Well, with July soon to end, I was desperate to obtain a better entry for the Tackle Shack July (Bream) Comp - one that involved fish this time!

I'd quized some of the local young bream masters and topped up my supply of softies and jig heads.

I'd been invited out by Deacon Plant, one of THE local young guns (4th in the last ABT!), in his tinny. The plan was to launch from the Kalgan Ski Club and fish anywhere that had good structure and/or drop offs.

My wife and I arrived at 08:30 am, as organised with Deac, to beautiful crisp July 26 Saturday morning, with a crisp feathery wind blowing and a river surface that perfectly reflected everything:

I'd travelled light, mindfull of space in a small boat:

Three minutes later, we could hear Deac's thunderous vehicle and modified box trailer (to hold and launch/retreive the boat), crashing and thimping down the rough gravel/dirst track - infested with puddled pot holes from the recent heavy rains.

Sandra drove off, planning to conduct some shopping in Albany and Deac and I were left to start the day! A day I was SO looking forward to!

We dropped the tinny in the water, and I braved wading into an ICE cold Kalgan (remember, it's fed by water from the Stirlings that had snow on them recently! )

Soon underway, we stopped at our first spot selected by Deac, and, no sooner had I heard the swish of his rod and plop of the jig head, when the tip of his rod arched forward under the load of the first bream for the day - caught by Deac as I expected. After all, he is the master, and I was the student:

Almost in shot Deac - hang on to the slippery little guy:

...no, stick your tongue in - it's not a good look:

...that's better!

Immediately after, my 2-4 Pfeuger Rod angrily responded and I was onto my first fish. We were into them!

My first:

...a close up:

...measured up - just size - but he went back - a good start though!

Deac's 'Lecky' wasn't working, so we were thankfull of almost windless conditions and a slow river flow that set up a very graceful, easy drift.

We moved onto a deep channel adjacent to some flats, and I sent out my Gulp my Gulp 2" cammy sandworm on a 1/32 jig head, 2lb braid and 8lb Flouro Carbon leader. No sooner had the the jig hit bottom and I deployed my first twitch to impart action, when, BANG!! - this one was my second for the day and I could tell, a better fish!

We moved around quite a bit, trying different depths, drop offs, structures (natural and man made) and the action was plentiful astern and up front, with boath of our rods seein g action virtually on every cast!

Here's Deac with a good one! :

...a close up:

I was rellying on Deac to take the photos - so didn't want to pester him on every fish (I landed 10)

Here's number 3:

and 4:

and 5:

and the last one photographed:

A suprise catch - a little salmon trout. We caught a few of these:

There were plenty of bust offs, snacks and trees....but overall a great day for what Deac described 'as the hardest time of the year down here'! 

REPORT ENDS...

Headed out nice and early, getting to Two rocks ramp just before 7am. Ramp was quite busy with about 15 other boats heading out at the same time.

Luckily we were in a 25Ft Blackwatch centre console with twin 200's on the back, so cruising out at 40 knots makes for a short trip!

Headed To Direction bank, and fished in the 35m range

After 5 minutes, First Baldie and First 5KG dhu onboard!!

Most pics with a guy i work with landing his Dhuies.

Total day managed 7 Dhuies, 1 under size, and 3 Baldies, 1 being a monster!!!

Dhu's, 1 @ 10.5 Kgs, 2 @ 7.5 kgs and 3 at 5.5 kgs

Biggest Baldie went 5.5 kgs!!!!! Massive!

Massive Baldie!!

By Far the Best Metro (Well i call it metro) fishing ive done so far. Only 2 Rass landed and thats it, nothing else, all in 5 hours of fishing!

Had whales jumping around pods of dolphins coming through and also got a wee too close to a tanker and he showed his displeasure by honking pretty dam loud!

I can say i will be going back to Two rocks again :):)

PS: can you see the jig that caught quite a few Dhuies :) its a plastic squid about 3 inches long!

I tried the Okta Jig, but no even a touch!

Cheers

3 in the boat and a great day on the water.

3 dhuies kept, smallest 53cm, KG's to 58cm, flounder, skippy and others.

Top day out!!!

And the turf shot.

Al.

Got a group of Perth Kayak fishers together for a run Saturday morning out to Cockburn Sound. Amazing how they come out of the woodwork after a good fish is caught!! Unfortunatley, the fish didnt come out to play, tho it was great having a group of 7 kayaks fishing together, and a great time was had by all.

The Sound was like a millpond all morning, beautiful weather, kind off a stark contrast with the Industrial Wasteland of Kwinana strip our backdrop!! Heres a few snaps!

