lb snapper after this storm? please share your thoughts

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Went for a bit of a fish after work today. Went to Trigg but it wasn't happening with the wind. Headed to Hillarys to find somewhere with the wind at my back. Caught one 41cm Tailor for about 1 hrs fishing. Sorry for the kitchen shots, will take the camera down next time. Before and after..............

Got a few nice baldies yesterday.pb at 650mm.5kg plus.

Decided to go for an all nighter last sunday night down south of the metro with big jords, didnt hit the beach till later than expected 4.30 pm ish, sea looked nice n fishy with a gutter straight in front of us, so quickly set up the small rod to see if there were any livies about for bait and instantly got in to lots of salmon trout, hundreds of them which became a bit annoying thru the night as they became bait stealers. but good to see the numbers for the future.

As it got dark we slowly set up camp and put the bigger rods out, not much happening so put a nice bit of burley in, not long after with a old frozen herring on a running sinker ganged hook rig my reel screamed, loaded it up and called it for a ray, and yes it was 10 mins later and my 1st ever ray landed, hooked them before but never landed one.

It was a smooth ray of around 800-1000mm acroos just a pup, but gee it cramped my arm and but an ache in my back, hats off to the guys that mange to land those monsters, dont think i even want to try for one of those beasts.

Next up we have a visitor to the camp, he was a brave lil bugger n came pretty close trying to see what he could steal.

Burley'd up again and not long later i got a hit, not much of a fight but definatley a bit of weight on the end, not sure what it was  but then we saw it in the wash and jords pulled it in for me my 1st gummy shark, roughly around the 1m mark, very happy fisho i am at this point 2 firsts and none for Jordan ha.

The burley was definately working i had a hook up but it decided to jump off the hooks,we had a quite a few salmon trout pulled in through out the night.

I kept getting good hits but couldnt convert, started to annoy me but i kept baiting up cocktail of squid and mulie, the hits were solid so made me think it was Tailor, and yes it was i hooked him , got him to the wash and it was was new PB of 57cm, previous was 46cm, very very happy man.

Jordan saw his rod bend while fishing his smaller one, but he thought he missed the hook up. so left it there, 5 mins later im in again, felt like the first gummy, i bring it to the surf and yes it a gummy but low n behold our lines are tangled and its his hooks in the gummys mouth, was a bit bigger than my one. Still think its my fish as i reeled it in hey Jords? no pics as thats on his iphone.

We called it a night at 2am but back up at 6am, morning was definately not productive even with the high tide, decided to knock it on the head around 11.30. jords left his new posiden/saltiga combo in till the last minute with a frozen herring on the slide bait .

and at the last minute his reel goes off, calls it for a ray and its a smooth ray again roughly the same size as the 1st one. 10 mins later we land the ray and he's christend his new combo on the first try.

Jords taking his time .

Jords smooth ray.

All in all quite a good nights fish for us.

Cheers

 G'day, went fishing with Dundee Bill today on his boat.  After waking up at 1am to the sound of my kid crying and then at 5am to him kicking me in the back I was very happy to be going fishing for the day.  We headed out from Ocean Reef at a respectable hour and were getting bites on most drops.  Must have caught half a dozen pan-sized pink snapper between us and they were all undersize.  Caught half a dozen other species by lunch and then the wind and swell increased so we moved to 3 mile for a fish where several other boats were also hiding from the changed conditions.  Thanks again to Dundee Bill for responding to my fishing buddy post and for being a great skipper.  See pic below - nice 50 odd centimetre flathead caught in 35 metres of water.  Cheers, Dean.

 Hey guys anybody been dhi lately chasing a fishing report

Well the answer is yes .We headed out from 2 rocks at 7:30 in less the average conditions ,the new boat went through the slop nice sitting on 17 knots .The rods were rigged and down on the first spot ,and fish were on the bite our first dhuie on board around 6 kg in with the tag and a clean release.There were a few quiet times but most spots were holding fish .We tagged 9 dhuies kept 2 and a Black bum.and boldie .Jody stayed true to form with a good sambo. Which was released.We did drop a couple of nice fish also .So all is looking good for the new fish magnet .sorry left the camera at home .

There has been rough weather over the last few days with murky waters before the sand bar and a large swell out at the end. I have been fishing for a large pinkie at the end but have had no joy over the last few days. The mulloway fishermen are out in force on the first half with reports of a few being landed. I have seen the mulla guts on the deck while on my way in late at night. Good sized squid are around along the second half of the jetty after the sand bar. Small skippy are also around on the second half , good fun on the light gear when you are bored.

