Hey there fellow fishwrecked members my name's Christian this is my first post as i just joined today but i thought id share my most recent memorable capture.

The call was made after hearing that a few mullas were being landed after the storms, to go put a few hours into catching one. choosing E-shed as our preferable spot we decided to get there nice an early as we heard a few had being landed there over the previous week and knew it would be harder to get a spot later in the evening. We arrived around 5.30 and got our spot and rigged up using packet  scalies for bait that we'd bought earlier. 

After a while of peaceful livie fishing catching mostly yakkas and snook one of the rods went off. Oh the excitement but wait RAY! ah damn!! so the line was cut re-rigged up. A short time later my mates rod screamed off and it was his turn to catch an angry ray.. This was to be a common occurence as over the next 2 nights we hooked about ten and saw many more rods in the distance going off all to rays.

Then came night 3 this night was to be our night but it was funny that it only came by chance that we ended up at E-shed AGAIN! We had decided to fish for tailor earlier in the night but having no luck catching one I made the call that we should try for mulloway again. so back we were again at the wharf rigging up and catching livies. After a while my rod went off but slower this time than the other nights, i gave it a lil and attempted to set the hooks but i missed... shoot. Bringing the livie in i noticed its head was missing and instead of changing baits i cast it back out in the exact same spot. This payed off as five minutes later my rod started to tick slowly again i gave it plenty of line this time before i set the hooks and this time i was on and this was no ray( although no one believed me i called it straight away) this was different, every 10 seconds my rod would thrash as whatever was on the end of it tried to shake free. After about ten minutes of strong runs with plenty of head shakes and a tangle that almost proved costly we got a glimpse of my first mulloway and was she a beautie. then came the next problem landing it and I'm so thankful we still had the 14ft gaff in the car from the previous nights( also thanks to the guy who gaffed it for me i couldn't of done it better myself). 

And there it was 1.2m and at least 15kg of glistening silver i couldn't believe it i was so wrapped and i still am now i just gotta catch my mate one he was a lil devo as id caught it on his rod which i was using for tailor earlier in the evening, ah well there's always next time..

 How stoked am I:P

fThats my mate holding it and it still looks big even though hes 6'3

just wondering where the best area to get a cpl of gummy sharks in the metro area?

 I had to get rid of this twitch so went for a little flick yesterday arvo after uni, and im starting to like this style of fishing, incredibly relaxing until one tries to get you in the snags. A mate and I landed 3 all identical size of around 350mm

Triple bonus you can say.

Congrat to Simon for his 65KG Giant Mekong Catfish & 30KG Siamese carp and Andrew with his 40KG Giant Mekong Catfish.

Landing 3 big giant fishes in 1 DAY trip to BSR is rather rare catch but it can be done if we follow  my plans diligently. ;)

I will not disclose what strategy I use or what I bait I use here due to trade secret. haha !!!

Just enjoy some of the wonderful photos I took for them for their 2 DAYS fishing trip with me. ;)

65KG Mekong Catfish landed by Simon.

30KG beautiful siamese carp also landed by Simon that day.

Hey Guys,

SimonC, Oracle, Munners and I headed to the Abrolhos after a spur of the moment decision on Tuesday arvo last week! Well need less to say that the decision was a good one with plenty of action from a place ive been meaning to fish for a long time. Pelagic and Demersal action was second to none with plenty of fish boated. Heres a few pics to explain how fish enriched the joint is!

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Sam

Stinking Sambo on PE3, ~24kg

Stickbaited YTK ~15kg on PE3

Jellybean YFT on stick. A slightly larger Fin was hooked next cast to empty my spool rather quickly! Undergunned was the norm with this outfit

Jason's (Oracle) hungry YFT to engulf the poor little Roosta!

One of many picturesque Dhu's

And again....

Turtle Dove was on fire.....

Ive got some more pics on my laptop at home which will be posted tonight!

Cheers,

Sam

Weather was a bit average today, started off pretty nice but deteriorated rapidly .

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 am sure Samc will post a full report complete with professional quality pics but I would like to say WOOHOO to the Abrolhos Islands for turning on the surface action. Oracle, SamC, justin and myself hatched a very last minute plan to overnight at the islands last week. It has been on my to do list for 5 years but weather and work never seem to play ball. Anyway we got off to a very late start form Perth on wednesday which saw us leaving Port Denison at 4:30 for the 54mile run across. I must give a big shout out to Poddy for his assistance ond keen eye. When we hit the designated meeting spot neither boat could get radio contact, and luckilly poddy and his mates saw us and came to meet us in the dark to guide us in.

