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.

Took my young bloke Rob and a few of his mates out for a fish today. Neither of his mates had caught a sambo before so that was the aim.

Magnificent day on the water, but it proved hard to find sambos early, but the dhuies were loving the jigs and we had to content ourselves with 2 dhuies over 600 and a nice black arse by 8.15 am.

The boys were happy, but wanted a sambo, so we headed for a few spots I have.

A few fish on the sounder and all 4 of us hooked up, but my young blokes got comprehensively bricked on his light jig gear.....his mates really struggled with the power of these fish but on heavier gear landed a couple of nice ambers, as did I.

Looking for something a bit bigger, we decided to head out wide and hit the barges. Waste of time, first drop sharked, so we hastily retreated back in shallower, likely spot resulted in this fattie on PE2, which was released to hopefully make more dhuies.

Great day, a few grunts of approval from the 15yr olds was the pinnacle of conversation for the day....haha, funny buggers pubescent boys!

 Went Tuesday this time. I put the tips my brother gave me to good effect with Shean and I managing 2 fish from 8 hits in a 5 hour paddling session.

Shean's went in the mid 90s and mine was around 106 cm. Our first hit was within 50 metres of the ramp and the best bit was seeing the fish on the sounder just prior to the hit. That happened 4 times for the night with all fish not staying connected on those occasions.

The moon wasn't right and the water is heating up so looking forward to a session when they are keen to feed.

on short notice i packed in work and decided to hit kalbarri for a few days the misses holidays were at the same time as school holidays but we made the most of it and having a good mate to stay with made this trip possible cheers tangles!

first day we got there early and went spinning at oyster reef  for tailor and got some good fish misses got her pb at 75cm while i done every thing but land one that night with a couple big fresh tailor what else was there to do but go chase mullas and after a few 80cm mullas and a pink to tangles i hooked this steam train 25kg of mulloway defently my best fish to date

the  next couple days were constant fishing with pinks and goldens off the stones heaps of unstoppables pinks and mullas off the beach the last night kat tangles and i landed 4 pinks and 2 mullas in couple hours and dropped a few good fish as well one red hot session, what a trip my best lb pink 76cm and some smaller models misses mulla at 80cm misses first fish on lure and that bloody croaker what a donkey   

I have been around for a while now and thought it was about time to put up a report (actually turned into a bit of a long-winded story). My brother in law Matt and I just got back from False Entrance on Friday after what turned out to be a really nice trip with a few mates of ours.

We left Sunday week ago at 4am from Gingin on as it turns out one of the worst days we could have chosen to travel on. A strong cold front hit in the morning which we outran up until the Billabong roadhouse. Looking on the radar on the way up it seemed as though the rain wasn't too strong around Shark Bay so we were optimistic that the road would be nicely dust free with a little rain and we could setup camp in dry, albeit windy weather. Once we got off the tarmac on the useless loop road it was good for a while but the rain continued to come and the road had turned into a salty mud pit. The ute and camper-trailer copped a "life-reducing" layering which will no doubt induce an unhealthy dose of cancer even with a pressure wash.

We dropped off the trailer after arriving at 3pm at the spot where we camp and went off for a look at the swell on the cliffs to see if it was worth having an evening bottom bash.

It turns out it was a bit rough for a fish after a long day so we set up camp with a couple of beers and got prepared for an early start in the morning. With September being the off-season for fishing in that part of the world we weren't expecting the world from this trip but we usually go home with a few fish from our annual winter/spring visit.

So we got going nice and early on Monday morning with a strong southerly wind to get our balloons out hoping to get on the board early and get one-up on the rest of the crew that were arriving later in the arvo. It turns out it was a slow day with poor water visibility and nothing coming out to play except for the odd bolt-cutter. It was quiet on all front with the balloons, hard-bodies, SP's and baits all coming up empty handed.

The rest of the crew arrive about 4 and obviously they hadn't missed out on much. They hadn't done any setting up at camp but decided to put a couple of balloons out for the setting sun. Finally just after 5:30pm my reel started screaming with a good run that added some much needed excitement to the day. After 30 odd seconds it went for another brief run then the fight left and a dead weight retrieve took over. Got it in sight and saw half of a decent sized Spaniard. Got it up the cliff and it came in at 9.5kg which yielded a healthy 6.5kg of fillets. We were on the board!! As it turns out after 5 trips up to False this was my first Spanish Mackerel so it was well over due.

