hey guys and gals ,
went down to south beach today with loco and a mate to do some beach fishing.. started of  with some poppers but moved on as the wind was really acting up... swithced to mullies fished for about an hour without action... then finally bites on our lines... a couple here and there but no hook ups.. managed to bring in one decent sized flathead which was good. It was released safely to grow into a giant lizard.. had more bites with chuncks removed form the mullies but no hook ups ...was an alright outing broke my fishing drought so it was good..the location was the beach that the dogs swim at down by  freo south beach..

Just wonderimg if anyones doimg any good for mullas around the narrows latley? Thinking of heading down for some soft plastic action, well try to get my first mulla on one anyway!lol. Sometime at night over the weekend is the plan jan so any reports?

Headed out wide with Tim yesterday for a fab day on the water. Was a bit quiet fishwise, they were all home but not very hungry until later in the day. Couple of good bustoffs, Honsu donating jigs to the sea Gods, we ended up with a few good fish for the day.

I would just like to say a big thank you to Tim & Honsu for being such gentlemen. They both were so kind and thoughtfull. as to keep all the Sambos occupied with their extreme jigging action, so I could slip a bait past the pesky critters, to the front door of Mr Dhuie.  

We did see something interesting on the way out tho, Looked definately like a long string of commercial cray pot floats. Is this not a bit early??

Thanks again Tim, for another great day out.

was at hillaries on monday fishing various spots on the south wall; caught nothing but hooked up to a monster skippy of about 1.5kgs off the disabled platform. There was massive amounts of bream caught off the point at the lighthouse and the occaisonal skippy, herring and whiting.

i was fishing at e shed 2 day.....caught a bucket full of yellowtails...as usual....and ntg decent....heaps of bream around the harbour....biggest for me turn out to be 36cm....but bigger 1's are being caught by the peoples there...and also a couple of flounders being caught there.....bait r prawns....4 those who wanna knoe.....

I'm going to let Kasey tell you what happened. Just let me say, perhaps the greatest capture from my boat in 6 years.

Lots of photos and even better, some killer video footage. Kasey is one very happy camper!!!!!

Cheers
Andy Mac

went for a bream bash down the river today was planning to meet rickets there but he diddnt reply so o well i thought bugger ya ill go anyways, so me and the old boy (sherbert) headed down to arrive about 12:00 sherbs with the bait and me flickin plackys i had a couple of solid hit but that was it and sherbs had two 20cm bream and the wind was shockin, straight in our face.





cheers andyrew

Yesterday produced one of the best days I've seen in Exmouth yet. After finishing tidying up our old place we decided a day out on the water was required to chill out and I'd promised Jay that she'd see some whales. Anyway, 5 minutes after leaving the marina we found our first pod. Next thing we know they were swimming under the boat, slapping tails, jumping, singing - the whole works.

After hanging with them for a good 20 minutes it was time to get the lines wet. With a spread of 4 skirts out we were hoping for a lost sailfish to jump on and provide some entertainment, which wasn't forth coming. After a good hour and a half of trolling we gave up and thought we'd try something else.

Seeing as we didn't have any bait I thought we'd try some soft plastics. After the first 7 charlie courts I thought I'd put a strip on some gangs and see if we couldn't float it past a coral trout. No more than 5 minutes later the line started peeling and a spinner shark of 7 foot launches 5 meters from the boat scaring the living beejeebus out of us and busting off on re-entry. We decided to give up on the bait option and stuck with the plastics in 20m of water. Finally we got through the charlie courts and got into something a bit more solid. First fish was a 40cm Bluelined Emperor, second fish a 47cm Spangled Emperor, then an identical spangled came up 10 minutes later. After a couple of heavy bustoffs (we were fishing with 3kg mono) we landed a 57cm Spanglie that took a good 10 minutes to get up and peeled line like there was no tomorrow. We were fishing in 22m of water with only a light lead head jig which worked a treat. We also threw back a dozen more charlies and a heap of variagated emperor and small blue lines. After a hot two hour session we threw out a spread of divers on the way back in with little interest.

All up we saw nearly 50 whales, had a hammerhead hit the side of the boat on the way back in at 25 knots, sea snakes everywhere, dolphins, tuna schools every 500m, a nice swag of fish onboard, some cold beers for the ride back in and absolute glass conditions for the whole time we were out there. Yes, yes it was good day. :)) Unfortunately the camera batteries died after the first bluelined so we didn't get any of the spangleds, which was the only downer of the day.

Well, seeing as every fishing magazine writes an Exmouth fishing report and so does the local tackle store. I figured I may as well do one too.

Things have been firing up around Exmouth since the change of the moon last Sunday. The surface action is prolific at the back of tantabiddi with Manta Rays in the channel mouth, whales everywhere and an abundance of tuna and baitfish spread far and wide. The last couple of days has seen several marlin landed whilst bottom rigs have been brought up. The guys spending time targetting them with lures haven't had anywhere near as much success. Fishing from the bottom has seen mixed results with the guys having an idea of where to fish doing well on goldband jobfish and red emperor.

