So I have had my Loomis Sharkey around 9 months now, and I was starting to wonder what this rod is made for. Even the exmouth sharks never REALLY tested it. Tonight it finally got a workout.

After getting an ass kicking from a big ray on sat night I was telling everyone at work I was goin back tonight for revenge. Went down about 8 after the rain had cleared and found my usual spot empty, which was great since it really only leaves room for a couple of people to fish the gap in the reef. With very little wind, conditions were good and the first cast sailed a good 90m out I reckon. Rigged up a nice fresh tailor head and start sliding it down to my sinker.

After this the next hour or so was quiet till I start seeing some herring in the water not far out, quickly pull out the bait rod and use a small pieve of tailor to catch a herring. Reel in the heavy gear and by now the wind has dropped off to nothing and the next cast flies a good 110m out, Im finally getting the hang of casting this broom stick and 8oz grapnels! Rig up the live herring on a single 9/0 gama occy and start sliding it out, by now I think the tide has just turned and the bait moves out fairly quickly.  

Again the waiting game begins and I have a chat to a nice old bloke that walks past the spot often. maybe 45 mins later I hear that amazing sound zzzz.zzzzzzzz.ZZZZZZZZZ quickly grab the rod and knowing how much reef is in the area I dont wait, thumb the spool n BANG BANG BANG, 3 quick strikes to set the hook, tighten the grag down to around 8kg and hold on. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ this thing just keeps running, at first I call it for a shark, must have been the tail or the wings hitting the leader cuz it felt like some decent shakes. 30 seconds later the rest of my mono dissapear as my PR not goes through the guides and the braid backing gets its first use in a while.

When I lost my ray on sat night I was convinced I had over tightened my drag too early, so I stayed patient and sat on around 8kg as at least another 80 or so metres of line dissapeared, by now my spool had emptied a bit so perhaps the drag had increased slightly. By how much I have no idea. Slowly but surely the fish started to slow down. At this point I grabbed my phone and called my bro to see if he was keen to come down and help land it/take some pics. Luckily he obliged.

So after about 40mins and climbing across some rocks I had him 30m out. This is where it got tough.... doing the typical ray move he was covering himself in sand and just sitting.... by now my arms are almost giving up so I repeatedly try every move i know to get him out of the sand and through the shore break. At some stages thumbing the spool and putting all my weight into him, other times giving some slack line then once he moved giving it stick, and my go to move of reducing pressure, running 40m down the beach then trying to hammer him from there, this last one never works I dont know why I keep doin it lol...

Anyway, another 20 mins or so and he was right in the shore break, working with the waves I get him as far in as possible, back the drag off a bit and give my brother the rod, run down to the shore and use the leader to get him another 2m up the sand. Pliers in hand I lift the front of him and feel around for the mouth. The hook is pretty deep down the throat so decided I had to cut the steel trace at the mouth. I hav heard stories of south africans putting half their arm down a rays throat to remove a hook but I dotn have that kinda experience, so it was cut off. A few happy snapps courtesy of my bro then I reached under, grabbed the jaw plate (knowing from the lenth of my slide trace that the hook was a good 10cm further down) and pulled the fish back into the shore break to watch him swim away.

Awesome night, and good to get my PB ray in a spot where they have been giving me hidings since I first went tailor fishing as a little kid.

Cheers,
Adam
 

 Started our annual metro mack campaign just before xmas( keen aye!) 2 or 3 trips lost in the mists of time ,no macks

then bingo, over the last 2 weeks a couple turned up for us ,so we tryed today to get a metro mack 

and were successful

vid on utube ,just stick in search box( spanish mackerel in perth )

its a bit whited out ,camera settings wasnt right ,all fixed now,enjoy

Well it was my 50th on Tuesday and with the weather gods blessing Greg (my next door neighbour) and I set out for a day's fishing out from Mindarie. The sun was bearly rising as we headed out of the marina and out to the back of staggies where we planned to troll for spaniards for a while.

Well nobody told the spaniards that it was my birthday so after several false strikes due to weed, we gave it away and headed west.

The weather was still looking good and a light south easterly meant the drifts were going to be right along the ledges I fish, so we started to feel a little lucky.

