Hey all,

Drove the boat and family upto Shark bay for a couple of days R&R and had an absolute ball.

We fished in close and caught plenty of fish. Sad to say that the missus landed the fish of the trip a beauty of a Bluebone.

We also caught plenty of Black snapper & Cod and my oldest boy landed his biggest fish to date, a really solid Gold Spot

Cod. Was also Plenty of School Mackeral around but really hard to get them to take a bait or lure.

Almost had a Manta ray almost sink my boat, it decided to launch out of the water about 1.5 metres from the boat, the thing was atleat 2.5mtrs

wide, scared the shit out of us.

Cant wait to get back up there.

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 7am launch from Mindarie, 5 min wait at the boat ramp with some big trailers parked up, many of them worth more than the tinnie that I would not sell for my entire collection of testiculii (being two).

1.5ks's from the boat ramp, admiring the procession of spectacular craft powering out on such a fine day, stopped inside the reef and well away from the 20-odd other boats there and drifted around only to bag out on squid. And one cuttlefish.  Pinger jokes were flying like berley, I am adamant that there was a Bertram 45 following me for at least 40 seconds. If I see him again, I am going to climb on board and delete MY spot from his gps.......

Colours used were whites and a green/red. Any of the big weed patches produced and some were big, 2Kgs of clean tubes.

Saw a couple of blokes standing on staggies !! Classic, yaks and all. 

Berin

After some good fishing on friday a quiet one at home pickling some occos sounded good. Headed down to mangles for a shore based occy hunt and bagged twelve between two of us. Time to fire up the pressure cooker. Kids go crazy now about what comes home in the eski!

 Fishing around Geraldton at the moment for mullaway has been outstanding, behind the lives is producing good numbers each night, now that I have moved north of town I have been hitting drummonds Cove with a lot of success. in the past three months I have caught sharks, large tailor, a 5.6kg snapper and mullaway From between 9 and 16 kg on regular bases. Mullet is my chosen bait and tonight was know different at the beach at just before 6 and after the second cast a solid hookup, 16kg mullaway flapping on the beach 10 minutes later, packed up home fish cleaned sitting in the lounge relaxed by 8 pm. Will post some pics soon, bloody wife refuses to take picks " it's just another fish blar blar blar" returns inside unimpressed. 

 Albany salmon has been going off! Been catching at least 15 salmon within 2 hours and plenty released,  when they come around everyone hooks on, if your planning on going down nows the time, all salmon caught on lures.

Hi all im new to this website and i was just woundering if any one could help me out. I have been fishing many times before except i havnt been landbase for your bread and butter fish for quiet a while now. Does anyone no were the herring, garfish, whitting or squid are bitting at the moment? And how have u guys been catching them. Im also looking to only fish around the Fremantle area up to cottesloe and down to woodmans point.

Cheers Mike

Just out off Capel river in 14m. Knocked off a few jackets, but only one of size. Moved a mile and found another spot and picked up the three in 5 mins.

Christo's one man army

Looking forward to getting away for Easter as I'm sure most of you are!  Heading down to Mandurah this arvo, so here's hoping the fishing turns it on for us and everybody makes the most of the top weather we've coming for the next few days.

Love fishing the waterways of Mandurah, so here's a few pics of a few Bream me and my young bloke have caught and released from the outlaws jetty on the canals!

All the best for a safe and enjoyable Easter with plenty of tight lines!

Regards

Wazza

* Sorry looks like ya gotta click on the image links to get the pics to come up  :/

Well our Abrolhos Is live aboard charter planned since Oct 12 has finally come & gone all too quick unfortunately. Though considering we planned so far in advance we nailed it weather wise as we were advise March/April is generally a sound bet for good weather or as good as the Gero region gets. So we board Top Gun II Saturday arvo to met Aldo and his crew & then off to a local pub to meet the team over a few ales which our team decided to continue on with the theme for a while. Anyway we motored out of Gero early Sunday morning with a couple of sore head with all the excitement of the previous evening, which soon passed as we headed west in flat conditions.

Within a few hours the island were in sight and skippers call “lines down in a hour” had us all heading for our rods to gear up and conditions only got better. We had certainly heard that the Abrolhos group of islands held its fair share of baldies & pinkies, but fair suck of the sav they were everywhere. Every drop amongst the team ended in a quality fish landed, drops like this in the metro would get you excited but after the 1st day will had all the baldies & pinkies you could hope for.  Brock O pulled in the pick of the bunch of the snapper & Brendon getting a better size baldie.

