The three of us arrived at Moore river with lines in the water by 10pm. I had low expectations, low swell, almost no wind and weed all over the beach.

Boy was I wrong! Two of us bagged out on tailor within 3hrs. I couldn't crack 50, my mate's biggest went 54cm (f*cks sake!) and almost all of the ones we kept were 40cm+. It was a tailor a mullie towards the end, but the smaller ones moved in. They were still all size though!!

So with the esky full and 3 big rods out (two livies, one dead) I went for a nap. Woke up on sunrise, all three baits untouched!!! I must say I was very suprised.

Then people started arriving and fishing in our pockets... There is a whole stretch of beach people!!!! Seriously, sure they might be locals but c'mon, there is a whole stretch of beach to fish from.

Had a flick whilst my mate cleaned the fish and got a few herring on the trusty 15g twisty. We were meant to drive up to the reef in the morning, but decided against it cos we had enough to feed us all.

It was a hot session, but still have not reached my goal of a 50cm+ tailor or a toothy :( :(

The hunt continues...

Hi all

The weather was great today....light NE winds blowing as we left the ramp and headed out thru south passage looking for some new ground to fish. After checking out a spot from the other day, we had red on the sounder but nothing was really interested in our baits.

Moved out deeper but didn't have much luck so we drove around looking, looking, looking...then we checked out another of our spots from a couple of days ago and got bites straight away....bloody sharks! Must have caught 6 of them today...black tips on their dorsal fins so I'm guessing black tipped reef sharks....in the 3' - 4' range; all went back.

Then Mrs gates gets a bite that starts taking line, then she tags in the son for a bit of a tussle between a bottom dweller and the bottom, itself. We had to move the boat to see if we had snagged the bottom but once we'd swung around a bit, we managed to coax said bottom dweller out of wherever he'd sought refuge. 

Finally, a nice 4kg Rankin surfaces and there's smiles all round. The sinker loop on the patenosta had been chafed and busted off, so i'm guessing we did snag terra ferma at some stage.

Not long after, the daughter boats a 51cm Robinson Seabream and I add to our tally with a 42cm specimen.

Throughout the day we had sharks swimming around the boat, mostly hovering a couple of metres under the surface....obviously we decided not to cool down by taking a quick swim off the boat. During one retrieve, our potential dinner got sharked just under the boat...there wasn't much left of it.

Back at the ramp by 4.30pm and a well earned beer. Our neighbour was telling us about some excitement at the ramp when a car somehow managed to get itself all the way into the water, not sure whether it was during the launch or the retrieve...but apparently, the car got quite wet.

Not looking forward to tomorrow as it's our last day...we've had a fantastic time here. However, we are looking forward to one last fish and the forecast is for light ESE winds with small seas and swell.

I'm hoping there's a red up here with my name on it!!

regards
rusty... 

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G'day all

Awoke to a really strong NE wind that was blowing up a chop inside the reef. Decided to give it a go and headed up the north passage but it was way too strong a wind blowing and the swell was too lumpy for us, so we headed back to a spot near south passage and had a swim....back home by lunch time.

We weren't the only ones who turned around and came home, there were a couple of others that followed us out and back in again.

After lunch we took a run down to Warroora Stn to check out the track in, the camping area and the boat launching options from the beach. Had a chat with the caretakers there and they were telling us about the different areas for short term and long term campers. There were some long term 'residents' who spend 6 months up there....oh to be retired!

The weather forecast is looking a bit better tomorrow so we've got our fingers crossed....hope we can get out for a fish as we've finished off all the fish on the fridge.

regards
rusty... 

