Reasonable conditions lately have given both boaties and landbased fishos a good chance to get out and chase some fish. With the water temp rising, sand whiting have been in good numbers on the Dunsborough flats, and back towards Busso. Dave Cole had a horse flounder smash a gulp worm but lost it at his feet. Flathead, tailor, herring and solid skippy(silver trevally) have also been readily available to the beach fisherman. Some big Tailor have been landed along the beaches around quindalup after dark. Crabs and squid have been a bit patchy, with the male crabs being few and far between. With the demersal closure being in place until mid December, Boaties have targeted YTK, Sambos, Amberjacks, KG Whiting and Tuna with good success. Off the top of the cape and down the west coast has produced some solid pelagics on jigs and plastics, but we recommend using the bigger knife jigs to prevent Demersal hookups. With an Elnino weather pattern this year, it will be interesting to see what the summer turns up, and whether or not our warm water pelagics turn up again. Best of luck out on the water, and please remember the closure dates, bag and size limits!!

Also added a photo of one of the Kingies that a customer landed on jig during the week. this fish was one of 15 YTK landed, as well as 6 Amberjack!

Just the photos for now, Cardinal might supply some words later. Sorry there's not more photos, I was too busy fishing to worry about photos too much.

Hi all

Went to Lancelin a few weeks back, took my little girl down to the jetty for a fish she had a great time over the 2 days.

Can someone ID this fish (Wrasse-Tuskfish-Baldie). I would just like to make sure as she ticks of on a chart what species she has caught.

Was released to.

Cheers

Brad

 I've had the pots in right from the start (14th)

The tally is a modest 3 (one southern, one white and one red) all size but only just.

This is my first season using the bee hive style and they have accounted for the red & the southern, with 

my pro pots getting the white. interested to see how they both go over the next month.

Got one of the pro pots stuck on the first day, so had a swim, there was a heap of cray talk going on so fingers 

crossed we get a few more.

Cheers

Chris

had the day off ...took the tinny to mandurah dropped the nets pulled them 3 times for two just size crabs ...thought we'd anchor in couple of feet of water as we seen plenty and jump in with just a glove and no shoes ...big mistake ...was viciously attacked by what I thought was a 3kg mudcrab that turned out to be a undersized female...anyone else been out ...still 6 weeks off prime time I think

just got back from a snorkel at point walter

didnt bring any crabs back but we did see hundreds ....about 5 good sized females (no eggs) and a few with eggs, didnt see many big males though

there were prawns everywhere so next time ill be taking a net

also saw flatties, bream and what i thought was a small snapper

 Set out this morning from Hillary's early, trying to make the most of the small window of calm weather.

Caught a couple of squid from near little island then headed a little Futher out, we anchored up and got a good burley trail going, I was flicking a lure around and caught my first Bonito. Father in Law was bringing a wrasse up when an absolutely massive sambo nearly grabbed it boat side, that would have been fun on his bream rod....

When the wind came in we decided to have a little troll to see if any more Bonito's about, 10mins later my reel is screaming and a southern blue fin ends up on the deck, lovely!!!

Tonight  we enjoyed Sashimi, and tuna and squid thai green curry, all in all a good day.

Was on my way to the shop mid morning yesterday and thought I'd have a quick flick down at my usual spot on the river. Well lucky I did becuase it turned out to be one of the best little sessions in a long time. Was 11am and fairly warm but the fish were happy to come on the bite and smash the artificials! Had only been casting into the snags for 5 minutes when the rod buckled over and the 8lb braid was screaming off the little reel! Was alot of back and forth and some good little runs before i saw colour and realised i was onto a small soapy which ended up going 38cm's. Was absolutely stoked to get a soapy in the local river and a first on a SP too.

Thought the morning couldnt get any better considering it was a spur of the moment decision to have a quick flick on the way to the shops and only had the bare necessities with me. Was only a few casts later and still using the exact same plastic when all hell broke loose! Some serious muscle was giving my bream combo a good workout and putting me to the test. Having to play the fish alot as I wasnt gaining any ground and a few close moments dodging the snags and I couldnt believe my eyes what i was seeing, an absolute horse of a black bream! Absolutely smashed my previous pb and measured 41cm's, I had finally broken the magical 40 mark! Didnt have any scales on me, but would have been every bit of a kilo as it was a super fat fish and thick throughout. I took a few quick pics and then spent the next 5mins swimming the fish to the watch it swim of strong to fight another day.

