Went down to Long Point on Thursday arvo to try for some tailor, we had been catching heaps of choppers there recently, and a few guys from Fishwrecked have been reporting some varied (some good, some average) tailor runs as well.

While the sun was still high in the sky we were bottom fishing with pieces of squid and getting butteries, herring, trumpeter and the like. Just before we were about to switch to baitcasting mulies, I reeled in this ugly little thing, which is obviously a blowfish, I'm guessing a baby Nor West blowie...

Tailor did come on the bite, and it was chopper after chopper of about 25cm. Ended up with 1 keeper of 38.5cm. Where are all the big uns?

Met up with Danny wednesday night and the scalies were going nuts DOWN E-SHED!
We stocked up on some nice big fish baits........

Went down to Mandurah (Peel)on Wednesday and crabbed for 3 hours on my boat with a gentlemans hours crab session being the go and Deefa in company. With waiting a while between runs as the coldies were going down well we racked up our 20 blues and good sizes for there. Started off a bit quiet initially but picked up as the wind dropped and moving around also helped.

Cooked them up on the bbq that night, tasted good but lean meat in the claws compared to Coastline or Swan crabs but a break up for me as i like to crab in different areas!

Was a good day!

Took Scottnofish out on sunday, with the forecast not looking the best i decided to hit the 30m line just the other side of the bank from rockingham and troll north and up towards the top end of garden island, about 20min after just to my left i saw a heap of birds working so went that way.
Once we got near them you could see them smashing and could see big schools of them on the sounder as well, within mins my line took off first and aboard came a nice little southern bluefin, boated it and hit the school again, same thing happened.
Neil was using a different type of lure and struggled to get the fish, it was 9 to me and 1 to him at one stage, then i told him to put the other lure i had which was the same as mine, then bang, he started to get them, we had the fish on for around an hour and a bit, plenty of double hook ups, all in all we had a great session, keeping our 4 and relasing atleast another 20, which is pretty good going as normally they wouldnt hang around that long, even caught 1 on my 6lb loomis bream rod and my 1000 twin power, hopefully neil can put a couple of pics up

Hey Guys,

Got back from Coral Bay the other day and haven't got around to putting up a report, so here it is.

Left perth late moring on the friday and arrived late arvo at the murchison river, we stayed the night  and then proceeded to coral bay on saturday. We arrived late afternoon again and set up camp at the Bayview caravan park.

Sunday morning we sussed out some places to fish and to not fish(turtle season) from the locals. We decided to head north of own to spot known as the Sandbar. Fishing of the sandbar itself saw plenty of dart and some follows by some goldens. My dad and i were the only ones using lures, casting little 15-30gram twisties, and these outfished bait by a mile and claiming the biggest for the day.

While everyone was content catching dart, i spotted a nice reefy looking point about 1.5-2km up the beach. Off i went in search of something more powerful. Halfway up i decided to have a litlle flick and first cast was followed buy a massive longtom, no hookup. Second cast followed buy a largish  dart, so i stopped the lure dead and it hit it and took off, after a short little fight i had him on the beach only to realise that i had left the camera back with everyone else. So off he went back in the water while i went back to get the camera.
 
I finally made it to the point and started casting. About ten minutes in i had a solid hookup which took a far bit of line as it swam up the beach, after a few tense moments i had a nice golden on the beach of about 2.5kg. Unfortunatley for me and the fish, it didn't swim off when i tried to release it. I spent a good five to ten minutes trying to revive it to no avail. So i had to carry it 2km back to were everyone else was, we had it for tea later that day.

The next day we headed back to the Sandbar for some more action. I landed some more dart as well a little queenie and also dropped a few others. I decided i would trek it up to the point again, but this time i wasn't alone. I had my little cousins follow me (they wanted to catch a golden as well), so instead of doing some serious fishin, the next few hours were taken up with trying to untangle, unsnag their gear and aslo donating 5 or so of my lures to them (GRRRR!). i did manage to fish for a bit and i ended up with another golden this time alot smaller.

The next day was a scorcher (most days were!) so we decided to spend most of the day down the beach snorkelling and playing beach cricket.

