a few photo's from our dives over the past few weeks.

Mainly night efforts in the swan for crabs, but have been able to pick up some decent flathead in the prawn net as well.

Went for a quick dive on aus day and looped a cray that was moulting. looked like he had two heads!

No reccord breakers but plenty of good feeds :)

heres the latest track map

My first lady student for toman wild fishing for year 2011 is from Malaysia. Henry and his wife done a 4 DAYS 3 Nights safari trip to the Burma- Thailand border dam with me.

Henry's wife came without any proper casting or luring skills experience. For the very first day, I've tried my best to help and teach her the correct way to cast out her lure , balance on the boat and crank the lure etc. At the end of the fishing trip, she passed with fly color and is fit to wear my Giant Snakehead T- shirt with logo stated " NO LIMIT' when come to wild fishing. Just work hard and have faith in yourself. The big catch will come one day.  ;)

After this safari trip in Thailand, she is hooked to wild toman fishing.

I told Henry that the biggest catch for this wild fishing trip is not the big fish but be able to poison his wife to love wild fishing. This way, he got excuses and can make many wonderful memories fishing trip with his wife in the future.

"Wonderful memories is made & created by loved ones together"

Henry like many other avid lurers, fancy the wild kind of challenging than ponds fishing.

For this particular trip, Henry landed his first fish for 2011- A 1.22kg sebarau and his wife first toman caught in the wild on lure of course- 2.29kg toman. The magnificent view and beautiful natural, enough to melt any angler's heart.

Without much delay, allow me to share some of the highlights photo shots for the trip.....

For live actions....view the vid clip.

YES....YES.....YES.........shouted Henry's wife when she finally landed her first toman in the wild in 2011.
 
In the vid clip, you can see her casted her luer with great confident. Drop her lure in between narrow gap & casting non stop on the boat and under the hot sun.

Great angler is created and not born. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1c_YoryTH0

Highlights photo shots....

Hi all,

Cam here, been lurkin in these forums for about a year and decided to contribute something. Was a mad fisherman as a youngster and lately getting back into it with my mater

Last few weeks I have been fishing the river, looking for the elusive land based blue manna ( Any tips would be appreciated). A short write up of the spots I have hit up follows.

Garrat Road: 1) Went on the incoming king tide, managed a handful of bream, the biggest goin 29cm. No crabs in a 3-4 hour stretch off the jetty

                    2nd) Went on the low tide for a short lure session last night. Didnt manage a fish but saw a group taking 15-20cm baby bream and tailor and hiding them in bags under the pylons, reported to fisheries who unfortunately didnt have anyone available.  They did follow up the call today however, and had a discussion about what to do when they are off duty.

What does everyone do when they see this? I wanted to confront them but couldnt count on me or them holding their temper.

Applecross Jetty and surrounds:  Had a good session on bream 2 nights ago from 25-29cm with several bigger ones being lost. We were using small rock crabs, snapbacks and river prawns.BLowies were surprisingly not that bad. Still no blue manna crabs in a 3 hour soak (7pm till 10pm) A local told us about large yellowfin whiting in the area, anyone else heard about

Peppermint Grove/ Mosman Bay: Fished further towards chidley from the Freshwater bay YC. Heaps of small tailor around 15-20 cm chasing large bait schools, Only one legal amongst the ones we caught so put them all back. Never caught one that small before, they have no fight in them whatsoever at that size, even on 2kg. Again no crabs, but large masses of blowies around to go with the bait fish.

Anyone have any surefire LB crab spots or tips? We are using spleen, chicken, bony herring, farkin sausages and all.  I just want a couple for tea. hahah

 Went to Yacht club today around 2 p.m with some mates... Heaps of juvenile pinkies... threw them back... had to big runs... line snapped just near jetty... could not lift it up... may be a big ray.... But no tailor

I have no doubt in my mind that Whitey is not a man, but a god at putting you on good fish.

Saturday morning saw an early rise and a nice drive to Jurien Bay. We arrived at around 4am and like clock work Whitey's vessel was waiting and ready for an adventure. We packed the gear and piled in and in no time we were off. We decided to head out to the FADs and after a short trip, a stop for livebait and a quick vomit from myself we arrived.

Second cast saw me onto a first dolphinfish on a 6" pink snapback, the dream became a nightmare and due to having to tight drag the fish was lost. Over my shoulder however, saw 2 hook ups on a stickbait and a livey and after a short battle 2 dolphin fish were landed. We had a couple more passes and once again on live bait we saw another dolphin fish landed. I wasnt 100 percent sure the person knew they were hooked up as the fish was leaping trying to throw the hooks, it wasnt until they picked the slack up they found out they were on.

