Hi all,

I dont want to sound weird but can you guys reconmened if this sat/sun will be a good day to go for a fish on the boat?

Winds

Easterly 15 to 20 knots.

Seas

1 to 1.5 metres, increasing to 1 to 2 metres during the morning, then decreasing below 1.5 metres around midday.

Swell

Southwesterly 2 to 3 metres.

Sunday 21 July

Winds

Easterly 15 to 20 knots turning northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the morning.

Seas

1 to 1.5 metres, decreasing below 1 metre during the morning.

Swell

Southwesterly 1.5 to 2.5 metres.

Please let me know what you think!

Thank you

 Went down to Sth Trigg last night to brave the cold and chuck in a line. First tailor was caught at 9pm and was a nice fish , around 70cm, which is a PB for me !!

Second fish 10 pm , a slightly dissapointing 55cm.  Nice to come home with a feed and only 5 mins from home. Sweeet.

Went out this arvo and got a few pinks.

Mate also got a 49cm dhuie and a few undersize pinkies,40-45cm.

Anyone have any luck after the storm?

I fished before it at Mindarie rockwall for no resort. Also went out today, to Mindarie and then Hillary's for no result. Also spoke to a few fisho's at both locations and nobody had any luck. Mindarie and Hillary's were plagued by tiny blowfish during the day (today). My big baits were getting hammered in about 2 minutes. Threw out some small hooks to see what was around, and ended up with about 20 blowies in about 2 minutes. To give you an idea of how thick they were I got 2 double headers on the 1 hook! 2 blowies on 1 long shank, what a rank site!

Going down to e shed tommorow and wondering if the scalies are in and if any mullas ae being caught \

or if there is anything stilll happening in the storm

It has been approx 12 days since my last post and only because of no coverage.

But this time has not been wasted, as we have been driving, sightseeing, camping, setting drop nets, chucking lures and of course live baits.

Below is a few pics of the spoils on the Gibb River Road... Enjoy

Pesky lil Buggers..

Some very Nice "Cherry Bums"   Cherabin

Couple of Hooters, managed 12 in total so made an excellent entre.. Yummo

and Last but not least, This bad boy was caught last night on a live bait, and it was the biggest 1 of 3 that I caught (70cm), 2 were released and 1 was filleted and released.. ;-) (Gotta to keep the crocs well feed and in good condition)

Hi All,

Anybody know the weed sitaution at Yanchep? lagoon/club cap, thinking of doign a decent session there tomorrow.

Cheers

 Anybody know the weed situation at preston? I imagine its pretty bad atm?

 Was thinking of going for a fish in mandurah over the next few days and was wondering what was on the bite.

 Went out with a mate for a afternoon squid for a couple of hours in the warnbro sound,

headed out about 2:30 and had great success just before sun down with 9 squid, 7 out of the 9 were massive squids.

never have caught so many horse squids at one time :)

Got down to Dunsborough last week and managed to get out in the dinghy with the squid jigs, pretty much the first time I've given squiding a full blown effort. Lucky me cos it paid off! Was drifting very close into shore and got a lot of squid on a variety of colours. We managed to get a cuttlefish on the last day but we put it back because we didn't know how to clean them and as we were leaving that day we didn't really have enough time to fiddle around figuring out how to do it (how do they taste compared to squid??). As it was the first time I had caught squid it was the first time we had to clean them and by the last day we got it down to roughly 3 minutes a squid for it to be entirely cleaned and ready for cooking. All the videos on youtube showed it to be much easier than it actually was (as in how easily the 'quill' was coming out and also being able to hold onto the hood easily, we found it extremely slimey haha). Bu we have a nice few feeds left in the freezer for the weeks to come!!!!

G'day

A bag from a couple weeks ago. We have been catching 10 + red throat emps everytime we go out now. Most of them are 35-45cm with a couple coming in slightly bigger. It is a shame that they count towards your demersal bag, but a really tasty fish to eat regardless. Anyone else catching heaps of these guys? I'm surprised that the size of them is generally quite good (most towards to 45cm mark), and they actually put up a spirited fight early on.

Not an amazing bag size wise, but a really good one on the tooth. Pink snapper was no giant by any means at ~55.

Finally got a decent Bass out of Canadian waters. Probably my last fishing trip in Canada so really stoked. Dirty bloody fighters these things are. Some awesome acrobatics to start with then straight into weeds and sticks, was sure he would bust me off, could feel the line going through some heavy cover....