Day 2 – seen us head out behind the islands and fish the 50-60mtr depths to try for the other well publicized species the Abrolhos is known for and as if on cue they made their appearance all bar one noticeable omission the Dhuey. Ol’mate Jeff Young fresh with spin stick combo bought 48hrs earlier at Oceanside, certainly put the combo through its paces and didn’t disappoint with a 75cm trout hitting the decks. Jeff wasn’t done there, boating a double header of cobia soon after with one returned & one for the esky. Brock was also leading the way with the drift baits on his light gear, which the pink snapper just loved. Brock did have his chance of out doing Jeff this day when hooked into a decent yellow tail kingie only to drop him close to the boat.

Then my brother chimed in the first decent Spangled Emperor, the condition couldn’t be scripted any better with the swell continuing to drop to a 1mtr and the wind struggling to reach 8kts. The usual suspects of baldies, pinkies and an endless supply of Chinaman Cod were brought aboard, but by the end of the day we were content with we caught kept & released. I don’t need to reiterate how good freshly caught pinky fillets are cooked on the bbq, with a squeeze of lemon you can figure the rest.

We did a little snorkelling that afternoon back when on the mooring, awesome coral to snorkel around but the crays were proving hard to pull out of the coral fortresses . Thank god we brought a couple of pots for insurance, we desperately need to find some limestone ledges for easier extraction.

Day 3 – Seen us work towards the northern group of islands and again fish the 50-60mtr marks and again we woke to good conditions. But word had spread amongst our team, that we’re into day 3 without any sign of a Dhuey landed. Though we thought the previous day Brendon dropped a good one, but he dropped a sh#t load that day & by calling it a dhuey he was clearly trying to save face. It was almost like Aldo had the ace up his sleeve for such an occasion as our first drift for the morning resulted in Brendon boating the biggest dhuey of the trip at 15-16kg. The 2nd drift for the morning resulted in no less than 7 more dhueys boated including 2 x double headers at the same, the release weight was quickly set up and a few size dhuey can count their lucky star as they got sent back down to their reefy homes. Day 3 was by far our most productive, with Spanish mack, spangled emperor, trout, mulloway, dhues, sambo all hitting the deck and esky this day amongst the usual pinkies & baldchins.

Entree

Ryan's Mulloway

Brendon’s 15kg model with Brock onto another pinky in the back ground

Small Spanish trolled up on a skirt

My PB 80cm Spango

So later that afternoon, once back another mooring in the northern group Brock O, Gaz Mero and myself jumped in and snorkelled some 150mtrs over to some fringing coral reef only to bag 1 cray and take more photos. Upon returning to the boat, Gaz notice a little bit of flat reef on the other side of boat. So he ventured 10mtrs past the boat to come across the type of ledges we’d looking for and they were loaded. So only 8 were taken for entrée that night, the rest were left as we were planning to return this mooring the next day.

You have to love live aboard charterers (thou you do pay for the privilege) as by the time we got out of the water, stepped straight into a nice hot shower & clean clothes, crack a stubbie the deckies had entrée served. Freshly caught squid the night before adjoined the crays, but got eaten too quick for anyone to care about a photo.

The team getting restless waiting for more entree

Day 4 – Skipper had mentioned that we’d reach our limit on fish and with the wind starting up from the south, it was a good day to fish the shallows and pull out the jigs & placcies. Again the baldies & pinkies were hitting everything with gusto with Gaz Mero smashing them on the 7” nuclear chicken colour & Brock O having fun with the halco jigs (which the norwest blowies adore too). We were back on the mooring in the early afternoon and popped over to grab a few more crays in the 3mtrs of water on the mooring. Being our last night and not want to lug too much gear home seemed a good excuse as any to give the sauce a good nudge that night over a few games of cards.

Jeff’s SP caught dhuey

Gaz Mero’s smug look….more crays

Ol’mate seal making his daily trip out to our mooring for his inspection.

Day 5 – forecast was for winds 20-30kts from the south, but luckily still the swell was only 1-1.5mtr so we headed south for snorkel in one of the sanctuary zones to reel off a few photo before the trek back to Gero. The water comes up from 40mtrs to 4mtrs and presented excellent conditions to take some underwater snaps, even with the most basic of cameras.

Gaz Mero lining up a nice trout

The trip home took about 3.5hrs, we finally watched a couple of DVD we took over and never watched. I can certainly recommend Aldo and his team onboard to anyone as they certainly do look after you, we’ve never eaten so well and all fish kept were looked after with the upmost of care to ensure we took some quality fillets home. The hardest part of the trip was deciding how us with wives & kids can convince our respective War Dept’s to allow us to go again next year. So thanks to the boys who came along and made it into the trip that it was, it certainly didn’t disappoint.

