Hey Every one headed up too wilbinga saturdary arvo todo some ballooning and stay the night.

Slow start as it was with the eastlie only blowing 5km and would not take our balloons out.

The morning was looking a little better with swimming the balloons out 50 or so metres to get them going, and then they were going out very slow so i set my drag walked of to get a drink and then it just started sreaming with a good solid fight it was in 45mins and released straight away!!

Approx 20kg ??? can anyone help with that one?

Hope the photos work.

Took my bro out for a troll this arvo.  He moved over from South Oz a year or so ago so this was the first trolling session he'd really done.

Looking at Seabreeze we figured we could head out late arvo and get a few hours under our belt before heading back at dusk.  We shot out from Woodies at 3.30pm and had lures in the water by about 4pm half way between Carnac and Rottnest.  We'd been trolling for about half an hour when we came across the first school of baitfish which never really seemed to disappear from then on, there were schools bubbling across the surface everywhere.

The seaweed was pretty thick and we could only run two lures because of it, it was a fulltime job retrieving the lures to pull the weed off. At about 5.30 we hit our first mackie on one of the new(er?) Halco 6m divers and Jay had a smile a mile wide, it was his first mack and it was metro.  Half an hour later we got onto another on the same lure.  Both of them checked in around the 1m mark... not huge but big enough for some fun and a feed or two.

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Recently I was rather busy with my fishing trips that I have no time to write my pastime catch reports here..

With a few days to spare before I fish again, I shall highlights some of the exotic and fun wild fishing trips I've done...

"The horizon is out there somewhere, and you just keep chasing it, looking for it, and working for it." Bob Dole

Enjoys guys !!!

3 DAYS Solid Fun Wild Fishing Adventure In Thailand By BKKGUY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nVj0JopB6Y

Jigging For Wild Jungle Perch ( Sebarau) Fishing Thailand By BKKGUY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYmwA0w9OTQ
 

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Hey guys,

Went out this morning to Wilbinga with Sherbs and a few others.  Morning started off slow with the balloons out and running out of helium, but as the wind picked up we managed to get them out.

LOTS of rays around, hooking onto about 7 and loosing most at the surf.  At about 8.40 Sherbz's balloon went off with big splashes and jumping with flashes of silver we thought it could have been another mackie...turned out to be a dirty old bronzie. Didnt bother taking pics of it tho.

I had to head off coz i had a date so left at about 10.30 and Sherbs stayed on to fish.  i got home at 12 and getting ready to go out and i got a call from sherbs saying he was bogged!

Turned out that half the car was in the surf, and all the wheels at least half burried in the sand. Photo doesnt do it justice :P

So i had to stand up the date and go buy a kangaroo jack and borrow some wooden planks to help get him out!  Finally got home about 5...im sure he would have been in trouble with the missus for getting home late!!

All in all a very eventful day!

Well finally I have the new donk on my boat!

A new Suzuki 250hp 4-banger!

I collected the boat on Saturday arvo and went on a test run in the estuary and all went well. Spoke with my usual fishing buddy, and couldn't wait till the Sunday, so decided to go for an overnighter then and there.

The reasoning was 2 fold; wanted to run the motor in, and also wanted to do my best to put my bride's cousin onto a dhuie. (he's over from the UK)

We managed to organise everything, and were on the water about 6.00 and motored on out. As the motor had to be run in, that meant varying the revs every 5 mins up and down the range. This made for a slowish trip out, and it was well and truly dark by the time we got to our chosen grounds about 26nM out.

(Interestingly, the water temp inside the 5 fathom was about 23.5degrees, but out wide it was down to 21.5degrees.)

The winds were the predicted 15knots, and gusting about 18, so the sea-anchor was set for the first drift and lines quickly dropped.

1st fish was a small pinky which was quickly released back. This was followed by the first dhuie of the night at a bit over 10kg:

The fishing was very steady, with fish caught each drift.

Up till 12PM Saturday, we had the keeper dhuie, a nice whiskery shark (yum!), another dhuie released, along with a fair few pinkies released.

Early Sunday morn, I decided to shift a few hundred meters onto another mark in the hope of getting the Pom his first dhuie.

