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Freo wharf
Submitted by MrMulloway on Thu, 2011-03-31 23:20I heard mulloway have been caught up to 13kg at the freo wharf, I might go down there tomorrow night or staurday night and ill tell u if i catch anything
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EPIRB distress
Submitted by Silk200611 on Wed, 2011-03-30 13:44AN extensive air and sea search is conutinuing south of Rottnest after an EPIRB distress beacon was activated earlier today.
A WA Police spokeswoman said the EPIRB was activated about 9am and the signal site had been located, but no vessels, debris or people had been found.
The EPIRB was activated about nine nautical miles west of Fremantle, the spokeswoman said.
"There are seven vessels searching as well as two aircraft . . . they are looking for the possibility of a person in the water," she said.
"But they are also looking that perhaps the EPIRB could have fallen off a boat because it is water activated."
Police have urged any boat operators who have been in the area today and are now missing an EPIRB to contact Water Police in Fremantle urgently.....
Given that they are all now "registered", did they try calling the owner ? Maybe that would be easier that flying around for hours? Just a thought
BUT hope all is well and hope no one is hurt or in real distress
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Fishing Saturday and Today
Submitted by Black Pearl on Mon, 2011-03-28 20:40Hey Everyone,
Me, my partner and my old man headed out Saturday morning and me, the other half and bro headed out today. Here are few photos of the catches... still alot of trout around.
Not anything overly big but still a feed
Both days produced a number of species the usual sambo or 2 and Pinkies. Hung around after bagging out on trout looking for something different, few small Dhuies, wrasse etc... but the trout where just being a pest.
Heres a little story
With the wind and swell, very very average this Saturday morning... heading 35 - 40kms out wasnt very comfortable. We knew the cranking NE'ly would eventually subside, when there wouldnt be much wind until it swung around to the SE/SW and settle in for the afternoon.
Then... What started off being a not so bad morning, Chilin, talking and catching fish and a couple of reasonable size hornets flying around the boat thinking I wonder where they came from cause I’m not a big fan of insects (especially spiders, all I can say is thank god never gave them wings... EEERRRRKKK!!) to them deciding we were alright to land on, so I killed one. Then another one, next thing they were everywhere and it was really freaking me out, we had never seen anything like it!! The boat was swarming in them! And by this stage I had more than one of the little mongrels on me and I was panicking. My old man was like they don’t hurt you, BUT I DONT CARE!!! I shook one off my hand with rod and reel in the other (6 month old 4000 Stella on a Tournament Master Diawa rod) pretty pricey combo, and squealing at the same time, to losing my balance as I put my hand back down onto the side of the boat to steady myself and totally missed, throwing my combo over the side and falling in over into the drink after it!!!! What a dumb s@#t!!! Lucky enough I managed to get my hand on the rod before it sunk to the bottom 25m down.
Getting back into the boat and laughing and my old man and partner just shaking their heads at me saying why are you jumping in to get away from them... but they were still everywhere in the boat, me standing there like a drowned rat. I heard a yell and I turned around and my partner decided he wanted to sit down on 2 and copped a stinger straight in the ASS!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Who's laughing now! With all 3 of us a thong in each hand, smacking and swiping, my old man is drinking a ice coffee and he says SHIT! OUCH! Looking into his drink there was this hornet and stung him straight on the top lip, lucky he didn’t swallow it!!!!
Lines were pulled in a flash and we were off and leaving them little suckers behind with some of them holding on for dear life before i gave them a swipe and said you’re not blooding hitch hiking back to shore with us, fly you bastards!
Bagafillets with a nice little trout
One of mine
Only some of them we squashed, probably not the best thing to do, cause i think it attracted more? Think i read something like that somewhere.
But it amazed us how they managed to find us, 40kms out!
Nice Dhuie
One of todays trout
Throw back fish, but puts up a good fight on light tackle
And... to top of the day, a nice 700mm Spanglie (dinner tonight)
Bring on Thursday, we are off to Onslow and across to the Macky Islands on Saturday! I cant wait!!!!!!
