So I headed down to my local beach last night and found it a lot quiter than it has been, there would've been only about three guys there fishing, rods all set and hoping for the best....the conditions were a tad average and was caught out by a stiffer than expected sea breeze. It was rather decieving as there was bugger all wind in my neck of Wanneroo and thought it'd be a pearler as I headed down. Never mind, only a minor hindrance...at least it's warm enough that when you get wet you won't freeze your arse off into the night and you dry out quickly. The surf was surging up the rocky platforms tonight as I tried out my new Richter plugs but nothing was interested...probably didn't help that I couldn't get them out too far but I suppose that's what happens when your trying to cast lures with 20lb mono (don't laugh!)

I ended up falling back to the old mulies, starting with an old 10ft Daiwa combo with a reel pinched off my old 8ft Penn that was just the right size and threw out chuncks of mulies on snelled hooks. I did get one hook up which I think was just a lost herring but it jumped off. Old mate next to me didn't seem to be having a great deal of success casting his floated mulies...in truth it wasn't the best conditions to be using floats at all. Before long he took off and I decided on snaffling his spot which afforded a bit more protection from the surging waves...or so I thought as I set up and found out that every so often it would just race up the rocks and I'd be standing there knee deep in wash. Luckily my gear sat back on the sand and there was a sort of gutter running between the rock platform and the main part of the beach so it all just poured down behind and raced around back out to sea.

The tailor which I was primarily interested in where decidedly conspicous in their absence. No big hits, no peeling runs, nothing. All I got up till a fraction after sun down was a small flat head. He managed to dislodge himself on the rocks and was carried back into the sea. After dark wasn't much better and after feeling some taps, up comes a legal sized snook. He joins the bait pile but proved to be useless later on. It's looking like a miserable night before I feel some weight on the end of the line and then it's off. Some definative shaking around leads me to think that I may have gotten a tailor after all but as it comes up it's actually a mulla that goes 48cm. He has hooked himself good, with one gang out and the the others lodged in the throat. He bleeds a fair bit and it doesn't look good but some delicate surgery sees the hooks removed and it is taken back to the water where it manages to swim off thankfully. At this point it's just past high tide, around 9.15. It's quiet again and my initial finish time of 10.30 looms and all looks lost.

Then came a hookup which I intially missed, only noticing I had something as I begun to retrieve. I allowed it to run when ever it wanted to, before the old pump and wind brought it back towards the beach. It runs a few more times and I search out any sign of it in my head lamp. It's not keen on making an appearance and whenever it hits the wash it starts pulling frantically again. Finally, after seeing some commotion in th water,  I time it right with the incoming waves and it gets washed over the rocks and onto the beach. Unfortunately, as I suspected, it was an eagle ray. Not big by any stretch but enough to put the hurt on but my gear shows it can equally put the hurt on as well. The silly bugger has fouled himself good and is mighty pissed about it. Hook removal is difficult so it's a snip of the line and he is free. I try and guide it from out the back of the rocks but it won't have a bar of it. Somehow it manages to find its way back to the ocean after flapping around pathetically. I lose sight of it and after searching up a few meters from my gear I see no sign of it anywhere and can only assume it got back to where it wanted to be.