Everything went according to plan: no sooner had he dropped to the bottom, there was a maniiacal grunt, and an exclamation from the pom of "fook this thing is pooling hard!".

The fish did everything right, as he made duplicate runs back down to the bottom, and made life difficult mid-water also. POM did well tho, and he soon had colour and an excited whoop followed when his first ever dhuie was netted!

It went a respectable 14kg on the digital scales on board, and I reckon this piccy says it all of how he felT about the fish!:

By 5AM, we had 2 dhuies 10 & 14kg, 2 sharks, and a nice 3kg pinky on ice, so decided to call it a night and head in.

We'd released 2 other dhuies, 3 stingrays, and 2 other sharks along with the numerous smaller pinkies.

The motor was simply fantastic, and what a sesational way to christen her with getting someone his first decent dhuie!

First report so hopefully will help others out!

Me and a mate headed for a metro fish last night, the plan was to be fishing at 6  but we left it quite late and with  getting bait/traffic etc the first cast was about 7. Guy beside us landed a nice Tailor and pretty soon we were in on the action landing a couple of nice Tailor of varying sizes we kept one each for the table. We were using whole Mullie on ganged hooks with no weight and slow retrieve, worked well. After the Tailor bites bite’s dropped  off we changed to some heavier tackle and within 20 mins my mate was into this Shark. Not 100% sure what type it is maybe one of you guys could ID for us. See picture below. Apologies for the poor photos!

All in all a good metro fish with some choppers and two Tailor kept as well as my mates first Shark, also couple of Port Jacksons caught.

Well I've just had another great weekend up in Jurien with a group of guys fishing with Whitey on his Seasport Charters. We snagged some great weather and once again Whitey got us onto the fish, quite easily getting our bag limit both days. 
Both days were started with a mack troll and everyone got to bring one in each with no fish below 15kg. 

Whitey the old sly dog dropped a jig down whilst one of the macks was being reeled in and hooked one up himself which he proceeded to land in good time. (Sorry no pic) I dropped a jig down just after him and also hooked up but unluckily only landed a sambo!

The bottom fishing wasn't exactly hot but the fish came on the bite closer to high tide and everyone got a few keepers each and plenty of other fish to keep us entertained. Jigs and bait were fairly even overall with Dhuie of the trip going to Rob (deckie) on jig!

Other highlights were me and Whitey hooking a few small tuna as they swam past and watching a decant Hammerhead take Whitey's and give him a workout before finally biting through his wire assist.

Also after bagging out this first day and setting out a spread for a possible marlin only 20 mins in and we had a 100kgish black come up and smack the short rigger twice popping it out and even taking some line but unforuntaly no hook up! Another hour or so and no more action.

Thanks again Whitey for another awesome weekend!

 Hey guys I recently purchased a 7.2 razor line. Paid 88k for it. I then found out when towing it home. 1 it had no number plates 2 the trailer lights didn't work. Then on my first outing I found out the VHF 27 meg and cd radio didn't work. Also the bilge bait pump and fuel gauge was broken. I contacted the owner and he's response was you don't get warranty when buying a boat. Wat r your thoughts on how to handle the situation 

Hey Crew!  Got the opportunity to get out wide today as reef runner was chasing a deckie. 

Headed out from Ocean Reef at 4:30am to a few of his spots and got a few good fish.  Absolutely magic morning, plenty of tuna around too.

Here's a few pics of a few of the days catches.

Thanks again reef runner for giving us the opportunity mate!

Wazza

 From PerthNow..

