Went over to rotto yesterday (friday) just to get familiar with the route and spots around. Followed the first ferry, fairly brisk early easterly and a bit overcast. Didnt look all that promising but then the day just got better.

Sun came out wind dropped off and to our great delight we stumbled into a large spreadout group of whales breaching and frolicking in the morning sunshine. 

What a treat! Sadly our photo skills are pretty ordinary and we kept missing the whale and just got the splashes. Our kids would blame the operators and theyd be right.

Anyway do yourselves a favour and have a bopeep but just remember to be careful and give them room.

50mtrs is close enough to see and when they breach you don't wanna be close.

Respect  them guys, they are wonderful animals.

If you have little kids take them to have a look. Its way better than telly. 

Its my first time to see a whale in the wild and I wish id done it years ago.

Went out and pulled the pots for 14 keepers, from there it was a quick rip around the spots..

First to the Whiting patch where we got 13 before they went quite..

Second to the Squid Patch, we got 3 Crackers with the biggest tube was 29cm after cleaning.  

Then off to catch a few Herring for Lunch and a couple for Beach fishing tonight.. 10 Herring in Total..

 Is anyone geting crays in pots yet 

is it worth setting mine yet or do I wait a wile

cheers 

Got out for a couple of dives during the first week.  No whites (of either variety) seen.

Heaps of kakkas and hairy females around too. Shouldn't be too far away til they run.

Anyone know the story behind a supposed metro blue marlin in last week? Water temps are getting +21.5'C so it is possible.

cheers
JW

 www.youtube.com/watch

another one left the nest.lucky I have 2 boys left in reserve.2 gone, 3 more to go, great day,no more fishing or diving for dan the man .apparently l.o.l

Hi All,

It is alarming that only 3 days into the season and already 1 pot stolen. It is really concerning people refer to pots as shopping trollys ( be it a joke or not) and actually do not own a single pot themselves.

I don't have the answer, how we as a group can stop this behaviour, but appeal to everyone to respect both Comercials and recreation pots. Respect is mutual, for Comercials this is their source of income, for recreational it's hard enough trying to find a gap between work and weather to get a feed. I trust the authorities will enforce the full punishment for culprits that get caught, because I know if I catch anyone on mine or my friends pots they will delt with accordingly.

LETS MAKE A STAND TOGETHER!

The Offshore Angling Club held it's October field day on the 11th and 12th of October.

Some good fish were landed, most notably a Samson Fish and Small Shark both released.

Condtions were pretty favourable for the most part, which made a nice change. 
They were tricky into Saturday evening but Sunday morning was magic.

Report and some photos http://beachfishingwa.org.au/field-day-reports/october-field-day-2014/

Enjoy.

Cheers,
Diesel80

 Had some fun on this morning on the banks of Wilson Inlet. Hooking in to under sized snapper, skippy and leather jackets. All of the fish released and kicked of strongly. Hopefully it rains a liitle more next year so the buggers can swim out and clean themselves up a bit!

 Had a great day out on the water & managed a good feed to top it off!

Big thanks to Paul G for the helpful advice he gave my girlfriend Jess.. Couldn't imagine a better way to finish off the season an I FINALLY BEAT THE GF WITH THE FISH OF THE DAY!!

The big dhuey went for a 5" plastic on the light gear. Was the second fish of the day, but sent it back to make some babies. Ended up keeping the first and last Dhuies of the day which went 57cm and 65.. Great on the chew.

As some of you are aware we ran King of the Cape for it's second year & I am so stoked to see it's growth albeit not without some serious blood n' tears by the committee, sponsors & volunteers plus the avid participation of competitors. So to them I can't thankyou enough for what you have given to our community & angling in general particularly Pflueger Salt Reels for coming on board & looking after the kids with all the awesome goodies!

Our focus is & will always be on the future generation of young anglers in the South West & beyond, getting them into our beloved sport & ensuring its future with catch / release style competitions. A previous post has highlighted a concern for me with geo tagging, sad that the exploitation of technology can undo others hard work & therefore I will only post my own pics & those I have permission to do so.

