A gentlemans start, 9:30 launch at cockburn ramp. headed south to some weedy ground. it was the purple yamashita v the orange $15 jobby whos name i cant remember but it has a rattle in it.

 Scoreboard after 3 hours

Purple Yama    : 12

Orange jobby  : 17 squid and 1 cuttlefish

Most pretty small, the biggest was really nothing to write home about.

Kept a handfull that will soon be treated with a light dusting of flour a healthy serve of salt and pepper; and returned the rest.

A nice day out and a painful wash down after. Bloody ink. 

The weather looked good and after the last few weekends of storms  we decided to hit the cape on a jigging sorte. Two boats went out, mine with Ian7739 and myself and Bluetonic's (BJ) with Garbo and couldntcatchacold (Chris). This was a serious jigging (and Soft Plastic) trip and no bait. Had to christen the new jigging gear and it was time to introduce Ian to the excitment and action of jigging. We had a PE 2-3 and 6 outfit and were ready to hit the fish. BJ and I have been talking for a while now on jigging techniques and we decided to try a new technique looking for dimersal species and then continue our search for Kingfish.

Arrived early at the ramp and the wind picked up. BJ and crew were already anchored just of the ramp catching some livies.

Decided to launch the boat when Ian turned up. Slowly headed out and was a slow trip as the ocean was really lumpy. About half way was going to turn around but a solitory dolphin turned up and decided to swin with us for a while. We took this as an omen of good luck and continued to head out. About an hour of steaming saw us round the cape and find markedly calmer water. Sounded around using the new colour sounder and found a good patch of ground with fish on the sounder. Dropped the jigs and instantly jigged some shallowtail. Ian hooked something solid that was either a snapper or dhiue judging by the power surges but alas half way up it spat the hook. My next drop scored me my first dhuie but at 20cms long I'm not bragging...ha ha. Got to start somewhere. Not sure if the bugger was greedy or just ambitious as the 90g jig was just as big as him.......fantastic colours though. More dropps resulted in monster St Bakers and plenty more shallowtail and some sea sweep and pike. Ian unfortunatley dropped another fish before the area shut down. Decided to sound around looking for more ground. 

Finally found some ground with skippy on the sounder and the sambo's usually aren't far away.......... down go the jiggs and Ian is hooked. After a tough battle on the PE 2-3 he finally got his first Sambo on a jig.

Plenty around and at one point when Ian bought another one up all we could see under the boat was sambo's. Lost count of how many we caught but had a ball.

Moved closer to the cape itself as the wind dropped and jigged some good boundies.......hooked something solid but a couple of headstakes and was smoked and qiuckly reefed on the PE6 so thinking a kingie as they tend to hang closer to the cape rocks/wash.

Great day on the water but as I dont have a dig camera only got these couple of photo's off my phone. Ian reckons he's hooked on jigging......can understand why...ha ha 

quiet day, my mate caught this squid in the first couple of casts. What is the cod esque thing in the middle image?

anybody been fishin up in the moore river lately - any bream, pilch, or freshwater catties?

went down to hillarys at 4 this morning. caught a lotf of small pinkies and skippy through them bak in then a couple of hours in caught two 45cm skippy. Lucky for us we picked a spot by the light house where we could get out of the wind. Pitty there was no big pinkies but oh well theres always next time

Stormy conditions this morning, where?

Was great not to get wet, but I only caught a tiny skippy, a small goatfish and I did catch a snapper!

Just returned from a short trip to Carnarvon and couldn't believe the Pinkie action up that way. I travelled out about 16 nat miles west on Monday with three other guys, bagged out with 3 to 4 kilo pinks in 20 mins and got back to the ramp mid morning. The big blow made fishing impossible for the rest of the week.

Hopefully I'll get back that way when the weather settles. 

regards Rob    

Weather was pretty horrible yesterday so being a true tailor fanatic i went down to my favourite spot armed with a halco rooster i bought on wednesday and hit this patch of reef up pretty hard, at first i noticed a rather large cod or someother fish kept following the popper, and other than that it was pretty quiet until i hooked the first tailor, at about ~55cm it was smaller compared to what i was after but still good fun on the light gear.

Then finally an easy 4-5kg one came in for inspection and my heart was pumping watching it go for the popper, but it failed to connect with the hooks and disappeared just as fast. i decided to call it a day but on my way back i thought nah i'll try for some herring , got about 30! on the paddletail snapbacks, they would only take it in the white wash so it was hard to time it right to get it with the waves and the breakers.

Then after that i tried squidding for a bit, Yes in this weather, got 12 squid in 13 casts then all of a sudden nothing, pictures are on my camera.