On Tuesday it was more of the same with progress quite slow although the weather was getting better with the winds dropping off a bit leading up to the new moon on Wednesday. So with 4 balloons out and no action on those a couple of us try on the bottom with some baits with Mark pulling up a couple of sized pinkies. I manage to get busted off a couple of times on a suspected baldy taking a fancy to my scalies but unfortunately I lost all 3 battles even with 50lb fireline and a locked drag - . The only other thing caught was a couple of Longtoms and more bolt cutters which Matt seems to be catching most of.

Roll on Wednesday and with a poor day yesterday Matt (brother in law) and I decide to try and get our balloons in the water before dawn incase we are missing out on an opportunity. The baits are out and mine is slowly moving against the current which is a bit strange but with no bait skipping on the surface and no line taken, I thought bolt-cutter. So I dragged it in with the customary small splash on the surface my suspicions seem confirmed until I see a pectoral fin that seems out of place on a blowie. I reel in with a bit more purpose to eventually see a mack in the water and yell for a hand with the gaff before I pay any more taxes. We get it up and it tips the scales at 12.5kg.

With it's tail bitten off that would explain the small splashing but we worked out it was probably on the line bleeding out for about 10 mins!! Very lucky to get that one in the ice box. The wind turned mid morning to a north easterly so we moved spots and went to the washing machine. Matt's balloon was on the way out while I was concreting in some rod holders on the cliff when it was smoked with a powerful run. After a spirited fight suspicions were confirmed and a 1.3m bronzy was landed. This was a regular pattern for the next couple of hours with a couple of other sharks caught. There were plenty of large tailor around which we were spinning at but with soft mouths the 5 or so hook-ups didn't materialize into a catch. The wind had done nearly a full 360 from the morning so it was back to the point for a ballooning session in the afternoon. The low-light feeding time produced again for a timely 14.8kg mack for Mark. Meanwhile Matt has caught/been debaited by another couple of bolt-cutters. I think his tally for the trip at that stage was 7 with no edible fish on the board and frustration really starting to set in!!

Thursday was very similar fishing to Tuesday but with lighter winds and not many fish around. With the lack of action all round and a need for something to do I decide to let my balloon out across the bay on the SSWerly wind. I had caught a pinky on my balloon a couple of years ago deep in the bay like that so I figured I may as well give it another shot. After about an hour the rod loads up and balloon goes down and I feel a few small head shakes. I had let out around 700m so it was a long skull drag in. It was history repeating itself with a nice 4kg Pinky landed.

The last catch of the day was another shark to add to the count which was hooked on the fin by Tom resulting in an epic battle for only a small shark. With the day done discussions move to the pack up and trip home tomorrow. Leaving at lunchtime means time for an early fish so we are there at sun up on Friday. Setting up only took a few minutes and I'm the first with my balloon heading out. Bait goes off the cliff and I lose sight of it into the whitewash. It's only out about 50m when suddenly a Spaniard launches itself 3m up out of the water with my bait in its mouth and it's on for young and old. Peeling line at will with it's first run it soon tires and after about 5 minutes I get it to the cliff. No taxes which is a relief and the result is a 26kg monster!!

Only 5cm off the Fishwrecked record of 163cm so I think it's a PB that I think I'm going to have for a while. I haven't had much experience with macks but it seems fish like this don't come around too often - well for me they don't anyway.

20 Minutes later Marks bait got nailed and he landed another good sized spaniard at 22kg.

An awesome end to the trip!! That took me over 20kgs of fillets so Matt who ended up with 10 North-west Blowies and a shark for the trip, ended up taking some fillets home in the end. Always a great place to go and as usual can't wait til the next time we are up there.

Sorry it got a bit long I hope it posts ok and the pics show up. Cheers for reading.

 After lunch out at Clancy's, we popped out from the Quindalup ramp and headed towards Siesta park. Using chicken necks and mulies as bait and only 50m off the shoreline, there were crabs in every pull. Plenty of undersize that went back, along with a couple of berried and big girls. Ended up with about a dozen keepers. My boys, 4 and 6 loved the quick trip and the crabs will make a good feed for lunch tomorrow. 

Special mention to the bloke at Dunsborough sports for the bait and advice. Looking forward to posting about a snapper trip in the coming days. 