We started on a Friday evening & with the previous day being a cracker & the weekend forecast being average competitors were keen to get cracking that night, as you can see the bay was a pond with the wind yet to steam in. Thankyou to Dunsborough VMR for their hospitality, great blokes & all too keen to share our vision!

This year we got unbelievably fortunate to secure local artist Annie Heyring to carve a perpetual trophy for the annual comp which will reside at Dunsborough Outdoor Sportz, what an amazing piece & I have never seen any fish carving like it let alone the identical features of a Dhuie.

Most of you know Dave aka Xtreme Coolers who again was a big prize donator for us, I always enjoy fishing with him & his boys. This time around his eldest was unfortunately struck down with the dreaded school holiday lurgy leaving him green with envy as his younger brother got down to business catching his share too.

Young Bailey getting stuck into the squid early on the 1st day

That’s how you do it! Giving the biggest squid prize a good old nudge

The competitor’s toughed it out as the wind & swell swung in hard from the west, trying conditions for all with great resilience from the kids displayed. Whilst I was hitting up a bay mark that looked to be holding well we struggled to entice the pinkies for a chew & the young bloke puts another run on the board with his first dhu banger.

Black smoke billowing constantly on the horizon & nobody able to identify what it was saw us head out into the thick of the washing machine hoping nobody was in trouble. Ended up being a Chinese tanker with a serious smoke stack, happy days & even better that Bailey had some serious sea legs under him as we made a few drops wider but without joy.

Back in & grabbing a feed of plump whiting to make fish taco’s for Sunday night

Few beers with Seakem, Dave, Tiimmbo & the young lads that night whilst watching my young bloke pull some serious moves on the girls at the next table had me thinking of some stunts inspired bad grandpa style (pity that the better half was onto it quicker than I). Waved goodbye to Dave & Bailey & prepped for the next day with the wind forecasted to drop but late, needed a game plan that would see us back in time to set up for presentations.

Headed out with Damo & Habanero dodging whales & enjoying the sledging

Damo with a good flatty that had fillets of pure cream!

Amongst the smaller pinks this bruiser came courtesy of a jigged bonito from Habanero

Struggled to get the Dhu’s to chew & with Damo losing a good one to an unfortunate or hilarious (for us) mishap with a strong run & the braid catching his finger like wire on a block of cheese.

This sheila followed my line up some way as the last drop was over & time to get home, yep what a tin arse.

Conditions far better Sunday, my son hitching a ride with the boys

Will get some pics up from the other boys but here was the winning team slaying it, they played a smart game & good skippering from Toby saw them come romping home.

Edge with an absolute monster on an unusually quiet seriola front

He was having a day out too by the looks

Well done to PJ, Edge & Toby. Thoroughly deserved win fella’s

A quick late arvo run with the lads the next day but the sea breeze decided to say g’day early. Dave from DOS with a jigged dhu in some lightening quick drifts

Cheers to Seaquest, Dave, Toby & Mark for all of the hard work you put in.

Thankyou to our sponsors & our local community for enabling this event to occur

Well done to the winners in the categories & a special mention to the young forum member double header king aka Max for some cracking form in the junior section offshore.

I will make a few edits with more pics when I can get to my hard drive & add a few more in for those interested

 Went out on Monday with my mate Matt (FW member).

Left the ramp at around 7:45 and had a very rough trip out to the 3 mile, wondering if the forecasted wind drop was ever going to happen.

Anchored up on top of the reef, got 3 blackarse (one of which was legal - 35cm) and a few wrasse but nothing more.

After around an hour the anchor had slipped and the spot gone dead so we moved a few hundred metres to the south and dropped the pick once again.

We sight fished a couple of skippy, hooking quite a few but only landing 2 (one to me on the pen rod - great fun  )

And a couple of sambos on live wrasse which measured 86 and ~105 cm.

