G'Day everyone, long time reader first time poster here!

Given the wind on Saturday I decided to leave the tub in the drive way and go for a wade in the Canning in the hope of snagging a flatthead or two. With the easterly behind me the conditions were perfect, unfortunately fishing didn't leave up to expectation, thanks to weed and blowies. Cast after cast my lures came back either covered in that snot weed, or chased down by dozens of blowies. Grand total for the day was a heap of blowies, I lost count! The flatties are definitely there, I spooked three good sized ones while walking around, but the weed made it almost impossible to work a lure past them. I think soft plastics would have been the ideal method to get through the weed, except they wouldn't get through the blowies of course!

If anyone has any ideas on how to get past the weed and blowies I'm open to suggestion.

Watching a horde of blowies attacking my lure made me wonder whether a flattie would actually come out of hiding to hit it even if I did manage to work it past it's nose!

Did see a few good size mullet around, also quite a few crabs. Should be a good crabbing season this summer.

Can't wait for the winds to back off!

Cheers

WM

Was a tad lumpy today and we didn't manage a full bag, but at least my mate from KL got a dive in and managed a few as well.

Got the chance to jump in as a fishing deckie with my brother and sister in law for the local club comp around the Mossman (FNQ) area last weekend.

The trip started well with Erica landing a horse Saddletail Snapper just on dusk on the drift before Mick nailed one slightly bigger. Both fish would have been over 8.5 kilos whole. A few Spangled also came over the side before we headed in to chase our target fish, the mighty Fingermark.

In a little over 2 hours of fishing we smashed 8 Golden Snapper and 2 Gold Spot cod. The big Cod would have been over 12 kilos and most of the Fingermark were over 5 kilos, the biggest would have been over 6 whole.

It was a good feeling to leave them biting. I caught the last one which would have gone nearly 5 kilos and we took Erica home who was decidely sea sick!!

Took the missus for her first fish in 10 months up the Daintree the next night. It would have been good to get her some big Goldies but with the weather not playing the game the river had to do.

We nailed 6 legal Jacks off one spot amongst a host of smaller Grunter and bream. We kept 3.

Mick weighed in 4 fish, the nanny, a Spangled and 2 Fingermark for something like 18 kilos I think and Erica weighed in the same group plus 2 Jacks for just under 17 kilos from memory.

Some quality fish. Note how sick Erica is in the Golden Snapper photo, it was the best pic I could get!!

We got some footage which I'll post on youtube in a couple of days time. It's pretty cool.

Headed up to Exmouth last Sunday for a few days fishing and my first real crack at spearfishing. Went with a good mate Matt. Both of us have runabouts but neither had a car that can really tow the distance so we opted for a mainly landbased trip. We got quite a few good fish, nothing spectacular but was still a lot of fun.  see below for the highlights, detail and pics.

Day 1 – up at 5am to leave by 6am for the 13 odd hour trek. We arrived in Exmouth town around 7:30pm so made pretty good time. Out to the lighthouse, checked in and decided to wet a line off the beach. Matt got the first fish – a nice red throat, soon to be followed by a 65cm spango on my rod I was pretty stoked considering this was the first night. Followed up with a few smaller spango’s and many small fingermarks and other reef fish which were released.

Day 2 – up early and out to do a bit of spearing. Being my first real time with the gun it took a while to get used to. Several frustrating shots and painfull reloads (the 1.20 RA with 20mm band hurts the chest a bit) later I had nailed my first fish – a gold spot sweetlip of about 40cm. In this time matt had nailed several fish including a 60cm gold spot trevally and a few painted sweetlip. In the arvo we went into town to hire a tinny as the weather was looking sweet for tuesday. Picked up a sweet tinny for $50 per day which is a bargain in my book. Heaps easier than towing a boat all the way up there anyhow.

