Well after a year or 2 now of talking about it we finally organised a work fishing trip to peaceful bay, the weekend just gone, got down there Friday night about 5:30pm unloaded and headed straight down the beach where we found a nice gutter and got our lines wet, not alot was really happening with a little Bream, herring and a little Pinky caught before we retreated back to the house for a few beers, got up early and on the beach around 5 where Pete was the first to hook up with 2 decent salmon followed by a few salmon trout, and I landed a wobbey measured 133cm, so we called it a morning and headed back, went out the in arvo to a new spot we had found, didn’t produce alot had 2 BIG runs would have been a decent shark but caught a heap of herring, got up early again and back to the gutter where another salmon was landed and a few more salmon trout, weather was good to us with the rain starting to hit as we were heading home, I just can’t wait to hit Cheynes beach this weekend for a few salmon!!

Saturday 31st I had the pleasure of getting back out with my mate Dean (Dirt) on his boat ONSTRIKE, leaving Woodies boat ramp at 5.30am, the plan was to head out wide to the fads, get set up with the big gear and see if we could raise a Marlin. With the highest water temp we could find being around 22.7 degrees we both felt our chances were slim but continued with optimism. It was nice to see ONSTRIKE set up with her outriggers and the teasers and skirts set again, bought back the memories of our trip to Exmouth back in 2008 where I caught my first Marlin. We covered around 40 miles trolling the skirts and no billies, it was time to derig and put the big gear away. Now in almost glassed off conditions and since we were sitting right on the PGF fad we decided to get out the light gear and see if we could hook some Dolphin fish. First cast at the fad with a McArthy Bullhead Minnow Pink/Pearl, a couple of winds of the reel and I was onto my first Dollie. What an awesome fight on the bream gear to see the fish light up in the water, do its arials and to see its mates cruising around with him while hooked, and in close to the boat see another Dolphin fish, slightly bigger, trying to take the soft plastic from its mouth. Unfortunately they went quiet after that. 

So then it was time to put plan two into action and off to the west end of Rotto to see if we could pick up a Mackie or two. Trolled around the west end a couple of times and then around to Parker Point, no luck here either. By this time it was around 4pm and time to put plan three into action.

Off to my favourite Snapper spot in Cockburn Sound and got anchored up. My mate Dean was a bit sceptical of my spot but after about 40 minutes he had his first fish on, which when he got up to the boat, turned out to be a nice sized gummy shark. Dean rebaited and set his line again while I was processing the gummy shark, next thing he was on again, this time showing definite head shake on the rod tip, and eventually bringing in a 60cm plus Pinky to the net. It didn't seem that long before he had his next fish on. This fish was giving him some stick, big runs and big head shakes and really testing out the light gear he was using. Finally though a cracking 85cm Pinky surfaced alongside the boat much to his surprise. Unfortunately i had no luck with the Pinkys but the thrill of my day was to boat my first Dolly. It was a big day in that we got to do 4 different styles of our favourite fishing.

Cheers again Dean, great day!!

Paul

1. Just got back tonight after living the dream in Exmouth for eight days. The weather was perfect the fishing was better. The fish caught were Spangled Emperor, Coronation Trout, Estuary Cod ,Blue Bone, Spanish Mackarel and assorted Snappers. We had 3 people fishing to feed 11 so just a few mackarel fillets for the freezer. The only bummer for the trip was I went to Exmouth 49 and came back 50. The house we rented through Ray White was clean and exactly as described. 

Just a warning to anyone coming to Kalbarri for Easter and expecting great fishing. Unless things change, don't expect very much. Have been here 3 days, fished baits, lures and poppers every morning and arvo. Fished red Bluff, blue holes,'the creek", and the river mouth. Nothing!!! Plenty of very small bream & dart around for kids though.

spoke to a bloke this morning that comes here for a week, two weeks before Easter for the last 30 years, got here last Sunday, and got his 1st fish this morning ( saturday). Spoke to another long time regular, and is having worst trip ever. heard the boaiets haven't been doing much better.

Very dissappointing given the reputation of the place. Will kepp trying a couple more days, as i know it can all change with the weather, but not optimistic at present.

 Sorry to rant and rave on here, I'm fishing down at the e shed and I'm so disgusted in what I have just seen!One kid and two blokes caught a stingray cut its tail off stabbed it a dozen times and threw it back in. Some people do not deserve the right to fish it gets my blood boiling. I mean why would u do that it makes no logical sense other then been a complete knob head!!!!!!

