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 

Well all good things gotta come to an end, and its back off to work tomoz, but just got back from our week in Mandurah with some pretty good results. 

Based pretty much Halls Head end of the estuary, took the tinnie out for a troll everyday up to the Chimneys, and back to the heads.  Plenty of Choppers, with the odd one nudging 45cms.

Was pleasantly surprised to pull in a few Salmon around the heads on New Years Day afternoon.  Hit it as the water began pushing through and when the flicky had a decent hit, was again picking it for a decent tailor only to see Mr Salmon and his mate make it to the boat.  Great fun!  Dropped a few, but kept 2 for tea.  Good to see em around!

 Went for another little session on the Canning today with the kids and inlaws, this time took the tinnie to have a look at some snags further up stream. Got to the ramp and got chatting to a guy yak fishing, gave us a couple of spots to try (who ever you are, thank you), went straight to the spot, within 10 minutes had landed 4 fish over 30cm and plenty in the 25-30 cm range, father in law caught his first bream at 32cm, followed quickly by a 30. Went back to the wife and kids, picked up my wife and went back out to the opposite side to where we were, with in 10 minutes again landed one of 37cm and several more of around 30. kids were having a ball catching plenty of small ones around 20-25cm.  Yet again a bloody fantastic day on the river.

Pete and I decided to do a quick trip up to Exxy between Christmas and the new year for a bit of landbased fishing and diving. Neither of us had been there at this time of year and didn't know what to expect weather wise - we know now, wind!

We left bright and early on boxing day and got up to the lighthouse caravan park by about 4:30 to be greeted by 45 degrees and strong winds. We were both pretty tired from the drive and crashed pretty early after a quick snorkle to cool off. The next morning we woke up early and went for a drive to see if we could find a bay that was protected from the howling winds at all. We found one place where the water wasn't too murky and jumped in. There were plenty of parrots and a few spangleds around, though all fish were very flighty and as a result we didn't spear anything. We did find a ledge with a few westerns under it and Pete managed to coax one out. We were just about to head in as the wind had picked up when Pete found an ornate/tropical cray with nowhere to hide, neither of us had seen or caught one before so it made up for the lack of fish!

After a quick bite to eat we went for a quick fish at the Mildura wreck and first cast Pete got onto a nice spangly.

The fish was caught just on the turn of the tide and after that things went quiet. While retrieving a lure I'd snagged on a bomby not far out from shore I noticed a couple of decent bluebone hanging around, so we tried to entice them out from their hiding place without any luck.

Day 2 began with another dive at the same place where Pete got his crays the day before, and again vis was pretty crappy an no fish were speared. I did manage to find another tropical cray in a tiny hole which made it pretty easy to pry out :)

After lunch we went back to the Mildura wreck to try and get the bluebone from the day before. After catching a few rats I finally got a decet hit, was using my PE5 casting outfit so the fish didn't really stand a chance and soon had landed my first ever bluebone!

Apologies for having my hands all over the fish, but it jad just bitten me and I didn't want a repeat dose!

On the final day we went up to the marina to dive the rock wall, as a bloke we'd met had been shooting a few decent parrots there. The vis was much better than on the west side, and we managed to finally shoot a few decent parrots. I hadn't done much spearing before so took a while to get used to aiming/reloading etc but got the hang of it after a while. My gun (Freedivers Evo 90) was excellent and would recommend them for anyone looking for a gun in that size range.

All in all a pretty good trip, with no incidents on the drive there and back.

Cheers, Tim.

Hi all.

I have just come back from a few days camping in Mandurah.  We caught a lot of crabs, and threw a lot back!!!  So many just under size means we'll head back in a few weeks time.

On day one, we only got one size, and threw about twenty back.  It was his lucky day because I wasn't going to the trouble of cooking one crab, so we released him before we headed in.

I was told that night there were a few in the harvey estruary, so we headed down that way on day two.  as we approached the four poster there were boats and nets everywhere so we went about about another half mile south and got five nice sized crabs in about as many runs.  the wind blew up fron the north making it pretty uncomfortable so we headed back north of the cut where it was sheltered but only got undersized ones, so five was it for the day.  i must say these were very clean and white inside after they were cooked.

Day three, and the first of the strong early sea breezes.  we were out late so didn't go far or stay long, but we did get six nice sized crabs immediately to the north of the red channel markers outside the serpentine river mouth.

