First time out behind rotto (fished out unless you no what ur doing) 300m 600m chasing blue eye,grey band etc all we got were sharks every drift(3 circle rig 1.5kg sinker) looked every where first time out that deep..

First drop 3 F**K Sharks better than nothing but. As far as i now the the sharks we were getting are spiny dogfish plus one sliced my arm. mother f**ker but that was it tryed ever where. I know fishing is called fishing for a reason. We tryed we didnt fall (sort off) i cant wait to get back out there. Might need to go deeper or further away from perth. I would love to catch a couple of rubys

Headed out saturday morning. 1st spot was to check out the barges and managed couple of good size skippy. We then decided to try a spot in the 100's and managed a pinky on a fanky and couple of size black arse on bait.

Moved in closer to try our luck for some fish for the dinner table, i came up to a spot which i havnt fished in a while, set up drift and only managed couple of sargeant bakers and small pinkies, as we were drifting we came across a good looking spot with fish on the sounder 1st drop resulted 12kg 90cm dhui 

Moved to another spot and decided to drop a 7inch mcarthy down, within a few seconds it got hit and after a short fight up came a new PB 91cm dhui of 13kg

Hi all,

Been a while since I last posted a report as I have been very busy making a reef fishing DVD over here on the east coast. I made this DVD to be a learning tool for fishermen across Austrailia and many aspects of it can be used just about anywhere. It was an expensive exercise but I'm happy to help others achieve their very own trophy fish.

The filming could not have been captured at a better time with some real trophy fish being caught including Red Emperor over 15kg, Large Mouth Nannygai over 14kg, Snapper, big reef Mangrove Jacks, Samson, Blue Moari Cod and the list goes on. In total 20 different species were captured in 3 trips.

I also experimented with an underwater camera dropping it down on the fishing spots in depths of 45-65mtrs. The footage captured is truley amazing and really adds a whole new dimension to fishing. I have combined the underwater footage with sounder readings at the exact time to give people a better understanding of what they see on the sounder.

I won't put a million photos up of the fish we have been catching but just some of the better quality fish we encounted aswell as screen shots from the video camera of some sounder readings and underwater footage.

For more pics and detailed articles visit my website at www.wickedfishing.com.au The DVD can also be purchased from my website for $25 for those interested in seeing 117 minutes of quality fishing, tutorials and underwater footage. The feedback over here has been sensational so all the money and time spent making this DVD myself has been worth it.

Here is the DVD preview and I hope you all enjoy it.

http://youtu.be/HOss3CbyJvA?hd=1

Regards,

Greg

After having a pretty lean year to date and not really catching a good demersal fish for quite a while, as well as having my jigging technique rubbished I was keen to break the drought.

We left the ramp at 6 and was at the first spot by about 7. The sounder was looking promising and on the first drift I got onto something that felt decent, with plenty of headshakes suggesting possibly a pinky. To my surprise when the fish surfaced it was a nice red coloured baldy of about 40cm or so which was my first baldy on a jig. After a few high fives the fish was dispatched and into the esky - drought broken!

We moved on to the next spot to some ground that has produced some great dhu's including a couple in the 90's to Chrisp and a fish around the metre mark to JohnF. The sounder was looking amazing, with what appeared to be a school of dhu's a few metres off the bottom. We set up the first drift and pretty soon it was a triple hook-up! Both John and Daz got their fish up easily, both undersize dhu's. Mine took a bit longer and after a decent fight a 65cm dhu was on deck.

We setup another drift and after a while I hooked onto something that felt solid. The next 10 minutes or so were pretty tense, with me getting line on the fish only for it to power back to the bottom, must have been touch and go for getting bricked at least 5 times. Eventually the fish was worn out, and a monster dhu was on the surface at 90cm and my new pb. We spent at least 5 minutes trying to revive the fish including swimming the fish with the motor running to no avail, the fight had taken its toll.

