Managed a few hours on Saturday afternoon to get the boat out, the water was an absolute dream so we headed out to do some drifting past the reef.  The action started as soon as we felt the sinkers hit the bottom.  Caught our bag of these guys in less than 30 minutes - thanks to all the double headers!  Haven't caught any whiting since moving here from SA, and was hoping they were KG's but these will have to do!  I think they are silver whiting from looking at the Fishwrekopedia unless someone else knows?   I do know they took bloody ages to fillet!

Anyway, had a fantastic day and I'm sure there were many happy fisherman on Saturday too - conditions were unbelievable.

Cheers!

 Got out sat for first time in couple months made the most of it and went deep fish were on the bite got all the nannys and pinks off the lump in 150s

couple fish from yesterday off Mindarie (57cm and 66cm). Haven't been out to the 40's for a while after continually getting swarmed by NW blowies making fishing very frustrating, these colder months make fishing a lot more worth while. Had our bag before 9am so spent a few hours finding new ground. It was a bit sloppy early on but glassed off for the ride home. Plenty of boats out taking advantage of the good weather.

Beautiful day on the water Saturday, some of the best weather we have been out in. With conditions this good, the plan was to get a few fish under our belt early then head out deep to sound some new ground.

Hit the 200's and it was a glass off, awesome conditions. Made for a very easy drift and we had 3 nice grey band cod and a pinkie in the first 3 drops. Matt (Langa) has been out wide about 8 or 9 times and had not landed a grey band cod, with a series of bad luck and bad luck stories.....but today he killed it, first with this nice grey band, excellent eating size. Check out the conditions!

Then Langa got a bigger model, smashing his drought.

It was 8.30am, and it looked like we would bag out on the next drift, so we decided to head wider to try and find new ground on some prospective looking deeper contours we have been waiting for better weather to check out, as its bloody hard finding new ground in rough weather as the sounder does not work well. This proved harder than expected, as it was like a car park out there, boats everywhere on the depths we were planning to sound, so we sounded about a bit further afield till we found a few fish shows. After plenty of greeneye, we hit a nice patch and hit some XOS fish, Langa's leader wore through on a huge fish he fought for ages and I got bricked after another monster proved too much for my dodgy back......Langa then landed this nice hapuka (a first for our boat) to top off a great day for him.

As the day was getting on, we decided to head off and check another mark we were given, but on the way there we found a nice ledge and TimVB landed a Bass Groper, another first. Gotta say, the Puka and bass groper certainly pull a lot harder than grey band. I hope they taste as good.

Hit some good bait balls on the way back from out wide, this show three nice arches herding bait. Trolled several shows like this but unfortunately no hits on the pelagics yesterday.

Out from Point Peron.

I took the day off today when I saw the weather was looking good and went for a scout around to try and understand my sounder more.  Sounded over what looked like fish showing but couldn't manage to anchor on top of the show. Found a lot of bottom junk but then switched to fishing the top and boated about 10 skippy around 1kg. Good fun on the PE1 gear - all fish were released. Took off for another look around and tried a few other shows without much success.

Decided to head to my tried and true spot to see what the ground looked like where I had done well in the past. While it didn't look overly different in terms of the bottom, it did show some fish in mid water and also the bottom. Threw out some floating squid baits and was mauled by the skippy again. All good fun size fish, albeit a bit smaller than earlier in the day. When they went quiet I switched to peeled coral prawns and it fired them up again. Caught so many I put that rod in the rack for a breather.

Since I had been using the same squid baits over and over I a few whole squid left so decided to put large baits out to see what would happen. Managed to pick up an undersize Dhu and 2 cod. One I know is a breaksea, can anyone tell me if the yellow coloured one is still the same or a different variation? It was quite a bit bigger than the breaksea. Again, all fish were released.

Anyhow, it was a good fun day and way better than being at work!

I thought I would do a little post of my first trip up North.  Allthough we didn't kill it it was so much fun and can't wait to go again.  Towed my 4.5 Meter boat up and stayed a week in Shark Bay and a week in Exmouth.  Mainly fished fairly close in Shark Bay and inside the reef in Exmouth due to wanting to create a safe and comfortable experience for my lady.  Also when we got back we went for a rip in the sound and got some nice pinkie.  Anyway we got some fish and had lot's of fun so here are some photos.  Also thanks to Sea Hunter for the advice

First Pinky on soft plastic

Day on Mac Attack also on SPs

Cockburn Sound 

Hi Everyone,

thinking of a run down to Walpole this weekend - does anyone know the condition of the inlet ? - is it brown from winter runoff ?

is the Franklin raging ?

