Have a good mate from over East, born and bred in the West, who is a quality fisherman that I regularly exchange photos with.  He was out here a couple of weeks ago for a mate’s 50th and we planned lots of trips.  Unfortunately his trip corresponded with an Autumn storm front and we could only have one session in the” calm before the storm” which produced, well, SFA size pinkies.  A mixed bag but nothing of note and a bit of a disappointment for all.

Since then, he has been on and East coast “purple patch”.  First a 5.3kg pinkie:

and then this!

Caught north of Moreton Island on a whole squid, 30lb braid with 5’0 snelled hooks on mono leader.  WTF – one hook in the corner of the gob and one in the eye and a very lucky capture.  The “photo war” is hotting up but I am not sure I could get close to that beast.  Definitely a photo worth sharing.

 Took the boat up to exmouth for a week weather was shithouse due to a low preasure system hanging off the coast.

1st day on the boat we fished just outside north passage tantabidi in 20mt picked up a nice cobia a few rankin cod heaps of gold spot trevally and spangos before the wind picked up.

2nd day managed to get out for a trawl picked up a load of mac tuna and stipeys then the wind picked up again .we came in and fished in north passage couldnt get pased the goldspot trevallys good fun on light gear.

Last day on the boat was the best day decided to try for a mackie trawled up and down the back of the reef got a load of tuna and shark macs had a load of hookups that were droped before i hooked a 900mm spanyaird. Decided to head north and trawled up and down in 30 to 50mt mark seen some lumps on the sounder then bam lures got smashed line was peeling then nothing couldnt beleive it. Set the spread again and went for it again same spot got hit again landed a 11kg spanyard. We then decided to stop trawling and do some bottom  fishing on the lumps we found with good results rankin cod coranation trout spangos more gold spot trevally and a heap of  snappers.toped off a great day with a few spuid in along the beach near the boatramp. 

Packing up my gear to come home and relised the single hooks i was using  were straightend no wonder i was droping fish

Took the missus to a new spot near Rotto. We managed to bag out within two hours with a mixed bag of Dhufish, Breaksea Cod, Snapper and Harlequin Fish.

YouTube clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OWvuC06UegA

Finally ticked the last deep drop species off this list, Blue Eye. Thank Bodie for the help, great to meet you and sorry we did not get into the Bass.....they are quite elusive unfortunately but at least we got into a few other fish as well with a few radiants and pinks.

Brilliant ride out.

Brilliant day.

Bagged out with a mix of blue eye, radiant cod, pinkie and dhu.

Brilliant ride home.

Took my young bloke and his mate who is fishing mad and wanted to catch a sambo but had never jigged before.

Out to a shallow spot......when you see this.....

You get these......my young blokes mate Mitch with his first sambo.

We all got into them, great fun for the young blokes.

up early today with the aim of getting some pinkies for the first time off 5 fathom. With not much of an idea my brother, a mate and myself left cockburn boat ramp at 6am and headed off into the darkness. We decided we would try the inner edge of the bank off the northern tip of garden island in about 20m of water. It was now about 6.45am and with sunrise expected at around 7.00am we started throwing mulie cubes all over the place hoping to attract a nice pinky or 2 to head over to our boat. Within 10 minutes of anchoring 2 of our 3 rods suddenly screamed  off and me and my brother were on. I could feel those headshakes and constant short sharp runs, i was starting to think i may have been onto my first sized pinkie but just as i got it off the bottom my line went slack, he had Spat the hooks and i was spewing!!! About 30 seconds after my fish got away my mates rod went off, after a nice fight finally up came a 70cm pink snapper followed quickly by a 68cm specimen. Down went the baits again, we watched the sun get higher and higher in the sky, 20 mins had past and i thought the window may have closed and it wasnt my day. I was sitting down staring at all 3 rods when mine all of a sudden buckled again and i had my second chance. I carefully nursed it up and was stoked to get another pinkie in the net, not quite as big at 64cm but still a good fish. Headed back in for a squid and then back to the ramp by 11.30

Happy days

Brothers 70cm pinkie

 We went offshore today trying to catch some demersals in the 40s and 50s off Mandurah. We only caught undersize dhuies and pinkies so we decided to try our luck further offshore as the weather was nice. We sounded around in the 90s and came across a bit of a lump and I pulled up this Amberjack on my Talica 10. It had a few runs at the start and one close to the boat but mainly it was just a heavy lump. I was hoping for a big dhuie but pretty happy all the same.

