Went up to Pardoo for the few days before Anzac day and again the little spot in close came up with the goods. This place is awesome for camping and fishing and only 3 hrs from home.

 For some one that says he does not like rod fishing he is pretty quick to grab a rod with line peeling off...good on him....it is good to go fishing. 

These are from our recent Exmouth trip fishing between the mian land and South Murion. 

 Great day on the water today, son cleaned up against dad. Reds are coming in closer...

Went over to the Montes couple weekends ago, we had 2 boates, launched from Fortescue. Weather turned it on, on the way home as usual haha. I havnt been since 2000 still the place is amazing.

 Please dont bag me out, looking on line at the bag limits and I cannot find what used to be the rule of two coral trout per boat, now only one per angler max three...are I reading this right or missing something?

Australia day style boat beach wickham

DSo long story short, moved from Portland VIC to Tom Price in 2009 nice little place but a bit isolated and too far from the water!. Moved back to Portland for 18 months but hated FIFO with the young family so discussed our options and had always said if we move back to WA it will be by the coast. Landed a job in Wickham WA so away we went again. Was stoked to be back by the water again be able to get amongst the fishing. Was land based only for the first 12 months till I bought a boat. Had a blast fishing the local creeks off the banks and landed quite a few nice fish Barra, jacks and salmon all the while slowly figuring out the times tides and techniques for the area which were quite different to what I was used to. Also figured out the rocks were quite slippery on low tides after a couple of quick trips to the hospital to get patched up! Oysters are sharp little buggers. Still love fishing land based as its only a quick trip down the road to get amongst it and don't have worry about launching the boat, clean up and all that goes with it. Was stoked to get the boat though and be able to head out into the blue water and have been getting amongst it for the last 12 months whilst doing up the boat to suit my needs. It's an old Haines V17l not the flashiest bit of gear on the water up here but rides nice and gets the job done. So far have done a bit of trolling and bottom bashing around the place trying to find some good spots (still got a lot to learn) but it's not too often we go home without a feed or catching some nice fish. The best part is being from vic if each time I catch a different species it's normally a first of that Kind for me which is exciting Spanish macks, Gt's, reds, cobia. All in all just love this place! Bloody hot a lot of the time but such a great place to fish and live. Cheers guys, here's a bunch of pics of the journey from the last 18 months

 Hows the barra going...shes warmed up quicker than a jug on steriods. Heard of some nice catches so far...plenty of tinnies appear to be getting out and about. My turn this weekend hopefully.

 Reading in the local rag looks like the fishing comp held last weekend out of Dampier was a success. Did anyone enter...what about the spear comp on as well anyone give it a crack?

http://www.ntnews.com.au/lifestyle/fishing/its-official-blue-bastard-is-our-own-new-fish/story-fnkchy3h-1227523383916

I think it's cool that the local rag has a fishing section on thier web page but i found this a bit strange. i've nailed heaps of Damps even without flys or lures and seen the fights in the water too. oh well it could be an option to chase for some fun up here.

Thinking about doing a trip out to the Motebellos amd noticed there is a boat ramp on the Fotescue, Coming up from Perth ...How easy is the access to the ramp?

I cant see where the track hits the Hwy 

Well the time has come to leave the Pilbara after 26 years and follow the rest of Karratha to Darwin. So here is a collection of the fish over the last few months. It's been a blast and of course i will still lurk on here and hopefully convert these marlin pics to barra pics in time if i can shift my boat.

Another awesome Bucaneer Archipelgo trip done, and what a trip!

Went much further this year 800+kms. All the way to the Sale and Glenelg river.With stopovers in silvergull,3 ways, ruby falls,kinfisher and sleeping in the Montogery reef for a night with all the sharks rushing over the reef to get in to the hole. What a sight. A quick swim in the whole to see schools of 60cm plus jacks, trout and everything you can imagine.

From charging Hammerheads,tigers,crocs to 100kg+ unstoppable gropers, fresh water barra, salt water barra and all the usual jacks,trout,fingermark,queenies etc etc. No record fish caught but plenty even though the fishing was hard in 12knot + tides.

Enjoy the pictures(more to come)

Vinnie

 Hi guys, new on the forum so this is my first post. 

I'm planning a trip up to Warroora with a few mates at the end of May, none of us have been before so I'm looking for some info on what we can expect. 

I'm always keen on catching a few squid but haven't heard of there are squid and octopus up there. A few of us are also keen divers but haven't heard of there are crays up there?

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks very much!

 Been catching a lot of eel tailed catfish through Cossack, Sams creek and Johns creek. I don't remember ever seeing them or hearing about them existing there before. Are they moving in from elsewhere or have I just been lucky enough not to hook one up until recently? Have (unfortuneley) caught hundreds of "normal" catfish but in recent months there has seemed to be 6 eel tail for every normal fella, surely I'm not the only one that's noticed?

