Hey guys, currently sitting at home fighting off a nasty case of chicken pox which is tearing me to shreds.... So while i am in "quarantine" i thought i would try and read up on surface techniques for bream in the metro area.

What lures do you find are the best? what tides, water temperatures, techniques and tackle are work best for you?? I have caught Yellowfin Brumz on surface but no Blacks, something i really want to tick off this year!! (once the pox is gone of course)

So if you have a photo, have a story, some insight on the subject, whatever you have, can you please post it so i can imagine myself back in the game instead of itchy hell....

Thanks guys :)

Have a good one!!

Headed out today with a mate to test out his new honda 50hp & wet a line.

Launched from the Walter Point Boat ramp at around 11, as deepwater point looked a bit too hectic.

Headed towards the city, stopping along at a few spots on the northern banks that looked fishy.  Mostly shallow water near the drop offs, so fishing between 5-10 feet.  We were right that they looked fishy, if the blowies count as fish.  Every spot we tried was flooded with them!

Anyway we gave the outboard a good run - it purred along quite nicely, and has plenty of grunt for his 14ft punt.  Didn't seem to use much fuel either, so we were both definitely impressed.  We had a little bit more luck at our last spot - about 100m from the boatramp in about 20feet of water.  1 nice flathead at 36cm, another good fish lost about 5 minutes later (presuming another flatty), and a little 25cm flounder.  All released to fight another day.

Hope other people had more success than us!

Cheers

Tom

Headed out today with a mate to test out his new honda 50hp & wet a line.

Launched from the Walter Point Boat ramp at around 11, as deepwater point looked a bit too hectic.

Headed towards the city, stopping along at a few spots on the northern banks that looked fishy.  Mostly shallow water near the drop offs, so fishing between 5-10 feet.  We were right that they looked fishy, if the blowies count as fish.  Every spot we tried was flooded with them!

Anyway we gave the outboard a good run - it purred along quite nicely, and has plenty of grunt for his 14ft punt.  Didn't seem to use much fuel either, so we were both definitely impressed.  We had a little bit more luck at our last spot - about 100m from the boatramp in about 20feet of water.  1 nice flathead at 36cm, another good fish lost about 5 minutes later (presuming another flatty), and a little 25cm flounder.  All released to fight another day.

Hope other people had more success than us!

Cheers

Tom

nothing exraudinary but me and a mate did get our first pink snappers although they were only 10cm long. Between us we got about 13 all around that size so no monsters but was good to see so many baby snapper around just need them to grow up a fair bit

 Went down to the drain this arvo till sunset for a fish and the choppers were thick. Unfortunately barely any were size, good sign for the future I guess. But if you want to catch something or take the kids it's good at the moment.

 Myself and a mate spent a couple of hours in the tinny out from Lancelin to avoid the chaos at Two Rocks. We braved fairly average conditions early on and got out to some intersting ground in around 30 meters close to some cray pots. Plenty of bites including our bag limit of baldies and dhufish and a sambo and few black bottomed cod which were released. We saw a couple of schools of small yellowfin tuna hitting the surface but didnt hook up trolling skirts on the way in.

Been having some crabbing success in Western Suburbs end of the Swan.  Most are well over the minimum and have good yield.

Tuna heads seem to be the best bait and deeper water is the go.  Here's some pics of the biggest one.

I've been spending a lot of time near and on the Canning river lately and wanted to write a report on it's health and the bream that I've caught. Some pics too!

Also I went to PT Walter with a mate on the 11th  and had an absolute blast catching and releasing about a 20 chopper tailor smallest being about 20cm largest being 35cm. Good fun on light gear!

Back to the canning...

Saturday 5th- had a delightful little session near Shelley Sailing Club. Went down mainly to let my son and dog run around! Caught and released several bream All 20-22cm though!  Schools of Bony Herring were everywhere!

Saturday 12th- Headed off to Canning Bridge in the tinny with the intention of burning  the fuel I had mixed that was laying around going stale. Pulled up next to canning bridge and caught about half a dozen smaller bream(about 20-22cm) on mainly baits did hook one on a blade off the bridge! Good fun they go hard there and use the current to their advantage. I also got 'pyloned' by something alot bigger! 5lb braid wasn't enough! Saw some crab drop net rage also!

