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 

.

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...

 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.

t

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
 

*

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.