Stu, Nigel and I Packed up the Pajeroand headed to Dide bay Lancelin, Saturday morning.

We had planned on meeting a few others on the beach at the end of the fenceline or just around the point depending on tides, wind, gutters etc.

Weekend weather was spot on sun was shining and wind was ideal. We were all pretty pumped up as we driving through Lancelin and out into the dunes.

Found the right tracks thanks to the direction I had pm'ed to me. Thanks

Unfortunately we hadn't factored in mother nature. Dide bay way chokka full of weed.

We drove up around the next point and found a great part of the beach with no weed at all. Unfortunately we just couldn't keep driving to find the best spot as we knew the other may not find us.

So we picked our nice clean piece of beach and unpacked the car for the nights camp. great please clean water, beer and now time for some fishing.

Started of fishing for some bait, Stu was quickly onto some nice bait sized herring and whiting. Looks like a great night to be had with only 1 hours lefts till sundown and corresponding turn of the tide.

But as usual, things never turn out how you want it.

Rolling towards us like something out of the thing was a 20 ft wide, 3 ft deep and 100 ft wide mass of weed.

Yup, the black mass had found us. We were thinking that it would go away with the tide change but unfortunately it was here to stay.

Stu's mates had rocked up as the sun was setting so not much chance of finding a clear spot in the dark so tried our luck. Unfortunately trying to pull a bait through the weed was seeing some 15ft of weed clinging to the line.

Fishing was useless so the fire was lit and sorrows were drunk away.

Daylight bought a clean beach, well not as clean as when we got there but you managed to pull a clean line in 3 out of 5 casts.

Managed to land some monster bull herring on bait and silver slices.

We all had a good weekend but again failed to get some decent runs happening.

Hiyas,

popped out to the FAD yesterday. We were berleying with a few KG heads and frames, as well as mulies, but didn't really see any fish. Later John got a hookup, but the fish got off. I think after that John mentioned they were a bit scarce this year, so I stiffed my brother with the job of landing the next one.



He did good job, here is the fish!



We just couldn't get any bites after that, and eventually a couple other boats turned up, so we pushed off to try and troll around west end. On the way there, we got a couple striped tuna and a couple bigger bust-offs. Here is a snap of my brother with one.

The birds were really annoying us by now, snaffling our lures so we retrieved them and headed over to west end at a better pace. We trolled around, no bites though, we did see something weird floating and went over to check it out. It was a dead baby sambo with a halco crazy deep in it's mouth, yay for free lures!

Next we anchored up and berleyed up some ok looking skippy and other bottom fish, but then my brother mentioned he thought the bites were changing, then he got hit by something on the way down which gave him a bit of a ride before leaving with his gear. We looked over the edge and could just make out a school of quite large fish, so I popped a snapback over, and he put another rig on - his rig was stripped of all it's hooks, but I got something on the snapback which was a good ride. My first SP hookup turned out to be a small blacktip shark I foul hooked. Thats two out of two for me for foul hooking blacktips on John's boat. It was pacified, then brought aboard. After that we trolled along the south side of the island, but no action there, so we headed back.

Back at the washdown station we cleaned up the boat and next the fish. The surprise was this;



John's dolphinfish had 4 of the 5 KG heads we lobbed in and a few of the frames. Sure was a slow day for one fish to clean up like that. Last nite I had fish overload for dinner and it was great; Dolphinfish (thanks John) with a lemon tarragon sauce and Ventrisca de Tuna (oven roasted potatoes & tuna belly), both very tasty.

Left Perth Friday morning for Jurien under a drab grey sky only to arrive in perfect sunshine.

We set up our tent and decided to go for a look around and a visit to the local tackle shop were we got some great information on what was biting in the area.

We decided to spend the first day fishing off the jetty near the caravan park. We were then introduced to one of the locals who spends a lot of his time just floating around the jetty.

Things started out a little slow but then the skippy started biting which resulted in nearly every cast being a hook up. The only problem was actually landing the fish as "Face Ache" (as above mentioned sealine was christenend by a few of the visiting fishos) took it upon himself to fill his belly with the fish we were catching, the little smarty that he is, would wrap your line around the pilons to break you off before he would even attempt tp eat the fish, or he would have a game of tug - a - war with whomever was on the opposite end of teh rod lol.

One we managed to land. 

To add insult to injury the little bugger wouldnt eat it straight away but play with it. Letting it go and then catching it again.  

Over all we cought about 30 skippy with 90% of them being size or over size. We also had a try for Tailor but they were not biting that night.