With Greg onboard we reminisced about a few large fish he had caught from my boat many years ago and so in his honour we headed for that very spot, which incidently was where my daughter caught her 11kg PB Dhuie only a few weeks ago.

First drift and we had a double hook up. My fish was making a good account of itself whilst Gregs was proving a little easier to handle. Despite this mine was first to the boat and at 9kgs it was a great birthday present for sure.

Gregs on the other hand was a respectable 55cm and pre-regulation changes would have been in the esky without hesitation. But with the current rules it was a case of (do we head home now at 6-00am or do we enjoy the day on the water?

Given that I have started tagging for Westag it was an easy decision and we decided to put a tag in the fish and keep fishing.

We landed a few sargeant bakers, which were immediately converted to strip baits. These worked a treat and we ended up landing, tagging and releasing 5 more dhuies and a blackarse. The way two of them were released however is the subject of a "Dumb and Dumber 2" the sequel screenplay.

Firstly when I was releasing a nice 59cm dhuie, as I gave the heave ho to release the fish at depth, the clip swivel gave way and I released the release weight as well... (Doh!).

I quickly fashioned a home made release weight using a crushed barb hook, a length of 100lb mono a big sinker and a crimped on swivel. Rough but it would do the job.

The last Dhuie of the day was the 58cm one pictured below.

(I know it looks less than that in the pic but that's on an angle and when straight I can assure you it was 58cm). Anyway given that the fish was in excellent condition, having been slowly retrieved from 40m and given a deco stop at about 5m from the surface, I decided to use the boga grips to hold the lively fish while we released it. As Greg grabbed the rod and I hooked the fish with the release weight and manouvered it over the gunnels, the fish gave an almighty jump and somehow wrenched the bogas out of my hands.(I blame the arthritis at 50yrs of age). So over the side goes the fish conected to the release weight and my bogas. Since the reel was already in freespool, down it went. And as I cried out Greg automatically thumbed the spool to stop the fish, but as we all know thats how the release weight is released, so now we have a super strong 58cm, dhuie with tag number 76960 in it's side and my bogas in its mouth slowly swimming under the boat.

I raced over to the other side of the boat and grabbed the net but couldn't quite reach her as she slowly but surely swam deeper and deeper.

So if anyone catches a Dhuie with that tag in her side, tell her "I want my bogas back!!!"

The tag sheet now has some interesting comments for that particular tag....

(On a serious note, it doesn't look good for that fish, as I doubt it will be able to release itself from the bogas and they aren't going to rust out all that fast. So a sobering side of the equation is to always remember to tie the little wrist strap over your wrist when handling fish to be released..... I know I certainly won't be making the same mistake again.)

That being said, nothing could deter from the fact that we had a great day on the water and it was a magnificent way to celebrate 50 years on the planet. We ended the day with a few drinks at the Reeltime bar with family and friends.  Oh and Spurs won away in the Champions League.... what a 50th to remember!

 Gday crew

Thought id throw abit of a report together while i got the chance so here goes....

Last block off saw SamC & friend head north to do some spearing with me and a mate dale. Forecast looked unreal so the decision to head north the Port Gregory was made boat was packed and off we went early tuesday morning of last week... Arrived launched the boat and headed for ArchDecon Ledge.... 

Met with disgusting green water and a awesome 3m of viz! Cut costs and anchored up - jumped in and it was horrible. After trying in vain to find a fish worth shooting - well bump into a fish worth shooting. Ended up gettin buzzed by a agitated 8-9ft bronzie. This shark wasnt much fun and in the dirty water and with it darting about very very quickly we decided best to leave. We cut our losses and heading in behind the reef to find a touch better viz. Dale had managed to shoot his first dhu at 64cms - being a NSW diver he was pretty stoked and to find it hiding inside a cave in mud was a good effort in 15m.

The reef was slightly better but nothing special... Monster tailor where spotted along with parrotys and small groper... Sam even managed a thumper Tarwhine.

We then proceded to get stung from heel to toe literally by the most unreal bluebottle swarm ever! Words cannot describe how bad it was but it prevented dale from swimming to the boat - he waited on the reef for us to come around and pick him up. It was insane. A literal CARPET of the pricks....

