Hey guys,
since buying my boat earlier this year, one of my main goals has been to catch a sambo.

I opened my account pretty early in the Cockburn sound while just trying some small lumps ide noticed on the way in,
as you can see, its a very small juvenile and only really took the photo as it was quite comical at the time.

the next stepping stone was a by catch while spinning for tailor on the reefs out from Hilarys, hitting the old faithful Smiling Jack. also not very big at all but I was bloody chuffed (had spent a lot of time over the reefs with live baits in the berley trail for nil) finally I had one, and on a hard body also.

the next size up came the day after boxing day, being down Busso way it would of been rude of me to not take the boat down, we headed out into the clear waters of the bay and soon found a little rise, my sounder was reading fish hanging around the lump so we quickly anchored up and set to burleying up, first drop my deckie loaded up onto a good fish straight away but got bricked, my hopes rose. I lobbed out a soft plastic and set to prepping the boat/berley when my brand new tcurve/stradic combo took off. after a solid battle and few rings around the boat I got it to the boat and was pumped to finally grab the tail of a good size (well for me) sambo. caught and released 4 more of simular size which all were fun on 20lb, happy to christen my new combo too!

So now, Im ready for the next level up, just gotta keep trying I guess and hopefully with a bit of luck it wont be too far away - to be continued...

thanks for the read,
would be interested on peoples thoughts on the weight of the last fish as we didn't weight or measure any of them that day.

Finally got Narelle Gwynne out in the boat today and she went well!
She nailed a Spaniard as soon as we went over the spot which we then anchored on for the the rest of the day. Not too many keepers but dozens upon dozens of Bludger Trevally and a few Big Eye trevally thrown in. We did get one keeper Nannygai among dozens of under size ones, a nice school mack and a solid Cobia. A good inshore trip out from Cairns for just one spot.

 me and castalot (fw member) headed up to dongara for a weekend trip on the beach.

found some good water that held fish. picked up halfadozen tailor good feed of whiting and a few dart. 

sharks were hard to avoid at night with plenty bust offs. 

tailor went 67cm

 Yesterday in anticipation of making the best of the good forecasted weather, we decided to head to the FADS to see for ourselves if the water up temperature was warm enough for Dollies. The water temperature at the back of Garden Island was between 19.7 and 20.2 degrees in about 25-35m of water. As we headed west to the Furuno, PGFC and the new Recfishwest fads (could not find the surface fad at 32 00 938S 115 13 886 E) the water temp decreased into the upper 17 degrees. This was was not a good start to long travel from Rocko. 

Prior to departing BOM surface temperature indicated the water would be between 20-22 degrees, this was not the case.

We done the usual trawling with "Jub Jubs" and live baits, but nothing. After a good effort we decide to bottom bounce closer to Rocko as the weather was gonna turn as the day progressed. We were fortunate enough to pick up a 4.5kg Baladie and the biggest KGW I've ever seen. 

There were a few other boats looking for Dollies but we never saw anyone go away?... The good news is there are alot of Tuna around.

anyone else have any luck with Palagics????

ALL THE BEST TO EVERYONE FOR 2015.

Team Couta Crazy

Hi All, so it's been a while since my last post, finally got a chance to wet a line this morning my partner, we started out going to Bluewater for some advice on tackle and bait, was greeted by a nice and influential saesman on what to buy, and not what to buy.. Lures all the way as bait will only get you blowies, so I got both just in case.. after spending ages blooping this whiting lure, I got nothing, my partner was on the bait and had two whiting, so another trip back to the tackle store to pick up some more bait saw another five fish caught, all up seven fish, I got two my (as usual) lucky partner got five.

Anyway looking forward to a yummy dinner tonight!

 headed out off oceanreef today, hundreds of boats out and plenty of boat ramp caos. Was still a good day with a mixed bag. First queeny I've caught also.

I managed to get out for a short solo morning session yesterday before the wind picked up. After launching at 05h00 from Woodman Point I made my away across a sloppy ocean to one of my favourite spots. I decided to cut the Yammie about 500m upwind from "the spot" and use the Easterly to deliver me over the zone. The first bait out was a mullie on a double snelled 4/0 Gamakatsu on a 20lb rig. I was busy baiting the second rig when I noticed an inquiry on the rod tip and set the hooks into a feisty fish. After a 5 minute tussle I had the fish at the boat, but it was not going to give up that easily. After a number of exhilarating runs I eventually boated my first Tuna. Not a big fish by any means, but enough to earn respect for this new species. Anything bigger than this will require slightly heavier tackle.