Buddha

Earlier this week, I got back from a 3 day trip fishing on the Oberon in the Shetland Islands. The main aim for me was to test out some of the light jigging kit I was used to using on the species most commonly found around the UK.

The targets for the trip were cod, pollock, ling, coalfish and maybe if we got lucky, a turbot or halibut. Most people seem to target these fish in the UK using either baits or pre-rigged soft plastic lures, but I was dead keen to fish them with light metal jigs and the Japanese style of gear.

The main combo I intended on using for the trip was a Temple Reef Mytho LJ510B paired with a reel that I had never previously used – being the new Wiki Jigging 900H (which is distributed by Jigging Master). I had also brought along a favourite combo of mine – a Jigging Master Evolution Titanium 150 with a Shimano Ocea Jigger 1500NR for slightly heavier jigs. I had a range of jigs with me – mostly from 150 – 200gr, but had brought a couple of heavier ones just in case.

The trip to the Shetlands from London is not the shortest. To get to where we were fishing involved flights to Sumburgh (via Aberdeen or Edinburgh) a ferry journey and a fair drive. The Oberon skippered by Kenny is the only boat fishing the area, and I’d heard reports of excellent fishing from Billy the trip organiser, who had been there the previous year.

When we finally sat around the night before the first day’s fishing and started discussing tackle for the day ahead, I began to think I’d packed too light. There was talk of big fish, deep water and strong currents which had prompted Billy to bring up 2lb weights. Skipper Kenny shared my concerns as soon as I put my Mytho combo on the boat with a statement of ‘ye’ll no get any fish up here on that!’. The metal jigs that he uses up there are around the 750gr – 1kg mark, and he thought it unlikely I’d even get to the bottom with the jigs I’d brought. If this were the case I’d have been stuffed, as there was no chance of me being able to jig 750gr on the gear I had with me.

Luckily on the first day we had great weather with minimal wind, which made for a slower drift than we might otherwise have had. First drift of the day I used my heavier combo as I was going to be jigging a 200gr CB One Quick Zero jig. With the light PE2 line I was running (in contrast to 100lb on the combos provided on the boat) I had no problems getting down with the 200gr jig, and it wasn’t long before I’d hooked up a nice cod. The cod fights involved a bit of a tug of war on the initial hook up, but they are by no means a strong fighting fish, so the combo made short work of it.

After the second fish I decided to downsize the gear to the Mytho combo and 150gr jigs, and this is the combo I used for the majority of the trip. I was incredibly happy with the gear. The rod was comfortable up to 200gr jigs with the relatively slow jigging style that seemed to work best for the cod, and was light enough to make the fights really good fun. The reel too performed faultlessly. Plenty of super smooth and progressive drag to stop all the fish I encountered on the trip with a really smooth retrieve. Plus the whole setup is feather light, weighing in at only 470gr for the combo, which made it a pleasure to jig with all day. This is to my mind really a perfect combo for the UK, particularly if you don’t want to go all out with a more expensive reel, and it is the combo I’ll be reaching for first on my upcoming Norway trip.
The first day we boated around 750lb of fish, with the vast majority being cod to around the 30lb mark. The second day the weather took a turn for the worse, but we still stuck with our initial plan to head out to a wreck which was in 120m of water in the hope of getting a ling. It was a long steam out in trying conditions, but the chance of a trophy sized ling made the pain worthwhile. We did a number of drifts over the wreck and could see plenty of fish on the sounder, but I was struggling to get much interest from them. The water was deeper and the drift much faster than the day before, which gave you very little time in the strike zone with the jigs. Sadly I didn’t manage a ling on jig, but Kenny did get a nice one on bait. I did jig up nice coalfish though, which really fight well, particularly as compared with the cod. Actually throughout the trip it seemed that every species in the area was very happy to hit the jigs (with jigs proving the most effective catch method) other than the ling, with all ling for the trip being caught by the other guys on baits.

On the final day the weather was still average which meant we’d be fishing the sheltered side of the island. Although we didn’t get the same number of big cod as on the first day there was still loads of fish to be caught, with the jigs producing on every drift. Because the drift was much faster I was primarily using larger jigs (with a favourite being a Smith Meijume 220gr) and found that the addition of a plastic squid on the assist hooks made a big difference in strike rate with the cod. The larger sized jig also helped reduce the number of hits I got from the small coalies and mackerel allowing more time to hook the larger cod. I have taken a load of GoPro footage which I’ll hopefully get around to editing soon to show some of the action.