 Hey guys check out my video I finally got around to editing from exmouth this year plenty of action for us with some awesome bites. Enjoy in full hd 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=442ThWyP1M8&feature=youtu.be

Hi All,

First report. Headed out Saturday morning for my second fish on the new boat. Tried for a couple pinks, no luck but pulled a beautiful 17kg dhu from only 10m!!

Cheers,

Ben

With my deckies being crook, land stuck, on roster etc. I decided to do a solo for the second consecutive weekend (time to find new dekies). Launched from Woodman Point with the intention of doing a couple of drifts over FFB and upon arriving at Seaward Reef I decided to push on to deeper waters. With the increased swell there were a number of waves breaking in the area and with one set of eyes on board decided to play it safe. Chugged off to one of my favourite bommies south of Rottnest Island and with the first pass saw a good number of fish holding the structure. After dropping the anchor upwind of the spot I started burleying with a catfood-chookpellet mixure and chopped up mullies. Within a couple of minutes of dropping the first bait, which was a headless scalie on double snelled 7/0 hooks, I landed my first of a number of Pinkies for the day. The mixed bag consisted of a number of Pinkies, two Yellowtail Kingies and a Sambo for good measure. I was fishing reasonable light i.e. 20lb braid on 15-30lb rods, and got smoked by fish that I could not turn. I tried the heavier gear, but the fish were too sensitive on the day.
All in all another good day on Perth Metro waters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIt-2NzJZs&feature=player_detailpage

Took Friday off work to target snapper then head into the deep to bottom bounce. The snapper illuded us, but thanks to the birds curiosity put us on a large shoal of salmon. We had great fun on light gear, releasing all fish successfully. The day ended up with a good feed of squid as a consolation prise. 

How did everyone else go?

Had to work bloody hard today for our fish. The tuna were long gone from the spot we got them last week, the water had turned green and lots of week. Travelled another 35 km before we came across some likely looking water. Bait was very sparse but we found a few small patches.

Out with the lures and after an hour it was not looking good, and memories of August tuna were quickly fading. Then we got whacked with a double header, Tims comes up first and to our great surprise up popped a fat shark mackerel. August 9.....Perth Metro.......WHAAAAT!!!

Then my sharkie mac.

After a bit more travel we got smacked again, triple header this time. Langa and myself landed our YFT, only rats but will be delicious. Tim dropped his early.

Back in, and in quick time, another double header. This time I dropped one, Tim got his little barrel.

After dropping another YFT right at the boat, we had a quick jig, Tim getting a nice dhu and all of us getting a sambo/amberjack.

Fun day and the weirdness continues!

It was a foggy start when I met Ericl and fellow fisher Quentin at Ocean Reef but we were on the water at 6.00am and heading out for a fish. Forecast was good and we were hopeful of putting a few fish in the box. The fish were a bit patchy and there were plenty of undersize pinks and dhuies but we managed some quality fish including two baldies, two pinks, a dhuie and a harlequin. The harly made my day being the first I've ever caught and at 58cm was a good size for them I believe. Thanks for the day out Eric, it was a good day out with a couple of nice guys.

 Decided to go for a quick fish with the mrs after work. Got to our normal spot in the Sound at around 5:30. Be rely trail started and the mrs is on first drop, a Pinkie. Although undersize a promising start. Well they were on for near on 2 hrs, we stopped counting once we got to 20. 4 double headers as well. Finally a descent run an hour in and 51cm, not a monster but well happy.

the Good
Organised a trip out with a work colleague to have a crack at a dhue or 2 last Thursday. Gentleman hrs where agreed upon - 7.30 start. Headed out from Port Geo and decided to drift around in the 25 - 30m mark waiting for the wind to settle down. A couple of drifts for nothing. Moved out to 35m for another drift - weather started to improve, bait on the sounder - still nothing. A call was made to head to one of his never fail spots.... We stopped well short of the mark and drifted back over trying to find some new ground - 10 mins later and a nice pinky shows up on Mcarthur SP - 600mm (Sorry for poor quality pics)
http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagefield_thumbs/wookstar/pinky.jpg?1407412494

