Hey All,

Headed out to the 3 mile with johnf yesterday for a troll.Although conditions were just about perfect the assortment of weed had me working up a sweat clearing the spread every 2 minutes.We persisted for about 1 hour by heading out a bit deeper to try and find some clear water but it was not to be.With the sun heading towards the horizon we had luckily packed the back up placcy outfits and it didn't take long with a small bonito taking a liking to my placcy. It went a bit quiet for half an hour and then john hooked up to something fairly solid on his 10lb outfit which was keeping us guessing,it came up fairly slowly but didnt pull much string.Well until it came into a view and saw the boat :) I nice little long nose Grey had a appointment with the deep fryer.

I then hooked up to another Little shark which last dash for freedom was granted by some hook pulling.
shortly after that john's placcy got hoovered on the drop and the 2500 certate was fizzing.Hoping he had not hooked a bigger version of the toothy brigade he was more stoked than a kid in a candy store when a fat 76cm pink slid into view.

So a very enjoyable trip even though i was thoroughly out fished by the senior skipper.

cheers

Chris

So all the stars aligned last week, time off work, great weather and a mate staying up at Lancelin with a spare bed. So what better thing to do but drag the 4.85 trailcraft up there for a couple of days fishing.

Left home early in the morning and drove the 1 ½ hours there and it was strait out on the water. The easterly was blowing quite a bit but we knew it would drop off later in the morning. As we had only ever fished off Lancelin once in the past we don’t have any real spots so the plan was to head out to the 30m mark and look around while trolling a couple of lures. Good plan until we find weed everywhere so we decided to just drive around. After about 30 minutes cruising with nothing of interest showing on the sounder (no expert though so could have missed heaps) something made me stop and have another look at a bit of ground. Couldn’t really see anything but since we had yet to wet a line decided to drop over anyway. Fishing standard paternoster rig with fresh ocy for bait got hit by picker’s strait away. The bottom didn’t feel overly exciting but it wasn’t long before we scored a just under duie which went back on the release weight. After a long drift went back over the same area again. This time after about 10 minutes I’m on to a sizable fish. After about a 5 or so minute fight my Pb duie (12kg) is at the side of the boat with the hook just hanging onto the outer edge of its lip. After some quick gaff work by Brian it was in the boat and it was high 5’s. As I was dispatching the fish I see Brian’s rod in the holder bending over and line peeling off, he’s now on to a 8 ½ kg Duie. Another couple of drifts and 2 baldies later and it’s time to head back in with big smiles all round.

So we wake up the next day to more calm weather and head out again. We decide on a similar plan and start looking for ground again. Once again we fish ground that isn’t that impressive on the sounder and after a couple of just size Duies that were released I land a couple of nice Baldies. Having mainly fished the south coast this trip enabled me pick up my first baldies with the biggest one going 4 ½ kg. Then with the drift shutting down through lack of wind the bites died off and it was heading towards lunch time when we got another small duie and fox fish which were put on ice and we again headed in to clean the fish and have a swim as it was stinking hot.

I had told the good wife that I was only staying one night but after two great days I was able to get another day’s leave pass and stayed another night. Again we were greeted by a superb day and we headed back out for a quick fish. Again we could hardly get a drift going and we weren’t covering any ground at all. After a couple of hours we had a couple of baldies on ice and decided to have one last drift before heading back in and heading home. Towards the end of the drift got hit hard and another duie was in the esky this one going 6kg.

Vac packed the fish (new Vac pack from Dave at Extreme coolers worked great) and filled an empty freezer with fillets which was good as the next chance to do this will be Easter when we head to Walpole for a week and if the weather gods play ball we will get a chance to chase a feed off shore down there.

 Hey guys,

I'm new to the forum and was wondering if you could help me out!

I live near Joondalup and i want to get into fishing, i dont know any local spots though, besides off of the rocks at hillarys and the mindarie boat harbour.

is anyone willing to share some of there near by locations for me please? :D

Cheers, John!

'rumour' has it a fw solo fisho got beaten up by a 200kg blue today, literally beaten up. Congrats mate, hope the video comes out good. :)

so we planed to go to our spot agen only to find we cant fish there now ....so we 4x4 it in the back way ..was so ruff an windy ,but we pushed on an fished with not much luck this time, i got 2 nice fish ,so i was happy

 Went out saturday and what a fish !, out by 6 in by 8 !