I pushed in on Saturday around the seven am mark,slowed by the early chill and several cups of cofee. we made our way out to the grounds in an uncomfortable following sea with nasty holes,slowing down our progress to 15 knts. We were fuelled by a week of reading the fishwrecked forums and had read all the weather reports  finally finding one that had a great forecast. First part of the morning was really slow, with one reasonable baldy, and  a sucessfully released small dhuie. As the day progressed we managed a Female dhu and in the arvo another,male this time.Overall the bite was slow and we worked hard for the bites but it was wa worthwkile outing. The friends and family where happy with the dinner provided on Sunday and my daughter held an impromptu concert on my boat tribute to the dhufish. Any how, off to hillarys to deliver the carcasses.

I know i'm a breamer and didnt think my first report was going to be on cuttlefish. Sorry guys the bream reports will come soon.

So i did the Southern groynes and rock walls and started slow at one spot but thought I'd persist there as the conditions were perfect. As a first time cuttlefisher i didnt expect much and didnt even see one squid about. My chances were now slimming down with the light fading and kept jigging. I saw this massive deep hole between rocks and decided to pop in jig down there when this football sized dark shadow grabbed my jig. After a few anxious moments rubbing on rock and this thing pulling a little line of me, i finally managed to grab the net and land it. Whoo hoo!!!!!!! My first cuttlefish and thought it wasnt a bad size either.

So i searched a few more holes and managed to pull another 3 out before the sun fell, but none as big as the first.

And i tell you what... They tasted brilliant!!

Thanks for reading enjoy the photos, had to take solo so they arent that good

Photo 1. The first and the biggest

Photo 2. One of the others(and a big hint on location :))

Photo 3. All 4 bagged up(heads and tenticles are seperate)

Photo 4. The end result, crispy fried morrocan spiced cuttlefish and bought chips haha

Dave

Evening!

So I ended up getting out this arvo for another squid, ended up with 6... loosing a monster at the side of the boat but you get that.

Plus, a first for me but got myself a nice little Flattie, on a squid jig... sized Im assuming as I didnt measure it, altho I enjoy Flathead it was released to swim another day.

Sorry about the picture quality not very focused

Other half got excited and started cleaning, not before I get photos babe! :-/

Sammy J

Hi All

does anyone know where we can catch Salmon Metro Beaches ?

if anyone know please share

thanks

Gday Crew,

Just a quick post, headed out yesterday arvo hoping to get some squid. Heard reports of a few around so was pretty excited to get out and get a few.

Started off pretty slow and quiet but they eventually showed up, ended up with 9 in the end and a couple not a bad size.

Hoping to get out again today but with a still NNE'ly blowing might hold off till this arvo fingers crossed it might die off.

Nothing beats a quiet arvo difting around and relaxing

Enjoy, Cheers

Sammy J

Had a great day at a secret beach down here, secret because its just so hard to get to! Salmon were firing all day, right in shallow too.... so the whole family had a go catching them. My wife loved it as did the young fella, who is a bit of a salmon vet...catching his first one at age 4!

Surfpopper was out fishing the ganged mulies!!  I had a ball on my bream outfit and a 10gm twisty......love winter days like this!!

I'll be going out later this afternoon for the first time targeting Cuttlefish. Looking forward to it and hope to post a report for you guys to tell you where they are and what jigs were the winners. A couple of squid as a by-catch would be welcoming. Will be hitting up the Southern Groynes and rock walls and will jig hard for 2 hours before the sun goes down.

Luck needed as this is officially a first for me. Will post report tonight

Dave

Went out towards rotto yesterday after the forecasted winds died down, for my first attempt at jigging, with another fw member, Eric, to show me how it's done. I'd grabbed a handful of jigs to try out and for some reason, I left half of them in the garage. I also had some gear stolen from my hilux overnight as well, so the start to the day was terrible. Couldn't have been any worse really. But sucked it up and headed out anyway.

Started sounding around for some good ground (I'm still very amateur at the hds 10) and soon enough found something that looked worth a shot. Sent the jigs down, tried out a few different techniques, knots and rods, and after a while Eric got creamed, line peeling off his reel. The fish was unfortunately dropped, but while I was busy watching him, my own rod went off. He got hit again while I was fighting my fish and bought up an undersized dhuie that got sharked right at the surface and I boated a 60cm dhuie! While its no monster, its the first size dhuie on my boat, and my first fish on jig! Not a bad way to open the account at all!