Cheers Crew
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Far & Wide
Submitted by poddyfish on Mon, 2011-03-28 09:53Yesterday morning bright and early saw us depart the Gero Marina for a spear. Conditions where par - average for majority of the trip to our first spot some 55k out.... Meggsie was along today for her first fish in along time so as we slowed to down approaching the reef i threw a X-Rap on 8kg out for her and the boys and i geared for a dive.... It didnt take long before the rod took off and the little tyrnos was screaming... First call was for a Spanish but it died in the bum pretty quick and meggs soon had a 6kg sharkie along side - despatched pronto ready for burley. She did a fantastic job considering she has never used an overhead before!. We reset the lure and did a few passes over some bait schools on the dropoff for one more hit before we anchored and got wet.. The dropoff was 16m down into 35..
Dale and Ryan both hit the water and saw plenty of shark macks and the odd small spanish while i readied meggs for a bottom bash... After the initial mayhem and high hopes it was unually quiet here - no current and no pelagic activity. Meggs landed a good baldie and a large morwong which was released & the boys and i hadnt shot a thing... We burleyed pretty hard with the shark mack hoping to lure in something worthy and then a couple of big spangled emps appeared deep in the trail.... Dale took first drop and leveled off in 22m , fired and got a muzzle wrap - spangleds 1 divers 0.
I dove next and followed a good spango chewing on a monster chunk of fish frame down into 18m before a flash caught my eye above me and too a distance... It was a big trout who had come right up off the bottom for a feed... A tad too far to swim at depth i had a good look for a return dive when suddenly a head appeared right in front of me and turned broadside... Hello Mr Spanish! Aimed and fired - the fish quivered , spewed burley and looked for all money stoned! Until i put some pressure on my reel line which must have just pulled the shaft off his spine enough to bring it back.. It departed pronto! A good fight and a second shot later we where on the board with a 15kg spaniard... Megan in the meantime had managed a good 4kg trout which was released....Into the eski of course!
Not wanting to waste daylight we made the call to head off chasing new spots.... One of Dales mates had given us a tip off for big macks & reefies so the call was made to investigate! Bit of current here made diving hard but the dropoff from 8m into 40m looked unreal... SBT busted up everywhere , bait everywhere.... Spotted some good pink snapper that prefered a 1kilometre radius from my riffe then a closer look and the boys took a nice trout each but still no more macks...
Another move along the edge saw us find abit of a fish bowl effect in the reef edge... Anchored again and i was first in the water this time with a big handful of mulies.... Crushed them up and saw a big school of shark macks approach over the sand followed by a bigger school of big Spanish! Quick load of the double powerbands , dropped , leveled off and sent a good holding shot into the shoulder! Surfaced and cried out school of spanish and ive never seen Dale jump in so quick! Landed mine with a big school hanging around and the clearish water saw Dale pull up short on a 20kg plus fish.. Some good spanish where shot and seen and i managed to loose the last shaft on my riffe gun when a quick change in direction on what would have been my pb and 20kg odd spanish took my reel line past the flasher.... Hung up on the blades , pulled the whole rig under and busted off! I was spewing - lost a good fish , killed a good fish that was now wasted , lost another 100$ shaft and also lost about 50m of dyneema in the process....
Dale then managed a nice little 8kg cobia off a large ray. A fish he has chased for along time and almost lost when trying to iki... Shook the shaft free and got out of his grip , took off with dale screaming in hot pursuit , crew on the boat laughing , the fish dived and hit the bottom obviously abit hurt , dale holding only the shaft has a quick breath and dives... Never thought he would get it but managed to get close enough to stab the cobe again freehand and landed his fish!
Capped off the day shooting a couple of baldies and i was stoked to land a couple of flighty Spangled Emps in the shallows.. One is a new pb and went just on 6kgs!
The trip home was attrocious tho - 40odd mile of short sharp wind chop took 3 hrs.... The closer we got to the coast the wind direction went around to the sth west and turned it even more horrible! Was great to finally reach dry land.....
That was our day out Far & Wide off Gero...
Cheers Poddy
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Kalbarri whale shark
Submitted by reef-raider on Mon, 2011-03-28 07:19We passed a whale shark on the way in yesterday just a couple of kays straight out from the river mouth. Was pretty cool
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Spanish Mackerel
Submitted by nick82 on Sun, 2011-03-27 20:12G'day went for drive along safety bay sat arvo about 5.30 and seen what looked like spanish mackerel jumping approx 100mtres in front of bp servo and looked pretty big so decided to go home get boat and have quick troll got to ramp could still see fish jumping so thought would have good chance got out to spot no sign of any fish chucked out lures but to much weed headed home aw well maybe tomoro. Left point peron sunday about 12.30 with a light sw headed for back ffb got to spot approx 25mtres and my deckie got this spaniad on a deep diver,tried for another half hour no hits headed for west end rotto heaps of bait fish around trolled for hour no hits so headed home anyway was a great day and the deckie was stoked. Cheers, Nick
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Daddy Boat in AIBT and GAMEX 2011
Submitted by deepwater on Sun, 2011-03-27 18:14The week it was ..started with the AIBT first. Day one started with fresh crew and a great attitude on day 1.