 Lovely day out on the water with a few nice feeds !

 Apparently someone got a 9kg pinky at the narrows?????? In this mornings paper. Geez thats a big fish if report is true.  I know theres heaps of juveniles in the river and the odd sized one caught but 9kgs is massive!!!! 

Has anyone ever caught one of these squid around Perth before?

I have never seen or caught on like this, hope the photos work

 Hi guys are there any reports on the squiding scene in safety bay at the moment

Cheers

All our plans were thrown into a bit of chaos with the onset of rain a day before our planned arrival.  luckily Pam from steep point contacted me and forewarned of the road closure.  we bought our plans forward 24 hours and the boys driving in got away early.  had a few dramas on the track with a broken trailer spring and getting well and truly bogged.  anyway, managed to make it to the camp and got enough setup whilst the rain came down.

We took the boats across sunday and set up the camp good and proper.

1st day of fishing on Monday in a big 4m swell but otherwise good conditions.  as the respective boats owners were passionate one eyed supporters of the two wa based afl clubs we had decided to have a little competition.  The loser each day had to fly the opponent's team flag the next day.  rules were set and judged by the person staying on shore that day.

rules for day one was simply "longest fish", but I did clarify were the units of measurement centimeters or hours, minutes, and seconds?  needless to say it was't the latter.

well it was a good opportunity to try my new vent right ally bait skirted lures.

but first I wanted to head deep.  that didn't go according to plan when one of the crew turned green in the backwash off the cliffs as we headed south.  we made the sympathetic call and turned back to shelter bay to drop him off.

well that turned out to be good karma because we headed out again and turned north.  not long after my reel screamed as the lure was hit and taken on a big run.  rather than strike early, I let it go until it tired before putting the brakes on and reeling in a big mack.  my best yet.  It's not often you can't shut the lid on an 1100mm maccie esky!

1.41 cm and 20.4 kg....  I think i was safe on not having to fly an eagles flag from the mighty bon peche!  and if the other boat came in with something bigger, then we were all winners!

day two and the rules were set as the most diverse mixed bag.

we had another good day, coming back in with a total of nine edible species, including squid, spanish mackerel, mangrove jack, Spanish flag, red throat, baldchin, and a couple of other 'edible' species like butterfish and Charlie Court.... and again bon peche was saved from the embarrassment of the eagles flag...

day three and there were no rules..... as he who sets them took off to fish the beach and low cliffs before deciding on what they would be.  initially we hang in the passage and tried to find the black snapper.  All we found were sharks!  I had a few minutes of fun on one of a decent size on light gear before getting snapped off.  Then we headed outside were one of the guys landed a couple of macks on a deep diving rapala.

Each afternoon we'd take the carcases out into the bay and feed the taxman.

days four and five we took advantage of the near calm conditions and head out deep to a spot provided by a FW member.

got some good showing on the Simrad....

and turned them into these

And steep point wouldn't be steep point without a pre-dawn photo...

all in all, a great week.

Our run back to denham was the best I've had.  90 minutes and hardly a ripple.

The only downside was car trouble on the way home, luckily close to home but still an expensive tow.  we suspect the alternator has failed.  will find out soon enough.

With yesterdays (25/5/15) awesome forecast I had to go Super Deep - Yes Again!!
 

My staff member Marc was keen to get out there after seeing my last trip out. I said do a roster swap with Reese (my other staff member) and lets go!

We set off not too early and planned an arvo fish. I said to Marc what fish would you like to catch ...... he said any Super Deep fish would be good but a bass groper on jig would make his day .... great no pressure ha ha .... I suppose I did ask!