As we had just about filled the esky and got our boat limit of dhu's we headed off for some sambo action. Numerous fish were caught, including a few big ones before we lost the school. The weather had started to blow up a bit, so we decided to head in. All in all a great day's jigging!

with the weather looking the goods we took off from hillarys at 6:15 to head to rotto and chase some sambos the plan was to hit some spots in the 40-50m mark. after an awesome sunrise we arrived at the first spot and had 3 drifts with no luck. on heading to another spot i came across a nice bit of ground holding a good school of sambos so we very hastily dropped the sea anchor and down went the jigs after about 10 seconds we had a triple hook up unfortunately i got busted off and so did mate trent so it was up to matt to boat a fish.up came a very nice sambo and it was high 5's all round and back down went the jigs and more hook ups. i boated my first of the day on the next drift and was pretty stoked matt pulled up another on the same drift after a few more drifts and a few more fish the school moved on so we decided to head out deeper in search of more fish after trying a few spots with out any luck we decided to go back and hit the spot again. after doing a bit of driving around the spot we located the school and again had a triploe hook up we boated a few more fish then decided to head in at 3:30. all up boated about 10 sambos and lost about the same had an awesome day with trent and matt both catching their first sambos on jigs and both christening their new jigging master combos.thanks for reading

sammy

Had an annual leave day Thursday so decided to have a solo session out from woodies, didn't leave the ramp till about 7.30am out and anchored on spot by just after 8.00am and got berly pot into the water and two rods out, was going abit quiet till finally first rod buckles over 70cm juvi sambo comes aboard and then released, second rod gets a hit and a nice sized skippy comes over the side a short while later and first rod gets a big hit and after a little fight another juvi sambo comes onto the deck again around the 70cm mark and again released

Managed to get another nice skippy both went just over 50cm, it was now 11.30 and I had just about decided it was time to pull the anchor and move in to the squid grounds, by this time I had only one rod out after being busted off by something I couldn't stop was tidying the boat up abit when noticed a tug on the rod removed the rod from the holder and took the slack out of the line felt some weight so struck and instantly felt the head shakes after a nice little fight a nice fat 64cm pinky was laying on the deck not my biggest but a nice healthy looking fish, not much happened after that so pulled the anchor and headed in and got 6 nice squid for a nice feed very enjoyable morning out back at the ramp by 2.00pm.

Have also put up a couple of pics from last weekend out from woodies with Dirt my PB sambo busted my arse in 6 metres of water awsome fight was abit of a struggle to hold him up for the pic, and Dirt with a very healthy looking pinky 70+ cm.

What can I say ??? The more challenging the terrains, it bring out the best of me in fishing.
Giant Snakehead at times are usually found in near seaweeds and  underwater branches  N structures terrains.

At time, when we come to those places where there is no boat to charter, we 'll use smaller boat thus make toman fishing overalls difficult for any angler...

Mind you , these giant snakehead fishes by far the strongest freshwater fish in asia. It has once pulled a 70KG angler into the water from the boat. ( I witnessed myself) To be able to fish on  such a  smaller boat, you need to be very calm and quick of mind in order to land this monster fish.

With my new gadget like Go Pro Hero 2 video cam, nowadays I can capture the best moment of topwater actions and present to you guys to enjoys...

Without any delay, enjoys the best performance of me inside this youtube clip below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9CASBB-WrQ

Best photos highlights......

5.5KG MAMA toman..... What a beauty !!!

Double power !!!- Single individual toman 4KG N 5KG repectively.....

 Any body know what the weed situation is like on the Sth metro beaches

Hi all,

Told the boys(who work for me) if we finished the job early enough I would take them fishing. Went out fron Cockburn yesterday for a couple of hours. Fished ground from 30 -40 m behind Garden Is. Conditions were pretty good. 5 - 8 kn SE. Caught a good mixed bag. Biggest KG went 53cm, smallest 47cm. Pinky was 58cm. Queenie hit the scales at 6.5kg (biggest ive caught to date). Nice to know you can still catch a feed off metro waters.

Richie.

Hey all,

Been a while since I'de been out on the old kayak so headed out from Hillaries to some inshore reefs this morning. In close not much was happening, and there were a lot of boats dropping baits for a while 5 mins before moving, seemed pretty pointless??

Any-who, found a suitable bit of reef, anchored up nice and close and let the burying begin. After a few wrasse on the light stuff nothing had touched my drifting mulie. Not long after nearly got smoked by some sort of pelagic on my light gear probably smallish sambo but he snicked my braid on the reef.

The skippy started up soon after and bagged out with a few upgrades. They seem to be very thick at the moment. Along with a few released tarwhine, and with the water near glassing off turned out the be a good morning.

Plenty of boats out and about, hope they got stuck into some bigger fish!

Cheers, Edin.