Gday All,

Just a quick one on last friday - the forecast got it wrong, was meant to be a easterly but ended up being a howling Southerly which chopped everything up. an old fellah came back in as were going out in his tinny, was not happy at all with the conditions in his little tinny.

So decided to go to the old faithful Hale road - suprising not many wrasse around, just got a couple of Sambos and the usual skippy that kept us busy most of the day, nothing special but a couple of pics below, the second one was me loosing something a little different i think, had a couple of inexperienced deckies on board (POMS from work), didnt get there lines up quick enough tangled and snapped - they proceeded to tell me later after a few beers that i gave them a spray about it haha - but was alot bigger than the sambos that were around, was not happy.

hoping the weather is a little better this friday so we can head up to two rocks again and get some good fishing in.

Cheers all

The bar at Guilderton finally let go last night, only one fisherman there at 6.30 this morning, should be good.

Thought I would put up a few pics of a quick trip to Karratha with me and 3 mates. The trip up was slow with 4 of us in a Craptiva - taking 21hrs to get there towing my 5m Quintrex. Once in Karratha we loaded up with fuel and beer and headed out to Withnell Bay where we launched and spent 4 nights camped up the top of Flying Foam Passage. Over the next few days we found heaps of Saddletail and good Trout bottom bashing, and Macks were everywhere, but they were getting smashed by sharks most of the time. We had a 10ft Hammerhead hand around the boat for about an hour, and got some good footage of it. The species caught for the trip were: Trout, Saddletail, Small Mouth Nannagai, Tuskfish, various Cod, Chinaman, Shark Mackeral, Spaniards, Mack Tuna, Rainbow Runner, Morwong, Golden Trevs, GT's, Blurter Tevs, Various Snapper / Emperors, heaps of sharks, and probably a few others I cant Remember... I was also a bit slow with an in-swinger playing Spud Gun cricket, which copped me in the sunnies.... We had great weather for the whole time we were up there, but it was a long 25.5hr trip back, doing 60 - 70k/hr for most of the night due to Roos / cattle.... I will try to edit some footage and put it up at some stage...
Drew

I was privileged to have caught Sambo from the beach at Tims Thicket in July last year (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/samsonfish-mandurah). Having spent a good number of weekends on the boat it was time to get the sand between the toes again and we decided to head off to Preston Beach as we had heard of Salmon being taken from the beach at this venue.

Mate Nic, his wife and my missis and I left Perth on a cold winter’s morning (Sunday 7th July) and set off to Preston Beach. We arrived at this sleepy holiday town as the sun was rising and the temp gauge indicated a fresh 2 degrees. After letting the tyres down to the desired pressure we drove the 30 minutes down the beach to our favourite spot on this stretch of sand. It did not take long setting up our rigs and we were soon into the Herring and Whiting. I decided to swim one of the Herring on the 4m Purglas Executive 10-20kg rod which has a Daiwa Sealine SL50SHB loaded with 24kg Big Game line. I had casted an 8oz grapnel weight to a distance of about 110m before swimming the live Herring down the line. The other rig which I use to target game fish is a smaller and lighter 3.9m Truflex rod has a Ambassadeur 7000i reel loaded with 25lb Maxima line on it. Instead of swimming the bait - I casted half a fresh Herring to a distance of about 60m. Both the rods were placed into tubes and the drags set as light as possible - mainly because I had lost a brand new rig at this same spot a couple of months earlier (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/gear-gone-swimming-preston-beach).

After about two hours of fishing Nic caught a decent Salmon and I decided to use the lighter game fish rig to target Salmon on Mullies. As I approached the rod to rebait the tip of the rod suddenly had three massive knocks and the reel started screaming. I pulled the rod from the tube and tightened the drag as the two snelled 4/0 Gamakatsu hooks penetrated the fish's mouth. The immediate reaction of the fish was to strip off about 50m on its initial run. The net result was me sprinting down the beach trying to retrieve some of the fast disappearing line. After the initial run the fish changed direction and took another 50m of line before I managed to stop it and turn its head. As this was happening my heavier rig took off and Gail wrestled the rod from the tube whilst tightening the drag to set the 8/0 Gamakatsu circle hook into the fish's mouth. Gail battled to lift the rod from an almost horizontal position and I recommended that Nic assist her as I could see that I would be spending quite a while on my fish. The fish on Gail’s rod took almost all the line from the reel on the initial run and she soon had only a very few turns left on the reel. This forced her to fully tighten the drag as the fish continued stripping line from the reel. Unfortunately all the pressure caused the trace to break and Gail lost one massive fish.