Not long after a noah of around 2.5m turned up and circled the boat for a good 30 mins or so.  Think it was a bronzie but not 100%

Hooked what was called for a pink, saw colour, only for it to spit the hooks 

Finished off with a quick 20 min C&R tailor sesh in sh*thouse conditions, hooking 2, landing 1

All in all not a bad day, had sambo curry and fish cakes for dinner, didn't taste too bad, will definitely give them ago again should the opportunity present itself 

Cheers

Hutch

Angler's fishing with angler's- We have the same mindset and share the same attitude towards fishing.

We have many common topics as regard to fishing, chat & exchange ideas during long distant travel.

For this 2 days fishing trip, I was been told to  facilitate 2 days of predators fly fishing trip for them.

1 angler from malaysia and the another angler from New Zealand.

They have a wonderful 2 days fly fishing trip in Thailand.

Many species of variety predators fishes landed on their flies.

Enjoys this actions packed video youtube clip.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpIxTbxTGg

Photos hightlights of the trip.

A massive 60KG arapaima- Beautiful fish

Massive redtail Catfish on flies.

Another arapaima on flies.

Even snakehead on flies....Well done !!!

 Hi guys,

Thinking of heading down to the cut either thursday or friday afternoon and flick around some lures. Just wondering if anyine has fished there lately and had success. Will be targeting herring, whiting and hopefully some tailor.

 Hey guys

wondering how ppl have been getting on in the river with crabs?

Hi guys as the demersal ban is on (in a couple of days), has anyone been for a jig at the containers behind Rotto....? If so are the sambos around????? 

My wife and I managed a deckie spot with my brother and sister in law on Saturday. We fished in the Daintree in the arvo but the out going tide was a bit quiet. Still we managed a nice Fingermark before dropping the missus off then heading offshore.

The bite was steady with not too many fish coming on baord but they were reasonable quality fish. I got blown away by one big fish, probably a Red Emperor which was annoying but we did end up with 5 Red Emperor to go with quite a few Large Mouth Nannygai, some Small mouth nannys and a couple of Spangled Emperor. All up we got around 20 fish.

It's nice to get a haul where not all the fish can fit on the table for a pic!!

 just curious to see if anyone has seen any mackies about yet in local waters?

Took my dad and brother, both visiting from South Africa for a fish near Rotto. They both managed to catch a Dhufish on their first outing (took me several months) and also lost a couple of good fish in the process.
Video clip here - http://youtu.be/BPSMB0dvX4w

As some of you may have seen here:

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/jigging-shetland-islands

I recently got back from a trip fishing the Shetland Islands on the Oberon, trying out some light jigging gear from Temple Reef and Jigging Master on the local species there.

I took a whole lot of video footage up there, and finally got around to editing some of it for those who are interested. The link can be found below, and I suggest watching in HD!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSSaAwDqy8&feature=youtu.be

It is my first attempt at video editing, so go easy ;-)

Dan

 Got out for possibly our last fish before the ban begins. Started well with a 5kg dhu first drop, and a double header next drop, one undersize and one just over size. Made a captains call to release both as surely we can upgrade the just size one. Whoops, we caught a couple more undersize Dhus but not another size one. Still managed our bag with a lovely Baldie of just over 4kg and a couple of smaller Queenies.

Lovely day on the water. Had a bit of a worry when we rocked up to the Mandurah Marina at 5:30 to be greeted with the Boat Show getting set up. No one around but it wasn't completely fenced off yet. So we put the boat in, 2 boats followed me, and no one said anything when we got back. So all good