The second rig had a scalie at the business end attached to double snelled 7/0 Gamakatsu hooks. No more than 15 minutes after the first fish I was into a heavy-weight contender trying to reef me. The speed of the drift came to my rescue as I managed to lift the fish from its reefy home and bring it to the net. My first decent demersal after the ban - a Dhufish of 81cm - elation! This time the rig was the heavier Shimano T-curve Jig 200 with 40lb braid - the correct gear for this bout. A good way to initiate the new rod after my brother managed to snap the other one a couple of weeks ago.

By 11h00 the wind had changed direction and the prevailing brisk South Wester told me that it was time to go home. Apart from the Tuna and Dhuie I managed to boat a small Bronzie, my first Sea Sweep and a couple of other nuisance fish. A bumpy ride of about an hour saw me safely back at Cockburn Powerboat Associations slipway. A quick rinse down and I was on my way home to prepare fresh Dhufish fillets for lunch.

Another day in paradise!

YouTube clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNxr6E3kU8Q&list=UUWIj5krFAWitD-_FZNeBC2g

 For my brothers birthday yesterday we managed to get out in the boat with a mate of ours jayden and boy did we have an out of control day!!

left the boat ramp at 3:30 am for what was looking to be a great day weather wise and started making our way out to some spots for demersals. first light we had first drop, slowly making our way out further with the weather just getting better and better all the time, picked up 6 nannys and a big breaksea and some small sambos for a slow start.

got out to the sambo patches and had some fun in glass off conditions for a few hours, we managed a heap of fish over 20kg and i managed to smash my PB sambo and crack my 100lb+ goal with a sambo that was just out of this world big!! over 160cm long and somewhere over 100lbs. we even hooked up to a few that felt bigger again!!

with arms and backs sore it was off to fill the esky with demersals. found another 3 patches of sambos and managed to find a school of pinkys and another school of nannys hanging behind the sambos so we picked up our bag of nannys and 7 pinkys in about half an hour or so.

few more sambo drops and called it quits for the drive back in with the ocean still looking like a lake. 
one of the best days ive ever had out in the boat and cant wait to get back out there again.

Hi all,

Just a update on the New Boat Ramp.

Have heard quite a few grumbles about new ramp. 

To steep for smaller boats. 

Very slippery down at the bottom when launch/retrieve. 

Built for bigger boats not smaller, thats the general comments I've heard. 

Need a 4x4 to launch/retrieve. 

One car in the ocean already and a few mishaps.

Too steep even for some experienced boaties.

Built in wrong spot.

No ladders, heard they have been ordered.

Personally can't comment,  a lot of my close friends are using the Town Ramp  (apparently ladders  are ordered for new ramp) as with their aching bones etc find its better to get in and out of the boat.

Might have to sit down their and see what is going on, take some photos.

Wind hasn't stop blowing, at the moment of writing strong easterly to south eastlery blowing.  Townies getting up at sparrow fart to check their cray boats, in before the southerly blows in between 8.00am and 10.00am

Tight lines FW'ers

 Heading up there in the early new year.

anything about from the shore ?

where abouts?

cheers and a safe and happy Christmas to everyone

Took my (wife's) nephew for a quick flick early this morning between the bridges at North Freo for about 2 hours.
Caught these for lunch today. Now just have to get wifey to clean and cook.

Saw a reasonable school of something in the middle of the river - not sure what they were but they were moving at a great rate of knots up river then got to about red herring and turned back, disappeared after the old Freo bridge. Possibly being chased by some bigger thing. Didn't see any dolphins. Seagulls liked it though.

 Hi guys,

The day started off with a big egg on one tyre, after a lot of stuffing around I found two tyres and we got them fitted, so the morning trip ended up being an afternoon trip.

My wife wanted to snorkel so we snorkelled for a fair while then I went and checked out some new ground, after not finding much I stumbled on a good show, baits were down for a few seconds and we were both on. My new PB nannygai at 92.5cm and on a McCarthy soft plastic, pretty stoked. My wife's PB too, she doesn't fish very often, so her first big one.

with failing light and two good fish for Xmas we called it a day, we could have cleaned up but that's a lot of fillets and enough fish for one trip!

 Thailand is heaven for some of the exotic freshwater fishing in the world.

Many of the giant freshwater fishes like the arapaima, giant siamese carp & giant mekong catfish, their populations in the wild habitat are fast declining.

Anglers from all over the world are flocking to this part of asia (Thailand) to fish them.

5 days of fishing !!! 5 awesome catches for these 5 american anglers !!!

There is a saying " A picture tell a thousand words." 

Enjoys this non stop actions  youtube video clip I done for their trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bazmm_I83k4

Highlights catches for the trip in Thailand.

Beautiful arapaima landed on lure.

Giant siamese carp landed at BSR.

Mega size Redtail Catfish.

Chaophaya Catfish landed by Chuck. A 86yrs old american angler. Well Done !!!

Giant Mekong Catfish.