After our 3 fish were landed they went off the bite and we had a quick troll with the heavier outfits but unfortunately no hook-ups. I was hoping to see a marlin dancing on the water but i can save that till March.

A quick look at our watches showed it was not long after 7 o'clock and we moved onto the ground whitey has become famous for. There was an array of plastics and jigs. A mention goes out to Dasho who has now created an Octa jig which holds bait. The next several hours saw an array of excellent fish coming up. We filled the icebox with the usual Dhuies, Pinkies, Baldies and BB's. I was over the moon with my PB snapper and at 92cm's i cant complain.

Another great day out with Whitey and a huge thankyou to him and his deckie. I highly recommend him as the short drive gets you away from the hustle and bustle and onto some awesome fish, he is a great guy and knows his stuff. Sorry but i only took a couple snaps as i was to busy fishing.

My new PB...

The Deckies dollie...

The Mixed bag...(Photo Dasho)

Woke up on Saturday not planning on going out but checked the weather report and it looked half decent. Decided to call up a mate who has recently caught the fishing bug and take him out for some whiting, herring and squid as this was the type of fishing he'd been doing but from the beach.

Got down to Woodies at about 9:30am (a bit late but hey it was a last minute decission to go out) and started to head to the usual squidding grounds. I've been picking on him a bit for only catching whiting and herring as these are bait in my eyes and figured once he got into something decent he'd feel the same. The seas didn't look to bad so decided we'd go out further to get him onto something a bit bigger than whiting on 5 fathom. He's been going on about how great the herring he catches are for sushi so as we got to Carnac the seas still looked ok so I asked him if he wanted to try his luck with some Tuna.

So off we went to the south side of Rotto where I've had some luck with the Tuna, usually getting into a couple each time I've been out but a bit hit and miss. Got to the spot where I've been trolling (due to their always being bait fish) sent out the lures and within a couple of minutes one of the rods was screaming out line. Told my mate to grab that one as I wanted him to land his first decent fish, grabbed the other rod and I hooked up too. Unfortunately his came off but landed mine and it wasn't a bad size 8kg.

Into the eski it went, lures into the water and we were off again. It didnt' take long and the rods were screaming out line and he finally had his first Tuna, he was stoked. Over the three hours we trolled, we had over 20 hook ups and landed 15 Tuna so it was a brilliant day out. I'm guessing my mate won't have the same thrill with a herring next time he's beach fishing...

 plenty mackies nth end gi early today.

If you haven't used this website before, check it out... www.nearmap.com.au   The difference between Nearmap & Google earth is Google Earth is taken from a satalite and updated every few years. Nearmap image is taken from a low flying aeroplane with a massive high res camera so you can zoom right in on your target. It also stores past pics in a database which is available in the slide bar at top of screen, giving you the option of before and after shots.

I thought I might post this as many people are looking at the damage in QLD from the recent flooding and Nearmap is the one for aerial assessment.

I'm personally in Brisbane checkin the damage and doing my bit to help as my wife and I have been directly affected and lost all but our walls in our property there. Our thoughts go to those who lost much more including life.

Luck & thoughts are with you from the WA Angling community QLD & Carnarvon.

well went out to the deep on fri left hilliarys 630ish to a nice calm sea

first stop was the fads trolled upto and around  drifted in flicked sp at the fad to no avail

next stop was 270m did 3 drops out there didnt feel any bites but didnt see one bait return to surface only one sweep was landed the current down deep was moving pretty fast so lots of line was out i recon i had 500m plus of line out

was a good 5 min retrive thanks again to mako mat for lending me a 2 speed penn rod and harness saved alot of pain

will be out again and prob try 300 plus any one know if and where they do forcasts on the current speeds?

tried again at the fads on way back in stopped at a few lumps 100m but current was rushing

last stop in 50m produced some nice fish my dhu around 9kg? i guess notice the lightness when captured then dark in the esky

only other fish i landed where gunnard the spiky type

and my mate daves brilliant snapper a pb for him  also got a sambo and blackass

i did suffer a bit of spewing late morn them flybrige boats uptop got me going may need a pill next time

Word from PGFC is that an estimated 120kg Black Marlin was tagged out at the trench today.

aswell as numerous hookups on blues and striped marlin in the past week.