After a magic night on the boat in dead calm conditions we awoke to a very blustery 15-20 knot wind. Lucky for us this died down over the morning and let us get out. Justin and i stuck with jigs whilst Sam went the stick baits, I won't rain on his parade but the photos will tell the story when he posts them.. Anyway after 6 hours of shallow water fun we hit the back of Pelsart(sp) to find a rather large 4m swell pumping in close. What was also pumping was huge schools of Yellow fin. This has been on my bucket list species now for 5 years as well, and despite a few rat ones in Exmouth we have never looked like cracking them. To say we had a ball would be an understatement. the biggest to the boat was 30kg with a couple more breaking 100lb leader after prologned fights(we had no sleeves or crimps on the boat - schoolboy error). ON top of great tuna action we cracked some big yellow tail kings and some of the fattest spotted mackerel I have ever seen.

 Hi Guys, 

Its been a little while since I posted but finally have the time having arrived in Darwin a few days ago.  To keep it easy i will just put up some of the better photos from the last month and caption them. I'm updating my blog too at the moment so there will be more details for those of you that are interested:)

As a summary I grabbed a bit of a lift through karrajini national park and then cycled from broome up to the fitzroy river where i made camp for a few days with the aim to catch barra. Then Back on the bike along to derby down the Gibb River road and onwards to Kunnunara, along to Katherine, up through litchfield and then to Darwin. So i've clocked up nearly 4000kays on the bicycle and by some amazing stroke of luck managed to even get some fish on my lures!!

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80 mile beach and a pretty nice sunset. I was convinced a fish would nail my lure but after 3 hours i gave up and settled for a good sunset instead!

cable beach in broome. Saw some guys catching some pretty decent whiting from the rocky area. Set off towards willare road bridge a little later and battled bad head winds for two days to get there.

One of the first big boab trees i found. they made great spots to rest out of the midday sun.

First crocy i saw..10km from the fitzroy river. seemed to be suffering from a bad case of heatstroke!

After 3 hours of casting and running up and down steep banks a small barra nailled my lure 3 times in a split second but didn't hook up. i was starting to wonder whether the barra was a myth..then this little beauty nailed the lure! ah and relax!! two more had a go but didn't hook up. 2.5 days of hard fishing for one small barra..worth it as it was my first australian barra!

This was my campsite on the fitzroy..about 6 km from the main road. a nice freshwater croc chose to sunbathe on the beach just below my tent.

crocodile eyeballing me! didn't see any salties..only about 15 freshies who had probably eaten all the barra!

fitzroy river in the evening

Cycling Gibb river road. managed to bust out 100 kays a day and get from derby to kunnunarra in just under 8 days..would like to have spent longer but i only had some much food packed. some kind people gave me a few goodies along the way which helped.

early morning on the gibb

pushing the bike through a sandy area :(

hmm still a long way to go. At this point i was pretty excited about the can of coke i planned to buy at mt barnett! had been thinking about it for the last 5 hours!

completely stuffed after 100km of corrugations. think i was gathering the energy to make a cup of tea!

Dingo that followed me down the road for a few kays and then tried to steal my map. guess the poor bugger was lost?

a lovely spot where apparently there was no camping. unfortunately i was so tired i had no choice but to sleep there.

another beautiful spot on the gibb

durack river crossing..it was 10 am, 60km ridden and i'd just been given a cold can of beer. Not really a good idea and it meant the next hour was pretty interesting.

Pentecost river crossing. Everyone warned me about crocs but upon arrival i figured that the stream of 4wds would have scared them all away. it was pretty shallow too. Being a fisherman my other logic was match the hatch..with so may prados and landcruisers to feet on why would a croc want a skinny cyclist? I carried half my bags accross and then was wading back for the rest when a 'kimberly wild' bus pulled up and all the people climbed off and started taking photos of me! just what i wasn't in the mood for. i had already had my photo taken 15000 times  and was getting a little bored of it. the khaki clad tour guide marched over and said " you're not going to ride that thing across are you?" i was a bit put out to her refering to my bike as a 'thing' but managed to keep my cool and reply that no i was going to carry it across. at that point in an almost hysterical voice she said " what about the crocodiles" so i replied that we had an understading as i put the bike on my shoulder and marched off across the river! think she must have been building up the croc thing to all her tourists and i put a spanner in the works! the funniest bit was that as i walked across my arse was hanging out as my shorts were completely torn and in pieces! well at least the tourists were entertained and got some good photos!

how i began to love corrugations. the last 150km was stony and fully corrugated. often i could ony make between 6-10km/h so put in long days of 10 hours on the bike.