Day 3 – up bright and early. Launched at tantabiddi. Headed out through the passage and trolled behind the reef where all the bird action was. Got a hookup almost immediately followed by a bust off – bugger! Spend another hour or two trolling with no success what so ever. Swapped lures over, changed speed, used bait and nothing. Apparently the majority of the action was mack tuna anyhow so no great loss. Tried a bit of bottom bashing out deep but using the chart and without a sounder proved very difficult. As a result we caught bugger all. Headed in closer to the reef and had some better luck picking up a nice cod and catching / releasing many small red throats and other emperors. Time to start spearing! We hung the flasher in and anchored in about 10m of water around the reef. Straight away I nailed a 70cm or thereabouts blue fin trev which fought well. Followed shortly after with a sweetlip of around 1 kg. The sharks rocked up but were pretty placid so we hung around a while, saw a few spango’s but they were too spooked to allow a shot. Anchor up and off to find more ground. Anchored up in approx 12m water over what at first glance appeared to be a lifeless weed bed. After diving down to the bottom a few times we seemed to attract a few fish, but nothing shootable. I swam further away and found a sand patch on the edge. I sat on the bottom for what seemed like eternity until out of the corner of my eye spied a school of spango’s. I nailed the biggest one and quickly headed for the surface as my lungs were burning for air. Got on board to bleed the fish which went approx 5 – 6 kg and was the biggest for the trip. I was stoked. Matt then returned to surface with a slightly smaller yet still good spango. he went back in to retrieve his float line which had somehow drifted away, on his swim back to the boat I saw a 3-4m tiger trying to nail his float, I yelled out and have never seen him swim faster back to the boat. The shark seemed to have gone but we decided to call it a day and didn’t take the risk of going back in.

Day 4 – went back to the spango patch of previous day but couldn’t hold anchor. The conditions were atrocious. Howling wind, large swell. Was a very wet trip back to the boat ramp. Dumped the boat off and went to a shore based location. Upon entry I nailed a 2kg sea mullet and narrowly missed a good Jack. Water was filthy dirty which was a plus as I managed to hit an approx 7-8kg queenie that was well over 1m. Took me for a decent run before I could subdue him and get him out before the taxman could have a crack. Also nailed a few smaller fish. We had a break for a few hours, knocked off a beer or two, had the customary arvo nap then headed back in for a few more fish. I managed a reasonable gold spot trev plus a sweetlip & matt got a large squid – dinner! Dropped the boat back at the hire joint and got stuck into the feed.

Day 5 – early morning session proved good with both of us spearing small 1-2kg gold spot trevally, squid and other smaller stuff, while matt also picked up a Spango. Back to a bit of lunch, rum and coke, 2 hr siesta then into the water for an arvo spear. I struggled for a while before managing to bag a few mullet and dart. Matt shot very well in water that was well dirty and a strong current. In no time he had a reasonable jack, big mullet, a couple of queenies and sweetlip. Went fishing after dinner and picked up a couple of spango’s which were a bonus.

Day 6 – drive back to perth. Can’t wait to hit the water again. Many thanks to the lighthouse caravan park, was very cost effective and comfortable. Also big thanks to Exmouth boat hire – got us out into some better ground.

After this trip for me spearfishing is so much more exciting than fishing. I hope to do a lot more over summer and will probably alternate between spearing / cray trips over the coming months. Have just ordered a smaller gun for cavy ground, always looking for others interested in heading out metro or other trips!

cheers and best

hey just wondering if anyone gets lower back pain when fishing off rocks or sloped beach??wondering if it was just me or just a thing that happens when standing, fishing for long periods

just wondering if the sailies have made it into the exmouth gulf yet?? .was there a fortnight ago and they were few and far between

Been looking over the site for a while now so decided to post my first report, But don't worry I haven't been chasing any Pink Bream!!

Decided after finally buying my first boat in April that it was time to lose my jigging virginity.

Hooked up with Fishnut, and after looking at the weather reports decided to head out and hit the wrecks behind Rotto, after cruising out in no time at all in some of the best seas and weather you could ask for ( had to mention that for all those still stuck at work ) we found eight guys out already, but it was quiet.... very quiet, fish on the sounder close to the structure but none interested in playing, jigged and fished but no one was landing or hooking up at all. Thought this jigging isn't that great and what was everyone on about, So decided to cruise around and head south to another spot, knowing that it was probably about to fire so if anyone else was out there let me know how you ended up.

Got there and were the only ones around, after a pod of about 6 Humpbacks finished checking us out we decided to have a fish, so worked out the drift and set off with the first drop, BANG double hook up, both on, two sambo's landed around 7kg each, not a bad start could get use to this, continued to jig and landed 20 over the day, picking up on nearly every drift, they were small but had a ball jigging for the first time. UNTIL THE END WHEN CRAMP SET IN f@$k this jigging gives you a work out.

