Fishing Report 26-Jan-06 - Courtesty of Scott Forbes - EGFC

The rains may have taken away a few of the flies this last week, but now it’s time to watch out for the biting insects, especially at the marina. Sandflies have also been thick along town beach where the weed has washed up on the shoreline after the rough seas. The better places for fishing would have to be the west side, as long as the south-west wind is not too strong.

Spangled emperor have still been thick along the beaches on the west side and baits of mullet and squid seem to be the preferred choice. The ocean has been extremely confused after the cyclone with the swell coming from all different directions. The water has been very dirty and green, however off the lighthouse in about 80m of water there is a distinct colour change to blue. Here there have been plenty of dolphin fish and small black marlin. Between the tip of the cape and north-west reef there have been hundreds of birds working schools of bait with predators such as shark mackerel and long tail tuna. The odd Spanish mackerel is also smashing up the baits on the surface.

The small Williamson surface lures have been working well on these fish as well as the usual bibbed minnows in varying depths. Fishing in the gulf recently in just 7m of water, Bob Dobson and fellow angler Jason caught two coral trout using 2 and 4m Halco laser pros. They also managed to land a couple of good mackerel in the shallow waters, showing that you don’t have to go far to get a good feed.

Watch out on GWN each day for the advert for GAMEX. The Exmouth Game Fishing Club would like to thank Jon from Exmouth Computer Services for helping put together the advert in such short time.

 

Fishing Report 19th Jan 2006 - Courtesy of Scott Forbes

The persistent winds have kept most anglers at home this last week, although some have managed to catch that part of the day in the right area where the winds have been favourable. This has mainly been the gulf side around late morning to early afternoon. Che Carson took to inside the reef at Tantabiddi with Ben Knight with a choppy sea and southerly wind blowing over twenty knots. Despite the less than pleasant conditions, the boys had an absolute ball catching many hungry spangled emperors on various lures including soft plastics and small minnows.

Inside the marina has been the pick of spots this week with a variety of species. Even I managed to land a good tarpon on dusk, which jumped and circled the small tinny several times before we successfully landed it. After a few quick snaps, he was off swimming again. Baits of pilchard and hardy heads seemed to work best and we also landed a spangled emperor and large mangrove jack. All were released.

Did you know that the Exmouth Game Fishing Club will be holding an auction on the 24th March at the end of Gamex for the new EGFC number plates? The smart looking plates will have the letters EGFC on the left, the EGFC logo in the middle and the numbers 01-99 on the right. Anyone is welcome to come to the Potshot gantry and the auction starts at 8pm. If you are interested in putting an absent bid in for a particular number please contact president Kurt Decker on 9949 4360. Plates will start at $200 each and a big thank you goes to Scott Forbes for organising the plates.

Another exciting part to Gamex this year is the involvement of Andrew Ettinghausen and the film crew from Escape with ET. Andrew will be fishing aboard the boat Reel Teaser and filming the event, including the presentation night at the Potshot Resort. Dive presenter Giovanna Fasanelli will also be filming various dive segments. The EGFC would like to thank Larry and the Potsh

Fishing Report Exmouth 12-01-2006 - Courtesy of Scott Forbes

The plummeting barometer certainly turned the fish off as Cyclone Clare approached, however, it didn’t stop the anglers getting out and having a great time over the Exmouth Game Fishing Club Tantabiddi Camp out week-end, which was thanks to the Exmouth Dive Centre. Several boats took to the water and many anglers and locals from town joined in the BBQ and camp out on the Saturday night.

The heaviest red emperor section was left vacant, while the heaviest mackerel or wahoo section was taken out by Scott Forbes aboard Jig-a-Jig with a12kg Spanish mackerel.  Runner up was Col Anderson also aboard Jig-a-Jig with a 10.5 kg Wahoo.  Third place was Mark Damien aboard Awesum with a 9.25kg Wahoo.  The wahoo was delicious on the bbq that night-thanks guys!

The tagged marlin section was taken out by teamSwitched On (2 tags), with skipper Ben Knight tagging a 35kg black on 37kg line, and angler Shaun Brandenburg tagging a 30kg black on 15kg line.  Runner up was team In Deep (1 tag), with angler Kurt Decker tagging a 110kg Striped on 60kg line.  Third place went to team Jig-a-Jig (1 tag), by Col Anderson with an 18kg black on 24kg line.  Earlier in the week there were many more marlin raised and hooked, but unfortunately the drop in barometric pressure kept the numbers low for the week-end.