2 hours out in the dinghy on Saturday has produced again I love this place. No need to have these big expensive boats to get good fish

 Had a fun day beach fishing south coast again. 

Not bad size skippy

Couple salmon 

Has come and gone in a flash and reality hit today facing work!

Flew to Learmonth Thursday 14th with 3 of the 4 starters where we were met by a mate who had already taken the boat north with his family for 10 days. The esky was full and cold for us, good start! The speeding fine was not a good start, the excitement was kicking in! Hit CB and the water was like glass. Brief daily summary;

Thurs Day 1- We arrived CB at ~ 4.30 and were on the water 15 mins later. Mate spent further family time and did not attend!! Knowing we had only an hour or so of light, we hit one of my favourite spots south and it did not disappoint. 30 knots we were there in no time. Sounder show had us bursting at the seams. First drop red and red throats, great bait, back down they go. Second drop red and spangle. third drop double header of reds and gold band (first for the spot, and not even 70m!! Just over hour later we were heading home with a healthy esky for what we did not think was to be a fishing day?! 30 knots all way in the dark! Nearly taking out an unlit yacht inside the reef was not cool. Forgot to add the visit by a 4m+ hammer head trying to steal a red! In the dark and with me on the net, I shat!

Fri Day 2- Mate dropping family to Learmonth again unable to attend! Weather looking iffy we headed north. Travelling out 10-12 knots we were looking at over an hour trip so dropped out a red head and a skirt. With 10 mins we landed a ~ 15kg wahoo! 20 mins later hook up on sail, on the red head! Winding the skirt in we saw another sail free jumping, next thing in, second hook up, luckily on each sider of the boat. Both good sized ests 50-60kg, freed boat side. Hitting the spots, struggled to hold bottom with 20knot+ winds so headed home!

Sat Day 3- mate was free of family and after towing a boat around for nearly 2 weeks was free to fish?! So he thought- weather crap, were land based!!! Hit the pub for few off the wood.

Sun Day 4- decided to head back south, had good flare ups but not a great day, just didn't seem hungry. Ended up with mixed bag of reds, spangleds, robo's and honey comb cod. Mate at least got his rod wet!

Mon Day 5- the weather looked the goods so we decided to venture further and wider north to ~ 150-160m. Found the gold bands and they were hungry! Decided to break out the electrics and give them a good run. 12 solid gold bands 6-8kg and it was an early end to the day!

Tues Day 6- weather looked good again so thought that was great fun yesterday, lets do it again!! As always, something had changed and we struggled catching only a few.

Wed Day 7- weather still looking good so call was made to head south to try our shallower (60-70m) red ground that we had not yet fished. Little slow but managed a few reds, robbos, rankin, spangles and honey comb.

Thurs Day 8- we hadn't hit our red ground north so decided to give this a crack. Again we found them hungry and founded a great new patch of ground that I will call the gravel patch. No great flare ups but plenty of small deviations and showing of fish that produced a great catch of reds, spangleds, scarlet, rankin. Mate ex family landed first red of the trip!

Fri Day 9- weather again looked epic so decided to hit 200m+ line for some rubys. Hit 240m and had two drops and couldn't hold bottom. Given we need only 2kg each to hit our limit we potted back to 90m picked up a couple of tuna for sushimi dinner and found some more new ground. 3-4 drops saw us with good reds and rankins so called it a day around lunch to head back to the thought of packing up?!

Saturday saw us head home after next batch of mates taking over the boat arriving! Crusing with car and trailer only we were making good time unfortunately being held up by a head on between a truck and a car. No fatality miraculously but still not a pleasant sight and an unwanted hold up.

Summary of parts reds 4-7kg, gold bands 6-8kg, rankins 4-8kg. 20kg in the freezer, happy times fishing 8 of 9 days anywhere from 60m to 240m!!

Pics, day 1 sounder, day 1 catch, gold bands day 5, gold bands day 5, catch day 8, catch day 9.

Had a great day fishing Bernier Island on Friday 22/05/15.