Cheers Sam.

Tried E shed no luck. Anyone know where they're at the moment?

Went for a run in Langa's beasty 285 Boston whaler this morning, about the only boat I was willing to go on with my very dodgy back at the moment.

After over an hour of fruitless trolling and ready to call it quits, we saw a few birds, and within second bang, on. Strange fight, lots of head shakes and dogged runs had us both scratching our heads.....no idea what it was, but nothing I had ever caught before. Through the depths I got a glimpse of the yellow tail, and after much excitement, had it close to the boat, only for it to dissapear out of site several times. Kingies dont like the boat much....Awesome fight.

Lures back in, within minutes, bang, bang bang, tripple header hookup, only limited by the number of lures in the water. The third fish busted off (only two of us on board), but we landed two nice YFT....YELLOW, YELLOW, YELLOW!!!!!!!! Yeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Langas was the biggest.

Lures back in, and bang, bang, bang......holy crap! Another tripple hookup and this time we have it all on gopro. Langa will edit and post later. This time we land all three YFT, after some pretty interesting work winding two rods in at once....... My Calcutta 400B had a heap of line out at one point as I attended to the other rod, and got to a nasty looking cross in the line near the bottom of the spool which almost busted me off if not for a strong thumb.

We kept one on released the others.

Back in, double hookup within minutes.......this is just too much!!! Then as Langa brought the fish to the boat we had up to 15 YFT following.......I got my PE2 stickbait rod out and cast out, had several follow and one hit but no hookup. Amazing stuff!

Back in again and another hookup, another YFT, another release.

Time for the run home with a cold brew and many slaps on the back, back on land before lunchtime. One of the best half days fishing I have ever had!

Cheers Langa!!!!!!!

 Hey guys, been heaps of fish getting about around my area of Mandurah. 

Heres a few pics. Got my Skippers ticket the other day so its awesome shooting out from our canal house and trolling for Tailor or flicking surface lures for Whiting and Herring :)

Cheers

I started making my own Stingers for my Whiting lures, works a treat!!

First Metro Mulloway on Lure

 Anybody know if the water temps any higher at jurien? With whispers of mackie in metro was thinking of heading towards jurien presumably if they are here then they would be up there?

Hi guys just returned from southern Oman a couple of weeks ago. Biggest GT was around 65kg. Enjoy the pics.

  Hey all

long time no post, just a quickie and will update and add photos tomorrow at the airport when im bored sh**less!

Been fishing for the last 5 days, involving 3 days of heli fishing through out the aranga atiki ( i think its called), and through some areas im not aloud ot disclose.

Had one of the most memorable fishing experiences of my life, was fishing a deep pool and first cast with a nymph through the only drift in the pool resulted in my first doulbe digit fish. A rainbow just weighing in just a tadd over 10 pounds. Was stoked! but that wasnt the best part of the day, that afternoon we came across a pool, with a serious mayfly hatch starting and had my first ever session on dry fly. While standing and watching from a far we counted 13 different fish rising, at different sections of the pool. These werent small fish, and we hooked all 13 of them (landed 9), picking off the ones at the back and mooving forward. The smallest fish caught went 7 pounds with the largest between up to 9,5 pounds. (4 were in this weight range).

we have some stunning photos and ill update the report more tomorrow with a day by day little summary.

Back in perth tomorrow, im over the rain/snow and cold weather bring on some sun and some crays!

brett

 Heard of a lt of boaties getting them, any chance of us LB fishos getting into an and where?

Thanks

Acipenser, a genus of sturgeon, are magical creatures. Long-lived, slow growing and ancient, these great fishes have suffered assault from humans across Canada. Development of ravines degraded water quality while channelization, dredging and damming contributed to loss of habitat and spawning site. In Ontario, the once plentiful Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) had suffered a dramatic and rapid decline due to overfishing. Only in Northern Ontario do pockets of Lake Sturgeon continued to survive in sustainable (and even overpopulated) numbers. Southern Ontario Lake Sturgeon are rare if not of mythical status. Here and there, reports of the odd sturgeon were caught at the Lower Niagara River, the French River, Lake Nipissing, Ottawa River and the St. Lawrence River. The simple fact that these wonderful gentle giants are so rare had us jaw dropped for what had unfolded over the weekend.



