went for a flick tonight with the old man and next door neighbour.

managed to snag a small mulloway, great fun on my 6 lb gear, it measured up at 60cm. 

What the biggest birthday gift for me for  this year???

To land another  monster size toman - A massive N whoppy 10KG , barely 2 DAYS after my birthday.

The feelings N the excitement  that day simply hard to describe......awesome fights...:)

I was there with my Netherland angler, he has a few missed on the big toman N MAMA toman too.

But that wild fishing,  you just dunno when the next big one is going to hit....

What the biggest birthday gift for me for  this year???

To land another  monster size toman - A massive N whoppy 10KG , barely 2 DAYS after my birthday.

The feelings N the excitement  that day simply hard to describe......awesome fights...:)

I was there with my Netherland angler, he has a few missed on the big toman N MAMA toman too.

But that wild fishing,  you just dunno when the next big one is going to hit....

I've landed many MAMA tomans N those singles averg size 5-6KG.

The last time I hit on a 11.5Kg (on land base), that was 1 year ago..

This catch was different from that 11.5KG catch because when you fought the big monster toman on a boat.

The difficulty level of the fights was more challenging N unexpected.

You don't know when the monster toman will make the next dive under the boat.

By record, those singles toman are much stronger N heavier than those MAMA toman.

The MAMA tomans always have to keep  looking after her baby fry thus doesn't feed well during these the fry period.

Unlike the singles toman which constantly looking for her  next meal.

Fat N strong fights , that what I can say about those singles toman fishes..:)

The minute the monster toman hit my buzz bait lure, it made an attempted to dive towards the nearest bushes.

Luckily I'm using a strong braided line- Varivas.

This type of PE line can withstand the hash abrasion caused by the main line rubbing against the thick bushes.

Due to the nature of the wild toman fishing , I always inform my coming anglers to use a higher PE braided line.

You can never tell where you gonna get a strike from the monster toman.

Can be anywhere !!!! Just remember that no every toman hookup happen in the open and free from underwater obstacle.

Be my guests and share together with me the happy moment for that day.

[=4]"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."  By Calvin Coolidge [/=4]

Memorable photos N hardcore action video clip below:

Full pack actions video clip... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAauPzDqx8

Highlight catch- My prized  22Ibs -10KG. A Massive Monster Singles Giant Snakehead aka Toman.

I've landed many MAMA tomans N those singles averg size 5-6KG.

The last time I hit on a 11.5Kg (on land base), that was 1 year ago..

This catch was different from that 11.5KG catch because when you fought the big monster toman on a boat.

The difficulty level of the fights was more challenging N unexpected.

You don't know when the monster toman will make the next dive under the boat.

By record, those singles toman are much stronger N heavier than those MAMA toman.

The MAMA tomans always have to keep  looking after her baby fry thus doesn't feed well during these the fry period.

Unlike the singles toman which constantly looking for her  next meal.

Fat N strong fights , that what I can say about those singles toman fishes..:)

The minute the monster toman hit my buzz bait lure, it made an attempted to dive towards the nearest bushes.

Luckily I'm using a strong braided line- Varivas.

This type of PE line can withstand the hash abrasion caused by the main line rubbing against the thick bushes.

Due to the nature of the wild toman fishing , I always inform my coming anglers to use a higher PE braided line.

You can never tell where you gonna get a strike from the monster toman.

Can be anywhere !!!! Just remember that no every toman hookup happen in the open and free from underwater obstacle.

Be my guests and share together with me the happy moment for that day.

[=4]"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race."  By Calvin Coolidge [/=4]

Memorable photos N hardcore action video clip below:

Full pack actions video clip... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAauPzDqx8

Highlight catch- My prized  22Ibs -10KG. A Massive Monster Singles Giant Snakehead aka Toman.

Hi Guys,

Haven't really posted anything lately, but here's a few fish from the the last few days.

Caught on plastics, hard bodies and live baits (Sand Bass)

Caught a swag of flatties, herring, bream, mackerel among the Sand Bass.

