few good fish off the greek up the creek!!

Took a inland land crab out for a fish yesterday...not much fish (must be my boat) but had some fun as a bloke does out on the water...the inland crab hooked up to something that didn't want to leave the bottom...no it wasn't a rock...20 minutes fighting a shark each got the sweat juices going and tested the knots...all good fun...Delambrie today for lunch on the beach...gotta love living up here.

Hey doing the usual check out the forums and notice us Pilbaraites are lagging a bit in the news...is it all work and no play?

Anyway me mate abd I went out last Saturday got a nice rankin and spangeled raced back in and picked up the kids (needed a bus) down the creek to catch a feed of crabs (with the help of a friend to top the numbers up) had a awesome Pilbara sea food meal Sat night...

Sunday a quick dash with the wife and kids...dropped onto a bombie pinged a nice eastuary and coral...not huge but good eating. Towed the son around on the biscuit before heading home... a great two days of fun on the water with great company with freinds from Pannawonica over for a visit.

Come on boys and gals I have seen more than just my boat on the water...don't let the Southerners out report us 

Hi guys

So I have spent several years in the pilbara previously and find myself living back here again except this time with a 36ft yacht. Just found out that i have a week or 2 without the missus over christmas and trying to think of reasons why I shouldnt sail over to the montes for a week or 2. I know it will be cyclone season but it would be pretty unlucky to cop one then and from memory you usually get a good few days notice and I could high tail it back to dampier in about 15 hrs even just motoring. Also it looks like plenty of bays where I could set a few anchors etc out if we were caught out by one. I know the heat is shocking but apart from that am I being crazy?

Any advice much appreciated.

Hi Guy's
Was in Darwin last week and picked up the latest crab grabber form Shane.
I have used these for a while now and think they are an awesome tool.

Not an add just like them and a great safety tool for all crabbers.

Cheers

1.How do you get angry crabs out of a bucket and to the pot.
2.Get a good grip
3.with Shane's crab grabber

$30 BUCKS MONEY WELL SPENT

Anyone been doing any fishing last couple of days? Conditions are a dream, but it seems like there isn't much action! No birds or surface busts..

Where's the fish?

Could be just me though..

Finally the weather looks like it might bless the fleet. Didnt enter the FeNaClNG but looks great for the 3 days. Might go and target some Coral Troat.

Good luck for anyone in the Comp. Might come to the weight in.

Is it just me or are the muddies in hiding ide usually go down and atleast get 3 or 4 in a couple hours lately i havn't even getting any smaller ones whats going on there over fished or just to cold?

Sunday is my day off, but then the fishing comp is on and it'll be blowing pretty bad. Today was going to be the best day of the week weatherwise, so I was forced to sneak off work, pick up the boat and spear off to 1 of the channel markers.

Heart was racing. I could get caught by the manager or worse.. the missus! Anyway, it had to be done..

Took some motoring and drifting around, but finally got some fish on the sounder and started firing off a soft plastic. First hit came after about 10 casts and felt real heavy for about 3 seconds, then the rod tip jumped back and a nice clean cut of the leader led me to conclude there might be some spaniards hanging around. Dug up an old halco pre-rigged wire trace from the bottom off the tackle box and tied that on.

Why is there no swivel that actually fits the holes on the jig heads? Some plier work and got it through eventually.

Anyway, motored back into position and this drift saw a nice little GT of about 5kg come up to the surface. So much for that tasty spaniard but fun nonetheless!

Feeling pretty confident about my cast to hit rate I turned on the camera as well. I ended up getting 2 more little golden trevallies of that spot. None of the fish was really a match for the 15-30lb terez and 8000 stradic, but my lighter gear is erm.. under maintenance. I only fished for a good hour and returned to the ramp after that. Would've gotten some more fish in the boat for sure if I'd stayed out longer, but hey, it's still a work day.

Here's the video (all real time, no monsters therein).

All fish swam off strong after releasing..

youtu.be/wl9nwdD7nzM

A few snaps from the last trip, felt much more at ease this time being the second sojourn and actually got a few good sleeps in on secure anchorages!

Biggest surprise was the day we spent in the sale river, it was peaking and going nuts, debris was flowing down at a great rate of knots and we had to get out the way till the tide topped out, there was no way we were going to spend a night during the next tide turn so we bailed and got stuck on a bad anchorage out in the bay, where the next turn boomed thru the night a few hundred metres away as it tried to get out of the neck of george water!  The noise was eerie. Good not to park near such constrictions during springs!

The Inland fishing was really tough this time, i think i threw lures every am and pm and bagged just a few queenies and Jacks, lots tuna in Cone and Stricklands, and we stumbled across a great coral reef ledge in a sheltered cove on an offshore island, that decimated all our heavy gear in one quick session. We really arent capable fishos!