Jigging ! yeh good fun will be doing it again for sure

Headed back to Woodies in the arvo, after the jigging went quiet, stopped off for a quick pick up of KG's and some of the fattest whiting for a feed that night.

I will mention that when going out jigging for the first time that day don't try and play indoor cricket that night muscles tend to be a bit tight ( even with all the extra beverages and yes beverages are before the game it's just not cricket otherwise )

I will try and work out photo's next time ( yes I'll use the search engine )

GRICKO

went out to the barges today stopped 6 mile out to get some bait and this little bugger tried to eat up a whiting

only 1 amberjack caught  about 10kg apart from that pretty quiet great day to be out on the water

Since leaving Coral Bay on 18 October, for Exmouth to start charters to the Montebello Islands, punters on the Mahi Mahi 11 have raised 16 marlin,

tagged and released 11 of them,  and at least 6 of them have been over 200k.

Hey Guys,

This is my first post on here and am pretty new to fishing. Went out on my friends boat on Sunday and caught my first silver bream. Tased pretty good with some garlic and butter. Anyway hop you guys like the report.

Thanks

James

Got spooled last night off the rocks near south beach any idea what it could be it had head shakes nearly pulled me in the water haha ??????

Launched the boat from woodies point boat ramp last night (Friday night), a few mates with a few drinks, couple rods and a bag of mulies, intention was to see what was around and have a bit of fun...

Just got settled into fishing and one of my mates, no idea how, cast his rod out and then went ass up and into the water haha, mind you this was around 9pm at night, funny as hell, not much of a swimmer so he got a bit paranoid as he scrambled back onboard and ran into the front cabin and started strippin down to his undies thinkin he was gonna get hypothermia lol (been watching too much Bear Grylls). After a couple minutes of beggin us to take him home, he realised he wasnt going to get hypothermia and after a change of clothes he decided to stay out and keep fishing. All in all a great laugh, apart from the fact that he dropped the fishing rod in the water and now we were left with 1 rod between 3 fisherman, not fun when theres a school of tailor swimmin around ya.

So we hung around and took turns catching fish, ended up with a nice feed of snook and tailor, biggest tailor at 51cm and biggest snook at 75cm, enough for a satday arvo BBQ sesh NICE!

The bad ending: Just got back to the boat ramp just before 11pm, as I walk to my car I see my car is the only one left in the carpark right under the light, the parking space beside me was full off broken glass and I shuddered... Walked around to my car and sure enough, the driver side window was smashed in and the bastards raided the centre console and took a jar of change that had maybe $8 tops. The space 2 cars down from me also covered in glass, so they hit atleast 3 cars in one go.

So remember guys, dont leave any valuables in ur cars, nothing in sight or even in the main compartments. And don't drink and fish, u might fall overboard :P

thought id give everyone the heads up, went out yesterday to the usual patches was a real weird day only us out the whole morning the sambo's/ aj's were all schooled up in 20-40 metres of water with heaps of bigger fish under them,  I can only assume these were sharks hangin below them as every fish i hooked got cleaned up landed 1 sambo about 18kilo. Moved on after a bit and got into some skippy at another spot.

good to see the fisheries down at cockburn ramps, theres a first for everything

cheers

Had a great 4 days off down South, chased the salmon up and down the beach for days, we finely landed some..

we caught, Bull Herring, Flat Head, Tailor and Salmon

TT ( karl )

Sometimes you are just in the right place at the right time. Ignored all the rules of tailor fishing. Went out at 9:00am, falling tide, light easterly...but the tailor didn't mind. Put back around 10 and dropped another handful.  Biggest went 47cm. Got a few squid on the way out while we waited for the easterly to drop.

Got out this morning for an hour and a bit around Pt Walter.  Managed to pick up this flattie on a Damiki Mu which was a PB for me at 45cm.  Spooked a couple of really nice sized fish too so things are looking good for summer.

