With the reports of swan tailor firing up again this year Ben and I took the dinghy out into Melville water last Sunday arvo for a troll.  We had a pretty easy going afternoon with about 6 tailor landed between 3pm and sundown.  I think we kept 5 between us for a feed between 36-39cms and released a smaller one.  It was quite pleasant on the water with a few beers and snacks, but we never saw bird action or located a school properly.  The only double hookup was when Ben had a tailor on, I retrieved my lure and cast over his fish and managed to hook one following his and we boated both fish. I was using two rapala xraps in blue and a green and I think Ben was using a selection of Barramundi lures.

We were pretty stoked to open the tailor account for the year and decided we would be back out there ASAP.

So I started a new job this week and was pretty tired so we decided friday afternoon would be a go after I knocked off at 2:30.  I had a beer after work and then my phone rang, it was Ben saying our mate Chaddie was waiting for us at the river already.  I knew it would take me an hour at least to head home, get my gear and head to Bens so I decided to tell Ben to take Chad out in the dinghy by themselves and I would see if I could get down there later.  I got home and had another beer, felt pretty tired and decided I would bail on fishing - Smart decision as you will see!

So Ben calls me at about 7:30pm, im thinking cheeky bastard is going to be bragging about the tonnes of tailor and how nice it was, Ben starts telling me how great it was, they found a school, boated five in the first hour with a few fish lost and double hookups.  Im thinking shit I should have bloody well gone! So I say to Ben, so how many did you end up with? He goes 'Well you see it was all going well until that fifth tailor got to the side of the boat Chaddie grabs the net ready to boat the tailor, but he had his hand right down close to the net opening, took a swipe at the tailor, but it bounced off the rim around the net and went nuts - thoroughly embedding the treble of the lure in his right index finger in the knuckle.'  By this stage im already laughing way out loud, so Ben then tells me how Chad dropped the net overboard, Ben recovered that, got the fish into the boat still attached to Chads hand, cut the lure from the line, removed the fish and settled Chad down, then retrieved the other lure, which was by now rightfully wrapped around the prop.  Im still laughing pretty hard when Ben tells me they are currently in the emergency department waiting room at Fremantle Hospital for a doctor to see Chad and remove the barb.  I think they were there for 3-5 hours or so and had only managed one hours fishing.

I went to see Chaddie yesterday who was looking a little bit sorry for himself, mainly because he thinks he ruined a perfectly good opportunity to fish.  Fortunately he recorded the whole 24 minute hook removal ordeal on his new samsung galaxy s3 for posterity and I was able to watch it on the big screen with a beer. I will see if I can get hold of the footage and get it up onto youtube, the hook was really in there and its amazing watching how rough the doc had to be to remove the hook.
 

I have a photo of the treble hooked in his hand, but it was sent to my phone which is giving me grief atm, the other photo is from last sunday.

The Broken Rod !!! The Mighty MAMA Toman !! By BKKGUY

When someone said Toman aka Giant Snakehead fishes are so strong that they can break your rod.
Well.......literally I really mean it. haha !!! The mightly mama toman!!!

Photos highlights....


Rod broken by mightly mama toman....
















 

Hi all,

I am gonna be making the most of a few hours tomorrow fishing the swan somewhere near burswood. Can anyone recommend any decent spots around there?

Well aren't I so glad I made my way back to Adam's Fishwrecked!

Great to be amongst friends old and new!

Two days ago, I made a few comments and, as a result, Rob H called round this morning (whilst we are both in Coral Bay) to say hello and asked if I wanted to come out for a fish.

Me+Look at Wife+She Says YES=WOOHOO - Thanks Rob!

We headed out around 10:30 with the intention of trolling once we were out past the south passage.

Plenty of "bird sign" but alas, nothing on the bibed HBs, poppers and skirts.

Rob suggested bottom bouncing and we were soon at anchor, confidently clear of the Ningaloo Sanctuary.

BE WARNED! If you go out with Rob and his two secret weapons, you WILL be outshone!

By secret weapons, I do of course mean his two youngens - they ARE fishing machines! No doubt, in no small way, to the wonderful and patient and experienced tuition of their Dad Rob.

Here's some PICS:

Rob under load with a nice GT

Rob's munchkins in the thick of things

Proud dad, proud son - NICE CATCH! - A good Trev!