All in all it was a really fun trip despite the wind. It was a new experience for me fishing in such cold weather, but once you got used to jigging in 3 layers of clothing it was still great fun. Kenny is a great skipper and works hard to keep you on the fish, and I’d certainly recommend a trip up there to anyone based in the UK. I understand that they are also looking to send a boat to La Gomera in the Canary Islands in the coming months to focus on game fish trolling in the summer and jigging for grouper in the winter months, so hopefully will be able to get over there for a fish sometime soon!

Dan

Hi all,

Heading up to Denham next week with the family for 10 days. Was wondering if anyone has any info on how the fishing has been up there lately? Haven't fished there for a while so any information or hints would be appreciated. I am taking my 6.5 meter boat up and hoping if the weather holds to head out to turtle bay.

Thanks

yep will be my last night this year in the sound (except for some squid though)....but ended on a pretty good note.

hit Woodies and got on the water by about 2ish and headed straight over to GI to try to pick up some squid.
only one or two here and there. Not enough for a feed but a bit for bait.

Decided to sound around and look for some pinkies. Not too much happening in the sound but after a half hour or so
cruising around found a small lump defenitly holding fish. (Damn forgot to get some pics for the Simrad sounder threads)
Anchored and burlied up.

Just before sundown got a take on the unweighted bait (fantastic first run) then boated this one!

went 87cm. Had another take exactly the same as first about 20 mins later but got dropped (bitten through leader) close to the boat.

Stayed for a while after dark and had some fun with the taylor. Biggest of which went 52cm.

Till next year in the sound !

 With the weather forcast looking pretty awesome yesterday, I decided that it was time to take the boat for its maiden venture off two rocks.

Quick call to a mate from the shop, who was more than happy to join, and a 7am launch was agreed on.

Got to the ramp and the car park was pretty much full, considering the weather it was expected. Boat launched and 30mins later had out first drop on a lump in 34m. *rule on my boat....no bait!!* Wes was first to drop a jig down and 2 jigs off the bottom Smash! good hit and screaming drag...only to be busted off 10 seconds later. I drop my jig down and couple of lifts BANG! also a good hit only to end in the same result. Annoyed but atleast the fish were biting!

Re-rig and down they go again...couple of jigs and on! this time got the fish off the bottom, 5mins later and a samll sambo pops up...nothing special but not complaining.

Couple of drifts go by and on again! this time didnt feel big or put up much of an fight. Up comes a 40cm harlequin, Wes decides he wants it for dinner so spiked and iced it went.

After that it was decided that a change in location was in order so couple of kms south we went to another lump. As we approached, it turns out an old bloke in his tinny was anchored on the lump, BUT!... about 500m south of the lump we noticed birds diving so decided we would check it out. as we got closer we could see small tuna (most probably stripeys) smashing a big school of bait. Wes had a few casts at the school with two solid hits but no hook ups....then the school disappeared. BUT i noticed the sounder was filled with fish! Figured the school had gone deeper....down went the jigs!

I was with first to hook up! Solid head shakes and pulling string! Wes then hooks up and the adrenalin starts pumping! about a minute into the fight wes gets busted off....then my custom 30lb rod snapped below the first guide...so theres me trying to fight a fish with just the reel...2 minutes of stuggling and get busted off. Re-rig, this time with plastics becasue jigs cost a fair bit more...couple of twitches and BANG! both hooked up again! only to end in the same result...re rig again and wes is the first to hook up...this time he get it away from the bottom so i decide ill keep my lure on board and be ready to land the fish.

10mins later up comes a dirty old SAMBO!! Dissapointed not to get a tuna we decided to move again. This time a little deeper!

Headed out to the 40m contour and a small feint show of bait on the sounder...line up the drift and down went the jigs...*jig* *jig* *jig*...BANG! I hook up to something decent....10seconds later.....wes hooks up...only to be smoked by a monster!! Eventually i see colour..DHU!!! up comes a 78cm dhuie! My first on my boat and on jig and a personal best!

Spiked and iced he went!

Line up the drift again and drop the jigs down...as we drift over the spot...BANG! i hook up again...this time a bit more of a fight and 5mins later colour...DHU AGAIN!!!

This time is a 82cm one...Another personal best!!! So stoked!

Spiked and iced!

Both fish landed on 15lb and an 80g Eupro Flash in the red gold.

