Felt like going jigging, but unfortunately no one was out heading out for sambos, so Brenz and I decided to head out with bluejuice and jig anyways.

With alveys with heavy mono lining the starboard, we headed to the back with our PE2 and 3 jigging gear.
I dropped a shout jig down which promptly got smashed and pinged on the reef straight away. Must find a new source of these.

Rerigged up with a zest and not too long after landed my first demersal on a jig. Great eating size of 58cm and 3.2kg, and a great first demersal jig catch. First fish onboard too (if you dont count a norwester)

Managed to find a school of what we thought were sambos so we send down some bigger jigs on heavy gear. I hooked up to something that went on a big run before the line snapped. The leader was completely frayed and bitten off so likely a shark. Brenz hooked up to a sambo but dropped it. On the second drop, a massive hit, lots of drag, then bitten off by another shark. We went around and tried with some wire, but no bites this time.

Jigging

Everything seems to take jigs, even smaller fish like Sgt bakers, wrasse, scads, small swallowtail, and even this scorpion cod Brenz landed

Tried some octa jigs and octa/bait combos but didnt get any hits. 

Brenz got this good sized queenie on a driftbait

I really wanted to get a pink snapper as I havent caught one on any kind of jig, so after jigging a few more spots, this pinkie happily obliged . 73cm and 4.1kg and a fun fight on light line

Also managed to get a skippy on a jig

And a surprise catch, this bonito

Not too many fish landed on board for the boat, though a great 7 and 14kg dhuie were pulled up as well as another queen snapper, a blackarse, a swallowtail and another pinkie. Oh, and some eels :p

The jigs proved to be effective as I hooked up first and ended up catching the most fish, all on jigs on 20lb gear. Great fun

Went down to Golden Bay Monday evening, ended up a dead calm, glassy night.

Herring were going nuts on squid pieces, but weren't touching blue sardines or mulie. I fished for herring while my mate Brendan was on the lookout for tailor. The tailor run did come about half an hour after sundown, and he ended up landing 5, all over 32cm.

We were there for about 5 hours, ended up with a decent feed. I have to say it's one of the better nights I've had in a while haha

Mike

A big thankyou to Paul Maindok who is Kalbarri Electrical Services for his sponsorship and naming rights again this year.
Thanks also to The Kalbarri RSL who donate a $50.00 voucher each month that goes to the meritorious catch of the comp.
Some pretty ordinary weather presented itself for the boaties but the fish were biting so most did not notice. Only a few fish were weighed from the bottom, a big snapper from the landbased guys and lots of bream from the river.
On the first day Steve Wiseman was out early aboard his boat “Top Deck” with Lance Turner and son Dylan fishing as a junior.. Lance had the luck landing a good mackerel on 6kg line that went 9.8kgs and Dylan had one to the boat but the hooks pulled at the last moment. Very unlucky Dylan! Stan Sutherland was out with Alan and Sue Olive aboard Alan’s new 8m boat. Powered by twin 225hp outboards, that boat must fly! And so it proves that the bigger the boat the more fish you catch! Stan had a 3.5kg tuna on 2kg line. While Ron Neumann weighed an 8.1kg mackerel on 6kg line from Paul Maindok’s boat “Santa Barbara”. Laurie Malton with Sue and Jared aboard “Bulawayo Buoy” missed out on the action, being at the right place at the wrong time and later at the wrong place at the right time!

Stan with his tuna on 2kg line and biggest mackerel for the year so far Lance Turner.

Ron Neumann’s 6kg line class mackerel.

The river produced some very big bream and looks like everyone got one. The juniors were thick on the ground with Dylan Ivey, Beau ivey, Ryley Eley, James Dooley and Luke Dooley all weighing in.
The senior section all found bream with a lot of the bream bigger than normal and mostly kept alive to be returned.. Garry Ivey had 3 bream while Son lee had 4, Peter Duigan 2 and Brett Bain 4 bream with one of them going 1.085kgs.
No one landed a fish from the beach the first day but Karen Hartig was there but no luck.