After about 35 minutes I eventually managed to bring the fish into the shallows where Nic masterfully put the gaff into its mouth and so landing it with the least amount of damage. I was over the moon with my second decent Sambo from the beach and after a couple of quick pics had it back in the water to revive it. The Sambo was exhausted and it took a good 20 minutes before the fish was re-energised sufficiently to swim off on its own.

The length of the Sambo was 113cm which puts it in the 20kg class.

See the complete episode at http://youtu.be/MaulA9Jl6Pg

Anybody interested in this method is welcome to mail me at

Just thought i would throw a few pics up from the recent trip to Exy. We got some pretty average wind weather while we where there but still managed to have some fun.

Trout Jigged up from the islands. Got bricked by a few bigger ones.

Toona on light gear in the gulf. Stradic ci4 with 15lb braid and a t-curve revolution rod.

54cm queenie on 4lb of the jetty out front of our house.

Found a school of golden trevs and then the sharks moved in.

Found them again a couple days later with out the sharks. Great fun on light jig gear.

All in all it was a good trip. All fish where caught on lures, jigs or plastics so was good learning curve.

Quick trip to cott groyne, good fun on light gear, pics of before and after

There is some good size Tailor going off around some of the metro beaches lately!!!!

Towed our boat up to Jurien Bay for a few nights. Fished the bank outside the islands and had a great time. Unfortunately, I didn't catch a size snapper or Dhuie, hopefully next time. Might need to work on my skills a bit. I hooked up and then quickly passed on as the reel started screaming what turned out to be a 1.2 metre Sambo!

Went out yesterday from Two Rocks for some more demersal jigging and had a great day despite the weather forecast being wrong!

Good mate Frank came out on my boat and despite the fast drift and sloppy winds/conditions we got fish. Ended up bagging out on Dhufish and breaksea etc!

The Daiwa Pirate and Eupro Pirate jigs working very well yesterday and especially with the fast drift. We had a few assist being snipped off late in the day and one of my metal jigs came back with fang marks ...... mmhhhhh macky's?

Dropped down my pirate jig and within seconds I'm on ....... the fish put up a great fight on PE3 spin and had my new JM Fallings UL rod buckled over. After some fast runs and circle work under my boat I neally had it landed (few close moments near prop) but Franky did well with the gaff and the macky was boated .......... getting that on jig made my day =)

Shit conditions indeed but ended up with quality fish on jig and great company Frank ......... cheers for getting a good pic also mate

Franks biggest Dhu for the day!

My Macky on jig!

Gday All,

Just another installment of a report if you can call it that.

After me pss farting around all week about where i was going the decision was made to head to Two Rocks after i spoken to resident guru Paul G about the conditions and possible ground to go searching - Thanks for your help Paul.

So after me and the another forum member (jigking) purchased some bling during the week  (me a sustain 10000 with Tcurve and the JigKing with the ultimate mouth drool combo of stella 5000 with a fallinga limited jig rod) - and both the mrs completly off us, the jigKing more so with the threat of the water breaking anytime, we give it the she'll be right attitude and of we went.

looking forward to getting our new combos severely worked over we sounded around but not much flare ups all day, just settled on some reefy bottom, ended up getting a size dhuie on bait and on the 5 buk combo which was funny, plenty of Sambos and a nth west blowy which was built bigger than a brick sht house, there must have been some missiles out there because my mates stella and rod were buckled before he was snapped or the hooks were straigtened, i got to feel the power as one of them almost pulled me overboard. Was dirty on me not getting a hook up on the new combo.

The end of the day came and with us already being in the shit from the other half we thought we would dig ourselfes a little bit further in and decided to pull up close in crack a beer, cran the stereo and lobb a muley out, as usual the 5 buck combo came the party again and we had some fun with some undersize snapper, all in all good day out, great weather, good beer and few laughs.

PS - still chasing my 10kg plus Dhuie

couple of pics below but nothing special.

Cheers All Dan

Headed out north of river for a fish today with TimVB and Dean, who answered a deckie call on FW last night. Nice fishing with ya Dean, you did very well mate and it was a pleasure to fish with you. 

Hopes were not that high given the fairly fresh easterly, and white caps greated us on the 3 mile so we stuffed about in close then found a small lump with a nice show that yielded 4 dhuies, 2 oversize, one kept, which was Deans first size dhu. Well done buddie.

The wind dropped and the decision made to head wider, but we never made it.....we were still in close and only went several km before we hit a small lump with a LOT of sambos on it. IT was immediately obvious on the sounder they were sambos, and there we stayed for the next few hours catching and releasing well over 40 sambos........

