolling down a little further we can all agree its fear factory
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I was there for that. I'm in
I was there for that. I'm in the clip for a couple of frames :D
That was awesome.
Dale
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Another one for your key ring
Another one for your key ring Marc, I used to get some absolute hooter tailor from there when I was a kid. 6-7lb was not unusual.
Cheers
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tailor marc
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haha yep im getting a
haha yep im getting a collection of key rings now .... http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/sets/72157624841088075/
Yeah heard of big tailor there back in the day
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Fear Factory??
Fear Factory??
sarcasm0
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Correct!
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Jody
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F O
Fish would all be dead after that noise
TWiZTED
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Wonder if anyone would fish
Wonder if anyone would fish next to it at night...
DhuBoi
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Silly man I wouldnt ave told
Silly man I wouldnt ave told no one
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tailor marc
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nah as i said, i have given
nah as i said, i have given up now. I just want to see what it may have been. Ive been back over 30 times since
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DhuBoi
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Yeh fair enough , maybe only
Yeh fair enough , maybe only have told a slected few people would ahve been better. i mean the is out of bounds to public so to say vut its never stopped people from going in there. Each time you go there did you catch a fair few bream or only that one time. interesting comments as i kno people who do photography in there n taggin n they mentioned something about fish or something in the water there. proof is in the pudding now unbelevable . real shame you didnt get that big sucker in would have been awesome mate absolute feattt. cheers btw that photo looks gnarllyy as always your pcitures look topps
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Cheers mate yeah fishing and
Cheers mate yeah fishing and photography go hand in hand :)
The part where you fish is outside the fence. No dramas fishing there ;)
Yep allways get the bream. jammed packed with them. Must be many bigger ones somewhere
Yeah spewin about the big one. I havent been back for a few months now. I have been really busy. Might give it another crack soon :)
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dodgy
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I used to sneak in there
I used to sneak in there sometimes while my grandfather fished for tailor along the outside. Sounds exactly the same. I used to catch heaps of small bream (maybe a little bigger) and then the odd monumental bust off. Never had a hit on the heavy handline though.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
NightWolf
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we should all meet up down
we should all meet up down that way i went for a look the other night theres some nice rockwall to fish from there
grantarctic1
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Sorry
Sorry guys , i dont want to put a downer on this thead, but i used to destroy toxic waste at a plant in W.A. And this site was our biggest client.
The water around and in front of the power plant was used to dump PCB oil and their containers before legislation was put in place to stop this.
Even to enter this place we would have to wear full chemical suits and full face mask's.
I would not eat or even touch anything at this place. It is fenced of for a reason, PCB's are very toxic and can cause cancer.
I am not trying to cause trouble, but couldn't let you guy's go in there without saying nothing about this place.
The power plant is still standing because it is too toxic to remove, all the land and beach around it is still contaminated.
If i am wrong please correct me. This is only my opinion from experiance of the site.
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So port coogee marina is a
So port coogee marina is a death trap?
grantarctic1
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Maby
In the long run Davy_G the whole area is polluted. Why do you think when they dredge the near Freo warf the Gov posts reports not to eat fish from the river.
Its no secret, there were signs for many years around Googee saying not to eat seafood from this area.
The whole ocean is poluted one way or another, I still eat fish,crabs, squid etc. I just avoid high risk areas like the power station.
Davy_G
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The Signs mentioned must have
The Signs mentioned must have been removed before my time, I have never seen a sign that says don't eat seafood from around coogee.
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wow is that so , i never knew
wow is that so , i never knew that , i only thought the reason they didnt remove it was due to it being like a heritage building ! did they ever release any information on this ? the dumping of the toxic chemicals that is really bad. also are those chemicals not toxic to fish as the bream are able to live in there with no issues ?. its good that you have said something a fair few people might ahve gone down this way. maybe a sign the bream are so huge.
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grantarctic1
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True DhuBoi
I can get in the sh#t for posting this , but is true. When it hapened tho, it was not illegal to do this. It was a long time ago but what i know about these products it takes a few decades to dissapate into the enviroment. It still does not go away, just thins out and spreads further.
I wasn't going to comment but had to. After working with this stuff and many other chemicals, sadly i realized they are everywere. There are many sites around the country that are just as bad or worse.
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There was a cartoon in the
There was a cartoon in the west australian about the PCBs there, back in the 80's. A couple people were passing a beach fisho standing in the water, and asked him if the fish were ok to eat. He was replying that they were fine, but below the waterline, his feet were about the size of a car.
The PCBs there, not really a secret ;)
squidder
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Posting this will be it's demise
Posting this bit of imfo will surely be it's demise, should have kept it to yourself.
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tailor marc did you taste
tailor marc did you taste the water?