In the spring, I visited my friend Eli as he helped me accomplished my first Greater Redhorse. He had mentioned, under a quiet breath, that he knows of a fall opportunity for constant channel catfish with a possibly of a special whiskered bycatch. He suggested a visit in mid-October to “try” for my first Lake Sturgeon.

We treated these animals with utmost respect by gentle handling, short photography session and an unrushed, careful release. We used heavy gear to bring these fish quickly to hand such that they are in prime condition for release. We kept the fish in the water at all times possible except for a quick lift for a picture. In all cases the sturgeon swam away strong as soon as we put the back into the river.

My recent fishing protégé, Michael, had been quietly expanding his own lifelist. Looking for someone to share the adventure (and costs LOL), I invited Michael on this quest for the mystical creature. There were also additional target species that Michael could benefit on this trip, including walleye, sauger and redhorse species. What unfolded was nothing short of amazing.

On Friday, we left Toronto for the land unknown. After a very long drive, we finally arrived at our promise land. The weather was threatening with strong wind and heavy rain. The wind reminded gusty and the rain came down steadily. Adorned in rain gear, we struggled to fight the wind and driving rain to set up camp. In anticipation for a long night of tough fishing, gear and food were well prepared, if not over prepared.

We finished set up by late afternoon. Perhaps the Fish Gods were favouring our quest as the rain stopped not long after we began fishing. The water level had risen a bit and the current was rather strong. Our terminal tackle choice also had to consider the amount of sticks, leaves and grass that drift down this ever-moving conveyor belt of water as it flow southeastward toward the Atlantic Ocean. We were using heavy freshwater rods, large baitrunner spinning reel or conventional reel with a clicker, and heavy mono or braid line. Although Michael and Eli used 2oz sinkers, I preferred a 3oz bank sinker to anchor the line on the muddy and sandy bottom. Even so, a clump of eel grass often entangled the line and dragged the rig downstream. Since we were after channel catfish and remaining hopeful for the right kind of bycatch, we used whole nightcrawler to entice our whiskered friends. We used clip on bells to help signal bites in the darkness. In addition, we borrowed a couple of rod pod and bite alarm from Andrea for this event since we were prepared to fish three straight nights to accomplish our mystic goals. The loud alarms were our insurance policy in case we felt asleep at 4am and the mythical creature decided to bite.



Fishing was fairly slow on Friday afternoon. I started the action with a medium perch. Michael bested me an hour later with our target Channel Catfish.



Just as the light was fading, Michael was checking his rig when something felt like a snag during mid retrieve. The “snag” magically turned into a Silver Redhorse that didn’t fight much on Michael’s rig. Michael was beaming since this was his first Silver Redhorse.



Once dark, we started to catch a few more channel catfish. Most were in the 1lb range and not very photogenic. While waiting for something bigger, Michael had a small bite that turned into his first ever Walleye.



A little later, Michael was reeling in his line to check bait when he noticed his rig was not coming in smoothly. Indeed, at the end of the line was the smallest Burbot I’ve ever seen. We did not expect to catch any Burbot here and it was a welcoming surprise for Michael as he checked off one more species!



Action was pretty lame for me since they were mostly small bites with the odd channel catfish. By 8pm, my friend Eli arrived and proceeded to put on a clinic. He set up on his favourite rock and quickly caught some better channel catfish in the 2-3lb range. At about 10pm, he had this knowing but relaxed stance as he held the rod in hand to sense a steady, vibrating bite. When the hook set finally came, the rod doubled over and a great fish surged. Somewhere in the darkness, we heard a sizeable breach as the fish identified itself. Yes…this is our target “bycatch”. Michael and I held our breath as the mythical creature soon came to colour in the shallows. I had the honour to tail this wonderful juvenile, being careful of the sharp scutes on the tail and back of this young specimen.



Michael and I were hopeful about our prospect. Every strong bite we received appeared to be the “right kind”, but we were disappointed a few times when channel catfish revealed themselves. Eli, being the sturgeon whisperer that he is, hooked up to another mythical creature an hour later. This fish jump in the distance and we already knew it was bigger than the last fish. However, when the fish jumped close to shore and sounded like an air dropped cinder block, we knew this was no baby.

Wow! This one is just about mature.