Hey all,

Had the good fortune to be invited by a client for a fish with Whitey yesterday. The fishing was pretty spectacular and the weather gods were kind to me for once with a smooth ocean for at least the first 4 hours of the trip. Plenty of fish were taken on jigs and bait.The bigger pinks were taken on jigs as were,black arse,Sambos,AJ's,Mulla's,Dhu's,sweetlips,flatheads to 65cm and macks.With all the macks around yesterday was a little expensive for me with a bundle lost to toothys.Whitey and the deckie brett were lucky enough to snag a couple on tail assisted jigs.Whitey was also unfourtunate to have the hooks pull on what felt like the biggest Dhu in history and Brett scored a nice 13.6kg fish towards the end of the day.

Here are some snaps,
My pb Pink on caprice which was released

One of my customers Steve was who has just started fishing artificals was rewarded with this nice pink on a lucanus before sunrise.

Mulla on 80gram Zero edge,

The result in one drift,

Have a another two days booked in April so cant wait to have another crack in jurien,

Cheers

Chris

Went out with mate and brother to look for some new spots on Sat out past ffb, sounding around in 40ish ground...

Found a couple of small spots holding fish, so small that we probably wouldnt have even noticed the change in ground if the sounder wasnt lighting up with fish, causing closer inspection of the ground.

We pulled up; sgt baker, dhuies (4 caught, 2 kept, biggest pictured about 7-8kg?), scorpion fish, sambos (baby up to 10ish kg), variety of wrasse, lots of skippy, lots of small pinkies.

Fished baits mainly (squid and mulie) but also threw some plastics without a lot of success.

Weather was rougher than expected in the morning but by 11 was pretty much as good as it gets.

Baby brother (green shirt) got into his first sambo, and first dhuie. Before Saturday his biggest catch was a 35cm skippy land-based, so needless to say he enjoyed himself. Now that I've taught him to pump and wind, I just need to teach him how to hold a dhuie haha, always copping awkward poses for photos.

Was suprised most of the good fish were taken in the afternoon.

Enjoy

Here another exciting catch report for your viewing pleasure.....

4 anglers from Singapore, having the best 3 SOLID HOLIDAY DAYS of their time with me in Thailand.  We have  2 DAYS visit to the pay ponds (Barramundi pond and IT Monsters lake) and 1 DAY expereince  of their lifetime to the wild sebarrau (jungle perch) fishing in Thailand......

Though all are newbies when come to wild fishing in Thailand.
Under my guidance and good planning, the 1 DAY wild trip turned out to be EVEN BETTER than those pay ponds/ stock ponds whatever you call them. haha !!! ;)

Enjoys the exciting youtube clip and photos highlights for the trip...;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piFiKc3oAkg

DAY 1- Wild fishing trip.....

DAY 2- IT Monsters lake- 60kg Arapaima landed on rubber jig head lure.....(The feeling is 100 X much better than baiting)

DAY 3- Barramundi pond.....

Went out fishing with a couple of mates last sunday and had a great day... we took two boats and found some good ground early in they day where the first couple of drops produced 3 size dhuies and one of them possibly about 10kg... We then went out a bit further and in around 60-70m of water were able to get on to some pink snapper 1 size 1 under and another dhuie under all appeared to release well I hope. I then got a massive pull and my TLD20 with 50lb braid started taking line... half an hour later and with shaky arms I pulled a 1.5m shark up to the boat, needless to say no-one was keen to pull him up on to my 5m trailcraft deck so we cut him off, It a shame I ddint think to take a picture at the time. All up we got 1 Pinky, 4 Dhuies (2 per boat), 2 Baldies, 1 Queeny & 1 Fox Fish Keepers I think thwere was a blackass aswell cant remember... I am still yet to catch my firts dhuie but after being a part of all that I cant wait...

Landed this massive 7.80KG  monster single toman on sight casting on my Evergreen crankbaits..... So long never have this kind of good fights with monster size toman. Love the toman  fast speed and ferious attack on my lure....

Enjoys my exciting fighting youtube clip and some photos hightlights for the trip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTmWS3KoUM

freoooo

Firstly thanks to all forum members who helped me out prior to trip with info relating to Ono Island.

On arrival at Kadavu airport we were met by Sim and Lee both staff for the Oneta Resort departing the airport we were expecting to board one of the many vehicles in the car park, no we walked past them(the first of many miss interperations for the trip)and through the beach front to the boat awaiting us what a magic view standing on the beach i knew our adventure had truely begun.