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/school-of-feeding-sharks-closes-yanchep-beach/story-e6frg13u-1226297125146?sv=407fe58b91bce02a3afae3d66bafd734

was on the water by 6:30,

water got sloppy as we went over the 5 fathom bank,

so it was a slower ride out than expected,

we got the a spot out in the 40s and drifted a few times over a show of fish

but it was verry slow nothing bitting (even wrass) then hefinaly gets a nice KG to start it off,

we moved probly 150m closer to the origanal lump i found out there,

and bang Mick my father inlaws on he pulls up a double header of dhues, 1 undersize and 1 size,

we moved again the drift was awfull at this time and could bearly fish (current) wasnt looking good for me,

then my rod bent hard and i was on it faught reel funny compaired to anything ive caught before i was thinking yes this could be my fist dhue i end up getting coulor and yes it is my first dhue just over 6kg i was over the moon,

 next drift i landed a 6kg pinky and the one after mick got a nice shark,

headed home at 2pm 25kts all the way sweet as,

fish caught all up 3x Dhuis, 1 snapper, 1 KG, 1 shark, 2 fox fish, 1 B/A, 1 sargent baker,

keepers 2x dhue's, 1 kg, 1 snapper and a shark.

Hey guys,

Went out off trig at 4.30am ballooning for what ever was swimming around. Managed to pick up 2 small black tip sharks.  One at around 5.15 and the other at around 6.30.

As soon as i set the first balloon out about 450m, i went to set up my other rod then it just took off.  The second one was caught but couldnt tell it was on the line.

howdy all

i took my son out for as fish today in warnbro sound, preety warm out there so a few swims were had as well. conditions turned out perfect,we ended up with a good mixed haul including.

black ar**e

skippy

whiting

tarwhine

many wrasse

port jackson shark

stingray

north west blowie

1 spikey looking fish

anyway was a good day out especialy when you are catching something my son realy enjoyed the day.

                                                                                                   cheers

                                                                                                    dakka 

Went out yesterday for a troll in search of the elusive Mack! Launched around 6.30 to be greeted by quite lumpy conditions due to a combination of seas and swell. Headed out past the reef and dropped the trolling lines in. Weed was a major issue with lures having to be brought in every few minutes but we kept on persisting. Finally after an hour or so we had our first hit. With only short burst of speed and no long run we knew that we got ourselves a tuna. After a few circles of the boat we got him in. Intially thought it was a SBT once in the water but after looking at photo's i believe its a longtail. (please confirm)

As we reset our lines we kept going heading towards the huge amount of birds working an area.

With this much commotion going it was hard to drive past without having a flick at the feeding school. So lines in and pulled up on the edge of the school and casted out towards them. Didnt take long for the stripeys to hit the lure.. Not the biggest of stripeys (3kg) but still good fun. Ended up fishing 5 or so school with a couple of fish landed in each school before they went deep. Ended up catching a little long nose grey amoungst the school which was a suprise.

Once we got bored of chasing tuna we got back on the mackie troll. Trolled for a good couple of hours covering various depths and over some spots we got them over last week but this was fruitless. Decided to call it a day and head back in. Pretty much as we brought our lnes we saw a couple of little splashes not far from the boat so out came the metals again. We both casted out and Double hook up!! After quite a longish fight on PE2 we landed a couple more stripeys but alot bigger this time (6-7kg)

No macks but a good day fishing none the less. Definately a good warm up for exxy in a few weeks.

Fished E-shed two nights fri/sat, very quiet. Friday went by myself, sat I had my friend with me which made it a bit better. Didn't even see anyone get anything great at all. I've still been chasing that elusive Mulloway. Anyone get anything I missed?

Hey fishos,

Just wondering if anyone has any news or whispers of any salmon turned up yet down south yet? Hoping for some news to start filtering in. Cheers!

on behalf of my son in law.....well he will be in a couple of weeks, he just got

back from a day out with bluejuice, his reaction when i asked how he went was "absolute shithouse" now I know fish are where you find them but with

18 people on board there was ONE count em ONE fish caught for the whole day! well apart from a couple of undersize unknowns he never even lost his bait all day, there was a lot of unhappy customers. @$210 per person thats $3780 not sure how much fuel they would use but thats thats taking the piss! even the deckie didnt have to do anything

 We got this dollie out at the FADS was too big for mate to lift up put on a good show on light gear

Headed out yesterday avo for a bit of a solo mission in the tinny. Waited till the avo for the easterlies to die away and ended up leaving hillarys at around 230. had a pretty slow day but a reward at the end.