The rest of the day saw lots of action with numerous big hookups, but nothing serious boated. We called it a day at 4 and headed back at around 24 knots. Awesome weather. So all in all, a wicked day on the water, with a great first time jigging session and stoked to land my first dhuie, went down a treat for dinner. Also a big thanks to Eric for introducing me to jigging.

To the pricks who stole my gear, eat shit, you didnt wreck my day and I still caught fish!

One thing I realized is the importance of understanding my hds 10. But I'll start another thread about that one. Thanks for reading :)

I hear one of my new Karratha fishing buddies had a bit of a day out yesterday, may as well give him a bit of a pump coz I think he deserves it with his efforts.  54 boats in the comp, 8 billfish tagged for the day and he landed 3 and dropped 2 (due to a triple hookup) to be 1000 points clear on the leader board.  Looking outside its blowing a good 15 + easterly (which may not seem much to you perthies, but it seems to do horrible things with the tides and swell up here from what I've seen)

Just thought I'd commend him on his efforts, sure he'll speak up when he gets in!

Heading down to yallingup for the weekend, anyone got any reports for landbased fishing around that area at the moment?

Cheers

hey what fish have been round Mindarie marina or ocean reef boat harbour .

I m heading tomrrow afternoon if anyone have info please share

Thanks

I took my young lad out for a quick trip out, of Hilarys, on Saturday to try and get some squid.

He has been out a few times but was not really interested in the fishing. I got him rigged up and left him to practice letting the line out and reeling it back in.

Not much happened to begin with but soon i heard the "daddy, daddy i've got one", and another.... and another.... I thought the large one was going to pull him in.

Anyway the final score 3 - 0 to the young chap... and he's definately looking forward to his next trip out....

Any salmon reports from dunsborough lately? going to give it a crack friday and saturday.

 Hey guys,

Just a quick report that there are heaps of big squid at the busso jetty at the moment. I took home 2 (hoods just shy of 30cm) and we seen heaps of big ones being caught as we were walking up.

Good spots were just about at the end of the jetty and also right where the handrail on the right hand side stops the first time (where the banks meet the reef).

Also a few 50cm+ taylor and big skippy's caught right at the end. Barely a bite anywhere else though.

Happy fishing

 My mate and I got a few days of fishing in over the last few days and he had a bit of free time today to whip up a report which i thought was worth sharing, Enjoy

FISHING FRIDAY 25th TO SUNDAY 27th MAY –

Friday:

We headed north of Perth on Friday 25th for three days with our fingers crossed that the fish would be biting as we had not packed any dinner for a two night stay and had no spots in the GPS. Arrived at our destination, launched the boat and, after a short trip, were in the right depth to start waiting for a show on the sounder.

First drop using bait confirmed there were decent fish under us with a size dhuie coming on board. 

Milsey deployed a Lamble Haoli F2 jig whilst I stuck to bait. A few drops later and the deck looked a lot better with a baldy, the dhu and a nice 65cm pinkie on jig – more than enough for dinner.

The drift slowed down a fair bit so I dropped a McArthy Bullhead Minnow having never caught a decent fish on soft plastic. Up came a 50cm dhuie. Not bad for a first fish on SP.  After Milsey’s jig was smashed by a sambo we decided to head in shallower to find some reef to hunt a few crays.

Snared a few and called it a day. Found a nice spot to spend the night and into the pan went the baldy and the cray fish.

Saturday:

Saturday morning was very cold, but the very nice conditions willed us out of the warmth of our beds on deck. A couple of jumpers and a few poached eggs later and we were ready to head out again, deciding to explore deeper today.

We found a few good lumps on the way out in about 35m, and decided to scan around them. With fish showing, down went the lines. Milsey was hooked up to a solid fish within seconds on jig so I popped my bait rod in the rod holder to film. It lasted about 30 seconds before it was absolutely smashed so I dropped the camera, and picked up my rod. All hell broke loose with line peeling all over the deck. A few minutes later and up popped Milsey’s fish – a 8.5kg dhu,

followed by mine which weighed in at 12kg. Not bad for the first drop of the day. Decided to give the spot one more drift without bait, resulting in another two size dhuies, around 5kg on plastic and jig.