Hit the water on monday just before 8am. headed out behind 5 fathom to about 40-50m to have a crack at a few lumps. nothing to exciting to begin with landing a few undersized dhuies and a couple blackass 50cm+. moved around a found a few more spots that looked productive. pulled my pb dhu on 15lb on a pirate jig which seemed to be doing the trick.  

this was followed by milsey pulling a bigger dhu on pe2 that was released in hope of finding a monster

we then decided to move out deeper to try find some more ground in the 65-80m mark. drove around for around 20mins before hitting a spot that looked bloodie good on the sounder. had a quick drop to sus the drift and hooked up streight away. landed my pb pinkie again on pirate on the 15lb gear. 

with the next few drifts being less productive with only pulling a few small reds and a pretty little bonito hooked on the way up we decided to move on for more ground.

drove for another half hour or so to find a small spot, we pulled the pin and decided it was time to head in after one more drop. this last drop resulted in milseys pb dhu on metal, went hard on pe2.

with a great way to end the day we headed in for 2pm. thanks for reading.

headed out to the fads on easter sunday with andyh and mela_7

left hillarys at 6:00am and got to the furuno fad around 7:15, the weather wasnt as good as seabreeze had forcasted but didnt bother us as it was time to get fishing.

first drift andy landed this nice dollie and biggest of the day on his samurai rod and 20lb line we were all stoked to say the least when it came boatside and we saw how big it was.

next to hook up was hesh

then my turn to hook up and seal a 3 fish from four drifts streak, this is also my first dollie i have caught which i am wrapped about

we then moved on to another fad where andy picked up another dollie.

and on the next drift we had a double hook up me and hesh were both on and after hesh losing his dollie at the side of the boat and spotting a decent tiger i thought i got sharked agter the reel started screaming, andy followed the fish with the boat as i was using his combo with 20lb line i couldnt give it to much hurt after about a 10 min fight i saw a very decent tuna appear down the water column when it surfaced i was stoked being my first striped tuna and what a specimen to start on

after this we decided to head in at a lazy 30knots had an awesome day thanks andy and hesh.

thanks for reading.sammy

Well, my love affair with Rotto continues......5 brilliant days on the island with my wife and 3 kids, mum, dad, two sisters, brother in law, neices, nephews, two mates and a partridge in a pear tree......

Weekend started off with some nice sand whiting with the kids, dinner for the first night. Always good!

Next day, finallly got to take my missus out for a proper metro days fishing offshore. Rach got onto here first jigged dhu only 2 minutes into her first ever jig effort, wielding a salty fighter, Tierra 3000 and 80 g jig.....top stuff, then she hooked a much bigger model on PE2 that ended pulling the hooks after several classic dhuie determined runs. Followed up with a horse nor west blowie also on jig........dissapointed but good fight! I got a my best baldie on jig....happy days! After a little over 2 hours, we were done as we had our bag limit (only 1 liscence) and more than enough for dinner. The 46 cm baldie and 55 cm dhu were whole baked in the oven, my sister adding some secret herbs and spices for a truly memorable dinner for 10. Dhu just pipped the baldie in my opinion, both were top shelf!

Next day Langa picked me up at 6 am sharp in his 285 Boston Whaler for a FADS and jigging trip. Awsome boat, but could have gone out in a 12 ft dingy the conditions were that good. A bit of a jig on the way out for a few undersized red bight fish, which may have been a mistake as by the time we reached the FADS, there were two other boats there. We left them and chased a few tuna schools but they were too flighty, so I threw a stickbait at the FAD and after some big boils and follows, bang, it was on. The Tierra flick rod and Tierra 3000 reel screemed, and after 5 great jumps and several determined runs both high and down deep, a nice metro dolly was had. These little suckers fight as good as any fish on light gear! We also had 4 others fully lit up surrounded my fish, but Matt was not rigged up so he missed his chance. As Dollies do, they then went quiet and within 20 minutes there were 12 boats around so time to go. 

Headed for a deep jig on the wrecks, after a fair few drops me and Matt both hooked up.......and both got sharked quickly.......seems the men in grey coats are now resident!!!!!!!Moved immediated to search for some dhu ground.

In 45m and after several hits, hooked this great dhu on a 100 g jig. Went 75 cm, and was at the limit of the little salty fighter and Tierra 3000......was almost outgunned several times and thought I felt reef twice, and after landing it, the leader was shredded and very lucky I was not busted off.... 