please bring on some good weather!!!!!!

hit up the canning today, armed with river prawns. i rocked up just as the water became slack, so i was hoping for a good little session. already rigged up on the train so i could get straight into the action. first drop down i nailed a small bream, 23cm. went quiet for a bit until the water became slack. perfect cast onto a pylon, waited no more than 3 seconds and had line screaming from the reel. forgot to tighten my drag, so i lost him to the pylon. landed another 7 bream, undersized in about the same amount of casts. then went quiet until i had another solid hookup. at this stage, the current had picked up quite a lot. managed to land him, 35cm. very healthy fish. next cast got absolutely smashed by a big bream and shortly after he bricked me. unstoppable haha. some asian bloke using mussels managed to pick up a beautiful 42cm blackie after a long tussel on ultralight gear. put my bream to shame! finished up around 2:30ish when i ran out of bait and headed home. id put photos up, but i cant get them off my phone!

Just thought I would share this.

Neels

Makes you realise how many houses etc are effected.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm

After only fishing bait most of last year this year i have started using lures and caught my first bream on a MF40 that went 31cm.

So i revisited the same spot and gave it another crack.
In the first 30 mins i hooked up on a mf40 and within seconds it bust be off on a pylons. And felt like a decent bream (35+)

With morale low i kept fishing and hooked up again on my mf40 and landed my first Flathead from the Swan River. This fish went 31cms. and with no one around only got a release shot and some other average shots.

I kept fishing and thought i'd change to a snapback grub( inspired by Aussie_Breamer) this was in avacado colour. I hooked up with it 3rd cast and land a nice flathead that went 42cms and was stoked.

It would have been a cracka day if only the first fish didnt get away but it was still good for a quick 2 hr session.

Cheers duffman.

Gear used was a sienna with 6lb braid and 8lb flouro

Headed out at 4am this morning, hit the first spot and on the first drop everyone loaded up on pinkies as expected. By sunrise (around 5.30am) we had 8 snapper, with the smallest going 6kg and 5 over 9kg. We then set out 2 tiagra 50s and did some trolling around West End, but with no luck. From this, we headed deep and worked 400gm jigs. Unfortunately it was quite windy, and didn't work in our favour with the Sambos. Hooked up to a monster and got bust off, while my mate got spooled on lock up with a torsa 30. Seeing as we didnt have any luck with the Sambos we went after some tuna. Saw a few on the surface and some around while jigging. Didnt have any luck getting tuna either, so worked some jigs in 30m water, picking up a few small sambos and dhueys, oh an wrasse half the size of the jig aha. Got back by 1.30, with an esky full of pinkies.

Anything under 65-70cm we released to fight another day

The picture of the reels in the picture probably equated to about 1/6 of the reels on board aha. Stellas, Van Staal, Tiagras, Torsas, Saltigas - Galore!

Managed to get out in the river last night for a quick session before the sun went down.

Got 7 in an hour and a half. Few big buggers too which is awesome to see.

Will look to head out again this week to see how early morning goes.

Had a weekend up in moore river and went just south of the rock groyne of the bach at 4:30am on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Saturday was very weedy but managed to get into some good fish.

Got some tailor there and a few big herring. One of the tailor being 51cm. Also got my first eagle ray which was good fun but put him back.

First tailor Ive caught from beach fishing. All fish were off the bite by about 7am.

Took my 4 1/2 year old son down to mindarie yesterday for a fish. Caught and released 5 baby pinkies,also caught some whiting and a flying fish,James had just as much fun watching them swim away as he did catching them. Perfect way to spend a sunday arvo. Also  dolly pics from last tuesday fishing with Whitey on his charter out of jurien.

after early start on sat getting that nice gummy i was buggered so had a bit of a sleep in and the hit the whiting again was a very slow start picking up heap of under sized pinkies about 20 massive toads but did bag out with 40 more whiting biggest went 45cm and 4 others 43cm also lost 1  trying to lift it in the boat that prob woulda went 46 47cm till it hit the snapper racks and snapped the trace, what a bummer

any you fellas / Lass' got any feedback on the SALTIST 4500H? Bought one yesteday spooled with Diawa Si PE3

i fished thismorning  wanting a gummy  after catching so many whitting last few weeks  after about 30 min wait  i got a hit didnt hook up  put rod back in holder and 20 sec later it took off again  this time i was on  after about 5 min fight i boated a nice gummy not sure what it would weigh tho as dont have scales. put lines back down picked up 3 nice pinkies and my  20000 stella took off which i had  a big  salmon head out hoping for a toothy  after boat 20 min fight  got it up 2 be a bloody massive ray  would have been biggest ive seeen.  then after that afew more big hits but got busted off then a nice cuttlefish aswell so  not a bad  1st day targeting the gummies

Seeing all the crabs coming out of the Swan myself and Silly thought we would have a crack down at the usual haunt.