Couple more drifts of the same spot results in wes landing 2 60cm dhus and dropping another 2 suspected dhus..

after this we decided to call it and head home.

Was and awesom day out and the fish played ball...could have asked for better weather and 30mile to 20litres fuel..got to love the yammy fourstrokes!

To all the people who had 'a quiet day' i feel for you because it seem like the fish we very active on every lump we dropped on.

 Hit the water with my mate Duges from woodies around 4.30am  , decided to head out beyond the islands . Parked up until just past sunrise scored and released a couple of snaps in there mid 40’s  ,  so decided to head out further and try a few marks for nada besides some smaller model dhu’s that released well . Things were looking grim and the esky was empty and it was around 1.30pm , Then whilst just cruising between spots we come across the mother load and within half an hour we had our bag of snaps and it was time for a beer . 

With Fridays forecast looking sweet for a Super Deep fish a gentleman's hour launch was on the cards. Oceanside Tackle and Marine shop owner Ryan Thipthorp decided to head out again but this time film it. Ryan's currently filming the New Series 15 for Fishing WA and they have been doing a fair bit of travelling up & down the WA coast.

Ryan over the years has filmed different super deep species including the last show on "how to jig for them" using the Super Deep 750 & 1kg jigs. Ryan went back to basics for many of the general public who often tangle with greybanded cod on baits as they first get into Super Deep fishing.
On Friday Ryan also went to the opposite end of the scale and targeted blue-eye Trevalla etc which for many aren't the easiest fish to target or catch. Ryan used his boat for filming this time which allowed him to explain what greyband & blue-eye etc look like (plus ground) on a Furuno commercial sounder. 

This is something he gets asked more for with Super Deep TV shows so its done. That mixed in with gear talk,how to, what to look for, tech talk, super deep rig and the use of the Esca fish attracting light etc will make this a very popular show indeed.

I don't know when it will air but Ryan said maybe early next year (Jan-March 2015). Oceanside Tackle and Marine specialize in Super Deep fishing and have been doing it for many years now so if you want the right info or gear pop in and see us.

We don't just stock the gear, we use it!!!!

* Pics taken by Simon "FW-Coity" Marwick
* (Fishing WA Cameraman & Photographer)

 So decided that yesterday was the day to head out to gemini wreck and see if any decent size sambos had arrived.

Late launch at Mindarie at 9:30 were at the wreck just before 10am

Plenty on the sounder, so down go the jigs.

First jig.....nothing.....second.....nothing....third drop....fish on!!!!

10 meter run straight into the wreck! Damn!!

about 15 more drops....nothing.

Decide to try for demersals under the school of sambos....

Bring out my 15lb custom dermeral rod with a Luvias 3012h and 15lb saltiga surf braid, tie on a eupro flash 80g in the silver

Drop down

two jigs up and smashed! thinking DHU/PINKY...30m run....definitly a sambo! OH F*&K!

35mins later and 500m away from where first hooked up, up comes this monster!

After that decided to check out 3Mile!

find a nice coral patch in about 20-24m and drop down the jigs. after a few wrasse and a scorpion cod, Shaun hooks up to something decent, starts pulling some line, and being metro....3 mile reef...called it for a smalll sambo, 2mins later....

65cm DHU!!!

Was a cracking day out on the water and was good to see there are a few fish around!

 The usual. Lazy friday.

 Went out this arvo with a mate and my son for some pinks.

Got to our spot, anchored and burleyed up hoping for some skippy before the snapper turned up

Ended up with no skippy but a nice pink early.

Long story short we left the snapper biting and my son got his first sized pink at 54cm, later he got his second at 81cm.

Did a trip to one of my favourite spots near Rottnest Island and managed to get a mixed bag before the Bronzies became a menace.
http://youtu.be/1FJlXpxg4iA?list=UUWIj5krFAWitD-_FZNeBC2g

 Any Snapper around D9 yet?

 Left Mindarie before sunrise this morning to try and catch that elusive legal size snapper. Apart from the boat losing all lighting (including the GPS) twice! it was an ok trip out (all of 1.5 miles ha ha) into about 10m of water. Set up the rods, got some berley going and waited for the sun to come up.

I was in anticipation of my newly spooled up combo with the 20lb braid on my old faithful overhead stick. The snapper had other ideas though and decided my lightweight outfit with a small piece of unweighted occy was more to its liking. Took some angling to boat it on a Diawa Laguna 4-12lb rod with a crest 2500 reel and an owner circle hook but I was stoked to say the least! 63cms!

