We had an absolutely gold day out on the water today.. Will post up some pictures soon and provide a bit of a report..

Heres my first mulloway, caught as a double header with another baby mulloway that was successfully released.. I think every fish I caught today was either a double or tripple header, LOVED IT!

My first mulloway from the sea containers - October 23rd 05

bloody nice fish mate! Whos boat you in? yours?

Nah.. went out in my mates boat that I usually go out with.. Were getting sat on by shikari and I landed that and another mulloway.. Was well and truly happy..

Photo taken just before cleaning and after being in the ice box all day.

ive organised a jigging charter for late novemeber which i cant wait to hop on and get my arms streched!  My little tub wont make it that far, but hopefully itll be up and running again soon and ill try tackle some on baits on the 3 mile.

Nice fish f*&kface!!! Few Canadian fishys on the bit at the moment!!!

How bout sending us some photos then.. i want to see what some of those canadian fish are like..

Story goes like this.. Days catch:

16  4kg+ skippy (1 kept) 1 triple header, 2 double headers, 3 on jigs.
3 mulloway (2 kept) 1 baby successfully released when caught as a double header with the big one.
1 samsonfish - 13 kg Released
1 dhufish - 49cm Released
1 shovelnose - Released

Only 1 fish lost under the boat, which looked like a pinky. Stopped fishing just after midday and didn't get to the spot until 7.. Was a magic day, well for me anyhow seeing how most fish wanted to jump on my line.. But i'm well and truly feeling it today, but its a good hurt..

Heaps and heaps of whales and dolphins jumping about all day as well.. MAGIC

Hey adam you got the co-ords for that container mate? Id appreciate if you could PM me them if you do, a friend of mine has been looking for a while for em.

How longs the trp from hillaries/freo to there?

I could try shizz, but i dont fancy my chances.. Its hard enough getting near the captains gps even for my own boat..  He's pretty protective when it comes to his ground, even though more times than not I dont reckon their the spot anyway.. This time he got lucky, only because there were that many boats on it already.. lol..  bout 45kms from hillaries on sunday.

Its about 2 hours SW of Hillaries at about 11 knots.  Just get the binos out and look for the Rottnest boatshow next weekend out from west end... that is if the weathers right ;)

Is that you funky monkey??? I hear you too got your arms streeeeeeched...better than a beer keg eh...

No funky monkey here.. Just a funkybunch, he definately got his arms stretched thou, mainly because he couldn't stop hooking up on sea container most of the day.. lol..

Nice work mate. Good to see at least someone is getting out there and into them. Very nice effort

Thanks Gully.. Best day we've had out there for a long time.. Strange that the pinkies have disappeared and the skippy have taken over.. Certainly not complaining thou!

You managed to get out lately?

Nah mate havent been out for ages. Gotta get out there soon though before I go totally mad. Jigging time coming up soon though so will be hitting them hard this year. Only did it once last season and it is damn fun!!

Spewing Mate.. Next time your thinking about heading out, make sure you send me a msg or let us know.. We did our first jigging on the weekend and got a few skippy on them.. I was too busy fishing the bottom and didn't give it a real go, but the guys said it was unreal when you felt them hit the jig.

Keen to give it a shot.. The boats getting the outriggers put on it this week.. Going to be a hot FAD's season out there this year.

Yeah mate the jigging is damn good fun, have caught everything on them from dhufish, blue groper, baldies, skippy, sambos etc etc the list goes on. The FAD's are definatly on my to do list this year aswell  so a few missions must be done out that way. Saturday is looking like a good day so now it comes down to where. Two Rocks or off Rotto but that decision will be made later

Yeh, most people I've spoken to say its going to be a golden year out there compared to the ones just past.  Looking foward to it big time.

I've never really tried jigging much and am pretty suprised that you could get those species on them.. Always have a feather jig or lumo squid on but never a knife jig.. Can't wait to get my first fish on one..

I think were heading out Sunday again, weather permitting of course.. But the boat has to be put in for service on thursday because of a niggling engine problem.. And i think i might put my reel in for a service after the beating it took on the weekend..

Let us know if you get out and how you go..

I'll be in touch soon with the details of those mulloway that you gave me this
morning. I should be able to get that info to you before the end of the week...

Anyway, I've put together a list of those species that are currently being
studied at Murdoch University and Fisheries WA, along with the contact details
of the principal investigator for each project. Thanks again for showing
interest and hopefully we'll be hearing from you in the near future..

Mulloway #1
Total Length - 634mm
Sex - Male
Gonad Stage - 2 (i.e. Resting Stage - Inactive)

Mulloway #2
Total length - 1016mm
Sex - Female
Gonad Stage - 2

I've got quite a few other otoliths to look at before I section and age the ones that I obtained from your fish, but the approximate ages for mulloway #1 and #2 would be 3 and 7 years, respectively.