Not long after, there is another hook up and an equally tenacious fight with plenty of line peeled. Alas its another eagle ray, smaller than the other who gets to go free but I must admit it's good fun fighting them. Just for shits and giggles, I grab the 10ft Daiwa again and grab a herring that I must've half filleted previously and set it out before resuming fishing. Nothing is happening out there but after about fifteen minutes and one retrieval in between, the bigger rod starts to bend slightly. It's not the waves doing it this time and pulling back on it there is definately something there. It doesn't seem to be in any hurry intitially so I set it back in the holder momentarily to pick up the Eupro I had quickly thrown onto the sand and clean it up. As i grab the other rod and see what's going, the thing other end takes off and is seriously putting some flex into the 10 footer. There is no pumping and winding here, it just would not turn around. No amount of pulling back can dislodge it and mindful of the 12lb mono parting, I let it have it's head whilst adjusting the drag. I needn't have worried. Whatever it was, it's bitten through the leader and gone. That gets rerigged quickly and another herring sent out but nothing was interested this time. Yet not long after (and yes, this tale does end soon!) I feel some solid hits and slight pulling of the line. The baits gone so I reload and almost as soon as it's settled on the bottom there is a solid hookup and a dogged fight ensures. This time its not a dam ray, Neptune be praised, as there is plenty of shaking and thumping and all manner of shenanigans. Gotta be a mulloway this time and it feels a good size. It fights dirty and and several times as it gets right before my feet it digs in and goes hell for leather. My headlamps spies a flash of silver thrashing about in the wash. Could it be? As it's comes up, it certainly is...my biggest mulloway yet! A grab of the tape measure puts it at 64 cm, so its a decent upgrade on the one earlier and last weeks one. Mindful of the fact that the smaller ones can sometimes taste soapy (never tried one before, just going reading) I still decide that it's a candidate for the esky and destined for the brother in laws bbq tonight. The session draws to a close after another much smaller mulloway is hooked and sent back and its clear that he has told all his mates of what happened,  that it's time to call it a nght.

Apologies for the quality of the picture, was using an i phone and trying not to get my feet in it and its my wifes so its got some stupid cover on it that makes it hard to hold the damn thing...and also the length of the post!

Hello guys ,Going to mandurah for crabs, where about is good  to drop some net and as well catch some prawns.will be good if catch any fish during crabbing.

i dont have boat,just need land base place ,so far i know near Hall park,but was not sure if that is right place to go.

Please share if anyone have any info.

Thanks

 Pulled in a stonka of an Eagle Ray of Ocean Reef Marina tonight. Was fishing for Tailor/Mullas when my 40lb braid with 60lb leader started hurtling off my spool at an alarming rate. Locked up the drag full and this thing keapt pulling like a cut bull. Ran out about 100m of line, which I then proceeded to slowly, ever so slowly, get back. Got it back in about 20m out from the rock and bang, off she went again back into the distance for a second big run. 40 minutes of back braking pumping and winding, loosing line, and pumping and winding again I got her in to the side of the marina wall... where I then thought WTF am I going to do with it? Ended up getting as close to the hook as I can and just snipping the line and she went off tired, but in good health. Would have gone over 1m in diameter easily, around 2m long in length and pushing 50kg (was FAT).

Not exactley what I was after but good test for the new graphite beach combo anyway. Pulled in another small Eagle Ray (6-7kg) not long after, then called it quits as my back was burning like a mofo 

Not a bad way to spend a Friday night.

Went out last weekend, and finally got my first Dhu for the season. I'd been out a few times since the opening and caught SFA, so pretty happy to finally have one hit the deck.

PB for me too.

Hey all

Just wondering how the el nino weather patern is going this season? are the salmon on their way up the coast or are they still way down on the south coast?

Heading down to fish anywhere along caves road that the salmon might be. Anyone had any luck between the capes or too early in the season?

Cheers,

Dave

 Anyone know what the weed is looking like a Burn Beach of Club Capricron? Thinking of heading down tonight but don't want to commit to the drive if it's all weeded out :S

 Hey,

what's getting caught from this jetty?? Been going in the  early morning  like 5am on a out hoing tide and I'm getting sweet f'all so I'm wanting to try the night this weekend anything getting taken there???? If not tempted to take a trip  the busselton jetty and fish there and come home after a few hours!!! 

Spent the weekend in the mid west freediving. Plenty of fish around in the 15-22m mark.

We got a couple of dhue's in the bag and then took the opportunity to do a little catch and release spearo style - shooting with the camera instead of the gun :)

Alway interesting  to  look at the sort of country the dhu's hang out in and how they move around lumps/caves.

Spot the dhu...

Hanging with the crays

This guy wasnt quite so lucky

Hi all, i am heading to kalbarri on friday for a couple of days landbased....anyone have a report on how the fishing is at the moment.

ta.

Hey all, just a quick report on moore river. Did an all nighter saturday night with my son and a couple of mates. Perfect night from sunset to sunrise. Slight southerly until about 10pm then a gentle easterly until we left at about 8am. Weed is all gone and the surf was perfect, just a bit choppy but low swell. Nailed the usual suspects... shovelnose, rays etc and three nice tailor. No mulla yet !!  thought that was going to be the night for one... ah well it was better than sittin on the coutch at home  :)

 Snapper season is 4 days old in 2013 and NO reports, what's the go is there nothing left in the Sound or are you guys being very quiet? (Please tell). 

