Hey all,

Its coming up to the annual Cracker Jack fishing comp, Whos in ????

Should be another good year

 G'Day Guys

New to Hedland with the family and decided to go and have a bit of a flick down at 4 mile tomorrow on the tide change with some softies.

Untill the minister of war and finance lets me get a boat stuck to the shores.

If anyone has any tips of good spots around let me know, or even better if you wanna catch up and have a couple of coldies and enjoy the fishing will be good also.

Cheers in advance 

Chad 

Did a solo trip after getting back from offshore on Monday doing an overnighter at Rosemary and then heading for some northwest deep drop fishing (deeper than 50m) drove for 3.5 hours total to fish for 25 mins and used 9 bits of bait, reds went to 680mm and the rankins where some of the biggest i have caught and went 760mm.

Also a couple of nice fish on the jigs on a little playa round session at the start of the month while i am at it, on 30lb braid and no sharks around thankfully

So our annual month pilgrimage to Coral Bay is done and dusted for another year. Overall, not a bad trip, except for the wind which blew its arse out for 2/3rds of the month. Wont be organising a month there in Oct again, prob move back to April. Didnt get as many fish as normal due to this fact, as well as the ever present man in the grey suit, but still got some good quality fish.

The first week there was little to no action on the water as 20kn+ winds kept us fairly well planted in the pub. Did get out for a couple days though with little success. The next couple weeks turned into a bit of a blur, with mates and family all coming to visit, as well as some pretty good days on the water.

As per usual, the wife out fished everyone else, or should i say, she was in all the photos with good fish haha.

Cant wait for next april now with the new boat!!

Anyway heres some photos of some of the fish we caught.

The missus with a nice haul

Nice Rankin i got

Mates missus with her first red (caught in 18m of water!!)

Some nice goldbands

Missus with a horse goldband

Mate with a nice cobia

Horse spango

Good half day out

My best red for the trip

Windy day

So all in all a pretty good trip and cant wait for next time.

Snuck up to the Ord for a trip early September on neaps for a few days fishing the mouth and surrounding creeks.

Although the ambient temperature was down a bit, which made sleeping at night bearable there were still a few fish around.

Being our third trip down we had a few favourite spot to try, but alas most of them weren’t holding fish as expected.

So we had to do a bit more exploring and brainstorming sessions to figure out where our quarry  was hold up.

We did the usual looking for bait searching snags and looking for warmer water and back eddies.

As the tide moved further into the neaps and tactics altered slightly for the different conditions we landed a few nice fish for the trip.

A few shots below Enjoy

Biggest fish was a 103cm model but most around the high 80’s

All fish were released :)

G'day All,

Second go round........Am going to be in Onslow next week, never fished here. Have few basic suggestions as going to be mainly land based but

(unless theres a generous bast*rd floating out there!!) seriously looking to thumb a ride out wide (or even a little wide!!) if anyone has the deck space.

Can hold my own and more than happy to contribute to fuel, beers etc etc.

PM me if can help. Thanks!

G'day guys,

Heading to Onslow with my old man to catch up with one of his old work mates. Unfortunately will be the second week of

school holidays but any time you're offered free accomodation who's going to knock it back?!! Don't have access to a boat

so was interested in shore based alternatives? Have fished from Kalbarri to Exmouth but never at Onslow. Any suggestions

and advice would be appreciated. Also, if anyone has a spare spot on board during this time am happy to help out with fuel

costs etc. just to get out there!! Thanks

 Headin up to the fitzroy in a couple weeks,prob gana fish neaps around telegraph area, first trip up any info/tips from those in the know would b great cheers

Been using some Yo-Zuri lures lately, have had awesome hook up rates the Mackies seem to find them tasty, Anyone else had some good results as well. Bit pricey but..

 Mackies are still out and about 

Got to karratha the few days ago and was thinkin of going for a fish Fri wind not looking good so thinkin bout hitting a local creek. Not really after a feed just after showing the misses a bit of fun. Anyone know what's running at moment?