We started pestering Eli for information. Were we missing some subtle technique in bait presentation? Were we fishing at the wrong depth? Should we aim for a certain structure in this large flow body of water? Apparently, Eli said it was just a random shot of luck. Somehow, after the entire weekend, Michael and I still cannot be convinced that it was dumb luck.

At about 11:30pm, Eli had to leave. Michael and I stayed behind and got ready to settle in for the long night. We had a scattering number of hits where most were small channel catfish. It was not until 1am when Michael received a sizzling run and a confirming jump. Yes! Michael had accomplished a feat of mythical proportion!



To be completely honest, I was a little jealous. Before this trip, Michael and I agreed that whoever caught the first sturgeon would relinquish all future bites to the unaccomplished angler, such that our cooperative fishing aimed to maximize our respective chance for each of us to catch this wonderful creature. Now it was all up to me to man two rods.

A couple of times, slightly bigger channel catfish would get us excited. There were even ones that would thrash on the surface and had us fooled.



We were planning to fish the entire night. However, rain and lightning soon spoiled our party and we had to pack and sat the storm out in the truck for an hour. Well, we took the opportunity to get an hour of shuteyes.

Return back to the shore at 5am, we continued to catch a few channel catfish. Again, these larger channel cats had us hoping they were the right kind.





This is what happened when a channel catfish spine poke you in the finger…dropped LOL.



Soon, the day broke and the bite slowed. I did find a fine specimen of a Silver Redhorse that made me rather happy.



This Silver Redhorse had an unwanted hitchhiker. I often say there are no ugly fish…but the Sea Lamprey quickly changed my mind.



Kind of a cute face I guess...



…but lips no one would want to kiss!



I debated whether to count the Sea Lamprey as a new species on my list. You can’t fair hook a lamprey, so you can never target them and fair hook them. But what if you had a live fish on your hook and the lamprey was attached? Hm…
By 8am, we had already been up for 26 hours except for the short hour nap. We decided to call it a “day” and crashed at Michael friend’s house.



At 2pm, we woke up once again ready to fish. We explored some areas for a sauger but there were none to be found after 2 hours of fishing. The small Smallmouth Bass, a couple of big Rockbass and a couple of Pumpkinseed Sunfish kept us from getting bored, but we were yearning for more.

Finally, we decided it was time to return to our magic land at 6pm. With our bellies filled, we set up once again with the understanding that all bites are mine. However, Michael did manage to add another new species to his list, one that even Eli in his 12 years of fishing had never seen in person out of this body of water. The Yellow Bullhead is the least numerous of the three bullhead species in the region. Encountering one is a rare event. This was turning into an even more mythical trip!



I soon took every single hit including another wonder Silver Redhorse, among a few smattering of channel catfish.



Eli once again arrived at 8pm. After setting up, we sat around chatting. Eli got up to look into the darkness as I stared skyward admiring the constellations. Our of the corner of my eye, I saw a bright streak descended and disappeared behind Eli’s head.

“Shooting star!” I exclaimed.

“Yeah, a bright one too.” Eli confirmed.

I swiveled my head toward the southern sky to wonder if I could find the origin of this celestial event. I just happened to look in the right direction when a second meteorite (or perhaps space junk) burned up brightly in the atmosphere.

“Another one! You know what I had wished for, right?”

“Haha, I think I had an idea.” Michael chuckled.

As soon as he finished his sentence, the bells on my rod shook with two violent rings and the bite alarm immediately beeped with a furious tone. The fish was already taking line out of the baitrunner on the hit. I grabbed the rod with lightning speed and the rod turned into a full arc. Woah!

I felt three big thumping headshakes as the fish ran off on the first run. Before I could even control the fish, it had already run into Eli’s line to my right. We were both fishing with braid and this turned into the scariest fight I had in a long time. My nerves were a big mess as I tried to play the fish gingerly to avoid any extreme rubbing of our tangled braids. In the dark, it was difficult to determine which line was over and which line was under, especially when the intersecting point was way out far. As if this was not difficult enough, my easing of the fight allowed the fish to run into Michael’s line. Now we had 2 lines of 50lb braid crossed with a 30lb mono. My chance of landing this fish looked more bleak by the second. Fortunately, the gentle hand on the rod helped to bring the fish close to shore rather successfully. With the tangle within headlamp illumination range, Eli and I managed to free our respective line. Michael’s line was still crossed with mine, but at least now I had more control of the fish. We were still wondering if this was a big channel catfish at this point since the fish did not jump and I couldn’t really feel the fight as well with the tangled line. Eli grabbed the net and got ready. He soon sound excited when he had first to glimpse the shark like tail of the sturgeon. With a little bit of tricky maneuvering of two lines, we finally had the sturgeon in the purse.