This was a few months back now, me and my mate headed to our inshore snapper spot around kwinana. We had no action for the first hour or so just casting out whole squid as drift baits on stradic ci4000 and talica 12 .After that my mates ci4000 screamed after a 10 minute fight a 7-8kg snapper surfaced just as that came up the talica ran and another 8kg snapper surfaced.

Heading out behind garden island tomorow, thinking about going out into the 40's plus searching for some ground for dhufish and snapper. Can anyone give me some advice on how far out we should be heading and maybe some coordinates to your favourite lumps

 Hi Guys,went out again today and pulled up another Good Ruby from the Depth's off Exxy.

The only scales we had topped out at 25kg

Cheers Ozzy

Took a Mate out To-day to show him a different Style of Fishing,the pic's show how we went

Just landed this massive 8KG MAMA toman  last week.

The excitment !!! The fun !!! The challenging fishing ground !!!

What can I say   ??? Simply love the wild N love toman fishing...

It is one of the best game fishing sport around in asia..:)

Enjoys my GoPro video clip......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4XNJQ_FZg

The big catch of the day....8KG massive MAMA toman...

 Sorry no pics today forgot the camera.TWell with the forcast saying wind was coming in early we headed out thinking it was going to be a quick trip and home.The rain clouds parted and the wind droped .Ended up being a nice day.Plenty of small fish around with a heap of tags getting fixed to fish.

Fish for the day

16 dhuies  12 tagged, 2 released without tags and 2 recaptures.

1 Sambo around 20kg

6 Baldchin 5 kept 1 released

1 Black ars tagged

and other mixed fish Skippy,Wrasse,Sargent Baker.

A few size dhuies but nothing for the bag.Another good trip and that makes over 200 tags JODY MORE TAGS PLEASE..That takes us to 21 recaptures will add the new ones to the list i put up weeks ago some intresting growth rates.

 Booked on a charter to Broome, touched down, settled in and called the skipper for updates on what's biting in anticipation for the next day's charter. To my disappointment, was told the trip was cancelled due to strong easterly wind that had been blowing the since a few days ago. Had I not called the skipper at 6.15pm the day before, I wonder if he was ever going to call me at all to tell me about the cancellation. Totally screwed up my plan cos I had made myself free the whole day next day for the charter. If only he had told me earlier I could have made a Plan B.

Anyhow, went to cable beach to do some casting. With strong easterly wind at 18 knots and 27 knots gusts, I was the only soul on the beach. Obviously apart from sea water, i caught absolutely nothing. Tried a few other spots including gantheume point and jetty to no avail. The easterly also stirred up so much sediments the water was mirky white in colour.

The next morning we spent the morning going from tackle shop to tackle shop to find out what's biting where. Spoken to Steely from Kimberley Outdoors and Camping and apparently he knew Sean Costello too and they were both popping nuts. Also found that no one ever tried jigging in Broome so was keen to give that a shot.

First lauch from the beach and tried surface luring at a bommie barely a few meters deep. The reef stood out like a sore thumb when viewed from polarised lenses. Gave my Maria Bluescode a go since it had been sitting in my tacklebox for years and never seen daylight. First retrieve saw a mack tailing it. Fired a second cast, couple of twitches and felt a hit and the line instantly went slack! There went my Maria sinking stickbait which had been with me for 7 years...sob :(. Put on a Clone stickbait with wire but the fish shy away this time.

The next couple of hours were spent trolling. Mate was trolling with his large crytal minnow which is the go-to lure in this region. I believed him cos he had at least 2 dozen brand new ones sitting at the corner of his house- testimont that the lure's effectiveness in this region. I put on my Ofmer Rambler that dives to about 4m. After couple of rounds trolling my spinning outfit started spewing line. Not long after that a good speciment of queenie surfaced. I was pretty stoked cos another cherry was popped. Guess the Rambler won hands down because the fish were holding deeper and the crytal minnow my mate used, although a deep diver, didn't quite make it to that depth.

After that we trolled to no avail although I kept sensing hits on my lure. I suggested to Brett to let me jig. The sounders showed the fish was holding in mid-water of approx 15m depth. I dropped my light jig of 40g and got an instant hook-up. A small big eye trevally surfaced shortly and was sent back to the drink. Subsequent to that I caught a few small queenies and GTs all on light jigs. They were feisty little buggers hitting the jig continously until the get hooked.

