Took the boat out yesterday withe my elsest boy and his mate for the first run of the year.

Ran up to Ocean Reef and launched and went out to a couple of spots that I had marked years ago. It was quite bumpy on the way out with a steady seabreeze and swell so it was a slow trip out into the 40's. Arrived to find that over the years several other boats had located the lumps that I used to fish and there were about 4 others all over it. Moved away to another close spot and picked up a few fish on the new Furuno and took a couple of drifts. Ended up with a nice KG, a 54cm Dhu and a solid Gummy Shark. Picked up the inevitable crap fish, Wirrahs, Scorpion Cod and Sgt Bakers.

My son got to try out his new outfit and although it was not overly taxed he was very happy, especially with the new Talica.

Pleased with the way the boat went after the layup through the ban. The conditions were not all that pleaseant with a short sharp seas but we travelled OK with it on teh way home.

Anyone fished wilbinga including the areas North and south?

couple of us going on sat arvo for an overnighter....been at least 5 years since last there.

targeting tailor but will soak a bait for the yet to catch size mulla from the sand.

interested to hear how people have gone recently with hooking up and also conditions ie weed and soft sand

(will ensure take a bag of someone else's rubbish out with me - last there was glass and crap everywhere just back from the beach).

any advice/ comments appreciated.

thanks

Me and me son went for a fish this morn finally got the elusive kidney slappers that I have always wanted to catch also Aidan got the biggest nor western blowie that we have ever seen and also pulled in 3 rays and a fiddler

went for a Murray River overnighter on Monday, managed to get over 40 redfin (some crackers 38cm)and landed my first wild rainbow, went 32cms, was stoked with it, sent it back for another time. Hopefully will be there again for next time, also saw three in the morning rising, one was probably around the 45cm mark. was an awesome sight to see with the mist rising off the water, the things you see when you don't have a fly rod with you.

NYE celebrations curtailed to a degree, got up at 0430 & headed out with Dave from Outdoor Sportz. We met Seaquest & his crew at Quindalup & headed out for what I consider the best way to bring in the new year.

Giddy up, I got a nice dhuie.

Dave "The Dolly Whisperer" beating the hoards of Kingy's to put this one on ice & have some fun on the rest (I failed miserably to get past the kings & or lose tackle)

Good bream gear fun on YTK's & Dave's Dolly's to end the day after bagging out

Freezer looks healthy again following the ban with some nice dhu fillets

Cheers & Happy New Year to you all

Hey guys

Gonna drop the tug in the river for the first time tomorrow morning for a cruise, coffee and lunch. Starting at Matilda bay, question is, where can you cruise to and tie the boat up and get a nice coffee then another location for lunch?

Cheers

The missus and I took a quick trip up to play deckie for my brother and his family. The idea was to get Narelle a good fish as she had not been on the water for a while. As usual she gets the best fish of the trip, a 91 cm Large Mouth Nannygai (Saddletail Snapper) which I believe overtakes Nikko's record on FW!! We got a few more good Nanny's plus a couple of Cobia to round out a good haul in just a few hours.

 Hi all, new to the forum - Going out from Mandurah on Tuesday first light - where can I go to get some pelagic action - Will be in a Barcrusher 680HT with twin 4strokes and game poles - Thought about hugging the coast until piont peron then heading outy wide for a blast - Any one else have some tips ?

Cheers in advance.

 Heading down in a couple of weeks to Busso with the boat.  Have the KG's and/or Snapper been active in the bay?  

 Apologies for the late report but the last few weeks have been hectic.

The last competition was held just north of Perth with 10 anglers participating. A total of 42 fish were counted for the comp.

Fish caught included Tailor, Snook, Dart, Eagle Rays and 10 Shovel Nose Sharks.