Flatties were caught this morning, kept 5 and released 4 over 20 minutes. Biggest flatty measuring 48cm

This time each year me and a few mates have a trip to celebrate a couple of birthdays and the start of summer. Only had a few days this time so went south instead of the long drive north. While it isnt exactly a fishing trip, when they ask me if I'm bringing the fishing gear all I can do is laugh. I hadnt been to the cape range park before so I wasnt sure what to expect and since I broke my foot a couple of months ago rock fishing was out so limited to the beach. I know shelleys isnt the most productive spot in the area but you gotta admit its bloody beautiful!




Spent the first morning chasing bait and stocked up on herring, luckily my mates missus came down to help since as you know the girls always catch more fish. Was a great morning, nothing clears a hangover like a quick fish and a swim!




After a day on the beach we grabbed the gear and headed down for an evenings fishing. I carried the fishing gear, everyone else carried the drinks, beach tents, stereo etc..... it was clear where our priorities were....






After about an hour I was losing confidence, and the first fish didnt help..... 






Next fish had a bit more weight to it... but quickly turned out to be a ray. handed the rod over to my mates missus and after a bit of help setting the drag she was on her own. Eventually, after a bit of a workout landed a small eagle ray.





That was it for the night as everyone was hungry and we ran out of beers.... the next morning I sneaked down to the beach and got a bait out while the others where cooking breakfast. 20 mins later had a banjo shark/fiddler ray on the sand. Nothing great but good fun for a quick morning fish.






I just wanna mention that while a couple of us were camping, my mate and his girlfriend were doing it in class with a bloody big camper van. That arvo I was told enough fishing, come n play poker n have some drinks. We managed to reach a compromise where the back of the van was opened up so I could leave a rod out the back and fish while we played.





Eventually the mullet I had out as bait got hit, I jumped out of the van and landed the small hammer head. If I had been more geared up (and more sober) it would have made a great swim bait cuz im sure there were bigger sharks out there that would have smashed it. But I didnt, so he went back. 


















So the fishing wasnt red hot, but what a beautiful spot and a great way to relax for a few days with some good mates. I'll be back again to have a more serious shot at fishing there hopefully when I have my 4x4 to make the most of the beaches in the area.

Cheers
 

went trolling for tailor in the swan with a spot of crabbing on the side. Got a few small blueys and a burried female but all on the small side so no keepers!

Trolled alongside point walter following the birds and picked up some solid tailor all above the 30cm range on the Halco Laser pro 120 and my brother using a chrome twisty. The dolphins moved in and the birds and tailor scattered. We then moved upriver a bit and found more birds diving. Then it was on like donkey kong catching tailor after tailor! My brother caught more albeit smaller ones on the chromy and whilst he was pulling in his fish my lure was just sitting in the water and getting hit! We ended up getting our bag limit for a good feed on the BBQ with family and mates! The twisty was catching more whilst the halco was accounting for the bigger specimens with the biggest going 40cm. Also not one was undersize and all were nice, fat and healthy!

Excellent fun with my brother catching his first fish on lure.

Hey Guys,

Was out at Pt Wally's last week looking for some flatties... didn't manage any amongst all the weed, but did manage a few of these bream.

From the shape I'm pretty sure they are black bream, but was suprised at how silver they were! Maybe because they are on the sand flats? Or am I just going crazy and this is a tarwhine? Didn't think the nose was rounded enough to be silver bream...

Lemme know what you think.

 Was out trolling for tailor in the sound yesterday dispite the howling winds and came across massive bait schools being smashed by birds but still no tailor!! Up north where i live there would have been fish everywhere but i could not see a single fish hitting the bait......WHY?

CCC

checked out what everyone was talking about with tailor smashing lures left right and centre from matilda ramp to narrows, caught 40+ but when it came time to get a few to keep at the end of the session we struggled hard only landing 2. no bite offs either which was good

Hit the water at 7 to a howling easterly but soldiered on to the back edge of the FFB to be greeted with some great viz and few tasty roaches.

Viz in shallower to Garden Island was crap, 5m at most, but still a few crays about in close as well.

Thinking of going to Quinns Beach this weekend. ENE winds on Saturday night. Decent ballooning.

Any advise on spots around the Northern beaches?