As soon as the fish was landed, I said to Michael and Eli “After seeing the shooting stars all I said was ‘Lake Sturgeon, Lake Sturgeon’. Unreal!!!”

Truly, I am not a very superstitious person, and wishing upon a star was often done humourously. As if catching a Lake Sturgeon was not spectacular enough, I managed to “wish” up my first sturgeon with double shooting stars. This made the catch even more unbelievable as this magical circumstance was likely once-in-a-lifetime, happily-ever-after fairy tale!



Stardust Sturgeon…my first Lake Sturgeon. (Acipenser fulvescens)…species #275 with a story to be told for a lifetime.



Simply, simply unbelievable…speechless…jaw dropped…



I was so fulfilled after that everything else was just cherry on top. We caught a few more small channel catfish when Eli almost had a rod yanked into the river. These sturgeons are not shy at all!



Again, Eli left at 10:30pm not long after catching his sturgeon. Michael and I stayed a little later until 2am for a few more channel catfish including this nice one by Michael, and I got a nice Brown Bullhead.





The next morning, we picked up Eli at 10:30am to explore a river for River Redhorse. This is a species I’ve hunted for the last couple of years but yet to accomplish. The river looked primed and according to the fishery report, good number of them had been collected in the river in the spring and in the fall at this time of year. However, after a day of trying, we ended up with a measly perch for each person. I’ll have to return again next spring when the River Redhorse congregate in the shallow riffles for their procreating events.

Eli had a dinner arrangement before he could join us for the last evening. Michael and I started early to find a very slow bite. In fact, we were pestered by small fish that proficiently nipped away our bait. If the small fish were not biting, it was likely crayfish that kept stripping our hooks bare. When Eli arrived, we only had a small walleye and two channel catfish to show for. The small fish were such a pest that Michael caught a rock bass that pulled the clicked and pulled drag. We all thought it was a decent size catfish on the hit.

However, in true form, Eli came to show us just how it was done. A little under an hour after he arrived, Eli noticed that his line went slack and he tightened the line into yet another mythical creature. There is no way you can convince me that it was just dumb luck. Eli has to be doing something right!



It was an exceptionally slow night. Perhaps the fish we well fed on Friday night and they were content. Even the ever-present catfish failed to keep us constant company. By 11am, Eli called it a night. Michael and I persisted until 2am hoping for one last sturgeon but it was just not to be. In truth, I had rather preferred it this way since my one and only Lake Sturgeon would put on more of an exclamation mark in my angling history. The only real exciting catch after Eli left was Michael’s second ever Burbot. Burbot often hug bottom and this one was infested by leeches. We tried to help the Burbot, but the leeches would not let go.





Overall, the weekend of fishing was nothing short of fairy tale epic proportion. For such a difficult to find creature, Eli had this spot dialed in and we just happened to hit the conditions just right. Michael and I were both delighted that each of us had checked off the Lake Sturgeon with a respectable specimen and I was even happier that Michael managed to catch 4 extra new species. We caught enough Channel Catfish to feel several families, but we decided to release all of them. They were truly fun to fish for, but for a total cost of under $100 for the weekend, there is nothing remotely close I would trade for such an experience for that price.

Mate and I went to our usual Tailor spot Sunday night.  It has been a long time since we had a good tailor session and both have been waiting for the weather to warm up for our next productive session. 

I was quietly confident after seeing the conditions; chilly southerly, decent swell with high tide just after dark.  My assumptions also supported by tides4fishing.com  ...But i've been let down before!

But this evening hopefully is the first of many solid Summer tailor sessions.  First fish came in as anticipated, just as it got dark!  It wasn't our typical 'hot' session where it would be a hook-up a cast, the fish decided that they would spread themselves out over about 1.5hrs. 

The tailor shut down around 8ish and we had 8 in the esky ranging from 38-44cm.  Other fishos on the other side had some big herring and a tailor or two.

I slid out a fresh tailor head as i was gutting and scaling but that was untouched. Most likely because i have no idea what i'm doing when it comes to slide baiting.  It's something i'm looking to get into this season in hope of catching my first toothy. 