After that we went back to refuel the boat and came back out again at about 4pm. Sounded up a spot that made me really excited.

The next 2 hours were non-stop action with a fish every drop. Brett was using his trusty Wobbler in 40g rigged up with wire on a Penn reel mounted on a Ugly Stik/ Silstar solid glass tip rod. He would let the spoon fluttered down below and cranked up as fast as possible. This single lure was catching fish after fish until a big cod took his Wobbler and burried him. He did try to steer the boat away from structure but the cod won.  Think that was the same cod that tried to go after the baby GT I was trying to land. It was easily half the size of the tinny we were using and I thought it was a queesland grouper because I spotted the yellown fin. 

Anyway, I changed jig to vibes and plastic and a few other type of lures and they all scored. The fish were all fired up and anything you tossed over the side will be nailed. Lost of few jigs to mackie but since the water was fairly shallow, I didn't try wire leader because it will be really visible.

The fish ain't big but was heaps of fun on PE1 outfit and jigs of 35g-60g.

I stopped taking pictures after a few shots because they were all the same usual suspects, only difference was the fish became larger as the sun set and totolly shut down when it became dark. Strange huh ?

Tried popping as well but didn't managed to raise a scale.

So if you are going to Broome, don't hesitate to give jigging a shot because it works!

 Just a quick report because I heard there was a lack of scalies around!! I was down at the ammo jetty this morn getting some bait together for quobba and there was heaps of them!! 

Just thought I would let everyone know 

 Just another pink from the sound again this morning fellas ... Dropped a smaller one aswell

Excuse the comp code haha

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Just spent a week up in Quobba with a few mates. It was my first time up there so I wasn't too sure what to expect. Spent the first few days having a go at ballooning with limited success, mates lost a couple of mackies on reef and all I had by day 3 was a longtail and a few spangos etc. Had some battery troubles with the boat (sucks that- all good at home but when you get there and ready to take her out starts playing up) it would start then it wouldn't, anyway the beer was cold and the weather was warm so life was still good. Decided to take the boat to Carnarvon and get her fixed then wait for better weather to take her out. Was hell windy for a couple of days so in between fishing we done some exploring of each spot all the way up to Red Bluff, some real nice looking spots you just got to know a bit more than what I did to have better success I guess.

Come Friday, last day of the trip, esky looking pretty empty at the moment, me thinking we must be pretty shit anglers to come all the way to Quobba and go home with F*%K all. We finally got to take the boat out.

Launch at the "ramp" (lol) at blowholes and make our way anxiously out through the breakers to a likely looking spot. Lures in the water QANTAS lure on the starboard  and the Gold Redhead on the port side, trolling for less then an hour when ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ one rod goes off, I just love the sound of the reel going off as a mackie makes it's first screaming run, it's what we live for ey!, standard fight and first mackie gaffed and in the boat, lures back out again. For the next few hours we would hook up every half hour or so. Made the call to head in after we had run out of ice and storage space (thank god for the precision pack) total of 6 macks, 2 missed hits a couple of close calls with whales popping up in front of me and best of all not a shark to be seen!

Headed back in to see fisheries in the bay, after checking the catch I asked them if it was ok to take other guys out who hadn't caught any fish yet and she said yep as long as they have the boat fishing license so after dicking around for about an hour waiting for a bigger esky and more ice it was out with 2 mates and in with 3 more.

Out we go again and the actions even hotter than before, lures go out and within 5 minutes DOUBLE HOOK UP!!  Both boated and within an hour and a half we were on our way back in with 5 more macks. We could have got one more to fill out the bag limit but the wind had picked up a bit much and I didn't want to risk anything negotiating the breakers back in.

Safely back in and stoked to have a few fish to take home, probably my most successful day of fishing on my own boat. Total for the day 11 mackies biggest one almost 20kg and apart from the 2 little ones we got on the double hook up I would guess the average weight to be around 12-14 kgs

It was definately a great experience my first trip to Quobba, definately need to do more homework before returning but glad the last day turned a shit trip into a good one.

Enjoy the pics

Cheers

Vince

Greetings FW! Long time reader, first time poster..

Really enjoy reading reports on this site and hearing/seeing whats happening in the WA fishing world.. so I figured after getting back from Coral Bay I thought I'd give a cheeky report on what happened.

