Did a most enjoyable fishing seshh with Magneto,

A junior Sambo on my already christened Daiwa sealine-X rod/Daiwa sealine SL50 reel combo.

Also a giant blowfish, an big ocky and other associated fish!

 Any ideas or advise for some good light tackle boat fun Saturday 

Hello everyone. Here is my report about the long awaited trip to Steep Point. It is my second time to the Point, the previous being just for an overnight stay. This was my first at taking the boat any great distance. My internet speeds are playing up (the family has exceeded the download limit again this month and it's reverted to dial up speeds), so when that changes back I'll upload photos. The first couple of days are brief because I didn't start taking notes until about Day Three and had to rely upon my increasingly failing memory.

Saturday 12 May
Pack trailer and boat, pizzas for dinner and me, Andy and Dan leave with the boat at 6pm. Peter will leave with the trailer on Sunday. Camped at Eagle Bluff (right in front of the 'No Camping' sign for a couple of hours kip before arriving in Denham around 7am.

Sunday 13 May
Unpack the boat and straight out to fish the shipping channel markers, particularly the Bent Peg. Nothing to keep from the bottom, best catch being undersized blue lined emperor. Trolling back Dan hooked onto a couple of shark maccies which were later put on the BBQ for dinner.

Monday 14 May
Awoke to a windy morning. Off to the Bakery for a pie and coffee for breakfast. Departed Denham for Steep Point. The boat was heavily loaded and struggled to get onto the plane. Wind died off a bit and by the time we got into South Passage it wasn't too bad at all. Set up camp at Tip Camp. Peter told us he copped some grief from members of the other camps due to the weight of the trailer. Got bogged a couple times on the way in. Went out for a troll and Dan picked up a few sharkies using a Halco pink and blue pilchard. Andy got one using a green xrap. Dinner consisted of a nice Japanese curry and rice prepared by Dan.

Tuesday 15 May
Breakfast of shakshouka (fried onions, capsicums and tomatoes with eggs poached in them). Tried hard all day for a fish without any luck. Came back with an empty esky. Dan hooked onto, landed and released a big ray off the beach that night. BBQ steak and snaggers for dinner.

Wednesday 16 May
Bottom bounced near the Rangers Hut and I got a nice 55cm pinkie using squid as bait. Trolled along the southwest cliffs of Dirt Hartog Island. Not long and we had three spaniards on the boat including a double hook up to Peter and me. Andy got the third. Peters was on a red head, and mine and Andy's on deep diving pink chromes. Bottom bounced for a couple more pinks and three sharkies finished off a great day on the water. Dinner was tandoori chicken and rice by me. A planned early night was not to be when we were raided by our neighboring camp insisting we drink much more alcohol. To add to this, Peter found a stray hook in the sand, the hard way, barb and all into his foot! Ouch!

Thursday 17 May
Awoke to a breakfast of cooked bacon and scrambled eggs by Dan. Weather was the best so far. Light winds and a much smaller swell. Trolled the cliffs of Dirt Hartog and I got a 93 cm spaniard on a xdd pink chrome. Not long after Dan's reel screamed into life and kept screaming as he was almost spooled. Soon a spaniard was in the boat that turned out to be longer than our ironing board filleting table, and the best fish landed of the week. Bottom bounced around Black Rock for one baldie and one sweetlip emperor to keep and lots of baldies and a just undersized spangled emperor all successfully released using a release weight. Moved in close to Surf Point for another baldie to keep and lots more released. One of the other camp members got a treble hook in his foot whilst the spaniard was still attached to the lure. We heard the cursing from our boat about 200 metres away! To add insult to his injury it wasn't even his fish! Unfortunately, it resulted in a quick boat trip back to Denham where it was removed at the nursing post under local anathestic. Dinner was some shark mackerel prepared in a fish curry by me (using a Neil Perry recipe - caramelise onion, ginger and garlic in a pan with some oil. Add garum masala, turmeric, paprika and salt, chicken stock and the cubed fish, cook through and serve with rice, yoghurt and lime juice. A great simple recipe, especially when camping and fishing!)

Friday 18 May
Awoke to another windy morning. Sat and waited. Took advantage of the down time to sort out some generator power problems, weigh our catch to date, and talk fish and drinking stories. Headed out to troll but didn't have any strikes. Decided to try some bottom bouncing in the calm waters of Shelter Bay. One the way in Andy picked up one spaniard on the troll. Bounced around the sand spit at the north western end of Shelter Bay in about 7 metres of water and caught and released a lot of cod, pinks and some blue lined emperor (black snapper). Dan got a couple of just size blue lines, before getting smashed by a 50cm blue lined. Headed in, hoping for less wind tomorrow. Dinner was a chicken curry prepared by our neighboring camp, (quite) a few beers, lots of stories and ribbing of those who hadn't caught much and the odd game or two of 'dice'.