First day was a day of trawling... First fish was Baz's Sailfish popped his cherry. Was a great little fish we switched up from a plastic to a bait.
Day 2. Very uneventful day but still raised 3 Billies.
Day 3. Was a long rough day , we went out wide and trying to play with the big boys no no avail. We decided to head home about 1ish to beat the rush at the ramp . We raised a sail on the 37kg which i hooked and landed. We did the big turn around and set the spread and Cliff hooked up again on the same lure and the same rod. So that was 2 on the 37kg..
Equals 1 on 15kg and 2 on 37kg which equals 1000 points. for team deepwater.
Runner up Tag & Release Sailfish section.. Team deepwater.
GAMEX
Going to cut this one a little short as only 1 fish weighed in. and 4 tagged sharks.
Most days were pretty reasonable conditions with some real crap moments in between.. raised about 11 billfish in the 6 days for 0 tags. not even 1 hook up.
Day 4 we were out trawling the 400m mark when the 10kg went screaming out , it didnt jump so i got the little fella up to take charge. After 10minutes he had the monster subdued and it was a 13kg Wahoo. I rang the wife to let her know we would be weighing in a fish for a photo as it was our first fish for the boat to ever be weighed in. Vicky ( Deepwater widow) rang back with the news i was hopeing for .. the state record was 12.4 kg so we were hoping it was gonna be bigger than that.
Last day of fishing we were fishing in the passage and we picked up some snapper for tea and 2 of the sharks.
Presentation night was the night we were waiting for... Alex collected the prize we were hoping he hadn't been beaten on the last day. Alex took out the 10kg line class section winning a Shimano T-Curve rod and a Tyrnos 16 with some tackle and lures and 1000m of 10kg line and some vouchers.
Was a fantastic prize to add to his growing collection.
Big thanks to all my crew AIBT..Cliff and Baz thankyou very much and GAMEX a big thanks to My uncle Simmo and Alex my main man..
Jeff
P.S A BIG WELL DONE TO ALL THE WORTHY BOYS.VERY WORTHY WINNERS . IT WAS GREAT TO CATCH UP WITH YOU AT BOTH TOURNAMENTS THANKS A LOT GUYS.
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A big day out with the local businessmen from Busso
Submitted by Dean_LegendCharters on Sun, 2011-03-27 17:40Took out 12 guys which is more than we take with individual bookings but they hired the whole boat so free to bring up to 22. 12 lines in the water was very hectic. Bagged out on dhuies and released 2 by 10.30. Also got 3 sharks, 2 nannygais, 2 nice pinkies, 2 cod and a fox fish. Had people fishing off the bow. Big Al from Harcourts organised a top crew for a great day out.
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Ningaloo Reef Popping 21-23rd March 2011
Submitted by jay_burgess on Sun, 2011-03-27 09:48I just returned from a 3 day popping trip to Ningaloo, we were spoiled with exceptional weather for the 3 days as well as ideal full moon tides.
Day 1-
On the first day I made my way down from Karratha roughly a 5 hour drive and arrived to light winds and beautiful sunny skies. We packed the boat and departed around lunch time. Shortly after we arrived at the first popping grounds. Fortunately there was a small swell so this made popping easy on the outer reef edge. It didn't take long for some action and Glenn had a feisty red bass boatside. Not long after I hooked another, a little bigger. We continued to pop the reef edge slowly making our way further north when Glenn hooked up again, this time a nice little GT. Glenn was next to hookup again this time another bass but it made it's way back to the reef in record time. Fortunately we managed to extract the abalone GT2 minus the bass. I hooked up this time and after a reasonable tussle turned out to be an average GT around 20kg. By this time the wind had picked up a little so we decided to make our way into the lagoon and find an anchorage before it got too dark.