Barramundi lure fishing.

Giant snakehead.

Hi crew, I haven’t been able to get much fishing in lately so I am glad the Bream have finally moved up the river and close to home. It’s been hard going with wind and tides all wrong for fishing out of the canoe, with the fish not wanting to take plastics and hard bodies I had to resort to baits this week.

Fishing from the Redcliff bridge and up river to Guilford bridge the Bream have been schooling around the large bait schools of Bony Herring and moving closer to shore in the late arvo along the deep drop offs. I have been getting plenty in the low 30’s with some big bust offs amongst the snags. Quite a few fishos have been landing fish in the 40cm range but I haven’t managed to land one yet (I might have to upsize my gear for a while) 

Following the Bony’s are plenty of small Mulloway, they can be seen smashing up bait all along the areas I have fished. Some fishers have been getting plenty into the dark hours but its unfortunate to see so many who don’t stick to bag limits, this is also the case with Bream, having words with someone yesterday about this issue they took off with a full bucket before I could get to my phone to call fishwatch.

Most people I talk to are doing the right thing and keeping only a few fish out of the many caught. 

Sorry no pictures of the bream until I get some of good size, but yesterday I hooked this little fellow on the 4lb gear. He gave me a good fight hooking it just out from the rock wall behind me in the picture. Glad to say I managed a quick picture and he swam of to get a bit bigger. At 52cm was good to finally land one after hooking many this week but not landing any.

Cheers Grant

 This trip really was the tailor trip the misses and i realsed a heap of good tailor to 75cm (the local lad tangles was the only one to crack the 80 mark) mainly on lures had a few smash my balloon baits just as they skipped off the rocks we kept the odd 0ne for mulloway baits,

The soapy mullas were every wear as well all my mullas under 80cm were relised and one kept that was close to the 90cm mark also dropped a few bigger models i still cant get my head around how good they are at shaken hooks even after chasing these buggers for over 10 years tangles and i both fish differenly with snells and gangs but didnt matter as they spat them and left us wondering if all this mulloway fishing is finaly sending us round the twist sorry bout the photo of the mulla that green can wasnt the only empty lying around

another highlight was my misses first bonnie off the stones and me dropping a moster trevaly the cast before after a good 15 minute fight i inclueded a picture of the main lures doing the damage and the silver 55g twisty was also good

after giving up on the Crays (to hard by myself) been out crabbing a few times with my daughter & cleaning up! Using dropnets and finding most of the bigger crabs in the 1.4m mark atm... Getting our quota in 4-5 pulls & all males (Mandurah estuary)

 Has anyone got a report or pics of recent catches at North mole or surroundings?

Pic; got this ugly guy at the red herring the fish ain't bad either lol

Went out with spinners charters in albany yesterday for a fundrasier for brain cancer with it being a lures only day, between us we managed to raise just over $3000. great day for a great cause and Tony the skipper put us all onto some awesome fish. ill just put up the photos from my brother and myself but all up we got lots of sambos (only 4-5 under 20kg with 4 over 30kg) few nannys, dhuies, queeny, john dory, breaksea cod, big skippy and other reef fish. 

i was using the light gear most of the day and managed a 27kg fish on the jigging master fallings limited UL, pe2 reel and pe3 braid as my best. Aron got one about 32kg on the pe6 reel and super tornado M rod and his biggest going mid to high 30's on the expo 5500 and monster kingy H rod. we all got smoked by some monsters with the first drift on the sambos resulting in all 10 hooked up and 6 of those fish making it back to the bottom in a matter of seconds.

awesome day for a great cause and was well worth it and got to fish with a great bunch of guys.

Went for a little squid while the wind was down a bit, had one a bit bigger come up and have a good go at my jig but decided he didn't want any of it.

 Hi guys

Got out today with Matt (a mate of mine) in the short weather window and although we didn't get anything worth bragging about, we did crack a few firsts.

My first baldie (~25cm)

My first Hammerhead (~1.3m)

40cm pinky on the pen rod, put up a decent fight

My first Emperor, called it for a spangly at first but think it's a Red Throat (had a red throat )

All of these were taken chasing skippy on the 3 mile, think we've found a spot worth fishing at prime times when the ban's over 

Also got to test out my new Lethal 100 on a few rays (piece of cake) since nothing else was biting

Cheers

Hutch

A few days ago I called good mate Scott Everett (FW maggot) and said lets hit the metro salmon as I've been having a great time with them for a while now ...... especially on fly gear!

Scott was keen to learn more about flyfishing and we ended up with several solid fish each on fly (Scotts first) and even when the school was shut down to softplastics/minnows/stickbaits etc the fly got the results!

Location was near Mewstones and Sunday just gone looking the goods ....... weather wise!