While we packing up yesterday, someone told me he had got 19 the evening before over in boggy bay.

As far as the fishing goes, i only went out one morning a couple of miles west of the cut, but only got a few bites and didn't get anything more.

Dhuies were going of this morning. Out at seven and home for nine thirty. One recaptured dhuie and three new tagged. Kept a 11kg and a 9kg.Left them biting .20mm under Lamys dhu will pip you next trip

Boys,

Bagged out twice in last fornight north of Quinns - windy and weedy but worth the persistance!

Also got two each per night on two other nights.

Big size range - most betweeen 300 and 400, couple over 500 and 1 stonker for Perth waters (which cause i didnt take a picture i wont post, but I have a witness!).

Keep the pressure on all the way to the shore cause i lost several thinking i only had a (massive) pile of weed on when actually it was weed caught around the fish.......I also landed dozens of MASSIVE weed-fish and my back is was worse for the experiance. 

None of the tailor put up a fight really, even the stonker was like dragging in a dead weight - think this was cause after the first run and retrieve so much weed slipped down the line around the fish's head.

Anyway, no complaints awesome fun and great way to spend a warm night,

Had similar reports of beachs all along the coast from Tims/T to Two Rocks.

Spent yesterday arvo downing a few bevys and catching a few crabs in the swan, what better to do pre new years?

One thing i noticed was all the other crabbers in the area were soaking their pots for 30 mins or so at a time where as our approach is to set, go back to the first pot and pull straight away and repeat. IMO soaking pots allows the crabs to feed and leave pulling them repeatedly gives you a better chance of getting a crab thats just arrived and if its not in the pot yet after your pots in the water again any crab that was close by will find it in the time  it take for you to return for another pull. As for depth to set it always varies but recently we found staggering your pots in a few different depths to locate where the crabs are was a better option than sticking to the standard one long line of pots.

Happy crabbing swan fishers!

Teenager Patrick James has been nagging his father Stan for the last year to take him to Exmouth to get amongst the Billfish action.  He's a fishing addict it seems, but the attraction of something a bit bigger than tailor, herring and snapper was gnawing at him... Dad eventually succumbed to the intense pressure and the two headed north recently to fish with us at Exmouth Billfish Charters.

Day 1: after landing with Skywest early morning, the lads wanted to ease into things by chasing GTs and Mackies.  I'm not sure about easing in, as Stan's back won't ever be the same once the GTs were finished with him!  Great day by all with action aplenty on GTs, Spaniards, juicy bottom fish and a range of other fun pelagics.

Day 2: the boys headed into blue water.  Fishing bait and switch with 15kg spin sticks was a technique they were quickly trained in, with immediate success.  2 excellent Sailfish for Patrick!  4 Dolphinfish added to the day, and the Father/Son combo have been reliving the action to anyone within earshot ever since we're told! 

A tentative booking has been made to return in July to get a few Marlin notches on their belts.  See you guys then!

I made use of yesterday's fantastic conditions to get out of Ocean reef and onto Direction Bank to try a couple of spots.  I stumbled across a ledge that provided us with this feed and a couple of unstoppables, great day in my 4.75m quintrex and tested out my new BB outfit.  I was a bit surprised there weren't more boats out.

With a gentle southwesterly blowing, Exmouth Billfish Charters hosted two female clients for a day of Marlin fishing. It turned out to be a great day for the girls who each boated a nice Black Marlin!  Monica pictured with the smaller of the two Marlin, had only been bottom fishing with a handline before. What made their catches even more impressive was that they bait and switched their fish on 15 kilo spin gear. Well done Monica and Tash!

Dan

Hi all

After the disappointment of losing my camera yesterday, we headed out to a different spot to try our luck with some crays.

Headed out from The Cut at 7am with my daughter and my regular dive buddy...we found some likely ground just inside a line of pots. The vis was excellent and the water conditions were great...but the crays were fairly sparce. First dive was in 12m and for the second dive, we moved into slightly deeper water....16m. The ground on the first dive was better than the second, but the vis allowed us to cover some ground quickly.

Managed to get a couple on each dive, with a total of 6 sized ones.....my daughter snaring her first cray!

Saw 4 juvenile dhuies and a baldie, along with a wobby, a large Port Jackson and a small black tip.