Took a couple of non fishing mates (keen but not experienced) last week for a quick fish from two rocks. WIth the reality being a far cry from the forecast (ie shite) a quick change of plans was required. WHere i had initially wanted to fish the 80s for some bigger snapper we were forced to stay in close and hope the wind dropped off. With no marks to speak of and having not fished for 9 months I poked around in the 38-41m area hunting for ground, which was bloody hard given the swell and sea. The boys picked up a few random fish that were all undersize and had some fun with some smaller sambos. Having a fractured ankle meant I was resigned to playing skipper for the day. By 1:00 we had all had enough and with the wind picking up we turned for the ramp, knowing we were in for a horrible run home. HEading back i came across a small patch of ground that looked great, caves everywhere but not a lot of fish life. I had a light drift bait rigged up and figured I better have a drop on it(first for the day given my ankle). I wasnt expecting much and after what seemed forever I figured I didnt have enough sinker to fight the current and my bait was swimming mid water. I wound up only to come up tight on what was a good size fish. Right after the first run I knew I was stuffed and it was a big dhu, 30lb leader was never going to be enough and sure as eggs I lost weight after the second run, pulling up to find a shredded rig. A quick rerig with 60lb on a heavier outfit and back for another drift. As soon as I hit bottom old gobble guts couldnt help himself and I was on tight, four or five big runs and I started to win some line, sure enough in true dhue fashing he started doing the float of death and up he popped about 40m behind the boat to much hi fiving and shouting. 8 Years of fishing two rocks and finally cracked the 20 kg model. Sadly after two fights he was done and wouldnt release. Funnily enough he tasted great, whereas the 18kg one last year was dry and stringy. Apologies for the terrible photo, but given the conditions and having a broken ankle it was all I could manage. He is leaning up against me so no tricks and I am over 6ft to put into perspective. OUtfit was a synit mantis 3-5 with an ocea jigger 2000 and pe3. Bait was a slab of sargent baker on snelled 5/0s.

 Hi all, at 2am this morning we arrived home from 10 great days camping in Exmouth. We drove a 1983 60 series up there and towed our 5m 1982 quintrex centre console. The first day we got out behind the reef at tantabiddi, but the Sharks were too quick. The rest of the trip was spent diving down the bottom of the gulf while the southerly blew... I have attached a few photos of the results...

hey guys my first report. Today went out off two rocks today with my dad chasing some dhuies and sambos. Arrived at the boat ramp around 7:30 and launched the boat straight away. Headed out slightly north into around 35 meters and hook up first drop. Great we thought! Fought the fish for a couple of minutes to then see color and realized its a north west blowie. Dad gets a good hit and misses it then winds up and all his hooks a gone. We decide to move spots and try and find some new ground out a bit further. Found some good ground in the forties and decided to do a couple of drifts first drift got some good bites and one hook up wasn't much of a fight but turned out to be a good sized red throat emperor kept drifting and then drifting and hooked up again and got a 47cm pink snapper. Went back over for another drift and first drop BANG!! big hit and managed to set the hooks was a great fight and managed to land a fantastic 55cm breaksea cod decided to leave that spot and find even more new spots found a couple of good lumps drifted over them and managed another red throat emperor and another breaksea cod and pink snapper which were both released.Overall had a great day on the water and managed a few fish which made it even better.
Cheers Boyd.

well well well.....it was opening weekend , the weekend just gone and lets just say it was rather challenging. Fishing was tough due to conditions and the rainbows still have not totally arrived back from spawning. Plus fishing in the back country isnt about numbers for me its quality of fish..

Arrvied at an area which i cant name and treeted to heavy heavy snow. it wasnt snow on the ground, it was basically down pouring. We assesed the conditions and though we would at least give it a shot. So we got on the quad and started heading down into the wilderness in a WARM 0 degree tempreture. The battle of constant constant heavy snow falls while fishing was challenging as well as the fingers getting to freezing point. Fishing was hard, with limited fish seen in the monring and accounting for 1 measly 5 pound rainbow.

Around lunch we decided to get out of this weather and head down into the kind country. The kings country was alive, with sun out and may fly hatches happening. Unfortunately it was just to early to see an afternoon rise. We were gobsmacked when we came across this pool see the proaly the biggest rise and have not seen a single fish. We fished nymphs and picked up a few nice browns and rainbows to 5-6 pound.