The tagged sailfish section was won by Mike Smith aboard Awesum with a 40kg sailfish on 37kg line.  Runner up was Cameron Trowbridge with a 35kg sailfish on 37kg line onboard the smallest boat in the fleet, but the boat with the most tagged billfish: Switched On.

One of the best catches was a massive 72cm 6kg spangled emperor caught on hand line by Jake Usher, who took out the Spangled Emperor section-well done to 14yr old Jake!

A big thanks goes to Dave Hall at the Exmouth Dive Centre as the major sponsor for the week-end comp.  We’re sure this week-end event will be another huge success next year.

As usual the weather here in Exmouth is Sunny.....Sunday 4th December Exmouth Gulf was a glass off but as for the boat ramp at Bundegi, that's another story. Yesterday after noon I took this picture of Bundegi Boat ramp......A few times a week I attempt to take photo's of the ramps to past onto EGFC members if conditions change.

Heard this from Tony down at Walpole:

The wind was blowing but nothing stops good fisherman fron going fishing and we did. 30cm over the bar and a large swell but we still got out and had the Southern Cross verticle for one stage, but still managed to go and do three drifts for 7 fish. 3 big red snapper, one queeny and a dhufish all in 10 minutes before realising that we shouldn't be out there. A good weekend over all and plenty of crown larger to wash it all down, will keep in touch.

Exmouth Fishing Report - 2nd DEC 2005 - Provided by Scotty.

(Article written by Jeni Lerch)

The festive season is upon us, or should I say ‘feastive’ as many of us seem to eat far too much! A good way to work it off is by getting our there with a rod and reel in your hand and walking the beaches with some soft plastics. If you’re really keen, a walk from Bundegi towards the Navy Pier with heavy duty rods and poppers rigged with barbless hooks will probably give you a good run for your money. That’s exactly what keen angler Mark Grant from Karratha did this week, landing himself a few decent giant trevally around the 18kilo mark. Despite the fact that the sun was hot during the days and the winds were strong around the west side at times, he managed to cover most of the coast from Pilgramunna north, carefully releasing all his catches.

Gavin Miller and his partner Alison from Perth were fishing up here for quite a few days and caught everything they dreamed of from their tinny including queenfish at Cooper Shoal, trevally and a huge Queensland groper. The groper had a quick snap shot and was returned to the water. The baits used were mainly squid and mulies and Gavin is pictured this week holding up one of the great catches.

The gulf has continued to fire with Joe Reynolds chasing the multitudes of mack tuna in schools that can be seen busting up the bait balls on the surface. Joe headed out with Brad Robertson for a few hours during the afternoon when the gulf turned to glass and the pair had to use the stealth mode on the fish as they tried to elude the noise of the engine. Using patience the boys drifted close the school and waited until the school came within casting distance. They then cast out Halco slices and whip tail jigs which hardly returned to the boat without a fish attached.

Cray season started yesterday and from all reports i've heard it has been very quiet with 5 being the most i've heard of being caught even after a couple of dives.. Apparently the visibility isn't too crash hot at the moment and hopefully things will pick up after the full moon.. Its even quiet over at Rotto, which must meant they aren't walking properly yet.

Speaking of the full moon, mulloway season must be upon us soon.. heard that there were 30 cars under the narrows last night with rods set up everywhere..  Sounds like cockburn sound is the place you want to be to catch one..

The big tailor chop-ups are still happening in the river, but apparently they are still small at the moment.. Haven't managed to get into any myself, but hopefully it won't be too far off.  Meant to be some good size flathead moving into the lower parts of east freo at the moment, but there are plauge proportions of blowies, so soft plastics might not be the go just yet.

This week a group of 8 are going to try jigging for sambo's out at the containers on kayaks.. now that should be interesting.. wonder if theres any of the big grey suited fellas out there at the moment? Certainly won't catch me on a kayak out there.

Reports from the billfish bonanza at Exmouth is that there are mackies just out of the harbour, big queenies in close.. lots of big golden trev's and quite a few sailfish around..