Thanks to those who came, especially the Northies!

OK, So woke up sat morning  with no swell and light winds I decided to head down to the dog beach and see if anything was around.Since i hadnt planned anything i didnt get down till about 10am but non the less there was a nice winter gutter on offer so i set up a burley trail and started having a flick round with the Bream outfit. after about 15min the herring came on the bite which i was happy with at that stage then i got hit by something a bit bigger and it took a bit of drag..shortly after i landed i nice salmon trout.Now considering how lazy i had been i was stoked with that but the best was still to come..I had had the shimano shorespin loaded with 6kg fireline out baited with a whole mulie just in case of something a bit bigger.Meanwhile i was distracted trying to get the hook out of my salmon trout which had nearly swollowed my whole rig.And the shorespin took two big hits...I raced over and struck only to feel no weight.My heart sank and a volley of swearing proceeded.But as i reeled in the line became taught and took off down the beach. after a good battle i landed a nice salmon of about 4kg.released

 Baited up again 2 more casts hit again.another salmon a bit smaller.Unfoutunately had hooked it in the gills so kept it.

About 10 min later hooked and landed another salmon prob round 4kg also.These were the roundest little salmon i had ever seen!Needless to say i was stoked with the late season salmon considering ive tryed for them down at Brighton at least 10 times to no avail.

Cooked the salmon that night in lemon pepper, flour and butter and was really suprised how nice it tasted.Have eated them a fair bit before but i think they taste alright and seem less bloody in the smaller sizes.No photos unfourtunely..Did'nt expect to catch anything!

Going down to have a crack early saturday morning with the powerbaits. Hopefully there will be a few skippy and herring about.

Not sure what wall to fish yet, may have at the north wall. high tide at 5.15am (ill be there about 6am.) so far the wind is looking low too.

Come say hi if you are about, i shouldnt be too far from a silver statesman with a tackle shack sticker on the back.

wicksey

Got a late start today...didn't get out on the water til about 11:30.

Launched from Hillaries and hit our first lump near Rotto.  First pass I caught my first ever Sgt. Baker.  Back he went and we went around for another run.  Next run my mate brought up a just size pinkie.  Next pass I caught my first pinkie....not very big, about 4cm short, so back he went.

 The weather was so nice, and we know very few good fishing spots, so we decided to take advantage of calm conditions to search for new ground.  Dropped on a couple of likely looking spots over the next couple of hours.  Mate caught a cracking KG that went in the esky!  I brought in a couple of big sand whiting that should taste good for breakfast tomorrow!  

Decided to go out wide with the ocean looking like a lake.  Saw a few whales and a big pod of dolphins.  Found a table top where 48m climbed to about 40m and made a few passes.  I brought up my first ever baldie on the first pass!  Was stoked about that.  Unfortunately, he checked in at 38cm, so he was safely released.  On the same pass, mate was busted of by something big and strong.  Two more passes yielded nothing, and we decided to call it a day.

I know for most of you this would have been a disappointing day, but we were pretty happy with it.  Three firsts for me on this trip!  Can't wait to get that first dhuie!  We've still got alot to learn, but ya know...learning is a lot of fun!;)  I'm planning to get a little digital camera soon, so hopefully I'll have some pics with my next report!

I'll be even happier when I start raking in some of the hauls I see you fellas getting!

Went out off Rockingham this morning at 7am and this was our first spot.

Had a couple of massive hookups that I reckon were real good dhuies but kept pulling hooks on the bastards, I gotta remember to settle down and take it easy when using the 80lb gear.

On about our third drift after working out the current and wind we got our first dhuie of about 5kg, then I got one very similar in size. After about our 5th drift we had a double hookup for two more dhuies, and there's our bag limit with a score of 2 all.

So off we go into the sound for a few squid and maybe a whiting or two, but I had so much fun with the squid we never bothered chucking any baits out, a few small cuttlefish and about 15 squid later we called it a day.

The days catch.

Hope you enjoyed the report.

Al. 

Took young Dean out for a trip today, things were a bit slow . The weather wasn't the best ,with the wind gusting at 20 knots at times. Hit the deeper water today 70-80 meters ,there was fish on the sounder but they wern't biting ,moved in a bit closer and picked up a few fish .
Dean got a nice dhuie at 10.5kg but that was the fish of the day finished up with
5x dhuies 3 released
5 breaksea
and a few small fish .