Not a bad camping spot apart from i didn't realise that the hawk that was nesting in the tree was going to drop blood all over my nice white tent! drat!

a wedge tail eagle that didn't seem too impressed with me taking his photo!

I was on the gibb in the school holidays and there seemed to some sort of gibb river road challenge on. most people seemed to be a rush to get somewhere which was a shame as they were missing alot travelling at 100kmh. the fact that they showered me with stones and dust didn't help either. many people snapped photos of me as they sped past. it was a shame they didn't have the time to stop and have a chat:)

This Goanna demonstrates the dangers of drinking too much beer. 

A nice sunset shot

an inspiring find at my fishing spot on the ord river

probably my worst nightmare!!

caught this in the ord river...anyone know what species it is?

i went for a recce on the Ord and found a nice looking pool. upon closer inspection i saw loads of little orange eyes look up at me..heaps and heaps of small barra were hanging about intercepting morsels brought in by the current. went back in the early morning and got 13 barra and 21 tapon in a couple of hours. great session..nothing big but plenty of acrobatics and non stop action until the sun came up and the feeding tailed off

one of the tarpon that nailed a silver metal.

throwing lures on the ord! good fun..just wish i had more small lures.

On the way to Katherine from Kununurra. just taking it easy trying to clock 120km a day. resting during the heat of midday.

Camping in the NT.  At three in the morning a bull arrived and decided to stand ten metres from my tent and bellow his heart out. I was lying inside praying he didn't get any funny ideas. I had a vision of him mounting my tent in a desperation as no cows seemed to be nearby.

barra seem to be everywhere in the NT

resting up out of the midday sun under a bridge. Best spot as no trees give enough shade for long

I stopped on the king river and after a while gathered the energy for a fish. after a few casts i saw something fishy going on and let the lure sit on the surface after the retrieve. this little sooty grunter suddenly came up and smashed the static lure hard and unluckily for himself got a hook caught in his mouth! promising start!

After just a few more casts  i saw a good fish race out of the snags and nail the lure. no hook up unfortunately..fired me up tho and soon a barra of around 2kg grabbed the lure and proceeded to jump about the river which brought a smile tto my face. didn't manage to get a photo as it did the houdini on me was i unhooked it. next one which was bigger put up a great fight but unfortunately also jumped back in when i was cleaning the dirt from it. so only this crappy photo of a king barra

King river..which i had all to myself! Nice!

Earlier in the day i noticed two cans of VB neatly placed by the side of the road. Of course i rescued them intending to give them a new life. Worked out well as when i got back from the barra fishing i could celebrate with two almost cold VB's!;) I also picked up a brand new roosta popper..replaced the one i lost back in kalbarri..

I noticed loads of orange eyes in the creek where i was camped in litchfield park..hmm had no bait so sacrificed a frog and sent it in on a line and got a few of these out. quite entertaining as it meant i could go to bed at 8 o'clock instead of 7.

Saw this seriously big ant hill in litchfield park which quite impressed me! determined little buggers!

Camped by this beautiful little creek in litchfield.. tea and a jaccuzzi! nice end to the day

Stopped on the finnis river for a 4 days and camped with two croc handlers. it was a particularly interesting few days as we shared a lot of stories and had some good fishing. I got some beautiful sooty grunters who really fight well. proper brute. a few small barra also got the lures. After hearing so much about crocs i was pretty nervous about fishing. we found one salty living quite a way up stream but it wasn't until the third day that we discovered a monster croc living close by. Deon had seen it at night when he was fetching water. so i went in the morning and sat by the river with my cup of coffee. sure enough after 5 minutes up he came just a little way down the river which is a mere piss puddle. unbelievable..the guys thought 15 feet and who was i to argue as they have worked with crocs for 12 years..sweet heart came from the same spot so maybe it was his son!

 Nice sooty grunter

This is where i saw the big croc but unfortunately i had left my camera back at camp..doh!

Camp on the Finniss river..fridge, laptop, surround sound..bit of novelty for me! nice to have some company for a change.. just shame it wasn't two beautiful girls but hey ho!