Brett Bain with his 1.085kg specimen
The second day saw the junior catch rate drop with only Luke Dooly weighing in a mullet. The seniors brought in a lot more fish with Lee Ivey with 3, Gary Ivey, 1, Brett Bain 1, and Peter Duigan 4 of which a couple were tailor. This was a surprise for Peter who won his first ever river section prize! Rylee Eley maintained her lead from the first day winning the junior section.
Karen Hartig again fished the beach without lick but Nic Bramwell showed us how it is done with a big 7.8kg pink snapper and a dart, winning him the landbased section and the RSL meritorious prize of a $50.00 voucher donated by the Kalbarri RSL.

Nic Bramwell’s 7.8kg pinky

Lee with one of her bream and Lui and Brett release the tagged bream after the weigh in.

The second day out in the ocean was windier than ever, and the bigger boats faired well. Stan, Alan and Sue found the fish with Stan weighing 2 mackerel on 3kg line, Alan had a 7.8kgmackerel on 4kg line and Sue a commendable 4.05kg tuna on 3kg line.

Sue Olive with her 3kg line class tuna and Stan holds the Overall Trophy.
Ron Neumann again had a mackerel on 6kg line but was not big enough to beat Lance Turner who won the 6kg line class prize. Alan Olive took out the 4kg line class, Stan Sutherland the 3kg line class as well as the 2kg class and the overall. Well done Stan!
The bottom section was fished by Graeme Black and Lou Palmara aboard “Southwind” but only recording a few fish between them and Phil Hearps aboard “Gunna Doo” weighed a 2.1kg baldie but Graeme took out the prize with his 3 fish.
Amy Gardner and Phil Hearps won the scratchies raffle and Phil also picked up the Mystery fish for his baldie. Sue Olive won the restaurant draw and Nic Bramwell won the RSL Meritotious as well as Mug Of The Day with his broken down car that he was bragging about that was running so well for so long, and breaking his tow strap as well.
Every thing is flowing smoothly for the big Kalbarri Classic at the end of February and info packs and entry forms can be obtained from the Kalbarri Visitor Centre free call 1800 639 468.
Next local comp is on the 21st February followed by the Kalbarri Classic on the 27th Feb. to 1st March.

Laurie Malton

Got my flathead!!! heehee~ only two more type of fish and my list will be done for 2009 (salmon and KG). or i can get greedy and start adding more now.. nah...

Thanks to all who have given me advice on type of lures and location. will be trying for more from different location.

bigger one was caught on SP(pink) and the smaller one on prawnstar juinor, went at 38cm and 33cm.

time caught was between 5-6.30pm. location is pt walter sand bar (west side). and i have to add.. there are more and bigger ones there. just that i am too amerture to get them. btw, this time i was using a 4lb main, black swiver, 12lb lead line about 2ft lenght. 3" pink sp or the blue prawnstar jr.

Well what can I say, more Fish

Ocean was flat as a pan cake, I was waiting for the SE wind to come in, I think some one made a boo boo about the weather last night

It was a night of bait fish, they were every where, bucket loads of Yellow Tail jumping about the place.

First live out was a Herring, nothing touch it, change it for a live Yellow Tail, nothing touch that either, changed that for a size Tailor, nothing touch that either, strange probley to calm, going to give it another shot tonight.

We bag our self's 18 Yellow Tail, 1 Garfish, 8 Herring, 2 size Tailor

gear used, light lines with floats, gangs with mulies

was a good night for the family, at lest I got fish for dinner tonight and my sugar levels won't go up again LOL

Got a photo here to show you the Tailor were choppers, NO bigger than my hand most of them, my self and Scotty and his mate got a few size Tailor

TT ( karl )

Went for a dive lunch time today,to a while but we found a few crays at the end off the dive .The crays seem to be molting, as there was a heaps of shells around and the crays were soft. The water was nice with vis up to 8-10m found some great caves in the white water ,will be certain to give that reef another visit.plenmty of small fish swiming around.

Well after an extended summer break, I finally got the chance to get the boat out of dry dock for the first time in 2009.

Plan was to get a few fish to start building up a little bit of stock in my empty tuckerbox to cater for the next extended break from the water (either a cyclone or the fact that the boat is due for a service and I've got to tow it to Karratha to get it done) and maybe see if the odd red cray was still around.

