Hi all - went out of two rocks for the first time on sunday. Weather not as good as seabreeze forecasted, very sloppy NW blowing about 12-14kn with higher gusts and swell medium to high. Went out to an area recommended to us approx 17kms west of Moore river depths between 34 -37m. We drifted around quite quick fished around bottom kind of corrugated didnt really see much of interest and caught the usual sargeant baker, wrasse etc. Decided to head over to the craypot line drifted through the pots, lots of bites, squid and occy destroyed in a minute or two and got sargeant baker n wrasse as usual.. Brother picked up a bonito while he was winding up, it grabbed the hook that had the remnants of an occy tentacle hanging off of it. We kept doing drifts through the pots on about the 7th-8th drift something big and heavy grabbed my bait took off fast drag running  im yelling "you beauty at last!" then dropped it - F@#K! after a few more drifts of nothing decided to come straight in to 30-33m mark. Brother drops line over - bang - double header dhueys, one went 60cm other 40cm put him back and that was it - nothing after that. Decided to go south down to Gemini wreck. On the way was surprised to see three separate whales along the way in the 26m line. Didnt think they were migrating at the moment. Got to gemini the drift was fast and as most probably know its not a abig area. Fish all over the wreck lots of bites but no keepers. A small shark about 1.5m long followed my bait up to the boat at one point so i dropped it back to him, was watching him he just swam around and nosed it but wasnt hungry. So all in all not a great day. Brother got a nice dhuey but a bit disappointed that we couldnt seem to locate any great looking ground apart from where the pots were. Back at the ramp fisheries were checking boats and just to rub salt in our wounds other fisho's had good bags of dhueys and baldies - bugger. Anyway it was our first time out of there next time we thought we might head straight out NW deep over direction bank - anybody got any other suggestions. 

Cheers Dave

hi guys

going to to Yallingup this weekend and was hoping to get some action, are there any out that way?

cheers

Hi all

Has anyone got any news on port beach and what im most likely to catch down there at night??

Well after the olds left and near emptied my freezer out it was out today to put a bit back in.
It was a slow day on the fish and made us work for them, as there was a fair northerly current running...
On the way home we stopped off for a quick squid session and WOW
29 squid in 45 minutes, talk about going off and as you can see in the photo some are bloody good size..

 The macs caught last weekend .18 in two hours, the 4 we kept .

fished madora beach on Sunday 4.30 til 5.30 3 tailor caught  and 2 tailor lost in the surf

 Gday,

After a recent repower of our old glass dinghy we headed out today in the arvo for a bit of a bash in the sound.  With NE/N winds we ended up inside Garden Island in the lee cracking for squid.  Ben landed about 5 to my one, then broke starter cord when attempting to restart drift.  Thus resulted in redoing the starter cord minus a few inches.  Thank god for tools kit onboard.  Restarted reset drift changed jigs BOOOM now me scoring 5-1 squid. We fish on another drift or two around 2:30 - 3 with slow going only 2-3 caught. 

We have to be home for 5:30 as Ben has a young daughter. So we think we have a feed of squid, may as well try over near sulphur rock with some tentacles for snapper.  We head over and someone else was on the rock so we stopped a while off on a contour and drop in with Ben fishing light for whiting/trevs and I send down a squid and half a herring caught on a previous trip.

Baits were being smashed left, right and centre with Ben landing about 30 wrasse in 11 mt.  I still couldnt hook up with a wrasse and squid.  Ben started landing small pinkies when the big rod on free spool was picked up.  We let it go for a while, then set drag low before engaging.  Straight off not much happened felt like we had a live bait on then a few head shakes.  After a short smooth fight up came a gummy.  STOKED!

Been a long time since the Priest has been used in our dingy, I was pleased to steal a recent Fishwrecked Quote: Welcome to the Club!

Bryan

Today was a great day in which I got to take my son fishing in Augusta. We were in my 4.6m Stesco and headed out around the island.

I was teaching him how to use soft plastics and our first couple of spots revealed nothing and I was starting to question if I should have brought some bait with us. Our next spot was a tiny piece of ground and my plastic got taken which turned out to be a 20lb Dhuie, we were mucking around with it when my sons rod went off and nearly pulled him in, after a decent fight a 65cm Dhuie came aboard.