Just wondering if any1 has hooked any nice tailor salmon or mulloway recently, and where around mandurah area ?

started off near scotch boat shed flicking around prawn stars. first cast hooked a nice flounder which when i got it to my feet, a huge flathead darted out and tryed to grab the lure from the flounders mouth whilst i was unhooking the flounder, my mate flicked in and hooked the big flatty. and they were released 2gether. next cast i caught another flatty. it then went quiet. so we moved around to the yacht club and started catching herring and tailor every cast on minnows. biggest tailor almost going 50 cm!!! great size for the river.

I then picked up some bream on a ecogear ZX30, 1 of the bream was massive and went a good 8cm!!.

we then went back to our spot near scotch boat shed where i picked up one last nice flatty around the 50cm mark. all fish were released.

sorry if the pics dont turn out properly.

cheers, tom.

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Had a great day out on the water today with not only great fisherman but great cameramen as well, as the pictures show!

We went fishing with a gentleman from San Diego today and his two Godsons and since two of them had never hooked into a billfish before, billfish were the target. Just some background for those of you unfamiliar with Quepos, October is right at the end of our low season, and fishing is generally considered to be much easier from Nov-May.  With that in mind, we decided that the farther out we go, the better the chance of getting something with a bill.  We ended up cruising out to about 40-45 n. miles out.

Well, turned out to be an awesome day releasing 2 sailfish along with getting 3 YF Tuna and 6 Dorado to the boat. It was an awesome time and we met our goals, and now the whole family has a Pacific sailfish checked off their list!  If the fishing is this good in October, i really expect it to pick up for November and this high season should produce some great numbers.  We also went out a couple of other times this week and had two nice Marlin hookups. We hooked a 450 pound Blue and 300 Blue in two different days. Unfortunately, we lost both the fights, but just seeing those fish come out of the water on the strike and then hearing the line peel away made it super exciting!

Also, as you can see from the pictures, the weather this October has been great. The ocean was pretty much flat all day and made it easy to spot the Tuna Schools from miles away using the Fujinon's. We actually found 5 different groups of spinner dolphins in the morning today before 12 o'clock. The bottom picture seems to sum up our days recently, with me and Jerry looking ahead for stuff and Mike getting a better angle to see when the sailfish come into the spread. Another great day of fishing in Quepos Costa Rica!

Maldives! What an experience. Definitely an experience I will never forget & I'm already anxious for my visit next year! I was invited by Darren from Tacklesource earlier this year & I can't believe I'm already back to reality. 

First & foremost, Maldives is located roughly 700km's south west of Sri Lanka & is the smallest Asian country by both population & area. Maldives consists of 26 atolls which spread over an area of roughly 90,000 square kilometres. It is also the lowest country in the World with the highest point being only 2.3 meters.

The atolls stretch over a north south direction. Male (pronounced, Ma Ley), is the capital city with a population of over 100,000. Out of the 1,192 islets in Maldives, only 200 are inhabited.

We arrived in Male on the 6th & had a water taxi transport us to our fishing vessel which was called home for the week. We then motored 6-8 hours to our chosen fishing grounds.

The vessel, although being traditional, was comfortable offering the standard luxuries & 6 individual rooms with double bunks which also housed separate toilets & showers. There was a lounge suite & dining table to relax between fishing sessions (and TV for the girls to finish a season of Desperate House Wives whilst not sunbaking). On this trip we had, Fendi, Jarvis, Darren & Wendy, Sam & I and Marcus & Michelle. All the blokes were enthusiastic & experienced fishermen. The amount of gear we had amongst us was astonishing. We had kilos of reputable jigs, poppers & stickbaits & enough terminal tackle to repair a small car.

Each angler had medium to heavy popping outfits, light & medium jigging outfits & ultra light finesse combos. 

Every angler also had a jig rod from the Evergreen Poseidon range.

Now, I'm sure everyone is aware that fishing can be adversely affected by a number of variables, which can include, lost luggage, broken tackle and poor weather. This trip, we experienced the latter. For the first 3 days, we braved strong winds, but fortunately, minimal swell. The windy conditions didn't affect the fishing whatsoever, with surface lures resulting in good success.

Flat pond-like conditions greeted us towards the end of the week.