Nice spot for a swim in litchfield national park

Final report for our exmouth trip.....

Headed out to the murions for our final trip on the thursday. We headed home last night.

and boy was it interesting, with our local neighbour on the boat, giving us a few pointers here and there, we basically had one of the best days fishing i have had in a long time. We had recently fished the murions hunting spangos on poppers, and we did well boating fish to 700mm. Today was different, showing us different ways to fish the murions. 

We ended up chasing bait balls all day long in 2-3 m water in the gap.....Using popper's we hooked up to sharkies, spaniards (that free jumped out of the water smashing poppers), goldens,school mackeral, gold spots, spangos, coral trout, GT bust offs, Huge estaury cods, red throat and some unstoppables.....

Unfortuntly my gear wasnt up to scratch and the first few casts in the morning i got smoked by a big GT and the drag basially busted so i was unfishable really, and turned into boat guide.

For around 2 hours we had spaniards, goldens, sharkies, gold spots under our boat chasing anything we threw at them. But it was all about the poppers, the poppers seem to struck gold on the bigger stuff smashing the bait balls.

I learned alot about my boat and its handeling, how to navigate through big ass bombies that would of sunk my fiberglass boat instantly, and it all comes down to team work.  Also my understanding of tides and moon phases, is a bit more knowledgable.

Photos will be up soon

Exmouth ill be back next year to hopefully have an even better time as the last 2 weeks. Mind you all in our last 3 trips to the murion we would of boated over 60 fish over the 3 days, and i can confidently say 90% of these fish went back in the drink, with the odd spango and trout staying for dinner.

Headed out for a fish after work friday with Ringy and bp0685. Left the ramp about 130pm looking for some new ground to hit with the plastics. Headed north to an area I was shown to find plenty of fish on the sounder but nothing touching the plasctics. hit about 20 spots showing fish without even a sniff. The call was made to head out to the 40's in search of some new ground. Swell wasn't too bad and a bit lumpy but nothing the stabicraft couldn't handle.

Fished a few more spots that looked good on the sounder without a result. Stumbled on an old float sitting in the water and sounded around. A bit of ground that was worth a drift. A bit fast and deep for the plastics so reverted to driftbaiting. First drop I bust off, BP hooks up and drops it and Ringy hooks up to a monster. 5 min later and half way to the boat he drops what I called for a big Dhu.

Anyway rerig and back around for another drift. This time ringy hooks up to a monster that had intentions of heading north. A few minutes and 100mtrs line lost Ping. Another unknown gone. Bugger. Rerig and around again for another drift. Next drift triple hookup, bp first to the boat with a nice 50cm snapper then Ringy with one about 55cm then mine about 70cm. Not a bad little spot. Fish in the esky and back around for another drift. Bang Ringy is on again and this time to a nice fish. A few minutes later and a 5kg snapper on the boat. Fishing slowed down after dark and with 4 snapper in the esky was about time to head in when I load up on a monster. Didn't fight like a snapper and had no idea until up pops 15kg of estuary cod. Wow didn't think they were this far south. A few pics and back in the water. Struggled to revive him and even the release weight would not get him down. After 5 or 6 attempts the call was made to keep him and call it a night. Back at the ramp about 8pm.

Seaquest has provided a good account for the Wednesday that we met out on the water for a fish, I had one of my best mates down that you will see in the pics is a double amputee who has been hanging for a fish & with a break in the weather / work I was able to get him on deck. MattMiller was also with us providing some good decky support with a plan to get my mate on to his first ever dhu

This bloke will let nothing defeat him (kicks my arse in ps3 with one hand) & armed with a Stella on a T Curve boated first dhu for the day on a McArthy glow after watching our action, little bit of quick thinking he was able to jam it in the rod holder side on & fight away. 

Matt scored this cracking 16kg male on a Fanky

Very frustrating day to sound out the Dhu's that seemed to be moving around & not holding, we left the other boys at it to hit my spot x for a jig which has produced some good YTK & the day was no exception. 

Big thanks to the boys who were too busy jigging away to snap any pics for me, the sashimi was reminder enough!

Took my brother Rob out today for a day on the water hunting for Dhuies. Started off for a quick sunrise sesh on the Five fathom trying for a snapper and had the floating mulie go off first drift which resulted in a fiesty sambo.