Did the same thing today, no tailor but a shit load of kilo plus skippy and a nice haul of squid aswell, the herring are an absolute plague at the moment and they take any plastic i put infront of them.

Will definately be back for tailor , i'm obsessed with big tailor its just hard finding good reefs in south metro area.

Who says shit weather is only for snapper? =P

PS. Suprisingly all the squid were about 1-2cm difference in size, there were no smaller ones or jumbos, like they were out of the same group

Been a lot of samsonfish around the inshore areas of Jurien according to Whitey.

"Friday afternoon was full of action in the marina, 15kg plus Sambos were smashing baits off the Boatlifters jetty. The boys had a blast catching and releasing these monsters in shallow water."

Worth a drive I'd say. There's a fair bit going on up there right now.

Bit restless with the lack of cray diving opportunities left in the season and the boat was lying around at my folk's place, so I decided to cut out and have ago for some squid.

Launched at Johnston St in Mossie Park (free all day parking) and then headed out the head to Leighton Beach. Decided I didn't like the chop there and cut around to between South Mole and Challenge Harbor but no luck.

The weather was getting better, not worse, so I headed out to the channel near GI. A few drifts either side and I picked up 11 squid in a few hours. It wasn't really good enough weather to anchor  so I didn't try and berley for some fish and came home.

A few mates and myself managed to get up to Wagoe for the first time the other week so thought I would put a quick post. We left Friday night and arrived 3am on Saturday, with 3 hours sleep we woke at sunrise to be greeted with a 15knot easterly and had the baloons out asap. As the winds were changing west in the afternoon we only had the mornings but thats all that was needed for the 3 days we had there. Anyway here are some pics, was a fantastic weekend and will definately getting back up there again.

17kg Mack

16kg

this is what the 16kg did to me

Group shot from the last morning session

Alright one and all

Just a quick report on my weekend lake fishing.  The weather was warm and overcast ideal for carp fishing, three of us went to our local pond.  We all caught some bream and roach and the others caught carp but unfortunately everytime I had a run I was elsewhere!  I lost 3 carp all due to unforseen circumstances.  Firstly I got voted to get the chinese and the beer so off i trot, onbly to find that whilst I was away one of the other lads lost a fish on my rod.  Secondly I was helping a mate clear some trees from his swim only for my rod to go off and the fish to swim through some reeds and snap the line and then thirdly I was answering the call of nature!!  So no fish but lots of fun had, hopefully my luck will change before I arrive on foriegn shores.  See you all soon.

Rog

Took the boat out solo from two rocks yesterday, what a awesome day on the water, not alot fish wise for me, keep a few for a feed, but damn got plagued by cuttlefish and occys, and some big cuttlefish too, never seen so many.

Sitting back at work atm having some fresh cuttlefish and what can i say, mmmmmmmmmmm better than squid anyday for me

After a few too many beers at the rivervale last night, it took a long hot shower to get me down to the ramp at 0800...thats after I removed my frozen boat cover!

We headed straight out to our mark baldie198 to hopefully catch another Baldie for the table. Nice conditions with a light nor easter made it easy work for the traily to get out to 45m in no time.  Armed with cuttlefish tenticle from last trip, and some snelled 3o mustard hooks, it was game on.......no time to make friends out here!

Fish were very quiet on the bite till about 1030...when i finally cracked my first metro King George at 49cm i was very happy indeed.  There was high fives all around. With that we set another drift, and i was on again....and it was a great fight..and after it ran twice for the bottom, i finally netted myself a nice Baldchin which was 57cm. 

Fishing went quiet again till about 1330, and after a long wait Claire finally caught a bloody fish and scored her first Metro King George as well. She was stoked...and her smile returned once again after watching the skipper clean up.

We then headed in a bit to a lump we found in 38m of water. I picked up a nice blackarse...but there was still plague preportions of Juvy Pink Snapper there...so we decided to head back in to Hillarys at 1500.  After a quick pull over from the water police reminding me of the speed change 200 metres approching  Hillarys Marina...we were on our way home...smelling of fish, crusty salted clothes and sunglasses that you were lucky to see out of, but thats what fishings all about...love it !

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to get together real time reports from all over WA.

Here's the story from Whitey, the man in Jurien:

hey guys well the ol magellan is finishing up in exmouth at the end of july and we are going to be doing charters to the monte bellos from exmouth. The trip will be 6 days and 5 nights, all food will be supplied for the trip. These charters are either fishing/spearing and or eco type charters please yourself! the boat has a 18ft centre console to go to the islands or for fishing with on the reef. the boat sleeps 6 people and there will be 3 crew. the cost is $3500 a day for the boat and the console, If anyone is interested please send me a pm or you can phone me, ill send you my nr via a pm if you want more info. Im frothing to go even though its work its not work hehe! I am a qualified chef so your bellies will be full and content!