 About a month ago I purchased a fly rod each for my brother and I. I've wanted one for a quite a while but didnt think I would get much use out of it and thought it was a bit out of my league. Anyway I ended up buying the 8wt beginner/rookie combos and we spent that night rigging them up and watching the instructional DVD. Next day went down to the park with cotton-buds tied on and started casting and both came away thinking it wasnt hard as we had originally thought.

One day after work i headed down to the Palm Beach boat ramp in Rockingham as i new there was a nice weed bank 15m out all the way up the beach, perfect stalking ground for some flatties. I was pretty chuffed that I was actually getting the fly out into the big blue let alone all the way out to the weed bank and after 5mins of casting I had a bit of weight on the end of the line and brought in my first flathead on fly! I ended up with 4 flathead and 2 flounder for that one hour session and i was totally hooked onto this style of fishing! 

I went down every couple days catching a couple flathead here and there, even managed to jagg a 10kg eagle ray that was cruising the flats. He came in rediculously easy so i thought i'd give him a bit of slack line to run woth for a bit of fun and it took off like a rocket. I had only just got him onto the reel when the leader snapped, pretty lucky realy!

After a couple weeks I finally got the courage to take the rod out onto the main jetty after it was too dark to fish from the beach. The amount of tiny flathead in the lights of the jetty is amazing, everytime ive been there i at least get a couple, usually within the first couple of casts. Walk out a bit further out and schools of tiny snook are cruising the shaddows waiting for literally anything to swim by in the light. First night i walked out there I caught about 10 snook, another species ticked off the list. Took my brother out last week for the first time and he got stuck into the flathead and snook and also managed to catch a couple hardyhead(?) baitfish that were actually eating the fly. He also enticed one of the many big sea mullet down there to take his fly but failed to set the hook!

Hopefully knock some more species off the list this summer, including herring, tailor, and hoepfully a Giant Herring. 

If anyone wants to tee up a session wth the fly gear, whether it be down at Rockingham or Penguin Island, or at the Swan River chasing some bigger flathead i'll be happy to join, hopefully learn a thing or two!

All photos taken with phone camera, sorry! 

Cheers,

Beau

I was lucky enough to spend 4 days down at Channel Point out from Darwin last week. The weather was awesome and favourable tides so we were able to get out and into it each day.

The Barra were a bit slow but managed this fella off South Perron on a 'little lucifer' blue & orange

That was one of only 2 Barra for the trip, dropped several others but they were all around the same size.

Had some very good sessions with the Berkley Gulps. Big Black Jews, the best went 1110mm and plenty of tasty Goldies were great fun on a little 2-4kg Dropshot and 6inch placcies.

Had that little Plefluger hummin!

MMM Goldies for dinner

Awesome part of the world!

Headed to the Swan today with the kids, after I read about all the tailor action there .... and guess what .... kids had real fun cruising, and thriled with few undersized tailor, and one keeper.

Loads of fun when you watch the kids excited with such strong fights

Went out around the Redcliff area today just to soak a few prawns. Only landed 4 Bream around 20cm (not worthy of photos) over about 2hrs. I did hook a true monster though that promptly ripped 20m or so of line off the reel & buried itself deep in a fallen tree. It splashed at the surface for a few seconds while I tried to drag it back out & it was easily the biggest Bream I have ever seen. Tried leaving the line slack for a few minutes to but it didn't swim back out so I ended up busting it off. Was very dissapointed not to land that fish but I guess that's what happens when your right in the middle of snag central.

Me and hunterdive took Friday off for a morning session on the Swan.  Decided to focus our efforts from Pt Walter back to Freo in a tailor and flatty hunt.

Fished a few spots around Pt Walter to start with for one small flathead around 30cm then we started hitting a few spots downstream.  Ended up having an epic session in one of the bays which I can't remember the name of... fished it for maybe 1.5 hours and landed two tailor (plus a few lost), six flounder on plastics and about a dozen flatties on plastics too.  The flathead weren't big, the largest went to 35cm and was pipped by a whopper flounder which measured 38cm.

It was a good day all round.

