Well where to start

Spent almost 3 weeks up at port gregory and Exmouth.

First 8 days were at port gregory just south of Kalbarri.

Interesting time there, alot of wind

Drove up on the saturday arriving late saturday afternoon. Un-eventful drive, which is the best way to have it!

Sunday was going to be the first day on the water, and the weather was looking good. As it was a beach launch i was very hesitant to launch my boat (being 3.5 tonne) so decided we would launch the razorline 23fter that day to see how the beach launch was.

Was a piece of cake with this boat, and was launched using a cruiser ute so problems.

First day was just a bit of a play, taking the girls along for a drive to see what was about.

We only trolled about, but did manage to land a cracking first trout on lure, only about 1km from the launch!

Once back at the caravan park, spoke to a few locals about the prospects of launching my console from the beach. The consensus was, piece of cake with the assistance of the towns biggest tractor.

Against my better judgement decided to give it a go.

Getting down along the beach was a piece of care, barely dug in at all, but once reaching the water line, that was a different story!

She sunk!

Every minute it sat there, the worse it got!

We tried in vain to get her to move, even with a 2nd tractor, max tracks the lot, but it was just not going to happen. The only option was to wait for the tide to rise and pull her off backwards with another boat. (tide would not rise high enough to float her off) Ended up taking the transducer off just to be safe

We were fastly becoming the talk of the towm, and every local wanted to come for a look!

Actually came off easier than i expected. The end result 4 hours later! atleast no damage was done!

Finally on the move!

Since we had missed most of the good weather decided to stay inside the reef and play with the light gear.

Scano with a little baldie

A nice little trout

A few more smaller fish were caught, and a few good fish lost to the reef that day

The next couple of days the weather was crap, howling 25-30knot easterlies, turning 25knot southerlies.

After a couple of relaxing days (mainly drinking beer) we decided we couldnt sit around any longer and had to put up with the wind.

Spent a little while going over the gps charts to find some ground, found a rise which looked interesting about 10 mile out, and the next morning headed to it.

To say it was rough was an udnerstatement. Only took the Fury out, as the ali boat would have stuggled. It was 38 degrees and the 2 deckes were wearing rain jackets! For the first 20 minutes or so it was a battle to just see from all the water coming over the side, as we were side on to the easterly.

We pushed on, finally making the 12 mile out, not cracking 1 knot above 20 knots the whole way!

What was to come was fishing chaos, no sooner than 10 seconds of the lines hitting the bottom, everyone was on. Pinkys, baldies, dhuies, trout, and a surpirse cobia too!

double header

Photos were a little hard to take given the conditions

Only fished for maybe 45 minutes before we had enough for a feed and time to head in. Coming in was fun following the southerly. Chop would have been easily 6-7 foot! needless to say we burnt some serius fuel in those conditions.

Scanos cobia

The next day was pretty much the same, windy as hell and we pushed out again to the same grounds. Fishing was just as crazy, with large numbers of fish coming over the side, we were only fishing in 15022m of water! I did score another nice dhu of around 6 kgs, but also some more baldies, trout, and BIG sambos.

This one i managed to land on a plastic after busting off on 3 or 4 prior on PE4, guessed 20-25kgs?

Bloody hard work in shallow water!

The other boat decided to stay inside the reef this day, and play with the light gear. Not too many pictures of fish, however this photo is of a 6-12lb Samuri running 8lb on the certate! man these rods are awesome, look at the bend! hooked to a 5ft shark which was boated. The 2nd rod in the pic is also a samuri which was hooked to the same shark

The last day decided to drive up to Kalbarri with the boat, rather than try retrieve on the beach after the fun of launching! did manage to get the razorline out no problems. We did have all the gear including mats for the trailer.

The drive up on the water to Kalbarri was amazing. Seeing the reefs of Luckybay, and the cliffs of Kalbarri from the water was sensational.

some of the ground we found in shallow water was holding huge numbers of fish, however we only had our trolling gear, and managed to troll up this mackeral

Couple pics of the troll, teasers in and all

The result

Made it to Kalbarri, after being attacked by a swarm of whasps! stange being a few mile off shore.

That river mouth is fun!!! the swell wasnt very big, but geez I'd hate to go through it when it is!

Made it back no probs, packed and off to Exmouth.