I kinda smashed dad(im 12) (sorry dad).! i got 2 pinkies 1 size and one under, dad caught 1 which was size , a flathead and a few skippy. Then i got smashed by a sambo which tasted delicious :) and also a skippy. I hooked up on a massive fish that dad thought it was a big sambo

All in all a great day out

Max

Seems like most people took the advantage of the great weather the past Saturday gone and I was lucky enough to hop onto a mate Rob's boat. Sussing out the conditions the night before we decided a gentlemens start at 8.30 ish. 1st spot which we thought was our honey hole Rob pulled a nice dhuie off on a smith. After 3 drifts we decided to push out a little and funnily enough we found our spot that we thought we fished earlier. Turned out a lovely day conditions wise just the heat had us slip slop slapping every 20mins and skulling a truckload of water. No drift anchor needed which is always a bonus.

Day in total i think saw us get like 8-10 fish and my last drop of the day had me lose a biggy but it didn't really phase us. One dhuie didnt release very well despite a very slow retrieve so we drove over to another boat miles away who caught 0 fish and donated it to some pretty happy fellas rather than it being a waste then it was a happy ride home in glassy conditions.

Seem's like its that time of year again where just plain old logic down at the ramp is up sh*t creek. Amazes me how so many people take 10mins or more to get their boats on the trailer when they have more than 2 people helping them. It's a 2minute job for Rob and i :s

Also pretty sure we spotted a big macky in 35m, so i will be giving it a go next time i get out.

Thinking of heading out from Two Rocks on Friday,  any reports of good water depths for dhuies, baldies, snapper at the moment?

Howdy all

had a good 2 days fishing over the weekend.

went out saturday with a mate, had a good day productive enough for me 

2 released snapper 46 and 48 cm 

2 small nannygui released

1 just size fox fish (released it )

2 scorpian fish released

1 snapper 57cm MY FIRST SIZED ONE keeper

1 black arse 33cm size but released it anyway

1 black arse 47cm keeper

sun

i took my son and his girlfriend out sunday fist time she had been fishing.

plenty of stuff to keep her happy.

penty of undersize flathead were caught and released,whiting and skippy to have fun with kept a few sized ones just for a feed.

also landed a black tip reef shark,nice little fight that gave let it go to live another day.

also got a shovel nose to end the morning. 

we had a lovely morning outthere.anyway back to work on wed after 5 weeks off 

 Wowee. What a day out.  Me and the misses headed off from Hillary's around 7:30am. Went a couple of Kms out near some pots in about 15m water. 

Wasnt long till my missus got the first fish. A big bloody horseshoe leatherjacket nearing 50cm. Then another 3 leatherjackets came up. Kept on berleying up and then 4 black arse in a row!!!!!  Only just size, they all went back to fight another day. 

My reel screamed!!!!!!  I couldn't stop it and it busted me off. At this stages had no idea what it was. 

5 more mins and the missus reel is singing. After a couple of mins she pulls upa sambo!!!  Makes me think maybe that's What busted me off. 

To top it off we then had a school of skippy. O e through.  The biggest was 50cm

Hi Guys has anyone been out to the Gemini Wreck recently?

Thinking of heading there early tomorrow morning. Want to go get my arms stretched by some sambos. is that what is generally there?? never been before.

Really looking for a good spot to go chase some sambos!! anyone got any of ideas?

Cheers

Hi all

With Mrs gates opting for a swim at the beach and both my kids heading to the WACA, I was heading out by myself again this morning. Left the ramp at 7.30am and headed straight out from the Cut to investigate a lump I'd found on my previous trip. The weather was great, the water pretty flat and the trip out was at a leisurely 25knts.

As I approached the waypoint, it was evident that the area was well known to many others as there were a few boats in the general vicinity....so I didn't stop there but headed to some ground a bit further out, that I'd fished on previously.

There were 2 cray boats working the area, so it would appear that the crays are in deeper water now.....45m.

Sounded around and found some encouraging images...see pics, but the action was pretty slow. Picked up a nice 40cm blackarse, followed by a smaller one, which went back down on the weight. 

Changed baits a few times but the pickers were out in force. 

By late morning I was thinking of heading in and noticed a few of the boats had also moved on...this gave me a chance to check out the lump I'd come to fish on. The sounder was 'going off'...see 2nd sounder pic...but no serious bites resulted. Just as the sounder image died down, a bigger 44cm blackarse took pity on me and swallowed the hook. With a brace of blackarse on ice, it was time to head home.