Tried for some crays quickly - managed a few from the millions of kakkers and saw a 10ft tiger in 3ft of water before cuttin cost and headin in spirits shot to bits! The decision was made going by the current conditions that we would return to gero and try from there!

Next day seen the damn sthrly in early but we pushed on and found some okish water - hazy 10m viz and the odd fish... SamC managed a pair of nice baldies early - His mate Kasey got a nice trout and a groper - Dale managed the same and i managed to pick up a thumper 6.5kg baldie and small dhu to end the day! At least the boys shot some nice fish in the end. Highlight for me tho was being surrounded by a school of small sharks on a mission at one stage in 15m. It was phenominal 50plus sharks from 2ft - 6ft long. Had to check and triple check they wernt cobia!

Since the boys left ive managed a few local dives aswell 

The crays are slowly picking up and a few fish in shallow also.... Managed a great late arvi session with Spooled last week with 12crays 2 small dhuies 1 nice trout and a Yellowspotted Boarfish! A first for myself and the fillets look unreal!

Also had a well known fishwrecked identity (photo posted in latest images) who asked to remain annymous call thru town and manage to crack open his dhuie account on the straight hook!

Dove yesterday aswell and struggled in a howling northerly current! Ended up picking up 2 trout 1 big baldie 1 bluebar parrot and i scored again picking up a 10kg cobia! Not very common in town but seen from time to time... The fish did cost me a $100 sharft for my riffe euro but happy regardless!

Enjoy the couple of pics! Till next time

Cheers Poddy

Decided to do an all nighter at the Ammo Dump jetty on Monday night, which consequently resulted in me sleepng for 18 hours after aha. But nonetheless, its always worth it when if your fishing. Got to Ammo Dump around 7.30 Monday night, and got straight into the scalies. Cleaned up with a bucket, while using the occasional one as live bait. Decided to go with a personal snapper rig of mine, with the addition of a 9' lumo jig, as it had worked previously. Every bait that was sent out resulted in some sort of run. To kick things off, a decent banjo shark was landed, 2 5ft black tips, and a solid North West Blowie (92cm), however it was no match for  a Shimano Saragosa 18000 on Tiralejo 1100S running 50lb braid. Around midnight, I decided to balloon out with some New Zealand mackies I purchased, as some guy was spooled 600m of 50lb braid earlier. However, yet again no luck with the balloon all night. Meanwhile, we collected a handful of crabs, keeping 11, with the smallest going 16cm and largest 19cm. At around 5am, the Saragosa went off, with the result, a tailor nailed on two 7/0 circles, so cut the tail off and sent it straight back out. Within 5 minutes the rod went screaming, just as the sun came up. No head shakes what so ever so I knew it was a ray, however I was surprised as the bait was situated a good 2.5m from the ground. Nonetheless, no matter how hard I cranked the drag the fish wouldn't stop, taking runs of 100m at a rate of knots. Half an hour later with a good 300m lost, I was starting to make some ground. Now, Honsu once told me about Eagle Rays jumping out of the water, but I never believed him aha, until now that is. Once it was around 150m away, it jumped about a dozen times almost a metre out of the water, and each time taking more line. So around an hour and a half later, I got it within 10m of the jetty, quickly guiding it towards the beach as I didn't want to gaf it, but almost got bust off trying to do this. I managed to turn its head getting it around 10m to the side of the jetty, and rather than pulling it, it actually swam towards the beach. With clear and silky smooth water, it was an absolute sight to see a ray about 1m below the surface swimming through the water. Eventually I got myself and the ray to the beach, where plenty of beach goers crowded around what I thought was a monster eagle ray (wing span well over 1.5m). Cut the line close to the hook as it would have been a lot quicker than removing it, and carefully guided it back in the water with my mate, while the old bugger was huffing and puffing. Helped it through the water and watched it swim away after a good fight and quick release. We stayed for another few hours and grabbed our bag limit of whiting. So all in all, not a bad night, would have prefferred something big and edible, but thats fishing :)

Only pic I got http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=820805276

Sorry about quality, only had mates crappy phone with us. Every time I don't bring a camera or my iPhone, I catch something worth a photo aha

Me and my dad took the boat out near the point walter bank to try out my new rod, i cast in a bit of squid, left it for around 5 minutes then got a huge strike, after a few minutes of fighting the fish, i finally got it close to the boat, i couldnt see what type of fish it was really, tailor, giant herring maybe but it made my deep sea overhead combo bend over, what ever it was, mustv been pretty big, got a few small herring there aswell, worth a try

Me and my mate Braden nabbed the old boys boat on Sunday and Monday to go and have a crack at some sambos up at Cervantes.