No snapper to be found on the drift and with the breeze picking up a little we anchored and soon had a school of skippy under the boat thanks to some burley. Spent some time catching a few skippy on the light gear which was fun. Got this unusual little guy which I'm told is a Thicklip Trevally.

Soon as we'd caught enough skippy and no sign of the wind getting any worse we headed out. The aim for to look for new ground in an area I'd never been before with the prize being a well overdhue dhue! Search and search we did.... we found ground with fish... but none that wanted to play the game. Only a couple undersize snapper and nothing more in the esky by 2am hopes were dissapearing fast. As I was quickly retrieving my soft plastic it got smashed hard and my stradic screamed for mercy. The new Trevala rod got a great work out on a solid fish

The result after a good fight.

We then made the call to head towards home with one stop on the way back to look at one last spot. Found some good fish on the sound and I dropped an alright fish on the jig first drift so we did one more.... Just as I was winding in and calling it a day Rob finally hooks up solid. We were hoping for the long awaited dhuie but didn't complain when this solid snapper hit the surface. Rob's first size snapper and a good one at that. Went about 8kg and 90cm.

Long day on the water for not much return.. but was nice out there when the winds eased! Fun to get a couple sambos and see Rob land a great pinkie too!

Went for a spear with Tim today, exploring new areas south of town.  Turned out to be quiet a nice morning weather wise until it blew up around lunch time, only real down fall was the green snot chilled water that we had to dive in.  Finding some likely ground we spooked most fish we saw first up for the fact we were face to face with them before we got a chance to pull the trigger.  We tried a bit shallower in and found some great ground, I speared an approx 15kg ++ mackie on my short gun which I almost stoned, but not enough to stop him tearing off. (spewing)  Getting back to the boat, I found Tim with a dilemma, he had found the smallest hole with a good bluebone and decent trout wedged in so tight that shooting and retrieving them was going to be extremely difficult.  I had one shot but got bounced by the rock, Tim went around the back and managed to find another minature crack that proved more likely.  Unfortunately he wasn't able to pull off the double shot (which was more than truly possible) but still managed to get a 55cm bluey that got a bit beaten up on the way out.

Heading back Tim wanted one more dive at 'Dinner Rock', his favourite location for picking up that tea-rout fall back option.  Of course it lived up to his name and he facialised a nice 58cm fish on his 3 visit to the bombie.

After that we looked for some new soft plastic ground, plenty of promise but no action.  Going to head back there soon to investigate further, stay tuned. :)

Cheers,

Adam

Well after a few goes we found the ground and got fish .Until the wind came and we had trouble holding bottom .I ts a start and we were happy little fishers.

Grayband 8Kg

Puka 16KG

hey all sorta new to the site just finally worked out how to put some pictures up so thought i would share some of my fishing adventures. hope you enjoy. some of the pictures are not the best taken from a phone . cheers

With the weather being reasonbly good, we have had a solid bit of fishing being done this week. This wont be that long as we are about to head out for our last days fishing before heading back south into the winter weather due to work.

7th: Headed out sth tanta's, trying to get a couple mackies, we got way passed mangrove bay, t-bone bay till we found some real nice water/ current lines. And yerh we caught mackies nothing to largey but fish in the range of 7-10kg.

8th: Murions bash chasing GT's , we were the first boat out there, and thanks to some friendly local advice from our neighbours, we found an area which Resulted in spangos to 700mm +, GT bust offs , Goldens, Red throat, and some things we never just saw which i was assuming big GT'S that just drove us straight into the coral. Funny enough i lost around $100 dollars of poppers and placcies, where my crew lost none and boated every fish.

9th: Chasing bills out wide. it was a slow day and wasnt expecting to much, i would of preferred putting in much more time chasing billfish, but its hard taking two people billfishing when they have never experienced what catching one is. To them its a mystery fish. Frustrating as s*** as this is one of the main reasons i wanted to come up here. Next time i know now not to let other dictate how we fish,as it is my boat and this is whats happening. The first week we here wi=ould of been much better times to chase billies apparently. Only one hit, but sadly no hook up, think it was a sail as it was only small.

back to the murions today again specifically chasing GT's, and then in the arvo heading wide for a red or two. will post that up with some photos of these reports soon enough. Dont want to leave this place its good to be true. Starting to understand here more and more with the tides, moon phases, its very different fishing to down perth ways.....

In October 2009, I chartered a boat for (what turned out to be) a sucessful solo Malaysian Sailfish expedition.