Cruised in at 30knts....that's how good the water was. 

No prizes for guessing what's for tea tomorrow???

regards
rusty...

Weather was forecasted as a good day to be out on the water so I organised a mate to come out for a fish. Left the Point Perron boat ramp at about 6:30 in the morning to try a bash out deep. I had been mucking around on my fish plotter during the week and had marked a few contour lines in the 30-40's to try on our way out. Went over all three marks for no luck on the sounder. So thought about going to a few spots we had some luck on in the past. I could see a few reflections off of boat's windscreens way out deep but that's all I could see. On our way out, I came across a ledge which looked promising so I killed the enginge to get the bait out and rig up the rods. We went back over the mark and bombs away. There was stuff all wind so I didn't even have to put the sea anchor out. I put my baited rod in the rod holder and started flicking around my soft plastic. I saw that an unsuspecting fish had inpailed itself on my circle hook so I put my soft plastic rod down and ended up pulling in a 350ish mm Breaksea Cod. In the meantime, my mate had a decent hit and was slowing winding in his fish. I got the net out as it was clearly a bigger fish than my cod. Ended up pulling in a 600mm Baldie. I didn't even know you could catch them this far down.

I didn't take a photo of my fish at the time as it was clearly out classed by my mate's fish. After a few drifts over the same ledge with no luck, we decided to push on. More and more boats were now visible on the spot where we were heading. We finally hit our mark and there were shit loads out there. And there had been a lot of cray pots dropped on the ground since I had been there in 16kn southerlies a couple of weeks ago. We both lost our rigs on the first drift to the great land mass known as Australia so we re-rigged and went out another 10kms to the 80's. Looked like not too many other boats were having much luck either as they also were moving out deeper. We got out to a spot only to find that the currents were to much to hold bottom with 16oz sinkers so we started head back into the ledge to give it another crack. On the way back in, we came over some more ground that looked promising. First drift resulted in a 530mm dhu fish. On the second drift my mate got a small dhu which swum back down on it's own steam. While I was winding in my bait to make a move, I got nailed by a small sambo about 3/4 of the way up to the surface which was released. I went over the ground where we had lost our rigs earlier and there would have been about ten boats in the general area. I turned to my mate and said that we probably wouldn't have any luck as the area was being fished by others and he said that it all comes down to luck as to who catches a fish. So we dropped down on a lump and 5 minutes later I got slammed by a Pink Snapper. I have been trying to catch a pinky for ages that was sized as it was one of the fish that I haven't been able to tick off the list but now I can.

It ended up being a good day out on the water but it did start off pretty humid. We caught our bag limit and started heading in by 12:30. Now I've got a few more spots to try the next time I go out. Looking forward to trying the Baldie as I have never eaten one before.

Thinkin of having a look for a prawn tonight down heron point in the harvey peel estuary, anyone heard any reports or tips?

 Had a great day on the water today with Kyle and Darryn. Managed to catch, tag and release about 8 Dhuies, kept a couple along with a nice KG and to top it all off we managed to recapture a fish I had tagged back in October.  It went back to grow some more.

Now I've a few days off from fishing, I shall  finish some of my unfinished catch reports from the previous trip..:)

For those who never been to any boat fishing for wild toman before, you got lots to learn from.

Land base fishing for toman is totally different from boat fishing for toman.

You don't have the leniency of taking your own sweet time to cast and  choose your spot  slowly.

I only demand  2 important things from the anglers when fishing wild toman with me in Thailand.

Fast & accuracy in your casting, that's all.

Work hard on it  and  I promise you will get your toman eventually.

I fully understand that  it is very hard for any first time toman angler to balance himself well on the wooden  sampan boat.  But it actually very easy to master  the  acts of balancing  the boat... haha !!!

The more different terrains you fish, you more you learn.

If you choose to fish the same old  toman spot over and over the again, you will  never learn to  aquire new knowlegdes  and fishing skills...

Learning to fish this prized  toman fishes doesn't end when you landed your last catch.

It a never ending process. In facts, the lesson just started when you land your last catch......

I love to fish side by side with those avid toman anglers on the same boat. We learn from each other.

There is no such thing as you know it all.......although I've landed countless of toman, I'm still hunger for more.....

For those who just pickup toman fishing, here the tip for you guys.

" Don't strike when you see splashes on the water surface, let your rod tell you when to strike" By BKKGUY.