Day 2-
We woke up early and continued popping along the same section of reef, it was difficult looking into the sun which meant we couldn't see the reef or any fish we raised. On about my 5th cast I hooked a small fish which I called for a mini GT but turned out to be a little Green Jobfish. We continued to pop for not much action so we headed wide to try some jigging. Found a nice lump that rose from 40m up to 20m. Sounder showed plenty of fish but surprisingly little interest besides a few Sweetlip Emperor. We decided to head back into the reef and continue popping. Within a few casts I had a Spaniard jump on, pesky little things at times. We came across a section of reef that was just loaded with bait, Glenn had a hookup and we called it for a small GT but turned out to be a beautiful Bluefin Trevally, one of the biggest I've seen. Shortly after I hooked a GT around the 20kg mark and got him to the boat rather green, as Glenn went to leader the fish he took off and pulled the hooks boatside. Soon after I hooked up again this time it was a much bigger fish, fortunately he didn't take off on a screaming run and I started to wonder if my initial estimate was wrong. We towed him to some deeper water, then he woke up and after a blistering run the line busted. Glenn hooked another bass after teasing it out from the shallower water and fortunately this one didn't have a chance to brick him. Glenn hooked up again and after a lovely fight we got a GT of about 25kg on board. We made the call to spend the afternoon steaming north to a new spot which took a couple of hours. When we arrived we spent the afternoon fishing the lagoon but it was reasonably quiet.
Day 3-
The next morning we began fishing the edge of an entirely different section of reef. The weather was sensational but the water was a lot dirtier than further south and we struggled to find some clean water. It turned out that it just wasn't to be our morning. I lost count of the number of missed hookups & pulled hooks but I don't think we landed a single fish along this section of reef. Glenn hooked yet another red bass although this time he didn't stop it getting to the reef and didn't get his popper back. We decided to make our way south back to the reef popped on Day 1 & 2 as it seemed far more productive. When we arrived at our spot it wasn't long before we had a hookup, unfortunately it was another one of those pesky mackerel and it managed to snip the leader and get away with my Craftbait GT3. Soon after I hooked up again but it was a extremely large red bass in some very gnarly terrain and it was all over before I managed a turn of the handle. We were now past midday and neither of us had boated a fish all day. Spirits were down.
What happened next I don't think either of us expected. We had one of the most intense sessions I've ever had, anywhere. We came across the same section we popped on day 2 that was loaded with bait and the fish were going ballistic. Probably every second cast had some kind of hit or hookup from a myriad of species including more bass, jobfish, bluefin trevally, brassy trevally & GT's. Most fish we didn't photograph unless it was an exceptional capture as we just wanted to get back into the action. Glenn had some of the worst luck I've seen. After getting busted off by a better than average GT he then pulled the hooks on two very respectable GT's after surviving the first blistering run and once we were in deep water. Eventually he managed to stay connected to a fish and boated a nice fat GT around 22kg. I changed to a Hammerhead C Cup and on the 2nd cast got absolutely monstered by a good size GT. After a nice fight we boated the fish and estimated around 40kg. I think I boated one more GT around the 18kg mark then we decided to call it a day and head back to the ramp as it was starting to get late.
Tackle and Lures Used-
Hammerhead Faube 77H
Ripple Fisher GT78PF
Carpenter SP78UHL
Carpenter CV79RF40
Fisherman GT Game T-RSH
Shimano Stella SW18000HG & Daiwa Saltiga Dogfight
Shimano Stella 10000SW
Varivas Avani GT PE8 & PE10
The best lures were medium poppers in the 120-150g range. Natural colours seemed to work the best, ones that had a light (white-silver) underside contrasted by a dark upper body. In particular the Craftbait GT2 and GT3 (150g) in Skipjack and Craftbait & Hammerhead in Yellowfin tuna colour. Blue and white orion Cono Cono's also worked exceptionally well. Most of the time bright coloured lures were used it yielded little or no interest at all. We also had minimal interest on Stickbaits but we didn't use them often as the bloopers were working very well.
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Out With Saltwater Charters 25/3
Submitted by chrisp on Sat, 2011-03-26 20:46Headed out with some customers on Friday with Craig at Saltwater and had one of the best days on a metro charter that i have ever seen. 1st port of call was a run past rotto to troll for some mackies, about 20 minutes in one of the rods went off and after about 10minutes the first fish of the trip was landed,a nice 15-17kg mackie. We then headed out to one of the barges, i jigged away on the bow and scored some nice sambos and xos skippy to 4kg while down on the stern i see this rather large fish floating 20meters out on the surface.Most think its a sambo but i see a big paddletail pop out of the water.One of the boys had scored a 15kg+ mulla off the wreck.Then 3 minutes later another punter hooks up and scores another mulla of exactly the same size. I had always heard of the occaisonal mulla coming off the barges but was super stoked to see two off these awesome fish landed in less than two minutes.