Great day, and ended with a big fry up. Dollie, dhu and my mate Troy's daughter caught a nice 47 cm KG on the way over to Rotto so it was a pretty hot culinary contest that night as well. Dhubanger came out just ahead of the dollie, with KG third but certainly not disgraced!

Ended today by anchoring up in Geordie and having a swim with the kids before heading back to reality this arvo. Great Easter, as good as it gets.

My mistress awaits only 18 km away for the next fling......

If you're ever up this way and you haven't experienced the 'swim with a whaleshark' phenomena, then you should put it on your bucket list.

After we checked in at the dive shop this morning and got our gear, it was off to the marina and aboard Encounter II...great boat, great crew.

Had a snorkel inside the reef as a dress rehersal for the main event....then out the south passage for a cruise up and down the ocean while the spotter plane did its thing.

Just as the morning seemed to be dragging on, word came thru from the plane that a whaleshark was 'inside the reef'...this is quite unusual for the whalesharks to be inside the reef, but it gave us an excellent chance of seeing it close up without it diving too deep.

There were 3 boats sharing this 1 whaleshark and we all got 5 drops on it.....a truly memorable experience....words can't describe it, really.

The biggest shock I got was on our first drop and while we're following the guide, she shouts at me to get out of its way....I look down and it swam directly under me. This was only a 5m whaleshark but it was BIG....big and beautiful.

These are magnificent creatures and if you get a chance to swim with them, you gotta do it.

After we had lunch on boat, we had a quick snorkel around some bombies and came across a couple of turtles doing what turtles do.

Back at the marina by 3pm and kicking back now watching the video footage I took....I'll put something together later and post the link for you to check out.

Add this one to your bucket list, guys.

regards
rusty...

Sorry about the quality of a couple of the pics, they're snapshots from the videos.

So the 2012 lads trip to Exmouth has come and gone for another year and an awesome trip it was.

We made the decision that we wanted to upgrade the whole trip from the previous year, accommodation, boats, fishing gear, food, beer the lot!

Fishing wise the main targets were reds on the bottom, and macks and maybe a billie on the surface. over the last 2 years we only managed 1 sized red so it was a target this year!

the planning and work started many months ago, with rebuilds of trailers, purchasing of new gear, some custom built rods (couple of the lads are building their own rods now) servicing boats and cars / truck

This year consisted of

8 Lads

12 days

2 boats (26ft Fury, 28ft protector)

2 cars and 1 truck

38 cartons of beer

the spit

ice machine

1000 Ltr diesel fuel cell and much more

the Beer

the rigs

It was a hard trip up for Scano

We decided to hire the pent house Chalets at the Light house Caravan park

The view.

we had some bloody terrible conditions!

Enjoying a beer and a swim!

Some of the Bling. Fishing gear was all upgraded, bascially all Saltiga's, Stellas, Talica's and Torsa's!

Cant really remember what fish were caught on which days, but on the 2nd day we finally found the reds!

The first red of the trip - 8.5kg's

the 2nd

And another

This was the bag on the first day chasing bottom species!

Also plenty of Rankins about too

Nice double header to Scano

Another nice red, nice colours!

Mackie on plastic! love catching these on the flick gear!

Couple nice trev's!

nice dollie caught on a ballooned scalie!

The spread and teasers

new combo i bought just beofre going up. Diawa Saltiga Coastal PE 5/6 + Stella 8000SWPG running PE 5. I gave this combo absolute hell, high sticked the crap out of it and couldnt break it!!

Keep in mind this rod is pe 5/6 :)

Sunset

The spit

so at the end we knocked off quite a few things we wanted to do.

Red's = found them

saw plenty of billies and hooked 1, and a hit by another

mackies on plastics

occy's off the reefs

and plenty more

Must say the sharks were bloody everywhere, lost way too many good fish to them, which was disappointing!

Already planning next years trip, this time a house in the Marina!

Bodie

 Hey all, Newby to the forum so I thought I had better post something.

 Got out through point peron over Easter, along with every boat owner in the south west by the way the carpark looked! on the water at a lazy 8am Monday, hangovers and as many Easter eggs as we could  fit into the boat.