The Host Piero Piva greeted us on arrival at Oneta Resort Ono Island and discussed the resort and fishing we were all excited for a fish but would have to wait for the following day what an amazing location and great host and staff.

I must ad the meals prepared and cooked are of the highest quality with our first meal served that evening everyone one was under the impression we were eating a chicken curry only to be told by Piero it was fish.

Our first day was spent on the western side of the island due to strong easterly winds chasing red bass and what ever else was around it was a great day with many fish captured and released and quite a bit of hardware left behind due to the attacks from the red bass.

The largest fish for the day would hve been a big flowery cod estimated at 15+KG.Jigging the drop off accounted for tea with Coronation and Coral trout coming on board.

Second day was spent in the lagoon and western side again due to the easterly wind the flats fishing was amazing with blue fin trevally lighting up as they attacked lures truly memorable.So many species of fish hard to keep track!Back to the resort for a masssage and Fiji Bitter.

Day three would see the wind debate giving us access to the main eastern side reef system which we were all awaiting to have a crack at.The bommies and reefs edge give little room for era while on my second cast with a black fisherman long pen with Sim casting alongside me on the second pop of this lure it was consumed into a massive boil created by a big GT within seconds he had busted me off on the nearest bommie leaving me in a state of shock hands shacking at what had just taken place and Sim reminding me BIG GT.It would not be the last time that this would happen that day truly amazing memories of a fish so powerful and adapt to its enviroment.

Day four came around to quickly with the weather still fine we proceeded to the western side and planned to work all the way wround to the eastern side of the reef .The fishing was slow for whatever reason.So we decided to stop and free dive the shallows what a memorable experiance.The fish for the day was a big barracuda which completely smashed my aswb stickbait taking it and itself out of the water completely.

Day five was by far the best day a complete glass off we found an area where we had bait swell and current and it was game on.IMO it is funny how you remember the missed fish more than the captured ones.Piero and i watched as a big GT approched a popper at a million miles an hour to stop short follow it at a distance then peel off and away.I had three massive boils from a large GT that shot my stick bait into the air but still not connecting with the barbless hooks.We caught some nice fish that daay in excellent conditions.

Lures used were Fisherman,Craftbait,Nature Boy Surfish Tuna,ASWB the stand out lure for the trip was the ASWB120SS stick bait in black.

Rods Carpenter CV79/40 Yamaga Blue Sniper 80/5.

Reals Daiwa 2010 6500H Shimano SW Stella 5000.

Line Varivas Avani GT PE 8 & PE 5.  

The stickbaits were more productive during the five days than poppers we always had both in action on the boat till which ever one prevailed stand out colour was black with silver wings.

I can strongly recommend to any one this adventure it has so much more to offer than just fishing.The scenery both above and below the water line a massage after a hard days casting the food and accomadation the polite staff.I know i will be back. 

Caught 7 nice sized tailor, heaps of herring and whiting around preston beach last night from the beach. Wanted to stay out and try for mulloway but the wind picked up and sinkers couldn't hold buttom.

Seemed to have to work for them a bit more, didn't start catching until around 8pm.

Another magic day up here, couldn't find a deckie so went solo with a late start.  Didn't even get to feel the sinker on the bottom before the first ruby was on, second drop was a nice pinky, third drop a good ruby which was sharked and it was time to move on.  Tried a few other areas for a decent amberjack, loads of spanglies etc etc.  Checked out all my spots (trolled over them with no luck) as its been a long time since they've been fished with tantas out of action.  Ended up back at the goldband spot just to fill the bag with some more tasties.  Got busted up by 2 solid trout just outside the passage before heading in.  Good day out there.

Went to Hill River on the weekend for my mates 30th birthday.

We were glad to see great conditions and set up for some fishing and drinking .

Over all there were not many fish caught , some Tailor and Herring with the usual 6 or more rays . Sorry there are not many fish pictures but my nephew got his first Tailor and a few more .

Connor's first Tailor.

Sunset

I did have a balloon out all weekend but no hit's. We caught a few unusual fish as well, Sand Bass , Spider Crab ( pic on another post ) and what looked like baby Threadfin salmon ( sory no pic ) I saw one posted on here not long ago and was exactly the same.

Cheers Grant .