Cheers Boys

This is a report for all the FW members who will be heading down this weekend and going for a fish from the jetty. Bonito are still around in good numbers from the bend all the way to the end and are on the chew in the late arvo/early evening and even after dark. Tailor numbers are steady but they are not numerous like they were in Jan, you can still pick up a good feed though, some real stoinkers over 50cm have been in the mix also. Tailor have been coming on the bite from about 6 pm onwards. Squid numbers are steady, a good feed can be had if you work for it. Herring are thick at the moment with bag limits easily being reached. There are plenty of medium sized Snook around, they become a bit of a annoyance but make good bait for the herring and tailor. Crab numbers are down on the jetty, if you are after them you are better off scooping along the beaches. Two Spanish Mackerels have been landed on the jetty in the last couple of weeks so you may be in for a chance at hooking one. There have been a few sharks hanging around out towards the end on some nights, a 5 ft tiger gave almost everyone a run one night last week. There has been a heap of rays hanging around so try and avoid the bottom.

That is all for now, have a safe long weekend, tight lines and enjoy.
 

 Has anybody caught or heard of any mulloway in the river lately? Land based or from a boat or is it too late now?

Hoping to do a long night out over easter.

Cheers 

Brendon

lost pretty well all the Abrolhos pics from the Labour long weekend due to Iphone drama, but heres about the only one I still have!

Less than a week till Easter and still very little talk about Salmon. Will it be a non event this Easter? Any thoughts or reports/sightings please share.

Went for a quick flick at a jetty up past the narrows this morning in hopes of a last chance at a GH, as usual someone had left all their rubbish all over the place. Dead blowie's, macca's wrappers and beer bottles all over and along side the jetty. They even created two new artificial reefs out of shopping trolleys which the little bream and tailor seemed to be already making use of. 

Anywho... just at the start of the jetty was a big pile of scale's that must of been close to the size of a 50c coin. I've got a few mulla's a bit over a metre and their scales were no were near as big as these so must of been quite a decent size.

Hopefully someone who was there is a member and can post a pic cause there definitely wasn't just one person eating all that macca's

So I headed offshore in the new tub, out to the 38m mark off Hillarys today. Ocean was sloppy, and the drift was very quick. The wife managed to pull up a nice black arse, it was very quiet other than that. Intrested to find out how everyone else went?

heard there is heaps of bonito in albany. just rumours?

took the boys out for their first run on the Whaler today. Sloppy southerlies were no match for the new tug, it performed flawlessly.

My youngest got the first fish on the boat, and betweenmany whiting, a few skippy decided to give the boys a bit of curry.

Priceless moments.

Any crabs in mandurah esturay still guys?

So the boss says I have too much annual leave apparently, and that I have to have some days off here and there.....OK then, so I grabbed my brother (retired the lucky bugger) and we scooted out yesterday morning into the mist. Scored these couple - biggest BA I've caught at 50 cm, and our second size Dhuie in as many trips at 63cm. We also had some fun with some small Samsons and YTK at 50 - 60 cm. Great day and fish for dinner!

 Hi guys,

I'm a new member and new to WA and have thus far been utterly impressed by the Standard of fishing in the Perth Metro area having come from Melbourne.  

Took the boat out on Sunday for a troll behind the inshore reefs trolling a couple of Rapala XRAP Mag 10's and managed to snag my first ever Spaniard.

Fish took off on a blistering first run and after a fifteen minute fight had him on board.  

Also saw heaps of fish slashing the surface and a few schools of small Tuna hitting bait on the surface.

Hope to get out soon and get onto another one.  

Does anyone know who won GAMEX got friens on CWIRTHY but unsure on how they went

 Hey guys keen to get out in the sound in search for a coupla pinkys. I've heard there's plenty around. Just wondering we're I should hit. Are places like the d9 or pinnacles or should I go over closer to garden island like sulphar rock or something. 

 It is really. Everything stinks and you catch loads of undesirables. I had the day off but unfortunately none of the few folk who can put up with me were able to come out so I set off solo (which explains the crap photos) from Two Rocks at 7ish heading for a couple of close in spots that have produced in the past. The sea was calm and sounder looking good but nothing doing on the squid so I tried a spot of jigging. It says everything about my technique that I only hooked up with the rod in a rod holder while answering the call of nature. Result 52cm Baldy.