Still got more photos from Exmouth to come but here is a few.

the Razorline went home, and a 2nd boat joined us in Exmouth, which was a 9m Protector.

These are some pics during the comp, especially the last day.

Some bling

Early morning start

Scanos 73cm trout, which lost the comp by 2cms i think, on the first drop. and no Adam its not the lucky tim spot, its the lucky scano spot! :)

Nice spango, as you can see conditions were horrible!

Mate frank hooked up to his first decent fish of the trip!

the result

The boys dropping on the spot that ended up being the hottest 2 hour fishing session i think any of us have had

Conditions sucked!

Bundegi on the Monday of the comp

Another trout from earlier in the week. Think first day in Exmouth

All in All we had a ball in Exmouth, some 20 cartons of beer, good fishing, besides a couple of crap days.

Looking forward to next year

More pics to come

Bodie

I dnt mind going under the narrows for a bit of a fish - but i havent been for a while...

Is there anything biting at the moment?

If not, where's the go for Friday night? 

With the weather looking good for a spot of fishing on the weekend, Bads Jarrad and myself decided to go up to Cervantes to test out some new gear we had all got the previous week. After a big night on friday we awoke early with fuzzy heads to make the trip up there.

With the boat in the drink at 7:00am we headed straight out to the Sambo hole to see if we could jig up a couple. After seeing a few fish on the sounder, but them not taking anything we swapped to bait and could only manage an undersize Dhuie. After a while Bads made the call to move and we headed over to some new ground we had never been in my boat before. With no real spots we sounded out some likely looking ground in 38m and had a drift over. After a fair few little pickers Jarrad came up solid on a nice fish on his new outfit.

Out of the depths came a Dhuie - a new PB for Jarrad and on his new gear to boot! (Tuff Tackle 12000)

Not long after Jarrad landed his Dhuie i started to get some decent bites, letting out line....... letting out line........BANG! i had connected with a nice Baldy - great way to christen the new rod and reel.

With a couple of nice fish we then started heading home, when we reached the back of the reefs we saw heaps of birds and massive bait balls everywhere. So out come the twistys and we started casting to the bustups of tuna everywhere after not being able to get any strikes Bads hooked up to a monster that started peeling line off at a rapid rate of knots! It wasn't to be however as the fish spat the lure.

After all that commotion we then headed back in.

The next morning not looking quite as good as saturday we headed straight back out to the sambo hole but there was nothing out there. On the way out we had passed heaps of bait balls but no tuna so we chucked the lures out the back and had a troll around. After 10mins of trolling around the bait, Bads Stella 5000SW screamed! he was hooked up solid and this fish was running hard. After about 5mins he had the Striped Tuna boatside ready for the gaff.

Out went the spread again and no more than another 5mins later my reel screamed into life and i was onto a ripper. After a lot of jumping over eskies and tackle boxes i had the Longtail Tuna boatside for the gaff. Got him on my 2010 Saltiga 4500 (awesome reel!)

With both me and Bads with a fish but not Jarrad he was next in line for a crack. So i reset the spread and as soon as i put my reel into the rod holder it was hit by a bit better fish than the others. Once Jarrad picked up the reel, and i grabbed the teaser out of the water the other lure got hit as well. With the guys onto the fish i cleared the spread. Bads got his tuna in quickly with another nice longtail in the esky. Jarrads tuna was taking line off the Saltiga with ease! Once he got it boatside we realised just how much larger it actually was.

With a couple of nice Tuna in the esky for some sashimi on the beach and steaks for tea we headed in and off to the pub for a pint to celebrate.

All in all a great weekend with the gear getting a little test out and a couple of PB's

Cheers

Chris

 We headed up to Sandy capes just north of Jurien over the weekend for a bit of camping and hopefully a bit of fishing, We arrived Saturday arvo to glassy conditions. It was the first time we had been there and we were very impressed. Eating dinner on the dunes over a glassy bay was pretty special. 

Sunday was predicted for light winds and a small swell so we took the dinghy out after a few pelagics. We left the beach at 7:00am and had the lures in by 7:20 and had the first strike by 7:30, the fish felt like a Macky and put up a bloody good fish but it spat the hooks. Lines back in and we didn’t have to wait long, this time we landed the fish and were stoked with possibly the biggest fish in the Dinghy.