Ended up picking up 15 odd keepers between us and missed a lot more. Dived in 6-15m. Vis was no good where we were, max 1m at best. I think the tide was turning which probably didnt help.

They are pretty good size at the moment - biggest were close to 70cm between the tips of each claw.

Got the usual bycatch - scallops and also a reasonable flatty in the prawn net.

A lot of small prawns sighted but not really any decent sized ones.

Going to make chilli crab tonight :)

cheers

Hi everyone,

I just want to say thanks to the members who posted warm welcomes and some info regarding Hillarys on my original post here. 

And to DieHard, I'm sorry I didn't meet up with you that Saturday. I was supposed to meet up with my sister at 4pm at Hillarys after fishing on BlueJuice. She didn't end up coming at 6pm. Since it's a big marina, I thought she got lost so I spent 2 hours just walking around looking for her. By the time I met my sister, I was too tired to fish. Hope I have a chance in the future to visit Perth again and meet up with you. Thanks for the invite!  

I just want to check in again to say thanks and give a report of my trip. I remember the Faulkner Family said this:

"hope the trip over will be one to remember for you. would be great to see you with a big sambo in your arms."

Thanks for the kind words...because it happened!!!  You can see the pictures below. 

Anyways, I thought I would share with you some of the fishing I did during my travels between Nov 25, 2010 to Dec 30, 2010. I visited Thailand, Australia, Malaysia and Hong Kong in that order. I would have liked to have spent more time fishing...but this was a sightseeing trip and a family trip with a wedding (my cousin's) thrown in for good measure. So actual fishing time was very limited. Total fishing hours was 57 hours between the 13 days. 

All the fish were released except for 2 of them (one queenfish and one seabass). Most fish, especially the smaller ones, only received less than 30 seconds of "handling time"...although some appeared to be in worse shape than others.  I do try to keep fish handling to as little as possible...but some fish just would not stop jumping around! 

Fish from Phuket, Thailand 

6” Scisortail Sergeant

5” Yellow and Redbelly Fusilier

7” Bluefin Trevally

6” Whitespotted Rabbitfish

6” A species of wrasse

Fish from Khao Sok National Park, Thailand 

9” Giant Kissing Gourami

11” Tinfoil Barb

9” Grey Featherback

13” Hampala Barb

9” A species of Leaffish

Fish from Koh Samui, Thailand 

25lb Giant Barb (aka Siamese Carp)

70lb Giant Mekong Catfish

Bait for Mekong Catfish and Siamese Carp

Fish on!

60lb Mekong Catfish

Last cast…I’ve been waiting for this fish all day…

40kg Redtail Catfish

Fish from Perth, Australia

5-foot Bronze Whaler Shark…cut the line before we got it to the surface :(

Samsonfish!!!

Smallest adult on the boat caught the biggest fish! All 40kg worth and they made me hold it up.

Annoying pufferfish…the harbour was full of them and there was no way to get way from them. They even chewed up soft plastic lures and they were so thick I even snagged them using crankbaits and Kastmasters :roll:

7” Sand whiting

Fish from Langkawi, Malaysia 

5” Russell's snapper

7” Spottail Needlefish

5” A species of goby

7” Indo-Pacific Tarpon (on the fly rod no less!)

6” A species of grunter

13” Great Barracuda

13” Talang Queenfish (TASTY!!!)

7” Five Banded Archerfish (These fish were so picky…but I finally fooled them using a hopper pattern on the fly rod :twisted:)

Fish from Hong Kong, China 

13" Crescent Sweetlips

5lb Japanese Seabass

6" A species of mojarra

3" A species of ponyfish

4" A species of rockfish

If I counted accurately, that was 30 species of fish caught...of which 28 were new to me!

Thanks for reading everyone!

 Was eager to christen the new dive torch(Modified Maglite) so had to try it out at the local spot, the pic with the crab on the gauge is from the top right corner of the original pic for idea of size, the visibility was great can see about 2 metres ahead.