Hi all, just thought I'd share a report. Went down to wet a line at a beach down Mandurah way Wednesday night, sensational night down there with no wind and low swell. Was initially just targetting herring and tailor. Not much interest from anything except 15-20cm and whiting and tarwhine. Tarwhine went back, but I held onto a few whiting to use on the surf rod.

After a few whiting were munched by crabs, ended up with this little bronzie of 110cm  which I initially thought was a ray from the massive runs it was taking. It's my first shark apart from Port Jacksons so I'm pretty chuffed, and they aren't bad eating at this size either I hear. 

Filleting/skinning took an hour and a half and multiple knife sharpens - any tips for doing this?

PS was fishing solo and only had my phone so excuse the poor photo!

Mike

Headed to rotto this morning

Pulled all 3 pots of mine and the mrs's, one was stuck on the reef, was a C*** to get off but the boat ended up pulling her off! Think it was the limited wieght that i had in it, so im getting rid of the placcies and just going to focus all on woodies/slats from next week (will pick up two more). Think it was more my lack of experience in placing the pot as well with limited weight.

Got 4 keepers and around 10 burried/tar spots. All the keepers came from the one pot wierd. didnt see one white,

There was bait everywhere east of rotto boiling like no tomorrow, saw the odd small tuna splash as well. (around 6 am) while driving there, headed to west end to troll to the south side for nothing.

headed in around 10 30 short day on the water

photos added. the small cray was legist size measured 82mm, and two jumbos in there as well!!!

at least im getting a few!~

Couldn't find any whites, didn't get around to trolling for tuna, but then they didn't just jump in the boat either.

All Alfred and I got for our efforts were these.

PS: measured the small one, he was just 85mm.

Had a flick off the disabled platform not expecting too much  and was convenient in that I could keep an eye on the car.

Got there just before the top of the tide and  had nonstop action  with chopper tailor. Most were undersize  but kept 3 size ones at 30.

When the Tailor run ended  the  Herring  came in  and made most of the tailor look small. Only caught fat herring this size  in albany, hopey  and esperance. Fishing shutdown around 12am.

Both choppers and hezzas smashed the whitebait. Mum is happy with a bit of a feed.

Next stop Carnarvon on the way home to karratha.

 Anyone done a trip to quobba lately? Has it fired up yet?

 Scooted off to rotto after knocking off at 12

Firstly The douche that has either stolen, or ran over one of my pots, FLURO PINK FLOATS, not lengtsh of rope hanging everywhere (i cable tie to make sure) F*** you!

and secondly the douche that stole the weights out of my other plastic pot F**** you to!

enough of that.....3 pots were pulled between me and the mrs, resulting in 14 crays, 12 were burried or tar spot. Only two keepers. no whites at all.

Frustrating arvo to a degree with my first season of cray potting and these shenagigans have already gone down......

bring on the whites i say!!

brett

 has anyone had any luck squidding sor or metro? landbased? if so what conditions should be looking for and where is the good spot?  cheers luke

With Steve231 & Johnny down for the SW drinks on the Saturday an ever evolving plan was in place to head out on Sunday in my tub with Seaquest & show them some fish. Gentleman hours kick off with a hangover clause in place but we got out no worries, of course with the current ban in place it was a jig / no bait day however after seeing the sounder on some spots I am sure they are keen to get back down after the ban!

Doaks putting a bend in the Maria Steady at the first seriola spot, we ended up getting plagued by YTK's with no brutish Sambo's (thought I had one solid bugger but it was an average size specimen & I am therefore crowned weak as piss)

Johnny loading up

Big schools of bait were being hammered by elusive tormenting SBT's, we chased them briefly for no return & decided to head back for more jigging punishment when in true fashion they came to us. Doaks then turned up the heat with his Jackson Pintail hooking into many of these however for Steve & I the torment remained as they didn't want our offerings. (Went in to the local tackle store today & got a nice castable diver for the bream stick, can't wait!)

Steve putting his back into it

Countless numbers of these buggers hit the deck so won't bore with the photos, Steve with his fish & holding the standout jig of the day it may cost you a few beers to know it's name.

See you after the 15th Johnny & Steve! 

Had word today there a good few  shed shells sitting around. Mostly in close. Still not many to be seen but won't be long.East north east and little swell will move them.

