Cockburn sound producing some good squid this arvo.

 The closer to the ammo jetty the hotter they were and so was the navy officer on the load speaker!!

Pete,
Just trying to help out a brother. I thought that maybe if someone else sets up a post for you the winds up there will die down enough for you to get amongst some quality fish. What about some cray photos from the dives?

KALBARRI OFFSHORE ANGLING CLUB

Local monthly comp 19th September 2009 Competition Report Jakes Bistro was our sponsor this month, Thanks to Brian North, who is back managing the restaurant with much improved food and service. A big turn out for the river anglers again this month but down on numbers in the boat and landbased sections, mainly due to the big swells and less than perfect weather. A near record number of bream were caught and released this month equalling last years record 20 releases. Gary Ivey had 4 of them all live gaining him double points for live fish. Brett Bain had a mixture of bream, tarwhine, and whiting, Di Stewart had 3 bream, and Tony Smith weighed 3 bream the first time he has weighed for a couple of years at least! Cheryl Eley however had 4 live bream and a whiting gaining her just one point ahead of Gary Ivey to win the river section. Gary Ivey however has the biggest bream for the year so far at .852kgs Of the 3 juniors to weigh-in, Beau Ivey's 3 bream won it for him over brothers Luke and James Dooley who had whiting among their bag. James & Luke Dooley with their fish The landbased section had two new members competing, Welcome aboard Brian Mosley and Julius Soloman. Brian had a .6kg tailor and a snook, while Julius won the section with his 3.3kg pink snapper Just 2 boats in the under 7.5m section this month, Ron Neumann in his new boat “Effishency” with junior Keanan Blundstone aboard headed north striking a productive spot. The dhuies were biting with Ron hooking up numerous times and recommending Keanan drop his line in the water quickly! But unfortunately Keanan was lying on the deck very sea sick. When Keanan felt a bit better he managed a small pink snapper to secure the junior prize. Ron’s two dhuies won him the under 7.5m senior section. This may well be the last pic you see of someone holding two dhuies that they caught themselves in one day! Keanan holds his snapper. Craig Gibson and Russell Page were also out in “Jo Jo” but failed to bring a fish home. Laurie Malton, Jason Agrela and daughter Brittany fished out of Laurie’s 7.8m boat south of town, also having trouble landing fish, but Jason’s samson fish won it for him. Brittany hooked up at the same time as Jason, probably on another samson fish, but unfortunately busting off round the prop. Laurie’s small snapper added points to the boat. Jason's Samson fish Craig and Jason release the 20 bream back into the Murchison River at the end of the comp. Ron Neumann took home the Meritorious voucher of $50.00 for his dhuies, Mystery Fish went to Gary Ivey for his bream, Bill Tolson won the $50.00 worth of scratchies in the raffle, and the restaurant draw was won by Tracy Ivey. Craig Gibson was awarded the “Mug of the Day” jumping back into his boat to secure it, got his leg caught on a hook and had to have the hook removed up at the medical centre. LAURIE MALTON

9/10/09

JK and I hit up the river mouth Friday morn to target the local queenie pop on surface lures due to a window of half decent weather and a day off work. JK managed to get one trolling a little roosta popper on the way back from a drift but apart from that it was only a few half hearted swipes and strikes. We also came across a very aggressive school of tailor which was fun except for losing multiple lures in quick succession lol. They were mad! A vid is on its way.

These guys were looking a bit stuck lol...

Decided to do some fishing with my dad since he doesn’t usually have time to come fishing with me anymore.



Ending going to the north mole even with the wind but one side was calm enough to get some bait in the water.



Within the first 1 hour, we had our first fish (whiting) and for the next few hours, we had bites on every cast.



Some other fish we caught were some decent size Skippy and a flathead.