I flicked the young blokes plastic back in and it got hit straight away and in came a 70cm Dhuie, while this was happening my rod went off and another 70cm one was boarded. After successfully releasing the two smallest ones my young bloke had a grin from ear to ear and now had caught his first ever Dhuie. This spot has been marked and hopefully will produce again when I take my other two boys out and give them a chance... Photo's will follow tomorrow (hopefully)

 Headed out this morning with Mike (MJ)  Vinnie (Vinesh87) and Jarrid .Top morning fishing with some top blocks.In all a great day with some good numbers of fish.

Kept 2 dhuies,1 snapper,and a breaksea cod .Released around 18 dhuies we lost count .thanks guys will do it again .

It was a little quiet by our standards the last two trips with a reef trip that yielded 10 fish including several Spangled Emperor, Large Mouth Nannygai, Coral Trout and a couple of nice Mangrove Jacks, the biggest going 5 kilos. A couple of days later we chased a Barra and had 6 hits, 2 were caught, three didn't hook up and my brother lost a stonker at least 120 cm when the hooks pulled over 5 minutes into the fight. The biggest one went 110. the Weather is now very cold and windy so will not be out for a while.
On the bright side it's not often you catch a 5 Kilo Jack and a 20 kilo Barra within a couple of days :)
Love the bucket mouth shot!

Did my first trip out to the islands a couple of weeks back, awesome trip with some good fish caught over 4 days, weather was pretty good bar one night when it pissed down, was ok tucked up in the cab but the poor deckies got wet, will be back for sure.

 After a last minute decision to head out yesterday arvo. I ended up having a great little session, my deckie not so good. Set off with my kids onboard just outside mindarie marina to cach some live bait, since their only good for about an hour we dropped em off to mum at the ramp then headed out to back of 3 mile. Found a lump, anchored up began the burley trail. Used some tips I have got from this site with cat food tins ( works a treat!) then set our lines and waited.

Didnt take too long before f@$^#kn NW blowies turned up, but only seemed to trouble my mate Glen onboard. He lost I think 3 rigs in about 5 mins. While he was mucking about with that, I landed my 1st pinkie on a glow soft placcie. Got pretty crazy after that at one time Glen was dealing with a large port jackson while his other rod went off with a brozie on the end (he lost) while I got a pike tangled in the burley bucket all at once!

It was about then, I got hit with my 2nd Pinky on the glow placcie, this one was a bit of fun on my spellbinder 9kg and Daiwa Sol 3000. So Glen was fair cracking it by then having only able to land a port jackson, myself I was ready to go had my bag limit so was happy. We hung around for a bit so Glen could get a decent hook up so while I was waiting for him, I landed a nice fat KG, followed by this monster pinky (photo below) he measured in at 94cm but unfortunately didn't have scales on board so coud only guess the weight. After a couple of photos he released fine. Glen did manage one after that which was also released.

Went down to Hillary's for s relaxing flick yesterday. Was just chasing herring/whitting and ended up with about a dozen fish. But the most surprising part was when I hooked a little tarwhine it got nailed upfront of my eyes by a large aggressive tailor. Did the classic "chop" and was coming back to finish the job before I pulled my fish out of the water. Was very cool to watch!

Quick little soft plastic sess last night with Tim VB after work, resulted in 2 keeper dhuies and a nice pan sized pinkie.

Had half the pinkie and half the dhuie on the barbie tonite.......and the winner is......................dead heat!!!!! Very surprised how good the pinkie was.

Cant wait for tomorrow nights dinner!

For easy sharing purpose, I've posted the report on my blog. You can click on the links below to read all three parts of the trip. Enjoy!

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/05/illinois-exploration-2013-day-1.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/05/illinois-exploration-2013-day-2.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/05/illinois-exploration-2013-day-3.html

Fisherking, Voodoo and I spent the weekend at Wilbinga and had a blast.

Friday we were letting skinny Tailor at 40cm + go, Friday night I got my first legal Mulloway.