Results were as follows      1st Place    ALan

                                                2nd              Andy

                                                3rd               Jason

Overall standings are          Alan              122 points

                                                Dave                88 points

                                               Sherbie             84 points

Hi all
Had the daughter and hubby come up for a few day just prior to Christmas day..
Poor bugger (Ash)had to be back at work Christmas day.. Never mind..
So while they were up it was my job to take Ash out fishing and get him he's first ever sized Dhuie..
I have had Ash out a few times before and lets just say he's nickname after those trips became "Wrasseinator" ;-)
As they live down in Bunbury and he's favorite pass time is chasing Bream on 4lb gear, he has previously had trouble getting he's head around this bottom bashing caper with near 4lb sinkers... LOL
Well we cracked he's sized Dhuie drought with this nice size 9 keg 800mm male.. Albeit caught on a Wrasse that he had foul hooked but opted to leave it bouncing on the bottom for a bit..
The day totaled 4 dhuies, (2 Released) 1 Black Ass and also landed / released a number of solid mid size Sambos..

 After being hit with the dreaded Kidney Stone (a sign of getting older) a few months back I haven't been on the water at all until yesterday. So after a trip to hospital on Thursday to forcibly remove the stubborn little bastard, I decided enough was enough and I'd better get back into it or lose my mojo for good.

We headed out from Mindarie just on day break and with the wind at out backs headed out to the grounds only to realize on arrival that the wind was way too strong to sit side on to the massive wind chop that was breaking all around the boat. So we draggeda few lures around for an hour until it eased a fraction. No hits on the troll but a few new lumps located for future exploration.

The day was reasonably eventful, with the first fish a good size Dhuie that jumped the hook next to the boat as I was getting the tagging kit ready. Estimated to be around the 60cm bracket. Ah well it was only 7am so a full day ahead

We ended up tagging 5 Dhuies plus another two lost boatside and one that I kept for Xmas day lunch, a sambo, a Baldie/red throuat double header,

a KG,

a few Blackarse (kept one for Xmas lunch), a Blackarse that still had one of my tags in from maybe 12 months ago... definitely one of my tag numbers but I need to research the fish to see how much it has grown (haven't got around to it yet).

YES ANOTHER RECAPTURE>>>> THEY DO SURVIVE RELEASE WITH A RELEASE WEIGHT!!!!

The end of the day Darryn managed to capture an awesome Harlequin. This one would have to be up there with some of the biggest I have seen out from Mindarie, so a great capture to celebrate Xmas.

The new Buzz cut I am sporting didn't effect the mojo so it will be here to stay.

Merry Xmas everyone.

 I caught three paddle crabs while chasing blues around fresh water bay keep an eye out for these pests!

Left Mindarie Marina at 6am, trolled 2 deep diver xraps and 2 halco deep diver redheads from Mindarie to two rocks in the 20 - 30m line in a horrible stiff easterly for lots of seaweed and no mackies or tuna. Waited for the easterly to back off and headed directly west of two rocks about 25 kms out to the 35 - 45m area. There were 4 or 5 boats spread out so we decided to fish in amongst them. Usually we get 2 or 3 sargeant baker in a full day of demersal fishing but it seemed we were in sargeant baker city, they were in plague proportions like blowies we kept getting double headers and they were all full grown.   Managed to land 2 dhueys at 48cm and 49cm each (bugger) and 3 baldies (tiny - 30 - 35cm bugger again) 4 tidler breaksea cod  and just crap loads of sargeant baker never seen anything like it before. It was like the demersals down there couldnt even get a look at the bait before it was attacked by sargeant baker. Only good thing about the sargeant baker we found was that when we snagged up you just let out a crap load of line wait a minute or 2 then up would come your rig with at least 1 or 2 sargeant baker attached they were actually unsnagging the sinkers for us !! Water temp 21.8 C lots of flying fish, didnt see any bust-ups on the surface or birds feeding. How did anybody else fishing in that area go?