Went up to Sandy Cape on Saturday to do some beach fishing, but there was weed everywhere and it was thick.

So we explored some of the tracks up there and saw some beautiful coastline and some odd buildings.

Anyone know what this is/was used for, we were thinking it was one of shacks that used to be up there.

So Sat night we decided to head back to the jetty and have another go at for tailor. We cast about a bit with a weighted rig with no luck at all. We then decided to just cast an unweighted mulie out and bingo we were on. We ended up catching about 5 that night, would of been more only the mulies were crap and were falling apart.

Sunday we went and fished the mouth of the marina, standing on the top of the rocks we could see the fish swimming below, it was unbelievable. Spent 3 hours there and caught another 20 skippy, all released. Stayed here till about 8.30pm only picking up an eagle ray and an undersize tailor, so we headed back to the jetty again.

Sent out the first couple of casts with no return not even a bite. Then bang we were hooked up and my boyfriend bought in this beautiful 32cm tailor on a unweighted mulie. He cast out again and  another one was hooked.

He caught several others after these two but none were size, so all went back to grow a few centemetres more for next time we go up there. 

Last night managed to get a call from a friend of my Dad who was going out fishing and wanted to know if we wanted to go. I think the response time was in the milliseconds.

Left Two Rocks marina probably around 7am out to the 40m spots. The day started off quite quiet with a couple of bites but no fish. Eventually pulled up a fish that looked a bit like a sargeant baker without the high dorsal spine (grinner perhaps). The only important identification was 'bait'.

Soon after I landed the first edible fish and my first dhuie

48 cm, so back he went with a release weight but still pretty happy to catch my first one.

We tried a few spots but it was still a little quiet. The skipper managed to pull up a nice baldchin and his parter a small but legal dhuie. Bit more time passed and a larger dhuie a bit over 4kg came up.

The spots were getting bites but not much hookups. About 11 onwards though the fish started to come in slowly but steadily. I managed a small, and first baldchin

(43cm, 1.5kg)

Picked up a nice blackarse (again a first) not too long after

At 49cm and 1.75kg its a pretty good first legal blackarse :D

Another baldie and something else was picked up by other crew members, then I picked up another baldie, a bit bigger this time at 51cm/2.25kg.

Skipper with a 4kg dhufish:

My Dad hadnt caught a fish all day despite getting bites but eventually got hooked up to something decent which turned out to be a dhuie a bit over 5kg. Not large by dhuie standards but the biggest of the day and still a good fish.

I really wanted a pink snapper as they're my favourite eating fish, and as luck would have it I managed to pick one up :D. Was headshaking quite a bit as I was pulling it up so I knew it wasnt another baldie.

50cm and 1.6kg so not a thumper, but still a nice fish for my first pink snapper over 15cm :D. Just happy I caught it regardless of size.

In the last hour pulled my biggest skippy (440g) and my first harlequin (1.3kg)

All in all it was a pretty damn good day. We did end up loosing about 8 rigs to the snags of some sort two (several with fish attached) and a few dropped fish. No massive fish, but a great variety of top eating fish that I havent caught before. Ended up with 6 fish home and one released, twice as much as anyone else (from now on i'm sticking to those owner cutting point hooks, just excellent). Every one got at least one fish as well so everyone had a good time (and the conditions were perfect too, so even if your not catching fish its nice out there).

(sorry for the samey shots, my dad hadnt read the thread about the photography tips :p) 

Well after cancelling the Coipasa Classic for this weekend, I had a free day, so when Sherbert asked me to take out Nigel from the UK and Tony (his brother, who looks younger and is a far better fisherman) I figured why not. Saves me arranging a new deckie, and with the boys setting the challenge of a Dhuie on fly, how could I resist.

The night before I got a call from Tony telling me that Nigel had come down with the flu and wouldn't be making it. All that did was it meant Tony and I could take extra rods each. So Saturday morning we headed out from Mindarie with a bit of a game plan.  Tony would get his fly rod out and I would troll the back of staggies with a sandard laser pro out the back until we found a patch of bonito (which are usually around in good numbers at this time of year). We would then burley up and I would switch to my bream rod and a soft plastic and Tony would hopefully nail one on fly.

Well, you wouldn't read about it, after last trip with Hlokk, where we couldn' get away from them, this trip they were nowhere to be seen. So despite several bog laps of Staggies we were fishless.