Got to the back of the 5 and anchored up setting the barley trail. After a few quick tussles with ray and his friends the skippy turned up followed by a couple of nice snapper which certainly was a good surprise.

As its a new boat we spent a few hours looking for new ground(or old spots that were lost due to the old mans  "prowess" with saving them before selling and deleting gps with old boat...) found some nice ground and dragged a few lures through the bait schools breaking the surface to no avail.

All in all a good day, made better by getting a mate onto his first snapper ....which he claims came into his special burley of burley and 3am kebabs. 

Cheers and tight lines

Pill put up a few pics when I figure it out!

 G'day fellahs,

Set off for coronation early Friday morning with my cousin Kirk.  Packed his beautiful Toyota ute with enough stuff to last us a month.

Got to the carpark, let down the tyres, and set off down the track.  Bloody motorbikes had been thrashing around and the track was horrible, but still made it through.  

We met up with my other 2 cousins, Phil and Paul, who are at coronation almost every weekend.  They had set up on the first point, so we joined them.

I was hoping to do some ballooning over the weekend, but there just wasn't the right wind, damn it.   The first night was perfect, hardly any wind and there were baitfish being smashed all over the place.  Threw some mulies around, only to get a couple of small tailor.   They weren't biting very well at all, and since the weather was so good i took the oportunity to try out some lures, roosta poppers, twistys, stickbaits, they werent hitting anything.

Decided to get out my big 14ft Gladiator and set out a big herring fillet.  After 10 minutes i hooked what i was certain was a huge ray, it took off like a steam train and got me into the reef, just couldnt stop it.

Nothing around the next morning except for a few herring, which were kept for bait.  That afternoon i had another herring fillet set out on the Gladiator, and just as i was about to reel it in it got smashed.  20 minutes later i had a 115cm 14kg mulloway on the beach after some nice gaff work by Paul.  After a few photos i released it, swam off really well. Nothing else that night except for a few more tailor.  

Sunday morning was good weather too, i got up really early and had a mulie out on a cheap $40 jarvis walker 12ft surf rod with 30lb braid.  Had the rod in the rod holder wih the drag off as i was drinking a warm milo in my Oztrail recliner.  Sudenly the reel started screaming and i jumped up that quickly i spilled my milo.  Grabbed the spool and set the hook, tightened up the drag and i was on to a good fish.  Pushed the jarvis walker combo to its limit as the fish ran me up and down the beach.  Everyone else was asleep so i yelled out and woke up Paul, who came running over with the gaff.  After an exhausting fight i was so surprised to have a 120cm Sambo on the beach.  He was released well.

The rest off the weekend was very lazy but managed my pb tailor of 66cm.  Doesn't look that big on the photo, but it was 66cm!

Anyway was a great weekend with some good fish caught,

Thanks for reading,

-red

Plans had been made for a day in the deep on Easter Monday.  Four of us including Eric, Jeffrey, Greg and myself on Eric1’s Grady White and another three on Wangler’s boat.  Conditions couldn’t have been better as we headed out from the Ocean Reef ramp.  60 odd kms later we locate some fish in I think around 270m of water.  First runs on the board was to Wangler’s boat with a gemfish.  Jeffrey then stood up to the plate and scored a nice grey band cod. 

I followed soon after

And then another solid fish that gave me a good work out.  In fact I think it almost won.

The end result.  Fish was taken on a 500g Power Jig.

Greg added to the score.

And Jeffrey topped the day off with a double header. 

Eric added a nice pinky and we had bagged out.  Lots of green eyed sharks during the day and a few nannygai.  Wangler’s crew also bagged out so a great day was had by all.  Thanks to Eric and Wangler and company for a top day.  No day would be complete without a last pic of Jeffrey on the way home.

Gemfish and sounder pic added

Today was a bit of a reality check for us, fishing wise. Didn't hit the ramp till 11am after a mix up in communication with the other half of team gates arriving from Exmouth.

We headed out thru the south passage and this time decided to go a bit wider, towards 80m. After coming across some likely looking sounder images, we only managed 1 small shark....released unharmed.