The Sunday: We headed back up into the mountains to be treeted with grey skys, and gave a look to each other with sigh and said welll we are going to give it a shot. Arrived in the area, unloaded the quad bike geared up, checked the tempreture for a nice 3 degrees. Off we went for roughly a 20 mintue wuad bike journey down into the gully followed by a 45 min hike down a gorge, which to say can get very very interesting at times. We came across the cool little hut that was bult roughly 20 year ago... going to stay in it in the summer time!

We finally made it down the system (river) where we rigged up and hit up the first pool. As always each pool we get to, we spend a good 3-4 mintues just watching from a distance to see what is "happening" in the pool. Bang a BIG dark shape appears and i sneak down hiding behind a rock and launch a nymph in its path, it was a rainbow and definately double digits , it came for a look but turned its heads and into the depths it went. Slow drift fishing is alot harder then fishing for tropheys when they are in feeding mode and at the tops of pools closer to the faste water. i launched another cast into the rapid , did a few mends and let it swung out i was on on!! hoping it was the rainbow, unfortunately a little 6 pound rat came out. if the fish sturs up the pool jumping every where, it shuts down the pool and its time to generally moove on. These back country fish are alot more smater then your average spawning fish.

 The fishing here is really really difficult with multiple currents comming into the one pool making line management very teadiuos and i was how do you say a tad rusty. We came across some 'pocket water" that was holding a brown roughly in the 7-8 pound mark and i launched a cast and completely missed the pocket hitting another pocked, and with frustration i yelled out that F*** , only for the indicator to go down and a hook up to a different brown! we hooked three fish from there and missed a few more!

we headed up the gorge and kept fishing and i was slowling getting my form back in line management with a few more fish. We came across my favourite pool of the system. I call the "trohpey pool". We watched and noticed 2 fish feeding, which one we spooked as it was right out our feet. I launched a cast to prospect the far wall on the back end of the pool and hooked up to a nice 7 pound rainbow which luckly i mangaged to moove the fish towards the backend of the pool and not disturb the feeding fish. few photos , next cast and was probaly my best cast of the day and i saw a nice big brown rolll and bang i hooked up, 10 mins into we were playing the game  i get back line he takes double back....we were calling it for a nice 8-9 pounder after seeing it roll in the current... after a long battle with a few touch and go moments including falling down some rocks and managing to hold my rod up  and keep tension on the fish, we netted it and my guide all of a sudden said " oh brett" , once he said that i knew it was double digits. A quick high five, we got it in and put the net in a pool where the fish couldnt get out to keep him in the best condition possible and photos were taken. A few possible magazine photos shots were taken and it was released, fish went just a tad over 10.5... We had another shot at a nice 9 pounder but after changing nymphs about 10 times he caught on and wouldnt even look....

Going to be a ripper of a back country season this year i think as long as there is no major flooding like last spring. The dry fly will start in november and its looking amazing! over all we saw around 4-5 possibe trophies and there only going to get bigger within the summer as the revoer from there spawning runs! i hope you enjoy the photos and the report! All fish were released in good condition.

all in all numbers were 7 fish saturday and 5 fish sunday, which is OK considering the weather conditions. 

Unforuntately the best shot of the brown cant be posted here due to the possible addition into a magazine.

Rod used was a 6 wt Sage z axis and a Kiwel genesis reel. All photos were taken by Peter Fordam from All Fly or Brett Hallam and a copy righted for our use only. (sorry this needs to be added in).

Hi all. Finally had some success out on the five fathom yesterday. First Dhuie in metro waters, plus a pair of black arse and a foxfish. Conditions were incredible, so we moved around a bit. Highlight of the day had to be looking over the side in 8m of crystal clear water and seeing the dhuie, then dropping an unweighted mulie past it's nose and watching it get smashed! Sight fishing dhuie's in 8m of water, does it get any better?

Cracking day out with good mate, and brought home a good feed to top it off.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers,

BD.

