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:

 http://twitpic.com/jo9pj

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.

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 ?