Moving out deeper, we encountered some more patches of red but nothing was really interested in our baits....except the sharks.

Ended up catching and releasing 3 of them, but Mrs gates stepped up late in the session with a nice snapper, so at least we had something in the esky.

I did hook into something big that peeled line for a while, then it all went quiet and I was left without any of my rig...gone above the swivel.

We did see a turtle, a couple of bait balls on the surface and a sea snake!

Our neighbour reported hooking a nice mackie on a lure, only to have it chomped by a tiger shark...

We're off to swim with the whale sharks tomorrow.

regards
rusty....

PS. did I mention how hot it is up here! 

I was wondering if  anyone have  report of salmon and tailor around Woodman point ,city Beach or Hillary Boat Habour

If any one know Please share

Thanks

 Heard offshore today fads..... 

Dollies everywhere, schools swimming under our boat, could  of dived into to get them..

 Unfortunately we didn't manage to land one, got bitten off and kep dropping fish, would of seen 15 others hooked and landed on other boats at one fad and the same at the other fad we went to.. All in the space of around 2 hours..

All was fun till the spearfisheran ruined it! But what can you do

Next time eh!

Took it a bit easier this morning and didn't get to the ramp till 9am. Was greeted by a fresh easterly and a high tide. Headed out towards the south passage and made our way thru without any problems...didn't have to go too far before we started seeing some promising signs on the Furuno.

Things were looking good with a couple of quick hookups but when 2 Norwest blowies surfaced, it was time to move.

Found a really promising spot in 70m and set up a drift. It wasn't long before we had some action with Mrs gates bagging a 5kg Rankin (her first big fish since a baldie at Jurien last Easter) to get on the scoreboard and make the boys jealous. She followed that up with a big sweetlip looking fish about the same size as the Rankin...silvery colouring without any distinctive markings. (nice white flesh when filleted) 

Then I hooked a small shark which went back ok, then we had a visit from 2 sharks just cruising around the boat....with 2 Cobia in tow. We hooked a Cobia and for the next 15mins we played tag trying to get it to the surface without it going under the boat....managed to get it alongside but after some indecision regarding the gaff or the net, the line broke and we were left to wonder what might have been....the Cobia was at least 1.5m long.

I lobbed an unweighted mulie out, just in case, and within a minute I'm on and the reel is screaming. After a short fight, we decked a Mackeral Tuna...my first!

Time to head home and we stopped off near 5 fingers for a quick swim before we hit the ramp and headed home to fillet the catch and clean up.

I thinly sliced some Tuna and dipped it in Soy sauce...yummo. Can't say the others were too excited so I cut up some small medallions of Tuna and lightly pan fried them in butter...they didn't last long so I'm on a winner there.

I guess we'll go and do it all over again tomorrow 

regards
rusty...

 Got another two macks today, had two other decent macks but they were dropped. There still here!!!!!! Photos to come. Headed out to some ground in 110m with skippy,And rat sambos.... Got pinged real bad, boat literally came to. Within5-10 m sounded around, marked it drove off! I got your rego mate! I'll remember that! Happy Easter all! Photos to come.

Thought I'd chuck up my first report. Hit the beach nice and early with the old man, no-one else about for the first hour and a half. Nice and tranquil. Fair bit of weed about but turned out to be fishable. Glad we hung around, had a ball.

Got my first tailor off a metro beach after quite a few attempts. Measured at 35 cm, not big by any stretch but was stoke to get it first up. Fought pretty strongly for something that had hooked itself in the eye!

Threw back about five or six undersize tailor, some smaller herring, a small tarwhine and what I thought was a trumpeter, which happened to be buried in about a tonne of kelp when it got pulled in and lost a few good size fish that didn't care to hang around. Saw some weird eel looking thing lazily hanging around in the seaweed just where the waves broke and then the reel on my 14 ft surf rod carked it, refusing to re-spool properly (is pretty old). All in all an eventful morning.

Gonna hit north Mullalloo next time for something different, after all the herring there last visit.