We set the lines again and didn’t wait more than two minutes and Ollie was on, he fought the fish and landed our second Mack for the day.

Lines back in and again instant strikes we had a few missed strikes then one stuck and Ollie was connected to a bloody good fish, some smoking runs later Ollie landed the first Tuna in the Dinghy, we were bloody stoked.

Lines back in and we decided to start trolling back to the Ramp as we had plenty of fillets, before we could clean the blood off my rod went off again, this time the fish felt small, and a few seconds later we landed what we believed was a school Mack, unsure we released the fish.

We then set the lines again and again before we cleaned the blood Ollie was hooked up again, it felt slightly smaller but not tiny, a few minutes later his Second Mack was onboard, it measured 100cm so we decided to release her to grow bigger. Lines back in and seconds later Ollies rod goes off again, and again a solid fish. After a few solid runs his thirds bloody Mack was onboard. 

We decided to head in where we were followed but a few dolphins and seals. Back to the beach by 9:30 after what was easily the best day in the dinghy without doubt.

First time report guys.  Be gentle.

Finally convinced a long time mate to come along on one of my fishing trips off Jurien on Saturday. Started off early at first light, but North Easter was up a little so decided to go for a troll first before heading deep.  Couple of hits and misses before we were on to the first mackie.  After 2 hours of trolling the count was 3 spaniards, 1 shark mack and 1 long tail tuna.  Macks (including sharkie) were around the 10 - 12kg mark.  Tuna probably around 6kg.  Kept the spaniards and tuna.

Wind had dropped a little, so decided to hit up a couple of lumps out deep.  Second lump seemed to have a bit of action on it and pulled up 4 dhuies, 1 blackarse, 1 sambo, 1 sgt baker and some pretty thumping NW blowies.  Kept 2 dhuies around 5kg and 12 - 14kg and the blackarse (which was about as big as they come). 

My mate was the hero of the day catching majority of fish.  I was happy to put him on to them.  We were on our way in around 11:30am pretty satisfied and even saw a whale to top things off.  Never seen one come through in May and I've spent a lot of time crayfishing out there at that time of year.

Looking good for all the holiday makers heading up there.  I'll be looking for them again for sure.

Hey guys, just got back from 3 days in Kalbarri.

Doing the trip up fellow member Dane (Daneox) we'd planned to mainly fish landbased but after getting a decky offer to good to refuse

we spent 2 days fishing on local Kalbarri member Kye's (Kye86) boat.

We had a ball chasing around schools of small Tuna (longtail, Striped, Yellowfin) and trolling around looking for Spanish Macks. We scored 18 Spaniards over the 2 days. Size was in the 6-12kg mark.

Thanks alot to Kye for getting us out on the water.

Hope you enjoy these pics

Cheers.

Stripies were great fun on 3kg.

Longtail, I think...

Skipper Kye with a nice Spaniard.

Dane with another...

Mackies everywhere....

This being the best mackie, est. around 12kg

they just kept on coming on Day 2...

Dane with another mack.

Back to the ramp and off for a few well erned brews.

 Awesome fun popping for yellow fin whiting and long toms. The little metal jigs worked a treat retrieved flat out too. Thats fisho-ron in the background. A beautiful part of Exmouth, despite the flies. I also managed some cool vid footage of some of those little fiddler sharks being spooked as I walked along the beach.

 Just for Brad. 

This is about the best this old man can do..... (hehehe)

Great fun on 1 kilo. Lure was a bubble pop. Phone camera only.

got my new cannon  electric digi troll 5 today  worth $3200 with transducer  got a bargin at $300 when they guy actually wanted $1500  for it    powered it up n all good    works unreal

hi everyone just wondering if tuna are still being caught of mindarie and if anyone is catching ?

Hey all

first time poster!!

 Headed out to the fads yesterday morning. Resulting in some dollies and tuna. nice morning, weather was disgusting with southerly screaming offshore.

- Frustrating when other boats ram the fads, in hope of getting hooked lures back, or hooking fish. Guys remember there is NO need to do this. The fish will come to your spread, or baits. getting to close to the fads just sound the fish, and then no ones happy

Water Temp out there is 25 degrees

Photos to come

brett

 Big shout out to Gully for going beyond the call of duty in getting a big cod back down to the depths whilst fishing up at Exmouth last week.