A 6.45am launch saw James and I head down towards Anchor Island. First stop was to get a couple of small queenies for strip baits for my favourite leadhead bottom bashing technique.

After 3 casts for two queenies, we continued heading towards a little lump I have near Anchor. Two miles from the lump I came across some coral and a small show on the sounder. Two quick drifts producing nothing but juvenile blue lined emperors so we continued heading out.

500 metres further on we came across another patch of corally ground with some good fish shows so we pulled up for a drift. My first leadhead down was snaffled in quick time and the first trout for 09 soon graced the icebox, second leadhead was down there for a couple of minutes and then a better trout crashed the icebox party. Back around for another drift saw James add his first trout to the box and the day was off to a flyer.

We continued out and finally arrived at the lump. First floater lasted about 30 seconds before the whole scaly was clean bitten off. James then picked up a rat mack of about 90cm which he released. Meanwhile on the bottom he was two jigs dropped for two blitzkriegs, luckily we make out own jigs so the losses were not to painful.

My floater then went off and I thought I had a nice little mack on for a couple of minutes before it grew steroids and screamed off into the distance, I actually thought I had been sharked but I soldiered on. Twenty minutes later a nice 50lb mack ghosted into view, after the obligatory run around the anchor rope. He was promptly processed and added to the box, albeit cut in half minus the head and tail.

James then added a nice cobia before we called it quits and went for a dive.

Murky water still evident from the TC Dominic made it hard work but we picked up out bag of 4 reds. Spent a bit of time looking for some greens but we gave up after 30 minutes, the murky water making it that bit to hard.

With the new job, I occassionally get an afternoon off, and this was the case yeserday.

For that reason, I keep a change of clothes, Plueger President 2-4Kg, small reel, Berkley Tackle Bag (FC, Jig Heads, SPs and HBs, Owner Trebs,Braid Scissors and Alvey Measure) in the back of the 4by. 

So, after popping in to my local tackle shop for a top up of 1/32 Jig heads and a couple of packets of river prawns and some more Jig Heads, I headed off up the Kalgan, with the report of plenty small bream happening.

Even catching these would be great fun, I know the scenery is always fantastic, the time in quiet solitutude very peaceful, and there was always the change of hooking into the odd decent fish.

A walk trail along the river bank, provided me the opportunity to explore and try different spots. 

That's the beautty down here, you can walk for miles, especially during the week, and see no one. You have the whole wonderful experience to yourself.

Interstingly, I'd gone bream fishing on Wednesday armed with no bait (well ok, gulp camo's to the purists ), but didn't even raise a twitch. So it was back to the 'old fashioned' bait approach yesterday.

In a 90 minute session, I landed 18 bream (with a hookup on every cast) with most, as expected being small. The largest came in at 23cm, but alas, no 35plus (light) tackle testers.

I didn't bother taking photos of the fish, wanting to get them back in the water, but here's some scenery shots I thought Id share with you:

Rock up to point walter at about 6ish this evening. wanted to try out some of the new lures i obtain for flatheads, but sad to say... after about a hour or so, other then blowies.. nothing was on.

till i was about to turn my back, give up and go home for a nice warm dinner, bait fish was jumping!!! hear stories about tailors at point walter therefore could not help myself but to change from lures to slicer. halco 5g slicer, silver... 2lb main with 12lb lead about 2ft. and boy! to my surprise... 1st cast and game on.. but it return with a herring. still they were good fight.  they kept me there for another hour plus. total landed about 30+ and many more lost when they jump into the air and throw the hook out. almost every next cast was a hookup.

all where release other then the above two which i bought home.

gut and clean... into the steamer for 3mins and its dinner(chinese style)

no flathead yet...