Old mate then nailed one slightly better on a squid bait (Yes a SP/jig vs bait day)
Continued to drift back to his mark but due to the ever improving weather we missed so we setup for a drift over it and another Mcarthur SP got nailed. After a spirit too and fro a nice Dhue of 12kg pops up much to my delight!! Hi fives all round, my biggest Dhue to date, on a SP on PE3 gear. Stoked was an under statement!!
http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagefield_thumbs/wookstar/dhu.jpg?1407412810
http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagefield_thumbs/wookstar/dhu2.jpg?1407412854

We set up for another drift wipe the SP off(Rubbed it on the squid on the baitboard!!) Dropped down again and old mate is on to a smaller dhue when crunch I got whacked again. Unfortunately wasn't able to stop this beast as it sat there woke up and with pure power just took off through the bottom.
With 2 dhue's and 2 pinky's in the esky time was called, a quick bite was had and under perfect skies we headed in.
The Bad
I have since learnt a valuable lesson with dhue wings... Don't attack em with a meat cleaver. A pair of side cutters/tin snips/ or pruning shears are far better suited to it.
After a glancing blow I took a good chunk out of my finger knicking a tendon. If your a bit squeamish don't scroll down...
http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagefield_thumbs/wookstar/025.PNG?1407413269
Me about to go in for surgery - not overly prowd of my self
http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagefield_thumbs/wookstar/024.PNG?1407413361
The ugly
So short term - 6 weeks in a finger splint. Long term is a full recovery.
http://fishwrecked.com/files/imagefield_thumbs/wookstar/023.PNG?1407413525

Its my first post so be kind!!
The reason for sharing is I hope the lesson I have learnt the hard way the younger guys on this site might be able to prevent themselves from injuring a hand or fingers. They are bloody valuable.
And to the guys out there plugging away with SP's not scoring. Two tips - patience and read what you can where you can. Lecras wrote a good article in Wangler a month or so ago and there was a 3 part series done last year on demersals on SP's.
Thank you for listening to my news!!
tight lines

 Hi Guys,

Managed to get out yesterday for a fish on the FFB with my brother in law. Was a bit rough early with the Northerly, but chugged out from the Cut. The first spot was a bit quiet so after 20 minutes of burleying and no fish we decided to move out to the back edge. There was a really distinct colour change out there so we sounded around in the cleaner water in the 16/18 metre mark. Found some good looking ground so anchored up again and started the burley trail. Didn't take long for an undersize Pinky to come over the side, then I got a Skippy on a SP. It was pretty steady for an hour or so. Doug nailed 2 nice KG Whiting on successive drops and the Skippy whilst not boiling at the back of the boat were steadily coming over the sides. Ended the day with a nice feed for tonight. 11 Skippy and 2 nice KG. This is my lot minus 2 already filleted

Cheers

Chris

 Anyone had any luck last couple of days down this way ? 
Any info mucho appreciado. 

 Well it’s been a while since my last report due to uni, work and a lack of fishing but thought it was time I put up a few pics of our latest project as I know there are a few out there like myself who get off on rebuilds. Anyway an upgrade for the old dinghy had been on the cards for a while as we seemed to continue to push the boundaries of what a 3.7m boat was capable of so it was only a matter of time before we got caught out. Something in the 4.5-5.5m range was the only option and I wanted bit of a summer project after uni had finished. A 5m brooker CC came up for sale and we decided it would do the job. The hull and trailer were in pretty average condition but the new yammy on the back was rather attractive. First thing was the strip down and clean out, it had been a creek boat from the NT and the one inch thick dried mud in the bottom of the hull proved that.

 

After the boat had received a strip it was the trailers turn, the trailer is a Mackay trailer that wasn’t actually that old but I didn’t like the roller set up so a full overhaul was he only option. Sourced all the components (harder than one may think), made up the hanger brackets, welded up the guard brackets and she was ready to hit some hot galv. This boat will predominantly be used up north and I’m sure she will see more beach launches than concrete so I decided to go a bit overboard with wheel size.

With the trailer done next was to tidy the hull up and get some welding done before painting. First I wanted to change the center console lay out, sized up the dash to fit my electronics and got the welding done. Bit of cutting/drilling for flush mounting and it was ready to start my most dreaded part, PAINT PREPPING!!!!

After the last refurb I knew how much time and effort must go into prepping/painting. My brother and I committed four days to prepping, sand a section then prime it before it oxidised until finally the whole boat was primed and ready for undercoats.