I have had this Friday booked to have a snapper go for a couple of months and have been looking for reports and bragging rights, but nothing. Please tell me Cockburn Sound has not gone dormant.

please note not asking for locations just some idea of what is being caught.

Cheers Ausfisha

With Saturdays conditions looking sweet it was a choice of trolling out wide or Super Deep. Scott/Soupy (FW- Soupster) has finally come back to Perth after 3 years in Ponepei living the dream and was keen to get Super Deep species on jigs and likewise Shaun (FW- Shabba) as both have caught fish out there ........ just not on jigs!

Arm twisted we headed off in search of Super Deep species and only jigs........no bait!

I'm gonna shorten up the story as I'm about to head off down South but the boys both got their " First " Super Deep fish on jig and both ended up with their bag limit using Super deep 1kg jigs!

The Pink silver and the Blue Pilchard 1kg Super Deep jigs got the target species and the Esca Blue flashing & slow fade lights were attached to the jigs to entice more interest/fish!

Shabba's First on jig

Soupy First on jig

Shabba's Second on jig

Soupy Second on jig

I got my two fish with the last one being the biggest for the day!

The Esca and Super deep 1kg jigs being the weapon of choice!

Was a great day on the water and seeing the boys get their first on jig a real buzz.....congrats fella's

Gear used;

* Daiwa Megatwin electric reel (With JM drag upgrade)

* Jigging Master Evolution Titanium 400 overhead rod

* Berkley whiplash Braid 80lb

* Super Deep 1kg Japanese Jig

* Esca water activated flashing light

Spent the day cruising the briny off Cape Naturaliste.  Even though there were turtles, dolphins and flyingfish about everywhere it was still pretty quiet on the fish front.  Managed one small legal dhu and another undersize.  Both werent looking great when they came up and we brought them up real slow.  The undersize was sent back on the release weight and didnt see him float back up so hopefully it came good.  Got one nice breaksea as well, an undersize pinky a couple of small swallowtail that went back (not worth keeping at just legal size) and a few sambos around the 70cm mark.  Absolute cracker day though stayed offshore for most of the day and even the southerly when it came in was very well behaved.  Not often you get a full day out this time of year!

Anyone else have any success?

Hi all

Headed out to a likely looking spot that I found during a search of my charts. Set off early and as I approached the marked area, the sounder was showing me some nice underwater formations. Sounded around for a while and managed to take these few pics before a bout of suspected food poisoning started kicking in which flattened me and forced me to abandon this spot and head for home.

Will be out there again real soon, hopefully next weekend.

All I'll say is that I headed out from the Cut 

regards
rusty... 

Hi Guys,

Well it's turning out to be a great summer of fishing for us this year. Today I was able to mark off another fish from my fishing wish list. We put the boat in at Mindarie early this morning and headed north to around the Two Rocks area I think, it's a little hard to tell where you are when you are out deep. First I caught a nice little bronzie about a metre long. Nice way to start the day and wake you up. Then after about our 5th spot we noticed a big bait school near the bottom and there were bigger fish under the school. My line was first in the water and as soon as it hit the bottom I felt something strange, I thought it was a snag at first but then I felt the weight of a big fish kicking and my first thought was here we go it’s going to be a big dhufish, but as I set the hook my reel lit up and the fish was heading for the surface, the three of us on the boat couldn’t believe our eyes as a massive mako shark launched itself into the air about 6 times. We managed to get it up to the side of the boat after chasing it around for a while.  Not a bad effort for 30lb gear. It was my first mako and I will never forget seeing it fly out of the water. I have attached a you tube video, unfortunately we didn’t get any of the jumps but still some ok footage. After we let the mako go we did another drift at a different spot and my wife got a double header, 65cm dhu and 50cm baldie.  Great day and we were home for lunch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytmm4zy2rIo&list=UUg9_RpN41O9weolyypw4OuA&index=1

Got down early in the arvo to claim a likely looking spot before the crowds arrived.