 

headed up to flat rocks this mornin chasin a few tailor - heaps of weed and big swell - saw a sea lion surf up the beach and sun bathe tho wich was interesting to  watch but no fish. - dissapointed by the large piles of rubbish dumped at the wilbinga entrance - gotta keep our eyes open for these b@#$%ds i dunno how they get away with it bloody disgusting.

hey guys

just a quickie after heading out early yesterday with spooled and the missus off gero... condtions average but quite fishable we left the ramp at 6ish made it to the end of the channel and had flagpole call over the radio that he had sheared his steering poor bastard.... slow trip back in for him we pushed on about 12mile out on the way spying a sleeping whale that upon futher inspection was actually dead... hoped for some shark action as it had some very big bites out of it but not to be we continued on... some very good showings of fish at a couple of spots only bought one really weighty hookup that spat the hooks almost straight away... change of location again had the missus drop down hookup and quick release something and then pack it in and continue burlying up for spooled and i as she had all morning (poor thing)... decided to head back in with a big fat 0 on the board and spyed the dead whale again so checked it once more.... straight away some small bronzies where spyed maybe 4-5ftrs floating around... and then we seen it cruising in straight off the transom heading at the whale... what a site! big white pointer unreal! a first for myself and spooled and it had the missus feeling abit better or was it she just didnt wanna stick her head back over the side? spent the next 1.5hrs circling and trying to get some snaps of the big rig but condtions just didnt help... very fast drift and wind chop.... did manage some good video that ill try post to adz to set up on here of it coming right up brushin the rear corner with its head just outta water and i was spewing as i reacted too slow and missed my chance to touch its back! also had a good tiger come up nudging the prop before taking off... something we will not forget in a long time and a truely beautiful animal! so graceful yet powerful and not a fish id like to see while spearing....

cheers poddy

Well had a day of work to get a fish before the 15th, Got up at five and check sea breeze all looked good so of to fuel up and a call to Menopaul and Jody ,we all caught up at the marina and we were of. Conditions were great with a light onshore breeze, after steaming out for some time we finally arrived at the depth we were targeting. The fish were everywhere with schools on the sounder all over the edge. baits on and down they went within minutes we were all pulling fish in snapper, dhuies ,blackass things were hot for a couple of hours before it slowed up, we had a great white come in for a look, and cruise of into the distance ,anyway what a day between 25 -30 snapper(lost count) most size and all released in good condition 10 dhuies 5 kept and the rest released five blackass three kept ,one amberjack and a red snapper + a large leatherjacket.=sergeant baker, a day to remember

went out off hillaries marina yesterday, pulled 8 squid, 4 were pretty decent including 1 probably a pb, also got a 4-5 ft gummy(released) and a 2 small pike also released. not bad fun with pretty good weather.

It was time for a trip down to Albany. A friend from Sydney was over visiting and I'd promised him a tour of the south west with the gaurantee of his first ever Salmon.

We headed down Tuesday arvo after wasting our money spending a few hours in the pouring rain at the Royal Show. Wednesday was spent stocking up on fishing gear, new sleeping bags, shoes and rain jackets before a drive around Torndirrup area checking out the Gap, Blow holes, Salmon holes etc.. Cable beach was looking nice so we flicked a few lures around for 10 minutes but only a few herring were on the prowl.

The plan for thursday was to head over towards Walpole and fish one of the beaches for Salmon. After picking up a mate from Denmark we made the call to check out Blue Holes beach, hoping the beach wasn't too washed out to drive along and find a nice hole or gutter. I was keen to test out the new Pajero I'd recantly bought and before I knew it we had it swimming through some deep puddles (over the tyres) before making it down to the beach. Conditions weren't the best with a large swell and dirty water but the beach has some great looking gutters all the way along at the moment. We could only drive a few hundred meters down the beach (with the tyres at 8lb) before it was too washed away so we parked up high away from the waves and grabbed a rod each. The plan was to walk further along the beach throwing metal lures along the way into all the holes and gutters in search of some salmon. I made the call again that I gauranteed my mate Steve his first salmon before we left the car. It was 5 minutes before the first hook up, Adrian was walking ahead and was into a nice salmon in a great looking gutter. I ran towards the action and pinged a cast into the gutter hoping there was more, wind, wind, wind... nothing.... until my lure was right in the shorebreak and it stopped dead and launched into the air with a salmon attached. Hoots and Hollahs all round as we quickly landed our fish. Steve frantically casted around the same area but couldn't find any takers. "How do you guys do it?!"

A few minutes later and Adrian was on again but dropped it. It was another 1km of walking and casting before we found anymore Salmon. This time I was first into the action after watching several salmon fighting over the lure on the surface I was hooked up. "Cast straight out there Steve!" A good cast and seconds later he was hooked up on his first ever salmon! I quickly landed my fish and grabbed the camera.

He fought it well and had the fish in the shorebreak in quick time but it just wasn't meant to be and the salmon spat the lure back up the beach leaving Steve feeling like he'd just missed his chance. But the next cast he was on again, this time it was only a small one and didn't really put up a fight on the 20lb beach gear. His first salmon none the less! He was stoked.

Not being that content with such a small salmon Steve was straight back into on his next cast with a bigger one.

The salmon weren't huge but put up a great fight as always and kept us buzzing for that next hook up. I landed 1 more at the same spot before we headed on further up the beach. We should have just stopped there as we walked another 1.5km up the beach for only 1 more salmon. The 3km walk back picking up salmon we'd buried along the way wasn't half as exciting as the first walk, espeically once I had 3 salmon in the backpack and 2 in the hands and the sand was soft!

Overall it was a great session and worth the effort to find the fish!

The next day, Friday, we'd planned to fish the rocks for a kingie or sambo as the report was there are a few around and the winds were looking good. We were up early and on the hike to a favourite spot of Adrians with high hopes of a great rock session. An hour of hiking over hills and along the rocks....

and we arrived at our platform only to find the swell wasn't being as cooperative as we'd hoped. The spot looked fishable but the chances of landing anything hooked were slim to none. A few minutes of assessing the situation and watching a large set of waves come through and rightover the top of our fishing platform and we made the wise but dissapointing decision to give it a miss this time. Another hour hike back to the car and the shoulders and legs were crying for a rest. We headed to one of the local heavily fished rock spots with the idea to send out a few live herring in hope of a shark or possible sambo but those hopes were dashed when we couldn't even find 1 herring! Even after a whole bucket of burley we couldn't see or hook anything! Looks like the day wasn't meant to be so we relaxed on the rocks and had a rum :)

Saturday was booked in for a trip out with my old man in his boat to try some bottom bashing and conditions were looking.... ok... we headed out towards Torbay head to try and hide away from the winds but conditions were worse than forecasted and the seas weren't so comfortable. We put in a few drifts close to the rocks for 1 harlequin and a queen snapper.

Oh and many spikey blowies!

Atleast we brought home a feed!

Sunday was spent 4wding out west cape howe to dunskys beach for a looksey and to test out more of the Pajero. The track out there is pretty bad at the moment with lots of deep dug out holes and many challenging sections which made for a fun drive. Scratched up the car and dented the rear plastic bumper and bent up the tow plug bracket so the day was considered a success... by me, not my wife!

Overall we could have done better on the fishing side of things but it was still an enjoyable trip and the weather wasn't even THAT bad! Heading back down for a whole week next weekend so I'll hopefully have a better report when I return from that one as it should be a solid week of fishing!

Until then... I'll keep dreaming!

anyone catchin any pink snapper off the three mile or marmion reefs lately?..........

Gday all,

Went fishing last night, the plan was to go to Meads/Mosman Jetty.  The GF didnt get off work till later so by the time we got down there there were a few people fishing already.  We moved over to Chidley Point and had lines in the water by 7:20pm.  We had a few small bites over the course of the night but didnt catch any fish.

The chidley point jetty is not lit, so I think if we try there again we will go earlier to see any holes/snags etc, and will also take a gas lantern to attract any squid that may be in the area. 

The interesting thing was that there were 3-4 blokes freediving around 9pm from the sandy beach at chidley pt.  This makes me keen to go for a dive ASAP to check if any of the mighy Blue Mannas are in the river yet.

Bryan

Well this report is my first and a few months old but work hs been flat out and I havent been gracing the forums as much as I would like... so appologies for the late posting. I have been on fishwrecked  for quite a while now and I absolutley love it... so thanks to everyone on here for making it an awesome place to chat and enjoy the stories and resources to help us all become better at the passtime we all love so much.

We started out off Hillarys at about 7:30 with a light S / SW  the swell was up slightly but all in all it was looking to be a good day out on the water bar the possibility of an early shower. We headed out to a few of our favoutirte spots that we have off Hillarys. We decided to go for a standard padanoster rig with a slight twist in that we were using a two hook configuration with a slightly smaller hook on the top. The bottom hook had our standard circle hook with skinned occy, squid combo with a lumo squid over the top and the top hook had a Berkley Gulp plastic shad in the green and red colour.

This was my first time trying this setup so I thought that it may take a bit ot tweaking but much  to my suprise it didnt need any at all... We had a good mate of ours come out on the boat for the day. He is not that much of a keen fisho but he was keen to come out and see what all the hype is about. We had been fishing for a bout 10 mins and our mate was sitting there like a sore thumb so we though it best to get him setup and fishing like we were (mistake  No1). As fate would have it I passed the rod to my mate while we rigged him up in the mean time he sates "Guys I think I've caught the bottom". Upon a closer look the bottom appeard to me moving at a great rate of knots and had his rod bent over a fair way, this wasnt no bottom this was a decent fish!!!!

As it turned out our mate got a few pointers on how to fight a fish from a boat as has he had never really done this sort of fishing before and he boated a nice Dhu .... Well We were stoked for him but at the same time spewing as that could have been me!!!! hahaha. As it turned out the Dhu was hooked on the plastic - it ignored the bait offering and totally smashed the plastic. You gotta love the plastics     

As for the rest of the day ... well the Dhuie was the most decent fish of the day. We caught a few Wrasse, Cod and one blackass and most of the fish that were landed were caught on the plastic. It was great being out on the water and the day was just magic. It just goes to show that with a little bit of knowledge gained from reading these forums and my monthly fishing magazines that you need to experiment with the type of baits you use, and especially the way you present your baits when fishing. As proven anything can and usually does happen. Also don't hand your rod to your mate !!!

More reports to come !!

Thanks guys ...

Carl

Just got back from a week up at exmouth with the tinnie. Pretty good trip all up with a couple of highlights. Here's a quickish rundown

Arrived fri night set up camp and sat down preparing rigs for the next days session. Woke up to a slight south easter so we decided to head out of tanta's. Tried bottom bashing in some good looking ground in around the 20-30's but couldnt manage anything decent with only the usual suspects (charlie courts) playing the game. After a few hours we called it a day and headed back to camp to "feast" on 2 minute noodles .

Having a shocker of a first day we were up to make amends and actually catch something decent for dinner the next day. Again we set off from tanta's out in roughly the same grounds and managed to pluck a few yellow tailed emperors and blue spotted emps. With a few fish in the bag we set off to find some better grounds out in the 40's but couldnt manage anything decent. Tried some trolling but no takers so we headed back to camp to cook up the emperors. The little yellow tail emperors cook up pretty decent too. Alot better than 2 min noodles haha

Day 3 we decided to give up on bottom bashing for the trip and try more on lure fishing (even tho we arent big lure fisherman). Launched at bundegi and trolled out past the cape and found a small school of bait fish busting up in 4m of water. My mate chucked on a metal and launched a cast in the middle of the bait school and hooked up instantly. After a good little fight up came a 3kg spanglie. Found a few more fish busting up out deeper so we got back on the troll. After a few zig zags we managed a nice 6kg sharkie and an undersize tuskie on a 160DD. Having managed to catch the spanglie in close we anchored up and flicked a few softies around which produced a small gold spot and a few little emperors. Whilst casting a softie i noticed a huge black shadow moving 50m away from the boat. Took me a few seconds to realise " shit! thats a manta". I quickly cut off the softie (knowing that i couldnt cast 50m with it on) and whacked on a 55g twisty. I then casted out towards the manta and BANG i was on. After a good 10min tussle up came this 6kg cobia

Day 4 we lauched nice and early out from tanta's in search of a few mackies. Once we got out into the opening my mate rod went off, Looked like a decent fish but didnt get a chance to see it as the mystery fish had straighten a clip swivel. We were guessing possibly a cobia as it didnt have the typical first run of a mackie and was burying down but we will never know. We got the laser pros back out and i manage a couple of little 6kg spainards. The strong southerly kicked in and ruined and more chance of trolling for the day but 2 mackies in less than an hour was worth the early start. 

Day 5 was blown out with strong southerlies. Tried a flick down landbased at the marina and wapet creek but wind was a pain and resulted in no fish.

Day 6 wasnt much better wind wise but with the direction being south easterly, the decision was made to fish inside the reef at tanta's targeting spanglies. Armed with advice and skin deep lures from exmouth tackle we were confident we could land a few. After 20mins of flicking i finally got a decent hit and landed my first lure caught spanglie. He was 3kgs and almost 60cm. Had a ripper of a session with about 8 spanglies landed with the best being 65cm and over 4kgs. They put up a good clean fight and their visual attack on the lure was unbelievable to see in 2m of water. Also caught a nice chinaman which put an awesome fight on the light gear.

The final day we targeted spanglies again on the skin deeps. With 3 big 60cm+ fish being landed we tried for one on a popper but couldnt get one to hit even though a few came up and checked them out. With time running out we called it a trip. 

This was my lure after 2 days of fishing. These little lures even attracted the attention of sharks, Big gt's and queenies but with no hook ups. 

Caught most of the fish on my Lemax black rose matched to a 3000 freeams kix on 15lb

All in all it was an awesome trip with all decent fish getting caught on lures. Catching spanglies on lures is something i'll never forget and cant wait to nab one on a popper next time round. 

went down to hillaries this morning for a plastics/lure fish with schecky. got down about 830 and had a look at some promising spots. had a few good hits near the resturant and reubs got bitten off by something decent. we then walked out to the lighthouse and casted flickbaits into the channel. i got a smallish skippy but it was good to finally get one on placcies after so long. reub then hooked up to a solid fish. after a short fight, he landed a 70 odd cm snook. we then flicked around the disabled platform and reub hooked up then dropped a fish, but 30 seconds later had a screamer of a run and got bitten/busted off. nice morning to be out there and it wasnt a bad lil session

Went down to quinns on sat night got there about 5 set up heaps of weed but stuck it out anyway. It started off really quiet but about an hour before sundown got a tailor about 35cm. so i thought good the run is on and i get a feed but that was the only one and no bites after that either devo lol. i had i big rod set up with a yellow tail on the end because i really wanted a mulla. About 15mins before last light it took off and i never got a chance to turn it and it pinged. so i rigged back up and back out it went. about 2 hrs later my mates rod got ripped out the rod holder and got dragged down the beach when he finally got to it he was in for a hell of a fight, about 20 mins later a massive ray came up at least 25kg this thing was over a meter across good fun but still no mulla. After that it was very quiet and the weed was getting the better of us. so i decided to use the tailor for fresh bait as i only had one anyway lol.
first cast and i was on and i had to admit i was very hopefull this time. i have caught plenty of stingrays an this did not feel the same so i was really excited. after about 10mins i got it gaft an on the beach it was a gummy shark it went about 150cm and gutted, head, fins and tail cut off it wieghed 5kg.
After that it was about midnight and the weed had really moved in so we decided to call it a night. This was my first time at quinns and it was well worth the trip as i live south of the river. This will be a place i visit again very soon.
BUT the hunt continues for my first mulla lol

ps sorry i forgot the camara spewing

Went out a couple times this weekend

Friday off work, went out from Two rocks. Slow day but fantastic weather, was very calm.

lots of fish about, sounder was lit up everywhere we went, but not many fish were interested....except the sambos they were everywhere!! ranging from 5kg to 12kg

Managed to hook quite a few, landed a few and busted off on a few (lost 2 $40 jigs :( )

also caught a couple pinkys, but was very slow. I think there were plenty of dhus around, could see them on the coral in 1's or 2's but just didnt want to bite a thing.

Then last night went for a fish with scano down a local spot. Been a while since we'd done some land based stuff (first time since i bought the boat).

started off quite slow, but once again the weather was great, nice sea breeze, little swell. Just after dark the tailor came about. We probably landed about 12 or 14 between us, ranging from 35-40cm. Only kept a couple each for a feed and rest were released.

Renewed my faith in shore based fishing thats for sure.

Bodie

G'day All,

Headed out today from mindarie with southern cross.The conditions were super sloppy which resulted in seasickness for a lot of poeple onboard.

We Fished around the 40-50mtre mark and i picked up a couple of nice Pinks.Being a old man snapper i released this one after a quick pic

10 mins of so later hooked onto something heavy and  bit slower than a pink and after 5min slog pulled a my first dhuie on a plastic.

Was a good day out even though it was cut short because of a boat full of sick people.

Cheers

chris

I spent the morning aboard 'The Spaghetti Strainer' with Steve Mattaboni. The weather was perfect and it was a nice slow drift. First fish of the morning was Steve's Sambo on his Stradic 4000 and TwinCraft rod, went hard and was a great start.

Next fish on the boat was my biggest Baldie yet, pulled hard and am sure will taste great tonight.

After getting harrased by diving birds wanting our baits we bailed and headed out a touch further, this time it was my turn for a Sambo. Good fun on a Stella 6000 and Deep Jig 200.

The bites started to slow and wind picked up so me moved to give our first spot a try on the way home. Last drift was just set and with my bottom rig down i thought that I would drop down a whole driftbaited squid on my TwinPower and Viper. Packing the boat up I glanced to see the line ripping off my spool and flicked the bail arm over to be met with what we thought was another Sambo with how hard it went. Being a bit silly with this fish, it all got serious when below the boat appeared a nice hump headed Pinkie.

In total we landed 2 Samson fish, 1 Pink Snapper, 2 Baldchin Groper, 1 undersise Dhufish, 2 Blackarse released, 1 Shark, 2 Port Jacksons and 1 King George Whiting.

Paul

Headed off early (5am) Saturday week ago for Steep Point – arrived about 4.30pm.  A bit of a delay with a trailer tyre blowout near Cataby and hence a stop in Gero for 2 brand new Duellers.  The other tyre looked very good, but was 14 years old – wasn’t going to take the chance.

Setup camp…and then the wind started!  Heard the saying – ‘You should have been here last week’.  Anyway it was a family trip, so I wasn’t overly bothered about not being able to use the tinnie non stop and sand castle building can be fun (I kept telling myself this).

First trip out to the fault line on Sunday morning (which was the best day), but that was only for a few hours before the water was uncomfortable for a small tinnie.  With a nice cod jigged up for dinner I was happy.

The fish shots are few, so I’ll start off with one.

Staged shot, as I wasn’t game to pull the new camera out on the boat;

Had some of him as Sashimi for arvo drinks – very, very nice.

Just off the bitumen;

The first hill (tyres at 20psi) was very easy this trip (spent over an hour on it last trip) and the rest of the 4wd’g was uneventful.  Dodged a few ‘secret squirrel’ army groups on the way in aswell.

Camp set up in the bay;

Testing the tinnie out (its been 4 years since I used it);

Favourite part of the whole trip for our young one, Zoe – toasting marshmallows in the evening (can’t blame her);

The ‘point pic’;

The rough side;

Zoe checking out Kal and Tapout’s catch;

Beer o’clock time.  Yeah, forgot the brew glasses;

Warming up the shower water;

Ranger Pam hard at work installing bollards;

Just sized Pinkie for dinner;

Thorny Devil on the way out;

Spent the long weekend in Denham.  Watched the footy, caught plenty of squid off the jetty at night and even caught a few squid sight fishing the shallows.  Most squid were in the 1kg range too!

Sunset;

Love the 5 shots per second with re focus on the new Pentax K7.

Raven fly by;

Did a day trip to Monkey Mia for the young one including the 3 hour cruise checking out the Dugongs and dolphins.  Highlight was seeing a 2 day old dolphin.

Feed time;

Model pelican;

Closeup;

Bub Dolphin;

More Dollys;

Bloody cold water;

Did a day trip up to Peron Peninusla (spent a few weeks up there 9 years ago).  More camping spots now and much easier 4wd’g.

The point;

Peron Crab;

Emu tracks;

Monitor tracks;

Overall a great trip, despite the lack of fish....but they will come next trip!

Cheers Pete

Took the g/f down Denno for a fish and relax over the long weekend.
Fished greenpools, elephants,sinkerbay etc.

Had the best luck at green pools. Kg's, herring, shippy, flathead etc.
Was great to get away fro a few days.

Only drama was getting all the way back to perth and realising i left my 2 fishing rods in the hotel room!!! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a couple pics..

The inlet

Green pools

Pass the rod to Lisa and she lands this lovley KG

Anyone know what this is?

One of the nice flathead i got

Me fishin the lovley conditions

Well, I've finally found the time to post a quick snapshot of my latest trip to Christmas Island. I was lucky enough to tag along with my mate, Jayson, for 1 week in mid-September.

It was simply spectacular. The hospitality was excellent, the company was excellent, the fishing was excellent... the weather was 'fishable'.

Most days were quite windy, however, there was always a spot to fish around Christmas Island due to it's rugged geography.

Mark (the guide of Shorefire) was extremely friendly & helpful. Going far & beyond to ensure our stay was an experience we would never forget.

The popper fishing was excellent - the GT's weren't massive (biggest around the 20kg mark), however, the yellowfin tuna were in massive numbers & of good size (can't get enough of casting poppers & stickbaits at YFT) - we had a pack of sailfish following our poppers on the second day - Jayson had a stickbait snap in half on a good GT.  

We threw poppers & stickbaits, only managed to jig a small amount of time (the wind was a problem, so we couldn't keep our mark for more than a few minutes - most of the good jigging spots were exposed to the wind). We also trolled from A to B to pick up a wahoo or 2 for dinner.

Anyway, it was a great trip. So good, I've already arranged time off for next years trip.

I've included a few pics.

Daz.

well headed out to cockburn by 10 this morning and stayed 2 hrs. wind was up and there was quite a bit of water movement, although some what clear.

i tried for some squid, based on the fact that ive heard they fire after a storm.  well i did catch something, but only one.

with the itch to wet a line still present i waited it out at home and did some uni work. well i tried to but i got stuck reading the new western angler regarding the tailor fishing through spring.  i have to say it was a great article for those who havent caught one of a decent size before in the central metro. i had been trying to catch the elusive tailor since summer with zero luck.

luckily i live right next to the areas mentioned in the article, so i decided to head out to grant street or north street at about 5pm.

but first the rig set up. after fiddling around too many times on the beach after loosing tackle, i took the articles advice and rigged up a couple of running sinker rigs with a double lead.  

i eventually got there at about 530, and cast away...but no luck. again and again, still nothing. this went on for about an hour as the sun hit the horizon. about 5 mins after sundown, with enough light still to see, something felt heavy on my rod.  i must admit i didnt feel any nibbles or even the hookup, but who cares, i felt it fighting and brought it in quickly. it ended up measuring 42cm and 800g, a fat fish...and my largest fish to date!

i cast and cast again, lost a few baits...but still couldnt feel and nibbles. on one particular cast the bail arm closed over and PING, i lost my tackle. luckily i followed the advice in the article, having a spare rig ready.

just about ready to head off BAM, another...well this was smaller at 36cm and quite a bit thinner.

well damn i was happy a first and pb in a single session! looks like tailor fillets for dinner tomorrow.

-Jay

This is what people were pulling out of the Sound on the weekend:

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Some of them were massive and fish were just peeling off the surface school to hit baits.

Andrew reckoned the biggest were pushing a metre

Today's your last chance!

On sunday night went down to the asi groyne for a few hours about two hours after dark caught two small choppers went about 30cm each. and a banjo other then that really quiet.

was wondering if anyone having any luck around quinns??? might give it a go soon!

Haven't got the boat out yet but did get a quick fish off the jetty on Sunday morning and got a few decent skippy... best at 40cm and others were getting some good sized ones. Sitting here in the tent listening to the the rain so looks like tomorrow will be a wine tasting day *hic*.

Hopefully can report something better before we head back to the big smoke on Saturday.
Cheers,
David

popped down to pinaroo point for an hour or so this evening. not alot to report.

still alot of weed around making fishing a bit hard, cant wait till it clears in the near future so we can start popping down for a fish after work again.

Gday All,

Headed up to jurien last night with five mates to head out with whitey from Seasport charters.I had heard there was plenty of Sambos around already so i was keen to test out all my new  jigging gear which has been gathering dust because of the recent crap weather.

We stopped on the way out on some bait  grounds and filled up the live tank and a few minuted later arrived at the first wreck.THe Sambo's were thick although not huge.I jigged up aroung 6 between 8 and 15kg's and then decided to have a rest and use some bait.this was smashed by a bigger sambo which went 25kg and fun on the PE3 gear.

After that we had all nearly had enough of sambos with probably 30 others boated with the biggest going 27kg so i switched to soft plastics and got.......more sambos and a mutton bird.(F@#!!)

Whitey kept us moving to chase down some pinkies and it paid off we bagged 7 ranging from 45cm through to 76cm this was the biggest one i got on  a Plastic.

Anyway it was a awesome day out with heaps of Sambo's and a good number of baldys and pinkies for a feed.Gotta give props to whitey for being a top operator,know's the place like the back of his hand and will take small groups out a a very reasonable price.Will have to go back again soon for sure.

Cheers,

chris

Hey all, Got out to Jacks creek south of broome the other weekend.. Being pretty bad conditions for it with the massive tides(full moon) and the southerly breeze belting up the coast, only had a few trolls and a quick throw of some lures around the mouth.. Left the get away plan about half too late and ended up getting stranded for 4 1/2 hours at 5pm...  Needless to say the missus wasnt impressed not having warm clothing or anything... Was a nice sunset and moon rise thou.... The tide went out about 3km from the dunes.. Alot further than i thought it would go.... Couple of pics to follow Cheers Mark.