Got up there at 9:00 on sunday morning and headed out to the sambo hole, that we have had success on previously. A couple of drifts over it (well what we thought was over it - need a better sounder) and there were no sambos but Braden hooked up to a nice Baldy!

After a couple more drifts with nothing else to show for it we heading further in to the 25m mark and had a couple of drifts over some reefy ground. We had been mucking around with little pickers for a while and then my Twinpower 3000 got smashed. After a decent fight with a blistering first run up came a nice size Dhuie for the esky.

Since we were getting into the fish at 25m we decided to stay in the area and keep drifting. The next fish to come up was another nice size Baldy. After landing a few other smaller Dhu's and Snapper we then headed in.

We got the boat up on the trailer and started cracking some cans and put some baits out for some fun with a few big eagle rays. Within 10 mins my Stella 8000 screamed off with a couple of large fins breaking the surface so we knew that it wasnt an eagle ray. After a ripper fight which had the fish swimming in big arcs from out the back of the boat (as you can see we were anchored up nicely- haha) i finally beached the massive Shovely.

After landing the shark everything went a bit quiet, so we resorted to catching a few Blue Mannas by dragging in the ray baits and grabbing them once in close.

The next day, we headed out and with no luck at the Sambo hole again so we decided to do the same as the day before and fish around the 25m mark, which produced another Baldy and a good size Blackass.

Once these fish were in the esky on the ice we headed in as the SW'er was starting to blow, on the way we saw some fins breaking the surface abouth 50 metres away, thinking shark, we immediately threw out a whole herring on a wire trace. however they turned out to be 2 massive sambos which weren't in the least interested in our baits or lures.

 i just heard of a bloke getting bitten by a shark off exmouth on the news! has anyone heard of many shark attacks that far north before??

Picked these few tailor up this morning biggest was 57cm.Lost another one slighty bigger at i estimate 60cm in the shore break and watched it slip through my fingers.Also released a smaller tailor.My new stella 5000sw and jigging master shore game was fantastic.Set a balloon out after the tailor session and got bitten off back at my pr knot by what i guess was a mackie...

 What a arvo session - Went out for a dive this arvo with Spooled and a mate locally. Weather was fantastic and the visibility not to bad..... Started off snaring a few crays with todd in 10m while waiting for spooled to finish work then moved out around the lighthouse.... proved fruitless as abit of groundswell had really stirred things up.... Back around and out off the cray factory we headed.... jumped in and shot a nice little dhu straight up - todd followed suit and nailed its twin 10mins later! 

the 3 of us checked a few nocks and crannys and managed a couple more crays before moving on.... this time first drop seen me bump into a healthy trout in 9m - back to the boat swap the snare for the gun and after a few drops added him to the esky! Starting to look extremely healthy by now... 

Ended up moving once more to bag a few more crays and finish the day off...... Highlight for me tho was bumping into a school of boarfish! never heard of or seen them here in gero - not overly huge but shot one and so glad i did - the fillets look fantastic.... Turns out it was a YellowSpotted Boarfish judgin thru all the fish book and google pictures....

Ended up idling back to the ramp enjoying a icey cold beer at 5knots over a glassy ocean...

12 crays 2 dhuies 1 trout and a boarfish = pretty decent afternoons work out from gero (not more then 5mins from the ramp)

fantastic

Went out on Sunday in that horrible bloody wind. 

Seems I always end up going out when it is windy as hell! 

Launched at Hillarys, and my tub is pretty small so with the way the swell was coming we were getting bloody drenched on the way out. 

Didnt go that far, couple of mile out just near little island on the back edge of the reef. 

Burleyed up a fair bit and got one good run, felt like a sambo possibly but threw the hooks pretty quick. 