Had a dive out the back of little island. Being alone did it at a random shallow bit of reef, vis was pretty average at only a few meters and can't remember the last time i did a solo dive looking over my shoulder as much as i did yesterday. I was hoping for at least a few crays after seeing the pro's had their strings in 26meters the other day, it had me guessing they are comin back in. saw only two crays for the whole dive, bagged them both with one being half a mil under.

Surfaced with the wind coming from the west at about ten knots and hardly any chop so i belted out to 30 meters to troll some skirts around. I arrived to a mass of bait being busted up everywhere. The next hour had me trolling and casting out everything i had at them and I ended up giving it away when i noticed the bait were only around a centimeter or two, had nothing that would match that. So i headed in to behind three mile to try my luck at a mac around high tide... 2 hours and around 10 miles covering the 17m ledge from three mile to staggies for nothing but a little spotted mackerel that fought about as hard as the usual clump of seaweed. That went back as it was too small to keep for bait. Kept soldiering on, making bzzzzzzzz mouth noises all the way to keep the excitement and motivation going.  On my last pass of the reef just after six i figured i'd turn back and do one shallow pass behind the reef before packing it in for the day, my luck was defianately all gone when a pod of dolphins started buzzing the wake of the boat and playing in the spread. Being lazy i kept the lures in and turned back on my track to mark a good bit of reef i missed for a potential dive site, 20 meters short i was astonished to actually see my rod bouncing around in the holder and line peeling off, stoked and all by myself panic set in as i weighed up wether to retrieve the spread or put pressure on the fish. I knew i'd kick myself if i lost it to a tangle so I got the spread in with the fish luckily still peeling off line. Stoked ten minutes later to have a nice blue fin in the boat just as the sun was starting to set! pushed down the bathroom scales to 8kg, not bad for 12 meters of water! Happy as, flew back to the ramp to come home for a tuna feast!!

Sorry bout pic quality but its hard to take self portraits in a rocking boat!

A great set of neap tides, coupled with a long weekend was the perfect opportunity to have a crack at a decent black jew and some good fingermark.

A soggy departure due to a 3.00am deluge saw the 'Further North' and a mates boat depart Wyndham at 7.00am on Saturday morning. An hour and half glassy ride later we decided to have a crack in the Lyne River for a barra. Trolling and casting lures resulted in some rat fingermark and a small queenie. We then left the Lyne and arrived at the very top of the gulf 35 minutes later.

Started sounding around for fish and then the normally smooth as silk Yamaha started running slightly off. Mmm, after trying to get up on the plane to hopefully clear the crap out, she stalled. Fark, 50 nm from the ramp, not good. The culprit turned out to be a blocked water separating filter, courtesy of some water and sludge. After a few anxious minutes trying to get off a jammed filter, we eventually sorted the problem, replaced, primed, dumped, refitted and primed the spare filter and back under way inside half an hour. Glassy conditions were a god send, could have been a lot worse.

Finally started fishing and picked up a couple of good fingermark among a heap of 300-450mm models.

That arvo saw us head to the other side of the gulf to have a look for some jew. A good sized school of large arches on the 585 had us pretty keen. Took half an hour for the first decent fish, but at 1.13m it was a nice Pb. Half an hour later Jamie and I picked up a double of identical fish, 1.22m and full of milt. We had to vent these to release them and not wanting to kill breeding fish, we headed in to drop the plough anchor and try and get some sleep.

Sunday morning had us heading for another new location about 10nm away. Great spot and great day, several good fingermark and about 20 black jew up to 1.05m caught and released in 8-17m. Good fishing. That arvo we relocated to the other side of the gulf again, with the aim of getting a few more fingermark up until the 10.00am low tide, with us planning to ride the rising tide on the 50nm trip back to the ramp.

Plan worked a treat and being able to leave 60-70cm fingermark on the chew at 10.00am was a real buzz. Trip home was on a glass bed, awesome.

Here's a few pics.

Big John

 Came across this sinking boat on monday just out of Warnbro Sound, does any body now what happened?

 Another cracker day in Exmouth with my husband and his father who has flown in from interstate. Caught this little black who put on an awesome show. Enjoy the photos. 