After a massive fight Gully pulled a huge metre plus cod up from about 40m and when the release weight wasn't enough for hit he jumped in the water and swam it down three times, the last time we added three dive weights to the release weight and together with the several metre dive by gully had the fish released back to its home.

Great to see an angler going to such great lengths to look after the fish. Maybe they should talk about that on 60 minutes.

me and my bro went down to the busso jetty last night chasing the squid. its a full moon and the wind was down so thought it might be a pleasant night to go out - and it was. 

I bought a new jig following you guys suggestions...only thing it was 7pm on a sunday in busso so could only get an el-cheapo from the shell. it was a 3.0 but i had trouble getting it to sink so switched up to my fluro yellow 4.0 and got taken within a few minutes and was quickly followed by my brother who pulled in another. these fellas were only small tho with hoods of perhaps 10cm - but it was the most success id had in ages so kept them! there were quite a few squid we could see swimming around but none were going near our jigs - or theyd go up have a sniff and clear off.

the guy just down from us pulled up a good sized one so we shifted camp a bit further down the jetty after an hour or so of no further takes. in our new spot we pretty quickly caught another 2 - this time a bit better size with hoods about 20-25cm long. a couple of other blokes came down and camped along side us and were using a live herring as a teaser which pulled in a couple of squid..but then they were having the same hassles as us with not being able to get them to take a jig.

I put a herring out on a 2m trace under a float on a pencil jig as a couple of you guys mentioned to me but didnt get any takers on that.

from what i gathered from talking to other people out on the jetty last night people were catching a few good sized ones but no one was really doing that well with the numbers.

beautiful night tho - not too chilly and bugger all wind and bought home enough squid for me and my old man to have chili squid for breakfast!

looks like a bread and butter plate in this pic but its a good sized dinner plate - enough to fill 2 of us up for breaky!

Well, we went about 3 miles of the back of 3 mile and started to spot schools of bait fish. we trolled through 2 schools, and on the 3rd school, we finally got a hook up. it was the only hook up we got but it was enough.Turned out to be a 15kg macky. I was wrapped. I would post a photo but i cant find out how to resize it. Its 4.05 meg.

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Been working for three straight weeks (apart from one Sunday when the weather was crap), and viewing all the local mackerel reports on here with equal amounts of disgust and envy while not being able to do anything about it, until finally we got out behind GI this morning and got onto our first metro mackie...took ten miles of trolling, along with four different depths and five lure changes, but we did it!

Mate up in Jurien got seven today, so I think we'll go up there next weekend!

Hi All

Went out to Bluff creek yesterday in search of some salmon. Left early and hit the beach about 830am. Drove up about the beach 300 metres before spotting some fish in the waves, heading in the direction we just came from. Quick u turn and back up the beach we head to try and get in front. Lures on the rods and my first cast I pitched out 100m into the surf, couple of cranks of the handle and bang on straight away! At this stage I was knee deep in water and fish started bumping into my legs - I was surrounded my salmon! No need to cast the 100m.

Look up the beach and Jane is also surrounded by fish, rod bent over and her hanging on hard! The salmon were all splashing around in less than a foot of water, chasing 100's of herring! Was amazing.

Was a good session with many fish caught and released by all! We followed them up the beach for ages, throwing the herring back in that were stranded on the beach.

Best little session with salmon for a while - just couldn't believe they were swimming around our feet. Was good seeing them hunt down the herring in the shallows, as well as hunting down our lures! Sight casting to single salmon and watching them hunt your lure down is awesome!!

Attached is a few photos!

Finally heading to Exmouth, perfect conditions out to sea as I drove along the new Indian Ocean Drive - couldnt help wondering how many good fish would be out there in the warm water flowing down from the north.

Had been pretty much been planning the trip since Coral Bay 12 months ago and was pretty excited about what lay ahead.

Over the next 3 days the plan was to go hard on the troll fishing solo then fish with my son Loki flying up for the last 3 days which would include the Fishwreck Comp.

My first day out was brilliant, not having a 4wd i decided not to risk launching at Tantabiddy and took off from Bundegi skimming out through tuna schools, tossed up between the Muriens or the deeper water around the corner and decided deep was it.