Armed with photos of the 2009 trip and details of an Air Asia sale, it didn't take much convincing to get my mate Dale and brother Sean (not normally a fisherman) to agree to get on board for the 2011 jaunt.

We arrived in KL and drove down to Kuala Rompin to meet our guide Captain Lam (the man to see for charters in Asia). He warned us that it had been a slow start to the season, and a particularly slow August.

Still it was great to get away, and I had a new combo that I wanted to test out, which was much lighter than what I'd used in 09, and to date had not caught a fish. I was running a Stella 5000SW on a PE3 Yamaga Blanks Blue Sniper 65/3, and this ended up being the only combo I used for the trip.

The first day lived up to Lam's warning, the fishing was incredibly slow - even the livebait hunting. Sean, concerned he might never get a decent fish photo, got us to take this pic of him holding the beast that took him hours to subdue :-)

Finally though, my rod took off and we had got our first run. Much to my dismay it turned out to be a 'Singapore Marlin' (Long Tom) rather than the Saily I'd hoped for. Still, the combo was blooded.

Unfortunately this was to be our only fish of the day, and we made our way back to land for some much needed consolation beers. The trip was half over, but we were hopeful that things would improve on day 2.

The weather conditions on day 2 turned out to be even better than the first day, certainly beating the Perth winter. We steamed out of port to try some new bait catching ground, unfortunately it didnt pay off. After spending a couple of hours for limited results, we motored to the ground from day 1 with an empty livewell. Thankfully, the fishing gods smiled on us shortly after we got back to the original ground. We loaded up on liveys and sent one out, and it wasnt long until Dale had a hit. After a solid fight he landed his first billie, also blooding a new combo. The curse of the trip had been lifted.

A bit of time passed and finally my rod went off again. I thought the combo would finally get a saily, but again I was wrong. A short fight ended in this Cobia - which was my first, so not overly disappointing, and good on the table that night.

At long last though my time came. We saw a sailfish finning around the baloons and my rod took off. The fight was on. We could see from the start that it was a solid fish and it certainly gave me some grief, but after a long fight with some tense moments when line capacity was tested, some careful manouevering by the skipper and plenty of spool palming, we landed this nice sail. Definitely my PB, and the biggest that our guide had pulled this year.

Sean was up next, hooking onto another Cobes. As you can see he decided to get intimate with it, but in fairness he had just spent 4 weeks on a rig.

The action remained hot for the rest of the day, with the next strike resulting in a double hookup. Both fish were landed.

Dale was up next landing another solid saily, with me finishing up with one more before we retired for beers back on land (thankfully - this time they were beers of celebration). We ended up with 6 sails from 6 strikes for the day, which is a much better strike rate than the previous year. All sails were cleanly hooked, and released succesfully.

Some of the fish got very aerobatic, which certainly got the heart pumping. I look forward to getting back there again - next mission is to get one on stickbait!

Going to keep this one short.  Headed out with Lucky yesterday to try and get the 'Triple Trifecta' - Trout in the shallows, goldies in the mid water and rubies out deep.  It was a gentleman's start due to the easterlies but once out there it wasn't too bad, things were very slow in the shallows and only two solid 'bites' were recorded and dropped for one reason or another - definitely not convincing enough to spend more time looking for fish. 

So out to the midwater we went, we decided to throw the lures out straight away just to test our luck - as would have it something fiesty took the pink oscar in record time - zipped sidewards at a rate of knots (very unusual) and then went limp - only to find everything missing and the line snipped on the wind-on, must have been a few hungry teethy buggers around.  Not much later we got into a nice sail about 20-25kg that played up, unfortunately didn't get any good shots as he decided to beeline for the boat and had us a bit worried about being skewered.  All in all a fine catch and release and a nice little bonus bonus.

Out at the Goldie spots, the first three weren't really firing and there were a couple of boats nearby, heading to the orginal goldie spot we managed to sneak two fish up before the sharks moved in and made it un-workable.  Heading deeper again we got to the ruby spot and the wind had eased off but the current was still relatively strong, which meant constantly on the gears to keep over the area.  Tim lost a few baits at the start but things were hard going, we did manage to snavel one smallish ruby before giving up as it was extremely quiet. (sad tides too)  We then worked our way back in and tried the goldie spot again but the wind had swung and so had the tide and the whole place that was alive two hours earlier was dead and buried.  We did a troll into the shallow ground again to try and complete the trifecta and had no luck, but once in the shallows things were heated up again and a nice little lump I had in 40m was flaring with life.  First drop resulted in a few pickers, second drop resulted in Tim getting buried by a 'big reef dweller' and third time around I got sharked and Tim got a monster 'trout' about half way up before being sharked and destroyed.  We then called it quits and got to the ramp with no queue!! Awesome.