Conditions where mint. Caught a range of different fish.

The biggest Mackerel went 20+ kgs and a 1.5M mahi which is my PB.

Saturday turned shit with strong SE and didn't even bother fishing, had too many drinks the night before.

Over all a good trip but too far for a weekend.

Cheers

 Got out to the 40's about 8am and just before getting to our marks we came across a set of pots, sounded through them and found some real good rocky lookin ground going from 41 then quickly up over around 34 then flattening out around 39 with occasional fish showing on the sounder. First drift and non-stop action. My brother and I are pretty much opposite in our fishing styles, he's right into demersal jigging on light gear and im a 80lb braid, 10/0 hook big big bait kind of reef basher. Gotta admit the jigs outfished bait about three to one. Over about 8 drifts through that area he kept hooking up on Dhuies and baldies each drift, a big arse breaksea cod and a few different reefies. I got dhuies and baldies as well but just not as many. I got a fast strong run from something big, drag had a good scream and it was gone bugger! felt big.  Most fish undersize and in the end he had a 55cm dhuie and nice baldie in the bag. Action slowed down after about an hour, bolt cutters moved in and took my 10/0 owners so we decided to go to our spot where ive got nice dhuies, pinkies and baldies a few weeks back in 43m.  Was a bit slow, a couple of undersize baldies and dhuies got jigged up, nothing on bait so we moved to another spot we found previouslydropping off fast from 32m to 39m. Second drift and I was on finally! Up came the 85cm dhuie pictured, i know they get alot bigger but i was stoked when that came over the side. Brother changed to soft plastic got a 64cm dhuie which of course had to be released, next drift he was onto something real big, after a minute or two fight it spat the hook. Was a great day with fish everywhere and was good to come home with a beer and flat ocean. Lookin forward to doing it again, looks like i might have to try this demersal jigging thing. 

Took out a friend early this morning near Garden Island. He doesn't get chance to get out much, so very happy to get him onto his PB snapper (74cm).

With the weather looking reasonable yesterday decided to pack the deep drop gear and head out real wide chasing some deep drop fish.

A Mate of mine Carl had never done it before and after having some discussions on our recent Abrolhos charter he decided to pick up a Tanacom bull 1000 from Bluewater Morley in readiness of a deep drop.

Stopped in shallower around 300m of water to give him a run on his new combo and get a feel for it. I have no marks in that depth where we were so it was just a drop and see and he was hooked up straight away. I said to him that the deep water stuff is littered with green eyed sharks and he would know about it if he had hooked a big deep drop fish.

Up came a meter or so green eye and that let him know what its like trying to bring up fish from the depths.

I said I had some spots not far away that have held blue eye in the past and to head out there. At that stage the wind had come up a little but the drift was not too bad and it was only 3 mile away.

First drop and he hooks up big. I said to him this time it wasn't a shark and likely to be a big deep water fish. after 10 or so minutes up pops this guy! Probably the biggest I've got out there at an estimated 25kg or so. Think his face tells the story.

Unfortunately with the wind coming up it made it hard to read the bottom and the school moved on. I could find them but just couldn't get the boat on them with wind going in circles and the current really picking up. Did pick up some other bits and pieces which I've not seen before but no idea what they were. Not big at all.

Will start to spend more time in shallower, 250-350m looking for the elusive Harpuka and Bass Groper which I just cant seem to find!

Cheers
Bodie

well I just came back from an awesome trip to the Abrolhos islands with blue lightning charters and here are some of the fish I caught. 

Species caught 

dhufish 

coral trout 

pink snapper 

baldchin groped 

sharks 

yellow fin tuna 

i think it was shark tuna 

spangled empror

red throat 

Spanish mackerel 

Crayfish 

and lots more 

I also caught my first ever fish on a softplastic which was a dhuie and 2nd fish a coral trout. I am now converted ahah !