Setup camp got rigged up and kicked back for awhile and knocked back a few beers.

Conditions were very pleasant, light seabreeze and no swell.

Went for a quick dip and relaxed a bit more and enjoyed the sunshine

Started burlying up and was looking a catching a few hezzas for bait. While standing a the waters edge I noticed some half descent size whiting feed in water between the reef and shoreline.

So I change tactics and sighted cast at them for a couple of hours and landed a few for bait and a few larger ones for a feed. (largest went about 34 cm) Me young fella got a descent hezza for the table aswell.

Kept on fishing for herring and watched another day finish with the sun setting.

Can't beat it an ice cold  beer, fishing and family. Gotta love this life and our country.

Fished on till early morning only one tailor about 37 cm. One run but no hookup.

Beach is easy to drive on no weed at all and the water is crystal clear.

Not to worry me son and I always a night down at the beach.

Till next time good luck Fisho's and Fishet's.

P.S. The rangers are targeting people camping and driving in the dunes, have started to block off more access points into the dunes. (Preston beach end)

If you go down please keep out of the dunes, the rangers are getting very strict on offenders.

Don't normally fish past sunset but for a change of scenery I decided to spend a few hours down at Burns Beach after sundown. There was a fair few fellow fishers down as well, mostly crowding around near the groyne...I decided to head further up away from the tangle. Played around with a Rooster popper for a bit before the sun vanished but to no avail, so it was onto the trusty old mulie on my other rod. It was damn quiet without a nibble before I gave up and rerigged my new combo with a running star sinker and a set of 4/0 gangs. Twenty odd minutes would have passed before the line went taught and the rod buckled over. My first ever hookup on my new combo...wooooo! Turns out to be a tailor and for its size gave a good account for itself. I suppose it was a little flighty as it nearly iki jime'd itself with the gang hooks!

Stoked, I kept at it firing more mulies, rearming here and there due to the enevitable disintegration of the bait from the elements and pickers before I got another solid hit and line peeled off and I chased it up the beach (ok so i exaggerate...I moved over a few feet)After a good tussle, another, bigger model tailor is hoisted off the rocks. Looks like brekky has been sorted and its just gone 9.00 pm. Then, the best bit...though I regret I have no photgraphic evidence, I get another solid hit and after a short battle, a bees dick away from been legal mulla is attached at the other end. I am sure those further down the beach could have heard my exclamation of joy. He gets to live another day and grow bigger (we shall meet again!) and understandably am buzzing over the capture and do not care if the rest of the night goes pear shaped. Anywhoo after a quiet period of about an hour I get some tentative hits so i pull back only for something to get very angry and take off on the Ocean Express. This thing would not stop and the Abu Garcia Omega 4000 i have screamed in protest and the 8ft Eupro bends at a horrible angle...no amount of coaxing could get it to turn, whether gentle or brutal...easing off it would stop and sit there....more pressure only resulted in it getting fired up and taking off....one final attempt sees a few violent head shakes and it lets go...after having stripped nearly half the line from the reel. Could it have been a beastly mulla? I can only hope so... At least the new combo can handle a bit of punishment which was good to see. Big thanks to the young fella at the Fishing Shop for putting me onto it.

 Went out for a quick flick this morning.  The usual spot South Beach, land based, over a bit of a weedy patch.  After about two hours, saw a couple of dolphins about 50m offshore froliking which then affected the biting, so packed up and came home for brekkie.  Had a bit of a slick going.

A bit of a mixed bag.  All on bait (combination/selection of blue sardines, squid, blood worms).

Not sure what the 3 dark fish were but kept them anyway .