Went down to Long Point on saturday arvo/evening to give the spot a try, plenty of good size herring around and also picked up a couple of tailor in the mid-30's. A local was telling me the tailor have been pretty consistent down there in the evenings. I'd avoid using bait till the sun is almost down, there were tonnes of pickers amongst the herring. Sorry no pics unless you want to see a sunset 

Hello All ,

I m new Forum, and also new to WA
I need advise where i can go for fishing In perth,I dont have boat.Like 1 or 2 hour Drive
any advise about beach Fishing?i went to Woodman point but nothing spend  4 hours there?
which fishing i can catch there? what time is good to catch ?Any advise Please share with me.
I m after Tailor,Yellowfin Bream,Whiting,snapper, salmon,mullet,bream,flathead,skippy herring
Also Squid,crabs,
Thanks

Well, for the first time today went for a troll, with the idea to troll on the way out to Rotto and see what happened. Well had two lures out on deep diver 3-5m laser pro and one pink chrome 2-3m. so we figured we had no hope( wife, me and 2 kidz) so out we went and plodded around, the wife clearing the weed of the lures and me trying to explain how, when , what and all sorts to her( she tries, lol).

The deep diver was less troubled then the shallower lure and about 15-20min in to our surprise a solid hook up. Man couldn't wipe the smile from my face, it was running like a train and we turned towards it(cause the crap outfits we have...) allowing me to recover some line, up close and I got the wife to switch of the moter cause we were in a good possie, another good run and then the fish went deep. Pump and wind pump and wind up she came with anothre couple of short runs( I had the drag on a bit by now). Only say 10mins into it, and it came up on the rear of the boat. Now my poor wife had been running around, she had reeled in the other lure(as to plan) and then because we were getting smashed by the fish, grabbed the helm and did the driving. So the fish showed some colour and WOW it was a beaut Spanish Mack, nice size too big sucker. But as I said came up on the Starboard side.

Now i was panicked and started screaming to the wife, Clear the rod, clear the rod, making my way over to that side the fish took off, straight under the boat (yep new it would) but what I didnt know is that the wife had unfortunately tangeled the lure on the rear clip and was trying to free it when the Mackie surface. So no matter how much I screamed in the end it didnt matter, I couldn't get the tip of my rod down to clear the bottom of the boat and all that because I couldn't get over Starboard and into the corner. "Twang" one lovely Mackie gone. One Pissed of Fisher still here.

Trolled a littel more but no luck.

Did some bottom bashing and picked up a foxfish, are they good eating??

Then did some squidding for fresh bait with the girls squidding and me relaxing 6 good squid and a cuttlefish.

Then set up for a dusk fish and just before sunset my wife pulled in anothe nice Gummy( her 2nd in 3 weeks) pics attached.

Well all in all a great day, but a Mackie is one of those fish that is top of my list and has been for years, boat owner now for 6 months and first troll so hopefully it wont be years until I land one.

Cheer and By the way, great conditions after lunch man best i have seen for ages.

Wallago attu (Thai: ปลาเค้าขาว) is a species of catfish in the family Siluridae, or "sheatfishes". The fish is commonly known by its genus name, wallago. Found in large rivers and lakes, it can reach 2.4 m (8 feet) total length. This south Asian fish is found from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan to Vietnam and Indonesia, and is also reported from Afghanistan.

AggressivenessIts common to find huge frogs and fishes inside its stomach, when cut for cooking. It has been claimed that in some areas of Thailand the natives fear the species because of its believed habit of eating small ducks, dogs, and small children. It is thought the Tapah became this aggressive due to natives laying to rest their dead in the water. The catfish would then see this as a ready supply of food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallago_attu

My Netherland angler landed his ferious Wallago recent in one of the remote dam in Thailand.

To catch this predator fish  in the wild is already challenging and to land it on lure, that something he can brag about a to his grandchildrens in many years to come.... ;)

Enjoys the exciting youtube and photos highlights of the trip..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJJuOC7wmg

Crew,

Heading up to Exmouth again - 10 years in last 13 - poor me right?

This time heaven forebid we're not taking the boat.....long story but invloves $$$$$

Have done VERY little land based over the years and am chasing some advice if anyone is willing?

Woulldnt mind a feed but interested in some shorebased queenies and GTs......

Planning to hit the stacks and north of navy jetty and also learmonth jetty, as have had a bit of look there in the past....

any advice appreciated, including spots day verses night....

Cheers,

Chris 

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Hey guys,

long time reader, first time poster. Thinking of heading down south (dunsborough area) at some stage in the next few weeks and wondering if I can get any tips on places that potentially have salmon (if they are there). Haven't fished much down there before at all. Cheers!

Hey people.