All caught on my default rig of 4/0 gangs with a cork, and a running star sinker above the leader.  A little bit of weed around but has been clearing as the days go.

Happy to have finally gotten into some good tailor myself... sick of you blokes and your awesome river tailor sessions!!!!

hey anyone got any crabs yet? thinking it's a bit early yet for consistent numbers.

want to go for a dive but its a fair trek.

After 13 days at work frothing about the upcoming trip, I managed to get the last day of swing off and head down to Exmouth to go to the Montes with Bernie on Mahi Mahi 3 (Montebellos Sportfishing Charters).  I could do up a full story, but I reckon the pictures tell most of it.  I will put a few little bits and pieces in there for you guys to put the puzzle together.  All in all a most memorable trip and even though the sharks were fierce, we produced some magic fish!!  Here are a few of the best ones I took that summed up the trip from the hundreds I took.  Hope you enjoy.

The boat on one of the first drifts after steaming most of the morning with lines out but unfortunately little action:

Once we stopped, baited up, along came one of the first fish onboard, things were looking good!:

Two in a row, nice:

Double trouble:

There were some big ooglies down there, not long after this the sharks moved in and we moved out to goldband territory:

Mick the deckie holding up one of the boys saddletails from in amongst the goldies:

Ok, steamed most of the way to the Monties, got a good bag of fish already so lets just get a marlin as well:

No worries, marlin ticked off in the first arvo, lets get everyone in on the action and go for a cast at an old weather station marker:

Rainbow Runner:

Tilly Trevs:

Twas going off every cast, people hooked up every where, just chaos:

Cruising into the island after a top first day, marlin, quality reds and bottom fish and a hot sportsfishing session:

The next day started a bit overcast and with some rain, yep, rain in the Pilbara, unbelievable.  GT popping was on the cards and things were pretty slow unfortunately, we had one good gt swipe and I scored a decent goldspot:

West Coast Poppers in action, nice looking lures:

Seeing as the popping was slow we went out to do some shallow water jigging and bouncing:

Jigs were getting huuuuuuuurt, bent, broken, smashed, lost, you name it!

We had one of the hottest session I've seen on cobia, I lost how count of how many were caught, but plastic, metal, pretty much anything that touched the water got eaten:

Heading out for another popper fish we put some skipping gars out the back, well Mr Mackie decided to get hungry and we landed 4 or 5 in 3 passes with quite a few other schoolies and small tuna hooked and released:

It was the other boys turn in the small boat, they managed to land a 20kg odd GT which I wasn't able to get a photo of, after that we then headed back into the island to camp for the night:

This photo doesn't do the food justice, it was one of the highlights of the trip for me and as far as an operation goes for customer service, anytime you felt hungry, food just seemed to appear and then more would appear and then more and more.  I can speak for the crew on this one, the food was top notch and we were never hungry and I don't just say this, it was bloody awesome.  Fresh beer battered mackie frames for entree and fish two ways for main, both sensational.

Next day we headed wiiiide to the blue marlin and ruby ground:

We hit an estimated 70kg fish in the first hour, unfortunately it didn't do much and the hooks pulled soon as the tag went in, a capture none the less:

Another hour later and we had a solid hit and run, getting a good look at it, it was well over the hundred kg mark and would be getting close to the 150kg.  The photos don't really do it justice, but it was a solid bit of fish that unfortunately didn't stay connected for more than a minute as it greyhounded back at the boat during the first run:

As we were about to drop for a ruby fish in near glass conditions, along came a school of hungry dollies, smashing anything that hit the water straight away and going shy not long after:

It was then ruby time, they really weren't on the chew, but we were able to get enough to put a few in the tub:

The decision was made to stay out wide for a broady fish:

Unfortunately the weather came up to 15 knots and made it uncomfortable out there so the decision to head in was made late, which turned out to be a good call as to not ruin the next days activities.  It was also very difficult to get any live squid which would have been the perfect bait.

Next day we had a bit of a look around some shallow water spots for jacks:

We then headed to a little cave swim spot, pretty cool for the boys to cool off in:

Then it was dive time, what can I say, it was goooooood:

New PB at 730 within 20 seconds of rolling out of the boat and I saw a horse on my second dive jumping out of the boat that was a scary sized trout, just didn't have the gun loaded in time.

