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??

first time ive managed to get out wide for a while so had a bit of fun landed 7 fish sizes were pretty good got sum up to 25 - 30 kilo lost about 10 not sure what was going on.  were very hard to locate on sounder and had to move arround alot. then cam in close and got a few kings whch was good. then had motor problems so had to gun it home.

Hey all

Got into a few last night, things started off real slow, sun set came and no show for the humble Tailor, night fall arrived and we were on with a 30 minute session of big bites, after that we went home with fish, landed 8 Tailor and we kept 3, 3 Herring, 1 Yellow Tail and even the Trumpeters were in action LOL I hate them LOL

Bugger all people there as well, which is what I like while fishing, conditions were windly with alittle chop on the water and mulies where the go , didn't seem to like the gardie fillets I had out.

TT ( karl )

I've been targeting Sand Whiting on soft plastics a lot lately, and starting to get some excellent results. Today i took my niece and dog down to the beach for a swim, took my rod, and landed a PD sandy first cast. This beast went 35cm, and is the biggest, Sand Whiting i've ever seen. I've caught a Yellowfin bigger, but this thing looked like a Bonefish in the water. Sure put up a great fight on the 4lb braid!







I went on to catch 9 in total, and there wasn't a single one under 30cm, ripper whiting!







Great fish!

Went out chasing billfish this morning in less than perfect conditions, with 5-8 knots forecast it was more like 15-18 south - south west and rather uncomfortable slop.  We were hoping to go deep but the conditions just didn't allow it so we sat in close and hunted around, we were fishing with two tiagra 80's with 37kg and a 50 with 24kg and were looking for some of the monsters that had been reported over the last week.  We managed to pick up a few dolphinfish which hardly even took line and were released.  Shortly after we found a couple of fiesty marlin that the hooks just wouldn't stay in.  One fish would have gone 12-15kg and the second one going 60kg'ish, which looked like a  baby blue, went nuts tail walking over the surface giving us not much chance to get line back. 

It didn't take long for the next fish to come up and chew on the lures, finally this one stayed connected and I got my first sailfish for the season, a nice 25kg fish.  Whilst it didn't take much line on 37kg, still did a few nice jumps and gave a show of itself.  (I will get the capture pics soon and post them up)  After that we raised and hooked another 2 marlin but just couldn't get the hooks to stick, one was an estimated 40kg and the other was sight unseen, but what seemed like a solid fish.  On the cruise in we picked up another dolly and dropped an octojig down in 40m to have it smashed almost instantaneously, but, as seemed to happen today - the hook pulled just under the boat and there was another story of the one that got away.

All in all is was quite a good day, if the hooks had stuck it would have been magic, but still not bad all the same.  Gribbo also managed to get a nice sailfish and marlin and met us back at the ramp at 2, lots of little rat billfish out there, just couldn't get wide enough for the monsters. :(  Sorry if the reports a little all over the shop, was bloody hot out there and am cactus as.  Couple of photo's to come soon.

I popped down to the Narrows last night to catch with Original Teenager and Flangies to present their prizes for the junior landbased competition (unfortunately Flangies' flight back from Tassie was held up and he didn't make it). A few of the other young Fishwrecked members were down there (Son of Irish and fishorueb), along with Chan and his lady. I also ran into kaitan who was with a big group of his mates.
The youngsters were planning an allnighter to try and catch a big mulloway and they were well set-up when I arrived.
Unfortunately the blowies were swarming and really didn't give anything else a chance to grab the baits - though the guys did manage a couple of nice blue mannas.
I left about 11 pm so I don't know how that finished up - I dare say they are still sleeping it off.
Great to catch up with you all and good on you all for being such keen anglers - I hope the fish ended up playing along.

All the best, Colin Hay

Hey all just joined up to the site i have been reading the reports for a while now and id thought id post my latest trip.Went to the beach just north of Hillary's last night.Got there just as the sun went down and left about 1am.Had a few decent bites and ended up getting a fairly big shovelnose.when i got home it measured 5 foot seven and sure put up a decent fight.The people fishing a bit down from us got a few tailor and stingrays.

gidday all took a mates boat out on friday off hillaries for a look bit windy and choppy in close but once u got out a bit it just turned magic all day wee bagged on dhues and baldies just before lunch spent the rest of the day picking up, kg ,red throatsand and trying not to cath any more dhu or baldie released heaps of size dhues they went back ok top day came in flat out too good quick flat trip back

Rock up at the Kwinana beach for a fish tonight up near the jettie, took the family with me this time round, not alot happing for a while, Tailor were the first to come on the bite but with only a hand full caught, all Tailor were under size but one and it was just size made the 30cm mark on my fishing pole, landed 19 Herring and 5 Tailor between all of us, Jasmine been the one that landed the most tonight.

Baits were strips of gardie for the Tailor, cut up peaces of mulie for the Herring, and a oily burley mix, float #3 with the hole in the center to put burley, long leader to a wide gap hook #8, baits were getting smashed at 8 feet away from the shore line.