A blue asure return through the mooring area

A VERY qualified and proficient skipper at the helm on the return.

Bow to the Marina entrance

Rob, GREAT to meet you, a terrific, warm, genuine and friendly bloke - mate, you saved me from going insane, seeing all those boats passing our holiday accommodation - love to catch up again, and, should you ever head down to the sub antarctic of Mount Barker I would love to share more than the one beer I gave you before you had to head off to help others fillet.

Top Bloke, top gesture, top times, top fun and a TOP thank you Rob!

Went for first barra trip the other day, with 40 degree temps we expected that things were going to be pretty decent and with reports of a few barra around we had high hopes.  Everything went according to plan, got there with just enough water to get in, found bait relatively easily and set in for the first session late in the evening.  Things were very slow but we managed to hook 5 over about 8 hours, with 2 going around the anchor rope and 3 that the hooks just didn't stay in.  The cod were just plain ridiculous for the time we were up there, just insane and anything that touched the water would almost be attacked instantly. 

Day 2 we set in for another session and didn't even get a barra run, just cod cod and more cod.  The thing that was extremely disappointing was the water temp, I sat in the water during the hot part of the day and could easily have worn a wetty where as 2 years ago at the exact same time the water was like a hot bath that was unpleasant.  After more bait gathering during the day we went and had a jack session in the arvo, soon as the baits hit the water it was on.  We ended up with around 20 and kept a few of the bigger ones for a feed.  That night we went for barra again and dropped one and landed one little rat, only one real exciting run which I'm pretty confident was a shark.  We ended up with one big shark later on and a solid bluenose thready, but overall it was pretty quiet even though we did have our chances and one of the fish on the first night looked to be pretty solid.  Speaking to a few others that fished creeks south of us, they didn't even get a sniff for 2 days, so that made us feel a little better.

We ended up bailing a day early due to how quiet it was and how many bloody cod and midgies were around, but be interesting to see how things go this weekend with better neaps for baz fishing and a lot of crew heading out.  Even though there was a lack of barra, I learnt heaps and am stoked with how everything played out and the preparation - also not getting stuck on a mud bar like the only other boat out there who are probably still there now (1.5 days later) waiting for the higher high, valuable lesson I'm glad I didn't have to learn the hard way.  Ahh well, I'm on the board for 2012, even though it is a pup.

I've been getting my share of choppers from the Swan for the last few weeks but this morning they were really turned on. From 2am to 6am I landed 36 choppers, 14 of which were legal with the biggest going 39cm. I finally decided it was time to leave when a decent fish inhaled my hardbody & eventually bit through my 20lb leader. The fish came on various hardbodies about 50mm long, smaller & larger lures were completley ignored but colour didn't seem to matter with clear lures being just as effective as blue, brown & green. I only kept these two just legal ones (31cm & 32cm) to use as bait tonight, the rest were released.

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Hi everyone,

Made a trip up to Jurien last weeken with a few mates to sink a few tinnies and have a fish for the weekend. After shooting up on Friday avo after work we hit the water about 7 on Saturday morning. This being our first fishing trip up there we weren't to sure what expect.

Not knowing any better we started south of the marine park that is out from Sandy cape in about 15m of water, hoping to pick up some whiting and skippy and maybe a flatty if we were lucky. This started off well picking up a couple of good sized skippy before the baby wrasse and other assorted 'vermin' set in, and a couple of fish that looked pretty dam tasty. Not knowing what they were we thought it would be best to throw them back (since then we worked out that we picked up a few Black arse :\ ).

Between releasing a few more wrasse a couple of the boys noticed some sambos circling the boat, and with very little incouragement there were some unweighted pillies hanging overboard.... It didn't take long to hear the drag singing!!! Much to our amazement we picked up a nice school mackerel. Now being new to W.A.... it lead to a quick flick through the rule book and only finding a size for "Mackerel: Spanish" in there. Not knowing if this rule was meant to cover all mackies we released our 730 mm schoolie.... well wasn't that a mistake!

We continued drifting the flats for a while longer, not picking up any whiting that I figured we would be sure to catch! Although I did manage to pick up a schoolie of my own that tipped the 800 mark which made up for the lack of finger food.