TANGLES

Decided the weather was looking promising on the weekend, and with the missus in Sydney, decided to do a trip both days.

Saturday was a gentlemens start around 10am and we were off for some Squid.

Ziggy joined me for the morning, and i had promised him we would find some squid.

Was a slow start with only managing a small on in the first 45 minutes or so. Decided to move out a little deeper and first cast saw the first nice squid come up probably around 800gms.

Next cast both Ziggy and i got 2 more in, probably around 800-850gms.

But what was more interesting was a squid that followed up these 2, it would have been doubel the size of the ones on the jigs, and it was more interested in attacking the other 2 squid rather than the jigs.

Got mine in promptly, and ziggy lost his on the side of the boat (even a boat near buy had a good laugh at him) :) put the jig down after this big boyt (he was right under the boat but was very tentative and wouldnt take the jig. Soon after he disappeared.

Kept jigging with plenty of squid on this new ground we had found. with squid every couple of minutes.

went quiet for a bit due to this fella deciding to hang round!!!

after he moved on, the squid came back. Ended up with 26 with only 2 or 3 for bait!!!

yum salt and pepper squid!!!!

Ziggy with some nice Calamari

Sunday was out wide somewhere north of rotto. This time Ziggy and Marc joined me for the trip.

was a little choppy, and the winds were stronger than the weather report predicted.

Was a bit of a bumpy ride and DAM COLD as well.
Cold Pic!!! think it was about 5 degrees. doing 30 knots.. big chill factor!!

Marc wanted a few fancy pics with the spray from the boat.

How you know your fishing in the wrong spot

Tried many different depths and found some new ground holding LOADS of fish. Some new marks on the gps with some good fish on it!!

Loaded up

i think they were sambos, but after doing a fair amount of jigging, i wasnt in the mood to drop a jig down again to find out.

Did manage a few fish

God a nice BB to about 420

Ziggy got his First dhu, only a small one but it surely did wet his appitiete for chasing them again.

Few release weight shots of the dhu going back down.

Marc Managed his First ever baldie.... on mono!!!! in almost 70m of water!!!!!!! he found out they go pretty hard too.
Nice fish went 490mm.

Managed a few more fish and then headed back in around 3.30pm... was a Bumpy trip back but still managed 25 knots.

Good weekend on the water.

Bodie

PS: Marc had a yak over the side too!! :)

How many times do ya have to tell them DONT eat sausage rolls before you go out wide!. Lesson learnt i think hey Marc :)

headed out this morning to try and tempt a few pinkies and sambo's off triggs. First spot we tried to anchor and burley with limited sucess, only 1 size pinky and 2 small sambo's. Decided to head a bit further out and found a nice coral lump where we managed a nice 45cm KG and Blackarse. Didnt get one wrasse the whole day worst was a few scorpion fish and a devil fish. But it seems like the fish werent on today, burleyed up for ages with not much coming around. Thought we would get the skips around at least. Dont know if it was full moon related tho..... How did everyone else go??

pics to come..

Went out on Saturday from two rocks for my first real crack at fishing in perth.

We struggled early as the forecast was all wrong and i hadn't had time to pick up a sea anchor, we couldn't hold bottom and were ready to give up but the wind finally backed off and we went looking for some lumps as i didn't have any spots.

We came across a tiny lump in the middle of nowhere and first drift my mate pulled up a good baldie, a couple of drifts later i got my first Dhuey. It wasn't very big at 600 but a dhuey non the less. next drift was a undersize dhu and a sambo. Got some pics on the phone but there pretty poor, i'll post them up later.Turned out to be a great day on the water considering niether of us had been exposed to southern fishing. Just need to find some more spots now.

Thanks for the advice on the tackle shack the boys were very helpfull and friendly with good advice.

Just need to get down to oceanside and pick up a sea anchor then i'll be set.

Cheers

Ryan

G'day fella's - went out the week before last for a few beers and try for a few prawns. They were coming in well! Bloody good sizes among them two!

We'll with the Swan River prawns running well and the winter size being good i thought i'd jump back in. Went to Bicton Baths and plenty of divers about despite the bloody cold water. Now i'm using a thermal & hoody i'm gonna do more winter Swan dives for sure!