We then put out the skirts and trolled out to the fremantle fad but the surface action was very quiet,not even the ever reliable southern blues were around.When we got there the spearos had been out and the dollies were very skittish and not really interesed .We then trolled out to the Derwent for a look but only a handfull of pan sized pinkies were on hand.None less we had enough fish for everone and headed back to freo witha a boat load of happy customers. It had been a while since ive headed out Craig but good to see the passion is still there for putting the punters onto some different fish and quality snacks as always.
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Fish From Today
Submitted by John_M on Sat, 2011-03-26 20:20Had a fun day out on the water, with some mates today. Got a good feed, no luck with the pelagics unfortunately> Got smashed twice using the saltiga in 27m and picked up a small stripey which was used to catch the fish below, and a few sambo's.
Rod is 4'4" to give you an idea of the fish lengths.
Fish ID on the red fish on the bottom
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Faulty Towers off Gracetown but brought home the dhuies!
Submitted by Dean_LegendCharters on Sat, 2011-03-26 20:06Another great day out off Gracetown. 4 dhuies (14kg, 10kg, 10kg and 8kg), 1 small wobbey (released), 2 nannygais, 1 harlequin and 6 cod. Not bad for a small crew. A great start to the day with both deckies falling in the drink ... shame no one else was there to see it. Shayne and Dean (Deckie Dean not skipper Dean) both started the day with wet butts! Sounds like an episode of Faulty Towers LOL
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Todays FAD report
Submitted by milsey on Fri, 2011-03-25 21:10I headed out today with my granddad planning on landing my first dolly, the day started off with a bit of herring collecting at Rotto. We then started trolling at the west end and didn’t have to wait long with a shark Mack taking the laser pro after 5mins
The Mack went 8kg, we then trolled all the way to the FAD’s with very little reward. We hit a school of little tuna, not quite what we were after but will be good crab bait.
We finally arrived at our first fad to be greeted by a boat of spearo’s who took off soon after we arrived, it didn’t take long for the first dolly to show its iridescent blue back. It smashed a casted skirt and a good 20min battle between 15lb and an estimated 10 dolly. It put on an acrobatic act jumping over 4m on some jumps. Unfortunately granddad struggled with the camera and there wasn’t any good footage however this wasn’t half as disappointing as what then unfolded. As I brought the dolly into the net the fluro leader broke at the hooks. To say I was flat was a slight understatement.
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we then started trolling around the fad and it didn’t take long for a hit, the deep diver started peeling 80lb like there was no drag, as I started this tussle the other rod went off and we were tiptoeing trying to keep both fish attached, my granddad had another big dolly on that was putting on quite a show, quite different to the fish I had on which did hard deep dives and was putting some serious hurt on, my granddads line soon gave out putting the pressure on me. I was calling it for a big Mack or Hoo, and as I got colour I saw I was correct. The fish was measured at 1.6m and my first Hoo.
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So I went home without my dolly but the Wahoo was a good little bonus.
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Gamex & AIBT Info ?
Submitted by Paul N on Fri, 2011-03-25 15:43Is it just me ,or has there been very few reports on either of these tournaments. The Exmouth Gamefishing Website has had no results posted from the the AIBT and no info on what is happening in Gamex . If it wasn't for a couple of threads on Fishwrecked and piss-poor mention about the AIBT in last Sunday Times you wouldn't even know the events were on. Like a lot of others , I'm heading up there in a week or so and I was looking forward to reading all about the action of these tournaments or at least seeing a pic of the leader board.
Could someone post the links if there are any results or updates anywhere on the web .
For a state and national tournament that had a lot of coverage in the leadup to the events , I think the follow up with results has been a bit slack. Would have thought EGFC would at least have updates on there website.
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Monkey Mia
Submitted by slosh30 on Fri, 2011-03-25 13:51So I thought i would be the good fella and take the missus to monkey mia for our 5yr anv on the basis that if we go i have to have 2 days fishing soo she agreed!! WINNER! now does anyone know where to go (on shore), what kind of gear i should be taking and what fish live up that neck of the woods?
any help would be great
luke
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Exmouth spearing trip
Submitted by Lucky Tim on Fri, 2011-03-25 12:27With the long range forecast looking good, Wednesday morning saw the Merman and I leave town for an overnight adventure to some islands NE of Exmouth. The run out was glassy with tuna schools busting up everywhere and after 1.5 hours we pulled the throttle back and prepared the gear for a spear.