Saturday 19 May
Awoke to a perfect day for fishing so out earlier, less Peter who was suffering the after effects of almost an entire bottle of bourbon. Trolled out of the passage and Dan picked up a 44 cm rankin cod on a lure, a 2m pink chrome I think. Turned north towards Black Rock and soon had several sharkies in the boat. I got a 93+ cm spaniard on a pink chrome and off we went again. Dan hooked onto a decent size fish but lost it, probably to a shark. Not long after my TLD25 absolutely screamed under the strain of a good size spaniard. The fish went on two long runs before I got some line back. On his retrieve, Dan hooked up so we had two on the go. Dan lost his to a shark, bringing aboard only a good sized head. I was getting some line back on my fish when I felt some violent head shakes which made me feel that not all was good below. As I just saw a lovely big streak of silver a fair way from the boat, I saw three large brown shadows lurking not far behind. It was only a matter of time, and despite my attempts to get it closer to the boat, in one foul swoop the largest of the sharks appeared to swallow my fish whole and then took me on a short run before biting straight thru the 80lb wire trace. Sighted a couple of whales out to sea. Andy hooked up and landed another spaniard and I got another sharkie before bottom bouncing for a while and then heading in to fillet and pack for tomorrow's long trip home to Perth via Denham. We divvied up the fish fillets. 46 kg's in total meaning about 11 + kg's each. Mainly spanish mackerel, with a bit of sharkie, and some nice reef fish to round it out.

Sunday 20 May
Awoke just before dawn to a heavy fog and dew. Great photo of the boat at anchor in the early moring fog. Packed up and away by 9.45. Great run back to Denham. Flat calm. Couple of dolphin and dugong sightings along the way. Back in Denham by 11.15 and Dan peeled for a week with the family at Monkey Mia. Andy and I started the long drive home to Perth.

All in all a wonderful trip, lots of fish, lots of laughs and as always, lots of great tales of ones that got away.

 hi there FW crew,

Well after being home for a week and a bit, the reality of work and life has set in again.  We had 3 fantastic weeks in Coral Bay, enjoying great weather, company and fishing.  The real highlight for me was to nail this Sailfish on jig.

We decided to head out the North Passage to some ground that had held fish in the past.  Conditions were almost glassy calm, so we shot out into the 70s and sounded around.  All our usual spots were bare, showing nothing on the sounder, and after a few drops with bait and artificals we decided to head out furthur and look for more country.  

We pulled up on some likely ground and again had a few drifts to no avail.  I then saw all this bait in the water and with the water so flat and clear you could see down 20m or so.  I grabbed my Stella combo already rigged up with a Smith Masume Jig that had already seen some action the day before, dropped it down and 40m or so..... then Jig... Jig....  wack!  Some thing hit it hard, but then nothing.  I dropped it down again,   Jig   ... Bang again.  I looked down to see a Sailfish 20 or so meters below turning, full sail up.  Hell a Sailfish!  I dropped the jig again and it followed and nailed it big time on the drop.

Then all hell broke loose.  I had him on a Stella 5000 SW with PE2, and a Taiyro Nano Speed  8-10kg Rod.  Plus I had about 400mm of 40lb Flurocarbon leader left from the day before, tied with an Albright to my double.  He then proceeded to jump about 4-5 times close to the boat, then just took off down deep.

For the next 30min, prob more,  run after run, I gently gently brought him up, arms aching cause it was a short but rod, to about 2 m below the boat where he stayed and just went around and around the boat with a few close calls

Lucky I was on the new Whaler Centre Console, because I meant I could just walk around the boat. Then gradually he came up and after a few attempts and misses we had him by the tail. After a few yahoos and photos, we swam it by the boat till he kicked hard and off he went.

During this the other boat we were fishing with saw the commotion and came over to see what was happening, and got some good pics.  Thanks to Greg and Chris on board to following instructions and putting up with my ranting during the fight.  I was stoked, still am...  

The funny thing is, that a few days later out a bit furthur, I managed to jig up a Black Marlin the same way using a big 7 inch Megastrike Plastic and again all hell broke loose, but he got off after busting through the leeder.  So in all, great fun, my Billfish tally stands at 2.

Stella stood up so well, very impressed with the Nanospeed, insane value, great combo that sadly was stolen from the boat while we were away

also here is what is left of the jig-  he totally smashed it 

Thanks for reading-   Jared

Thailand by far one of the most beautiful country in asia. Not only the people are friendly, the country has also  one of the BEST FRESHWATER  game fishing in the world.