Saturday 19th- Went kayaking with my son on the front and noticed lots of  Algae hanging around near the Riverton Bridge. A bit further upsteam I stopped and had a walk around at a spot where the river is quite shallow and has a sandy bottom, massive fish activity here Schools of bony herring and Mullet everywhere. Decent size mullet too some up to 40cm I thing. Caught a few small bream on an ecogear sx40. I'm sure bigger fish were around. Was awesome though seeing all the fish activity in the Area

Sunday 20th- Went down near Shelley Sailing club again to let the Dog and my Son run around again(and get him hooked!!), Caught and released several very fat bream all around the 25cm-30cm Range on baits. Even my Mum came down and got into it! Saw some young fellas catch a massive Flatty in the channel also. The River was looking very healthy indeed. Even saw a few large crabs!

Thursday 24th- Didn't fish but on a bike ride in the morning before work I happened to notice massive schools of big mullet (40cm models) hanging just over the the salt water side of the kent St Weir. What a spectacle, they were breaking the surface feeding on what got washed over the weir. Literraly hundreds of them. I wish i had my rod!

Thanks for Reading.

The Dude

Hi Guys.

After years of marroning the easy way(drop nets)I thought I would go to Harvey and try snaring.

Got there with the family,set the baits and waited till dark.

First check of the baits and we spooked a big one.Second run spooked two more.

In the end we saw several but as soon as the light got close enough to see them they were off.

There were a fair few footprints on the bank so maybe they are a bit flighty,or maybe my skills just need fine tuning.

Anyway it was a nice night by the dam with the missus and kids.

Hi guys off down to dunsborough aussie long weekend, just wondering if there's anything on the bite at the moment.

Just wondering if anyone has been to Hill River lately and can give me some advice as to what would be biting at this time of year from the beach. Thanks in advance.

Crabs (the swan) and Crays over the festive season ...best crab went 65 cm claw to claw....still havnt beet that pb of 72 cms caught 2.5 half years ago......

 Has anyone gone recently?

Im planning on going at 6am, best times?

North or south side of the harbour?

Any luck with lures?


Any advice is much appreciated

Thought I would waste yesterday arvo flicking around at Garratt Rd bridge, managed to continually haul in undersized bream but punched out a couple of decent 30cm models. Unfortunately no pictures as I was with the missus and she was more keen on reading her book than taking pictures of fish for me!!

Only downside was watching a family haul out about half a dozen flat head which would have been lucky to be 15cm at best and keeping the lot. When I mentioned to them that they would get in a lot of strife if fisheries pinged them with that sort of catch, not to mention the whole moral issue with taking undersized fish all i was met with was "we are allowed to take them because we are indigenous" which i found a bit funny to say the least, but as there were about 12 of them i wasnt going to force the issue, simply made a call to fisheries who fed me the whole "we dont have anyone in the area but we will see what we can do"

Rather irritating to say the least, then when they saw me return the bream i kept catching they asked if next time they could have them instead of me throwing them back...you can imagine how well that went down!

Didnt bother with SP's or lures, was just casting very lightly weighted prawns into the structure. Was a great little session, nice and relaxing! Just how it should be!!

Jarryd

 With the forecasted sweet weather till lunch, I decided to rise early and hit the water. Up at 3.30am and prepped the boat but the deckie (the missus) wouldn't get out of bed so the planned 4.30 departure became a 6.00 departure. 

Last time I ventured out to rotto I found a nice isolated lump and tried working it with jigs and plastics but had no success. This time I sinned and took bait out and it paid off. Ended up with a beaut eating size 6kg dhuie and a sweet harlequin. Also lost a few unstoppables when my braid was pinged on the reefy structure. It was a great feeling of success and victory after doing my own turf searching and getting results. In the end it was a nice short session as we returned to the ramp before 12 just as the wind picked up. Was as great day with the missus. 

One last thing that really blew me away though - about an hour into the session, after the dhu was boated, I turned the engine over to motor back to the start of the drift. I looked over my shoulder and saw another boat steaming at me and took evasive action. He then proceeded to sound around, find the lump and mark the co-ordinates in his sounder - daylight robbery! Couldn't believe it, a sweet piece of turf and I'm being pinged already. I can now say I know why guys hate being pinged.

just thought id whack up some photos of the soapies i have been getting stuck into. we have gotten 6 in the last 3 sessions all on the light gear (8lb)

were all picked up around fremantle :)

cheers jay.

p.s if you know the location please keep it quiet

I am thinking about going down to the south coast on the Australia day long weekend. Can anyone teel me if there is any action happening down there.