Took a time lapse of the tide leaving us stranded in Crocodile Creek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQZoG7vSuiA&feature=plcp

And this one of a gorgeous beach camp site on traverse Island - 9m spring tide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le2SoY7_7uo&feature=plcp 

Hey guys,

Driving down to cape keraudren for the day on sunday. Anyone knows if its worth taking a rod for some shorebased fishing? Is there any decent spots and are there fishing restricted areas?

Are there any boat launching possibilities and is it worth dragging the boat there from hedland?

Cheers,

Jelle

Been recently 4wd touring around the Kimberley for last 3 weeks for the first time. 

Did'nt get too much fishing time in to much to see up there.

On one of the many gorges we visited the girlfreind spotted this school of Barra in the Windjana National off the Gibb River Road.

The Barra don't have to worry about lures being flicked at them as fishing is not allowed, there only predator is the 100 plus freshwater crocs in the Gorge. 

Hey does anybody here know anyone who can do some outboard repairs???

Mines playing up something crooked!!

Iv taken it into pilbara BnB when i was new in town and it just came out worse and now its playing funny buggers, sorta starts n stops when it feels like it. everyone says tow it down to karratha but if theres anyone in town obviously that'd be a lot better!

hit mee up if you can help or know anywhere to take it

cheers

 Well after copping shitty weather all June over the weekends including our exciting Billfish Shootout attempt the Weather Gods shined on Karratha and despite being on call i wasn't missing out this time.

In all we found two new spots, one by sheer fluke as we pulled up to sort out a tangle on the rocket launchers from a loose drag and a wind on leader and the sounds showed some activity. first drop with a Octa jig and a nice Rankin Cod jumped on and into the kill tank, three more drifts and we added a Saddle Tail and 2 Nice Red's

Marked that one for next time and headed towards Wandoo, my usual marks didn't fire but just before we pulled up and went searchiong for new ground we bagged a Rankin/Malabar cod double header to join the fish we had. 40 mins of searching in new territory we found more action and set the drift again and we found gold. 690mm Spango, nice Chinaman, Long Nosed Emperor (never seen one off Karratha) and the biggest Red of the day joined the fish in the Kill tank. It was that full the last Red didn't fit so we took two smaller fish out and with some ice put them in the Livie tank and left the rest in the Kill tank.

Enjoy lads.

Gareth with the first drop Rankin

Ando with the first Red Emperor

Olie, a fishing virgin with his new PB fish. Hard to beat that one.

Ando with his Saddletail

Gareth with 690mm of Spango madness, he called it for a shark HAHA!

Ando’s new PB Red Emperor

Yours truly with as close as I got to landing a Red too.

The days catch, a new Las Vegas record haul there, need to pack another eski next time.

I Also got the family out too, with weather like this why wouldn’t you, three squid for dinner topped it off.

 Finally got the sounders and rig fully set-up.

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Still to bloody windy to get out for a fish. Starting to think about selling the boat and buying a yatch.

Finished night shift and one of the guys from work wanted to go for a crab as he hasnt been before. I was thinking that most of the creeks have been hit pretty hard by now with the full complement of nomads in Samson. Took a gamble and thought we would try a spot that has never been renowned for holding crabs. It was very pleasent floatin around in the boat sheltered from the wind with a cold beer or two and when it came time to pull the pots this is what we came up with. Nice feed for my workmate, family and made some friends very happy.

Still to bloody windy to get out for a fish. Starting to think about selling the boat and buying a yatch.

Finished night shift and one of the guys from work wanted to go for a crab as he hasnt been before. I was thinking that most of the creeks have been hit pretty hard by now with the full complement of nomads in Samson. Took a gamble and thought we would try a spot that has never been renowned for holding crabs. It was very pleasent floatin around in the boat sheltered from the wind with a cold beer or two and when it came time to pull the pots this is what we came up with. Nice feed for my workmate, family and made some friends very happy.

Hi,

Im heading out for a 4wd trip saturday up the burrup looking for a few tips on where to go for a fish and abit of site seeing as I havnt been out there before i have done abit of research and found a beach over the jump up which im told is pretty good for a fish, just wondering if anyone can give me an idea on where to go. cheers

new to dampier loving it up here just wondering if anyone can help me to track down the local temp gym

Finally got out on the water today. Beautiful day but very quiet in the few spots I tried. Not a lot of tidal movement so probably contributed to the slow fishing. Family commitments made it a fairly quick trip as well but just nice to be on the water. Only thing of any real note was another big trev. Is it just me or is anybody else "lucky enough" to catch one of these arm stretchers/ back breakers just about every time they go fishing. Loaded a few recent photos of some  the ones I have caught in the last few months.