Put the skirts out when I got to 35mt and immediately had a soft grassy butchered by a small spanish mack before re setting and pushing on out, got to the 50's when a sail smashed the shotgun lure and jumped all over the place, interesting times sorting that out and winding in the other 3 rods plus the teaser plus trying to get the gopro video working. I had the gopro mounted off the rocket launchers but missed capturing the main action, the sail was belly jagged and took about 15 minutes to get to the boat and release in good nick - called it about 30kg.

Heading further SW to 100mt another sail hit the 9 inch Polu Kai, looked to be a bigger fish but pulled the hook in around 15 seconds when I lost tension, things went quiet after that - plenty of striped tuna around, easy to catch as i headed further out towards the gas rigs where I picked up a little black marlin that was covered in sea lice ? released very alive (hope the parasites dont claim it) and worked the same area for a couple of good hits that could have been anything?

On the run back I picked up a nice cobia in close but felt bad separating it from its mate that swam with it the whole time - still being under strict instructions to bring some fillets home into the ice box went mr cobes.

The next few days were pretty patchy as the weather was fairly breezy, I launched out of Tantabiddy close to high tide and came back in 3 hours not sure how the tides work with retrieving the boat - turned out that Adam had picked the perfect tides as subsequently I never saw sand exposed at the ramp even when out all day.

Picked up Loki from Learmonth on Friday and later on we went to Adams place for the FW Comp briefing, great to meet Adam some of the crew including little Alex who is still buzzing about his recent state record wahoo!!

First day of the comp saw us out of Tantabiddy heading straight to 100mt and out with the spread ( 2x 15kg, 1 x 24kg and the Tuna rod with a little pink Williamson) plus the 2 teasers .Quite a few birds working the tuna schools but not much else happening for us for a while, to break up the lack of action we picked up plenty of striped tuna plus one mackeral tuna  then surprised to get a nice dolly that came in fast on the 24kg gear and went completely berko inside the boat. Later as luck would have it a black marlin chose to hit the tuna rod with the littlle Williamson on 37kg leader and took 40 minutes to almost get to the wind on when the hook pulled - pretty dissapointed really thought i had it, looked around 40 - 50kg. Had a whale scoot past the boat when we fist hooked the marlin - no idea what it was big black thing very rounded at the front - gave us a bit of a shock as it rocketed past. We headed in to Helby Bank and trolled minnows along 25mt line back to the ramp for zilch apart from a good mackeral lost and a smelly old cuda, back to the Lighthouse Caravan Park to gear up for the next day.

Day 2 of the comp was completey different to the light winds predicted as we woke up early to the sound of heavy rain and worse still strong winds, drove up to the lighthouse and the sea looked very ugly so we opted out for the day to give it everything for our final day on Monday. Paul N and crew who were my neighbours in the cabin next door went out early on "In Pursuit" and reported white out conditions and a very slow trip back to the ramp.

Day 3 of the comp and our last day in Exmouth brought perfect conditions, high hopes and in the water out of Tantabiddy at 7.30 - trolled out from 50mt but the weed was shocking having to constantly clear the lures and must have wound them all in at least 20 times during the day kept going wide to find clear water but that stuff was everywhere even out to the 500s.

We ran some live stripeys at 2 knots in some awesome looking water colour and had almost instant action, the back stipey about 50 mt behind got raked and pulled the hook while gunning the boat forward, pulled it in and fed the other livey further out and got a short run but dropped it and started winding it in when then the other now dead stipey was being dragged straight under the boat, gunning foward we hooked up a big sail with stunning blue colurs erupting out of the water but it was all over in about 15secs pulling the hook again!

Trolled around the tuna schools out deep with more liveys for another hour and saw a good marlin at least 100kg free jump 4 times about 300mt away, with hearts pumping we slowly swam a tuna out to that area but it was gone and that was the end of our trip.

The windup that night at Adams was a treat really well organised comp (loved the tides!) top people all round, plenty of good fish caught by all and we seriously hope to back up next year.

Here is a video of some of our action......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckB7HB7S8tE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckB7HB7S8tE

Hit the Canning River last night after hunterdive had to pull out of a night fishing session. Five casts in I got a 45cm flatty which is a PB for me, it was the fattest flathead I've caught for a while too... a seriously overweight fish.  I wandered downstream for a while picking up a few grunter and the obligatory blowies.  As it got darker I decided to go to a lighter lure and picked up a few bream around 27cm.  It was a killer night to be out wading, with virtually no wind when the sun went down the water was like glass.  All fish were on the HRT Small Fry, the gold lure the flattie was caught on is getting me a lot of fish at the moment.