It was going to be a spear trip with maybe some line fishing if we got time but we really just wanted to dive as many spots as possible to load the GPS with reefs for future visits. The GPS now has a lot more blue crosses on it.
We spent the entire day in the water and the Merman was the in form spearo. Biggest trout was 69cm, which I found, he shot then as I was retrieving it out from under the ledge shoved my hand onto a big urchin and got a heap of spines in my mitt. My hand is still swollen.
We ended up with 6 bluebone to 66cm which was a PB for Merman, 2 trout to 69cm, a jack and a few crays. We left heaps of fish and only selectivley shot some for the freezer.
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Weekend Report
Submitted by John_M on Wed, 2011-03-23 19:21Bit old, but headed out on the weekened with a mate in a tinny. Windy as hell working the islands, but managed a good feed of skippy, whiting, gardies and a healthy 6.8kg dhuey from around the pots back of Garden Island on a pirate jig
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Last Fridays Tuna
Submitted by milsey on Tue, 2011-03-22 20:11I headed out last Friday from ocean reef with a few mates, we were targetting macks but unfortuantly they didnt wanna play ball. We hadnt had the lines in for more than 10mins when we hit the first school. We ended up landing 5 and loosing one on the light gear. Heres a few pics
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Macks
Submitted by Black Pearl on Tue, 2011-03-22 18:37Howdy Crew,
Just a quick one, headed down to Jurien last Friday for my bday and get the boat out for a day, weather wasnt the best so didnt do too good. But managed to get a trawl in tho and pick a few nice Mackies.
Here are photos of a couple we got, had a few boys come up from Perth as well, they manage to bag 2 the same day and 5 next morning
Hopefully we can get down there again when the weather is a little better
Cheers!
(Bagafillets in the photos)
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First night time fail
Submitted by dkonig82 on Tue, 2011-03-22 13:21Went for a bit of a night fish on Friday night, at a regular spot on the Five.
The trip was not off to a good start, when half way to Woodies I realised that the bait was still sitting in the freezer. Thankfully I managed to get some squid at a servo on the way down there, so at least we had something.
Anchored up fairly shallow and started to burley with some pollard, using a plastic on my bream rod, to try and snag some herring for bait. Ended up getting lucky there and pulled up around 16 to 20 herring in about 40 minutes. These all went into the bait esky, and I thought our fortunes had changed for the better.
Once it got dark my mate was running squid, and I was running whole herring. My mate became known as the ray master throughout the night, as he couldnt get away from them, pulling around 4 or 5 to the boat.
My first proper run was an absolute beast. Got some good head shakes so knew it had to be a good shark. As is always the case, it took the lighter of the 2 rigs I had out, but this was still an 8000 Stradic with 50lb braid so i thought I was in with a shot. About 4 minutes in, and with my spool largely depleted, it went slack. I presume that his tail touched my braid and that the 1m of wire and 2m of 80lb mono that I was using for leader might not have been enough.
Switched spools on the Stradic and lobbed another herring out there, and less than 15 minutes passed before the EXACT same thing happened. Was seriously annoyed about this as the same rig I was using on that setup has accounted for many sharks, but there must have just been 1 or 2 big boys out there that kept taking me to school.
Quite late in the night I hooked up to what I could immediately tell was a monster ray. After a solid 90 minute struggle and with me still having a stack of line out in the water and making no progress, I decided I had had enough, so grabbed the spool - pointed the rod at him and pulled. I got lucky, as one of the wire snelled 6/0 gamakatsu that I was running pulled straight before the line gave way (a good testament to Till's Daiwa braid and my PR knots haha).
Every one of the herring I caught ended up getting slammed over the night, some came back chopped in half, others mysteriously disappeared off my hooks after a small 'bzzzzt'. But end result was I caught f*ck all except for one annoying port jackson.
First night trip I have done on my boat without bringing a sized demersal on board. Also the first I have done this year without a shark being landed (PJs dont count!).