Shallow water Metro December Salmon on fly ...... Happy Days!

 I think I might send this squid in for a world record, pulled so much line I was nearly spooled haha.

 Haven't been able to get the cray pots in yet this year, so thought I would go and get a different feed of shellfish today.

Just finished shelling them to put on some T Bones with a creamy sauce for the family.

 G'day all! Last thurs at 3pm a mate and I hooked up my boat near Australind and drive through the night to Exmouth, arriving at the bottom of the gulf at 7:30am fri morning. We headed straight out from the bay of rest for a full day of fishing picking up a few black snapper, cod etc. We headed into Exmouth at about 5pm to filet the fish and set up the swags in the caravan park. With strong southerlies blowing the next 3 days were spent getting up at 5, spending the day diving, trolling, fishing, squidding and prawning down the bottom of the gulf and arriving back in Exmouth around dark to fillet the fish... We got our days limit of prawns in 2 hours with 1 throw net, and 15 squid over the 4 days. I also got a treble in my thumb still attached to a mackerel that I got out with pliers as it was early in the morning and we had a full day of fishing ahead of us.... On the Monday we fished until 3pm, then back to Exmouth to pack up camp and head south - arriving in australind 11am tues morning... It was a fantastic trip!!!! Anyway - here are a few photos... Drew

 Went out fish with a few mates from here in the naki, went south all the way the  to launch. There was always talk about these hapuka in the shallows from the boys and with a weather window we went out to hunt on their favourite grounds. We were fishing depths of 50 -79 m.

Morning was slow and fish were few and far between to be honest, with a couple small blue cod and a big bluey.

We came back to the original mark we fished as it was loaded with fish but we couldnt entice the bite, and first trop i was railed, ilke buckled over on PE4. it was touch and go for a while and i barely mooved the thing for the first 5 minutes , after a bit of i take some , he takes double i had a win by turning its head when the boat adjust the angle of the fish, it started swimming out to sea. After a 10 mins we saw colour and up came a puka..... We all called it for the high 20s, but it maxed out the clubs scales and ended up being 31.48kg on the house scalles. 

awsome fish and stoked to get my first puka!

went for a ride on my racer today around the river up to South perth and back to Leeming, using my polarised sunnies the whole way around. While going over the canning bridge I noticed it was a fairly low tide. Looked at the drop offs next to the channel and counted 4 30-40cm flathead. It was the most that I have ever seen really, and it's the first time that I have ever spotted 1 flathead. I noticed a few fishos around, not fishing there though, and a fly fisherman about half way between the canning and mount henry. He had a couple flatties in the bucket.

so if anyone is going fishing for flatties today I recommend the opposite end of the canning bridge to the raffles.

also last night fishing with a friend under the canning bridge, we caught a couple 23cm bream. And the people next to us casted out, blowie, blowie then blue manna crab. Wouldn't let go of the hook it was just under sized.

lachie

 Took the boys for a relaxing arvo fish at the prawn channel a couple of weeks ago.

Caught six big kgs and a couple of pinks on soft plastics. There were quite a few pinkies and whiting caught by others as well as some nice flounder.

Couple of pics from the last couple of weeks. Been getting some good size kingies and bagging out on crays in the shallows. Usually diving in my usual spot and seeing how the ledges change with the residents reds, then the moults and softies, whites and just started seeing the kakkas which means time to head out deeper. Would think in a few weeks the whites will be at rotto?? If there not starting to turn up now??

 Started the day just before 6 am at maylands.  pick up dan the deckie at point walter and headed out the harbour and around the corner of south mole.  Dan hooked one squid but dropped it.  started heading to the south of rotto and as we were going past the stragglers saw a bird dive in front of us.  out went the lures but to no avail.  water temp about 20.9, so still not there yet.

passed over a bait ball and thought I would throw a jig at it.  not that far past stragglers and not as far as FFB.  Dan thought he'd check the bottom out and pulled up a nice plump sand whiting.  so in came the jig and out went the whiting gear.  we both pulled in a few and some real good size.  I got a couple of double headers in there as well.  putted down to a wreck in 18m outside stragglers.  There were about 6 pits on it and the sounder lit up with bait as we went over it.  Had a visit from FW member Rick (poser?) who came to say hello.   didn't do any good despite a bit of interest on the jig, no hook ups.  ducked inside to scott ledge.  Dan pulled up a nice 38cm KGW.  still couldn't find the squid.

finished off with a quick troll in the river and all we caught was a sailing dinghy who was overtaking us and didn't realise the lures were out.  I think he got a bigger shock.  anyway didn't lose the lure. bonus.

wonderful day on the water. The weather gods were kind.

 Anyone been to the Perth fads lately? Any fish around?

thinking about heading out there tomorrow.

thanks