As the afternoon dragged on we decided to kill two birds by doing a bit of trawling and searching for some lumpy bottom that we could fish on Sunday. The silver wobbler hooked up almost straight away, but the 5600 abu felt a bit small after a few minutes of solid runs, before a bust off. Well that won't be the last time that happens.......

Sunday wasn't so glassy.... we only hit the water for a short time (but long enough for me to loose a rod overboard). Either way we checked out the reefs infront of Jurien and thought about what next time could bring.

Being the new kid in town a few lessons were learnt, but good stories don't come from that time everything worked out perfectly.

P.S. I've been following the site for some time and it seems like a great online community, I hope I can keep contributing in the future.

The warm weather is here and the good summer fishing is just around the corner. Large snook are here in good numbers which means the big greenback tailor are not far away. Plenty of choppers can be caught on the first half of the jetty on days the SW winds are blowing. Most of the action can be found closer to shore at the moment especially in the evening. Good sized crabs are about in numbers with most people bagging out with the blue swimmers. Just remember the size limit is 127 mm with a bag of 10 per person. Squid numbers have dropped off in the past few weeks but the ones that have been caught have been monsters. Out towards the end of the jetty the herring numbers have been very good, a feed can be caught in very little time especially between 5pm and 7pm. Large Sampson fish can be found towards the end in the morning chasing the mulie schools hanging around the pylons, one bloke landed 4 in one morning session.

Tight lines everyone and good luck.

With the weather looking good for Saturday we left home early for a days fishing at Jurien. After a few trips up there lately we ventured out to find some new ground and hopefully fish. On the way out we stopped off at a old spot and the rest was history.

Got on our spot at around 8am and had our fisrt dhu (12kg-95cm) in the boat minutes after. Boonmack landed this nice fish on a squid bait.

Then another mate Russell landed a nice 6kg fish. 68cm. We decided as it was early, to relaese this one hoping for another big one. Dropped him down on the release weight only to see him float back up to the surface 2min later. Circled around and picked him up and then he had made his decicision for us DINNER. Bagged out within half an hour.

Went back over the mark and found more fish on the sounder. Dropped over again and wham Boonmack strikes again on a bait. 11kg and 85cm.

With all of us getting slightly pissed with Boonmack we decided to try a little harder. Moments later i hooked up to a nice size Baldie. Dinner.

We went back over the spot again and all four of us hooked up at the same time. Great fun watching four blokes fight fish. Then bang one of the boys got bitten off. Sorry i didnt mention the was heaps of NW blowies around as well. Lucky for the rest of us we didnt have blowies. Three way of Dhuies.

These fish went left to right. Boonmack 69cm, Me 73cm, Russell 74cm. All released back to the school they came from with no problems. Makes you feel good releasing quality fish.

Time for another drift. Around again. Finnally i got slammed by something big. Made my Saragosa 4000 scream with anger. I use a Shimano saltwater series 5-10kg with a gosea 4000 and 20lb diawa sensor braid for my plastics fishing. This fish gave me a good run. 11kg and 88cm. Made me work hard. 

I have had great success latley since Brenz from the fishing shop showed me the new Berkley Ripple Shad. This was the first time i had used the black colour but it obviously works, thanks Brenz. This is the third 10kg fish i have caught by just having the rod in the rod holder while i was getting drinks from the esky. I guess the paddle tails like no real action given to them.

The Dhu was again released nicely. By this stage Weisy was getting very angry as he hadnt landed a Dhu. His PB is a 55cm and watching big fish come over hand and fist was driving him insane. He had caught some nice NW blowies but this doesnt count. Next drift around it was his turn.

A nice fish at around 6kg and 65cm. A new PB and a smile to go with it. Released well again. He was then lucky enough to drop back down and caught another fish almost identical.

After the 14th dhu was caught we decided that we wanted to try get some pinkies or baldies as we only had the one baldie and 2 dhu in the esky.Only one Dhu was undersized. So we didnt the unthinkable and left a hot dhu bite. Sadly we went closer into shore and only managed to get one sized black ass for the rest of the day. The wind decided to pickup at this stage so we called it early and we back in the car by 1pm.

Unfortlunately for weisy two PB's in one day is good fishing however today this got him the hat of shame.