Sarurday mornng was chaos, numerous schools of Tailor coming through, once we got our bag limit we swapped from baits to lures and nailed them on everything - I honestly don't know how many we threw back, but it was a lot. Saturday Arvo and they were back again and we were relaeasing them.

Saturday night/Sunday morn around 2 in the morn, Voodoo got another Mulloway.

Sunday morning was quiet after the rain, but we still all got at least one good sized fish.

Awesome weekend fishing.

This photo is some of my Sat morning catch.

Went for a fish after work today chasing some pinkies.

Started off catching a couple of skippy then the pike moved in and were smashing any baits put down.

About eight we got one small pink and two undersize dhuies then caught a couple of nice tailor at 45 and 50cm.

Whilst bleeding my tailor my other rod had a hit with this being the result.

 Got a nice gummy and small harlie plus let go baby gummies fingers crossed one mite survive. All babies swam off fine. Some photos

Gday all - went out of Mindarie at 3pm sunday arvo just to kill a couple of hours, had half a box of squid and a bit of fuel to use. Drifted around the 23m mark west of Marina - no bites at all. Came in to 14m fed a million wrasse and caught two breaksea cod just size then ran out of bait. Saw birds working in 18m north of us so headed over with lures out. Baitfish breaking the surface all around a big area could see big fish on the sounder in small schools directly under the baitfish but they werent interested in the lures, Kept going over the baitfish balls but nothing. Anyway coming back reel screams and I look behind to see the rod buckled right over - you beautie! the mrs had never caught a game fish before so I said "your up" Fish just kept running she's holding on squeeling after only about 5 mins up comes a nice Sambo that totally swallowed the bib lure and measured 88cm. Started trolling again on the way home then bang another strike this one ran and ran then 0- silence - spat the friggin lure -    anyway not a bad way to kill a couple of hours.    

 G'day everyone,

With the weather looking good for Saturday 18th called up the brother in law to see if he was keen for a fish. Haha when isn't he! So on the water at sun up out from Dawesville. We've been fishing the 30m line for ages but has been a bit hit and miss lately so we planned to go a bit wider out to the 40's. With no spots in the GPS it was a bit of a recon mission aswell. 

Well it turned out to be a good idea. I started off with a nice little shark that put up a good fight on my new Stradic 6000. Then Doug hooked up just as a heavy shower came through and got soaked, all for a nice skippy. The rain lasted for about 10 minutes but resulted in the sea smoothing off and the wind dropping. I have been reading up in the search function about driftbaiting and had made up a couple of rigs. So with the wind dropping I grabbed my Calcutta and tied one on. In the mean time Doug had hooked up and pulled in a ripper Harlequin that went 51cm. Thought the water had heated up enough for a Coral Trout for a second!! A bit later after getting a couple of good runs on the driftbait but not converting, I finally got a solid hook up. After a good tussle I was pretty sure I had a good Dhu, been few and far between lately for me. So when this fella popped up I was stoked. He went 6.5kg. Doug followed up not long after with another nice one to round it off nicely. Also caught 3 pinkies to 45cm just couldn't get a legal to finish our bag. So had to make do with a Scorpion fish.

All in all a very successful day on the water considering we didn't have any marks out there (do now though). We'll be out there again for sure, it's a long run but well worth it.

Cheers

Chris

Here's a few photos from our recent trip to Northern Territory.

This poor girl was floundering in the shallows.  We went and grabbed her to find a gold bomber hooked into her pharyngial teeth.  After a quick bit of surgery and over half an hour reviving her she swam away.......105cm........    5 mins later a bloody shark was shredding her

That evening I scored this one on a Halco Roosta Popper.  Was 98 or 99cm if I recall correctly.

When the tides were right, we caught a lot of fish pushing the metre mark

I was happy to get this one using a lure which was hand carved from wood by one of my mates in SA

Another nice bessie

Most of our fish were caught on RMG scorpions

We called into Telegraph Pool on the way home and struggled to find fish, this by far our biggest here

This little fella was lucky.  We let him go unharmed.  It was interesting to see a large bungarra digging up a croc nest and eating the babies.  we could hear them calling their mum for help, but she did not show up!

 Back to work now    

Headed out early on Saturday for a jigging session off Two Rocks to some ground i hadn't been to for months.