I am thinking about going down to the south coast on the Australia day long weekend. Can anyone teel me if there is any action happening down there.

Gudday all. Usual night at e sheds with loads of scalies about 2mtrs down with livies being chomped in half without a hookup on my big rig. Had some youngsters constantly crossing our lines till i said i'd cut theirs if they did it again!

Someone landed a mulla about 1mtr long! Made my day to see someone that happy. Had a couple of livies left as we were packing up, so wandered down the wharf to see if they were wanted. Came across a couple of young lads with a throw net. mentioned nets werent allowed and 40 was the limit for bait fish. Turns out, apparently, You CAN use a net if you have a 30 dollar license, and there is NO limit to scalies! They had a 10ltre bucket near full! WTF?! ...so, a good night apart from that, and picking up other peoples litter

My weekends of late have been super hectic; and I was lamenting the thought of not being able to get away for a shot at snaring some jumbo Marron. After snaring my first last season; I was hanging to get back down Harvey way and hone my technique - whilst reaping the rewards of some tasty freshwater crustaceans !

As luck would have it; whilst chatting to my mate and Marronning Gun Ryan; he mentioned that he had done well earlier in the week and was dead keen to get back down there for another crack.

I'm pretty sure 'marron madness' takes hold this time of year - season open, not much moon - and a forecast for a calm balmy afternoon; a plan was hatched to hit the road mid afternoon, lay claim to some foreshore, and await the sun to set with hope of some marron action. then return back to Perth in the wee hours - hopefully not too late with a freshwater bounty !

With school holidays in full swing; the missus was happy for me to take my young bloke along for his first marronning experience - and get him out of the house to give the wife some peace and quiet ! :)

My son is obsessed with the water - so a matter of minutes after arriving and staking our stretch; Liam was in !.

I wasn't far behind him for a refreshing arvo dip !

Have`nt fished at Burns Beach for years now. Thinking of going to wet the line there on Saturday night. Any news as of late for this area.

Thinking of going on the Groyne again.

This was the result of my morning assault at Burns Beach on Saturday just gone, a place that gave me grief in the form of lost gear and those bloody wirrah cods in my only other visit early last year. Had to get out of the house following surgery on the Wednesday...all the resulting discomfort from the trip was worth it. 

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Water was nice, green and fishy. Had the first tailor inside the first five minutes, unfortunately lost one that would've cleared 50 cm (dammit!) that gained its freedom after some impressive acrobats just before I pulled it onto the rock ledge. The herring were some of the bigger models i've seen going around. Helped to break a rather depressing streak of jack shit in emphatic fashion for about ten months (the last decent catch was three black bream inside Hillary's early last year) where it was just small bream, snook, gurnards and flounder...and a tiny flathead.

Oh, this may be my first post but I've been here before under another username (Smasha...the account died for some reason) but greetings to you all once again.

well i did my first trip to carnarvon, 1 mile jetty an wasnt happy to see all these people taking under size blue bone, cod ,bream ,trevally.  by the day 2, we had enuff an made people put them back. 2 calls to Fisheries were made but no one showed up ...not one of us got a blue bone there an i dont think we ever will if things dont change. i know Fisheries officers read this hope u can look into it

 i have just spent a week at coalmine beach caravan park, anf fishing around the nornalup inlet, walpole.  what a wonderful fishing location.  all types on offer - beach, kayak, small boat estuary, bigger boat estuary and ocean.  and healthy too.  no blowies, baby snapper everywhere means that at the right time of the year there must be bigger ones too.  herring, bream (black and silver), skippy, kgw, yellow fin whiting, sandies, and flounder. sting rays for a bit of fun if you want.  crabs are worth looking for if you have the patience.

great place for the family, no matter what type of fishing you do.

 I have never fished there but have heard so much. Any info appreciated. Id like to catch some herring and decent tailor.

Whats biting at the moment?
What kind of gear is appropriate?
Will it be crowded on a Saturday?

we smashed the tarpon every morning on the soft plastics ,landing about 5 every morning in half hour before they shut down ,so much fun on the light gear, most put back, kept two for crab pots.

 hi chaps,  just wandering if there's any tuna and mackies running dunsborough way. Never caught one would love to hook up to one.. cheers Don