Few good sambo's are still on the 3 mile along with good sized king george if you can find them..

Still plenty of fat sand whiting in close, if your chasing a feed.

The crabs haven't fired up anywhere yet and from what i've heard it is extremely hard work and not really worth the effort for the ones that are size, which are few and far between.

And i've heard that its worth a trip out to the fads already, a few baby specimens are sitting underneath them.. oh yes!

Sounds like the fishing is starting to heat up with the weather, bring it on!

Well, its been a pretty good fishing month all up.  Here are some of the reports that I've seen and heard.

The dhuies are close in at the moment because the crays have started to walk and with the new cray season around the corner it won't be long before the pots are out again and finding new ground becomes a lot easier.  Have heard a few reports that dhuies upto 15kg have been landed within 500m of Rottnest. 

Out wide has seen the fishing fortunes change from pink snapper in the early couple of weeks to large 5kg+ skippy.  Best guess is that the snapper have moved into the sound to start spawning.  We also managed to get into a few nice mulloway out wide and the sambo's are starting to fire up with atleast 3 caught from the Derwent from a regular jigging boat and we managed to get into a nice 13kg++ specimen in around 50m behind Rotto.

Inshore has been a little quiet lately with big king george still the go and a few cuttlefish around the place.  The sand whiting have been a little hard to find, but when you get onto a few, the size is well worth the effort.

Reports from Ocean Reef are similar to Rotto with the Dhufish moving in close to pick off the kakkas and there are a few whispers of good baldies coming from 40m of water.  The yellowfin tuna reports are still unconfirmed, but with water temperatures starting to heat up and by the looks of things a strong leeuwin current this year could see one of the best game/FAD seasons for quite some time..

The river should be starting to fire up with some flathead pretty soon and with the recent small amounts of rain I wouldn't be suprised if the fish started moving into the lower reaches of the Swan.  The mulloway run seems to be very late this year and my prediction of them starting a few weeks ago was a bit premature.  This time I've heard on good authority that its not far off, but please be sensible with what you catch and if you do get one or more, please keep the frames/guts intact for research and  get in contact with me at .  Haven't heard too much on the bream front, but theres a few stories of rat sambo's giving a hell of a tug on light gear around the boating clubs..  A few blue manners have also been pushed down the river by the recent rains..

Put a net out while fishing for flatties at claremont this arvo, only had 1 out as im lazy and couldnt find the other nets but managed 3 nice mannas. No flatties unfortunatly.

Big blackies are around maylands and up at midland. The lower reaches of the swan have been fishin well for big tarwhine, small blackies along with a few flatties popping up too.

Offshore, big pinkies off ocean reef. Dhufish are still around, but apart from one hooter landed over last week ( 24KG!!) there has only been small fish.

Well my head hurts, and its a friday night so i cant really remember many more reports(from customers) for the time being.

See you on the water!

Well, been a bit of mixed weather lately.. Had a pearler of a day down at Walpole on Saturday when there was hardly a breath of wind and it would have been magic out on the ocean.. We still managed an array of fish from King George to Shovelnose sharks..

Locally there have been reports of pink snapper from a few of the southern rock walls and from offshore.  Seems the varied weather is stirring the bottom up nicely and there are reports of dhufish in close, if you know where to go..  Catches of king george have been solid lately and the size has been exceptional.. 

The mulloway rumour was put to the test last weekend and after 2 small runs it was decided that there wasn't a lot of action at the spot chosen.. Unfortunately it was too late to pick up live baits before hitting the spot, so chances were diminished quite a bit.. Haven't heard too much about how the river is fishing for other fish..

Plenty of baitfish out there to be caught at the moment, if livebaiting is the choice..  Also patches of school mackerel and bonito have started showing up and hopefully it shouldn't be long before the pelagic action starts heating up.. Did hear from one of the other websites that one of the guys got into 14 and 18 kg yellowfin out from Garden Island.. So they are around..  Still haven't heard of any in the northern waters.

And.. There has been 30 knot winds up north for the last week, and 40 knot winds down south with the occasional window.. Not a lot of fishing to be done in these conditions.. Here's hoping they turn soon..

Will update when I hear more..

Aloha!