I then decided to fish a KG patch I have, but again no joy, so we moved deeper into the hiigh 30's and fished a coral patch that usually holds good numbers of snapper. Finaly we had a few bites and I picked up this nice Breaksea cod, whilst Therbert nailed a little dhuie, which we released using a release weight rigged up on a spare rod. Another drift and another Breaksea for me, slightly bigger than the one in the pic and another Dhuie for THerbert, again marginally under size. Another successful release and off to the "Dropzone" for a bit of a laugh.

As usual I brief my crew on what to expect there and to tighten their drag and put your best bait down etc etc. Typically in all the excitement and anticipation that precedes a drift on that lump I forgot to change over my gear from the by-catch rig I was using earlier for KG's and still had a little Gamakatsu Shiner hook on the bottom dropper.

As we hit the northern edge of the lump I got absolutely monstered. The rod was bent double, I had full thumb lock on the fish with solid weight. I think if Therbert hadn't believed me when I was talking the spot up just before the drift, he did now! The massive surges countered everything I could muster against the fish, but I felt like I had such a good hook up and wasn't actually allowing the fish to power away as had happened so many times before. This time we were locked in a stalemate, much the same as when you have an arm wrestle with someone, the more pressure you exert the more the fish does. 20 seconds seemed like an eternity, as I actually thought I was going to win the battle. Pfffft as if! Then I felt the heartbreaking pull of the line as the hooks gave way and slid out of the fish'es mouth. I think it was simply holding it in its mouth and wasn't even hooked. On returning to the surface I noticed the supersnell was completely untouched and still had a whole squid and mulie on it, but the small shiner hook had the hook point buried in the flesh of the half squid I was using. Normally I am quite anal about bait presentation and can only think that in the excitement of getting a new deckie to experience the dropzone I put too much bait on a hook that points inwards and is prone to burying itself. Naturally I changed hooks after that and next drift nailed this nice Baldie.

OK so 4 drifts on the dropzone, some excitement and some fish, we decided to move on. I hit a few more spots and Therbert caught and released his 5th dhuie for the day. One was accidentally released boatside whilst reaching for the pliers and amazingly kicked and headed down all by itself. We both thought that it was size too, so Therbert was well and truly keeping the fish gods happy but didn't have a keeper to take home.

As was the case with our earlier plan, we had decided to head in to fish the shallows by around lunch time as I had to be out for dinner that night so we couldn't stay out long. So with time marching on I decided to hit the same spot that Shamu caught his first Dhuie, Kasey caught his 24kg Dhuie on jig and I had caught countless dhuies over the years. "Two drifts only Tony" then we have to go. I switched to a jig as the drift was slow and thought we needed to stir them up a bit. The sounder was chokkers with big fish so I thought we were a reasonable chance.

On my third pump and wind Therbert was on big time! I quickly retrieved my line to ensure we didn't tangle and grabbed the camera. I managed to get a bit of the fight on film and will post it up when I get around to it. My guess is the fish came in at about 9kgs. We didn't weigh it but it would be all of that given its girth and conditioning. Therbert posed for a few pics and managed to hold onto his lunch for about 2 seconds after this picture was taken.

As one of my little short stories in the Perth Offshore Fishing section goes....."No Spew, No Dhu"

A great day on the water and great company. Unfortunately the trip home was marred by a very close shave. Some idiot crayfisherman set a string of pots in about 38m with ropes of about 100m. Luckily I spotted the rope just as we hit it doing 25knots and killed the engine. It somehow avoided the prop and by lifting the leg we were set free.

It was very very dangerous and a warning to all heading out from Mindarie at the moment as I am sure these pots will still be out there. Make sure you give them a very wide berth or slow down to about 10 knots when you get near them.

With a southerly blowing they were stretched right across the path of any boat returning from out deep. I should have taken down the numbers on the floats and reported the culprits. Nasty stuff and evidence of a very lazy crayfisherman out there.

Hi lads,

Went for a drive yesterday all the way down to Rockingham area just to see whats the deal. As I went down to have a peek on whats going on out in the water, there's baitballs being harrassed every 2-5mins intervals. But I wasn't armed with anything so I headed upto Woodman Point to do the same and all I see is baitball getting bashed every 5-10mins intervals aswell. I don't know whats the go but there's something big out there that making these fish hurl and jump out of the water.

I went out Saturday around Rotto for no result. Massive let down after fishing in Exmouth. Ended up trying one of the wrecks out deep. got a few skippy and a 60cm tailor.

I didnt think you got tailor that deep.  

Me, Bodie, Scano,booga and bodie's cousin took 2 tinnys out for a fish around Rockingham.