No pics, as didnt want to document a failure
Dan
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Sharks down south
Submitted by bowds on Tue, 2011-03-22 10:28Went down with a mate to see if the salmon were running yet and decided to do some shark fishing the night before. Ended up with my first wobbey and a port jackson. Never caught anything this big before so was stoked. Both put back to fight another day. Wobbey was estimated at 30kg. No salmon to report of the next day. didnt see one school :(
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Fiji - Ono Island 2011
Submitted by SamC on Mon, 2011-03-21 21:32Hey Guys,
Was using these pics for an article, but was a no go in the end. Hope you enjoy!
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bass straight sharks
Submitted by streaker boy on Mon, 2011-03-21 16:15last weekend i headed out in bass straight out from cape woolamai chasing a mako or 2 perfect flat conditions set the trail where i got 1 last yr in 45mts of water after bout 1 hr of burleyin sfew birds flyin around i heard a slap in water about 10 secs later heard another 1 this time i was watching n knew it wasnt a bird then 10 more secs later reel screamed off which rod i didnt wanna get a big fish on it was my gummy rod a nitro godzilla well i was on hooked up the fish headed down to the bottom which i thought it was goin 2 be a blue shark which they dont usually do to much after bout 30 40 mins i got it up which it jumped out the water and couldnt believe what i saw it was a thresher shark then straight down the bottom again worst thing was the butt of the rod was to thick to fit in the gimbal which made it better hard for me then after 1hr 30 mins got it back up again and was right next to the boat which was just bout 2 gaff it when it decided to have a quick last dive when the wire trace snapped in half i was heart broken the fish was 150kgs plus then after that no much sharks for rest of the day then came in close next to the shore and hard a blast on catching a stack of salmon to about 3 kgs on light gear which hopefully in next few weeks will turn them into some gummies
Squid Busso Jetty
Submitted by Howard George on Mon, 2011-03-21 14:11A lot of squid have turned up on the Busso jetty the last few days but a bit on the small size. It's all to do with the moon. It might account for the action we've had recently.
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Toona on light spin..
Submitted by TWITCHEMUP on Mon, 2011-03-21 11:16Hi fellas,
Well the weather/wind/water up my way has been average of late but we still managed a quick arvo session last week chasing flighty Tuna schools around the ocean.
I nailed this 6kg fella on 4kg Spin and a 20 gram slice always great fun catching Tuna on light gear, also seen a monster Spanyard hit my metal slice but failed to hookup...
Cheers.
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Nice Dhuies South of the Cape
Submitted by Dean_LegendCharters on Mon, 2011-03-21 11:09Hi all,
Saturday blew out early but not before the guys on board bagged 6 dhuies, 5 cod, a sweep and a couple of swallow tail nannygais. One of the dhuies went 18 kg.
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Oops I did it again!
Submitted by MattMiller on Sun, 2011-03-20 19:31Hey guys, got out for a quick fish off the Cape again today. Was pretty slow going but managed to jig up a nice Queenie on the Daiwa Pirate then guess what happened. Yep you guessed it, ANOTHER BALDY. This time on a McArthy 8in Bullhead minnow. Not sure what i'm doing right but this run can keep going for as long as it wants. mmm Baldy burgers.
Apologies on the Baldy pic, phone died out on the water. But a crap photo's better than no photo.
Cheers Matt
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East Freo River Session
Submitted by mosley2008 on Sun, 2011-03-20 16:00Just went to east fremantle at 11:00am with my 7 yr old son, caught a small flathead first cast and it was on from there.
Caught 5 small pinkies, biggest was around 30cm (caught by dylan my son, almost pulled him in the river on his 3 foot ugly stick), 1 decent 25cm bream (dylan), a large flathead that shook the gangs at the last moment, a flounder and got done by a small sambo on the weed banks. It got the loose gang hooks caught on one of the weed banks and shook itself free while i tried to get the lip grips onto it darn !!!
Was a great time, used whitebait on gangs with a running sinker and swivel. There is usually tailor and skippy around but they werent there today.
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woodmanss point jetty
Submitted by antsey on Sun, 2011-03-20 14:57went down to woodmans point jetty on friday night my mate caught his first ray the one in the picture but we didnt know wat type of ray it was i think it was a black ray another one of my mates got a banjo and i got a shovelnose about 1.5m we got 11 tailor between 5 of us and 17 heering , also had 2 hookups on baloon but nothingg got landed
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Couple more pic of the Great White
Submitted by fishmad69 on Sun, 2011-03-20 07:00Guys
Here is a couple more pics I'll work on getting the video up
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