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ill fishing from ammo jetty
ill fishing from ammo jetty down now
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I wouldnt eat the fish for sure
But fishing there for fun and sports outside the fence is fine. And Marc, the chance of harm from tasting the water would be infinitely small, so dont stress. As I recall this was shut 30odd yrs ago, and the chemical would have dessipated to a safer level by now from environmental contact, but they do get concentrated up the food chain, much the same as mercury and cadmium does in fish on top of the food chain in the sea. Poor old Dolphins a prime example.
But to go there and try and get that monster whatever it was for a photo and lenght, wt. No problems. Checked with a eminent toxocologist in Perth. Uni mate off mine. Just dont eat it.
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Cheers for that info :) Yeah
Cheers for that info :) Yeah i dapped a tiny bit on the tip of my tongue but im fine, my tongue glowed for a week for some reason *jokes*.
Nothing like the chemicals i would of had in my body from my "younger days" ;)
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lovely green to the side of
lovely green to the side of the water there lol
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Not as green as it was on
Not as green as it was on this day ;)
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wow.... and bream actually
wow.... and bream actually survive in that small space?...
So they must of been trapped there when the water managed to come in over from the ocean??
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Most the fish caught were
Most the fish caught were from the water up close against the building. It runs right under and very deep
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pudzz
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hahahah
marc you trespasser... how did you get that photo from ontop of the powerhouse... lol
im not too fond of the suspended metal steps to get up to that balcony myself hahaha but awesome view up there good place to take a sheila haha
i took a cast net there a few weeks ago and threw it around got small bream and some 20-25 cm mullet out of that lagoon lake..
no rules about throwing a cast net in polluted lake in the fisheries netting book haha..
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hahaha yep that rust stair
hahaha yep that rusty stair was a shocker. Shat so damm bad. Never again lol
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milsey
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I headed down today and i
I headed down today and i can tell you it looked like a totally different location to the one in your pics, the water was pretty clear and the water level was around a metre high. There are pleantly of bream in there including one we landed around 40cm. I can saftley say all fish are released in this spot. Im gonna keep trying for that 6kg one.
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Thats the spirit!
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Any piccys?
Any piccys?
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tim-o
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Dive it?
Maybe jump in with mask and fins to check whats there? Im sure if there was a danger to the public, something would have been done, atleast prevent access to the site.
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meglodon
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I thought it was just the gods that were crazy
To anyone who is thinking about going for a dive or touching anything that comes out of that acid pond, I sujest you do a bit of reading up on just what P C Bs do to your body some years after being exposed to them. Agent orange has got nothing on what they (PCBs) can do to your genes and dna
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i had a look today seen
i had a look today seen heaps of tiny bream 5 to 10cm long and a few small mullet but nothing of any decent size
did see heaps of empty packets of river prawns though just left on the banks and a fair bit of discarded line it wont be long till the council does something about the litter there like fill the place in with sand
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tim-o
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Did ya jump in for a look? Or
Did ya jump in for a look? Or seen them from the bank.
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skrewloose
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you could see them from the
you could see them from the bank small schools of 20 or so fish but heaps of groups, the water does not that inviting to be honest would need to give me a chemicle suit to get me in there
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Spinnerak
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Do you guys throw lures into
Do you guys throw lures into there or just bait?
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i think ollie has given the
i think ollie has given the lures a go and didnt have any luck
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It will be only a matter of
It will be only a matter of time before some greedy developer gets the nod to knock it down and start building mansions. Cart the contaminated soil and waste to some country area like they did with Buckland Hill and some parts of Minum Cove. That whole stretch of coast from South Beach to Coogee has had all sorts of chemicals leached into the ground for decades. Wheres the EPA ? Government departments regulating Gov`t land.
Do a google Earth on the Kwinana and Anketell areas, and see holding ponds that don`t leak
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Not 100% sure but l think its
Not 100% sure but l think its heritage listed so it mite there to stay.
I had a crack down there with the lures a week ago and didnt have any luck but also saw small bream swimming around.
petervb
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went there yesterdy saw shed
went there yesterdy saw shed loads of small bream along the edges of that 'lagoon' gotta be a few big mothers producing that lot
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They did tests on the water
They did tests on the water there a while back and they say its contaminated from the asbestos in the powerhouse. So eating the fishing from that water might not be such a great idea.
till
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It was PCBs mate, much worse
It was PCBs mate, much worse than a bit of asbestos!
scott99
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yer i fished there a few
yer i fished there a few times ,got smoked bye some think in the back pond ,an landed a nice fat 40 cm bream in the frount pond
scott99
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took sum nice pics an put it
took sum nice pics an put it back
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Sorry to bring up an old
Sorry to bring up an old thread but has anyone fished there lately? Keen to give it a go uses it's been sit off to public completely
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My mates also a photographer
My mates also a photographer and like to go down there to get some shots. He told me there were heaps of big fish in there to and that was in the last year or so.
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