A great days fishing was topped of with a couple of beers for the trip home.

Got my fix now for a couple of months and some fish to see me through the ban.

Thanks for reading.

 been a while since a post....works slowing now which is a good thing. Cant be bothered to write a report. ill let the pictures do there thing

 Hey guys was thinking bout fishing the Murray at pinjarah does anyone know if it's Anygood any advise would be greatly appreciated cheers fellas 

Myself and TimVB went for a quick jig today, plan was to get a dhuie for dinner and hit up some shallow water sambos before they head out deeper.

Went pretty much to plan, although the easterlies early morning were verging on dangerous for my tug and made it pretty uncomfortable on the way out.

Whilst we waited for the wind to drop, we sounded some new ground and found a nice little lump with some good shows. Dropped down jigs on PE2 and I got an undersized dhuie, but Tim got blitzed by a suspected Sambo. We upgraded to PE3, and Tim got dominated again, two nice jigs lost in two drops.....I hooked up on PE3 and landed a nice shallow water sambo. Went VERY hard in shallow water on PE3.

A few more sambos later and the wind dropped so we tried a demersal spot and I landed the perefect eating size dhuie, 70 cm. On the BBQ as we speak.

After a few undersized dhuies, things shut down, so back to the Sambo lump, and dammmm, they went off! We changed to PE5 and locked up the Stella drags  tight for a bit of fun and to minimise the jig losses.....and hung on for a manic 60 minutes of jigging. Dam, these things go hard in shallow water! Here are photos of a few of the fish we got in between the madness.

Great day and back on shore not long after lunch for a coldbeer and rest the arms.

Well with the weather looking ok for the long weekend, we made the call to head over to the Abrolhos Islands. With all going meeting at my house Friday morning. We were on the road for 9:15 and with a good run made it to Gero for 2:00 to be greeted by a strong 20knot southerly wind .We caught up with Rob H and drew74 from the forum. Once the boats were in the water and trailers sorted, we headed out through the passage, not the best for the trip across. Steve decided he would wait till morning and meet us there. It did drop half way across and we sat on a comfortable 19-20 knots making it to the Islands before dark. Now the swell was up and the sun low in the afternoon sky made it hard to find the end of the reef. Jesse was up front when he called out breaker looking back to see a set breaking behind us we darted across to the side and around the white water .We spun around and zipped in through the narrow passage to a flat calm bay for the night .After setting the anchors and tying the boats together we got ready for the evening meal and a brew.

DAY 1

Up at first light and a good cooked breakfast of bacon, eggs and beans and a cuppa and all were ready to hit the fish Neil headed out to go fishing and meet up with Steve, from what we were told the fish were going off with double headers coming over the side. We headed off in the kayaks to do some snorkelling on the other side of the bay. After a shot paddle we pulled the Kayaks up on the shore and swam out along the reef to some deep water further out. What a great snorkel seeing dhuies ,trout,baldies and large numbers of small colourful fish .Jesse got a nice trout around 60cm and Kevin got one a little smaller .After a couple of hours of snorkelling we headed back for a break and some lunch. Neil came back with the others in tow and rafted up for lunch. The guys headed back out for some more fishing and we geared up for a scuba dive in the same area as the morning snorkel. One of the best dives I have ever done .Got to love the islands .Late arvo and we all meet up again for the night .After dinner a couple of the guys were fishing behind the boat catching herring for bait the next day. Couple of other boats pulled in for the night which made the little bay full up with little room to move.

DAY 2

After a restless night, we woke to a light wind and slight seas once again the eggs and bacon coped a hiding and we were off for some more snorkelling, this time we swam through the entrance to the bay we were staying in .we watch the boys go passed heading out for the morning fish .they went straight over 5 dhuies in casting distance from shore. No big ones but around 500-700mm.we swam around for about an hour before Kevin and I started to get a little tied ,as we must have swam some miles in the first two days .seen heaps of Skippy and small trout. Viz was 20m +.Again lunch time came and went and we headed out in the kayaks into the middle off the Islands and checked out  a few shallow bombies .not a lot of fish so headed back to the shallows for some baldies. Kevin got a nice one around 5kg and one more a little smaller. Jesse lost his mojo missing a big baldie and a nice trout .A great snorkel 50m from shore. Another day gone and one more sleep before home.