Can't resist them !!! I everyday think of 'her'.

Damn !!! I got return to 'her' for more actions !!!

This trip round , I brought along my video cam. I specifically instructed my boatman  to take some good shots at the topwater actions on my lure when I'm pressuring the mama toman during chasing.

It  is fun !!! It is electrifying !!! I simply love topwater actions !!! ;)

Watch the youtube clip below . You will see how I diligently tracked the toman fry for almost 45mins, pressuring the mama on every step of the way, keeping changing my lure and finally to the point of pissesd  off the mama toman & she finally attacked my lure.

All actions captured in this explosive video clip.

Enjoys guys !!!

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

Some hightlight photos of the day....

I came & I Conquer it !!!

The catch report will follow later.... :)

i have just been on a fishing trip down south ( 3 weeks ago ), i started off in walpole and got nuthing so we started to head back up the coast on the way home. We stoped in a Salmon beach for the night and on my 2nd cast i got a nice salmon, then about 30mins later my mate was running after his rod that was heading towards the water, he had another salmon on, we camped up for the night and a surfer came along in the morning and was saying there was 100s of them swimming around where he was surfing but we didnt get any more so it looks like its going to get a good year for salmon ( well i hope so :p )

we had to leave the fish in the sand coz our other mates took off with the esky with the ice in it

we were a little to the rite of here but that is where the surfer was

the 1st salmon of the season for me :)

Hi Guys

I went out yesterday on a solo mission from hillaries, The plan was to troll out to the 40's and find some ground to bottom bash.  No sooner had I passed the 3 mile when one of my lures went off. Just as I staarted to get some line back my other rod went off every solo fisherpersons nightmare but not a bad problem to have.  The first fish was a nice 7kg longtail tuna so I chucked that on the deck to go ballistic and got the other one in which was another long tail tuna of about the same size. 

I continued on my merry way and just kept getting weeded up till i hit the middle of direction bank and the water temp started to climb the further i went ending in 24.6deg.  I was thinking of winding the lures in but glad I left them out as one reel starting screaming in a way only a mackie could make it and pretty soon I had a 8 kilo mackie decked and a 1 handed gaffing record of 3 out of 3 

I tried for a bottom bash but it was extremely rough out there in my little boat and I started to feel sick so I trolled back in for a chance at 1 more mackie but it was not to be.  I had a good feed anyway.

This is the first time I have actually kept tuna i have caught and they were fantastic with a bit of marinade and on the bbq.  and after about 15 hours of trolling over the last month thats my first metro mackie  but my smallest for the year as I was spoilt in steep point earlier on.

rig

howdy.went to busselton jetty last night fished my own lil spot along the jetty,the place is plaqued by fat herring and giant squid and few snook

sh#t load of sambos and mullas around,but mate you,ll wanna make sure

that you have sum tuff gear ,didnt even land 1.got a metre plus golden  giant to the surface ,then spat the hooks  i was devastated.

must have hooked about ten more that all got away.it was one of the best fishing missions ive ever done even though i lost em all.

came home with nice squid ,herring,..................next time i,ll b ready.

Hi Fellas, We just came home from 3 days in Onslow with a further 7 at the Mackies. We had an absolute ball and the next trip there wouldnt be that far away id hope.

First ever Red Emperor, on plastics, 30Lb Power Pro in 15 meters of water. Went 550mm

A nice shallow water Coral Trout on the placcies too. 750mm

My first Rankin Cod gee they pull in the shallows. 4000 Fireblood 20Lb line with 5-10kg TCurve Close too 600mm

Another 750mm plus Coral Trout

Many more fish but these were my favorites

We had an awesome time there many memorable time from huge bait ball bust ups chockers with GTs Mackies Tuna and of course Sharks. Its so spectacular too see a 10 foot Bronzie chasing a Trev thats hooked letting the reel freespool and managing the beat the shark something ill never forget.

All we used were placcies light rods and reels 5000 Stella loaded with 30 Lb was the choice most turned too. Stayed in close 90% of the time only 5-10 ks from the mooring. We did loose a fair bit of gear either snagged or bricked but thats all part of it. Lots of boats went deep we sort of missed out on the big Reds but we were a bit under gunned for 50 plus meter water, they missed out on sport fishing side. But all crews went home with a pretty good bag.