To soft plastics

Also sorry about some of the picture quality the didn't seem to come out very well

Found a heap of sambos in shallow, had fun with 4 way hook-ups on Langas 285 Boston Whaler, a fair bit of hot shoe shuffle going on and lots of crossed lines and a very cross TimVB at one point as he namby pambied around with his piddling PE3 gear....hahaha. Most this size.

Ended up with a nice few feeds of two dhuies (one 10.5 kg), two baldies, two back arse, a mulla, sore arms and a partridge in a pear tree. The surprise Mulla was caught after we got the two dhuie limit and moved spots from the dhuie ground so we would not catch any more dhuies to reduce risk of baratrauma injury to the fish, Mulla was caught around a fair bit of bait.

 Went out for a arvo night beach fish east of esperance last night with amazing weather no wind at all and perfect conditions we had a good fish. I caught a good mulloway on fresh caught squid from the morning in the tinny. Also caught some good size skippy and a monster shovel nose. Salmon was a good 5kg 78cm..

Heading back out this arvo!! 

 Im going out of there early tomorrow, any reports/ tips on where you found some fish, Im happy to share any good info on here with other fishwreckers after ive been out there tomorrow    cheers dave  

With yesterdays awesome forecast I had to go Super Deep!
 

My staff member Reese was suppose to be working yesterday but I said you wanna go Super Deep? his words hell yeh!
 

We set off not too early and planned an arvo fish. Last time Reese came out he got Blue-eye Trevella but he was keen to get a big one and have a crack on a super deep jig!

 Hey FWer's,

Got out for a fish today.  Great day on the water. Headed out to the 40's off Mandurah at 6am. Hit up some new marks I came across last time out. 2 weeks ago all we got off these spots were undersize Pinkies and a couple of small Dhus, but the signs were there so gave it another crack today with much better results. Only a couple of undersize snapper this time but heaps of undersize Dhus (at least 9 for the day) but also managed 2 size ones not huge but good enough. Also scored 2 cracking BB's, a nice KGW,6 Skippy and a small shark.

But the highlight for me was ticking a Shark Mack off the list, and a good one at that. We had just been commenting on how warm the water felt. Not long after, the deckie was onto a reasonable fish, so I started winding up my jig pretty quick to help with the net. When about half way up I got smashed, and off it went. I was thinking Sambo at first but early on it headed for the surface at a pretty good rate of knots. After a good tussle we got its head in the net but had to grab it's tail to get it over the side. Weighed and measured at home at spot on 7kgs and right on 1m long. Got 4 Mackie species now: Spanish, Broad Bar, Spotted and now the Sharkie, gotta get me a Wahoo now.

Sorry about the photo, should of left the sunnies on 

Not sure where the photo went.  Edit think it's back. 

Here's a few pics from my recent trip to CB. A little lazy with the camera this trip....or maybe was too much action!
Weather was hit and miss as usual although driving up the day of the cyclone we thought it would be much worse. Turns out the day after was our best weather. managed to catch 54 good size Reds for the 10 days along with plenty of other species, most of which are back swimming around.
Now only 50 weeks til the next trip........

 myself and my brother Aron have been lucky enough to get some awesome gear from assassin tackle australia to try out and well with our first weekend of having the gear we managed a heap of nice fish. spinnig off the rocks, casting in the river and sliding off the beach after dark accounted for these fish this weekend. ill let the pics do the talking with plenty of good fish making there way up for a photo.

Finally made it out last tuesday after the weekend blow,

arrived there pretty early and got our 4 pinks in an hour

ended up releasing 11 more and getting bricked by at least 4 more till about 9am then the usual skippy and sambos moved in

My mate Ian finished off the morning with this, all caught in 12m

 Just thought i'd throw a post up as it seems i can upload photos again all of a sudden. The girlfriend got these on sunday just gone, gentlemens hours, about 1030am. Nice tailor then a big salmon to put me to shame as i caught nothing! She casts a 12 foot surf rod like a pro! Had to tell her to settle down as she was casting past the front gutter and out the back break! Tailor was nice fresh for lunch and the dogs enjoyed a week of salmon (swallowed the hooks otherwise would have released) Conditions couldn't of got any better