Hi All,

Looking at a trip next year around April and Dirks is on the radar .. looking at the block hopefully.
Q's
Is this a good time of year ?

How hard is it to navigate up to the block ?

Did it survive the Cyclone ?

Other spots that are up that way ?

How do I stop saying F#@K YEA every time I think about this trip LOL
Thanks fella's
Rusty

 Gday everyone,

I am interested if anyone has caught or heard of anyone catching blue manna crabs in the nickol bay at the moment? 

Cheers

Ben

 Just sharing some info about the back beach boat ramp improvements. 

http://karratha.wa.gov.au/blog/full-steam-ahead-boat-ramp-improvements

Hi All,

I'm interested to get a feel for when people think the best time of year for Spanish in the Pilbara is?

I use to live in Wickham a long time ago and my father and I spent plenty of time diving the area in the late 70's and early 80's, I was too young to notice things then!

Word was back then that when the prawning season finished, often the boats would switch to mackerel fishing for a month or so....Estimate of when that was seem to indicate August to October?

While I think this correlates with "the windy season" I think, what are peoples thoughts on when the Spanish are around?

Hi guys
Doing some research on Exmouth lower gulf. Has anyone got any pics they could share of marine life and just general scenic shot.
Just keen to get an idea of what its like before we plan a trip there

Thanks Heaps

 Hi Im visiting Karratha area for a week or so in January.

Any tips on where to fish shore based and rigs greatly appreciated.

Have bought some Halco poppers will they work?

 The radio was going off yesterday with advice that saileys were around the boat with the black smoke off Dampier yesterday....anyone get amongst it?

 So i hear that blue crab were on the chew a couple of weeks ago, i went out the other day and could only get small ones?

Anybody still getting good size ones?

 Hey all

Im planning on heading up to hedland in the next couple of weeks.

Just wondering what some good shore spots are.

Used to fish broken bottle years ago but rumor is

its closed now ?

Got a 4x4 but no boat.

Cheers

 Looks like we have a day of rest from the wind that matches a day off...Saturday bring it on....warmed up the outboard tonight just to check it still new how to start....

These two always provided good fun with their GT popping and Barra stories.

Now I know Brad has gone to Qland, but have heard nothing from either on here for ages.

On other forums??

I've been meaning to put some photo's up for months now so finally got off my ass and put a few of the better ones together. We had hundreds of photo's from a couple of us but had to cut them down and these were just a couple of the best ones.

It was an epic week living aboard the Mahi Mahi 3, with four of us from Tom Price and three from Karratha, a huge thanks to Lance for organising it all as we all know it can get very difficult sometimes to get a bunch of guys together and commit to a trip like this. Although I'm not sure why as it is hands down the best thing you can do!
As a few of you would know Bernie was an easy choice to go over there with and the deckies were exceptional, between general deck duties to cooking amazing food all day it made it a pleasure to live aboard! Not to mention getting dropped on top of fish consistently. Anywhere from nudging up to reef in the Mahi Mahi and casting poppers (although the wind was horrid Bernie wasn't shy, treating it like a tender!) to deep dropping up to 300m's and pulling up monsters.

The fishing was as varied as the ground we were covering, even on the one day we were confined to the islands as the weather dictated it was still amazing, cruising around checking out some of the stuff on shore then free diving for some of us and taking the tender out for the others, there was plenty to do and great to break up the week.
Although the seas were a little average nobody was incapacitated with any sea sickness although there were plenty of rough heads on a lot of the mornings! The boat handled the weather with aplomb and a lot of very enjoyable fishing was had. We even made the most of anchoring at night and played with squid jigs for a lot of drunken hours of fun and much to the deckies pleasure not to much ink to be found in the morning!

At the end of the week we all walked away with our bag limit of fillets, a lot of awesome memories and stories that aren't to tall with photo's to back them up!

Hopefully these photo's work and there are not to many, This link below is to a few more of the pics because I didn't want to put to many up!
http://s64.photobucket.com/user/Eug187/library/Monties%202013

P.S I know Bruce (Brucesta I think) is on here and if you find this post feel free to put some more pics up. I may also put some more photo's up if you want more...

 Looking for a poly wekder to put some spray chines on the front of my polycraft. If anyone is interested or knows someone for a cashy.

cheers.

Went on a couple night trips recently. Few fish around which is good to see. All released.

Hi Guys 

Im in Hedland and looking to get a cheap but good over head combo for creek fishing

like fishing the lighter gear and target spiecies will be Barra, Bream and Jacks

Can anyone recomend any good set ups to run prob go for a 6' / 2-10kg / lure weight 8-30g

Smirkies is the local Tackle shop in South Hedland so if anyone has been in lately and had a look at the prices let me know.

Cheers!