Think of what I just mention above, you'll have less misses and many landing in your next wild  toman trip..  ;)

Here some great photos I took for Robin ( experience SG angler) and his kaki while fishing toman with me in Thailand last year.

Have wonderful and fruitful big  catch for year 2012 ahead.....

Exotic fishing scenery........I love this particular toman spot,  it only within 180KM drive from bkk city.

It has the most challenging terrains of all...

Enjoys all the actions inside my youtube channel..:)

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

Alll prized catches for the 5DAYS wild fishing adventure with BKKGUY..

 well it's apparent i might have an addiction ahahha sunday another charter with a mixture of sambo jigging and bottom bashing.

we tried a mixture of spots and spirits were high after the showing on the sounder of the first spot resulting in a few sambos and ambers

a good start and out to the 80's with nearlly everyone hooking up to amber took a few for a feed (no time to take photos hahaha)

in the 100's the sharks are still there but we jigged up a few sambos and tom got sharked  but reeled to the top with a head a shark chased it and whacked another sambo a bloke from sydney had on the top waiting to  get netted was awesome to see

i was feeling bad for losing numerous jigs so i switched to bait and on the way down something hit my whole squid felt like a big sambo by the way it was fighting. took off like it got sharked later to find out a shark had taken my sinker? anyway when it hit the surface i was stoked to see my first yellow tail kingfish splashing around 

meanwhile tom and the blokes from sydney were jigging striped tuna up from 100 meters

to show the brut strength of sharks we took a photo and toms swivel after the shark took the sambo he had on first time i've seen this like straightened it?

Ah bloody hell. Now us folk in Kcity is on a watch. no fishing for the weekend!!!!

Whats the predictions. Come on Tony I know you can have your say. Jies Kief over cyclones.

Neels

ouch!!!! gotta do this quick! So yes we arrived at the spot and yes the wind was pretty terrible however there was little weed. Keen as hell, 3 of us get our lines in, only this time we tried the reef for some bait (which apparently there are no mulies what so ever in WA). Couple small whiting, flounder along with a nice size skippy and another spango which was sized that i lost in the surf spewwing!! Scott99 reeled in a smaller speciman which was smashed in very shallow water(pics) who knows what is was. Ok. Tailor time... and tailor time it was, they were biting till we couldnt fish no more, and even left them biting. All ranging around the 45cm mark with the odd 50 and 55cm.

Change of rigs and out go the big baits, again the rays hammerred us within the first 2 hours of night. Each of us landing 2 in that time none really worth mentioning, all eagle rays and a fiddle ray/shark. With me looking forward to fishing hard after midnight for mulla i ended up getting some reaction to something which blew my hands up and made all my joints itchy as dogs balls. It was terrible!!! Tried battling through but couldnt fight the nausea i was getting so i had to pike it!! i know i know, weak. I'll get the mulla next time.

Hope ya like the pics

Had a good day out with Marble yesterday, been a long time since I'd hit the water so well and truly made up for it.  Nice to finally have some fish stocked up, especially with the likelihood of a cyclone going to ruin the vis over the next month or two.  Trout was a lucky find going 68, lots of red crays but couldn't be bothered going back to the boat for the snare.  Tasty dinners coming up.

With this weather playing games now for awhile it has hampered my weekly cervantes trip so now even keener to get out there. We have locked it in for 2moro and be outta here by 2 in the arvo for an allnighta. Hope fully we can get onto some big tailor, couple of early night sharks and maybe a late night or early morning mulla(still after you!). Wish us luck, gonna be 3 of us again, hopefully got some more pics for ya's and a report on tuesday.

cheers!

Gents,

Any word / reports on how carnarvon jetty is fishing this summer?

Heading up in a couple of weeks and thought i'd fish the jetty for a day.

Was up there last year and im assuming you can only still get as far as the bus shelter?

Cheers,

Chris

Thanks for having me here, mates! Here's my meager contribution from Toronto as usual. A little different from sunny, summer Australia

Last year, Italian visitor Andrea graduated from Icefishing 101.

This year, he enrolled in Icefishing 201. Prof. MuskieBait decided that today's special topic is northern pike.

The Toronto area received some cold weather last week and some smaller lakes just received safe ice. The decision was to find such a small lake and teach a lesson on pike.

The Prof. gave Andrea a refresher on using the auger to drill a hole. With only 8" of ice, it was quickly demonstrated. As Andrea proceed to create 3 other holes, The Prof. rigged up one rod and picked out an unfortunate 4" shiner to be sacrificed to the pike.