Heard few barra getting caught already, anyone else had any luck??

Got out on Monday morning really early to do a freezer filling trip as the stocks of fish where running low. got 90 mins of fishing in before high tide at 9am and we bagged out. Best bit was the two pleasent suprises that graced the decks proving it was no fluke that being a couple of Gold Band Snapper! never heard of them being caught off Damps before so a new species ticked off the list and tasted bloody great too!

By the looks everyone is doin quite well on Mackies at the moment, who else has been catchin them lately????

Just back from another sortie thru the wilds, this time we went to the Prince Regent River mouth before turning around due to dwindling fuel reserves.

Also knocked up a little film clip while sitting out no water up mangrove creeks, caught some great footage of a baby humpback and mum jumping around the boat, she swam under us before doing her leap, wish i had snapped a pic of the sounder!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gLmYZIIBI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUyx9Gd7bDdm_1LvJBPfDKmg

After much prodding and requests we will be running organised commercial convoys into the area, one in 8 weeks time (2 spots left) and several more next year, mostly to Talbot Bay and Horizontal Falls, but some venturing further to Raft Point and PRR. You can email me for details at  info@wetspotcharters.com.au  or phone 0425 123451.

 Young blokes birthday big feed of fresh blueys and a roarin fire thats livin barry..

Looking for some charts of samson if anyone wants to sell? will be in mandurah for a few weeks then heading to to karratha.

Cheers!

Hey guys, Might be moving to Wickham soon all going well. Missus will be looking for work, hands on not office. She has her HR licence white card, marcsta and first aid. If anyone knows of anything or any projects going on at Lambert be greatly appreciated. Be rewarded with beer if anyone can help. Looking forward to getting back to the Pilbara.  

Cheers!

 Hi guys

trying to get over to the islands next week - is this an OK time of year wind wise? or is it pretty much same same most of winter?

really would like to avoid a stomach churning slog there or back, we'll have a few days either end to wait out wind   8m ally hardtop

much thanks for any advice!

 Hey guys

im pretty keen to go for a evening fish in the boat off karratha back beach and just wondering is the reef out from airport creek is like at night. I don't wanna go to far for the first night fish and will have a couple of guys that don't fish much but wanna give it a go. 

Thanks for any info. 

Cheers Winnie 

 Bungs out, scuppers open...jockey wheel wound out fully in this weather

 I am pleased no one is fishing over there while I am freezing over here in NZ...here's a few trout we caught last Sunday in Taupo...took my dear old dad out for probably his last fish...he had a ball

bit blury but you get the picture

 Just got into Karratha havent got the boat yet. Wheres good for land based fishing. Have 2wd Rodeo.

Thanks

Rob

So who's braving the shocking weather and heading out to find a few billies?

I hope more fish show than last year, i'm not putting up with that crap weather to hook 3 and land only 1 in 2.5 days! at least i have new clears this year

 Some seriously awesome weather going on up here at the moment

Hi Guys

Looking for a couple crew for a Monties trip this weekend, had some mates have to pull out cant get Friday off leaving just me and another mate. Looking for a couple of guys to share the cost around (fuel, bait, ice) as the window of weathers to good to cancel. Hoping to leave tomorrow morning back in Karratha Sunday early arvo. 7.2m Assassin can comfortably fish 4-5 no worries and up to 6, looking to do abit of bottom bashing, trawling, and taking the spearing gear too. You will need to bring your own food & sleeping and fishing gear, with camping and cooking taken care off. Shoot me a txt if your keen 0488 653 575

Cheers

 Hi Guys,

Im planning a trip to the Montes at some point over next few weekends. i remember readin g on this forum that there is a concrete slab thats quite handy as a camp site but cant find the thread. does anybody know what im refering to and what island its on?

Thanks

 Hi Guys,

Was thinking of going to check out geograph shoals this weekend, any body fished this area that might want to give me some tips or advice on where to look. Thanks in advance