Then 15 mins or so after that a tiny bit of drag got pulled, so decided to bring the line up and check the bait, felt heavy and thought possibly weed clump but ended up being a small Wobby. The bloody thing was just sitting there, could hardly tell it wasnt weed till it hit the boat.

Around half hour later another run, this one felt a bit slow but had some grunt and came straight to the surface. Ended up being this shark in the pic. We had been doing shithouse with the table fish so decided to keep him for the barbie. 

I got a larger one of these a couple weeks back, can someone confirm it is a bronzie?  

Hour or two later got a big eagle ray to the boat, fought bloody hard but managed to release it well and off he went. 

Then about 20 mins before we left got another shark the same as the last one, but a bit bigger, this one was only lip hooked so managed to release it successfully without bringing it into the boat. 

Anyway no luck with anything else aside from 1 skippy and the obligatory 4 million wrasse, but there certainly seems to be a lot of sharks around! 

All of them caught on Deep Jig 200 with Stradic 8000. I reckon lighter gear in order next time! That or bigger baits  

Oh and didnt weigh/measure anything, im always too lazy for that! 

Dan

On Monday and Tuesday this week I went out to Blackwall reach for some crabs as I heard the pt walter spots werent firing.  Monday morning was a late start getting on the water around 9 and with the howling westerlie Blackwall reach was a glassoff. I had promised to take a colombian friend from tafe out for crabs but diving off GI. But with the wind the way it was I said we should pot the river.  Juan didnt have his licence so we set our sights on 10 crabs and were soon underway. A couple of pulls of the string and it was getting hot so I showed him the path up the cliff and we jumped off the cliff.

With 10 in the esky and a cold beer in hand around 2pm we were pulling all the pots in and got another 3 which went back with me promising to come get them on tuesday.  A bit of a cook up back at home and Juan was on his way with some cooked crabs for his missus. He had never seen, caught or tasted a crab before.

I also had offered to take a family friend out for a crack so we went out at 5:30, on the water for 6:15.  I told Ray it was going to be a beautiful day as we went around pt walter flat out.  Pots into the water and there was another boat in the bay who were already on 4 when we started.  Ray had his licence so we set the target a bit higher and ended up with 15 by lunchtime.  Back home for another cook up and Ray and I had a huge feed out the back on the table with newspaper for a tablecloth, bread, vinegar, salt + pepper and a fan to keep us cool. Plus a few coopers pale ales to rehydrate.

28 in two days. Not as quick as 20 in two hours but relaxing days anyway. Biggest was 18.5 cm across the shell. Only two undersize and two tiny females in the two days.

Bryan

my uncle Michael is back in Perth from the UK and last time Ryan got him and me onto huge bass groper this time Ryan was kind enought to take us to the Swan to get a feed of crabs.he said he has been going heaps of late and they are going off with some big bruizers.we headed out yestrday late arvo and got our 20 bag limit in 2 hours wif all crabs being 150mm to 180mm.

awesum arvo Ryan and the sunset beers on the Swan was a perfect way to finish off......thanx for taking us out m8

Hi all went out the busso jetty this morning for the first time since it been open.Wow wot a great job they have done just a shame it took so long .Any got a few herring and some nice size skippy and some squid but had to work for it . Its just good to have the jetty back for every one to use 

was down the ammo jetty last night just for walk to the jetty and back at around 10pm.  as i got to my car i noticed a car that had its back window and side window smashed.  now this has been going on for years but as of november last year they had put cameras in the carpark and that seemed to stop the break ins but as of 3 weeks i think they took them down and now were back to this same sh*t again

they sit in their car, wait for you to head down the jetty out of sight and smash. wat a crock of bs. so if your ever there and you see a white vs commodore sedan v8 that sounds like a hunk of *##* with people.......you can hardly see in it dont bother... waited out the front of woodies for about an hour, had another friend with me who went back down the carpark to see if anything else and wat do, you know, another 5 cars....

called the police while i followed them to the cockburn boat ramp probly looking for cars in that area as well.  i think they mite had recognised my car from the hour b4 and decided to get out of there as the police arrived 2 minutes 2 late

now i dont get it.  they put cameras up in the carpark to fix this problem, it works with hardly any reports and now were back to square one...what an absolute shambles on the cockburn shire. they put on all these co-safe patrols for what...?.....

what an absolute waste of tax payers dollars...!

