Who on here is in the Cracker Jack....should be a lot of fun...better weather than last year

 Hi Guys,

Does anyone know how much water you nead to launch at Balla Balla Min Tide level for a 6m ali

Thanks

Hey Karratha guys.  A bit of info - got 24 legal blue mannas in Nickol Bay.  Also heard that a few squid have been caught.

Anyone seen squid schools yet?

Hi guys, just wondering if anyone has had some productive locations off Dampier in the last few weeks that we can give trolling a go. We are hoping to hit the water tomorrow. We have small kids a board which have limited patience for boring trolling but we would like to get onto some fun fish. So if anyone can point us out any spots that are currently working would be great. Kids just need to see some good quality fish to know what we are after...   :) Small boat so not too far past last islands. TIA

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Hey guys,

Ordered some hooks on Friday through Hooks Online and received them today super fast postage and great prices check them out. Especially for us peoples in the Pilbara ...

 Hi Guys

Heading out from point samson tomorrow for a change of scenery, any body got any tips on where to head. I have searched and someone posted head for the last channel marker then make a bee line for Delambrey sounding around for ground. Is this a good rule of thumb? Cheers

I went out this morning for a couple of hours to try and stretch my arms a bit. Chucked a couple of video clips to some tunes. have a geez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtiP1HOLbg&feature=youtu.be

Hi all new to fish wrecked. Just putting my hand up for a deckie spot for any one going out chasing billfish. super keen to catch one of these magical beasts of the ocean and am willing to pay for expenses fuel bait ect. If any one has an opening in the future PM me
cheers Dan

 few creek fish from this week

 Guys...a few logs floating between Samson and the ships at the mo...

 Thought I'd share the weekends spoils. Hadn't been out in the tinnie yet this year and glad to see that the barra are still biting. Got my PB this weekend and thought it was the metery but only 88cm. Still a horse at that size. Few others all around 75ish. Was good to get out again.

 Anyone fished pardoo lately?

 Up in Hedland for work, can anyone recommend some land based fishing spots within 1 hour of town? Sharks, macks etc

 I know it's off topic  but who chasing a surf around Karratha this week end? I will probs be going solo, so if anyone's keen, drop us a pm

Hi guys,

anyone know what the brown scum on the water is off Karratha, doesnt seem to effect the fish got a couple of snapper and a cod on saturday. Got caught on the way back the wind came up and made it fairly ordinary trip in

BWS

 G'day all

I am looking for a replacement bimini top as the old one is weathered. Does anyone know of any good trimmers in the karratha area.

Thanks

G'Day Guy's.

I think it is about time I said Hello. I have been trolling this site for about six weeks while still living in Melbourne. Now I have landed in Port Hedland its time to start doing some serious fishing.

I have learnt a lot about W.A. fishing by reading your posts and watching videos. This site has a lot of info for someone that has not done the type of fishing I am about to experience.

I will be fishing land based until me and the misses get settled in and I can find a boat as I had to sell my old one before leaving Melbourne. It was going to cost me more in transport costs than I paid for it, so time for an upgrade.

I managed to get a bit of tackle in my suit case but will have to wait about a month before most of my gear gets up here, I think thats a good enough excuse to buy more don't you? (the CFO said she will be keeping a close eye on my bank account until she gets up here).

I hope it won't be too long and I will be posting my own fish pic's and posting stories of the one that got away and maybe even the one that didn't.

So thanks for all the knowledge you guy's have passed on, now it's time to put it into practice.

Cheers Steve.

I'm no longer an owner of a Chivers Thresher.

If you guys are chasing a new boat give Chivers a call. These guys give the best service and I will not hesitate in buying another boat off them.

Have a look at the links below and see where this boat took me. Over 25000km by road and about 280hrs on the engine in a little over 18 months.

We have had some of the most amazing days on this boat, weeks in the Kimberley, crazy insane days catching bill fish, many nights in Pilbara creeks, Chasing dhu's in Perth, Diving for crays in Exmouth and much much more. When I brought this boat I planned not to be one of those that leave it in driveway. Think I managed to use it enough haha

A big Thanks to Luke, Michael and Peter from Chivers, Cheers guys.

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/dream-comes-true-now-pics

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/coral-bay-3-day-adventure

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/reverse-trip

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/our-kimberley-quest-april-2012

Check out this awesome video a good friend of mine Paul Cunningham put together recently on the way out of the Dampier Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nUwjlc4GiU

Hi everyone myself and FW members iron pirate and timmy12 went out a few days ago. the day started off with some nice conditions for the ride out then next minute everything went black. within about 15 minutes we had sideways rain belting with and easy 35knot+ wind and about a 25m vis. the ocean was so airated both my sounders cut out.

After about an hour or so it pass just leaving a swell and the fish were on the chew so cant complain we bagged out on reds,saddles,crimson,trout,rankins,tuna and macks

persintance pays off some times Cheers, Pricey

                                http://youtu.be/jYXNIejuzso

gday all just moved up here been here.. been here for a cpl of weeks and been bored shitless..

aafter some camping spots fishing spots aswell went to cleavervill for a looksee 4wd spots anyting really

starting looking into doing some island hoppin.. which island out there is good to camp near or on?

eventually ill get my bigger boat and head out  to the montes.. many people go out that far from karratha or is that more of a charter boat place??

A bit blowy over the last few days so had some creeks all to

myself with not many boats venturing out in the conditions.

Although the trip up was a little damp we still enjoyed the fishing

with eight barra landed in the one high tide session and a following

2 on the low......................