DAY3

We headed out for a scuba dive and then home .We dived on a bomie 2m-22m the  walls were shear and the viz was 30m unreal ,you don’t get it like that metro . Once again dhuies, trout like blowies when we surfaced the wind had come up and the trip back to Gero looked like it was going to be a little bumpy. We meet up with Neil and Steve and turned for home ...35KNOT NE winds meet us once away from the Islands a slow bumpy trip back. But we made it in one piece. We loaded the boat after the water police checked the boats for safety gear and skippers tickets. We arrived home at 5:30 and were all packed away and cleaned up for 7:30.

A big thanks to DREW74 and his wife Jay for the generosity Also the guys Steve,Sherbs,Jason,Jesse,Kevin,Neil and Greg thanks for a great trip and hope we can do it again.

Sorry just deletaed the friggin report ,photobucket NOT working 2hours for jack shit .try tomorrow when i get back from FISHING,,,,,,,,,,,

FW crew anyone know if the Snapper have arrived in Western Port / Corner Inlet as yet??

I went out on sunday arvo after work to have one last crack at the Snapper before the ban kicked in. I took along 2 friends with me Chappo and Vaughan, It was Vaughans maiden voyage on the Tournament and I had said to him the virgins to the boat always come up trumps.

We went and checked a couple of spots just sounding out the bottom looking for the schools. We had a bit of a laugh at the 30 plus boats all crammed around the D9 and wondered if the schools were even there.

Between spots we noticed some slack water and on closer inspection it was a school in transit. Vaughan was first to launch his rig in the water and instantly hooked up to a nice 85cm Pinky. I didn't even have any riggs tied and hurriedly slapped up a weighted snelled rig to my small 20lb outfit, threw it in amongst them and hooked up, Only to have the old sun faded and salty braid snap. F*$K was the cry, and Chappo got on the helm to chase them. Another hookup with a heavier outfit that I chucked an unweighted ganged slimy on, and That got sharked.

We then lost the school and with the sun started going down we went to the next spot on the list and anchored up, and started a berley trail. The sun just went down and bang all 3 riggs went with a triple hookup, which was insane trying to get the lines all away from each other, over, under and around. Anyhow with some good team work we landed all 3. 2 at 95cm and another at 86cm. There was high fives all around, a full kill tank, a few beers and off on our way.

A new PB for me at 95cm, didn't have scales so none were weighed. Now its just a matter of waiting another 11 months to have another crack.

Any Crabs being caught at the moment in Kalbarri??

Made a spur of the moment decision on Saturday morning to head down to White Hills for a fish (we had some visitors over from S.A. and the weather was good).  Turned out to be a good decision, landing my first West Australian Mulloway (60cm) on my first cast!

Interestingly, I caught it in the middle of the day, which from my experience Mulloway fishing in South Australia is pretty rare (normally night time is better).  Is it common to get Mulloway during daylight hours in WA?

It was also interesting to note that I caught it at the time the alamanac (tides4fishing.com) said would be on the best times for the day.

Anyway, I was happy.

Drof

PS - the beach is a little soft in places down there are the moment.  There's also weed in sections, but easily avoided.

I spent the weekend camping out down at Logue Brook Dam relaxing with the missus and some friends and thought I would put up a report.  We chose Logue Brook because you can camp there, right on the dam for $7 a night pp or go to the caravan park for $10 if you want showers, you can also take your dog, but they cant swim in the dam and it is accessable with a 2wd vehicle.  The dam is located on Logue Brook Dam Road off the South West Highway just before Harvey so travel time is only an hour and 20 mins out of Perth. 

We headed down on Friday morning arriving at around 10am, there are several camping spots around the dam and we chose one on the far end of the dam with a relatively flat site and a fire ring.  Our camp overlooked a stream feeding into the dam and had several 4wd tracks over it which would lead to our main form of entertainment for the weekend. We would sit and watch people in 4wd's pull up to a mud pit and without even prodding a stick in to check depth plunge right in and get stuck.

The dam levels are quite low at the moment, so waterskiing on the lake is banned, but you are allowed boats.  We fished the first sunset with lures at the dam wall with only one small rainbow caught, but it dislodged the hook in the shallows. 