The rest of the day was ok with a few breaksea cod (one on a plastic) a small dhu dropped at the boat and a monster sambo that ate a live wrasse that couldn't be stopped. The wind made it pretty sloppy out there today but I was happy anyway.

 Fished 5 FFB on sunday, early start with burley trail and cubes trying to land a couple of snapper for MBFC monthly comp. Caught 1 under size pinky before sun rise, then undersize BB, 2 port jacksons and a wobby, and all released well. Then a Kingy came to the back of the boat and was swimming around the outboard eating the cubed mullies, I floated an un-weighted bait which he nosed a couple of times but would not take, jigged a soft plastic Z-man around with no luck, tried the un-weighted bait again that was rigged for snapper and again no luck, decided to flick the bait back out for snapper, as i started to rig another rod with a lure, the rod I had just flicked out then took off, after a good fight and various runs for the reef a solid 16kg kingy was landed. Sadly all the fish I caught for the day were under size or not on the way in list, including the Kingy. the remaining few hours I spent in the 50's for zip.

Another early start today and burleyed up at anchor in the sound and found this 11kg Pinkie, looks short but did measure 910cm and was fat.

Same shirt, different shorts, I do wash and change.

Headed out from Woodies early Sunday (yawn) after clearing the boat of cobwebs and trying to forget about the footy, first stop found a hot whiting bite, heaps of solid fat sandies to 28cm+ ... keeps me in the good books with the war office.

Hit the back edge of the FFB about 8.30am, little slow to start, not much reaction to a solid burley trail other than wrasse, a skippy and a flathead. Pulled the pick, electing to drift given the lack of wind, and was rewarded with a 62cm Dhu to the deckie on a lightly weighted sandy, and 2 of the biggest KGs I have seen, going 50 and 51cm, a Pb for me by a fair way...still stoked.

what's the bet I cant catch a cold next trip...

I went for a paddle in the Yak at Tinaroo dam last night. My brother Mick went in his as well and we started just on dark and paddled until midnight. Not one strike after the first couple of hours but we weren't too concerned as the wind was dying off and we still hadn't reached the main spot. I could see why Mick wanted to show us this spot as when we got there we spotted a 120cm fish on the surface paddling away slowly without a care in the world. It was a very cool sight and although we spooked that fish Mick soon had a hook up on another. We could see it was a good fish and it ended up measuring 115cm. Nice way to start the tally!

About 10 minutes later he was on again and a fish in the high 90s was landed. We still hadn't got a hit.

After finally getting a strike but losing the fish we headed elsewhere to where Mick snuck off only to see him hook up just when we arrived. The fish was a 110cm specimen and I started to get a bit antsy.

I kid you not, after the happy snaps and release he wouldn't of paddled more than 50 metres and got another hook-up! One of the cool things about this fish was Mick thought it wasn't too big but didn't fully realise what was happening in the dark as his Kayak whizzed straight past us at a fair speed. The fish was really pulling the Yak along and towards some timber. He stopped it in time and was pleasantly surprised as his thrid metre plus fish was landed. This one was around the 105cm mark to make it 4 fish from 5 strikes to our one solitary hit.

From there things picked up thanks to a tip or two from Mick and we managed a few more strikes. On the 5th strike we had a hook-up and a metre plus slice of Chrome went airborne only metres from the Yak. It was a great fight and at one stage came under the Kayak and belted the bottom with a couple of big head and tail slaps to remind us of the power these things can have. I reckon it was around the 107cm mark to round of a very successful trip. Unfortunately there were no more chances for Aron to score a fish as well. A good excuse to come for another crack mate and score a metre specimen!

Final tally was around the dozen hits between us for 5 fish so not a bad conversion rate and all quality fish.

I'm loving the shots of Mick trying to get his lures back. The fishing might have been a bit slow but when they did take they certainly inhaled the lures!!

 Went to port fairy (SW vic) on the weekend, and straight away found some hungry salmon eating our plastics most casts. They were small but fun on 4lb. After playing around with them, we moved up to a jetty at the mouth. After burleying, I sent out some pillie fillets, and was hooking mullet every cast. After i got bored of that, I cast around micro jigs and 6" worm plastics. The mullet, salmon and pike were chasing the lures to the surface and smashing them there. I kept 4 mullet for bait. Oh, and the smallest mullet went 35cm, the biggest very close to 40.