Once again it my great pleasure write this catch report for Dave- an avid angler from america.
The main agenda of this bkk fishing trip is for Dave to have a shot at his dream fish- The Arapaima.
He has been to the wild Amazon at Brazil every year for this annual fishing trip but hardly got a chance to catch this magnificent arapaima- The biggest freshwater fish.

He hookup with me early Dec 2014 for a 4 DAYS fishing adventure.

We have a 4 DAYS wonderful fishing, all non stop actions and many memorable catch especially his 1st encounter with his dream fish- Arapaima.

Dave landed a total of 4 arapaima, redtail tiger, countless redtail catfishes, alligator gar, thailand famous mekong catfish at BSR and having aerobatic fun with barramundi on lures.


I have complied his 4 DAYS fishing adventure in Thailand into this 6mins youtube clip below.

Do ride with us and enjoy his wonderful fishing trip in Thailand.


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




Highlights photos of this trip.

Arapaima & predators fishes...












Mekong Catfish.....





Barramundi....

 Hey guy's, just wondering if anyone has fished out around the naturaliste reef lately? Thinking of heading that way tomorrow but haven't fished it in a while. Any reports good or bad would be handy prior to heading that way.

cheers

hit the water at 6am ramp packed . finally they were on the chew most the day ended with 7 dhuies caught with the 2 my favourite eating size and males kept , 3 undersize pinkies . 1 screaming run i lost and a bust off , with some colourful language used after both

plenty of wrasse and bites all day so couldn't ask for a better day back by 14:00

Bloody horrible conditions early this morning, easterly whipping up a sharp chop. After seeing a bit of nice bottom, we turned into the wind and took a nice greenie over the front of the Whaler......woke everyone up, so we headed in closer to Rotto!

Lots of bait with some nice red blobs around them giving us some pretty exciting sounder shots, and given it was too rough early to jig, we threw the lures in and had a troll in absolute flat mud bottom that normally would not even hold blowies, but the combo of bait and warm water provided fish you would not expect in this sort of area and depth.

After a nice first run, Langa landed the YFT in quick time.....cant get away from these things!!! I was happy to repay Langa for several YFT have got on his boat. A few stripies followed to keep us amused until the wind died down.

Landed a heap of dhuies, nothing that large, Chrisp doing most of the damage although I pipped him for the biggest, kept 2 plus a nice flattie and then a good sambo had me working on PE2.

Nice run home early with a few coldies to beat the rush at the ramp.

Hi folks

Anyone know what the weed conditions are up at Yanchep and Two Rocks?

It may be a long shot but is there an online fishingreport anywhere for the metro area that includes inf on weed conditions?

Cheers

CF

 Went out to my favourite spot at Quinns ans as per usual, hooked up 6 good size Tailor. Wind was blowing and the largest managed to be 55cm.

Perth seems to still be quite fruitful despite what others are saying. Just gotta play by the rules and conserve our fish for the future.

Sharks were on the run. 2 bust offs. Wasn't using wire traces. Just 50lb mono with suicides snelled.

The illusive story of the one that got away asper usual:)

 Went out yesterday with my brother and Leemo in metro waters for a bit of everything and caught a bit of everything too. Lost a lot of tuna but managed to land two on skirts at 65cm, headed out for a bottom bash and Leemo pulled up two 48cm dhuies on jigs and soft plastics that we will catch next week when they have grown abit, my brother pulled in a nice pink on bait at 75cm then on the way home trolled abit more and managed to land 2 YTK's that were undersized and released.

Had a really good day and start to the season. Thanks a lot to Leemo and johnF for the help! 