Well, with snapper season almost closed around the sound, there was a red hot session at a local rock wall in the sound this morning. Apparently there was non-stop action for an hour an a half, with one one pinky being stopped by a person i know. He lost about 4 fish in that time. The resulting fish was a 5kg PLUMP pinky, taken on a yellowtail.

Keep it on the hush hush, this is exclusive for FW members!

cheers!

Fished near the kiosk, alot of tailor there, but the majority are just size.  A heap of silver bream were around too, with some upto 35-40cm!

Put a big bait out, didnt get any runs on it but the water looks fishy after the big blows we've had.

Well, there have been rumours of the snapper being in the sound already.  With the new moon and storms we've had over the last couple of days, it could well be worth a shot and I wouldn't be suprised if you got onto some.

Been quite a few tailor around the place along the coast and some smaller ones in the river from the heads down to canning bridge way..  Bigger specimens have been found north of Mindarie.. Small samsonfish upto 65cm have been caught just off south mole, but are hit and miss and you need to go over the wreck with you sounder to see if they are there.  Haven't heard a lot about the river lately, but sure you will find the better bream down towards the Mossie Park - Freshie Bay areas, with South Perth Yacht Club and the Canning Bridge, with the small amount of rain we've had they should still be in the lower parts of the river.  Mulloway reports are still unfounded, but with the new moon and a bit of rain, I'd be putting in some time in the river around the usual haunts.

Hi All,
Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend and managed to get some fishing in as well.
The mixed weather conditions this week hasn't allowed alot of fish to be caught!
With the offshore seen producing good catches of Skippy and King George especially around the FFB.
The was rumors of a 48lb dhuie caught down south of the cut, i am trying to get my hands on the photo so i can post it up here to confirm it!!

Hi my name is Josh and i will try and keep all the Fishwrecked users informed on whats going on down in my part of the world..Mandurah!
Last week we were blessed with some beautiful weather and it allowed the offshore brigade to get out and try thier luck!
The fishing for skippy was productive especially around the Five Fathom Bank, with anchoring and berleying being the go.
Sambo's are around the high 20m mark with them stealing baits from snapper fisherman at night starting to happen regularly, not huge fish but good fun! i have included a pic of a nice little sambo taken on 6lb gear last sunday night (7\8\2005 Angler -Ash Proprietor of Mandurah Tackle Mart)

Gday,

Fished city beach groyne tonight for a few hours, used a kg of scalies but unfortunatly no fish landed. One small run that we missed but it could have been anything. The north side had a massive bank and the left was very shallow too. Swell was down for a change tho!

Chasing the elusive mulloway but with no prevail,just fed the fish, Heard there has been a few soapies around tho(Cottesloe area)

Cheers,
SHizz.

Looks like a trip to the barge is planned for the comming weekend to target some big samsonfish or yellowtail kings. From looking around the various other sites and from our experience at the 3 mile there are quite a few sambo's inclose at this time of year. With the weather conditions we have been experiencing lately there is a good possibility that it will be a good day and hopefully we won't need to anchor up.

If not, theres always the bottom ground not too far away which generally produces large king george and the occasional dhuie and baldchin groper. It's been a little difficult getting excited about going fishing out of Perth compared the waters around Exmouth. Seeing as it will probably be another year before we get up there again, it really is time to start getting back into the rythmn of fishing locally. What better way to warm up on some big sambo's, i think i'll start stretching now in preparation and start praying to the weather gods.

Can't wait..

Rumours have it that there are large numbers of good sized black bream and flathead in the lower reaches of the Swan, other good catches have come from the Canning Bridge and South Perth Yacht Club foreshore. A few weeks ago there were good runs of prawns after the rains, but have died down recently.

Squid have been thick lately and not far from shore, best catches were reported from the weedbanks off Leighton and out from the Fremantle harbour, some were meant to go close to a kilogram with a few larger ones amongst them. Rockfishing reports have been a little quiet, but there are large numbers of gardies and baitfish from the ASI groyne and nearby rockwalls.

After 10 days in Exmouth we are back to the wonderful cold and storms of Perth. The fishing has slowed and the nearest likely prospect of hitting the water is 2 weeks. It seems so far away......

A complete wrap up of the trip will be featured shortly.

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