Went out on my Uncles boat last week and went to little island. Took my 15kg rod and my little flick stick for whiting and so on. Has 2kg braid on it and its probably a 2-3kg rod. First drop over the side i flicked the arm over and BANG got a few huge bites, then the rod bent over. From memory we were only in 7-8m of water. It was pulling under the boat and around the boat. If i tried to pull with my little rod it would have snapped and the line was already close to giving.

Every time i pulled i maybe got half a foot on it, and it pulled 10ft. I ended up losing line and i did not gain any. It didnt take off like a ray, it didnt fight like a ray, didnt really kick the rod around either, was just a weight. Felt like i had hold of a whale. After 35 minutes it went under the boat and the line hit the prop and i lost it. Was VERY upset.

I can not even think of what it may have been? Still scratching my head.....You can hook onto some pretty wacko stuff not far from shore...

hey guys

anyone been fishing up top end of swan river towards midland? 

got this to night just south of freo ,is my first an pb snappa

 Went out this afternoon from ocean reef and the water was buzzing.... Birds and tuna everywhere 

Got two meters away from the school several times and there were small black tip sharks ontop of some good size tuna 

No hookups but heap of other boats trying

Good to see

Heard word of some people getting some Pinkies off the North mole, not sure if it's true or not. But going to get out there tonight and give it a bash

New to forums. Always browsed but never made an account.  Just a hello message and to let you know I work on a mullie boat in Bremer Bay and if i'm not fishing on that i'm fishing on the beach/rocks etc

Not so many salmon around right now seen a few 10-20 tonne schools around. But skipjack tuna by the boat load. Lots of fun to catch but not good eating so i've heard never tried it myself!  Apparently my skipper told me they have changed their migration pattern and hit bremer for the last few years.  Lots of them around right now we got heaps in our net yesterday and they are ruining our mulies chasing them around! But I can keep you guys updated on salmon etc as soon as I catch / see them I can let you know. As i'm sure everyone is as anxious to catch some as me!

Look forward to becoming a regular on the forums!

- EDIT

Masses of salmon around Bremer right now cannot stop catching them stay tuned for pics/vids. THEY ARE HERE!

Added one picture taken on phone just to give an idea of average size

EDIT 4pm  07-04

Salmon everywhere main schools have arrived. season is in full swing having a ball catching them down here! easter weekend beaches are packed here. I'm working morning on the boat and night at the bar no time to throw in a line this weekend but will make up for it mid week! Have to be doing something very wrong not to catch one. Best beach at the moment is Back Beach down by the AB farm. But like i said they are everywhere! tight lines all

Had work in the evening before Sunday. After work I was pretty buggered so I downed a can of Mother. BAD DECISION! Couldn't sleep! At 4am I left to meet up with the others at my mates place. We meet up with Al (Shikari Charters) at Freo Boat Harbour. Nice bloke. 

It was a smooth ride when we left. And full speed ahead out wide. Started the day with chasing some snapper somewhere off Rotto. A few bites and one of the guys brought up the first fish. A 60cm snapper, back it went to the water. After a few minutes another mate got a pretty decent run as he was dropping his bait down. Up came a very nice snapper about 5-7kgs. After 30 minutes not one of us had a bite. Al decided to troll a lil bit of the west end of Rotto. After an hr of trolling and nothing we headed out deeper in to 100m territory.

There we started sending down out baits. One of the guys got a ray which we cut the line of. Then a small kingfish. As I was waiting for my bait to hit the bottom I had a massive bite! (Boy is braided line awesome! Able to feel everything!) I then set the drag and it just kept pulling more line out, increasing the drag a bit more, I then started the battle. After 15 or so minutes a damn noah surfaced, as Al turned around for the gaff it bit the leader and off it went. According to Al it would have given 50kg of fillet. 

After 20 minutes one of the guys pulled up a black arse. The next few minutes I pulled up a nor western... After a few hrs and alot of drifiting around, not a single fish was brought up.

Around 1pm we started heading back to Rotto to troll for mackies. 3 hrs later and a lot of weed. We headed back in. 

Had work at 6pm and uni the next morning, I was dead after uni...
 

In the end, Al definetely knows his stuff and was very professional. Would definetely go back out with him. 

Note: I've only been out fishing on a boat twice (both charters) so I'm still new at it, probably why I suck at getting anything. Parents are mad that ive spend 450 bucks in total and have yet to catch enything edible.. But it is definetely fun and worthwhile! 

PS. WhereTF is the fish!! hahas

Caught a couple of Herring tonight, also had a whiting out as a live bait which some inconsiderate fish stole...