Wednesday was very hot again so we done some more snorkelling and waited for it too cool down in the late afternoon and then head out for a fish. This time we headed south to a likely looking stretch and set up there. I flicked lures around until the sun went down and then i set up a bait rod (first time i touched bait for the trip). It was a quiet night  apart from a double hookup, one which burried my dad, and the other turned out to be a little GT. We also had the usual dart etc.

Thursday was another hot one  and we didn't get out till the afternoon, we did a bit of 4wding and got lost. we found our way back and went to pick up the gear and then head down to the boat ramp. It was another quiet night for us but the people up from us landed a couple of decent spanglies.

The next day we packed up and headed for home. So all in all wasn't a very special trip but it broke a few firsts for me and its always nice to head north. I didn't do as much fishing as i would have like but that they way it is.

Thanks for reading guys, it was a long one.

I'll post some pics when i figure out how.

Cheers.

Can't win them all ,weather was no good. Headed out from Two Rocks, breeze was in before we left ,and the water was very lump. Hooked up to one good fish and dropped it ,Jesse's freind was seasick real bad so we bit the bullet and headed home, maybe next time SUCH IS LIFE 

Well here is the report from my lastest jaunt up to sunny Exmouth. Photos are all up in my gallery

Didnt fish a whole lot as diving was more on the adgenda. Besides didnt need to as the 2 times we went out we got some excellent fish including - reds, rankins, spangled emperor, jobfish ... You get the idea. The highlight for me was probably my biggest red I have ever caught which went 80cm so I had a pretty big smile on my dial after that one to say the least. Surface activity was very quiet which was a bit surprising but there were a few dollies around but decided to be pretty fussy when I started throwing soft plastics at them. They would just tail it and sniff it without actually striking.

The weather couldnt have been better with just about 5kts of wind max for the entire trip. Diving was great with the highlight there diving with 3 big potato cods which were intent on following us round and playing for the dive. Was unreal.

A HUGE thanks must go out to Adam for letting us use his house while he was down here, so cheers again mate - we owe you one. Will make it up by taking you out in April when we get back there.

Gully

Went down to the Ammo jetty this afternoon, it was blowing a gale. Saw a few scallies and gardies caught. Didnt hang around long because of the wind.

Went to the Eshed to get out of the wind, got a small flathead first cast. Then the blowies moved in, there was millions of them. didnt see anything other than blowies being caught.

Has anyone been getting any scallies or yellowtail at the Eshed? I left before it got dark, dunno if the blowies piss off after dark.

was down at hillarys yesterday night 6-11:30.verrrrry windy so we were lucky to snatch a spot from someone who just left. caught a rock cod early on and later probly about 930ish dad caught a 32.5 cm tailor. some guy told us that there were tailor being caught down in thte corner near the beach and that hed caught his bag limit of tailor within 30 minutes at two rocks

gidday all went out for a look on xmas day bit breezy first up but flattened off nicely and got bloody hot lol spent most of the day in the 40 mtr markwe maqnaged to pick up 3 nice 52cm kg,s,3 meaty black arse,3sambo4 huge sweep, 2foxfish a queenie and a baldy but no pinkies or dhuies most enjoyable day out there cheers craig

How did everyone go? Manage to cook your fish on the front of your boat? What a joke, it was so damn hot.

We headed out about 730 from freo in search of deeper water. You could already tell it was going to be a stinker. After a nice long drive we got to the sambo patch and saw about 10 boats on it so moved out to the derwent. Drift was unusual so it took us a few goes but we managed to boat a few pinkies, a big queen snapper and even a ~15kg amberjack(which was taken on a jig !). Amber was the highlight of the day.

After our arms were sore we headed back in for some jigging. It was chaos out there, about 15 boats on the one spot. Tangles everywhere. We managed to land a few, and loose a few to sharks before we decided to try a diff spot as its was worse that a xmas shopping centre carpark there.  Next spot jigged up a few fish between us too. Then headed back in.

Howd everyone else go?

Hi all, hope you had a great Christmas.

Went for a quick fish in Port Kennedy last Thursday evening, was hanging out for a fish after spending 2 weeks in Thailand for a mate's wedding.

Arrived at the beach just after 7pm, still plenty of light and we were just casting some weighted bloodworm. Plenty of nibbles and bites...plenty of these little fish.