 Hey guys,

heading to rotto next week for a few days, doing a land based mission to land a kingie or mackie. anyone got reports of em aournd yet? 

any tips of rigs, bait, spots etc I should give a try, 

much appreciated.

got to the cockburn boat ramp about 5ish in the morning and was glad to see there was no wind at all. as soon as we got the boat in the water we headed of to the club marine FAD lookin for some dolphin fish. after about an hour of trolling lures around the FAD with no luck we decided to bottom bounce and about 60meters away from the FAD 2 or 3 decent sized dollies swam past the boat straight to the FAD. after bottom bouncing for bit with out no luck like trolling we decided to go and look for a charter boat and find a spot. finally first drop i hooked up to something good then came off. then my dad hooked up to something this fish wasant much of fighter but once we got it to the top it was a 50cm grey banded cod. after with no luck again we decided we were gonna move untill fun size tuna started jumping around the boat but we got none eney way. so we moved again to about 20meters of water, about 10 minutes into fishing a 4ft hammer head swam around the boat then took off. after the hammer head left i got a fairly good bite it kept on biting and then suddenley i set the hook into this fish is wasant much of a fight on 50lb. once got to the boat it was black ass and was 30cm he was size but decided to send him back because of his size. a couple of minutes later i had an even better bite so i set the the hooks in this one and this one was fighting a bit but not much. once it broke the surface it was a big buff bream with my rig in its mouth and a snapper flasher in its mouth from a recent fight. so once i got the hooks out of him i chucked him back the drink. soon as i chucked him back my mate (thafishingkid) hooked the 4ft hammer head unforntently it wasant hooked very long and the line snapped he was a bit disapointed but he got over it after while. after a while the wind started to pick up and we were gonna move untill i hooked something that gave a good fight. after about of a couple of minutes of the fight a meter gummy shark came to the surface so we quickly got its head of and guts out and put it straight into the ice slurry. about a couple minutes later me mate got a 40cm black ass so we chuck him in the ice slurry aswell

by the end of the day we ended up with 50cm grey bannded cod

                                                         meter gummy shark

                                                          and a 40cm black ass

 Hey all   Just been looking at going for a fish at burns beach.  Just wondering if any one else has tried their and what they have caught  ??   

Are there any still hanging around stragglers or have they all gone walkies from there

Hey Guys,

Just a quick report from Whitey's charter last Thursday. Apologies for the late reply but im pretty sure ive only just caught up on sleep from this day!

Anyway Chrisp, Daz, JohnF, Schecky, Gweedo and myself headed up Wednesday night to get a good sold 14.5-15min sleep the night before to awake a nice early 0330 start. A series of different events happened which was due to the lack of sleep, but these best to stay at hush....

Steaming out in pitch black on our way to tease some dolly's and tease them we did. With McArthy's and sinking sticks to be their downfall. As most of you already know Chrisp' standout bull was at the top of the list, with JohnF getting his first which showed to be a handsome fish also.

After they shut down, a hunt out in the 200m+ was worth a jig as a few nice pinks of ~650-700mm hit the surface with Hotdog's coming up trumps. After the deep jig back the Red FM FAD for more action, size dropped off a little but we still managed some line tearing fun!

After that we belted into some more general ground to sink some lumps of lead in hope of some demersals. Good start with the Scheckanator getting his first Baldie on Inchiku untill the Mr Sambo turned up and rods were buckled and reels were smoking as some were lost and some solid fish around ~12-15kg we boated on PE2 & 3. A noteable catch of the little Gweedo's Sambo of around 20kg on the light stuff!

A move of spot was in order as donating expensive jigs to sambos wasn't fun for me. A good move it was with the Dazman jigging up a solid Dhu and his PB Dhu at just shy of 14kg, taken on a IMA Ro. He was chuffed to say the least after been a banana bender for so long. Whitey managed a lil pup Dhu and a few other odds and sodds including B/A, Goatfish, Pinks and another top Baldie. The Dazman finished the day off with a koota little pinky around the 550mm mark.

All in all, was a good day and yep 'tis true, Whitey knows his shit! Heres a coupla pics for you all. I between being camera bitch all day, i highly enjoyed loosing jigs and PE to the the local Sambo and suspected Dhu town late in the day. Was not my day....

Cheers,

Sam

JohnF's First. Top stuff mate!

The "Noodle" Lemax in struggle town

And the result....

The Juvie with a Baldie Burger

The big boy...

The big boy different angle

Gweedo's Sambopotamus...inexcess of 20kg and made him pisssss

And a sweet bit of pink to finish of the day....