 Hi everyone, this morning I went tailor fishing in Yanchep below club Capricorn. firstly i though I would try the beach, and there was so much weed that it wasn't even funny. I tried casting an old 8-25lb rod and snapped first cast because the bail arm flicked over unexpectedly and the force snapped the end. Then I tried casting my baited rod and pulled it in and got weed in about 10 different spots so it took 15 minutes to just reel the line in.

I then saw people fishing off the rock groyne and catching a few tailor so I thought I would try it. At about 7:00am I sprinted down to a good position on the rocks and did a few casts, reeling the bait in every 5 minutes, not feeling any nibbled/bites, but noticing some huge teeth marks and bites missing from the mulies. At 7:30am I felt a hit at the bait and struck the rod and there I had it, my first tailor! It fought really hard and when I got it to the rocks, i was so careful not to lose it through the rocks. It measured 36cm!

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About half an hour later, the tailor were coming on the bite again and getting some good tugs on the rod but failing to hook up, but then at about 7:45 i got a huge bite and I was on! It fought really hard to the rocks and again I was treating it as if it was part of the royal family, and got it to the bucket to take it on. I was even happier because I now know that the groyne there is a reliable tailor spot!

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The tailor were still on the bite and then dad finally got a hookup but was a bit slow in reeling it in, managing to let it swim into a snag bream style and busting it off. The tailor stayed on the bite until about 9am when we ran out of bait and started heading home. someone got a haul of 10 tailor off to the right and some got 5 but most of the people (only about 10 people fishing over the time that we were there) got 1 or 2 tailor.

We bled the tailor as soon as we caught them, which is a good idea, then when we got home, i filleted them to the best of my ability. In the picture the tailor looks red, but it's actually a really pearly white. We got some nice chunky fillets off them.

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To finish off, today was a great day and I hope to go down to Yanchep again next weekend!

 Just got back from a fish at Woodies and saw two asian fellas catch a massive salmon that would have been 5+ kilo, they got broken off on 2 more fish. Never seen 2 guys as happy as they were to catch a salmon, was fun to see them really enjoying there fishing. I was fishing with a lure and they were not interested at all.

Was a large school just off the rocks, gotta say I was surprised to see salmon being caught at this time of year. Is this normal?

Decided that yesterday was the day to try our luck out wide. We got down to Palm Beach Jetty at about 6:30am. My intention was to basically head due West from Point Perron and hopefully have a sound in a couple of hundred metres of water. But we found that there was short choppy waves as soon as we got out from the marker on the reef so I had changed my mind and decided to have a fish past the Five Fathom Bank as it was going to be an uncomfortable drive out. We were catching a few Break Sea Cod with two that were worth keeping and also a Harliquin. I started to head over to Rottnest Island way and got to the 40's to drop another line. Picked up a Dhu that was a centimeter under so that went back to the depths under it's own steam. At this stage the water seemed to have calmed down a fair bit and my uncle wanted to try out deep again. Looked on the charts and wanted to try west of Rottnest where all the contours came in close to each other but when we got out there after a 50 minute drive, we found a couple of boats already in the area so I had to slow down to pick up a clear bottom and started to slowly drive South to head away from the other boats. Picked up a few too many green eyed sharks and then on my sounder, I saw the bottom as an echo and with another faint echo showing the ground leading away underneath the main echo but it was very faint. Still trying to work out the sounder but we would drift over the ground I marked with no luck but at the end of one of the drifts, my uncle pulls up a Red Snapper. I couldn't see anything on the bottom but we did the drift again and my uncle catches a small cod. Our boat was in one spot but I don't know where the baits were as we had a little bit of long lining going on. Then after a few more drifts he caught another larger one. My uncle and I were fishing with electric reels while my other mate just chilled out on the chair and working the landing net when a fish was pulled up. We called it quits as it was a long drive back in and I wanted to make the trip back in while it was still calm and the wind was supposed to have already picked up according to the forecast. I was stoked as it stayed calm the whole way home. We were fishing in 290-350 metres of water.