It was a good night for us, hope you had a good fishing session.

Hoping and will do soak these yellow tails I got tonight

TT ( karl )

After Coral Bay we headed to Exmouth, it was windy and hot there but we still managed to get the boat out 5 times. Went in the gulf once, back of the islands twice and Tantas twice.

I managed to get my first Mangrove Jack in 65m and got my first GT trolling in the Gulf. The 8/1/09 out at tantas was the best day with the fish really firing. I got a 12kg Mackie on my drift bait it did a wicked leap out of the water. We also got a heap of Rankins, chucked most back only kept 2 big ones that wouldnt go down, I also got my first Coronation Trout, Amanda got a nice Tomato cod also. From the looks of Adams pics on that day I should have trolled the skirts, maybe next time.

It was a different experience being in Exy in Jan, it was like a ghost town compared to April/May. It was also a laugh seeing the Emu's everywhere. Can't wait to get back there in April/May for 4 weeks, counting the days...

Hey everyone,

Here's a report on our Kalbarri trip (1-4 Jan 09)

A few of us headed to Kalbarri for the start of the New Year. We left Perth at 4am New Years Day after maybe 3 hours sleep (had to see the New Year in and have a few beers!). Got to Kalbarri after 12 some time, set up camp at Big River Ranch (2 kms out of town on Kalbarri Rd). Cheap place to camp, just a bit out of the way though.

We just chilled that arvo, we were all tired so we took it easy. The next night, however, tried the Blue Holes/Siphon recommended to me by Mr Colin Hay (cheers Colin). A big hole in the reef right in front of the carpark. I had never caught a mulloway before and my hopes were high. I've seen some pics of monster mullas caught from Kalbarri.

Casting into the hole with mulies and some weight, the water was choppy and there was a strong southerly blowing, it was hard to gauge the sucking bite of the mulloway from the movement of the water. I had my drag set pretty loose and soon I had worked out what the water was doing. About half an hour into the sesh, a bit more line than usual was peeling off the reel. I let it go, it stopped. Then it started again. I struck, and I knew I had a fish. There wasn't much of a fight, so I knew it wasn't big, but I was still hoping for mulloway, as I'd never caught one.

Landing the fish was dead easy, and it was a mulloway of 46cm. Not a keeper, I threw him back after a quick snap from a mate's phone.

Now I know it's tiny for a mulla, but who cares. I was stoked that I caught one.

Mates were getting impatient, because there's not enough room for 6 to fish at this place, so we packed up and headed down the road to Red Bluff Beach. This ended up being more of a scouting expedition, as there was nothing on the bite there for the whole night. Me and a mate pulled an all nighter there while the others went back to camp for some shuteye. We stayed till dawn, only catching a cod of some sort for the whole night.

Just before dawn, a convoy of cars pulled up at the carpark ,and within 10 minutes we were joined by about 20 other fishos. We had run out of bait, were waiting on someone to pick us up, and were watching the other guys pull in tailor after tailor after tailor. We were spewing (should have saved our bait for dawn).

Oh well, like i said, it ended up being a scouting mission.

We were buggered the next day (Saturday) from the all nighter, and we could'nt sleep during the day, our tents were in full sun and must have been 50+ degrees inside. So we took it easy that night and went to bed early.

Now we had to leave on Sunday at 9am. We decided to go down and try for some tailor that morning before we packed up and headed home.

That morning the wind had changed to offshore and Red Bluff beach had barrelling 6 footers. There was even a surfer out amongst the tailor fishing (crazy bastard).
Caught a couple of good size tailor, biggest going 46cm.

There werent as many about as we had seen the previous morning, but at least we got a couple of good uns.

After they stopped biting, we packed up and went home.

All in all, learnt a bit for next time we go up, Kalbarri is a magical place. Next time I want to also try for some bream in the Murchison!

Mike

Went out fishing today, what a beuatiful day it turned out to be, caught baldies and some undersize duhies and as for that fire, looked impressive from out there.  How did every one else go?

Just got in from a GREAT arvo's fishing.  Unfortunately log on to the site to see some d**khead trying to start stuff, sigh.  Anyway, went out about 3.30 this arvo and was expecting 3 knot northerlies, ended up being 15, spewn.  Anyway decided to troll some skirts and raised two very fiesty sails in the first hour and a half and a very inquisitve dolphinfish, unfortunately no hookup.  We decided to try a bit deeper and with no interest for the next 2 hours except one little zip decided to head in.  As we were slowly starting to motor in the wind died off to its forecast 3 knots and up flared the bottom showing some good signs of fish.  A quick drift and bang, solid hookup and a nice little rankin cod, things were looking promising.  Next drift another big hookup, only to be disappointed with a 6kg golden trevally which felt like a red.  On the way up the golden also brought two rat dolphinfish, but with nothing to throw at them they just cruised around and disappeared.  Another few more drifts and we got an 8kg cobia and 2 just size spanglies.  On the way in past north west reef the birds were going nuts and on closer inspection we discovered 8-10kg longtails with solid shark mackerel jumping all over the surface and busting up small baitfish.  Second cast and whammo, 10 minutes of getting toweled up on 6kg and sharked, doh!  As it was getting dark we headed in and grabbed a coldie to celebrate a quick arvo session.  Only took one photo, but a beautiful sunset none the less. ;)

Got back on Sunday night from our trip to Coral Bay and Exmouth, I thought it was time I posted some pics.