Took the family over to rotto on Sun for olivers bday and we were extreamly lucky with the weather and had a glass off for 4 hours, an the clarity was amazing. we droped the ladies off on the land and went for a free dive at swirl reef where we were disapointed by the fish the with only a small baldie, a few blackasse and the usual reefies seen. after that we went for a quick fish with big fish and light rods in mind, we started pumping the burly and had a ball catching massive buffies, sweep and skippy on the light gear. We then went in and went for another dive before we headed home before the wind picked up to much. heres a few snaps

cheers Miles

Mixed Bag @ Bridport Point

mainly bait fish apart from the Tailor

Fished last night untill around 10pm

Started off using a pencil float to see if I would catch any thing after reading my fishing book. ( Australian Fishing & Lure Encyclopedia )

First fish caught using the pencil float was a Yellow Tail, ya that goes onto the live bait rod, wishing and hoping for a strike

2nd cast I land a Herring and a Whiting, both in the bucket for Live bait, so far so good

3rd cast I land a garfish, nice fat one too, into the bucket for eating, yum

4th cast I land a yellow eye mullet, into the bucket for Mulloway bait on Saturday night

In the mean time kids are landing Herring and Tailor, all my kids caught two Tailor each, all toll we caught 14 Tailor, came home with 6 this time round and happy faces from the kids, boy did they sleep well,

No takes on the big rod, some thing took my Yellow Tail with out the line moving, and I think the crabs got the live Tailor I had out, no sign of Mr shark yet

TT ( karl )

when up to hillary north wall at the disable platform this evening from between 4pm till about 8pm

out of 4hrs of fishing with frozen mulles, only did manage two run with no hookup.

both runs return with missing head and cut up mulles.

not too sure what hit the bait but was kind of sure that it was my mistake of using a 8/0 circle hook.

should have bought along some smaller hooks. but again, on the light line, using sand worms. nothing

much was caught other then the normal blowies. no whithings, no herring, no gar but manage to land myself

a 26cm skippy which quickly when back as live bait. by the end of the day, the skippy returned with its tummy all

chewed away. must be a great work of them blowies.

just waiting for this coming sat night where the boys will be meeting up at the south side of narrows for a fish. hope

at least someone will hookup to decent size mulloway that night. if you r around the area that night, do pop by to

say hi. see u guys there.

Fished just behind GI & 5 fath on saturday with a mate, about 25-30m. Was a slow start to the day picking up the usual wrase and skippy when the call was made to try a couple more spots to get stuck into some real fish! However on the way to the other spots we discovered a new lump which looked nicely populated with big red blobs, we did several drifts the first picking up a double header dhuie, both which were just size. We decided to throw them back and see if we could get something better. The next drift my mate picked up a red snapper (swallow tail? looked a bit large of a swallowtail) anyway i picked up a nice black arse, next drift i got a nice dhuie 5-6kg, another drift i picked up another dhuie about 4kg, then the spot went dead. We spent the next few hours trying different ground but with no luck, so the call was to stay 10 more mins then head in, so 5 mins had past and i stoped fishing and cracked the first beer when my mate hooked into what i thought was a shark or stingray doing a typical run. After about 5 mins of overusing "stingray boy" my mate pulled up a nice dhuie 98cm and aprox 15kg. Ended up being a great day on the water.

Cheers,

Pete

ACTUAL AUSTRALIAN COURT DOCKET 12659---CASE OF THE PREGNANT LADY 

A lady about 8 months pregnant got on a bus. She noticed the man opposite her was smiling at her.  She immediately moved to another seat. This time the smile turned into a grin, so she moved again.  The man seemed more amused.  When on the fourth move, the man burst out laughing, she complained to the driver and he had the man arrested.

The case came up in court.

The judge asked the man (about 20 years old) what he had to say for himself.

The man replied, 'Well your Honor, it was like this, when the lady got on the bus, I couldn't help but notice her condition.  She sat down under a sign that said, 'The Double Mint Twins are coming' and I grinned.  Then she moved and sat under a sign that said, ' Logan's Liniment will reduce the swelling,' and I had to smile. Then she placed herself under a deodorant sign that said, 'William's Big Stick Did the Trick,' and I could hardly contain myself.  But, Your Honor, when She moved the fourth time and sat under a sign that said, 'Goodyear Rubber could have prevented this Accident'... I just lost it.'

'CASE DISMISSED!!'

Wnt out off 2rocks with bodie and we got a few nice fish.

This was one of them..

very nice eating fish....

Been a while since we had managed to get out for some bottom dwellers, so took a mate from work and Tailor marc out for a run.

Couple we got from two rocks on Sunday. awesome conditions.
huge amounts of black bums about at the moment!!