Started off pretty good with Booga getting the first fish, 32cm KG whiting.
After that we all started getting Kg's, herring and skippy. Gardies came from everywhere aswell!!!!

Had a couple cool seals playing around the boat. Was fun and games till i was reeling in a heriing and looked like the seal was going to jump into the boat with us to get the herring haha

We then moved to our squid spot and I put out a float with a mulie then BANG! My float rushed strait under!!!!
After a bit of a fight and some good acrobatics i got it in. My PB Pike!!!
Next cast another one!!!

I rigged Booga's rod up and cast his out the yep you guessed it! He got one aswell!


Bloody huge! Bodie then pulled up near us and sure enough he ended up getting 7 between them both aswell

Great day out guys! Now in sunburnt and really tired :lol:

I'll get around to pegging them to this thread but for now a few Red Emporer pics for you all to drool over, just posted separately into the Mahi Mahi gallery.

It really is the best bottom fishing you could imagine out there.

Cheers

Andy Mac

G'day peoples...

Heading out for a fish from the side for a change. Taking a newbie to fishing with me... Would be great if we could get into some Salmon or some nice Tailor. Looking at heading to either Cottesloe or Point Peron (preferred).... How are these two spots fishing?

If anyone has been having some success on the Salmon or Tailor could you please tell me approx where you've been fishing and what you've been having success on?

Any other spots in between that are worth a look at early tomorrow morning?

If anyone wants to meet me out there; the more the merrier.

cheers,
damo

The girlfriend had this article send to her via email, thought it was worth sharing.

FYI: This Sturgeon is Still alive, just worn out from the fight. They turned him loose after the photo.

This Sturgeon was caught on the Swan just near Fremantle City two weeks ago. It weighed out at over 1,000 lbs and measured out at 11'1'. It was 56'' around the girth and took over 6 and a half hours, and 4 dozen beers, for the 4 guys taking turns at the reeling it in. Tony Harben did a fantastic job of reeling it in which took just over four hours.

Any Sturgeon OVER about five feet has to be released unharmed and cannot be removed from the water.
They are brood / breeding stock and probably older than most of us. This one maybe 100 years old.

Regards

Terry

Nothing much was caught while I was there (6:30am - 8am), so you can all feel good about sleeping in. A few cheeky herring hitting the slice as it came out of the water, jagged a few garfish but no bonito this morning!

Edit

went out to the hillaries lightouse fishing into the marina after work yesterday. it was howling a gale but the lighouse blocked most of the wind. was pretty quiet with a only a few herring caught around the place. about 3ish it went real quiet and then bait fish started jumping everywere!!!! decided to switch from floating lures to baitcasting mulies and had a few hits but no hookups. The next few castys were the same but then i had a few BIG bangs and then i got a solid hookup! i played it for about 10 minutes forgetting to adjust the drag. iwas about to adjust the drag and the top gang got bitten clean off. im still puzzled about what it was and ive narrowed it down to 5 possible fish
1)Tailor
2)Salmon
3)Shark
4)Sambo
5)Bonito

ps) sorry about the long post ;)

hope everyone got safely nice to put a few faces 2 names hope to fish with you all soon.
cheers
daz

First off, If Alfred posted this, it would be in the Brag Board, but as its me, its in Reports. Nice quiet day out there, good weather, bit overcast later on with a little light rain. No other boats, yes, we had the fads to ourselves, just us and the Dolphinfish.

The score: Alfred: 2, Dolphinfish: 0, Jamie: 0, Dolphinfish: 2*

*Im willing to dispute the nature of their win, ok so I got busted off, and I broke my rod, but Im still here, Ill get another rod and Ill then they will pay *grin*

Just next time Ill catch one on heavier line first and before I waste 90min of Alfred's time trying to land a fairly well sized on on 10lb gear. It was great fun, I did perhaps 6 laps of the boat and we got the fish up to the boat a few times before I put a bit much bend in the rod with the fish alongside, then went on a run and pind the rod. He was on for another 5min perhaps, but we didnt get any really good opportunities to gaff and he busted me off.

It was a great day out and one really did get away, this time. Here is Alfred with those that didn't

Took the father in law and 2 mates out from Two ROcks yesterday on what would have to be one of the nicest days on the water I have had off Perth. Bit of wind in the morning but the rest of the day was Mint. Day started off pretty slow, despite getting to spots early and burleying, my pinky drought continues. We lost one very large fish due to going too hard but I would think it was a XOS Sambo, but results later in the day puts doubt in my mind. Went out to the 40m and started to get some better showings. Drift was perfect, and we picked up a couple of good KG's one going 58cm the other 55. In hindsight we should have stayed around there and downsized our hooks as we were getting good bites but kept dropping fish on 4/0 upwards.