Just as The Prof. and Andrea were setting up the lecture hall (aka Clam Expedition shelter), the bell rang! The Prof. got to the rod just in time to see it full bent and going down the hole! No worry...The Prof. is very wise...he had clipped the rod with a carabiner securely tied it with rope to the crystal ball (aka Humminbird 160 portable).

Unfortunately, the line tension tipped the wily pike off and the fish let go of the bait.

After the lecture hall was prepared, Andrea received a lesson on how to respond to a pike hit. Andrea was given two rod to target pike, while Prof. MuskieBait have one rod to target pike, and one rod to target perch and crappie.

An hour later, Andrea had a chance to practice his new knowledge. However, in the excitement he forgot what he was taught.  :roll:

About 15 minutes later, Andrea got another chance to practice...but again, his excitement got the better of him...

So Prof. MuskieBait repeated the lesson.

1) Pike hits - indicated by a dipping strike indicator, or ringing bell, or rod doubling over, or rod pulling toward the hole...or all of the above.

2) Open bail - the intelligent Loccio (have to speak Andrea's language to explain sometimes) is very wary of filo (line) tension. Fish must not feel tension!

3) Pick up rod, undo the carabiner clip, and remove rod holder. Meanwhile, allow the pike to take line off the reel. The fish must be allowed time to turn the bait and take the bait full in the mouth.

4) Close bail, reel the line tight...and set the hook!

Okay...so another 30 minutes later, Andrea finally got it all together!

Prof. MuskieBait congratulated Andrea on a job well done, and gave him a passing grade.



Soon, Andrea got another bite and put his new found knowledge to work again perfectly. As a result, Andrea received 100%.

As Andrea was releasing the pike, Prof. MuskieBait heard another rod signal a bite, and finally he too got to reel one in. :D

A little later, Prof. MuskieBait noticed that the shiners on his pike rod seemed to be stuck on a piece of weed. The area is very weedy with some tall strands of vegetation. Once in a while, the shiner would swim around the weeds and get tangled. Prof. MuskieBait looked down the hole...and lo and behold...it was a big pike...with the shiner completely disappeared in the pike's wide mouth! Immediately, Prof. MuskieBail opened the bail, unclipped the rod and removed the rod holder in one swift move.

"Big pike, big pike! Reel up all the other lines Andrea!" Shouted Prof. MuskieBait as the pike began to take some line. Too late...the fish swam and wrapped one rod. :( Oh...no problem, the tangled line came off. Oh no! Another tangled line! Cut it, cut it! No...came off too...phew! The fish took 2 runs, then ran into the third line! Before Andrea can reacted, the tangled line snapped. Man! What luck! The fish is still attached!

A couple more runs later, the fish were circling under the hole. With the long body and broad head, it took Prof. MuskieBait some maneuvering to get the head up the hole...then with one swift bear paw, the fish was scooped up!

Beauty pike for Prof MuskieBait's Life Accomplishment List :wink:



The proud Prof. displaying his catch...



And teaching Andrea a lesson on how to make the 6lb, 28" fish look like a trophy :lol:



After the big pike, the action continued to be great! However, most of the participants remained small...





By 12pm, the activity slowed. It allowed time for Prof. MuskieBait to take a picture of his lecture hall...



...and the condition of safe ice (8" of clear, black ice).



By 3pm, all activity had ceased. Andrea said he had enough practicum already, so Prof. MuskieBait decided to call it a class.

At end, the total result was - Andrea 4 landed, 3 missed; Prof. MuskieBait 3 landed, 2 missed.

Prof. MuskieBait hoped that next weekend he can give a special topic lecture on walleye ice fishing. :wink:

went to eshed around 5 pm today took the kids wife ect

got 30+ scally macks

seen others pull in a flonder and a few flatheads

i didnt get much myself just the bait fish

not sure why they all catch and i dont maybe im using wrong rig or something

G'day guys, I'll be heading to Perth this February for my daughter's graduation and was hoping to get some fishing in between my short trip there...I'm from sunny Singapore by the way. Can any of you kind blokes recommend any fishing spots to try, I'll be bring up most of my lures and a light set up. What lures work best for the types of fishes that you catch in the area.

