Caught on the weekend

7 days before

Well after some serious efforts out wide and a lot of hours trolling for nothing recently, today turned out to be the day where a couple of 'to dos' were almost ticked off the list.  After having a lunch break chasing rubies (as pictured) we decided to go back on the troll to find that big blue, what we found around 3pm was a very angry striped marlin of around 70-80kg that smashed the lure on the short corner, jumped accross the spread spectacularly and threw the hook.  (This was with 50 seconds left on my half hour strike rotation)  Before we had time to say 'phhhark' with 17 seconds left on the clock the right rigger snapped out and bang, second stripey on and well hooked, jumped half way accross the ocean and settled in for a deep fight (No time for photo as we had to clear the spread).  15 minutes later and about 40m from the boat the hooks pulled as he was starting to come up, DEVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.  Trolled for another 2 hours looking for more action but to no avail, so the leap year's from now on will be remembered for the wrong reason, 'the one that got away.'  Anyway, I'm off to cry myself to sleep. :(

This one is from mid-February. 45cm. The 1/8oz TT blade in burnt orange that got him is below. Ordinary sized dinner plate.

My first swan fish mulloway i wish i could have released it though

Three nice Bartails taken on 1/8 TT blades around the Bicton area. 32cm, 36cm and 48cm.

Rotto Mack speared at West end a couple of weeks ago... approx 22-24kg?

Update for those interested, looks like they are cranking along and should be ready soon.  Have heard the hold up is with the break wall, really needs to go in before it gets opened otherwise theres going to be some smashed up boats trying to retrieve with the south wester.

Just an update on Tantas

You know how it is when high expectations can lead to disappointment? Not this time. Scored first dhuie on jig and the best day on the water with guys who are just as mad keen. Thanks Steve and Whitey.

mate finally cracked the 50cm mark today with this 53cm flatty pulled from the swan, gave an awesome fight

fish was released

4 hour bream session in north freo scored me and a mate 4 big herring and 51 bream ranging from 20 cm up to 37cm all caught on bread and mussles unweighted

Nice 62cm BBone from yesterday and a couple of reds.  Only had a small window for diving as the tide was humming on the incoming and absolutely unbelievable on the outgoing (well for Exmouth anyway), the water went from crystal blue to the brownest brown within an hour. (Still stirred up due to cyclone Iggy)

 runbohs can never have enough 

Thought i would share this.