 Decided I needed to get a little more active so this is what I did this morning.

15 minutes down hill and down wind to the beach.

A selection of small lures and mini poppers in a backpack

Second cast and a herring on a small metal slice, much to the disgust of the three blokes that were fishing off Burns Beach mole, who hadn't caught a cracker all morning. 

Had a shot at a couple of good size tailor cruising past with a popper but no interest.

Didn't get to try out my new home made lure though.

Maybe next time.

The trip back home was a bitch (uphill all the way and into the wind.) I am not as young as I used to be.

Ever since I made the holiday accommodation booking 6 months ago, i've been counting down the days till we headed back to Coral Bay....it's been 3 years since our last holiday and we were all eager to return.

This year we've got the bigger boat so that gives us more scope to fish out wide, weather permitting.

After doing the normal pre-holiday maintenance on the boat, outboard and trailer, it was time to pack the boat and Navara for the trip. With most of that done on Thursday night, it was into the back of the Nav with the food stuffs, eskys and our clothes and we hit the road at 8.45am yesterday. Well, half of us did, the other 2 arrive on Monday.

After stopping for fuel at Cataby, then some lunch on the road, it was northward to our next fuel stop at the 440 roadhouse, just north of Geraldton. We made Galena Bridge at 4.45pm, to find it pretty crowded...everyone had the same idea as us.

We found a spot and set up camp, before hitting the swags early as we knew we'd be up early this morning.

In 8 hours on the road Friday, we clocked up 625kms at an average of 78kph and a diesel consumption of 16L/100kms, which isn't bad as we cruised at 105kph in comfort.

A couple of things from our first day: don't stop at the first roadhouse in Cataby as they're 6cpl dearer than the next one a couple of kms up the road. The diesel bowser at the 440 is the one nearest to the highway...we didn't qualify as a truck, to use the other diesel bowsers!!

After tossing and turning most of the night, I'd had enough by 4am so it was time to pack up and hit the road...we pulled out of Galena Bridge at 4.30am and set our sights on being in Coral Bay by lunchtime. 

After stopping for fuel at the Overlander, we passed thru Carnarvon around 9am and stopped for some brekky, before filling up again at Minilya, for the last leg of our trip, arriving in Coral Bay at 11.45am.

Some trivia from today: Billabong roadhouse wasn't open when we went past at 5.45am; Wooramal wasn't open when we went past at 7.30am; couldn't buy any fruit or vegies from the side of the road at Carnarvon and the BP servo on the right hand side of the North West Coastal Highway in Carnarvon is no longer there!!!

On our arrival in Coral Bay, we'd clocked up 1213kms at an average speed of 81kph and a diesel consumption the same as yesterday. We did a quick lap around the marina, to be greeted by flat seas, beautiful torquise water and 38C temperature! We then headed to our holiday house. Arriving ahead of our check-in time was ok, even though the cleaning staff were still there...we unloaded the boat and Nav, before a spot of lunch and a leisurely couple of hours before we headed down to the marina at 3pm, hoping to catch a fish or two for tea.

Headed down past the south passage and fished a couple of bombies and the result was a nice spangly and a golden trevally. Back at the ramp by 5pm and home for fresh fish on the bbq which went down a treat.

Had a quick chat with the fisheries guys at the ramp and all good.

Coral Bay looks to be full to overflowing with holidaymakers....half of Perth must be up here; the other half are probably in Exmouth!

Looking forward to venturing out wide tomorrow.

Hope everyone else is enjoying their Easter weekend, wherever you are.

regards
rusty...

going for a troll tommorrow. anyone know where the good fish are at???

Its times like these I would like to dis-own one of my children :)

Simon caught this this afternoon off the beach just north of cevanties.

We finally got a chance to get an offshore trip in Wednesday. We took a mate (Muggsy) who has not fished much and had never caught a Red Emperor or a Large Mouth Nannygai (Sadletail Snapper). You can imagine his delight when he got one on the first spot before the sun had even set! Derek got one here too and we also got three trout, a Spangeld Emperor and a sizeable Large Mouth to boot. The boys could have gone home then happy men.