I was only land based so spent the week casting plastics and metal slices around. Just to be spend a few hours every day strolling up and down the magnificent beaches while casting lures was awesome. Sure beats working! Coral Bay is  paradise and so worth the drive.. and it's even better when you get some fish.

So basically over the week we managed to get into a lot of different types of fish..Was fishing on light gear so everything was fun. sightcasted into a few small schools of small queenies which brought some great action. Add in some smallish trevs, a stack of undersize macks, some small spanglies and a variety of stuff that you get on plastics when off the beaches up there and it equates for good times!

Bad times involved jagging a turtle in the wing with a jighead which thankfully was easily set free, as well as getting my thumb sliced by a longtom..not cool... anyway

I seem to pray a fair bit when spinning off the beach (particularly when not much is biting...) and one day I was repeatedly praying and asking God for a big trevally to come my way.. and when i say repeatedly i mean for the whole morning. Not sure why I was asking for a trev, prob just wanted a good fight! Managed to get onto a nice golden trev of about 2 or 3 kg which was a pb for the trip so far and i thought my prayers had been answered (and not for the first time while fishing!). Anyway, eventually started to get the feeling that the trev i'd got wasn't the one i was asking in prayer for.. so kept praying and asking (and casting) and eventually got onto something big! My prayers were answered! After a pretty decent fight with the help i my dad i landed this gold spot trev. measured 95cm and a pb for me landbased! great fun! Looking forward to getting back up there again, though sadly i know it will be a while before that happens.

Thanks lads!

Brett

Hi guys

Went out Saturday into Cockburn sound and got a few squid in prep for a big day of snapper fishing.

Got onto a massive school of pinkies and got at least 20 this size.

Also got 10 tailor around 15cm and plenty of yellowfin bream.

We were purely going for bait so had the sabiki rigs cranking. Was really good to see how many babies there are around. Didnt manage to find one bigger than 15cm. But didnt matter because the 20 made up a good feed in the end. JOKES!!!!!

Can anyone tell me how old these fish were?? Hopefully they will jump back onto my hooks in 4-5 years time. This time they will be dinner!!!!!

Went out and pulled a few crab pots off Freo with a Pro I know. Depth varied from about 350 to 400 fathoms. Apparently the tastiest crab in the world and I can vouch for that. When they are caught they are put in to about 8 degrees of water to revive because that is the temp they are usually in. They get exported live to China Asia.

Went out to the southwest bank,

6am in the morning and the first drop in, fresh ocy and pulled a nice 22KG dhuie ;)

Catch for the day i think!

 cockburn sound whiting, mmmm!!

Dispite the howling easterly and a bad case of the flu I headed north from Carnarvon on Sat. I normally would have stayed in bed fealing crook but I had a new Yamaha 115 4 stroke that needed to be run in.

We found schools of long tail tuna feeding in between countless whales, mixed up with the tuna was this gold spot trevor.

I didn't weigh or measure it but it certainly gave my Demon Blood 64cj/catalina combo a good work out.

It was released unharmed to fight another day.

 Hi all

I am after a big fish or shark. i been fishing at the cut for a week and all that is there is small bream and small tailor. I went to the north side of the cut and nothing what do i need to do????????(help)

cheers

Well another great day out on the water. 15 Dhuies caught  11 tagged,2 baldies and a kick ass sambo.and Jody wasn't even there.All good fish today with no undersize fish had a couple around 10-11kg  (released)

 just been fishing off the rocks at bunbury cut and theres not really anything special there at the moment apart from yelowfin bream and the odd chopper and alot of sloppy weed. if your thinking about going i wouldnt bother during day times but you might bit in with a chance later on in the afternoon for some bigger tailor.

parry

Massive squid are plentiful on the jetty this week with conditions being perfect for squidding. My mate has been bagging out with quite a few of the squid being 50 ring monsters the cones measuring well over 30 cm. Chopper tailor are about in reasonable numbers with fish measuring in the 30-35 cm range. Fat herring have been schooling on the surface under the lights at night in large numbers, just throw an unweighted hook with a bit of squid into the schools and you will easily hook up. Skippy sizes have improved over the last 2 weeks they can be found in the usual places around the pylons. Not much word of the Mulloway this week since the mulloway fishermen have been staying away because of the relatively calm waters. If you decide to head out make sure to take the warm gear since it is quite cold fishing in the SW winds.