I took three mates out to give them a day out on the water and hopefully find some fish. Most have not been fishing for years.

Got out to the spot to find it littered with cray pots which made it very hard to set a good drift. While setting some of the boys up with bait rigs one of the boys (Jeff) dropped down a jig which resulted in a nice hookup.

First drift and a 58cm pinkie. Nice start.

After that I got smoked on jigs a couple of times by something that was massive. I had my Catalina locked and it taking line like no tomorrow. The boys hooked up with probably 10+ Skippy with one being a stonker!!

Then Brett landed a nice sized Yellowtail Kingy. Not bad for his first fish of the day.

Then i hooked up on something that went really hard for its size. Not sure what it is exactly but has to be from the trevally family i am guessing. Weighed in at 4kg. ID would be great???

The call was made to head out wider to try for some dhuies but with no luck. A nice baldie and black bum were landed but thats it.

Someone upstairs wispered to me to go back to our original spot and give it another go. So off we went. Turned out to be a great decision. With the wind dying right down and it glassing off we decided to drop anchor and chum up with cubed mulies. Within 15 minutes there was 10-15 kingies coming up the burley trail. I threw jigs and plastics at them for 10 minutes with no luck so i decided to "match the hatch" and just put on a unweighted hook and mulie cube. it didnt last 10 seconds. Very cool watching your bait get slammed by a 7kg kingy.

By this stage everyone else was re-rigging their setups to single circle hooks and a mulie cube.  Jeff was next on the fish with a 6kg kingy. At this stage we also had two whales circling the boat and continued to for over an hour.

We landed four in total which was more than enough fish but lost some unstopable fish which were in the 15-20kg range. They were that close to the boat you could see how broad their shoulders were. Big powerful fish. last cast was called and Brett decided to throw out a whole mulie in hope for a larger fish and within 30 seconds wham. 10 minutes later and this miracle appeared at the surface. Typical you lend you rod to someone who doenst own a rod and he catches a metro mackie!!! 9kg and tasted beautiful on the BBQ Sat night.

With plenty of fish in the esky and glassy conditions still present we decided to head for home.  Always nice to finish the day with a smooth and quick ride home. Spent the next 2 hours filleting fish. Thanks for reading.

Well the old's came up for a visit again and I took Dad out for a fish, over the years I have tried everything to get him onto a Dhuie.
But he caught everything else but the elusive Dhuie, well that was until Saturday, we headed out early to the second bank only to have it blow up which made it pretty crap.
We persevered and I had Dad sitting on the Ice box (So he wouldn't take a fall) while I baited he's hooks and got him set. We fished for a few hours catching a couple of Baldies and I also got a Dhuie.
We had shifted around a few spots and was starting to think about heading home when Dad gives a grunt and the rod bends.
The end result was a nice eating size Dhuie and He couldn't be happier to cross that one off the Bucket List...

I just got back from two weeks in Coral Bay, it was my first time up there with the boat so I think we done pretty well. The weather was horrible for the first week so we spent our time drinking and fishing from the shore and drinking. After much anticipation we managed to get the boat out a few times in the second week when the wind died down. I managed to catch my first cobia, red emperor and ruby and there was a lot of firsts for the other boys aswell. The only disappointing part was when the pub ran out of Captain Morgan.  Anyway im a man of few words so here's the photos.

 Went out for a quick fish with the old man in the exmouth gulf today, got some 5 nice sized squid and 1 small one. not bad for an hour of fishing !

Cheers Joel

Hi

Hit the 'hale road reef system' today (for the first time). Got busted off by something big on the snapper gear, so must have been something decent, maybe a big sambo. Usual wrasse and junk.

Managed this KGW, and also a PB at 58cm.

KGW is waiting patiently wrapped in foil at the moment!

Cheers,

Alex

 18 macs in three hours vid and report soon .And no not at the Abrolhos

Love love love squidding. Caught several small to medium ones in the Sound today. Using some new Daiwa jigs and they are amazing!  Also came across a few cuttlefish which was imteresting. You really can't beat a day squidding. 

 heres my first lb snapper from a few weeks back, you can tell from the photo were it was taken