Id recommend the island too everyone, a great place, awesome fishing, and the crew over there are so friendly and eager to help out. Drew and Tracy absolute champions such long days for ya but always your always happy, I guess living and working in paradise helps. Thankyou for making our trip so good.

Cheers Mick

finally got one of the bastards. im happy :D

Gotta say the new busso jetty is looking great..!

went there on the 1st april with a 3 mates

squid are everywhere but gotta work for the bigger ones managed something around 90-100 squid in 4 hours various sizes ranging from 25-60cm tubes ofcourse throwing the little ones occasionally with a set of 7/0 on em

while jigging under a light at about 12pm with a good number of squid under the light was getting em left right and centre.. as i dropped again after the 5th squid i hooked another squid and a mulloway over a metre in length enhailed it close to the bottom and shot off out in a flash busted me off in seconds..

was an amazing sight just to see it cruising along and power off.. 

 Anyone had a fish in the Avon river??Is there fish in it??

Well we headed of to Gnarloo last friday Afternoon..

2 boats in tow from Perth picking up another in Gero and a hire boat from the Kalbari turnoff..

Must say the new coast road claimed all three cars thru there after dark all colection a roo..  Only minor damage but still anoying.  Those roos thru there are still Kamakazi.  They take three jumps into the bush and you think your safe and then they do an 180 and whan into the side of the ute..

Arrived at the overlander roadhouse to find its no longer 24hrs..  Had to syphon some fuel from the boat. 

Made Carnarvon early Sat morning and the blowholes for an amazing sunrise.

The track into Gnarloo was the best i have seen in 6years.  Managed a steady 60kph most way and managed to be at the staion unloaded and on the water by 11 am..

The Beach.  The worst I have seen in 6 years very soft and almost quicksandish in places...

With all 4 boats over 2.5 ton and 7 meters in length made for some interesting double snatch moments..

Fishing for this trip was very average.

day 1 and net result was not a fish landed.  Nothing trolling nothing from the depths.  We tried 30 thru to 120 meters all on good groung and plenty of fish showing on the sounder.  just not on the bite..  Water temp was also a very warm 28.8 degrees.  Also their was zero bird activity also..

DAy 2 and a couple of boats manged to find a couple of decent fish. 2 Reds and a couple of rankin and baldies..  2 boats also manged a Marlin each.  one being in the 30 - 50 kg range about 2.5 meters long. The other up around 80kgs and a little over 3 meters in length.

Over the next 3 days we managed to locate the odd red but if it wasn't for the red throats and a solid 37lb spanish mackeral caught on a red throat fillet floater then my freezer would have been very empty..

By the time thursday came around the low had pushed seas up to 4 meters and 30 knot winds so we packed up and headed home lunch time Thursday..

Long time reader, but first-time post - the following describes how the trip I made with HunterDive last week panned out...photos aren't great (phone camera), but pictorial support helps.

Hi guys,

went out bout 2 weeks ago with a mate from down there on some ground near a spot that i had given him.

He had done well the trip out before so I thought I better go down there and see if i could get one. We meet at the boat ramp around 6.30 in the morning and headed out but the wind proceeded to blow its arse off till about 12. We fished some old marks of mine that were very quiet and considering the speed we were drifting it was ineffective to say the least. Went out a bit further once the wind dropped and once sounding around I/we saw fish on the sounder and once the drift was set right we were into it and i dropped a good fish half way up, which i'm positive was a dhu, then my mate hooks up and it cuts through his leader. new drift and we are on again and my mate hooks up, then drops one, hooks up again and drops him, by this stage he is ready to punch whatever he can get his hands on, and then I hook up which frustrates him even more! after a really good tussle that lasted a good ten minutes we start to see colour and then up pops mister dhu. I was stoked and even though not a horse still my best dhe to date by a mile. The pics dont do him justice cos my fat arse is holding him, but he measured up at 101cm. not sure on weight though.

anyway after this my mate hooks up again and drops another one, I caught a little fella bout 55cm which quickly went back and then we had to hit the road as Al was supposed to be heading to Walpole about ten minutes ago and we still had a fair drive ahead of us.

thanks for reading guys

cheers carps