I dropped PE2 down first....fail! Bricked straight aways so upgraded to PE3 and hooked up immediately.

Not huge but a sign of things to come.....

Dean then get his first sambo, tim hooked up in the background.

From here on, it was tripple hookups most drops, most fish hooked up within a few cranks. A mix of ambers and sambos.

Then they started getting bigger.

And bigger......

The day finished with two fish getting bitten off, then a pharken huge great white crruising past the boat, apparently saying thankyou for the free feed. AWESOME sight, thing was like a tank!

All in all a great day with Tim and Dean, and nice to get some very early sambos in shallow water and in close.

Well I had said to Paul G the other day that I am not leaving Telegraph pool until I catch a Barra, well today was the day.
I put a spread of 3 lures out the back and worked the deeper areas (Max 3Mtrs) had been going for a couple of hours and we had 1 strike but lost that after 10 seconds hooked..
We persisted and bang I was on and this was the end result..
Water temp is 19 Deg C and with the rain this year the water is all fresh water at the moment.
So I would say we were lucky to get one... Persistence does pay..

At the end of the day we cranked the fire and cooked the fish... Yummo Delish

For the sake of my sanity and ease of sharing, I've put the report up on my blog so I can centralize everything and simply share the links for easy posting. It's so much easier for me to copy and paste a few links instead of posting multiple long reports on over 10 different forums. Please visit it to read the adventures.

Day 1

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/lazy-days-wild-nights-u-betta-belize-it.html

Day 2

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/lazy-days-wild-nights-u-betta-belize-it_26.html

Day 3

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/lazy-days-wild-nights-u-betta-belize-it_27.html

Day 4

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/lazy-days-wild-nights-u-betta-belize-it_28.html

Day 5

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/lazy-days-wild-nights-u-betta-belize-it_29.html

Day 6

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/lazy-days-wild-nights-u-betta-belize-it_30.html

Day 7

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/07/lazy-days-wild-nights-u-betta-belize-it.html

Just one of the big Lizards floating around telegraph pool. They are not the slightest bit scared either. Seen another one today and I swear it was 12foot in length..

Went out off two rocks a couple of weeks ago and had a nice day on the water.

Left early to be greated by 15-20 knot  North easterlies (5-10 reported) just out past the three mile mark. With the weather as it was it was decided to look for some new ground in closer than our deeper drop plan. Jigs and bait were the order of the day and after stumbling accross a lone cray pot with a nice 2m bump on it up came a 7 kg Dhu on my pirate jig (NO BAIT ATTACHED TO ASSITS MR HART).  Nice start to the morning , always good to know the esky will not be empty for the trip home.

For the next 3 hours we raised only 2 undersize pinkies , 4 undersize dhuies and a heap of redthroat. The decision was made to go huning again for some more ground and as we headed in closer the weather got better and better. To the point where 5km inland from our original destination it was completly glass. We searched for a while the found a few marks on the sounder so lines away.

2 min later Matt Jigged up a nice 7 kg Dhu on his new Sustain / eupro (spagetti stick). Off it went like a rocket. Good fun watching someone getting smoked on light gear. Matts first Dhu on Jig. He was a little hungry so tried eating his rod.

While Matt was fighting his Dhu, Dan on the other side of the boat hooked up on another 5kg Dhu. His PB and smiles all round. After a quick photo it was sent back to the depths.

While i was taking all these photo's Matt dropped his jig back down again and hooked up again. He maust have dropped it on the fishes head as it was on before he flicked the bail arm over. Sadly though Ping and it was all over. He quickly re-rigged and threw another jig down. Same bloddy thing happened, before he flicked the bail arm over bang. Another nice fight on the noodle rod and up came a 10 kg Dhu. Really dark colourings.

Another 10 Min past and Dan was on again. another 7 kg Dhu and another PB beaten just 20min after he had beaten his old mark.

By this Stage i was getting sick of taking photos and with that said Matt hooked another Dhu and scored himself his third Dhu over 7 kg for the day. I told him to take a photo of it himself as he can go F himself if he tought i was going to take another photo. Hence no pic. With 11 Dhuies bought over board we decided to call it a day and have a nice smooth run back home.

So the moral of the story is not to listen to the average jo blow tackle store salesman who tells you not to bother fishing in northerlies. Not mentioning any names MR HARTLESS. Give it a go and you can have good days on the water.

You know you want to read about it...



Here is the 3-day report on my blog.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/houston-warm-up-2013-day-1.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/houston-warm-up-2013-day-2.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/06/houston-warm-up-2013-day-3.html