The surface fishing was the best I have ever experienced. This was purely due to the elevated casting platform we fished from. Watching a myriad of species follow poppers & stickbaits was phenomenal. Seeing red bass slowly follow our offerings & having a GT race from the reefs edge to smash our lures was mind blowing. The GT's total disregard towards any other specie was quite extraordinary. However, the mass of GT's proved tiring towards the end of the trip, particularly, when other species were wanted. The surface fishing required skill as much as patience at times. Poppers & stickbaits would be followed right to the boat without any form of aggression by the follower. Experimenting with twitch & retrieve patterns resulted in success most of the time. At one stage, I had Sam retrieve a stickbait for me & we all watched numerous red bass casually follow the lure to the boat.

The only real challenge on the GT scene was having to retrieve them from a moving boat. The reef's edge at some areas was beyond the eye could see, so we would motor at about 3 knots & continue casting in a procedural way to ensure safety of others whilst casting. Hooking GT's was easy, although, landing them was quite exhausting. As soon as they got behind the boat & into the current, it was like trying to lift a sea anchor out of a waterfall! The GT’s we encountered weren’t big, with most being between 10 & 20kg. We did raise 1 monster which refused a craftbait but we can also appreciate that this fishery would produce the bigger models more frequently if we travelled further afield to some really isolated areas. Though, at the moment, I am over GT’s.

On the jigging scene, jobfish & GT's were in large numbers (did I mention that I’m over GT’s), but we also landed a vast array of other species, some, I have never encountered before. Jigging the bottom water column produced the likely suspects of various groupers, cod, jobfish & emperors, whilst continuing jigging towards the upper water columns produced pelagic species. Hooking 2 fish on 1 jig wasn't uncommon.

On the light tackle shore based scene, emperors, blue fin trevs & cods were encountered. This form of fishing proved very relaxing & gave us a better perspective of the islands we could only look at whilst onboard.

Fishing at night or fishing whilst anchored for lunch was also successful & the girls enjoyed the thrill as much as the blokes did. Using light gear & light jigs was rewarding.

The experiences of this trip were plentiful, however, some outweighing others. You may recall my Christmas Island report where I hooked & failed to land a sailfish on jig. Well, I didn't have to wait long to accomplish this task. Yes, I did it, I hooked & landed a sailfish on an Evergreen Caprice Kid - I was over the moon.

Only on the last day, I raised the bar once again. I threw a stickbait into some fairly cruel looking shallow water & noticed a fish following the lure. I twitched & twitched until I hooked up, only to be snagged in the reef moments later. I decided to jump into the tender with the decky & motored back towards the snag. The water was deeper than I first imagined (about 5 meters). I made the decision to dive down as I could see the reflection of my stickbait.
My first attempt down was quite embarrassing - I got about half way down & thought.... man, this free diving stuff isn't easy. I took a huge breath & used the snagged line to pull myself down. I grabbed the stickbait & felt something kicking in the other direction. Being disorientated by the depth & super salty water, I surfaced with my stickbait & a MAORI WRASSE! What a fish! Again, I was over the moon.

Now, I always find that these sorts of trips are heavily influenced & made enjoyable simply by the people & charter you choose to fish with. Fishing with all these people, I now call friends, really made the trip enjoyable! It's amazing how many people out there share the same passion & turn out to be some of your best mates.

The deck hands & chef were extremely helpful 110% of the time. On the second last night, the boat crew created a whale shark in the sand & used it as a table to present a feast to us. Oh, and I must also point out, the food we ate was sensational!

Well, enough with the story telling, I'm sure some photos below will paint a much better picture!

Daz

P.s. Disregard the banana tale.

hey guys

as promised last week here is a quickly tossed together report from monday and tuesday spearing in sharkbay...

had the pleasure of meeting Lucky Tim and his lovely lady friday evening as he had come up from the Level One apnea course we did on saturday and sunday which was a success but when stumps where pulled sunday afternoon it was home to ready the gear from a 3am get go... my mate dave was due to arrive some time during the evening after playing baseball all day sunday and after a 1230am arrival and quick gear prep we hit the sack for abit over 2hrs sleep... id had abit more hitting the sack about 10ish but dave was knackered to say the least!