 Got 3 sized crays today from about 20. Anyone else's starting to get lots of baby reds?

headed out at about 6am with my brother and a mate to about 18nm slowish trip at 13kn with the S/Eerly blowing , to a small lump very quiet so headed out another 4 for an under size dhuie and a stingray with nothing in the esky and the wind dying down a little bit the bullet and headed out another 12 with a few drops on the way for a gurnard and that was about it dropped on the first ledge for a sargent baker with some fresh bait tried another 2 spots the wind had since swung around to the south by this time was starting to wonder why i went to these spots south rather than north with the bottom lip out :) .12:30 wind changes s/w and it's all 3 lines on for 2 under size pinkies and a 75cm pinkie motor back for another drift with my mate pulling up a double head undersize dhuie and a swallow tail 13:00 things went quiet again moved a round a bit for a few shit fish ended up glassing off , broke up the trip with a fish at 16nm on the way back with heaps of bait balls around seemed not much was on the bite and was a hard days slog with plenty of ground travelled

 Well headed out wide for some super deep ,shit first drop bass grouper 40kg .Didn't want to bag out to soon so headed in closer ,while we were move out with the lures and bugger me tripple hookup macs and YFT.Well the fish hold was looking good and i thoght i would have a drop on a spot I found some time back .As soon as we hit the bottom dhuies and big ones first one 23kg  2nd up 21kg. well I had got my fish and headed for home only to get hit by a rough wave which woke me up DAm it was just a dream!!! i HATE ALL YOU GUYS THAT GOT OUT FOR A FISH .

With both Sunday and Mondays forecast looking good and a gap between filming I didnt need much convincing. Sunday I took out good mate Scott (Soupster) and we got into a dozen plump offshore KG's!

Yesterday with the ban being lifted I thought a Super Deep fish was in order, good mate Craig (Fishcrazy) came out for a run and wow how was the conditions!!
 

I sounded around one of my spots and after finding bugger all I was about to go to another spot but thought I havnt checked this edge (the only spot I didnt cover) and whalla ..... fish!!

Craig asked me what fish do you reckon they are Ryan, I said I reckon Bass re the way they were sitting on the edge & colour etc. Craig drops down a super deep paternoster rig and hooks up straight away ....... I said leave it down for a double header and well the next fish to jump on had my JM rod fully loaded and Craig pulled up against the gunwhale!!

The end result was a big fight and leaving Craig very broken ha ha!

Craig with a 30kg & 20kg Bass groper double header!!

Craig had bagged out and I drove over that school again. Often when I get a hook up from a school that stirs up more action and by now it look like that school had blue eye and a mix!

I dropped my Super Deep 1kg jig and within seconds I was on!

End result was a solid Blue Eye Trevalla on jig!

Needing one more fish I re-drifted and hooked up again!

Ended up being a Hapuku on jig!

Was a great day on the water ............ good company cheers Craig

Gear used;

* Daiwa Megatwin electric reel

* Jigging Master Evolution Titanium 400 overhead rod

* Berkley whiplash Braid 80lb

* Super Deep 1kg Japanese Jig (Ryan)

* Oceanside Custom " Super Deep" bait rig (Craig)

* Oceanside Custom 48oz Lead Sinker (Craig)

* Esca water activated flashing light on jig

To top off a truly memorable weekend, triple hookup YFT, all 3 landed.

How many were out crabbing on the weekend and came up empty ??

Bloody stinkin hot weather not a size bluey to keep for a feed.

Interested to hear those that got some and those that did not.

Triple hookup of maccies had us on our toes yesterday. Was not the only triple hookup of the day.

Hi Guys and Girls, just want to let you know the crab season started slowly for us this morning.

Nets in the water at 6am.

Started at Sulfur Bay 3 pulls crabs Zero

Back to Mengles 2 pulls crabs Zero

So over the side for a tow around and scraped up two just size blues

If we jumped in at 6am instead of drop netting probably would of got a few.

But looks a bit early ATM

Cheers

Friggen insane day today, capped off with a few Seriola to top things off nicely:

- Hippos (Sambo) on 40 lb

- Hippos on 80 lb.

- Lalandi (Kingie) on 20 lb....yep, pretty lucky!!

- Bigger model was unstoppable on 80 lb, a nice cakra jig is swimming around somewhere behnd Rotto.