MY

 Just joined the forum so this is my first post. New to the perth area aswell. Was out fishing on the hillarys rock wall around 7 pm on thursday night hoping to catch a tailor. Was using mullies with a triple ganged wire trace pulley set up size 4/0 hooks. Ended up catching a 7 kg ray just as the sun was coming down. Put up a great fight , hopefully catch a tailor next time but cant complain. Does anyone else fish that area with any luck? Cheers

Here is a few photos from our latest trip to Fowlers Bay and Yalata

85cm 6.3kg Mullie from Fowlers Bay Jetty

Camp Site at Bobs Kitchen Yalata

93cm 7.6kg Mullie from Bobs Kitchen

85cm 6.4kg Mullie from Bobs Kitchen

Cousins first Bronzie

Lunch (doing it tough out in the bush)

89cm 7.1kg Mullie Bobs Kitchen

Small Bronzie for Hamish

127cm 19kg Mullie PB for Trent (biggest fish of the trip)

Good Water

Dust storm coming in from the east and west

All up we ended up catching at least 40-50 undersize Mullies, a few gummies and only lost about 5 or 6 fish for the 8 days. The weather wasnt on our side but thats fishing!!

 Hi Guys,

Thought I would put up some pics from the summer so far. All of our fishing has been done out from Mindarie. We seem to be getting a lot of bald chin so far this year, we have had a couple of snapper and lots of sambos but mostly just little guys. We did get out to direction bank once over our break and we managed a boat record with a sambo that I guessed the weight in the high 30’s or maybe even 40kgs.(the photo doesn’t do it justice, I need a gopro camera) I did try and lift it but there was no way that fish was coming out of the water without putting a gaff in it and I didn’t want to hurt the fish, it took us about 25mins to land and we had it follow it around in the boat, great fun.  We have been catching a few small dhu fish but have only had two size ones so far.  we have done a little trolling because the water has been pretty warm but no luck with the macks yet.

Just seen on facebook a nice blue marlin whitey on seasport charters caught today !

Thinking its definately time to pull the big rods out soon , looks like another cracking game season 

G'day guys, first time poster but thought I better open the fishwrecked account eventually!
Bit of an old report but got these little kingys and Bluefin tuna in about 10-25m of water straight out from the cut around the start of January. They were loving the soft plastics and hardbodies, good fun on the light stuff ey. As you can see conditions were pretty atrocious haha
cheers

Well I just got back from Kalbarri for australia day weekend and what a weekend it was, firstly I have to thank Tangles for taking us out to one of his spots and showing us some good ground, also thanks to Tapout who came along aswell.... I have never seen such colour on my sounder!! We drove up Friday and went out 3.30am Saturday, a little windy in the morning but absolutley Killer after that....Less than 1-1.5mtr Sat,Sun,Mon,Tue and on Sunday less than 5Knot wind!!! Glass Off!! Saturday Morning we stopped along the coast and the boys checked their pots before we went onto our fishing spot. We got onto some snapper early with some excellent fights, me and my mate blair managed 2 over 50cm and one under who released well... I could see the other boys were having some good fights as well. We then moved to another spot where we anchored & burlyed up.... several more fish...heaps of Weiro? Cod (Never seen one before) A couple of wobby gong Sharks and a couple of nice baldies. Sharks and Cod all released. I left my rod briefly in the rod holder while I was cutting some mulies and It slapped the side of the hull bent over..tried to get it out but busted off...Should have set my drag better made this mistake twice during the trip! My mate blair then a 5-6kg Mulloway from the boat. At this stage we had plenty on board so we decided to head home and fillet up for lunch. Sunday we weren't going to go out but when I woke up at 7am I couldnt belive my eyes no wind or swell... Quick chat with the Mrs and we were on the water by 8am.. Some good fish again, 67cm Pinky 58cm Pinky and a fat 53cm Baldie..The wind swung around early so we decided to call It a day.... Next time I'll spend more than 5 days and If I get weather like that again I will be truly blessed!!! Sorry Pics are with Iphone left my camera at home...

Dhu Bashing with littlejohnny up at Cervantes. 
Lots of footage missing due to GoPro stuffing up. Hence switch to mobile. 

Dhu's like blowies up there. 

youtu.be/uUpRGHQJa0Y

 I'm new to this site and I'm looking at going fishing saturday morning saturday night and Sunday morning for tailor which I have not gone for before and I was wondering if anyone would be able to give me any advice on what setup to use and what location to fish at would be most appreciated 

kind regards Brendan

Hey guys,

Been down at Dunsborough on a family holiday for the past two weeks and tried to get out fishing as much as I could with a few limiting factors of the wind, not having a fishing orientated boat and family committments! Still managed to get out a few times though and had better fishing than i've enjoyed over the last couple of years.