alarm goes off , quick travel mug made drag dave to the car by his hair lol, quick fuel stop and we hit the highway... hit denham about 830ish after a few stops and after gathering some ice and a spare bung we hit the road into Cape Peron.... The water looked very verrrry nice but the light sth west wind blowing had me concerned as it was forecast to be easterly!

arrived at chosen camp site without problems altho our water drum had been punchered and lost half our water for showering and washing up ect but that was a minor problem. plenty of drinking water was safe and wat remained of the drum would be used sparingly.... camp was setup very hastily and in a blink of an eye we where wet!

we decided on diving some new ground this time and first up was a nice bombie in about 6m. float rope was thrown over and gun tossed in loaded and dropped ready for collection on the bottom.(new tips from the course)

breathed up and dropped down - collected my gun and sussed out the surround not expecting too much... just as i was ready to make my way back topside a gooood tuskie came flying in on the burley.. hello hello - bit of left to right darting and just as it looked ready to depart i sent one flying straight thru behind the gill plate - nice first dive of the trip! 650mm and a quick check of the watch said bottom time of 1:10 which i was pretty happy with.

the fish where around and a few spot changes and burley bought richo 2 nice tuskies and i also bagged another in the dropping vis and setting sun. dave finished the day nailing a nice bar cheek and his biggest on spear of about 600mm whilst i burleyed up and it was sitting there watching me from its ledge... good way to pull stumps....

fillets packed away - fresh tuskie and salad for dinner some beers and sleep came very veryyy easy.

day 2 dawned better again - breaky was el pronto bacon mushroom n egg wraps - gear prepped and into it again.... today would be abit harder as we only wanted some bigger species for home and a number of mid range tuskies passed us by tempting but no triggers pulled...

mid morning saw us spook a big mulloway under a ledge - could hear the croacking but couldnt see the fish - by the amount of sand it churned up was a goooood fish... some decent trout where also being spotted but suprisingly sooooooo flighty! i did get lucky with a goood bar cheek mid morning after spooking it under a ledge.... it came out the other side in plain view and gave that typical trout look before copping a stone shot just behind the gill plate and into the spine - lovely! dave had also bagged 2 nice tuskies and the bag was looking healthy... whilst dealing with this fish i had a trout of over 900mm conservativly! swim by under me... this thing was huggggge but alas once this one was sorted and no amount of burlying would tempt it from its hole.... got the co ords for next time tho ;-)

mid afternoon saw another big trout get abit cocky and come face to face with me under a ledge - a slow asscent and gun swing also saw it deposited and our trout limit reached with 2 fish - very nice....

a few more spot changes and nothing of note saw us settle on some nice looking ground - dave having a rest and spotting from the boat saw me drop into 7m of water with very very hazy 3m viz to be greated by that huge yellow and blue underslung jaw that only a monster blackspot tuskie can own! 2 quick fly bys wernt enough for a shot and it departed leaving me very peaved as this was the fish i had been waiting for all day.... Another drop saw me greeted by a school of mulloway slowly departing from there chosen ledge! i was stoked having never seen mullyz under water before and a quick assement saw me bring the gun around onto the leader of the pack. est maybe 7-8kg? lined up and click - school gone in a flash and me spewing i didnt check the safety! lol never mind

back on the surface and breathing up i was greeted by a wonderful sight! not sure if it was the same tuskie or another but it just glided in oblivious to me above... quick breath drop down a 2metres and just as it rolled over slightly to see wat i was i ruined its day.... 10kg of thumping tuskfish! i was stoked!!!! fish of the trip rapt up right there....

and so ended our diving - not a great deal of fish but absolute quality and im not complaining at the trout and tuskie fillets in the freezer....

seen my first mullys underwater - also saw (im 99% sure) potato cod - magic looking fish! also had a big pinkie elude me after taking 2secs to figure out wtf it was in the hazy viz and had a good time again with a great mate spearing! weather couldnt have been better....

hope you enjoy the pics

poddy

After 4 glorious days I had to go out and make the most of the glassy conditions.  The best thing about starting early is finishing early and getting the arvo gulf glass offs.

Anyway, on the way I saw dugongs, dolphins (with babies) whales and soon as I got in the water for a dive, well, it was alive and crystal clear.  There were a few school mackies cruising around, saw a few small to medium trout, lot of barramundi cod and all the other usual odds and ends.  Highlight of the dive was a 3m across bull ray that had a 15kg cobia hanging with him, I considered shooting him but last time I did that it felt like it would if you shot ya dog, so I let him keep cruising.