It was the first boat I have done with a gun but it didn’t take long to pick it up and we ended up with a pretty good finish, much smoother than the previous boat that we used rollers. Once the boat was painted and back on the trailer it was finally starting to look like a boat I would be happy with. Flush mounted the electronics and wired her up, a few bits of marine ply and carpet made up an attractive cover for the batteries and cables. I got some decals made up and she was finally finished after a solid month on the tools. Now to get her wet…..

First trial was a quick run over to ratnest Ise for a cray dive, handed a soft offshore well and gave us a taste of how much of a weapon she would be.

Next was to drag her north, my brother, a mate and I headed up around Jurien for a couple of days for a predominantly diving trip but a few lures were thrown around also. Got up midday and used the arvo to dive an old cray spot I found a while ago as the vis was very AVG, didn’t dive deeper than 5m and found a few fish floating around amongst the roaches.

Next day we were greeted with a glass off and headed straight out for a fish. Found a good show on the 587, you can see a jig and a SP being worked. Didn’t take long to get a few fish onboard.

Decided it was time for a dive so put out a few lines and started heading in to the dive ground. We had been on the move no more than 10mins when both rods went off and we managed to land some sashimi.

We didn’t have much room in our bag so a quick dive to top it up and we were on our way in. This is my PB baldy at 690 which was the last fish for the day.

The last day we headed out for another dive and found a few fish and quickly had our bag and headed in to pack up the tent and hit the road, a quick pic of the day’s offerings.

Next trip was a metro night fish off woodies, as seen from the following pics the fish were on the chew and we only needed an hour to max out our limit.

A couple of weeks went past with nothing but work, bad weather and Abrolhos trips. Finally I managed to line up some good weather and my dad and I headed out for a metro bash. Originally I said I wouldn’t use this boat for metro dhufish but the big rig was in getting some work done so we had no choice. Left the ramp at 1pm and after an hour steam we dropped lines and it didn’t take long for a few hook ups. A few solid pinks hit the deck then I got blown away on PE2 to what felt like a big buck. Next pass my old man set the hooks in a donkey, a few big runs and his new PB bream hit the surface. The sunset lined up well to make for a pretty good pic.

Salty was getting neglected a bit as Brolhos was copping a flogging so last week my brother and I decided it was finally time to put her to the test and drag her up to Ningaloo.The forcast for last week was looking good so Saturday night the call was made. Sunday we packed and hit the road for the big steam. We more just wanted to get out of the wind and rain but secretly we both thought it would be a good opportunity to tick off Salty’s first billfish. Tuesday we trolled for a few hours and went 5-3-0 on the bills, disappointed we spent the arvo in the water soaking up the 25 deg water. A few mates flew up Wednesday morning and we quickly got out and deployed a spread, 10mins in and two rods went off. Half an hour later we had both fish up, dehooked and back on their way.

Few high fives and we suited up for an arvo of diving. The following day after a slow morning we got back out and again within 10minutes had two sails hooked, both again landed.

The rest of the trip saw plenty more bills raised and hooked but non converted. Anyway back to reality and the cold/Brolhos trips.

Thanks for the read. Until the next time I get enough time to put up a report….

Miles

Well another year has come and gone, the fishings done and back to work.

We enjoyed two weeks up at the Bay staying at one of the Chalets in Bayview and catching up with a bunch of mates who were taking the same break although we traveled independently of each other. The trip up was smooth and uneventful. The boat behind the cruiser on the new ACE trailer. What a great investment, trailed exceptionally well, loaded and all, no problems, no sweating over bearing issues. It was a relief as this was the first real long distance test for the trailer. We left at12.30 am Saturday morning and arrived at 3.30 pm at the Bay, booked straight in, unloaded, unpacked, rigged up and up to the pub for dinner. An early night as we were all knackered from the drive.

Day 1 - blowing its guts out, ran up to the North passage but deemed it too rough with the wind and swell creating quite confused waters. We retreated to the inside of the South and anchored up and burleyed up. Didnt take too long and in came a big school of bludger trevally, all around 3kgs. We took advantage and grabbed a half dozen for bait for the coming days. We then spent some time pitching plastics out at the school which was going off. I tried out the Gomoku toy rod with a plastic and was surprised at how easily this little rod managed these feisty little trevally into the boat on 5kg. We spent a hour or so on these before the school dispersed and we were only troubled by smallish NW snapper. Nothing for the box other than bait. Back for a coldie or two, catch up with mates, dinner and the sack.

Day 2 - still blowing but got out North. Water still pretty mixed up and keeping your footing was a bit difficult but we managed a couple of nice spanglies around the 3 - 4kg mark, nothing too sensational but we were on the board. Fishing was quiet and we only managed about 4 fish. Early day.