Good day on the water.

Had a great morning hitting the tailor on some inshore reefs.  3hrs fishing produced about 30 fish.

First cast of the day, my mate landed a 54cm beauty!  Last cast of the day my other mate landed a 72cm monster!!  both released!  That second one is the biggest tailor I've ever seen!  I took a pic, but my camera is playing up, and won't load to my computer.  I'll add it here if I can get it to work.

Most of the other fish averaged about 40cm.

We were all a bit surprised bc it was flat, no swell, and low tide.  The fish were very tentative bc of the conditions, very light strikes, hitting mostly unweighted ganged mulies in green water.  Except for the big fella.  He at a metal slice just cms under the surface, it looked like someone dropped a compact car in the water!!!

 beautiful morning....and a beautiful meal tonight!  Now if we could only learn to be so successful with bottom bashing!  Hope y'all had a great day.

went for all nighter down at hilarys last night with james(flangies) and liam(SOI).

managed 2 stingys, 1 big preggo wobby, lil banjo, a little port jackson or two, a nice shark which im not 100% of the type but yeah hes dinner.

lots of bite and bust offs and a 30min fight which resulted in a bust off

 a few herring(which are abundant from about 8 til 11 or 12.....so if ur after a bag of herring hillarys definitely worth a try

 and 2 or 3 squid....quite alot around aswell but most quite small

sorry about blood on the shark

take note of liams face as he holds the wobby thats pregnant haha

i wanted to go 4 a flathead fish could som1 tell me were the best place is and best lures 2 use

Just got back from gero/greenough with callum thought I might let everyone know how we went.

We arrived in greenough abit dazed as to where we were ment to be fishing but after getting some local knowledge and tackle restocking we were on our way and had this done just in time for a 3 hour fish on sundown. Managed afew tailor and a couple wobbys but nothing special but in greenough a bad day of tailor is a good day in perth.

Next day we went for an all nighter down at the fishermans wharf at gero harbour and caught tons of snook, herring, whiting, yakkas, baby mullas and more. Even buffys that took mulies with a strange aggression haha

Got our 1st run early at about 10 which we think was a mulla but it dropped the hooks on us. After this run we got a few more but got bitten off, busted off pulled hooks...you name it.

at about 2.30am we got a nice run and callum managed to bring in a 1.2m hammerhead.

had shark burgers the next night along with a cray given to us by a random which was delicious

Night after that (Sunday) we headed down to the rcoks at greenough again and saw baitfish getting smashed by tailor.

We used mulies under floats and was certainly awesome to watch as you knew when a fish was about to take your bait because baitfish started going spaz around your float.

Once we ran out of mulies we used some tailor fillets and they worked a treat along with the odd snook whose abundance became a nuisance.

Then on monday we went for another all nighter to try get that ellusive mulloway.

No luck on the mulloway front but managed another hammerhead and a PJ shark.

We also got smoked by a couple rays.

In mid arvo we were getting into a heap of chopper tailor on the bream gear which was abit of fun on 4lb.

Was a shame to see no mulla's but was good to try somewhere new

Just a quick thanks to the lads who gave me advice on 4WDing the area, they gave me some great tips to ensure that the 4WD component was trouble free - and it was.

Fishing wasn't too good, we were about 5kms south of the whitehills beach entrance, fishing a sandy bottom. The water was pretty rough, the wind was a strong southerly and our bait was drifting unbelievably quickly, even with size 4 star sinkers attached. Our aim was to fish for whiting/herring, then switch to tailor/mulloway rigs on sundown.

Unfortunately nothing came about on the tailor front, but managed about 7 whiting. Will definitely go there again.

Was just wondering what your advice is for fishing for tailor in these rough condidions? I was usinf a free-running size 3 spoon sinker which stops at a swivel, then attached to that a leader of about 40cm with gangs and a mulie.

Have a great Australia Day guys

Mike

Went for a pond fish yesterday in the 37degree heat, and my mate caught his first pond barra for 2009.

They are still sleepy and just seem to be waking up now there has finally been a few stinking hot days.

If you don't catch any, they sell plenty of cheap seafood at wholesale prices, and check out their live tanks full of crays & barra.