The first interesting catch of the holiday was when I was just throwing a standard paternoster rig with prawns around the moorings near Toby's inlet and after catching a few sand whiting something took my bait with quite a flurry and I new straight away that I wasnt onto a whiting, then it started peeling my 4lb braid off at quite a pace and then it jumped and I thought that it was small Salmon which was lost. But when I got it close to shore and standard walking backwards on the beach to land it I realised that it was a Giant Herring, but i thought that this was as close as i was going to get to it because it spat the hook when it was right on the shoreline in about 2cm of water, but my Dad who was fishing about 15m down the beach sprinted over and grabbed it out of the white wash and we measured it in at a healthy 59cm. Was quite a surprise to catch one because I had never seen one before let alone caught one, but i was stoked!

A few days later we decided to head out on the boat, which again is more a day/ski boat so we are restricted to flat days with small swell etc (however we are selling ASAP and getting a fishing boat). We headed to about the 18-25m depth off Meelup, Eagle Bay and Bunkers and trolled 3m divers and the water looked very fishy, and this feeling was right, we regularly caught Bonito which put up a very good fight on 15lb braid in about the 40-55cm range. The most intriguing catch whilst trolling these areas was a Sambo when we were in ab out 25m of water, it is quite odd to catch Sambo's whilst trolling? However on the lighter gear this 10kg-ish Sambo put up an excellent fight.

Mixed in with this was a variety of all your bread and butter species! But the fishing was almost over shadowed by the amazing numbers of baitfish that we could not only see on the sounder, but we could actually see from the boat, there were hundreds of thousands of baitfish off Rocky Point and I was annoyed when i didnt have my bottom bouncing gear when we drove over schools of big fish on the bottom according to the sounder!!

Hope this helps some people going down south soon....

Here's a little something different again.

Michael, Evan and I met up yesterday to fish Simcoe. Previous day's report suggested 4-5 inches of ice. That was what we found yesterday as well. All of us had survival suits and Evan and I had lots of experience icefishing and fishing on Simcoe. We were spudding as we walk out and test drilling a hole every so often. The ice is still borderline safe...so I WILL NOT advise anyone going out on that ice at the moment, especially with the warm weather in the next few days!

We started our day early and started fishing at 6:30am. I always like to get there early to explore the area, find the right depth...and sometimes the fish turns on with a day break bite. According to previous day's report, the bite was supposed to start at 9am, but didn't come until 12pm.

If I remember correctly, Michael went 2/4, catching his first ever lake trout and then topping it with a PB laker. Evan went 2/4 landing 2 lake trout. I went 1/4 landing 1 lake trout, losing 2 and I'm pretty sure a whitefish came unbottoned as well. I also missed another whitefish hit (so light that it came and went before I can even set the hook).

We fished until 4pm and tried to find a late afternoon bite...but a shift in the wind and a dip in the temperature probably shut down the bite.

Instead of my usual long written report, here is a video. I'll try to position the camera better next time. I should have pointed it further downward. (There is a bit of swearing in the video...viewer discretion advised)

http://youtu.be/qhkwoYihMXg

Here are a few pictures.

Michael's first Lake Trout



Evan's Lake Trout



Michael's PB Lake Trout



Fish on the graph



There's this much ice...



My PB lake trout at 26.5"







A couple of fillets for my co-worker.

Well after almost 12 months of catching stuff all after many attempts and many $$$'s, (one Taylor in Cervantes, three sharks in Broome on a charter, nothing on another charter in Darwin and one herring at Garden Island) I have finally caught something interesting!!!

Wifey and I took a trip to Rotto on Monday for a dive, but 10 minutes she saw a shadow and gave me the sign that we were heading back to the boat now. So instead of wasting the whole day, we trawled in 20m of water from Parker Point to Stragglers.

Just as we were bomby dodging and i was about to pull in my line on the inshore side of Stragglers, i managed to pick up this beauty.

The rod i got as a prezzie 6 years ago and have NEVER had a hook up on it, so i was rather pleased.

Hopefully the cursed rod is no more.