We then headed to the back of barrow slowly making our way south, unfortunately someones swag was not tied onto the roof and blew away, some quick swimming down shark alley and it was rescued......

Nice conditions to wake up to:

Fishing the back of barrow, well these pics tell the story:

We then camped at long for the night and had decided to fish the rigs off Exmouth as word had gotten around about the record blue marlin caught.  Spending most of the day out wide we didn't even turn a reel, it seemed it was just one of those days, that's just marlin fishing I guess.

All in all it was an awesome trip and great to be able to access all of the montes in style and not have to worry about fuel every 5 minutes.  Anyone thinking about doing a trip, all I can say is don't wait, just do it!  Bernie, Andrew/Mick do a top job in making sure you've got the best chance of catching a monster or 20, what ever style of fishing you prefer.  I got my PB trout on spear and biggest red which were my objectives for the trip and all whilst kicking back, drinking beer and eating damn good food.  Again these are just a few of the better photos I took, there were hundreds, do yourselves a favour and get on a trip with Bernie whilst the Monties are still accessible, who knows what the government will do next.

Cheers,

Adam

 got a few sharks lately, few bronzies, blacktip and a gummy :)

got the blacktip last night, my mates also got 1 each 

Took the son out early this morning before the weather picked up and we got our bag within an hour.Plenty around in 4-5m of water, nothing huge all between 35-40cm and home by 8.30.

 Hey guys, just got some video editing software and put this video together from our latest Abrolhos trip. Hope you enjoy :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hw5pj2K7ls

We will be posting alot move videos now that we have the software, so feel free to subscribe. The channel will be soley fishing and diving vids so you won't be spammed with random stuff. 
Thanks,
Jesse

Had to get out for a fish over the weekend despite the conditions before going back to work for a month. First spot we accidentally spooked a roo off the rocks into the water, scared the shit out of us, tide was racing out but he/she eventually clampered up the rocks and back into the bush. 2nd spot we had to dodge the showers and run out onto the reef while we could. 1st cast produced a nice 45cm tailor and the video below is of the second fish i caught. Try and watch the vid in highest quality available.

Can anyone point me in the direction of where you might be able to catch herring off the beach at the moment? Thanks

theirs been loads of sharks down at amo jetty recently and its been hard to get some room so just wondering if north mole has been producing any? might go down this sat

Fishing on the jetty has been a bit on again off again over the past few weeks especially with the Tailor. The most consistent fish recently has been Snook with numbers in plague proportions making it difficult to catch other species at night. I caught aprox 40-50 Snook in one session this week throwing most of them back since they are quite bony. If you don't mind eating the Snook some real monsters can be caught right on sunset close to the pylons and can be found along the entire length of the jetty. Tailor have been a bit inconsistent with hardly any being caught last week but heaps being caught the week before. If you are heading out to throw some mulies at them check seabreeze.com and head out on the nights the SW winds are blowing at 15knots or more, the stronger the SW winds and the more chop the better. Herring numbers have been down over the past week probably due to the Snook but a good feed can still be caught on sunset on the Dunsbrough side of the jetty. Squid have been quite consistent at night and have been quite large, I caught some huge ones this week while throwing mulies around for tailor. During the day Gardies can be caught out in the deeper water, just keep the burley going and they will hang around. Sampson fish are still hanging around towards the end in the morning chasing the bait fish. Small King George whiting have started to turn up on the sand bank at the bend of the jetty, try fishing for them on the Bunbury side near the first shelter. Two Bronzies were seen feeding last week right up near the first platform and I have heard reports of them hanging around for a few days but no-one has hooked them up. Crab numbers have been down but I have heard reports of them being over at Quindalup boat ramp. 
 
That is all for this report, tight lines and good fishing.

G'day fellas,

Havent posted very often thought I better chuck one up.

Managed to find a few buildup barra just out of Darwin last weekend hot and sweaty work but you don't mind when you manage to find a couple of fish.

Got one casting to a back eddy and the other one was snavelled in the creek pic attached, (just of the main river drifting in with the current) shallow tight water with a big mullet style soft plastic on good fun.

Cheers Muntzy

Raced home from work, itching to get down for a Tailor sesh.  Bagged out in no time, left them firing.  Nice feed for tonight.  Bloody lovely evening down the beach as well.