Gday

Just wondering if any one has had much success over at hamo and if so what charter did you go on. Ive done a search and found some info but they are all about a year ago and not really saying too much. There seems to be two companies Renegade and Rapture both offering similar days but renegade being a bit pricier. Will be up ther in march and want to get on to some mackies and trout/emperor

Does any one know of any othere charter options

Cheers

hey guys any one heard of many if any tailor been caught at the drain recently tryed a few week backs to no avil hangin for a feed cheers guys

Went out for a fish last nite. Got some nice size baits to use live. A nice high tide at 10.30pm. Okay might be in with a shot.

Had to re anchor a couple of times because the wind was that strong it kept dragging the pick. There were some gusts to 35 knots or so.

Ended up landing a few rays from door mat size to coffee table size. They arent silver with 50 cent peice size scales though.

The last thing of the night slammed an 8" mullet and lolled around slugging it out 20 or 30 mtrs from the boat before it decided to bolt off into the darkness. It is a strange feeling loosing line into blackness.

At 1 stage I put the rod in a holder to wind the other rod in and get it out of the way!! It was looking like a complete spool job. This thing actually broke the spool clicker while it was running!! haha. mongrel.

And with about 30 metres of 20lb braid left out of 200 odd metres 'the thing' busted me off on the wind on leader.

Ahh well, better to have fought and lost than not to have fought at all.

Considering how cold it was last nite, I decided to head home and marvel the happenings over a few brews!!

When that big Mulla comes along though, it will make it so much more rewarding.

Cheers.

Went out for a quick solo troll this morning after hearing some good reports of macks and even a good size black being caught lately. hit the water about 5.30 just as the sun was coming up. took a while for things to start happening then Bang, had the drag up to tight on my 10kg outfit and got busted off by what i'd say was a mackie hitting it at full noise. Out goes a new lure and reset the drags, after a few laps of the same area got a solid hook up, after around 10 mins i had him in the boat. very lucky to land him after he did a lap round a cray rope. Ended up going 14.4kg on the digi scales. 

After that continued doing laps of the same area, got probly anoth 3 hook ups but dropped them all. The lures all came back looking pretty mauled so it looked like mackies were to blame. At around 8.00 i got a solid hook up but it didnt feel like a mackie, it took around 150m of 24kg braid befor shredding the leader. thought it must have been a sambo but it did have me wondering. Anyways rerigged for a few more laps, around 8.30 i was reeling in a lure to inspect it after dropping another fish when off to my left i see what i thought was a big mackie cruising on the surface towards the lure i was reeling in. Then i seen the big mackie had a bill, he lit up an almost bright blue colour and charged in. after a short 10mins with a few flips and tail walks i had him boatside. it was a bit tricky but i managed to grab him and lift him in the boat to dehook him and get a few quick snaps. After swimming him for a few mins he was giving a few good kicks and biting down pretty firmly and away he went.

(Dont worry the blood on the carpet is from the prevous mack not this guy)

Spent another 30mins cruising round and picked up another mack that was just size he went back and i decided to call it a day. got back to the ramp by 9.30, Beers cracked by 10.

Cheers Kye

still plenty of bluey's around in the river.... and pretty good size too. biggest 180mm

here's silly and my effort from last night

Hi, Im new here but thought i would fill you in. Had a top night last night at pt walter jetty. Caught around 50 tailor, only 4 keepers though but plenty on 25 cm. Went out there at 8 for a quick throw and ended up staying till 2am. Even had to go and get more pillies. Is this normal there or were we lucky? Its my 4th time there and have changed takle/bait/lures ect every time and watched others with their setup and have finally found the right combo.

5/2/11

Went down last night and had another another cracker. 8 herring and 9 tailor between me and my mate. 2 x 37cm tailor which was good also. I think i am ready to give the north mole a go and chase some bigger tailor on the same tackle and setup. I attached some photos.

Well with cyclone Bianca bearing down on us we weren't to sure what was install for us when we turned up at Woodies Saturday morning. As we headed out it looked pretty sh!t with lightening and rain coming over GI. As it hit we decided to stop and do some squidding as we couldn't see where we were going and that rain sure does sting when your moving. Luckily after half an hour it had passed and the weather for the rest of the day was great.