A quick troll along the back of the reef on the way in looked like a good idea. Following a truly impressive strike which I picked as a mackerel in came a 70cm pinkie. Go figure!

 To the fellow fisherpersons who stole my pots( RJ0952) wooden 3/4 ...from Eglington reef this week.

What a low life u are!!

Decided to have a fish north of two rocks.
Block of mulies of i went with the dogs to catch some herring and tailor.
Cought 15 herring not to bad didnt realy try to get to many(mainly for bait)
0 tailor
8 F##k eagle rays
2 port jacksons
1 CAR BONNET.

Not a bad night but not a good night. At least i watched the storm roll on threw.

Decided to have a fish north of two rocks.
Block of mulies of i went with the dogs to catch some herring and tailor.
Cought 15 herring not to bad didnt realy try to get to many(mainly for bait)
0 tailor
8 F##k eagle rays
2 port jacksons
1 CAR BONNET.

Not a bad night but not a good night. At least i watched the storm roll on threw.

 Pulled just over 5kg of fillets off this metre long Mack.

was cruising on mates yacht weekend just gone and decided to drag some plastic.

also landed just size sambo and had two more strikes.

One hooked up and gave me hell for about 10 mins.

Had to start the motor and back up on it. 

Got close to the boat, saw some seriously long flash of silver.

Fish wasnt happy and powered off straightening the hooks.

Then i wasnt happy.  

You can see land in the background. 20m ish of water for all strikes.

South of ??????? 

My australia angler having a good 2 DAYS fishing trip with me in Thailand.

Great Monster Catch !!! Great Communication !!! Great Fishing !!!

Enjoys the supper sonic peeling sound of the spinning reel and photos highlights below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obzMCCooYM

Photos highlights..............

Super Rod Bending.....

DSC09194 by bkkguy,

DSC09195 by bkkguy

60KG Arapaima

DSC09203 by bkkguy

Monster size Redtail Catfish....

DSC09199 by bkkguy

DSC09187 by bkkguy

DSC09205 by bkkguy

 Fished burns beach yesterday arvo with a mate,we were trying gold and silver twistys,roosters and some other popper with no luck.we were picking up small herring but that was it,didn't keep any we were just chasing tailor

on my way back up spoke to a fisho on his way down and he said that it was the exact same Saturday evening,he was going to use unweighted muile last night to see if that made a difference,just wondering was anybody else there over the weekend and did they get any results,conditions were clean,no weed and no wind and just a light breeze!

all in all an enjoyable evening but no keepers!

I decided to make the best of the good weather over the weekend to do some trolling and hopefully find some of the metro macks people have been talking about.

We headed out Saturday evening from Mindarie and trolled around for 3 hours with only 1 hookup. The fish wasn't fighting and didn't feel that big so I just wound it straight up to the boat. Looked over the side of the boat to see what it was and saw a 20+ kg Yellow Fin Tuna staring back at me. Unfortunately as soon as it saw the net coming for it's head it went beserk and took off again bending my crosslock snap in the process and stealing my favourite lure. Spewing! We kept trolling right until it was dark without any luck, then headed back to the boat ramp.

We had some drinks on Saturday night so our 5am Sunday start got pushed back a bit. We eventually hit the water at about 7am and trolled around for an hour before one of the lures went off. We were a bit more on the ball and this time the fish had no chance of escape.

I'm not 100% sure but we think it's a Big Eye Tuna.

We kept on trolling for another hour or so and eventually found some birds working the surface. There was tuna jumping out of the water all over the place, but we still had a hard time temping any of them. Eventually after another hour of chasing the birds and tuna schools around we got a double hookup. We put one of the rods into the rod holder in order to get the first fish into the boat and by the time we got back to the rod the second fish was gone.

The second Big Eye Tuna:

We kept on trolling through the tuna schools for about another hour before getting the next double hookup. This time neither of us were willing to put down our rods to help the other out so we ended up using the net in one hand and the rod in the other to get the fish in.

They turned out to be a Striped Tuna and a mackie:

At this stage my hangover had combined forces with sea sickness and I was starting to turn green, we were also running low on petrol and running out of space in the esky so we turned around and headed back to the ramp.

The weather was fantastic, the water was flat as a pancake and the tuna were everywhere we looked. We finally found a metro mack. A great day out trolling.

I made a quick video showing the birds circling and the tuna jumping out the water. You probably want to turn the sound down though unless you like 2 strokes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3p6yMCKmA