Headed out deeper next trying a few spots on the way which only produced more dhuies and by that stage we were hoping for a bit of variation – maybe some pinkies or baldies. Got a good show at about the 50m mark and set the drift. The added depth and the drift meant my plastic was struggling to get down so I swapped to bait and had barely hit bottom before I was smacked by a decent fish. Milsey grabbed the camera to film whilst still working his jig. Talk about multi tasking... Off went his jig after about 10 seconds of filming and down went the camera as he got stuck into what he called for a big dhu. My fish, being a 70cm pinkie, surfaced so I turned my attention to filming some of Milsey’s antics.

After nearly a 10 minute fight on PE3 a nice dhuie could be spotted doing circles as he came up under the boat. We netted him onto the deck and the lie detector registered just over 18kg with a length of just over a meter – Milsey’s PB dhu and on jig.

We chose to set off after this excitement to prepare for another cold night.

Sunday:

Once again we were greeted with beautiful conditions and wasted no time getting stuck back into it. Headed straight to the 30s again to find yet another spot which produced, you guessed it, more dhuies. We were both hooked up on the first drift with my 70cm specimen on McArthy the pick of the bunch.

Two drifts resulted in four dhuies so we decided to find some new ground out deeper. Again had a few good shows on the way out to drop on, but only produced more dhuies. I changed to jig for the next spot in the 50s with Milsey deciding to use a Pirate style Eupro as his main weapon for the day.

First drift and bang, I was on. The same again on the second drift resulting in my first baldy and pinkie on jig.

Now it was Milsey’s turn. His jig was getting nailed by something big and after two big thumps whatever it was came back for a third crack. Milsey well and truly set the hooks this time and his line went tight... After another decent fight he had tamed the beast and the 15kg, 94cm dhuie surfaced. What a way to finish the trip.

Overall it was great few days. Nice to add some new spots to the GPS and good to know the fish are more than happy to pounce on a few artificials. We lost count but over 30 dhuies were caught over the three days, with one day alone producing 18 of the buggers. The majority were successfully released with the 35 odd meter depth helping their cause. PB’s were broken and firsts achieved, and the fantastic weather and free flowing beers added to the experience. It was a classic trip and one which could prove difficult to top, especially so close to Perth.  

Thanks for the read

Nick 

With the weather looking pretty good Saturday, we decided to try for a few squid in the morning then head out deeper looking for some bigger fish.

Squid were pretty easy to come by, once we found one we found a few, got 25 in about 2 hours or so. Quite a few cuttle fish about too!

First squid

a couple more

Bright colours were doing the damage, orange and pink being the most productive.

Moved out deeper once the wind had backed right off.

Was a little quiet to start with, i started with plastics and jigs, getting a few hits on the plastics but nothing real promising. The bait boys were just as quiet so at least it didnt look too bad

After a bit of moving around we found some fish as the day went on, HEAPS of swallow tail (not sure why but these guys always show up this time of year, just before winter?)

Found a little flare on one of my older lumps and managed 6 dhu's in 2 drifts.

First reasonable one to Carl

Second one was to me! (been a while since I'd caught a reasonable dhu, always put the deckies onto them but not myself!)

Managed a couple baldies and black ass too, nothign huge but easily legal

Picked up a couple small sambos, then scano got his arms stretched on PE3 by this guy. He was hoping it was the mother of all pinky's or dhu's as he'd not put anything in the esky at this stage and was copping a bit of flack over it! But we all knew what the result was going to be with the long rungs away from the boat.

Fish of the day to Sean

Pretty good conditions and sunset on the way in! all in all a good day on the water!

soaked a mulie from 5;30 thismorning untill about 9;00. beautifull morning but no fish or runs,anyone else have any luck thismorning

 Took the oportunity to do some more exploring today with Pete B. We have both been  eachother's bad luck charm in the past, so we weren't expecting much and the almanac thing said it wasn't going to be brilliant either.

Anyways we headed out just as the sun was rising, always a great start to the day.

The wind was light but by the time we were out 10nm or more the steady wind had knocked up some pretty big waves, which made slow going for the trip out. I had decided to head out to a lump we had found last week with Greg and then use that as a starting point to move further north and try and find more ground.

Well as usual we didn't quite make it to the first mark as we found some new ground on the way there which delivered this nice Breaksea. (Hmmmm, not supposed to be a great day according to the almanac so lets keep it.)