Before the sun had set we had 7 trout in the esky including a 7 kilo Blue Spot that Muggsy nailed to make his day even better.

After dark the sharks and Red Bass gave us heaps with Muggsy landing eight 5 kilo Bass in a row. His next bait then took off with what we all thought was a big shark but he wanted to catch it and persisted destroying himself in the process. It was a good call with a massive GT brought boatside after a sustained battle. I say with a fair amount of confidence this fish was over 35 kilos.




The sharks chased us to another area where we got more large and small mouth nannys plus a cod and a nice little Mangrove Jack to finish off. Final tally was 37 fish which included 7 or 8 large mouth to 6 kilos to go with the two Reds, a bunch of Spangeld Emperor and Long nose. Muggsy has another excuse to come out as he missed out on poppins his Large Mouth cherry but he didn't seem to mind after the fish he caught. Was good to get out

Just a quick thanks to all the guys that made it up for this years comp, unfortunately the weather wasn't the best and the sharks were the worst I've ever seen or heard of.  Regardless of that, some cracking fish were still caught and the prizes were spread amongst the group.  We raised 7 bills for the three days, hooked 4 and lost 2 boatside and managed a few bottomies.  Congrats to all the winners for 2012.

Winners were:

Red Emperor : Jody 88cm

Spangly: Alfred 72cm

Rankin: Bodie 80.5cm, Adam 80cm.

Jobfish: Lucky Tim 79cm

Spanish: Jayden 139cm

Coral Trout: Alfred 78cm

Trevally: Dave 92cm

Tuna: Nizzy 102cm

Mahi: Adam 126cm

Land Based: Amanda

Best Photo: Amanda

Most Marlin: Tim/Adam

Biggest Marlin: Tim/Adam - Prize given to Kamo Kings for their sail in average conditions in a small boat.

I have a heap of photos but they are on the other computer, here's a few from our efforts, the rest will go up at a later date or be put up by comp entrants.

Thanks must go to: XTREME DAVE - XTREME COOLERS for the awesome iceboxes, Browny and Fisho-Ron for their prize donations and all competitors and anyone I may have forgotton as its been a long few days (after an even longer comp windup night, oh my liver!)

Cheers,

Adam

Tailor off the beach this year has been the best for a while, been fishing the north metro beaches and catching some decent size fish, also the odd soapy mulloway and bream, but recently the mullet have moved in and been jagging a few of them lately.

 Just a quick one another 6 hours no fish, but I did see two more mullahs taking one at 430 the other around 730 both between 10-15 kgs. One was released and swam away strongly which was good to see as its what I like to do. Such a beautiful fish don't think I could kill it ( nothing against those of u that do as i have eaten it and liked it and kept plenty of other fish out there ) 

Heading up to Jurien on thursday for four days anybody got any reports or tall tales.

Hello People

I am heading down to Albany over the next few week just wondering if anyone has any reports on where thay have been hanging around latley????

 Spent two days down at e shed now in total 20 hrs, had one run hahahah but I have decided this Is the week to break the voodoo of the mullaway! There r plenty of slimies around plus the occasional whiting and grunter. Last night a 15kg mulla was caught at around 730pm on a live grunted ( not mone unfortunatly) Nothing else happened after that.

Stay tuned for days three report (it's going to happen this week!! I'm getting this mulla) 

Ps I do have a photo but won't let me upload at the moment 

Just done 4 days of fishing down south, starting just north of where the Summertime Track hits the beach and fishing up last night doing some redfin/trout fishing on the Warren in Pemberton area.

Salmon were crazy hungry on Saturday, 6 people hooking up on decent sized ones at once was fairly awesome. Lures were a waste of time with the big seas/swell.

Much alcohol was consumed and laughs had with Austrian tourists.

Burnt out maloo near Manjimup


Start of the Summertime Track


First Salmon went to this bloke


Shit fishing weather


Biggest Salmon on Saturday arvo session


Phone died about this time and didn't take a proper camera