No more than 30 seconds later I heard a splash, looked around and there was a manta checking me out about 3 foot from my face.  After chilling with him for a while I jumped in the boat, hung with the other 5 (no cobes on any of them) and watched the bait balls getting smashed by the little macks.  Threw one placcy out and got snipped, didn't bother re-rigging which was silly as a solid shark mack cruised through 15 minutes later.

I then went and chilled out with the whales with all their calves, awesome sight in the glassy conditions.  After getting a few shots called it quits and was home just after 5.  Stoked.

Cheers,

Adam

G'Day Guys. I have an Uncle who is on the hunt atm for Slimy Mackarels atm.

He has a close elderly friend who is soon passing away and she wishes to have some Slimy Mackarel before she passes away as that is her favourite fish.

If anyone can help out with where to catch them, where you have caught them before, anything at all where to find these fish, it would be much appreciated!

Only spot I have tried so far that I have caught them before is right off teh end of South Mole, early morning before the sun comes up, no luck :(

Went out for a jig on Monday with a couple of mates.  With the weather looking so sweet we all managed to jag a day off, and off we went.

We were pretty amped for some good fishing after reading the reports of all the AJs put up late Sunday night after the Fishwrecked meet out at the barges and when we pulled around the heads at Woodies ramp and saw the glass-off across the Sound we almost blew a gasket.

Did one of the quickest trips ever getting out there given it was so flat and when we arrived there were about four other boats out there.  Having read a few comments here I'm guessing one was Honsu and SamC was probably out there too.  Anyway it was a long hard day of jigging with little success.  The sounder was mad with fish but be damned if we could get them to take anything.  We started off on the heavy stuff and I was on straight away, was great rubbing into the others about their lack of fishing prowess... until I realised it wasn't a fish that I had and and once I'd winched it up 100m found I had two snapper leads.  Definately one of my most unusual captures.

Eventually moved to the lighter gear (check out the Lemax FerariStik - EX601 - if you want a good value light jig rod, was pretty impressed with its action but unfortuantely no fish)... what a relief that was on the old arm!  But still with the changes to lighter jigs we had no success other than a double header of rat sambos which Luke managed to get about half way through the day.

hunterdive dropped some baits down on his light Jigwrex and found a few of the local triggerfish, geez they're ugly, and that was about it.  We tried a couple of different spots but not much happening at any of them... tried trolling for some tuna but no success their either and that seemed to be the same on all the boats we bumped into.

All in all it was a great day on the water and better than being at work, but a disappointing outcome none-the-less.

Well I was a few days late for Sundays traffic jam out at the barges but we did have the place pratically to ourselves. Sam, Jamie and I took the light jigging gear for a run and found the amberjack as thick as Sunday with hook ups every drift, including a three way to finish the session off. The size was typical but still great fun. We also picked up a double of SBT's on the way home so stay tuned for Jamie's next master chef installment.






And finally, Jamie stoked with someone else foul hooking a fish for a change!

Just thought I repeat Sundays fishing session with another FW member here, SAS and his newly acquired Boston Whaler Conquest 255. Even better weather than Sundays to start with as we hammered it out at 37knots!! Awesome riding boat but soon wont be very new looking....lol

Needless to say Im keen to show SAS the art of jigging and those Ambos but they're a no show today with only one hooked and landed. At the same time, the sounder didnt work so we went blind fishing at other wrecks and barges on the plotter. Lucky we bumped into Rob and Jarrod Colvin out there. Drifted with them for a while and little to show. They left and we went driving around a bit and at the same time enjoying the ride.

Soon we ended up at the Derwent. Of all things we jigged up SBTs from 200m down, we were sitting estimated 220m of water (according to the plotter). Later we saw birds working in the distance, wound up the jigs. Trolled over to the birds.....instant 2 way hookup..... The video will tell the rest of the story.

Thanks heaps to SAS and his mate Tom for the great day out despite the lack of ambos or sambos around. Next time we'll have to ink on the boat instead of blood. lol

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

Heaps of big fat Mack Tuna around Exmouth at the moment