Kept heading out wider as the day was getting better and found a very good lump that was not marked on GPS rising to 30m from 40 in a narrow ridge. Got a really good hit first drop and it was on for young and old. Was using my new light driftbait outfit (thanks Ryan and Honsu) and thought I had hooked the mother of all Dhuies or a big ray. 10 minutes later I was calling it for a Ray as even on light gear I figured a Dhuie would have given up. Any way, after another 5 minutes and a heap of big runs a beautiful Yellow Tail Kingie came into view. This has been my target fish for the year and i have had no luck, but to crack a 22lb one on light baitcasting gear was AWESOME. Sadly photos are non existant except shitty camera phone ones as my camera decided to give up last week.

Went further out and picked up a few big sambos on heavy gear and got some runs in a cube trail but could not hook up sadly.

We then picked up a nice Dhuie on the way back in topping what was a beaut day on the water, with a great feed of fish.

Having not eaten large YTK before I was super impressed, we spiked and bled it on the spot and put it in an ice slurry and the flesh was better than any Sushi place I have seen. Was even better than the KG and on par with the Dhuie.

Can't wait to get out again, now that I have a bit of a spot for them, and try using some east coast live squid methods and try for a really big one.

The other thing that was funny about yesterday is that we didn't catch any real rubbish fish, whilst we didn't catch a lot, what we got were all good fish.

I had a crack at some mulloway last night.  I got there just after dark and set up. I had one rig with baits using fillets, half fish (cut lengthways) and pieces. The other rod was set up to spin some hard body and soft plastic lures.

As soon as I got there I could see bait fish jumping in various areas and it was clear that something was chasing them. Every now and again bait would just scatter around and break the surface. It was certainly looking very fishy. It was low tide, I know high tide may have been better but I wanted to give it a crack anyway. So out went the baits and then I proceeded to spray the area with lures of all types in the hope of hooking a big mulla.

I had no hits on any lures and the bait outfit did not have any luck either but every single bait I put out there came back as a bare hook. This was pretty strange as I put out whole fish, half fish, etc and I wasn't even getting the fish frames back??

Anyhow, I will be back chasing them again soon enough!

Me and Amanda have been in Exmouth for the last 2 weeks. It was the best fishing trip we have had so far. The weather was excellent, with 5 days straight glassy days. We caught all sorts of fish Spanglies, Red Emperor,Rankin Cod, Tomato Cod, Spanish Mac, Trevs, Tuna, Coral Trout and my first Sailfish.

Went to Hillary's today and had a fish off the south wall.

All up we caught about 20 fish, but kept only 10 and sent the rest back. Most of them were herring, but we also managed 4 tarwhine - 1 kept the rest released, and a few skippy tiddlers.

Took Hlokk (Matt) out this morning after a late withdrawl from Fishless Pete.

We trolled behind staggies for a while and had some fun with heaps of bonito to 2kgs. Matt had fun on his 4lb bream stick.

We only needed to put the boat in gear and we were both hooked up. Heaps of bait schools on the 20m drop off.

WE headed to a few spots that I thought might fire but nothing. I finally nailed a couple of dhuies and a baldy plus this big shark that we released. 

Matt claimed the bigest fish of the day and the biggest fish of his life with a nice sambo that gave him a great fight.

Certainly a nice day on the water but the fish were few and far between.

Well, Honsu was bugging me for only putting up one fish, so I thought I'd add what I got last saturday for the nor leg off the fishwrecked comp.

We were heading something like 12nm offshore, trolling some christmas trees as we were heading to the spot. We both had a rod out with Mako Magic driving, I turn to ask him what we would expect to catch and zzzzzt, both the lines start peeling off. The fish crossed paths so we had to duck and move the rocks over. Mako's fish came off during this maneuvre but mine stayed on (which was odd as I had braid and he had mono and monos usually more forgiving in situations like that).

Pulled it in and got my first tuna (first fish caught when trolling too).

Tried some bottom bouncing, but the winds made for a fast drift. I think I ended up using 24 oz and still wasnt quite holding the bottom in 40m of water. Only got a undersize (just) flattie and some nibbles. Drift speed was 2 knots (too choppy for the sea anchor) so I thought to myself that thats the speed a short bibbed minnow would work, so just chucked 20m or so of line out and continued bottom bouncing. When we were about the leave, the lure got hit and managed to get a second tuna (released at the side of the boat). Bit surprising that it was fast enough to hold the lure under, and also that a tuna would take a lure at 2 knots.