Just a quick report here, herring went off at hillarys north wall this morning and were still going crazy when i left at 1030, i think todays the day if you want a feed!! Unclestu and i easily catching about 40-50 between us including a few mullet and a 25cm tailor which is good to see ...

Never mind about 'SPESS'S SPECIAL BREW' it should be 'UNCLESTU'S HOME BRAND!' haha his burley (chicken fats, leftovers from last nights dinner, pollard, bread and oil etc) made the fish go absolutely crazy!!

Oh by the way, inside the harbour there were a few reports of hits and misses and alot of tackle lost due to some big skippy ...

Well I love my Swan diving but the cold weather stopped me in winter very quickly. My summer wetty didn't cut it so I had to change that quickly. I went to Perth Scuba in Canningvale and both Lee & Nat were helpful with good advise on stayimg warm. I ended up buying a thermal suit and hoody that i wear under my normal wetsuit!

Went for a dive with Pete D & brad last night, we ended up with a feed but for me the best thing was being very warm in the friggen cold water. Best money i've spent and i'll be doing more winter dives for sure. I ended up with just under a kilo of prawns and i could of got more if i didn't chase some blueys but i had the seafood list required for tonights cookup. I was tempted to do a second dive to catch more, perhaps next time!

Large fish plate with tonights prawn meal!

Large fish plate with tonights blue-manner meal to go with the prawns!

Gday guys,

I was fishing on Sunday morning down at Woodman's Point for some Herring and Gardies. Just for the mornings breakfast anyway and to kill time to watch my boys play footy! My rig consisted of a metal burley cage tide to the main line and the bottom leader being 50-60cm of 2kg mono with a small #8 octopus circle hook. As I prepared my burley and may bait (Prawns - I don't like Maggots cause they are Maggots, HYUCK) I looked at the water and the visability was execptional, fantastic.

Now I was ready to bait up, so through a hand full of burely in and whacked a bit onto the cage and baited the small hook with a bit of Prawn. I opted to cast out far so I could cover alot of ground and locate where the fish are biting. First couple cast didn't recieve anything so I went back out and now I started seeing little splashes on top of the surface which made me excited. Recieved a couple small tap taps and then I was on, my first Garfish for the morning and jumping everywhere. As I got this one in, a school of Herring came gate crashing the burley area, I baited up again and went straight there. Soon as it hit the water the I was hooked up straight away, it was a large Herring could almost say Bull Herring size. It was doing its famous Houdini leaps and what not which resulted the fish coming off the hook, BUGGER!

Kept casting away with my burley in trail and getting a few more Gardies and Herring. But then something big came pass and busting the burley on the surface and I was like "What was that?" I opted to cast out to the burley area and seeing these fish busting the burley on the surface some what 30m away. I let my rig sink down for a bit and then recieve little finicky bites again and I was like "must be Gardy" so I struck and I was on big time. My 1.8kg Tica Graphite Attack rod was loaded like no tomorrow, bloody drag was peeling line out like Craig Lowndes in his Ford V8 going down the main straight. Fish was heading straight for the bottom, I called it for a big Skippy! But after a solid 5-10min fight I had a Buff Bream in sight (my heart was broken once I saw it - seriously thought it was a Skippy) of the rocks and it did another lunged for freedom. I stopped him in his tracks and got him up, bloody thing was a solid nugget I was guessing he weighed at about 2.5kg close to 3kg. I released the bugger and said "thanks for the fight" I just baited an burley the cage up again and flicked it to the same area again. Then SPLASH, BANG! Another Buffy hit me seriously it hit my like a bat out of hell and now I'm in deep trouble cause this thing was big. Got him close to the rocks then BANG another run and POP there goes my rig into the crevices of the rocks. This thing was huge, saying well over 5kgs.

Well I fished till 12 noon and had 12 Gardies and 4 Herring in the bucket and and about 30 hook ups of Buffies out at 30m away from the rocks which resulted in alot of hurt. That was my fun for the morning, sure beat staying at home.

Have fun guys,

Cheers Darda. H

Yes well hit the ramp nice and early, beat the rush. Was surprised to see six empty trailers, and not a boat to be seen. well the day went in a different direction than had planned ,with the sea being quite choppy we changed tact and stayed in close ,Was heaps of fish on the sounder, schools on most patches but the fish were playing hard to get , we still ended up with a good catch but a lot of miles . Jody nailed a nice Cray while drift baiting around 1kg and missed another with only get one leg The Jesse v Jody thing fell in a heap with the skipper out fishing them this time
The days catch 7 dhuies 3 released,
3 snapper all released
1 sambo released
4 blackbums 3 released
1 crayfish released
2 bluebone
And an assortment of small fish.

