local waters: nice calm ride out to the FADs and landing a 25kg+ dollie bull. then picking up a 50kg+ yellowfin tuna on the way back.... what more could I ask for. as for deckie and crew, good friends that won't out fish me...lol

international: to hook and release a 700lb plus marlin off Vanuatu, just a dream that I always wanted to do. that with a nice 7 days live-aboard chasing the monsters of the warm pacific waters. my son on the fly-bridge screaming his lungs out and the wife in the day-cabin reading her book going " what ever makes your day honey! catch another one"

im with tony on the perfect trip,exept i want to catch a marlin on my bottom bouncing rig lol

yes i agree tony,i already wear a back brace when i go fishing or work because of my back injury,but i can only dream of catching a marlin

Glassy ride out, gentle breeze for a drift, glassy on the way back. Everyone on board catches a "GOOOOOD" fish and we all get back early and have time to relax with fresh fish on the bbq and a cold beer or three to wash it down with.

Good friends, good fishing, good weather and no stress.

My perfect Perth day would be me and some mates in a couple of boats heading out early on a pretty calm sea (doesn't have to be glassy) for a fun session landing a nice range of good sized demersals- dhuies, KGW, nannygai, baldies (releasing most).
We'd then come back in for a dive with good visibility and grab get our bag of crays and spear a dhuie for tea. It would be overcast all day and we'd grab some squid just before anchoring mid arvo somewhere along the NW end of Rottnest. That would leave plenty of time to have a few beers and cook up a seafood bonanza. Sleep the night onboard and come home the next day.
ps. I better chuck Hayley onboard too, she might be reading this...

Spending a day and night on the beach fishing with my mates. Landing (and releasing) a 20kg mulla on the light tackle, and battling a 2m noah on the big tackle. Catching a bagful of herring to take home, with a couple of big tailor thrown in to boot.

Probably a bottle of rum involved too. Perfect amount of breeze from the west to put a bit of chop on the surface, but not enough to make casting difficult or blow too much sand around.

of acquiring his own private island. My ideal trip would be to take a dinghy, a few mates, and heaps of fishing gear to fish what is virtually untouched waters.

Mi Likim sompella wok long dispella island. Yu pinim sompella wok belong mi?

Yu mi wantok.

help me out with the translations Andy.

just a reasonably good memory.

I only know basic basic pidgin. 2 years wasn't enough for me to become fluent.

I might take you up on your offer though. I'd love to go back there and see all the changes since the late eighties.

Andy nailed it in his first post, Good company, hungry fish, and I'm not all that bothered about catching them myself, but I do like seeing my mates do so. In saying that, a 25kg bull dollie would be fun, but I think it's more likely to happen in Fiji!!

Each year for the past 10 years myself and 7 mates hire a house on the Serpentine River, with a jetty, take three boats down bait up and head out at first light to get a feed of crabs. Catching crabs, water bomb fights and generally 50+ year old blokes reliving their childhoods.

Get back to the house, cook the crabs, have a few beers, cook up a huge brunch (one guy is a chef), rebait pots, clean up boats, shower change and then back into one boat and cruise off to the Ravenswood for even more ales.

Real good mates having a real good time! There is a rumour that two of these guys are so petrified of crabs they have specially made aluminium crab measuring guages on the end of a two foot handle as well as a pair of tongs fitted with velcro to pick the crabs up with.......but they still get amongst it!

So if you happen to  see 8 blokes sitting in the beer garden at the Ravo on a weekend in February and a logo on his shirt says "Crab whisperer" say hello and have a beer....we are members of this forum!

Away from the pressures of work and leave the missus at home.....but we do this four days in a row...hehe

Dreams many of them ,a big marlin in exy for all on board would be hard to beat.this is the year..

when he lands one.

Last year my mate and I snorkelled for crabs at first light (10 between us), jumped in the boat and headed out to mewstones and picked up 12 tailor (kept 2). We then hit up a few of my pinky lumps and as luck would have it we nailed a decent one on the third drop. Pulled stumps and scooted over to the southern flats and picked up half a dozen squid. We then finally motored over to the GI overpass pylons and grabbed some mussels before calling it quits and heading in. Home just before 12 noon for a massive seafood bbq lunch feast with some mates (with wives and g/f's) and a few cold beers. That was about as close to perfect a trip as I have done in the metro (a crayfish or 2 would have nailed perfection).

Beyond local waters, wow, the list of locations and possibilities is endless!

a GRANDSLAM of billfish would be the ultimate

some nice dreams amongst these . i have to admit that one of our best days out happened to be monday just gone. heading out with a tail wind and finishing up in the 90's . Spending a relaxing day on the water( that was almost a mill pond )with my wife and son, no hassles with a few fish comming aboard and then a nice cruise back in on still waters, best of all no phone calls.

This one may be near impossible but i think you could do it with theperfect weather and tides andseason, up the creek at first light, land a barra. head out and grab a red on the high tide just after lunch, then catch a billie as the sun goes down