Day 3 - Wind dropping around midday but still quite blowy. out to 90m and sounded around. Found some ground and dropped over fish and squid baits. The fish started to come on pretty quick, a nicish Red followed by a solid Goldband, another Red and another Goldband. Then a few more smallish reds, Robbos and Pearl Perch. Called it a day when the breeze swung N and the bite went cold.

Day 4 - back out to 90m, picked up some fish on the sounder but not really happening. The breeze was swinging NE to N and our drift was all over the place. We decided to have a longer drift and then the fish started to come on board. Pearlies, Robbos, Goldband and then a stonker Red to my son. Weighed on the scales, went an honest 9kgs. He was so pleased he couldnt stop grinning and talking about it, his first real quality fish. Wind went NW and the bite died.

Day 5 - blown out - lay day around the Bay with a bit of 4WD up the coast

Day 6 - Calmer, so went deep out to 130 and hunted around, couldnt find anything. Pushed onwards to 250m, and sounded for a hour or so with nothing showing. Pushed N a couple of miles and sounded in 280m for another hour for no show. Crew became a bit restless so headed back into the 90's for some more Reds and picked up the odd couple of fish including some good Rankins. Whilst we were out here a squid showed up from no where. A quick rig change and on went a squid jig and in came one of the biggest squid I have landed. I landed him in the net and gave him a good shake to get rid of the ink. Good job too, he punched out clouds of it. thank God it wasn't in the boat !

Day 7 - Glass off, no drift and no takers.

Day 8 - Another quiet day but met up with some mates about 12m out and they put us on a spot for a couple of Spanglies and Robbos

Day 9 - Lay day in Exmouth.

Last few days - worked over the South and with a steady SE at least we had a constant drift. We got onto a good spot that was producing Goldband, Robbos, Pearl Perch, Spanglies and then the Pinkies came on, closely followed by the sharks. I included a pic below the show their deductions ! Probably our best day fish wise until the taxmen moved in. Over the next couple of days, working depths between 90 - 115m we landed a steady stream of fish. Not lots and we never even approached our limit but we did get some good fish. Plenty of Cobia down south and we landed a couple around the 10kg mark for the box. They eat pretty good at this size.

Last day came before we knew it and it was to be an early day. we had earlier met up with Reece and Elaine (Baron88) who were up for the last week so they came out with us to the 90's and we fished the last couple of hours within radio call distance. We headed in with a half dozen fish at 1.00 and Baron headed in around 4.30 just as we were fuelling up the car. I think they did OK on the day.

I have posted some pics below in no particular order as they are from a variety of cameras.

I was pretty happy with the new Furuno and I think i got better dialling it in every day. However in the pics below I dont know what I am looking at. We fished several spots with shows like this for no fish. i dont know if they were off the bite because on the Northerly or it it simply wasn't fish. Appreciate any advice so that I can work out what i am seeing next time.

The drive home was another 15hour marathon arriving at 9.00pm on Saturday night. Again, a trip without incident.

All in all it was a great trip, if a little breezy. It was pleasing to see Marine an Harbours doing the boat checks and Fisheries paying a couple of visits. Good to get away and spend some time with the boy and my mates. Also good to meet another FW member in Baron 88.

Cant wait for next year !!

cheers

Michael and I took a long weekend trip to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I caught 9 new species among the 22 species caught in the 4 days. I also lost a Striped Bass and a Chain Pickerel. Fishing was good overall, but we had many challenges along the way.

As usual, you can read about the trip on the blog.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2014/08/2014-pennsylvania-and-new-jersey-day-1.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2014/08/2014-pennsylvania-and-new-jersey-day-2.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2014/08/2014-pennsylvania-and-new-jersey-day-3.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2014/08/2014-pennsylvania-and-new-jersey-day-4.html

And here are the 9 new species I caught over the weekend.

Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau) - Species #395



Bluespotted Sunfish (Enneacanthus gloriosus) - Species #396



Banded Sunfish (Enneacanthus obesus) - Species #397



Mud Sunfish (Acantharchus pomotis) - Species #398



Flathead Catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) - Species #399



American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) - Species #400!



Grey Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) - Species #401



Dusky Smooth-hound (Mustelus canis) - Species #402



Cutlip Minnow (Exoglossum maxillingua) - Species #403

Great arvo on the water, me, Langa, Baron and TimVB headed out at 11 am, very gentlemanly. The plan was for a quick dhu jig on the way out then look for some early season sambos for a bit of fun. Things got pretty interesting after that!