Not the most productive day, but still an enjoyable one.

Cheers,

Adam

Should i go fishing tomorrow ?

If anyone would like a very keen deckie for fishing this week please call me or msg on 0433349777, more than happy to chip in fuel bait etc. cheers! Steve.

 got to canning bridge at about 830 and started to fish with crabs and mussels, only landed one fish about 29 cm then me and a few mates headed over to blackwall reach and fished off the rocks with crabs between the four of us we landed 13 fish biggest was 44cms. good days fishing i think :) 

 I headed out with my granddad with the plan to look for some new ground around rotto. We hit the ramp just after 7:30 and were hit with some pretty sloppy conditions past the islands but we pushed on and it soon flattened off and became a beautiful day. We looked and after 30mins or so we hit a patch that looked the goods. First drop and we boated a pair of dhuies, next drop was the same result. Both fish released and we thought one more drift and we both hooked up to suspected dhuies again, we did all we could to lose the fish and decided to move off with a nice spot in the GPS, next lump produced a nice kidney slapper for granddad that’s when we pulled and heading in with the glass off.

Well after a look on sea breeze this morning at 5:00 oclock the calls were made .and the trip out was all go. Jesse stayed in bed and Collin Hay came for a ride.with guess who yes Jody as #1 deckie.  The wind was light but still lumpy from yesterday .The plan was to stay in close [30m] but the fish weren't playing the game.only 1 small dhuie and 2 breaksea in the first couple of hours all released. And a 100kg grey nurse shark gave her a hard time. We headed out a little deeper 40m and things started looking better no big fish but fish .Over the next four hours many dhuies were tagged and released .most small from 350mm -700mm Jody was on fire catching fish after fish and Collin also getting a few stray dhuies.landing his PB.Wasn't till after lunch we found some bigger fish landing 2 around the 10kg mark they were quickly spicked and put on ice.On the way in we stoped at one more place for a quick drop and Jody nailed a great snapper and dropped another not long into the fight .In all a great day with plenty of fish TOTAL 21 dhuies  ,2 breaksea cod ,2 snapper 1 Gray nurse and a cuttle fish. We kept 2 dhuies and a snapper all other fish were tagged and released without venting We got 2 recaptures both dhuies .Both were tagged on the 23-5-2011  one had grown 15mm and the other 10mm both were in good condition .

 I haven’t seen many prawn reports on here this year so I thought I would see how everyone has been going. I haven’t been down for a few weeks now but we had quite a good run where we were getting well over a hundred each night. Heres a few pics of some of the ones we got.

With the winds up, we headed into the gulf via 4wd and found some nice mangroves. Reef walkers went on grabbed out the muddie pole, and within 30 mins we had 6 real nice muddies in the eski. Cant complain with that! This was a first tiem for mud crabbing in the groves for me, and i honestly walked passed so many with the boys to give me a helping hand and show me how to find them

Also been doing a bit of a placcie bash on the reef side (obviously where you can fish), starting to get some what of a hang of soft plastics. Got goldspots and juvi GT's in a nice lil sesh.

Winds starts dropping tomorrow and the weekend and early week look set to be pearlers. Cant wait to be back on the boat hunting fish.

Sure beats work eh

couple of fliCKS Added.

Went down for a cast last night, haven't been fishing for 2 months since I got my last couple of gummies from a beach. Mainly reasons of being overseas and losing motivation since I've been back in Oz. 

After 2hrs and filtering through 6 eagle rays and 7 fiddler sharks I was loosing hope. Then one of my rods took off with belting headshakes.....I immediatly called if for a PINKIE upon picking up the rod which had that thumping feel. 
My first LB pinkie, and a decent one at that which meant I had to compose the nerves a little. During the fight, i noticed my other rod was bouncing around. 
After a 10min struggle with some long runs, managed to finally get over to my now settled rod and pull in a Gummy shark. Couldn't believe my luck.
Immediately, I packed up and went home. Enough fish for me for a while :) 
I think i'll be waiting for those Spring Schoolies in Sept. before wetting a line again. 