Went out to 5 fathom for a bit of a fish yesty.
Had a drift over Pamelia to try for a few squid and only picked up one.
Headed out through the rain, should of drifted for squid a bit longer and we would of missed it.
Was nice ride out and got to the spot only to find 5 other boats within 60 meters from the point I was heading.
Found a bit of ground and dropped anchor.
Stu had a whole whiting on drifting out the back and picked up his PB sambo.

Pulled in a Skippy on mostly flick rods and they were a blast.

OK, thought I'd set this up ready for my foray into Great Southern breaming waters as my action in the above comp.

I intend to fish the Kalgan, Hay and King Rivers.

Here's one shot of the King River - Chester Pass Road bridge:

Another further down stream toward Oyster Harbour where the King Feeds into:

Some of the wild life can be a bit intimidating!:

I'll be buying the line of course and eager to try out the Pflueger 2 piece I picked up. Will post more pics and content as it comes to hand. Pics of BREAM hopefully!

G'day all.  Thought I would post a pic of a couple of dhuies I picked up on sat arvo.  Went for a fish out from Mindarie bout 2pm - the weather was pretty dodgy (which was indicated by only one other boat trailer parked at the ramps) though just before I headed in I drifted over a nice little lump and picked up these beauties!

The bit you won't believe is that I got them as a double header! The larger one weighed 6kgs whilst the smaller one was 3.5kgs.  They put on a great fight and tasted great on the Barbie too!:)

i think it is well worth a few casts at the ocean reef rock walls, i went down tonight and in an hour or so i had about 2-3 very solid hits on a weighted mulie as did the guys next to me aswel ..

News just in from one of our local newspapers:

Quote:

In the rivers from Torbay to Bremer Bay, decent sized bream were pulled, with one lucky chap scoring a 150cm beauty

It MUST be true, it's in the paper

Hope I catch one like that on my 2lb gear!   

Hey guys my good mate and i are going to take advantage of the good weather on sunday and make a trip to my favourite fishing spot out of perth off Two Rocks. Every time we have made a trip up that way we have always had a great time and came back wiht fish. i was just wondering if anyones been fishing up that way much lately and might be able to help me with a bit of info. like whats the water temp like up there atm and have you been getting the fish in shallow or out deep any info would be great . hopefully i come back with some fish and some pics that i can post up on here to show you guys how we went .

Cheers Guys

Dave

hey guys, tonight i went down to hillarys for some squiding, caught about 3 in about 30 mins.

and then sudenly the old fela next to me gets a HUGE squid on about 55-60 cm inside the marina!

while the squid jig points were still on the squid the man puts the squid back in the water to clean the ink off

and at that moment the squid spits the needles and falls back into the water.

i couldent help my self but to laugh!!!

he wasnt laughing...lol

A couple of weeks ago Unclestu gave me a little blue fibreglass boat which, once we had done a little bit of fibreglass work was ready to be used. We only needed to add a few essential pieces of safety equipment eg anchor, rollicks, cleat ect and she was ready to be sat on. we had a 5hp motor and 25l fuel tank already and figured that I would much rather pay a little bit and get around with pleasure and ease.

I had a quick look on seabrezze this morning and it didn’t look too flash although looked out the window and it wasnt that bad so we decided today would be the day of reckoning. We fastened it to the roof racks and got my dad to drop my brother and me down at Leuwin where we put it in the water to see it float beautifully. We tightened the motor and fuel tank and chucked a couple of rods in just in case.

We drove over the other side of the river staying well clear of any ferries as we weren’t prepared to get wet. Once there we anchored in front of the cliff in north Freo, and chucked out some lures. First fish landed in the boat was a little unexpected, but I recon still better than a blowie

You probably didn’t guess it, a STARFISH
We decided to move but we were having a bit of engine trouble, as the fuel tank was new and hadn’t been used, We figured that it was that. We trawled for about a second, while i used a rapala countdown and within seconds of moving i had a fish. Excited and stoked that it didn’t feel like a blowie, I stopped the engine and brought it in.

My first swan herring
We kept trawling until we came across a sand bank and decided to have a flick for flatties, but in typical Swan style we left disappointed, with the engine still mucking around we decided to go back and sort it out.

We found that the pump on the fuel line was the wrong way round, so we switched it round and it worked perfectly
The wind had dropped off and we decided to see what we could catch on lures around near South Mole. we got just to the south of the mole and started drifting. I was using a squid jig and my brother was using a feather jig for whiting and snapper.

however i made the better decision as per usual (he'll like me saying that)and I was on within minutes.

we kept drifting and I contined producing. I caught a few but but also lost a few due to being unprepaired

It was pushing 5:15 and was beginning to get dark so we decided to head in to South Beach,

I rang dad and he came picked us up

It was the first good trip of many to come. When i get the chance ill be adding lots of rod holders, and a water proof locker for phones and cameras
Im heading out in the sound tomorrow to try our luck with some more squid

I must thank stuart for giving it to us

cheers miles

was down at hillaries today. started at the lighthouse and got a small skippy. about an hour later, i had a big run on my bigger gear and brought in a nice big landbased skippy. i was about to go and pick it up outta the water when it bent my gang hook and got away. i then moved down next to the restuarant and honsu was there. him and his mates were gettin stuck into lotsa nice skippy and a few herring. they gave the herring to me and i kept them. (will post up pictures later when i get them) one was 29cm and the other was 28cm. maybe honsu could fill you guys with the rest of the info

Today i fished the South wall at Hillarys just near the carpark behind aqwa .... i was using a paternostered gang hook rig with a mulie .. and an unweighted mulie on a different rod and in about 3 hours i didnt even get a nibble ... Is there any better weighted rigs i can use with the gang hooks? And is anyone else having any luck in the metro area on bigger fishes (Tailor, Salmon, Snapper etc.) ?

hi guys i said i would have a right up on how sat morn went. i am sad to announce that we got nothing. we had a few hits on the soft plastics but we were getting annoyed by blowies there were everywhere bloody pain in the ass. probably try again sat morn

Just to Rub it in to all of us heading up North over the next few months!!!

Mate of mine in Karratha over the weekend!!
I get these photos every Monday morning!!! Looking at them doesnt make for a good morning!!!!!!

Big Red!!!! + Trout!

hey guys, since its now school holidays im going to rottnest on friday antill sunday.

while im there im going to spare every last moment fishing, but i dont know the area very well, any tips of fishing styles and places to fish??do you reckon i should fish lures+plastics or bait?

p.s do any of you think there will still be salmon hanging around rottnest?

many thanks

seb

The new tub got chistened today with a nice little dhuie, got a few gliches to sort out with the new tub but nothing a bunch of money wont fix....LOL

PIC.

Not a bad fish for the first time out with all the problems we had, I'm just happy to be able to get out there now.

Al.

edit: the gliches that need sorting out were my fault and not the previous owner of the boat, by saying "cash to sort it out" I mean things like an electric winch, new prop, the right transducer and upgrading a few little bits here n there. Sorry Brenz if some got the wrong idea, hope this clears it all up mate. 

gday guys a huge thanx to evry 1 who attended tonight was great to meet yall and congradulations to collin hay who walked home with a new sustain 4000
brenz

G'day all just thought I'd get off me bum and do a report,
The bureau of met got it right this time and predicted us (Karratha) some good weather.
Went and got some crabs on Sat night and celebrated our success with a few beers. Up not so bright and early the next morning we were soon roaring across Nickol Bay to soak a few baits at the Burrup. Had a few good runs with Zee battling one aboard at 630mm, with only a few more runs and Ash getting her 1st little Trout and a few Snapper (Retic emperor), we decided to try to get thru Searipple Passage to some squidding ground. We left our run a little late and had run out of water, so it was time to do a liitle exploring. I had marked a couple of isolated reefs further out so we made a beeline to the first one. Anchoring just off the ref (my fault) we dropped anyhoo, it was a little quiet so I cast over to the reef and hooked up instantly witha a nice snapper. Repositioned we all enjoyed a myriad of bustoffs, Snapper (most released), a nice cod and a couple of good Trout. Looking back towards Karratha I noticed some ominous looking clouds and decided to make the 16nm trip home, didn't get rough but we did get wet.
Hope yas like the pics and thanks for reading my ramblings
I would like to put all the images here but I can't figure it out!!
Cheers Daisy

Went down to hillaries north rockwalls from about 10am to 1pm today, there is alot of herring and yellowtail around, the fellas next to me were reeling in quite decent size gardies on floaters, i was using a burley cage without a float,but also i fished with a paternoster rig and caught a couple of medium sized skippy and probably about 5 little snappers which are great fun and put up a strong fight.

 I am wondering are yellowtail any good to eat? i caught about 15 of them but i threw everything back because the bites were sporadic.

 cheers.