Sure looks like the crays have headed out deeper so we'll have to start looking farther afield now.

Was talking to a couple of guys back at the ramp and they bagged out yesterday in 10m so there must still be a few holed up in close.....nice if you can find them.

How did everyone else go today.....by the number of cars and trailers at the ramp again today, it looks like half the country is holidaying around Mandurah/Dawesville area.

regards
rusty...

G'day all,

Headed out with Johnf at gentlemens hours yesterday and after pulling the pots for no result we slowly made our way out to the 40's to jig some new ground that we had found last week. We had not had much of a chance to do a proper evaluation last week as we had numerous pingers circling and one particular clown in a 40ft pleasurecraft blatantly following us everywhere we went.

First stop was a really small spot in the 30's that is barely noticeable at over 10 knots.Previousely, we have scored a few dhu's off the lump itself with the surrounding ground holding a abundance of flathead and fat sand whiting.Over the past few trips i have scored a few of the sandies on jig.

The was not a lot happenning at this spot so we moved to have a look at the ground we had marked the previous week. The first couple of drifts resulted on in this 81cm Dhu which we quickly put on the release weight and sent back down.The Boat rule is any Dhu over 80cm is released where possible, this is a rule which i thouroughly supported as i get more joy out of seeing a big fish released than iced.

We then moved onto some more ground nearby and JohnF hooked up to a nice Sambo on Pe2 which had the 4000 stella zinging.

I also uploaded a bit of footage to u tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJlHNmcJVTU

The next drift i felt the jig get knocked so i paused the jig for a few seconds and it got smashed. The first run was fairly quick and i could feel my 30lb fluro leader getting rubbed so i quickly freespooled and the fish swam free.The second run the fish managed to compehensively brick me again(F#@K).John kept repositioning the boat and we debated what was on the other end.Dirty Sambo or big Dhu...after trying to get him out of his hidey hole for about 5 minutes i was almost about to lock up and snap it when we decided one more freespooling and change in direction.Luckily he swam free for a third time and i quickly worked the fish to clear water. Result was this 91cm Dhu on Pe2.

Unfourtunatly the battle had taken its toll on the fish and its was stone dead shortly after being landed. Since we had our bag in under an hour and not wanting to risk catching any more dhu's we moved in close to rotto and had a ball catching some solid skippy on the light gear.

So after spending a lot of time fishing metro this was without a doubt my best Demersal Metro session and many thanks to Johnf for putting me on the spot.

Cheers

Chris

Hey all i wasnt going to report on this as it was just a bit of an experiment to see whats around but anyways i dumped a small AJ frame in some shallow water in the swan, after a couple hours i went back down and there was the normal swarm of blowies along with a few small whiting, average bream, a small flathead a few small skippy and and wait for it..... about 3 dozen small crabs in the space of 20 meters, i caught the biggest i could see just  to see if it was size and it went 122mm so 5mm under. I went home for a feed and thought will go check one more time before crashing out, as i got down there noticed a light working the area, said hello how ya going what ya got there as i could see a few crabs in his scoop, we had a quick chat i explained the reason for all the crabs in this small area was because of the AJ frame i had put in a few hours earlier, he claimed he had one sized crab back where ever he was based and disappeared into the darkness, turning his torch off and didnt hear another word. Funny how i saw 3 dozen crabs all well undersize yet he had 3 in his scoop and vanished when i arrived, maybe the crabs in his scoop were size, maybe he released them if the were not.... either way i wont be berleying up again.... seemed a bit dodgy.

Not sure exactly what type of leather jacket it is but very suprised to get one in the river. Put it back strait after the photos and swam off fine.....

Caught this Leather jacket in a crab net. Took a couple pics and threw it back in by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

Caught this Leather jacket in a crab net. Took a couple pics and threw it back in by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

Lisa's dad offerd to take us out fishin off bunno today. I was watching sea breeze and it wasnt looking good. Thought we would give it a crack anyway.

headed out and caught so many massive snook, seen many flying fish. Weather was acually really good, no swell not much wind. Caught a pink snapper that just went under so i released it them BANG!!!!! Hooked this sucker. What a way to spend chrissy eve!! Big Dhuie!!! Filleted it and i will take he frame to fisheries for research.

IMG_9698-2 by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

IMG_9714 by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

IMG_9691-2 by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

IMG_9688-2 by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr