I got on the forum this morning expecting to see pics of fish caught and tall stories ,how did you all go, or was it not worth talking about from shore it didn't look to bad i would have thought heaps of boats would have gone out .

Went out on Port Bouvard Charters with the old man for our birthdays today ... man did I get sick (sea sick that is really really sea sick.. for over an hour) anyway after that was over (it waas a whole day charter) we went to some ground where the samson fish play.

Dropped the line down and bang got a bite, started to pull up and nothing, bang, another hit started to pull and again nothing, bang another hit started to pull and bloody hell was it heavy (I make solid timber dining tables now and I thought they were heavy). About half way up to the boat a guy 4 people left and a guy two people right of me got tangled and tangled my line as well.

The deckie sorted them out and I still had my fish, started winding again and then my dad had a fish that tangled in my line as well, so he managed to get his fish up, the deckie sorted him out and I started to pull again. By this time everyone had their fish up and I waas free and clear to hoist away.... god damn this is a heavy fish I thought, then someone further down pointed and said 'who's got the double header" and I was the only line in the water.... AWESOME.... I pulled up 2 samsons on one line the smaller one about 90cm, the other.... 1.2m.... damn thing broke my fish scale when I tried to weigh it.
I'll post pics as soon as I can... fishing in perth.. can't beat it.

Went up to Exmouth to see the kids and have a quick fish while Jeff had time off the trawler over the full moon.
Got two reds and a spangly and fed an albatross on the first day.

On the second day Adam came along for the ride.Dropped the boat in at Tantas,set the trolling gear up and headed out towards the hundred metre line.
Adam got a double header of goldband and time to troll south.Got a small red,an at the time an unknown to us but I've forgotten its name and a shark that released itself right next to the boat.From there is was decided to head towards the south passage and on the way raised a small marlin but unfortunately no hook up.All in all not much return for effort but then again we cannot have it all our way all the time.

peterb managed to brave the elements and land this PB gobbleguts - he was using an old ryobi combo made in the 1970s and peeled prawn

been back to Island Singapore for abit more then 6 month. this will be my 1st report back. 

no no.. dont get me wrong, i have been fishing.. i really have.. almost every weekend.. just that.. i have not caught anything worth reporting.

its always been the 1-2kg snakehead.. largest i manage was one 4+kg unit. therefore.. yah.. but this i find kind of intresting. fishing for prawns with hooks. so.. less talk and more pictures.

location: east side of singapore

line: 2lb

rod: sure catch

hook size : 7

bait: chicken heart (raw) 

result: no one went home empty handed.. the last pic is my result of 2 hrs work. ;) 

overall, it was all gd fun, for family and all. anyone who comes over to Singapore and would like to give it a try.. do let me know. happy to bring u there.  

Winning Red Emperor - Ewan 0 74cm2nd Place Red Emperor - Dazza - 71cmEqual 1st Rankin - 81cm GullyEqual 1st Rankin - Dazza - 81cmLongest Trev + L/B -PBrad 77cmLongest Spangly - PBrad 71cmLongest Dolly - Lucky Tim 118cmLucky Tim - 1st MarlinLucky Tim - 2nd MarlinLucky Tim - 3rd MarlinLucky Tim - Longest Wahoo - 130cm2nd Place dolly - Paul GLongest Tuna - 76cm - Mako MattLongest Trout - Vanessa - 63cmLongest Trout - Vanessa 63cmBest photo - sequence - DazzaBest photo - sequence - DazzaBest photo - sequence - Dazza

Well I had better give a report on how we went at the Monties, leaving on Monday night from Dampier we sought to set sail however huuiee the wind god had other ideas, be-bloody- calmed we were so we motored out of the Harbour at around 5 knots heading for Enderby Island hoping to pick up the breeze as we got clear of the archipelago.
Well we did get a breezer, for all of about five minutes when we again became becalmed so what was expected to be an 8 or 9 hour sail turned out to be a 15-16 hour plod under the drone of a diesel engine.
Arriving much later than we expected we elected not to fish on Tuesday and instead visited Ground Zero on Tremille Island as we had anchored in one of its bays.

Wednesday dawned clear and calm and the three of us piled into the 12 foot dinghy to fish the northern end of the island. Calm it may have been but as we neared the northern end the water rapidly shallowed and the current increased until we were battling though a raging rip.  Clearing it we headed out past an islet that, from a distance, looked just like a cruiser.
We stopped first and drifted in 60 feet of water near a brilliant drop off but apart from losing a rubber jig to a large something Pete and Andy went bite-less so it was suggested we head deeper to at least maximise our chances of catching a red emp. Only heading out another 50 yards we were in 120 foot of water so down the baits went again.
Lez, you would not be surprised to learn that I was using the $9 special, light sinker and mulie for bait. Was that a touch? Ummm, with the rod bent double clearly so and after a spirited fight a lightly coloured 70cm coral trout slipped into the net.

Next drop, same result (well almost,) having commented that now all I wanted was a red after an even better fight the net slips under a classically coloured red.

And so it went on but with all of us hooking fish that were simply unstoppable. We landed more CTs, absolute horse NW snapper to specimen size and other ooglies. Andy hooked a small Mackie and thought he had lost it when it bolted to the surface leaving slack line all over the place however what it was actually doing was seeking to escape the jaws of a totally lit up blue marlin which then proceeded to circle to boat to make sure we all got a good look – all only a km or so from shore.
Fishing on Thursday was equally electric but with more and even larger spanglies – boy do they go, final drop of the day resulted in my fighting what I thought was the best fish of the trip, wrong, just a double header of huge spanglies.
Returning to the yacht through rough water we had the trepidation of watching Andy lifting the fuel tank as it neared empty...........would we make it as the current would leave us stranded if we ran out, Pete grabbed the hull just as the tank contained a measly two tablespoons.
We decided in view of the strong wind to pull anchor and head home (no outboard fuel anyway) and we sailed overnight in strong and very favourable winds back to Dampier hitting over 11 knots and having to take two reefs into the mainsail as the gunnel was in the water. 
I filleted the fish on that crazy angle watching the plumes of bioluminescence in our wake, the photo of the boat and the sparklies evidences the speed we were travelling.

In all – great great trip, amazing fishing, dugongs, marlin, bay full of gardies – just too quick, you could easily spend a month and not scratch the surface – cant wait to get back but started a job yesterday .........oh well hurry up Pete and buy your Cat .
Thanks
Gordon aka Sunshine

Headed out to Mindarie marina yesterday for a fish with Jesse . better than sitting at home .Took the light gear and some soft plastics and a few minnows and bibs.There was a large amount of weed floating throughout the marina,and a lot of tidel movment . We spent three hours throwing bibs and sp at all sorts of likely looking areas with no luck,a few small touches but no fish ,meet some nice people walking around ,in all a good way to spend the afternoon .

just wondering if anyone has been to steep point lately or no anyone who has and how they went. Hoping there is Mackies there not sure if its a good time of year or not for them. I have tryed the steep point web site but no info on there recent.

just head out this morning (6am super low tide with no much water movement) to our new spot and caught my first ever legal size black bream :D (though it was bare min 25cm and abit)

had another big huge bites though lost them as i was helping a mate rebait >.>

hey everyone im just wondering if anybody has been up to wilbinga lately? im heading up tomorrow and wondering if the weed is around and what has been biting. cheers

Woke up this morning after a bit of a pissy night with no real intention of heading out but the weather looked sweet. Too good of an opportunity to miss so we headed out to see what we could find. First thing we fished some completely new ground that looked pretty sweet. Didn't take long to get an inquiry and it turned out to be a nice Coral Trout about 60cm but the hooks didn't stick. Found HEAPS of nervous fusiliers and had plenty of casts but no GTs. I'm very keen to head back there during an earlier stage of the tide when most of the reef is exposed and fish the edge of the drop off.

We pushed on to some other familiar ground close by where we've gotten destroyed before. First cast and I had a little swipe by a little GT but that was it for that spot as we didn't see any signs of life after that.

We moved onto another spot that we've fished before. We worked our way round to an area that's produced for us in the past and when we finally reached it one of my casts was right on the money with a GT ferociously nailing my craftbait GT realbait. This fish went on a MASSIVE run under very heavy drag through some snotty bomby infested ground and I thought I was done for. I frantically palmed the spool to try and put some extra pressure on and my spool was almost hot enough to fry an egg. Amazingly, I managed to stay connected and unscathed. He slowed, and I got a couple of turns on the handle before he went on another long run and I thought it was all over as he cruised through some water barely a couple of metres deep. Again, my line didn't find reef and I slowly started putting line back on my Stellas spool which had a scary amount of line missing. We got out into some deeper water and after another couple of short runs near the boat I got him in. I was really expecting quite a large fish as he fought much harder than alot of 30kg fish I've caught but I was quite surprised and he came out at 104cm fork length and around 25kg. He really fought WAY out of his weight class and took more line than any GT I've got ever.

After that we decided to have a few more casts before heading back home while it was still early. Finally broke the hoodoo, been ages since I nailed a decent GT off Dampier.

With some reports of a few nice tailor turning up in the northern metro area, Unclue Stu, Sherbs and I decided to head to one of Sherb's favourite spots.

Uncle Stu and I arrived on daybreak to find that Sherbs hadn't been able to sleep, and had already been there for a few hours.
With the wind dropping off quickly, we positioned ourselves on the local rock and started pinging mulies into the white water.

Stu was soon hooked into a nice tailor, which he was able to work through the white water and onto the rocks without too much trouble.

From then on it was a case of waiting for the school to come by to make a couple of quick hook ups.

While the tailor weren't thick Stu managed to score his bag limit and Sherbs and I picked up some nice sized tailor and a solid tarwhine between us.

Interestingly the seven tailor we bagged were all between 40 and 45 cm and of a similar thickness.

Considering how poor the weather has been lately, it was great to get out in some reasonable conditions with some mates and catch some nice fish.

It certainly made for a great way to kick-off fathers day.

went for a fish this mornin with me pop down at the wharf oposite aqua down at hillaries - caught this ripper.   didnt see or catch or see anybody catch anything other than blowies - wats goin on with these things - my pops over 70 years old and he reckons there never used to be blowies everywhere - is there a scientific explanation? - WAT DO YA RECKON ?

Started off promising, I'd been trolling no more than 50 m and I snagged a yearling heading out from the ramp. Played it in and keep chugging along - lo and behold my second lure got hit. Same things again. 2 yearlings and I'm barely 100m from the ramp, naturally I was pretty confident I'd get a couple of keepers.

But thats where the good luck ends. I trolled around for 2 or so hours and managed to lose 4 fish (rainbows around the 40 - 45cm mark) within 5m of the boat. And to add insult to injury the only other boat on the water was trolling the same bank as I was, probably about 500m behind me. I got a couple of hits on my lure but no hook-up and by the time their boat was in around the same area they got hit - bang, reeled in a solid brown that would have gone 50cm+, big hook jaw and all. Absolutely spewing that my lure didn't stay stuck.

Nothing worth photographing, and it gets bloody cold at night there still for anyone heading down for a fish - rug up!

Our recent trip up North we recorded the follwing sounder reaqdings and the Deckie caught his PB 12.5 KG red, as per the smiles

heya guys and gals

 finally got copy of the pics off my deckie (its ok spooled i wont tell em it was your slack arse!) to chuck up ya all to have a look at and read.... after finally installin my new Lowrance HDS7 unit in the tub i was soooo keen to get out and give it a blast! Spooled and i teamed up to hit a spot out from gero right in shallow just behind the breakers to have a session on the plastics and with that we headed out into a stiff sth ester... after muckin bout with a few settings and gettin used to the detail of the new unit we did 2 quick drifts over my trout lump for a couple of small hits before pushing on to the dhu spot....had done well using light baits here before but never tried plastic so today was more experimental than anything.... rigged up on the light gear and sounding over the ground showed some nice markings and it looked good for a drop.... the drift was a tad quick but after hittin the bottom and jiggin for all of 2mins i had a big hit on the rubber and it was show time! a great fight in the shallow water (12-15m) and a lovely pink of about 80cms glided up for a piccie and then into the esky for feed! rapt! spooled was next into action taking a hit whilst takin pics of the pink before racing back to the rod and coaxing his enquirer for a 2nd chance.... bang! hooked up solid! another great fight takin plenty of line of the light spin gear before a lovely 7kg dhu showed itself! unreal!! 10mins first drift and already 2 lovely fish for home! still on the same drift and just minutes after spooleds dhuie again my little gulp got hammered! and this time it reallllly went off... i had my fingers crossed for a good dhuie as id yet to crack one but alas after another great tussle and rippppper of a pink showed boat side.... not having any fish at home this one was also dispatched and on ice... resetting our drift it wasnt long and back into fish..... minus one problem  - couldnt stay connected.... spoooled took a mammoth hit that he had on for some 2-3mins before pullin the hook on wat performed for all the world as a real nice dhuie and i got absolutely dusted by either a sambo or pink on roids.... it quitened off with those couple lost and repeat drifts over the area could only get me another good hookup on another "felt like" dhuie before again pulling hooks! the wind continued to strenghten and we retreated back to the marina rapt at the 3 great fish on plastic we had managed.....

roll on the weekend and a average but better forecast had us heading out again loaded with rubber and this time joined by flagpole on his tub - a quick trip down and hiding out of the wind we soon found some great looking fish markings and proceded to set up a drift about 1.5k from our original destination. no more than 2mins passed and a yell from flagpole had him onto one! yeah fish are here cant be long...... fish everywhere on sounder....... drift drift jig jig nothing....... flagpole got his 4 whilst his deckie was over the side talkin to his mate who musta been diving? "ralph" was his name i think? but we couldnt pull a card! pete left us and still we tried... even the mid week hot spot showed potential but no takers!

and then... finallllly spooled hooked up to a cracker - YES! - and then busted off..... Kaaaaaaaaaaaarrrr%% FFFFUU3$$$ noooo.... dropping another outfit he had ready straight down and it went straight off!!!! another good one! and he pulled the hooks..... not our day.... well his atleast! time kept ticking and i perserved with the rubbers until i finally got my first hit of the day! DHUIE on plastic virginity gone! finally i was stoked!.... and about 1hr later i took a big hit and run that again was looking fantastic coming up thru the blue water! welcome aboard number 2! that was the last fish for us as again the wind came up and you cant complain about 2 nice dhuies on ice.....

2 trips for 5 fish nothing amazing but we where both stoked at the fish on lightgear and that the effort and exploring had paid off.....

cheers poddy n spooled

does any one have any reports from abrolhlos islands

am going on a 5 day charter on the 18th i know ill catch plenty of  baldies 

just after any reports??

Was just me and my Dad out on Sunday, as deckies dropped out.

Was not that confortable out from rockingham,, got rained on in the morning, and pretty lumpy.

Took a while for the fish to come about but once they did was a pretty reasonable day out. Got busted up a few times by big fish, which i would think were dhu's and big pinkys.

Did manage a few pinkys and some more nice plump KG's
My biggest pinky to Date, guessed at 7-8 KG's

Pretty quiet day really. Was blowing 15knots from the NE until about 12, which made it bloody hard to hit small pieces of ground.

Ended up pulling some undersize Dhus, BA, pinkys and filthy sweep. Surprise for the day was a nice 4kg SB Tuna that hit a 90gm Shout Lighten about 5 metres under the boat. Also about a 17kg sambo on the light jigging gear and same jig.

The jig definately caught the better fish today, wih bait accounting for just the undersize stuff. Found some good new ground that will fire eventually too. I'll try put a few pics up later.

Cheers

Brody.

What an awesome day out on the water! Fish wise it was quiet but as for the whales..... We spotted a group of 3 whales playing around in the distance so headed closer to take some photos, turned the motor off and just drifted a safe distance away enjoying their jumps and slaps and got a few good shots! 

They slowly made their way closer to check us out....

Getting very close! Ever wondered what a whale looks like on your sounder??? 

They rolled upside down under the boat!

A few waves and they headed off...... or did they!

Whilst drifting and watching the whales we'd spotted some nice looking ground showing a lot of fish so we left them and headed back to have a few drops.. they followed us but seemed to dissapear so down went the lines... no sooner had I hit the bottom and my baits were getting some action. I was poised for a hook up when suddenly out of the deep blue one of the whales came gliding right under the back of the boat and across my line, snagging it up and screaming line off against my drag! I backed my drag off straight away and hoped the line would slide off the whale but it wasn't going to happen and with 80m+ of line out I grabbed a knife and released old moby dick. He probably didn't even notice but I was pretty sad that I lost my favourite bottom rig :( Anyway, it was an awesome experience seeing the whale play around the boat, even if I lost 80m of my new braid... I got whaled!

decided to head out today and try some new spots.  mosman park was void of fish so i moved on to claremont yacht club.  

first cast i was on with a ~20cm bream, following casts hooked on similar size bream.  once in a while a decent sized whiting hooked up and gave a decent fight.

the main thing was for the first time fishing the river i managed to land more decent fish than blowies...HUZZAH!!!!

I went fishing this week out in 50 to 60 meters of water off bunno and had a ball the fis were in a frenzy we caught plenty of dhuies, blackass, pinkies, nanigi, and even a nice baldy. I noticed that it was the same time last year i had very similer action and on both occacions we released severall good sized fish after getting quata. i will upload some photos when i get my cam back but just thought id give some food for thought for keen deep fishers .here is one from last year

fishing from jurein wasnt that great in the tini weather was good though caught a few under size kg and these realy big black looking fish not to sure what they were could have been dory  spent the day there with out much luck then move further up north to leeman very good here drifting for huge squid not so good for fishin although there were plenty of herring and wrass around

Local monthly comp 22nd August 2009

I headed over to Tantabiddi today doing the solo mission and was greeted by glorious conditions and an empty boat ramp (bout bloody time).  As discussed on the site yesterday I really wanted a red emp and decided to head way south, a lot further than I'd ventured in the tinny before.  Getting down to the Milyering Center and the 45m mark I did some drifts with little luck and very little showing on the sounder, but knew there'd have to be something close by as the ground looked good. 

Didn't take long and I found some schooling fish, problem was sharks in the mid water and after loosing the first, I knew it wasn't going to be a casual pump and wind, but more a winch and hope.  My rule is generally 2 fish lost to sharks then its time to move as once they're in, your just sacrificing fish. 

After landing the first decent spangly I knew thats what the rest of the school was, but was still hoping there was the rogue red swimming through.  I caught my bag limit of spangos and kept some of the smaller fish as I think they are much better eating than the big mommas.  I released about 8 good 650mm fish, excellent fun in relatively shallow water thats for sure.

Realising I wasn't going to get anything else and a small hint of the south westerly starting to waft in I decided to troll back to some spots just north of S.passage.  Within 10 minutes of having the lines out I had the trademark hit but not hookup on the right black soft oscar short corner and knew it was a sail.  He continued to mow the lure and not having any luck he peeled off to the left pink grassy and smashed it and stayed connected for 10 seconds and then came back for a second attempt where he absolutely nailed it, a quick gun of the motor and booyah, it was on. He put on a great show and a quick 20 minutes later he was at the back of the boat for a few pics, probably the most well behaved sail I've caught and released at about 25kg.

After setting the spread and having a drink I set back into cruise mode awaiting the next action and that didn't take long either.  A huge explosion and bill out of the water and quick 5 second zip on the drag saw a relatively good sized black marlin miss the hook.  I wasn't too phased by this as I was still pretty spent from the first fish and assumed it wouldn't take long before encountering further action.  Over the next hour I witnessed two wahoo come in and snip my soft grassy, one taking the hook and the other taking the plastic.  (GRRR)  Something else also came up on the black oscar but I couldn't really make it out, an unknown.

Arriving at the next spot I was greeted by large soundings of fish and immediate action, unfortunately only trevally.  Moving to the other side of the rise I felt the typical suck down of a red and laid into him and got him off the bottom, YEEEES, only to endure the NOOOOO about 20 meters under the boat when the bloody hook bent to a 45 degree angle and off he swum.  Apart from knowing the fight the red has, there was a scale left on the hook with a touch of red skin - just to prove that I was right.  I was pretty devo after that and went around again, baited up beautifully, only to be sharked within seconds of touching the bottom.  I decided that it wasn't worth re-rigging there and headed off on the troll again to the goldband spot.

A completely uneventful trip (mind you I was trolling probably a touch too quick as I wanted to get there) and with a small front heading in from the south I positioned myself over the goldband spot and with a strong northerly current and 10 knot south wester I was held in perfect position.  With 3 drifts I landed my 3 goldband and left them biting as I had my bag limit and headed in.

All in all a great day and I enjoyed rubbing it in to the missus when I got back to the ramp and she checked my catch! :))

Cheers,

Adam

Heard rumor of a frequent fisher to Kalbarri cracking a nice mulloway about 10-12kg on sunday night in the river.

Now we just have to wait for the pics. hes been trying to get it for a while and finally cracked it. good job

Decided to head out on Saturday, the weather wasnt looking the best, but the winds were pretty good.

Up at 4.30am, and on the way to the ramp a little after 5.

Launched and on our way out by 5.45.
Little slowish out, being pitch black, rain about and a little more wind than expected but cruised out at about 25knots.

Headed 20 or so mile out in search of some KG's and dhus.

First stop, was where i got a big KG during the week, and this time didnt dissappoint, with this big fat KG on the first drop to Sean, not even on the bottom for 10 seconds!!! this boy took a whole californian squid!!

picked up a few more bits and pieces and a small dhu off this spot, but not much else, eventho the sounder was showing some good fish.

decided to move around a little and found some more ground... did a few laps looking at the sounder and said to the boys... some dhus down there.

Pulled up on the lump, said to the boy's 'drop now' and within 15 seconds two dhus hit the deck, both undersize but was a good sign. a good fish dropped just under the boat at the same time, which looked like a nice pinky.

went back for another look over the lump and went a bit further over and noticed a couple big fish on the bottom, said 'more dhus' drop and within 15 seconds again i was on to a better fish. dhu being 66cm and prob 4-5kgs. Was fishing quite light and gave an awesome fight. Very healthy looking male too. this one was for the esky!!

Next drift produced probably the biggest metro flattie i have seem, the pic isnt very good and doesnt do it justice, but would have been 65cm easy.

Another drift and another dhu came up.

Plenty of BIG skippy out there, atleast 1.5kgs+ I'd say and quite a few small black bums.

all in all good morning on the water, plenty of fish, few whales wanted to come say hello and do a bit of showing off. Back to the ramp just after midday

Bodie

Its been nearly 4 months since the arm op so it was time to hit up some deeper fish, not Harpuka deep, just Dhuie deep.

Where was everyone?  Two rocks at sunrise was empty; well we were the 2nd boat there…and upon return, we were the second last out.  Only saw the one boat out there aswell.

Anyway, it was a bit choppy early, but very doable – pity the fish weren’t!  A few release weight uses and a few humpies pushing north saw us through to midday.

A friend onboard had never seen whales from a boat before, so this made his day.  The wind had dropped to nothing and still no decent fish onboard.  Decided to head south to a spot that I found the last time out (over 5 months ago).

Drop, bang on – the result;

I was very happy.  The arm is OK today too.

A couple more drops resulted in a couple of gummies – time to head in.

Cheers Pete

with no site able too make up there minds and me playing alot of golf and getting beaten by my oldest lad twice went squiding sun avo hade a great arvo 24 squid 4 cutties all while the dockers had a win gota love listening footy/cricket on the radio and yes they were yom