Whats the world coming to. A Hilton in Kcity with all the Pilbara dust. Hope they have a good vacium cleaner for the carpets?

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/hilton-to-open-resort-in-karratha-20120626-2103q.html

But at least some luxury after a hard days fishing for some.

Edit: But now we need a mens clothes shop, and some shoes wont go astry. Have to look good when Paris and Nicky comes to town!!

Gday just wondering if anyone could point me in a direction on where to go to wet a line off of land??? and there any gyms up here??

We just got ourselves into a small boat and are getting it wet tomorrow early. Just wondering if the crabs are still easy to find from the back beach? And where should we head to perhaps get a couple. Also any tips for fishing the bay there from a boat.

Any locals been into Cherratta Pool on the Maitland River?

I have a few days off next week and have an urge to go camping by some freshwater.

Do you need Station permission to go in?   Will there be Grey Nomads everywhere?

Thanks for any info, I'm assuming some nice Jacks could be in there

Hi,

Im heading across to Karratha next week for 6 days for my sisters wedding and was hoping to get some fishing in while im over there. I will have access to my some wheels (probably not a 4wd) so could go anywhere between Dampier and Point Sampson. Im just wondering if anyone around that area does charters for GT fishing? If so do you happen to know their contact details? Ive never been up north/west fishing so would love to wet the line a few times. I will also be taking some of my own gear across and hope to do a bit of shore fishing for queenies or what ever else is on offer so if you have any advice on technique, gear and spots to try that would be great!

Cheers,

Joel

Hi everyone.

Sorry, a bit new here, both forum and Pilbara. Just moved to Newman 10 weeks ago from Adelaide, and brought the tinny with me.

We will be living here for some years, and my very first trip across to Hedland will be this weekend.

The forecast is blowy saturday, any ideas for us to try if the open water is too choppy ?

I have a 4.2m BlueFin Rogue, she's a solid tinny, but dont want to chance the rough stuff first time out in new waters, and a few hints as to what creeks will provide

some excitement, would be hugely appreciated.

Mike

Here is a video I shot a couple of weeks ago at a amazing spring fed water hole called Running Waters. It's located a couple of hours south east of Marble Bar and is surrounded by massive paperbark trees. Some people say that living in a pilbara mining town is boring. I rekon that if they got out there and explored that might actually enjoy the place.  

Can anyone identify the fish in the second clip?

Enjoy

Paul

Well the muddies are out in force again.

Too bloody windy to fish for what seems like weeks now. At least we have the crabs to help ease the withdrawls.

It was nice to get a feed before the nomads arrive and wipe them out. Not that I mind. Everybody deserves a chance to get a few, just happy i managed to bag some before they were all gone. The blueys were pretty tasty too !

We did manage to catch a couple of mackies recently. Neither by conventional means, one was curled up in the bottom of a crab pot and the other flew into the boat, smacked my wife on the back of the leg und ended up right up under the bow. Very strange.

We blew into Samson caravan park on Friday afternoon for a stay of a couple of days with friends...my son had organised for one of the teachers from Pannawonica to come out in the 'TANK' for a fish. Well it looked more of a surf beach I reckon but we ventured over to Cossack for a great afternoon on the water...son showing the teacher his boat driving skills, anchoring up beside the bank for a fish...nothing major caught tho...a bit of time exploring side creeks...having a relaxing time on the water.

My mate had his boat full of visitors and armed with crab nets managed to bag out...even after visitor number two let two go when pulling in one of the nets (he reckons landing one on his pink rod made up for it?) Visitor number one got smashed by something swimming thrugh the murky water...fun fun fun...

By 4ish in the arvo we were back at base cooking crabs, boats cleaned, beer in hand. By 4.30 or so we had the local paper spread out over the table and all were silent as the crabs were broken up and eaten in no tme. Visitor number one and two were impressed...teacher ate his worth...

Evening came around dinner at the park consister of a BBQ for some and take aways for others...some beer and cheer as the wind stopped for a few hours to let us socialize in peace...10ish the wind came up to signal time to hit the swag

Sunday pack up head to footy (Go the Wickham Wolves) then back to Panna...a great time had by all...who said NZ is the only "Gods Country"

Sorry photos have gone on the phone back to the Magpies home over East. But one Eastern Stater left NW of WA one impressed camper!

To top it off the Hawks got grounded and the Anchor got stuck! Actually I havn't heard from my mate the Hawker...I reckon hes gone to ground...where is the bugger?

Was thinking of going squidding this week out from Dampier. Just wondering if there have been any reports of big numbers hanging around and if the sizes have been reasonable for this time of year?