Thanking you in advance

Francis

 had another great day/night with saltwater charters probably the last for a while 

weather started of great but got rather lumpy but not unfishable

anyway the storm the night before must have made the fish very hungry. started in the 40's i landed an undersize dhu a seargeant baker and a yellow striped fish that i hooked in the tale all on the first drift we decided we were warmed up enough and headed to the 100's. this is where it all started. first up my brother comes up with some stonker blackass on a double header would have knocked of the balckass winning the comp hahaha

a couple of snapper were landed and then of course my brother drops down 5 secs then up comes a double header of snapper

by the end of the night he was sea sick and missed some of the best/frustrating fishing i've seen.

we moved to the next spot in 110 the sun was setting and the fishing was on

we dropped down and before we could flick the bail arm over all 7 of us left fishing hooked up stayed like this for for a couple of hours. i managed 2 double hookups all 4 fish realeased well and fianlly landed a size one plus a few more most realeased.everyone on the boat was hooking up usually double headers most of the fish were small but still good fun. tom somehow managed to pull a triple header on a paternoster one on the bottom hook and 2 took a double snell he had on the top.

the biggest fish for the day

so between 7 of us we managed 44 snapper however only 16 were size plus realeased a few just sized ones so we could keep the black ass hahaha but was still a great night 

 Hey all,

Just got back from a trip over Christmas.

Went to Exmouth first and spent a couple days there, fishing the flats and out on the dinghy targeting fun sized mackies on light gear. My mate Pheak hooked and landed a nice 8-9kg tuna on bream gear. 

After Exmouth we drove down to Quobba to fish the rest of our remaining holiday. Alot of big mackie hook ups spinning but the sharks were just too quick.

We got into a few cobes on soft plastics, I also hooked a big queenie which snapped my rod half way through the fight but still mangaged to land it. Photos didnt do this thing justice it was HUGE!!!

Heres a couple pics 

Enjoy....

Fishing off Gracetown as usual awesome :-)

Mate Colin and I did the run over to Koks island yesterday in near ideal conditions.

Arrived at the Koks patch, first drop and I'm on to what felt like a good pinky, 30 seconds later and bang, the big greycoat brigade has arrived, it dragged about 60 metres of 80lb braid out before wearing through the main line bove the swivel. Col managed to get a just size pinky up while this was happening. Tied a new rig on and back down for exactly the same result for me and Colin getting chomped as well. Time to move because I don't believe in giving free meals away for nothing.

As we went past the tip of Koks another boat decided to tag along about 50 metres or so off our back corner so change course a little to run over a well known edge so it would look like that was our intended spot. Down goes the gear and up comes a spanish flag each and looking over at the mobile pinger see that they have stopped as we hoped for and were watching intently. Over went their gear and we moved off towards deeper water thankfully that they thought they had a good spot with fish biting.

Some 4-5 mile further out and not another boat in sight we ran over a bit of corally bottom resulting in a 53cm pinky for Col and a double header of 54-57 for me with all three going back, reason being that we will get bigger and better later on---wrong!!!

Couple of drifts later and we decide that we should have kept those fish because things were a bit slow, too late now. Col got what he thought was a reasonable fish turning out to be a NW blowie and next drift a good spangled emperor.

We disappointed that a real good cobia that I estimated would go 2 metres plus wouldn't take a bait or lure as in swam laps around the boat while its grey coated mate took up station below, swiping a couple of fish off each of us before we called it quits and moved back inside tBernier Island to try to find some ground given to me by one of the crab boats who caught a heap of cod in a 200 metre run of pots.

After spending/wasting? an hour and 2-3 drifts for not losing a bait we called it home time, stopping about 4nm out to drag a chrome slice through heaps of small tuna attacking baitfish. No luck with the slices so I put on a small gold wonder wobbler with instant success only to lose the fish trying to lift it out of the water and in to the boat. Now with wobblers on both lines we went round and round the many patches for a couple of hits but no hook ups.

All in all a reasonable days results for 5 pinkies between 47cm and 58cm, a good spanglie and a spanish flag to go with a nicely sunburnt face for me and a buggered shoulder for Col, better luck next time.

Here is a few Cobia from my trip to Quobba. I must of had a curse on me for the first week couldnt land a single fish went. Met up with my mates in Exmouth for a few days then back to quobba. My arm was totally F$%&d from spinning non stop so the last week was spent flicking plastics with a bottom bash here and there. Few Sharkies, Macks and Tuna about as well but none landed by me. Hope you like the photos.

Kris