Thank you to everyone that entered our recent photo and story competition.  There were some excellent entries and the judges (Callum and Luke) went through them all carefully and decided the winners.  The judges looked at not only the quality of the fish but the story that went with it as well.  Set out below are the winners, prizes, photos and stories.  Thanks again, and we will hold further competitions in the future.

MadMerv – Small MadFish Bag

Decided to head out of Two Rocks for an overnighter Sat. Was really hoping the weather man didn’t get it to wrong as heading to the 70m area and if it is windy it stays rough out there.

The boat has just had a bit of engine work done so we headed up to Moore river for the trial run and to see if we could pick up a few wrasse for Dhu bait. Somebody looked like they were heading in to salvage that 42 foot Laguna while we were floundering around with both of us in the bilge fixing a slight oil leak. They didn’t even wave when I popped my head up on hearing their boat, just drove on by..Lol

Well we must be shocking wrasse fishermen because we only caught 1. Picked up a nice pinkie as bycatch so all was not lost. The easterly was dropping a bit so headed out to a spot where we have caught nothing but Baldies. The Baldies must all have gone north for the winter as we struck out there but again got another Pinkie as consolation just on sunset.

The weather was perfect out there with just a light breeze blowing so the drifts were good although it was changing around a lot and it was bitterly bloody cold. We moved into the 40-50m range and did a bunch of drifts over some chunky ground that was holding fish but got nothing but frustrated with a couple of sharks and a stack of bolt cutter snipping off our hooks.

Towards sunset we headed in to anchor up and burley up with some Shore Catch shred. I was floating a mulie down the burley trail when something hit and started a massive run. A big zigzag left and right, went deep and then straight for the surface where it did a big jump. It was out of the range of our lights, 50m or so away, so we only saw the big splash of water and heard the slap. The stradic was screaming and 30lb braid was not slowing this down so to save myself the pain of respooling I grabbed the spool and snapped the line at about the 100m mark. Another "one that got away" story to add to the list and speculation on what it was. Tuna, Spaniard? or just an active ray??

We finished off the morning with a ripper 75cm snapper, Blackass and a couple of just size Dhu's. Actually my first success on soft plastics getting both Dhufish so I was pretty stoked.

Ryan Webber - $50 of Big John’s Jigs and 5kg Mulie Shred Block

Following the BoM and seabreeze through the week saw Friday producing the goods for a day fishing, so me and the old man called it and took the day off work, and as we always do before heading fishing we went into Shore Catch to buy some shred and bait, 1kg of squid and a bag of mullet fillets, anyway headed out to one of our spots north of Mindarie and 5kgs of shred straight in the water and weighted down to near the bottom, dad had been catching a variety of fish morning with me not even a bite, Until the moment happened the large unweighted mullet bait I had floating down to the bottom got smashed on my brand new combo! At first I thought I had finally caught myself a monster pinkie due to what felt like head shakes, but after 5 minutes of line peeling off the reel I changed my mind to a big sambo and after another 35 minutes we finally got colour and changed my decision to a nice big tuna! At this point the fish was starting to tire the net was no option for this beauty so gaff it was got my first ever yellow tail kingfish to the boat, I have never been so happy with a fish than I was that day, measured at 1140mm long and a weight of 12.5kg and boy was that was one amazing feed!

Hope this wasn't too long winded and boring for everyone I'm not one for writing story's! Happy fishing everyone

Giuseppe Siciliano – Shore Catch Shirt and 5kg Mulie Shred Block

Purchased two 3kg bags of individually frozen mullies from Shore Catch this Friday morning. Headed north just a few hours from Perth. My first big mulloway 16kg caught it at about 7:30. Thanks Shore Catch for the great quality mullies. They didn’t fall apart and kept their shape and gave me plenty of time in the water.

Grant Currie - $50 Shore Catch Shop Voucher

92cm at 14.7kg.  Caught a few months ago in 14mts water behind little island. 6.30pm using snelled rigs, shredded mulies, vacuum packed mulies for bait and frozen burley log all from Shore Catch Wangara!!