Tim

 Some good shots of my brother trying to get his prized lure back from the depths of a couple of fish. Full report to follow.

 Had another good day out from busso. Weather wasn't as nice as predicted.

Got out Sunday and landed a couple of nice pinks and a little dhu (600mm) to take home. Plenty of pink reports down this way and they are still hanging around in good numbers.

Frames donated to fisheries.

 had 3 good nights for 13 fish from 750-920mm in the sound. released most. Shark turned up on Friday night

Most fishing reports have been saying plenty of Squid in Cockburn Sound, week in week out.

I was out friday along G I and the southern flats , for a total of 6.

And Sunday i was at the North end of G I, working my way back south for a total of 4.

Both were nice days on the water however, and between the 2 days plenty for a nice feed :)

Any one else having any luck?

Is the water just a bit to dirty still?

Spent the weekend down south with a few of the boys, with the plan to do a little 4WDing, some drinking and hopefully get out for a fish if the weather allowed.

We stayed at Hamelin bay caravan park, but really didn't think it would be possible to launch the boat there this time of year, and we were right with the water being so low would have pretty much had to put the trailer and car onto the sand. So it was to Augusta to launch and try out from there.

I've not fished Augusta from a boat before so was all new to me. Saturday looked good on the weather front, except a 3.5m swell but none the less we gave it a run. First idea was to try head out about 11 mile to some ground I could see on the GPS. out we went at about 18 knots and the further we got the bigger the swell got. Once we got out there had a bit of a sound around and a drop or two. The ground was covered in bait but nothing more.

It didn't take long for a couple of the boys to start to feel average and with the depth changing by 7.5m from top to bottom of the swell, decision was made to head back in closer.

Turned out to be an awesome decision, with about 4 hours of just hot fishing in only 10m of water!

It was back to basics fishing, small bean sinker and an 8'o hook with a pinned Mulie or Californian squid and just drift baiting in the current. Pictures below show you don't need to make fishing complicated.

First drop and here s the result.

Yellow tail king fish!! probably 6-8 kilo. The main reason we were fishing single 8'o and bean sinker was for this purpose, I thought the ground we were fishing looked very YTK type ground. The rod you can see in the back ground that Scano is on, ended up being a double header of YTK's about the same size.

After this is was literally fish every drop and the variety and size was a big surprise. we ended up with 7 or 8 YTK's from 6-10 kilo and countless lost, 1 legal Dhu (in 10m of water!) a nice Harlequin, 2 big 55-60cm flatties, 4 Pinky's, and a number of Sambo's in the range of 7-12 kilo. Countless unstoppable's as well. Many fish busted us up in the reefs, bloody funny to watch!

And then there was this on the last drop of the day. This one hurt, probably 20 minute fight in 10 meters of water.

Palming the spool on the Saltiga

Biggest sambo to date I've caught, guess on size?

Ended up being a cracker of a weekend away with the boys, the fish just a bonus.

Bodie

 Went out Saturday morning in our local fishing comp Picked a few underside Dhuies up and a few kgs . Also got my first recapture of a tagged Dhuie was only 38 cm yet to find out the old details yet had a fair bit of growth on the tag so might have been a while since it was tagged have to check my records when my bro gets back from exmouth

 Headed out from Two Rocks with Abledog ,Mj and Erikl. We head out to the 8mile mark for our fisst drop  not alot was happening .on to the next spot 10 mile and a few fish were home Mj droping a large fish we think maybe Sambo,And Abledog got a nice swollowtail.Picked a a few small dhuies and some shit fish .Next couple of spots we a little quiet with only a few smal dhuies ,then Erik got his PB baldie He was having a great day on the fish.Come lunch time and we anchored up and cooked up a great fish lunch with potato and macaroni salad .After lunch we tryed a few other places with the small dhuies still following us .The last spot of the day gave us another 5 dhuies The days total.19 dhuies  nothing over 5kg2 baldies 1 swollowtail 1 sambo three BB and a heap of shit fish

 Today went for a long kayak. Firstly stopped at some snaggy looking country in about 1.5 meters of water. Caught some monster yellowtail grunter some went 35cm! Caught 3 of em. Then went on to some hidden away even snaggeir country in the canning river and caught a nice 29cm bream and also had constant bites. At this point we had dismounted the kayak.

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