Traveling about 7 knots and getting quite wet getting back, we tried a patch, and pulled up a few whiting.

Then headed back and tried for some whiting or garfish near the marina but didnt pick anything up (which was annoying as one more fish would have put me in the top 5 :p). Mako picked up a herring pretty quick but nothing after.

Not amazing fish, but managed to have a bit of fun landing some fish I havent caught before, and got a feed out of it too (mmmm, sashimi)

I'm not too sure what kind of tuna it is, i'm leaning southern blue. The fins didnt look anywhere near as yellow in real life, the flash just brought it out.

How much stock can be put in to seabreeze with it forecasting 5 - 10 knot winds on Sunday, or is it holding out for BOMs forecast later in the weekend?

Scored a GPS & offshore flares for my b'day, so time to land something decent......

just a quick report on our exxy trip.only managed to fish from the boat 4 and a half days out of 10 which was a bummer due to strong winds.the first 3 days were magic, glassy conditions and damn hot, you know its hot when the carpet is burning your feet.
fished out at the murions over those days and found some great fish.
once ya got past the trevelly we where into all the good bottom fish.l did abit of jigging on the light gear and lost $80 of jiggs in 2 drops,(dont fish 15lb with $40 jiggs) but l still managed a nice rankin and afew other bottom dwellers.we didnt take that much over those days due to thinking that the rest of the time was going to be as good.unfortunatly it didnt turn out that way.

did a bit of trolling for a few spanish macs and afew wahoo.then headed out for some bill fish action.there was plenty being caught the days before and we certainly had action on our first atempt.troy had a breif hookup on a big saily that danced and spat the hook,them he managed our only marlin capture 30 minutes later. the fish was brought to the boat them leadered only to break free due to being hooked in the side of the head.
myself, l missed 3 or 4 good fish due to inexperience and also being under gunned, thats what im telling myself , troy mite have a different story to tell.

the new boat performed awsome, some of those days the wind was up l wouldnt want to be out there 30 n/m from home in anything else.put 36 hours on the etec and didnt miss a beat.
we launched from the marina every day due to tandabitti being sanded up hence the long distance we had to travell every day.
we learnt plenty for next time and it was good to meet afew guys from the forums.(sam have you had a shower yet)
havent got any photos of fish on my camera just some good sounder shots, will post up some pics of fish once troy passes them on.
holth

Hoping for a Bonito, or lost Salmon, I popped down to the mole this morning. I pretty much just chucked lures non-stop between about 6:30am and 8am. No bites, no one else got anything else while I was there either.

Better luck next time I guess!

We didn't take too many pics as we didn't catch too many fish.

Firstly a big thank you to Tim for all his efforts in getting this comp together and for his computer skills at the weigh in. Whilst the weather gods frowned upon us and made life very difficult for most if not all boats out there, it certainly evened out the scores and made for a very close contest. I am sure Tim will post the results shortly.

Secondly a big thank you to out key sponsors for the event, John from Joondalup Compleat Angler and Ryan from Oceanside. Without these two guys the comp wouldn't have got off the ground.

To the winners, congratulations. Make sure you pop in and see Ryan or John with your vouchers and put them towards something special.

Overall the day was more about getting together and having a bit of fun and in that respect I think it was a major success.

Finally, thank you to Alfred our independent auditor for verifying my win as Champion Angler for the day. (Talk about being rigged... ..... your carton of crownies is in the mail...)

Lets hope the weather is better for the SOR comp. (Personally I hope its worse and gets called off as I will be in the Abrohlos that week.)

Cheers

Andy Mac

Went looking for salmon this morning!
Seen 1 hooked up but not many around at all :(

Thought i had a salmon until i pulled this up :lol:

Its my PB Buffy!!

was a hillaries disabled platform today------ picked up afew nice gardies and a few small skippy. some guy was using whole skippy when his reel screamed. wateva was connected to it kept on going and took 300metres and got away. i believe i met up with kaitian. (wrere u wearing a blue mizuno tshirt?)

thanks,
Liam

It was a complete waste of time down at the canning bridge today. NOTHING.ZADA.ZILCH. not even a bite. i ended up taking the train to the esplanade station and i walked 2k's to get under the bridge. there was a lot more around------- a few bream - legal size too- but nothing else.