Just a quick heads up for any tuna chaser's near ocean reef, whilst pulling the pots on saturday 8.30ish we noticed a fairly large school of tuna busting the surface inside the three mile. Good luck to anyone going to have a crack at them

gidday all recent trips catch off rocko and hillarys in 40 m ,sorry just got pic thing sorted lol

Hi all

Just had a text from my brother in Albany saying he's catching heaps, He's landed bucket loads of large herring and 8 Flat Head so far, biggest reaching 50cm. Flat Head are taking chucks of Herring for Bait.

He's off there again tonight, I'll see if he can send me some good images

TT ( karl )

Spent a lovelly few hours catching up with Vince (Uncutrigger) and his lovelly Wife Wendy this afternoon, where a few beers where forced down Vince and I's throat by our wives, despite our prodestations . Followed by a very civilised cheese, meat and condiment platter. Yum!

Vince, Sandra and I are heading out tomorrow morning. Hopefully, conditions will be right to head out WIDE and hook into some decent Pinkies and even that ellusive Southern Ocean Dhui! . I've been given some serious intel .

Conditions are forcast as good - here's hoping!

Watch this space for a report

With the marron season upon us again i took off in search of these little devils which i enjoy. I rang up Scott (FW-Soupster) and said lets get some tasty marron as the season is short and with very little arm twisting we were off. The opening coincided with the full moon so i gave that a miss this year and thought we'd hit up the mid week new moon time period. So off we went, Harvey weir was the destination and snaring the game. I enjoy the snare and its not that hard once you get the nack!

The esky was full of piss and as the darkness fell the marron filled the empty esky  

Ended up with our bag limit, a tasty feed for sure and was delish tonight cooked up on the BBQ.....going back soon!!!

Was a great nite Soupy, cheers mate!

With the warm weather over the last few weeks i thought i'd get out for a few hours yesterday to get some big blues. I've been doing well in many different spots in the Swan and there's no doubt the Swan blue manners are big, full of meat and right on our door steps for many!

Nick (FW member) came out for the late morning gentlemans hours sesh and for those 3 hours our effort was our limit of blueys. The wind did pick up after lunch so that was it and on my last string we had to throw back big crabs!

The crabs have been wide spreed with myself favouring the shallows this trip and doing well. Spleen & mullet combination in my drop nets did the trick and i had a feed last night with the meat being sweet and the body chockers with meat!

Here's a few picks;

Our limit; 

All crabs were males and no need to measure. The smallest went approx 135mm and most were 140mm to 178mm!

Some of the blues!

Good to catch up again Nick, I had a great day!

Went to my local tonight took my fishing gear and kids,

We decide to head more up towards Long Point tonight arriving at the beach around 6:30, so we looked for a spot along the beach that had no sea weed at all, we found a likely spot which was around 200 meters either side was just clear blue and you could see the sandy ground with no weed, we set up and started fishing and I was hoping to land Sand Whiting it's been some time since I've caught Sand Whiting at Port Kennedy, time went by and all we were getting were the Western Australian Butter Fish. We bag out on them, lost count after a while.

Always fun on very light line's, sunset came and a few more people arrived and still NO Tailor in site, wasn't till around 8:40 that the Tailor were on the bite. landed my first one which was size, saved that one for the live setup rig I had for the night, after that was casted out we landed another 8 Tailor all being under size.

We kept fishing with no more luck for the night, by 9:30 the kids were getting into the Herring, even I was catching them, they were taking pieces of mulie with a burley rig setup, between me and the kids we bagged 19 Herring and 3 yellow Tail and they were still biting when we left and that was around 11pm.

Came home with 19 Herring, 3 Yellow Tail and NO Tailor and NO Sand Whiting

All in ALL we had a blast wasn't too cold and the ocean was calm

TT ( karl )

Threw a few prawns around the raffles. Spent a bit of time on the little jetty down there but no luck. Few people looking for crabs but don't think they had any luck either.

Was chasing flatties so crossed over the bridge and hit the flats on the other side, had a few bit which felt like flatties but nothing that stuck.

Bloodworms seemed to get a bit of interest. Was fishing just on dusk till about 10:00. Real keen on getting some flatties this summer. Any advice??