On the shorebased front things have been relatively quiet with the occasional spangled emperor being landed at 5 mile and in the national park. With the spring tides Trisel Access is starting to get some bait back in there as well as queenfish and has seen quite an increase in the local fishing population. In the gulf a feed of whiting is never too far away, along with some decent yellowfin bream in amongst them. Things on the mud crab front have been very quiet and the occasional mangrove jack is starting to show up which hopefully won't be too far away.

The equinoxial gales (south easterlies) have slowed down the fishing in a big way the last couple of days and look like they will be setting in soon. We still managed to get out for a fish on Thursday and got into a few Robinson Sea Bream, Longspined Pink Snapper, Goldband Jobfish and a nice coral cod, also losing many decent fish to sharks.

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow's fishing action will produce more goods and a few photos to go with.
Morning
Light winds with a slight chop. Small long period swell.
Winds: ENE 9 to 13 knots
Seas: SW 4 feet at 12 sec.
Afternoon
Light winds with a slight chop. Small long period swell.
Winds: NNE 10 to 14 knots
Seas: SW 4 feet at 12 sec.

What a beautiful day today. Went out for a quiet fish this morning at the local rock groynes. Pretty slow on the fishing front with the odd herring. Stopped at South Mole to see if I can pickup more squid. Ended up with 13 in under 2hrs. Went home, cleaned up and had squid for lunch and tea...mmmh....squid burger The sizes varied from bite size to better than average. There were more around but it was lunch time so left them biting so to speak.


Sorry no pics as I only thought of it after Ive eaten them.

Woke up this morning and the weather was just as good, if not better than on Saturday so we had to take the boat out.



We headed out and stopped at one of the barges near Enderby Island to score some livies. It wasn't long before we had quite a few yellow tails in the bucket so we powered out to Kendrew.



First drop and Glenn was on. It wasn't long before a nice little Chinaman of around 50cm was on deck and into the ice slurry. No time for a photo, lines were back down to see if we could nail another one. It went quite so we pushed on.

At the next spot I nailed a beaut coral trout that was 60cm. Went quite again so pushed on further to a spot we have in about 40m. First drop Glenn nailed a nice Sweetlip Emperor, a first for us off Dampier. Next drop I hooked up to something that managed to pull quite a bit of string on the PE5 jig gear, felt sharky but turned out to be the mother of all Gold Spot Trevs.

While I was hooked up Glenn hooked up as well so we suspected another gold spot. After a good tussle it turned out to be an 11kilo Cobia. I missed the first gaff shot which he didn't like and made Glenn work pretty hard before I got the second shot in.



After the cobe we decided to do a troll towards Roley Rock to see if we could finish off with a Sailfish. Unfortunately it was a bit queit on the billie front but we noticed some fishy ground on the sounder so we stopped for one last bottom fish. As soon as my bait hit the bottom I got smashed by a decent fish. I was shocked to see a nice 55cm Red Emperor hit the surface, taken in just 27m of water.



Finished the day off filming some whales which was pretty spectacular... and got back to the ramp to find a HUMUNGOUS line up. Ended up waiting about 45 minutes

All in all, a great day with quite a mixed bag, 1x Chinaman, 1x Sweetlip Emperor, 1x Cobia, 1x Coral Trout, 1x Red Emperor.

Heyzzzz...pinkies was really biting for the last few weeks in north mole!! i finally hooked up one last monday !! but lost it simply becoz got no gaff!! wat a shame!!! it was my first but oh well things happen!!


apart from pinkies...can anyone tip me with some tailor fishing ?? havent caught 1 at all since i started fishing but am willing to learnt but i got uni too so pretty hectic with things but thats part of growing up isn't it? i'm up north in joondalup any good fishing spots?only started abt a year ago...and was only reaaly into fishing recently...

Had a terrible day fishing in Exmouth today, winds under 10 knots all day and the fish biting. We only ended up with 3 red emperor, 5 rankin cod, 2 goldband jobfish, 2 rosy jobfish, 1 mack tuna, 1 spangled emperor, 1 blackspot pigfish, 1 robinson seabream and I can't remember what else was in the esky now, released a heap of everything too. Tried for marlin for an hour or so with little surface activity, but then went back to bottom fishing and got smashed by some monster unknowns. Gully's got the pics and I've now got all his video footage of early Exmouth and Rotto Salmon, it will be good! I hope everyone had a nice start to the working week, we did. :)

Went to Hillarys south wall last night to play with the new Sol.

Not a fish in sight, but heaps of crabs were munching my mulies.  Managed to jag one up.  Was a white crab the size of a can.