The next day was Grand Final day and we listened to the game on the radio, after it finished apparently everyone who had drank 38 beers thought it was time to go 4wding with the mud pit getting a good work out, one 4wd even got stuck 3 times! After this there were rednecks everywhere with circle work on the dam wall and revving cars through the tracks.

On sunday we went for a drive into Collie to go to the Good Shed Markets and had lunch from the bakery.  We then drove back to Wokalup to the HaVe Cheese Factory for cheeses, venison salami and pate, we then went for a drive to the Harvey River Bridge Estate Winery and the Big Orange.  We did some wine tastings but also Apple, Grape and Pear Cider, also White and Red Sangria.  Cartons of 24 ciders for $15 and 6 x 1lt tetra packs of sangria for $24.  Our Designated Driver then took us for a quick look at Harvey Dam before returning to the campsite.

When we got back we got everyone and their fishing gear together while I sorted out the my kayak stuff before heading to the waters edge.  Cam, Jane and Collette stayed on the bank fishing while I took the kayak out for a bash.  I have a 5.4mt Mission Eco bezig sea kayak which is not set up for fishing so I went out for a paddle while trolling some lures with the rod awkwardly held  between my back and the kayak seat.  I tried SX40's, Spinners, Minnows, soft plastics etc, but couldnt get a bite.  There were some other yakkers there, one bloke on a blue hobie pedal yak who said he had caught some small trout, lost a bigger one but that they would start rising soon as it got closer to sun down.

This is where it started to go pear shaped, I kept trolling and changing lures and as the sun went down you could see trout rising all over the place in the middle of the dam, so I headed out there and trolling, or even casting past the swirls and retrieving was not getting me a bite.  The trout were everywhere by now and it was starting to get dark so I started heading back to where our friends were, trolling again.  At one point the lure motion felt like it changed, could this be it, had I got a trout bite? So I put down the paddle and attach it to the leash and grab my rod from behind me, as I turn back, my paddle leash had somehow disconnected and my paddle was making a break for it.  I panicked and lunged for the paddle and that was all she wrote I was in the drink!  I quickly grabbed the paddle and my fishing rod and swam to the side of the kayak holy shit its cold.  I properly attach paddle to kayak and stow the rod and make an attempt to self recover back onto the yak but the yak is so full of water every time I try to get back up it seems to sink lower and my pfd kept catching.

I was getting tired and a bit freaked out, my friends had heard me go in and were calling out to me so I responded, and made the decision to swim and tow the kayak to shore.  I was probably 100-125mts from the shore and slowly swam the swamped kayak back in.  It took forever and it certainly gave me a new found respect for hypothermia. I was concentrating on keeping my breathing deep and steady and my side stroke smooth, by the time I made it to shore I was definately losing dexterity. It was well dark and I was definately cold, my friends helped me out of the water and got the yak out and emptied out the water. Fortunately I had not lost any gear and I made it back to shore - Humble pie tells me I was pretty lucky this weekend, really lucky that I did not get loaded at the winery.  We loaded everything back up and went back to our campsite where I proceeded to warm up by our large fire.

On Monday we got up had breakfast, packed up and left to be back in Perth for lunch.

I would highly recommend Logue Brook dam as a place close to Perth that you can go for a really cheap camping weekend with fresh water fishing - Just next time I think I will leave my sea kayak at home and bring the dinghy instead! Its a great spot, really close to Harvey and Collie so you have the options of Logue Brook, Harvey and Wellington Dams and all the river systems that feed them to fish from and all the good food and drink the south west has to offer. Hopefully I will be back soon to catch my first dam trout!

No Pics as I was surprisingly lazy with the camera this weekend.

Not as good as my previous sessions with Whitey (we blamed the full moon thingy) - but cracked the code of Demersal Jigging

Some not so great photos (apologies for the stick in my mouth )

Eric - where are your photos mate?!

With a short break from filming commitments and having done plenty of snapper tagging already I was keen to go for a Super Deep fish espeicially with the nice forecast yesterday!

Blake my shop manager was keen to get out and so was his mate Dan. Blakes done plenty of the Super deep with great success but Dans done a few trips out there in his own boat and is the expert green eye slayer ha ha

Blake said Dan would be wrapped to get out on your boat and something we have spoken about ages ago!