Soupster & myself enjoy catching up and well this is just a good excuse to get a nice fresh feed on out doorstep!

We ended up with over 2kg's of prawns and 7 scallops. Scott got over a kg himself and he nailed the biggens whilst i went for numbers. The vis was fine and a few blue manners also!

Was good to catch up mate, looking foward to the platter of squid,blue eye Trevalla & prawns.....mmhhhhhhh....delishes LOL

Headed out this evening to sound some faithful ground in the sound. Anchored, berlied and worked a range of rigs out the back. The herring were plentiful, large and taking supprisingly large baits intended for snapper.  Amongst the herring were juvinille samson fish which fought hard and quite colourful. Below the herring and  juvinille sambos were even smaller snapper barely reaching 30cm, plenty of them which was encouraging! We finished up with an easy dozen herring and three tarwhine 35cm -37.

We did notice that all three tarwhine were caught on a very light outfit with fluro 6lb leader

Anyways- on the pulse, but no snapper tonight

Gday all

Thought i'd put up a post of holiday mondays adventures down the swan. First session of bream fishing for the year. Spent all arvo flicking sp's about the river banks down at garrett rd in hope of some bream got a solid hook up but got smoked in the snags. Could only produce a 35cm flatty on a river prawn for the day that being at nightfall. (Released) Did find that the bream started to come on the bite once dark though especially below the pile-ons... if anyone is keen to give the place a go just be wary of the mozzies... got eaten alive.

Strange enough while i was there police and forensics rocked up at about 4:30pm. They were shown to the walkway to the right of the bridge by two blokes. Kept pointing and looking under the walkway. I Couldnt suss what it was all about. Unusual ay?

 If anyone knows of any other spots holding bream you'd be helping me out ...spending this weekend chasing a few. 

cheers guys.

G,day All,

Headed down to albany for the long weekend in the hope of getting onto some good fish and Luckily was not dissapointed.

We caught some of the best weather ive ever seen down there with both Saturday and Sunday producing light winds and low swell.Due to one of the locals naming one of our favorite bays in a recent Western angler story we decided it would not be long before it would be feeling the pressure of the added traffic and with that in mind decided to head an hour or so out of town to explore some new ground.Heres some snaps.

Misty Morning

Nice double header

We headed only about 5 nm out and cound'nt travel 50mtres without finding huge pinacles or caves in the reef with most showing good fish on them.

Tried to take some pics of the sounder but they didnt work out.

Picked up a couple of  yellow Kings.Both hit octo jigs that i was retrieving quickly as we were about to move spots.

Brother in law happy after getting a dhu!

In between all the bottom action there was southern Bluefin Tuna and bonito busting up all over the place..they were rats but were fun on the light gear

Little bastards are hard to hold onto sometimes too!

We had one of the best days fishing ive ever had catching dhus,Reds,queenies,Harliquen,breaksea yellowtail kings and tuna.

Cheers

chris

few salmon around n mole tues hooked 1 lost on rocks

just been surfing swanbourne reef & had a school of salmon about 15-20 swim under me spewin if i wasnt flyin back to work in a couple of hours i would go back down hope someone gets a couple

Hey guys, im heading to kalbarri this weekend and was wondering how the landbased fishing was going at the moment????? Anyone been recently?

27th May 2009, 15:30 WST
A man whose boat sank almost two kilometres off the beach in Falcon near Mandurah has died.
It is not known whether the man was sailing alone and WA water police are searching for possible survivors.
Police said the man, believed to be 45-55 years of age and described as Caucasian with a heavy build, was sailing in what appeared to be a six to seven metre-long cabin type boat around 2pm when it was overcome with water and began sinking.
Witnesses nearby saw a flare go up and called the water police. Officers arrived minutes later and found the man lying in the water unconscious.
WA police spokesman Sergeant Graham Clifford said the man was picked up and taken to Mandurah Yacht club, where St John’s Ambulance paramedics tried to revive him.
The man was rushed to hospital but died on the way.
Police said the man was wearing a blue t-shirt and grey track pants.
Police asked that anyone who may be able to identify the deceased man to contact police them on 131 444.
Sgt Clifford said police were using a plane to search for anyone else who may have been onboard.
Police divers are attending to check the sunken vessel and to try to identify it.

On the 15th of may, we went out to west end rotto. Tryd our new underwater camera that drops to 40m. second drop in 11m of water, we recorded hundreds if not thousands of salmon underneath the boat.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klGTQc5oGOs

How common are turtle sightings in Cockburn Sound ?

Noticed a rather large specimen, with a head almost the size of a rock melon, not far from the D9 late this afternoon !!