Every time the baits hit the bottom, a crab would be at it.

Are these Ghost crabs, and do folks eat them ???

Before I rattle off the winners and the all important bragging rights for North versus South I would like again to thank our key sponsors for making this event possible. Without them being involved and being prepared to support us locally we wouldn't have been able to put on the day. 



Compleat Angler Joondalup

Oceanside Tackle & Marine

Compleat Angler Rockingham

Mandurah Pest Control

Hogsbreath Cafe Mindarie

Jody Pallett (Interior and Exterior Landscape Design and Construction)

Coates Cleaning Products

and others (you know who you are, and a big thank you for your silent contributions)



To the winners go the spoils, and whilst the NOR comp didn't have as big a catch as the SOR event, the diversity of species was pretty good I must say. It certainly appeared that everyone enjoyed the day, not necessarily so much for the quality of fishing but more the chance to catch up and put faces to names.



A personal thank you on behalf of Adam and myself goes to Tim for all his hard work behind the scenes in making the day a huge success. Also to anyone else who lent a hand, offered advice or simply showed up on the day, a big thank you too.



A quick reminder to all the anglers that caught dhuies and pinkies on the day that the research guys would love to take your frames. Just look for the Dhufish Frames thread and it has all the details. A total of 11 Dhuies were weighed in during the NOR comp and believe it or not that was the most common species weighed.



So here are the winners:



Biggest Baldie: ...........................Steve (Dean's dad)

Biggest Blackarse.......................Kal

Biggest Dhufish...........................Rob

Biggest KG...................................Cody

Biggest Leatherjacket.................Kal

Biggest Pinkie.............................Rob

Biggest Skippy............................SPESS

Unusual Catch.............................Salmo (Bonito)

Unusual Catch.............................Max (Red Throat Emporer)

Most species...............................Kal (5 species)



And the two biggies!!



Champion Angler........................Steve (712 points) That Baldie was a cracker!

Champion Boat...........................Kal, Khalid (boat average 503 points) I have some more prizes for you Kal)



And finally the big one...........







SOR..............................................243 points average per angler

NOR..............................................261 points average per angler





WELL DONE NORTH OF THE RIVER !!!!!!!! Bragging rights until the next comp.



As we mentioned on the day we still have the overall champion Angler trophy to be awarded and some money left over from the entry fees. We will endeavour to organise a Swan River "land based only" BBQ piss up gathering where some additional prizes will be available for a suitable Swan river category. This will allow all the shore based deckies that didn't get a crack on a boat a chance to win a prize. Details will be posted as soon as we can agree on a date, so watch this space.



Congratulations again to all the winners.

i was out at mindarie yesterday from about 9 o'clock am to about 6 o'clock pm and we caught a 35cm leatherjacket and a 30cm skippy . there was a girl there that also caught a leatherjacket slightly bigger but it snapped the hook just as she was putting it into her bucket
a guy and his wife came around 2 o'clock and they were catching skippy after skippy around 30cm each and there was also some biggggg ones in the mix.
Dad had his alvey in the water and we were just fishing with our spinning combos and then his alvy screamed off and we decided there wouldve been a tailor approximately 5kg's but it pinged him the same thing happened about 3 hours later but with a smaller fish and he brought it in close but it pinged him b4 we could see what it was but altogether it was a great day
ps. we got annoyed with you guys zippin into the harbour so fast!!!! and so close to the point

Went down a had a play with a new bream combo down at hillarys just flicking a few 25gm raiders and sp's around when i hooked into something a little bit bigger than what i expected! Almost got spooled twice and was giving me the upmost hert at one stage. Turned out to be a sambo around the 10 to 12kg mark! The bluddy thing finally busted me off near the edge of the rocks.Not bad for a 10lb fluro leader and 8lb line. Would have been one of my best shore based captures by a long way.......nevermind i was just happy to get my new line back.

It was on the 3/4 mark of the south rock wall near that reefy system there, there must of been a few because i got a few big hits when i let the lure sink down before i hooked up. 25gm raider youd think wouldnt hold up to the task but it was clean in the jaw but starting to get alitle straight on the old trebble side of things. Going to try with something alittle heavier next time and take the camera out ready to go. Wish me luck....ill need it. hhehehehehe

June 30th COMPETITION RESULTS

After a deferment from the 23rd due to really crappy weather the comp went ahead on the 30th despite the really crappy weather! No boats went out offcourse but the river and beach section still fished.

Not a lot was caught but 5 juniors and 8 adults had a go in the river.

A big thanks to our sponsor this month, Wayne at the Kalbarri IGA who donated five $20.00 vouchers.

John Stewart had a good catch from the river landing a nice soapy mulloway and 2 tailor. Brett Bain had 5 fish mostly chopper tailor and Leah Skinner had one live bream gaining her double points. But Di Stewart topped it all with her bag of 4 big live bream to win the river section.