I've got plenty of Super Deep fish in the freezer so I said to the boys I will skipper and you guys get some fish for the freezer!

The plans gentlemans hour launch and we didnt get out there until after lunch. I dont like going back to the same spots all the time so I mix it up (farm my spots)!!

The first few spots were sounder quiet and If I dont see fish I dont drop as its a waist of time. After burning up many hours on the search at some old spots I just had to visit one more spot that I hadnt fished for ages!

After sounding around I found a dense school sitting higher up the water column and Blake said Blue Eye your reckon........ I said yep. Ironically I mainly get bass/hapuku and greyband at that spot but theres always suprises out there!

Dan baits up, drops down and whamo he's on. This fish or fishes is going really hard and puts up a great fight in 300m of water (all manual wind up). I said leave the hooked fish down for a double header and that he did!

Dan was wrapped his " First Super Deep fish" and a quality double header of Blue Eye Trevalla at that!

Dan looses his green eye slayer  status ha ha

Dans into the Corona's after that and was loving the Super Deep =)

Blakes next, does a drop hooks a solid fish also ......he waits for the double mmhhh nope not going to happen so up it came (manual wind up)

Blakes lands a solid Blue Eye Trevalla but no wonder he didnt get a chance for a double as the greedy fish eats both baits ha ha

Blake saying you drop Ryan.....nah all good mate you drop one bait down and lets get you your bag and cruise on in!

Blake gets another Blue Eye Trevalla and off we went!

A great day on the water, great conditions, good company and good to see an old spot fire up!

Gear used;

* Daiwa Megatwin 1000 electric reel (With JM drag upgrade)

* Jigging Master Evolution Titanium 400 overhead rod

* Berkley whiplash Braid 80lb

* Oceanside Custom Super Deep Rig

* 48oz sinker (drift wasnt too fast)

* Whole slimy mackerel baits (butterfly/tail cut out)

 Went out with Aqualib off Madurah yesterday and just wanted to say how good it was. Had us in the rig spots all day and everyone ended up with a keeper and after dividing up the dhuies we all left with a couple of kilos. Highlight was an arsey Dutchman who hadn't been fishing since he was 10 ended up with a 20.5kg beast.

60 n 70 cm :)

Hi,

went out fishing with 2 mates today, launched from Quindalup ramp and shortly after were in 100 foot of water with rods in the water

returned back to the ramp 4 hours later with 85 Sand Whiting in the catch containers

All undersized fish were returned to the water, so all taken home were a good size

It was a very different way of fishing, as they used very small hooks with large sinkers to get the baits down to the sand fast

I was using larger hooks and getting nothing, even though I was sitting beside them using the same baits, so I packed my rod/reel away and used a spare they had in the boat.

I then was adding as much to the catch buckets as each of them were

was a gr8 morning out there fishing with some whales breaching many times, they were only a few hundred mtrs away

Hi,

went out to rotto on saturday and had a cracker off a day. bag out in about 6 hours and beautiful weather.

Caught 3 pinkies - 59cm, 62cm, 81cm. - 2 Breaksea Cod (blackass) - 41cm, 50cm - 1 Red Snapper - 62cm

loads off tuna out there atm in front off rotto but only got a small one.

Just be careful out there coz there is heaps off whales

Cheers

A few pics from yesterday's jig session out with Whitey. Demersals were a bit slow apart from a  hectic 5 minute period where all 8 on board were loaded up with nice pinks. Sambos saved the day,a few donkeys in there as well. A few of the better fish.  

Cliffs pinkie on 300 g speed jig.....

Nice sambo on PE3 by Troy gave the Crostage and Caldia a nice workover. Drag was sizzling hot at the end!

My Amberjack. Go hard these little blighters!

Tims horse Sambo.

Hotogs fatty!

Cheers Craig, another great day out!

French angler on  a 1 DAY wild MAMA toman aka Giant Snakehead  hot pursuit with me.....

Many actions !!! Many misses !!! Many Fun !!!

Landed 5 X MAMA N 2 Singles Toman , all in 1 DAY trip.

What a day !!! haha !!!

Enjoys the topwater actions youtube clip !!!

Must watch !!! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5t1CZLaOQ

Highlight photo shots.....

6KG MAMA....

8KG MAMA......Monster catch !!!