Pink Snapper: 12kg (exactly) and 97cm
Gummy Shark: 5.5kg and 111cm

Addy and I rolled back into Exmouth late last night after 1000km in the car and 210nm by sea so we could farewell Brad from the Pilbara- Montebello's style. We had a great trip, even though none of us did the usual stuff. There was three boats this time, Adz and I in mine from Exmouth, while Brad and Sheldon took Brad's and Leith and Paul towed Leith's down from Pt Hedland. Wanting to get value for money, Ady and I left Thursday night and camped at Fortescue Roadhouse for an early refuel and launch on the morning high tide.

We were treated to a pretty sweet ride out, enjoying the wildlife and scenery as the miles passed.

Nearly there.....

Cracking a beer to celebrate our arrival

The other boys weren't arriving until the next morning so we set up a temporary camp and headed off for a pop. The GT's were slow compared to previous sessions but we landed a few to keep us interested.

 

This seagull was being eaten?? by what looked like a big sea anemone, it was half inside this thing and couldn't get away so Dr Harry came to the rescue and it managed to walk away and sulk, it's final fate unknown.

Tea was fish and chips, with Leith copping a oil burn courtesy of the frypan so no, he's not reaching for a beer.

That night the wind picked up and Brad and I had to take a midnight swim to reset his dragging anchor. We woke to a stiff 20kt Southerly for our long trip home and for about 2 hours didn't we know about it!

The photo is very complimentary to the conditions, we were all drenched and battered. Closer to shore it got better and by the time we hit the islands off Fortescue River it was near glass- go figure! We had some lunch, a fish and relax then hit the road for the long drive home, with a trailer tyre blow out after Nanutarra our last drama.

Cooking pancakes for lunch

Food for fishermen!

All in all we got 4 days of nearly perfect weather, great company, awesome fishing and a nice change to our usual Montebello sorties. Hope you enjoyed yourself B-Dog, it was a great way to send you off.

First time in exmouth, arrived saturday night.

Headed out first thing sunday morning and its provided us with a couple spaniards at north west reef. Also landed a barrcouda (i know these arnt a sought after fish, but for a first you get pretty stoked).... Headed towards the murions and tried reef fishing there in the 40s. Nothing.

Decided to head into the gulf and chase some of the longtails/mack tunas we were seeing making splashes on the way out to the murious.Resulting in numerous hooks up we would litrally see  jumping clean out the water 5m's away from the boat. Two of us would of hooked 7-8 fish each in the result of around 30 mins they were that thick....Not smashing slices a certain hard body lure in a certain colour pattern killed it.

Day 2:

Head out to the murions and trolled most of the day for a result of around 20 hits and one resulted hook up. It was very frustrating to see the rods constantly getting wacked and only 10m pelling out all of a sudden for it to stop. Honestly this happened around 10 times over a certain patch over around 45 mins. any ideas what these could of been were trolling the 25m - 40m..... Our local neighbour has been giving some advice, and even popped the question saying is there a seat for him on the boat and hell teach us a couple things about exmouth or two. He knows the offer is waiting!

Didnt head out today, unfortunately due to the fact the boys didnt want to go out and wanted to go snorkling/ 4wdrving... frustrating with the weather turned for the next couple days....

Still struggling hard with reef fish inshore and offshore....Im not wanting anyones red spots, but just any info to find something even if there golden trevs or queenies to have fun with would be appreciated...

-We picked up the grunter tevs in 90m out from the murions on what i thought was decent ground only to pull these up consistently(would of boated around 5).....

added a couple photos of the weather we have recieved lately.....beautiful.

photos added

Went out with till on my boat the other week to try for a few demersals on the jigs.

Despite the sounder lighting up with what looked to be big schools of snapper, they would not have a bar of the plastics or the jigs.

Then went out around Rotto and picked up this Yellowtail King on the troll. Rapala X-Rap did the damage

Got another smaller one a bit later in the piece also.

Bit of sashimi when I got home followed by a few marinated YTK steaks on the BBQ later that night, went well.

I'll let my deckie post his catch here if he wants to!

Dan

Hey Guys

Thought I would post this photo of the fish we got a couple of weeks ago out from Two Rocks. The Dhuies were not huge but good feed. The one on the end was approx 6kg-7kg but did not weigh it so could be wrong. The Baldie was 650mm and the Blackarse was 550m so stoked with them. Only took us a couple of hours to get our limit.

Cheers