Hi, just wondering if anyone could give us a couple of proven fishing spots for catching some bottom fish. The kids just want to catch some keepers and we've had not much luck of late. Small boat so Malus is about as far out as we head unless it's a cracker of a day. I got onto some small stuff on the weekend but no real keepers. The end of the day ended on a high note of hooking up a 90+cm Queenfish on the troll which made hubby smile at least.

Thanks.

 So I have been going up some of the local Karratha creeks chasing a barra. I haven't even seen one yet. After reading thru some other posts I can't work out what tides are best to get them? Neap/spring/ high/low?  Also do you try to get the livies right up to the edge of the tree or in the deeper hole?

What really was frustating, Last week end I launched at back beach and when I got back to the ramp I notice a French backpacker got a size one off the rocks. Lucky bastid but I guess that fishing.

any tips would be great

Hi all i had a good little session this morning. My mrs Terri wanted to go out but she gets sea sick so goin offshore was not and option.

I decided to get the halco's out after a year of no use and replaced the rusty hooks. on the way out we cast some stickbaits into the tuna schools and ended up with 6 mack tuna in 8 casts on the light gear, was a good start.

 We went out to where we always use to catch macks and as i was running the first lure out it got smashed! 30 min later we had 3 on board and lost a couple to. The biggest on was estimated 20kg+ (in the photo below im 6foot 5) we kept one for a feed then Terri got seasick again so had to leave at 9.30am, bloody shame that

Today my friend Mark (Lizardo) and I were able to get up a local Pilbara creek to chase some barras. The strange weather of late resulted in tough fishing. However there were a few things that happened that I made the day special.

 We were lucky enough to be joined by Brucester and his mate Garath. We entered the creek to the sight of Bruce slipping the net under a large queen fish that seemed to cause Gareth a fair bit of grief. After several hours of towing lures around ourselves, Mark connected to a nice mid size baz. We placed a tag in the fish and released it. About half an hour later mark hooked up again. As I netted his second fish I noticed the fish had been previously tagged... by us. It was the same fish. And it was a at the other end of the trawl run from where it was first captured. It’s good to know that all the effort we go to looking after these fish with  fish friendly nets, supporting the belly when lifting etc actually does work.  

The rest of the day saw us, and every other boat that was in the creek, flog a dead horse. The creek was lifeless. It was a vast difference from my previous experiences in this creek this season. On the way home I stopped by a reliable reef to pick up a cod or two for dinner. I caught one that was looking very healthy. After I took the fillets of, out of interest, I opened the stomach and was amazed by what I found. A whole blue swimmer crab. Not sure how the cod thought it was going to fit my lure in its guts as well.

Cheers

Been out a few times from Dampier since moving up with limited success, a few mackies and a trout along with plenty sharks. Can anyone point me in the right direction, would like to get some queenies and trevs for fun and maybe a feed

Cheers

BWS

Hi, Well after about 2 mounths off the water while fitting the new motor and electrics we got out today. we took Giggsy out with us but unfortunatly it wasnt his day today sorry giggs. but we still done alright. we spent the first half of the day looking for new ground with no success so we went to one of our reliable spots and it was on! reds and spangles then giggs had a epic foul hooked shark battle, but the sharks had moved in well an truly by then so off home we went. we ended up with 3 reds and 6 spngles in the esky and the new suzi and furuno ran sweet! sorry but only a few iphone pics

After 2 months of waiting, the weather gods finally played nice and allowed myself and a mate out for a fish. My goal was to get him onto a good fish as he didn't have much luck last time out so with the right weather we could head north and hit up the red grounds. We marked a spot on the way out for another time and headed to my trusted spot that always produces a few fish. Giggsy was using bait but wanted to try so SP's but this never happened in the end as it was a bit quiet, i told him to load up on bait and make it big, reds love it!

they do but he found a 39cm one instead, released and back to grow bigger. I stared with a Nitro elevator 4Oz jig head and a 7 inch Bullhead McArthy SP, it got nailed eventually but no hook up. I persisted a few more drifts but it was too quiet.

Changed to a demersal knife jig, a new thing for me and i was working hard to catch my first fish on one of these jigs, after 15 mins the rod loads up and we're on! a shark was lurking but he left my fish alone and boated a nice Rankin Cod.

A little while later i had another hit, but it was toothy and took the jig, i tied on another one, which was like a sardine and jigged away, i was retrieving it up and then i got another hit halfway up, it shot to the surface and a juvenile Black Marlin, all of 15kg worth tailed walked off with my line, the shitty split ring snapped and he got off, got the jig back and redid the assist hook with a new skirt, interesting to say the least, then on the next retrieve to the surface a Cobia followed it up, dropped it down and hooked up, short lived as he got me on my prop. no worries another $25 down the drain and 1 more jig. Poor old Giggsy wasn't having much luck as i loaded up on another good reefy, got him up and a nice Saddle-Tailed Seaperch.

The Sharks had followed us along the drift and Giggsy got the short straw and hooked one, he battled it like a champ and got it boatside before we cut him loose, time to move!

We left that spot in search of new ground, we went around for an hour and decided to head to the spot we marked earlier. BINGO! the sounder was showing life, i decided to change to bait as i was getting tired of lifting the jig

so it was all fair. my luck had run out as Giggsy sunk the hook into a nice trout and that saved my bacon i'm sure he will enjoy those fillets

Short time later he's on again and i had my doubts as it was surfacing away from the boat i was thinking small shark then in came a nice Cobia, making up for the smaller one i lost so 2 all in the end and another happy deckie!