On we went and again found more new ground, "now this looks promising" I said to Pete and we both rigged up and dropped down. Within a few moments I was on big time. I struggled to get it off the bottom but then as it got 10m up it became easy, so I slowed down, but still thought it was a reasonable size fish. Just as I saw colour Pete's rod bent double and he was on with a similar beast. As I stopped for my usual decompression stop I noticed that it wasn'nt one but two fish. "Jeez, that's allright Pete a double header Dhuie".

At this stage Pete was still struggling with his and it too became easier as it got closer. He called it for a good dhuie but we were amazed when we realised he had a double header of Dhuies too. Not bad for first drop on new ground.

We kept them all boatside while we grabbed the tagging kit and rigged up the release weight. We were going to keep two boatside but realised they were very lightly hooked so brought them all onboard.

That's the first time I have had 4 onboard at once so technically was I breaking the law (and if I was then the law is an ass).

I tagged one and Pete did the release, and by the time he had the release weight back up I had tagged the next and so on. It was a very quick proceedure and whilst not as good as leaving them boatside in the water it was the best we could do under the circumstances.

We kept the bigger of the three for the table and released the rest. 

We then proceeded to catch, tag and release a few more and whilst we tried the boatside technique again when we had more double headers several fish jumped off all by themselves, so apart from the 9 dhuies we tagged another 4 released while boarside waiting for us to get organized. I guess its a good sign that they were all brought up slowly and decompresion stopped, so they dove back down under their own steam.

We found more ground throughout the day and tagged a total of 12 fish keeping a good size baldy (sorry no pic, the blackarse from early in the day and two of the dhuies (both in the 60+cm range). The captures were pretty even with 7 of mine getting tagged and 5 of Petes.

Last spot dished up a nice Pinky for Pete, which was tagged and shot down to grow some more.

What a great day on the water. All fish taken on new ground so I couldn't be any happier.

This is my first fishing report so here goes…

I came home Tuesday evening and decided that I would hit the beach for a fish with my housemate as the fishing was supposed to be good. We fished for a few hours and I got three great runs,  I missed the first two runs as the fish just picked the bait ran a metre or so and then dropped it again, which I thought was strange, and lead me to believe that it could possibly be a Mully. I then finally hooked a fish which felt a good weight and my line snapped. I was not a happy camper to say the least so I packed up and headed for home.

I have just purchased a new rod (Nitro 13ft) as my old rod had a damaged eye ring which must have frayed/damaged the line before I noticed it. The next evening and purchased some new line on my way home from work, spooled my overhead and we were off to the beach once more, this time feeling a lot more confident. On the way I stopped by the fish shop and picked up some fresh bait. We arrived at the location just as the sun had set and the horizon was turning amber, and there was hardly a breeze. There were three or four other guys fishing the same beach when we arrived but the spot that I had the runs from the night before was free and the surf was low, perfect fishing conditions. I tied on my pre made rig, baited up and cast out into the gutter. I then tied a rig for my housemate as he has just moved to Australia and this was his second time fishing.

By the time I had this done I had just sat in my chair and my reel started to scream I quickly picked my rod from the rod holder flicked the leaver, engaged the drag, struck, and the fight was on. The fish took a good first run of probably a hundred metres followed by lots of head shakes, the sound of my reel screaming attracted the other anglers from down the beach as the rushed to see what was happening. I could feel the head shakes which assured me that it was not yet another ray, I knew this thing had a tail!!! I called it as a small shark or a Mulloway at first and said “I hope to god it’s a big Mully”, after a 10-15 minute fight and the fish began to tire, I walked closer to the waves, my headlight was nearly out of battery’s and with the faded light it was hard to see, I pulled with the wave washing up on the beach, and as it receded low and behold there it was my first decent size Mully. I could not believe it; I had fished this stretch of beach hundreds of times before and never got a Jewy.

The pictures from the beach didn’t turn out too good as my I phone screen is smashed. So the picture below was taken when I got home, which is a pity. The other anglers left the beach about an hour after I caught the fish however the fun was not over yet. We got one more run each and landed two decent shovel nose rays (one female and one male). We called it a night and headed for home both of us with our heads held high. My first decent Mulloway and my housemate’s first decent fish not to say he is truly hooked!!! After four year chasing the big Mully prevalence has paid off!!!

 headed out from ocean reef today.

got 2 dhus. 1 released.

4 baldys. 1 released

1 black arse

1 large KG