There were also heaps of really small school whiting around. Loving the bloodworm. People next to us were getting a few blowies, but we weren't. Must have been the bloodworm.


As the sun was beginning to set, we changed to baitcasting mulies. Ended up with a few tailor, but as people have been saying lately on these forums, the window of opportunity is like 15 minutes.

First one, measured 35cm.


Second, measured 33cm.


My mate kept one of the small butteries for live bait, ended up getting mashed by something, probably a tailor. Ended up landing a couple more undersize tailor within that 15 minute timeframe, then everything went dead quiet.

About 9:30 hooked a small Tarwhine on a bit of mulie, and that was about it for the night.


Ended up with the 2 tailor to take home. Still waiting for the decent runs to start!

went down this mornin to hillarys bout 7ish till bout 1ish
only caught a medium size squid and heaps of blowies
saw a guy catch a tailor
a few squid around, a ray or 2 but thats about all

Just read the fishing report in the local rag. Apparently still quite a few blackies still about, but they're reported to be smaller.

On the subject of mulla's - apparently there's been quite a few caught in the rivers close to town. The local forum has seen a few postes over the last few months of some good sizes caught. Couple of the youngsters did very well on SBs and HBs.

As I've mentioned on a few occasions, weather for boating out wide has not been flash, but those that have been lucky enough have been fishing at around 75m with the usual reports of Blue Morwhong, Reds and Pinks, and the sambos have apparently started to make a show.

Spent a very enjoyable 24 hours on a wheatbelt dam with Maverick and Stevo this weekend.

It was hard graft during the day but as soon as the moon hit the water the place went off. Plenty of murray cod with a few yellowbelly perch thrown in for good measure. We all caught our first ever yellowbelly (new species) and I was lucky enough to score a PB Murray Cod.

All fish were carefully released with barbless hooks being the order of the day.

Landing PB Murray Cod. Got a chewed up thumb for good measure.


PB Close Up


John

so how did everyone do,my crew did not do too well went out and fished 90 mtrs,caught 2 blackass,2 nannygai,1 queenie,and a hammerhead that was released,i saw a few fishwrecked shirts in the crowd so i hope you s did better than us.
cheers ray ps caught a nice sized flounder, cookin it now

So is anyone getting any crays Pots or Diving? Going diving tommoro see whats out there.

Just got off the phone to LONGTOM (fishwrecked member) Who did a night trip up to lucky bay last night. 3 hours of fishing for 5 mulloway at 1metre and above between a few of them. He said they left them biting! They are heading out 2night again for some more fun. Pictures will be posted on his return. he sent me some pics ver mobile and let me tell you they are thumpers! looks like a trip is in order :)

Got this from another site, but thought the fishwrecked crew might be interested!

October 25th:
South Mole

"The Tailor are back in full swing... Started on the bite just after sunset and went for around 40 minutes.. The first run was only small choppers 30cm and under.. Landed about 10, kept 3.. A second run though happened around 8.30pm though with bigger fish.. Ended with 13 in the bucket between 3 of us.. Best was 37cm, average round 33cm.."

Cheers,
Adam

In the interests of saving a few sambos!

All I can say is dont bother going to the hillarys aggs - they are completely shark infested. It is an exercise in killing big spawning fish there at the moment. And probably will be all season I'd imagine.

Stick to Rotto.

Talking to some mates last night who have been out near the shelf of late and they said theres good sighns of yellow fin tuna out there ATM. Most are aorund the 10 to 15kg range but some thumpers of around 50kg+ have been spotted amoungst them!. Medium pushers and laser pro 190dd's have taken most fish at this stage but they head deep after a while so cubing might be the go. Just interesting i thought. Cheers Chris.

Well, the weather is well and truly starting to warm up and we've had a few days recently where the south easterlies haven't blown and the conditions have been quite fishy.

Over the past two weeks I've had some mates up from Perth that have done quite well. During the week they spent 6 hours fishing over 2 days and had 7 marlin raised and 3 of those landed. I think there was a sailfish that hit but didn't hookup in there too. Of those 3 landed, 1 was 75kg, 1 was 50kg and 1 was 25kg and were all black marlin which were successfully released. Hearing that news, Ant from Bluewater went out the next day and landed a black marlin of 120kg (easily!) out from Tantabiddi. We headed out the day after that in rather rough conditions and managed to get a 13kg wahoo after 20 minutes of trolling. There are some really good warm eddies starting to show up and an eye on the sounder for water temperature is a good idea.