Gday all,

Well unfortunately had to come back from Coral Bay, Really did not want to as its such an unreal place. So heres my run down on the trip.

We left perth at 6pm friday arvo for the trip straight through to coral bay. 12hrs 45min later we were in Coral bay. We could not check into our house until 2pm so the only thing to do was get a feed from the bakery, put a few beers in the boat and head out for a fish. unsure of where to fish and the wind already blowing its arse off( set in for the week) we headied soiuth just past the south passage. anchored up around a few bombys and burleyed up. Nothing spectacular heap of undersize splanglys and cods and a few reef fish. It killed the time anyway.

Day 2 we got up early and was greeted by a 15+knots of SE so we thought we'd go check it out anyway, we were pretty keen to get out there. headed out the north passage threw the lures in as there was a bit of bird action. headed out to a spot about 3-4km past the passage and picked up a couple of tuna on the way. thats a start. ended up picking up a heap of small red throats, blue lined emperors and charlie courts, with a couple of sized fish for dinner. Mate in his boat also picked up a 4.7kg coranation trout.

Day 3 staight out the north passage again and out to the same spot, condition about the same as yesterday. found a school of fish on the sounder soo set the drift up and got some good sized red throats, a couple of travelly and the charlie courts. still no action on the lures, I really wanted a mackie.

Day 4 we decided to head out and snorkle around the coral and have a look then home to have a few beers, couple rounds of poker and head down to happy hour.

Day 5 Hung over

Day 6 we went out on Sea Force Charters. we were all keen as mustard to get out there amongst it. winds were still pretty shit house but out we went through a bit of swell at the south passage to about the 80m mark. fish were showing up all over the sounder but werent taking much. we still ended up with a few though, spanglys, tomatoe cods, honey cone cods, sand snapper, robinson sea bream, amberjacks, one undersized red emporer, pinkys, gold band snapper and a couple of big trevelly. Although rough as guts out there it was still a great day out on the charter. Thanks to Dane and Sam on Seaforce. So the only thing left to do was head in and have a few beers cos we knew the winds were to bad to even think about wetting the boats tomorrow. down the pub we headed to improve our fishing stories.

Day 7 hungover and time to pack the boats up and clean the house(shit what did we do last night). one last snorkle in bills bay.

Day 8 up at 430am and on the road by 5. home back in perth by 6pm

All in all was a great trip even though the winds didnt let us play as mucha s we liked, Fishing, poker, beers and good times.

Perfect cant wait to get back up there again.  

With the swell still pumping yesterday near the West End of Rotto, North side was about the only option.

Highlight was a green back turtle resting under a ledge in 15m.  Only 2 crays for the dive was a little disappointing.

Oh well, our recon (fallback) dive last week would be used for our second dive as the SWer was pumping 20+ already.

Who needs to go deep! 5-7m produced the goods.

The rough trip back to the ramp was worth it and fresh baked cray for dinner was sensational.

Cheers Pete

the tailor in gero seem to be very hungry at the moment

caught these guys in record time started fishing around 5 got a fish on every cast left just after 6 after catching well over 30 fish between the 3 of us. they were still biting on every cast when we left.

my 4 year old got his first tailor he caught 4 then said he was too tired and dads rod was too heavyit was 3 times as long as him i guess.

theres a nice whiting in the pic too if you can pic him out bigger than some of the tailor.

some mates picked up 4 mulloway 6 - 8 kg later on in the evening as well so a prety good night for a fish.

you gotta love it when  the fishing is this easy.

dan

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Went down to the local beach early today and after a quiet start, the tailor went on a mad spree. Between 4 guys fishing there were at least 20 fish landed all around the 1 - 1.5 kilo mark, all in around 20 minutes and then they were gone. I landed 4 myself, keeping 2 for lunch, enough to feed me and the missus for lunch (which also means she gives me a pass to get up at sparrow fart again next time!) Also caught an average sized tarwhine and a decent juvie salmon. Great way to spend a Sunday morning!

Hey fellas just curious if anyone's been out to the key biscayne wreck lately, and if they have had any luck with sambos, ambers or any ytks?