Headed to my usual trolling spot but decided to do a few drifts first over some lumps but came up empty handed. After a few hours decided to go for a troll and got smashed straight away. Ended up with 8 tuna landed, 6 bluefin and 2 stripeys (I think that's what these are?). Then fisherys decided to pay us a visit, they were very nice chaps, did the usual inspection of our catch and then were decent enough to show us on their sounder where a nice patch of demersals were (I need to get me one of those big sounders). Marked the spot and did a few drifts. Ended up getting a bunch of small snapper and being smashed 4 times by what I expect were Sambos. Landed one of the smaller ones...

Then it was time to go back in as the dark grey clouds started to roll in over Rotto. Thought we'd beat it in but we got smashed about 1km out from the ramp. All up a good day. Hadn't taken my brother and his missus out for a while and they ended up with their frist Tuna. The first one went 8kg so in a couple more months they will be stonkers.

Went out yesterday morning 5:30am, just after the thunderstorm came thru.  We first went out to the Five Fathom Bank and drifted over a few times and caught 4 nice skippy, we then went out to 40m mark and caught a 3 nice King George Whiting.  It was nice and quiet out on the water as most boaties werent sure with the approaching cyclone.

What is the easiest and best way to cook up King George Whiting? Any tips?

Cheers.

Went out yesterday in the 25 knot 3 metre conditions and hunted some Dolphinfish which are running hard at the moment. We got a couple early and then bled with nothing for about three hours. We decided to head home about 1200 and trolled the reef on the way. I picked up a very welcome doggie (probably about 8kgs). Then at the end of securing that in the esky we saw a massive dolly school, left the reef and got into them. It was Mahi Madness with double hook-ups and only me to get them in as it was too rough for my mate to leave the wheel. There wasn't even time to reset lures as whatever was left in the water ended up connected to the next fish. An awesome 45 minutes to finish the days fishing. We got another four before heading home, leaving them biting.

Without a doubt my favourite eating fish in the ocean.

Not much is going to survive these choppas. My hardbodies are starting to build up some pretty cool scars.

Rictor Jellybabes. Got to love em!!!!

They weren't big by any stretch but they were there in numbers and going nuts for our lures.

Dogtooth sashimi and crumbed mahi - now that's a quality lunch.

A brief report from a trip that a mate and I did out at the FFB recently.

Was blowing a bloody gale out but decided to give it a whirl anyway as the swell was low. Ended up with 3 decent pinkies, 2 good tailor (one really good), a bronzie and the usual smaller stuff.

Snapper went pretty hard on fairly light gear, but was using the heavier kit for the shark (was trying for his big brother) so wasnt much of a challenge there.

Let 1 pinkie go, and hosted a shark bbq the following day - shark burgers were awesome! You can tell by the pic of the shark that I got a bit carried away with the iki jimi, but the thing was never going to fit in the esky and I wasnt sitting it on the deck next to my foot till I knew it was dead for sure!

Used a tailor head and a herring together for the shark and mulies for the rest

Dan

After seeing Richard Snellin's post about Tailor, thought id head down to my local beach where i normally flick for Tailor with a twisty lure. Within 5mins scored a nice fish which i saw take the lure about 5m out, ended up being a lil salmon. Got a Tailor just on sunset and then lost another just after the sun went down. All good fun and a lil feed

Sha

Decided to head to north mole for a few casts last night.
The weather was perfect just a light breeze and very warm.
I got there a bit late just missing the sunset however my first cast hooked a a lovely Tailor right at my feet which subsequently detatched itself at the rocks, half an hour or so went by before another hookup but when it came it was huge, line peeled off in three or four powerful runs and a couple of minutes later i was carrying my biggest Tailor ever at 49cm up the rocks.
Bites came fairly regularly after that and i soon had another tailor of 40cm in the bucket which was then followed by a horse (by my standards) at 51cm. At this time the southerly started to pick up so i called it a night despite the fish still being on the bite but i was more than happy with my catch!
Richo

Thinkin of headin out to 3 mile early tom, but last time i went their wasnt much action. has anyone had a good run their lately?

Does anyone know of any shore based metro spots where the bonito are biting of late?