Smithy took me and my 11yr son out on Monday, was a slow day out wide, decided to head back in with trolling two lures out the back then WHAM, a BIG Sailfish was on.

We had to turn the boat round and chase it or Terry was going to get spooled!!!! After a couple of acrobatic jumps clean ou the water and alot of boat maneuvering we got it boat side, unhooked and pulled aboard for a quick photo, must have easily been nearly 8ft long, Terry's boat is 2.5m wide and it wouldn't fit in sideways !!! 

Spent 5 mins helping it recover, then released to fight another day.

Been buzzing ever since, even though I didn't actually catch it, I feel part of it all with the boat work and getting it on deck and released.

Fish of a lifetime !!! 

A big thank you Terry for taking us both out and hope to do it again soon, think we'll struggle to match that though, Spaniards next.

Just waiting for the pics, Come on TERRY !!!!

has anyone heard if the crabs and whiting have been around in augusta, will be heading there next week for a few days, hopefully get a feed

My brother-in -law from Darwin arrived in perth and being a keen fisho convinced me to launch on Monday.We set out at about 6.30am and travelled out to some rough ground out wide off hillarys . The first drop he caught one undersized snapper and  I managed a beast of norwester which I called for a baldy.After that dissapointment the day improved and the next drop i landed a decent baldy ,and down the track a legal pinky. he landed a baldy that was  a keeper and the last drop of the dqay got a 61cm baldy which tipped the scale at 4kg;s,a really decent fish for the metro area.Anyhow an excellent day had out and a great meal ahead.

Hey there,

Just a few pics of sundays effort off two rocks... Awesome weekend of weather and a great day of fishing to boot.

Early drifts with the early morning breeze produced a number of dhuies in around the 3-5kg range on bait... all released successfully, a couple blackass and a fat baldie that went in the esky.

All went quiet when the wind dropped off and the sea flattened making things hard... A few solid hits on jig to suspected bigger model dhu's were dropped. All we could manage were a heap of wrasse on jig and a large toothy pike that destroyed my pirate assist... decided to troll around for a while till the afternoon wind picked up which resulted in nothing.

Started to worry we werent going home with a dhu in the esky, arvo breeze picked up so decided to head back in closer to a mark i made on the way out while cruising, set the drift even though the sounder showed nothing promising. My bro Dave has his mc carthy finesse minnow smashed a minute later and lands a nice 7kg dhu on light gear. All smiles :)

A friend rocks up asking to setup a drift for him as his sounder has packed it in so we decide to reset the same drift to help him out rather than head back in.

Glad we decided to make that decision as the same placcie on the same outfit gets engulfed after a few twitches immedietley after hitting bottom. Fought the fish a good 10 mins or so struggling to get it off the bottom. Was pretty sure it was a solid dhu. Boy were we over the moon to see a 17kg dhu surface 50m from the back of the boat. A new pb for the new boat.

Family were all smiles to say the least ;)

Just a quick question? Having only recently purchased a boat and started fishing... we landed a tagged dhu but had no idea in regards to how to go about recording information and who to make the phonecall to. Wouldnt mind a bit of help in regards to what should be done for future recaptures?Cheers Rob.

 Here a the sharks we caught at wilbinga sunday nite and monday morning!

The first is the wobbegong that was caught on a whole mullet that we swam out 150m before dark!

The second is a little bronzie caught on blue mack under a balloon monday morning that got nailed in 15 minutes of being out there.

Hope the photos work and ps: Hello to sherbet! I met him on my way out haha :)

Well, with the best weather we've seen in a long time, just had to make the last minute call to get out there.  Heading down to Perth this weekend for Lucky Tim's wedding, had to get a few fish to take down for the oldies before your not allowed to anymore.  Joy day on the water!  Smallest was 450, biggest 650.  Happy days.

 Went out just from hillarys today (monday) with my uncle and his mate in 30 m of water little slow got 2 good sized kg's then my uncles mate hooked up somthing big went for a bit of a run then came up couldent belive my eyes it was a 50cm cobia seen some strange fish coming from metro waters latley but if i hadent seen it i may not belive it will try to post some picks in the next few days cheers