Rolled into Coral Bay on the 24th to be greeted by 20kn+ winds, thinkings didn't look good on Christmas night with 40-50kn winds at the boat ramp. Finally the wind died off on the 27th and allowed us 5 days of fishing, I think the cyclone had something to do with it.

First day out on the boat I had Amanda's Uncle Kev and Cousin Matt as deckies, all we wanted was a fish on board, so we went out the north passage and trolled lures down the back off the reef. Within 15 min Kevs reel screamed and a 15kg mackie was the result.

After this Kev and Matt lost there breakfast over the side, I helped them by yelling abuse and taking photos haha

The second day saw us heading out the South Passage searching for some Reds, Amanda was the first to boat a fish with a nice Rankin.

Matt scored his first Red Emp and he was pretty happy about it

I chipped in with a nice Spanglie on the egg beater

The next day Matt and myself headed out and did a lot of driving around looking for fish. It paid off with Matt scoring a huge 7kg Red (waiting for him to email the pic)

I got the biggest Rankin I have ever seen weighed in at 10kg, I thought it was a shark as it took the bait while I was reeling up a lil red throat. The pic doesn't do it justice.

The next day I had to ban Matt from the boat for getting more Reds than me haha. I went out with Amanda and scored Two 5kg Reds. I was happy when I saw that Red come up.

New years eve was a cracker day in the boat, I had Matt and Elliot as deckie, we started out early as I had to be back early to go on the quad bikes.

We started of trolling south of the south passage, after an hour my reel screamed and after a short fight I had a 7kg Mackie

After that we hit a spot to try for some Reds, We got a few small spanglies then Elliot hooked into his first Red.

Not to be out done i got a 7kg 78cm Red on the last drop, the fish swam through everyones lines it was a total mess but I got it up.

Matt also got a nice Rankin and I got a Spanglie.

The fishing was better than I thought it would be and it was great to get the boys into there first Reds. If your going there watch out for the south passage, a 5m+ boat flipped upside down on new years eve with the guys lucky to survive.

I will post some Exy pics in the next day or two.

Well we left Perth on last thursday morning and headed down to Walpole for 5 days of fishing. We stayed at the Coalmine caravan park, which was great..and very close to the action!

Friday morning we were up at 0530 and hit the water on sunrise.

 We had 4 of us piled in the runabout, beers..bait and a couple of rounds of vegemite and cheese sangas...and we wanted to go and try for a few fish around the mouth of the Nornalup Inlet. After a red bull, a couple of winny blues and some pushing..we finally got our boat to the river mouth, as we had struck a mega low tide ! Who would of thought the tides raced so much this far south. We pulled the boat up on the shore near the house boat mooring and all 4 of us walked up the right hand side of the mouth, and fished off the rocks.  After a few hours, we ended up with a nice feed of Tarwine! We then went across to the sandy side of the mouth, and casted around into the shallows..but found nothing on the bite!

Sat morning..kicked Claire in the guts and were on the water again at sunrise. We were greeted with fog this morning..and decided that today we wanted  to catch some king george. We were working the coalmine beach flats...and found heaps of bites any where there was structure. Claire hooked onto a nice bream and i caught my first size kg..so all was going well !  We landed 12 size kgs this day and found them to come on the bite when the sun was well up and starting to warm the water. They were very tricky to hook up...which provided a challenge for us. We used prawn  for a while, but when we changed our bait to Cockles..shit did they go off!  Once we had taken the cockle meat out of the shell, we were throwing the shells  in front of our boat, which proved to be good burley for them. We also tried fish baits(mulie,whitebait) but found that brought in the pesky Trumpeter! We had a lucky find in the arvo, when I spotted a big blue manna in the shallows. I jumped out with my landing net..and scooped him up...we measured him and he went 174mm

Sunday morning we worked the flats again, for a few more King george. Claire once again caught the biggest fish of the day, with a nice 34cm bream.  Then after yesterdays 174mm crab...we struck it lucky again....but this one was a little bigger at 185mm. We had a great day and headed home for a few cold redbacks.

The crabs tasted great (better than mandurah ones)....and were full of meat! First time ive ever filled a cereal bowl with meat from 2 crabs. My first taste of King george was great to..they are some tasty buggers. All in all we had a great time in Walpole, bugger all wind, nice and warm weather......but just watch those bloody march flys..there the size of a small finch!