John with his river mulloway.

Carly’s winning bream.

Carly Dyer just snatched the junior river section from Martin Stewart with a bream just bigger by 100grams.

Daniel Tarasek again had no competition winning outright with these two mulloway the biggest at 12.15kg the biggest this season and a tailor of 1.15kgs that is so far the biggest to be weighed in this season as well.

Daniel won the RSL Meritorious award of a $50.00 voucher for his mulloway. Leah Skinner won the restaurant draw, while Cheryl Eley scratched up the lucky ticket to win the scratchies raffle.

Mug of the Day went to Di Stewart, details are scratchy but it seems she had a couple of near misses sinking her ute into the river.

Next comp is on the 21st July.

Hi all, just a quick note to tell all that i was at hillaries for a look on the weekend (sunday) and when it started to piss down there was a couple of brave anglers casting small metals off the north wall. They got into some great fish including some skippy to nearlly 1kg id reacon and there was plenty of smallist bontio around as well which dont frequent the area as much as one would like.

Only seen one 1 nice tailor come up but im sure there was many more out there. plenty of small bait schools were the damage for bringing them all in id say. 20 to 30gram raiders and twisties seem to be the best.
Shame i didnt take a rod down.

Its about time I decided to take sometime to tell the story of my Exmouth trip. Spent 8 days there and everyday was blasting easterlies. No problemo, just fish the west side til the wind drop and hire the dinghies to get out. No can do, everyday was blowing til atleast 2pm. Last couple of days was completely blown out the whole day. Despite the wind we still managed our fair share of Charlies and the odd little Golden Trevs and Queenies. Highlight was my brother, Gordon's 6.5kg Golden on Roost 80 popper. Fished the marina a fair bit as that seems to be the only place with baitfish, needless to say we got into a heap of queenies on light gear. One of the guys managed an undersize coral trout from the wharf. The late arvo was spent at Naval Pier chasing GTs and boy was it "expensive". 3 of us did the walk arvo and donated atleast 10 poppers and stickbaits to the fish gods. Following are some of the G's we manage to land, as well as a large cod which decided after snaring an occy, wanted the popper as well!!. Total score of G's landed were 11 and just as much were dropped or lost completely.
For those that wants to chase the big G's.....change all your popper's hardware. There's no such thing as overkill. 290lb split rings, 5/0 trebles or bigger if possible and crush all barbs if you dont have barbless.

hi all was driving the cray boat we had all the gear on the back of the bank and there was every where ,small lumps,big lumps and out on the weed the fish wear every where from yanchip to 5 mile north of two rock ,hope it helps for the comp :}

Hi has any tried the 210m jetty in the swan river its near como and im wondering how far out i have to go out on the jetty and if its a good spot to fish . it is opposite preston st near the kwinnana fwy.

Has anyone else noticed that the old tailor population has slowed down? I know its really not the right time but last year at this time my usall spots still where fireing for good fish. Even the winter thumpers from yanchep arent around at the moment. Someone was telling me that there catching them comercially of shore and theres been lots of people walking into tackle stores saying the same thing.

Has any one got any good spots in the Mindarie Marina.

Well we wen't out yesterday for a bit of a fish and test the repaired motor out.

Left oceanreef at 7.20 am and headed to 3mile reef testing the motor for about 1 and a half hours around there. Plenty of wrasse, but not much else.

So we headed out to the 40M mark to a couple of spots searching for dhuies. When heading out we ran over a bit of good ground so turned around for another look. The ground looked real good and at one stage had about 15 fish on the sounder. So down went the dhuie lure did a drift - nothing.

Second drift the lure hit the bottom and BANG it was off heading west and not slowing, had the fish on for about 20 seconds and snapped me, end of the dhuie lure!

So we did another 5 or so drifts over this spot each drift showing huge numbers of fish. Though we didn't hook up again.

Then we moved we moved out to a lump and this spot had 2 cray pots, in 40M of water and the pots had approx 100M of line out, so I hooked up to a fish and within a couple of seconds I was around the line and lost it!

Try number 2 the boat was left running and we stopped right over the the top of the lump, after about 30 seconds I hooked up, again the fish was heading straight for the the ropes but, I managed to turn it, so after 20 or so minutes of fighting we begun to see some colour but the fish didn't like that so back down it went to the bottom. Another 10 minutes later I got the fish up enough to see what it was a bloody stingray 6ft wide, so again it started to run as it didn't like the look of the boat, at this stage 30mins had passed so I clamped down and broke the line.

In the end we ended up with a couple of breaksea and a few wrasse.

I among other anglers would like to thank Tim,Andy and Adam for organising the first leg of the South vrs North today was a great day with nice conditions got to put a few faces to a few names,some of us caught some didnt ,everyone came back in safe overall top day

Way to go guys