The gulf has had the occasional spanish mackerel show up but not in any real numbers unfortunately. There are lots of school and shark mackerel in close that will take almost anything thrown at them, just remember wire's a necessity or its back to the tackle store! The water visibility has been sensational when the wind hasn't been blowing for a day and has allowed for some good free diving, especially on the neap tides.

The bottom fish has been a mixed bag with some anglers lucking out and a few missing out. The new moon saw the fishing fire up and with the lead up to the new moon it should get even better. If you are up here and manage to get into some fish, take note of the belly size as a lot of fish are reaching spawning maturity, especially Spangled Emperor. If you are up in Exmouth or planning to come up, please contact me so I can provide you with information that will assist fisheries research in determining spawning patterns.

There have been some good bonefish caught down in the National Park lately for the flyfishers and some nice sized golden trevally as well. The gulf side is still firing for good sized yellowfin whiting, which come up beautifully lightly pan fried in butter.

Cheers,
Adam

October 4th & 11th Kids Whiting Comp

Our major sponsor this year

Every October School Holidays, the Kalbarri Offshore and Angling Club, hosts a whiting competition for kids on each Thursday of the holidays. It has grown to become a highlight for regular visitors and continues to grow in size each year. With thanks to our major sponsor this year, Australian National Sportsfishing Association, we were able to give out some great prizes. We had 170 excited kids signing up the first Thursday, all ready to fish the beach from the Chinamans to the first jetty.

The crowd at the weigh-in

Some of the 170 kids and parents on the beach

Rules of the comp allow any fish to be caught, kept in a bucket and brought to the weigh-in live, weighed and then released.

The Volunteer Sea Search and Rescue, Kalbarri Police, Ashley Van Viersen Lui Palamara and Nic Bramwell loaned their 4WD bikes and gave kids a lift to the weigh station saving them the long walk over the sand.

There were 16 prizes each day including 12 rods and reels each day for species, smallest, biggest, most, most unusual etc. Two sections were competed for, under 8s and 9 to 14 years. The quality and diversity of the species caught showed that the river is in good condition. A lot of whiting came to the weigh station on the first Thursday with Angus Coull in the under 8’s catching the biggest. Veronica Zurzolo caught the most bream. In the 9-14 age group Lizzie Hine had the biggest whiting, a 252 gram specimen and a meritorious 352g flounder, while Nick Moritz caught the most bream. Most unusual went to Dillon Conroy for his angelfish.

Each day we finished off with a lunchtime sausage sizzle and prize giving. A big thank you to John Stewart, son Martin, Rylee Eley and Beryl Tolson for doing the sausage sizzle. Kalbarri Surf Shop, Kalbarri Sports and Dive, Rainbow Jungle, The Seahorse Sanctuary, Marina Home & Leisure, Kalbarri Natural Spring Water, The Kalbarri Pharmacy, The Gorges Café, Kalbarri Café, Kalbarri Pizza & Pasta and Kalbarri Boat Hire all donated prizes.

The second Thursday saw another 171 kids line up along the beach waiting for the 9am start. Within minutes the blowies began to arrive, but sprinkled amongst them were good fish such as a 322-gram flounder by Peter Vamelueni, and a surprise 3.3kg nor west blowie that took out the meritorious category, caught by Liam Cavanaugh. 3 year old Lydia Tranenen landed a small estuary cod for the most unusual and Ben Smedley caught the most bream. Desiree Louis won a rod & Reel for her biggest blowie in the 9 and over section.

About 850 fish were caught over the two days in four hours! Species recorded were as follows: blowies, (lots of) whiting, black bream, silver bream, gobbleguts, crabs, estuary cod, trumpeter, flounder, angelfish, wrasse, zebra fish, nor west blowie, buffalo bream, flathead and a sardine type fish, a total of 16 species. Of note, missing this year were yellow-eyed mullet, tailor and mulloway that made up the 10 species last year.

A big thanks to all the helpers and sponsors on the day, without your help this great event for the kids could not happen.

Laurie Malton