First off, Troy with a nice dhu, a PB on jig for Baron.

We then got a few sambos and amberjack on jig but it was hard work and we went to probably 5 shallow sambo spots for a handful of small sambos.

Then it gots nuts after we saw a free jumping fish.....looks like a YFT.....in August......surely not???

Langa was first up.

Followed by Troy.

Tim then got a strippie, released, and as we let the lure back in it got hit immediately, we me landing this YFT which tipped the scales just over 19 kg.

We had to fight off a bloody big shark as we gaffed the tuna......he was not happy and circled the boat for 10 minutes....awesome sight.

 Done a 2 week trip on me own of hardcore landbased fishing and fished flat out for all 2 weeks, met up with tangles and wes f on the first night for a big session down the local pub bloody hell to say i was rough the next day is an understatement it was more like i'd woken up from an autopsy.

 Spinning for tailor only managed a couple fish in the 2-3kg range most of my time was spent on the cliffs with tangles gettin bricked the local sharks took quite a liking to me this trip but still manged my first legal pinky few udersize baldies some big sand snapper golden trevs skippy also dropped a good sambo and a golden est bout 10kg also fished with james 1989 one mornin and he slayed the skippy and got a nice baldy

Garies were thick and great way to relax after a hard mornings fishing

 Highlights were defently my mulloway caught while fishing with tangles (cheers for getting wet brother) and ben derecki he was takin on a slab of the tailor in the pics, and helpin tangles land his cobia(handlining braid not much fun!) there were a few nerves moments but managed to get him up defently one of the best lb captures i've been apart of. 

Looking forward to doin it all again soon make sure you got your trecking shoes on tangles for next time my bloody legs are still hurting next trip wont be far away i'm hooked on that place

 caught 8:30 saturday morning, third cast of the day.

Headed up to Coral Bay for the first time last month and took up the 4.7m tinny with us - on a side note; was pretty stoked to average 16L/100km towing with a petrol Prado for the whole trip .

Without having any experience In CB the fishing was pretty tough, got very conflicting reports in regards to being able to catch decent fish inside the reef. Didn't manage to get out either of the first 2 days due to the wind. Day Three we headed out towards North Passage and had a troll around the edge of the reef which produced nothing and then came back inside the reef as the swell was pretty sizeable and a little disconcerting! Inside the reef using soft plastics I was just picking up little Charlie Court and other small Cod in about 7m-8m of water...then BANG all of sudden I was on and was calling it for a shark early as it went straight for the sand and was surfacing, it was peeling the line off my Pfluguer Salt 60 with 30lb line at high speed and got about 150m from the boat and then we decided to pull anchor and chase it down and then turns out it was a decent sized trevally - thought it could have been a GT but I've been informed it looks more like a Brassy - thoughts?? My estimate was that it was about 18kgs.

Day 4 then saw us head out of the South Passage (got to follow a bloke out through the passage who I met at the ramp - good to see some locals are willing to help out a CB Newbie!) and we trolled for about an hour all up and had one hook up which almost saw my mate Christen his Saltist with a nice mackie until the lure pulled out about 5m from the boat - a few expletives were thrown about!!!! Talk about whales - my sister counted about 25 of the moving hazards!!! 

Day 5 was our most productive day and rewarded us with our only table fish for the trip - half a dozen Spanglies which were delicious! My mum also got a nice golden trevally which I guessed to be about 13Kgs or so. 

All in all was a drama free trip which is all that you can really ask for and got away from the cold weather in Perth!!

Has anyone found any pilch (yelloweye mullet) around lately?
usually some around during winter but havent heard of much so far
everyone has been after bigger and better fish I think

Dave is back to fish in Thailand again.... He fished with us from last year.

Below was his last year fishing trip with us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiINC1F4BU

This year round, he brought along his fishing buddy Chris to join him for this thailand adventure fishing trip.

Enjoys the photos highlights and vid youtube clip I edited for their wonderful trip in Thailand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGB724RECrM


8 arapaima fishes, 6 big fat redtail catfish ,1 alligator gar and many mekong catfish for this trip.

Fruitful and memoreies trip for these 2 fishing buddies.

Some of the photos highlights:

 On the canning this morning and managed to scoop this cichlids off the surface not lookin to healthy. A terrible sign for the future!