I'm amaze and fallen in love with this beautiful country in which I call home. I am fortunate to have a thai family and children (thai ) who live together with me in Thailand.

Fishing is my business and fishing is also my hobby + passion.

I believe I'm the only avid or you can call me crazy angler who ......

"Live  to fish and fish to live" haha !!!

Enjoys yet another one of my exciting youtube clip and catch report....

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

Highlight photo shots....;)

Toman on sights castings.....

Wild sebarau (Jungle perch) on sights castings.....

Eli, a member on Roughfish.com, and I had been chatting for a bit about organizing a trip to target American Shad on the Ottawa River. Unfortunately, this spring's weather was a bit messed up and the shad did not arrive early as we hoped. However, Eli said he would try to help me to add a Greater Redhorse at the minimum. I also hope to be extremely lucky to find a Lake Sturgeon and a River Redhorse. However, the latter two targets are harder to find than winning the lottery.

On Friday, I began my drive at 06:30. With a couple of stops for food and gas, I finally arrived in Ottawa by 11:00. Another hour outside of Ottawa, I arrived at a spot where Eli had caught 3 Lake Sturgeon two weeks prior.

As I set up, Eli texted me and asked how everything was going. Well, nothing much was going at all, but Eli said there could be a lot of freshwater drum this time of year.

It was slow fishing. I got the occasional fish rang the bell on the rod...nothing really serious enough to take line off the Shimano Baitrunner. Luckily, I did get one skunk buster at about 3pm.



At about 4:30pm, I called it a session and drove back to Ottawa to grab a bite and try location #2. There was some road construction which made me terrible lost in the one way streets of Ottawa...but finally, after 30 minutes of driving round and round, I arrived. Eli said location #2 should have some sauger. I had caught sauger before...but I want to catch another one for a nice picture. However, location #2 only yield 3 cigar walleye and 1 mooneye about 14". I released all the fish without any picture...you just have to trust me LOL. Eli came by the river after work and after picking up a new car. It was great to finally chat in person. We made plans for the next morning.

I left at about 8:30pm and arrived at my friend's house where I'll stay for the weekend. I've known my friend since we're kids and it was great to see him owning a house and expecting a baby in 6 months.

Saturday morning, Eli picked me up at about 8:30am. It was a 40 minutes drive to our Greater Redhorse river. Once we arrived, we looked from the bridge and saw a small pod of Greaters in the deeper channel of the small river. Eli instructed me to cast downstream of the fish and retrieve upstream into position such that the worm would be places just an inch or two from the fish. It was much easier said than done since the river was riddled with Common Shiners, Creek Chubs, Pumpkinseed Sunfish and Rockbass. Most times, those critters were much quicker than the Greater Redhorse and they would get to the worm before I could even position the bait. After a few tries, the Greater Redhorse pod was spooked.

There was one more fish left and it was a redhorse. We thought it was a Silver Redhorse, a decent size one. With the first perfect presentation to the fish. it grabbed the worm quickly. After a good fight from the bridge, Eli netted it by the river side and I quickly ran down to join him.

Awesome Silver Redhorse!



But we're here for the Greater Redhorse. Since the fish vacated the downstream areas, we looked upstream to find a few skittish fish. At last, we finally found a few more below a weir. I made repeated attempts at them, but the fish appeared to be feeding on other things living in the algae covered rocks. They were not at all interested in my worm.

While I try for the Greater Redhorse, Eli was testing out his new telescopic Shimano ultralight with a spinner and a bit of worm to catch some minnow species. Strangely, all the fish, including the rockbass, were not very receptive of the spinner. However, they continues to taunt me by stripping my bait every few casts.

After an hour of trying, Eli checked downstream again and he saw a larger Greater Redhorse from the bridge. He called me over and I positioned the bait in perfect location after several tries. We saw the fish swam up and the lips flashed. I thought the fish had already sucked up the worm so I went to set the hook...but instead, it spooked the fish. It was likely just tasting the water for the worm and had not taken it fully. Darn! It was so close! That could have been the only shot I'll get!

I went back upstream to fish the weir. I had a perfect shot at 3 Greater Redhorse. Just as one fish was right on top of my bait, I heard Eli called for me. I had to wait until the fish ignored my bait before I ran back to the bridge. From the bridge, we could see a larger Greater Redhorse hanging out with the Silver Redhorse that I had caught earlier. It took only two tries this time to position my rig in front of the fish...and soon enough, the fish gulped the worm in and Eli screamed "Set it! Set it!"

I was slow on the draw since I was afraid to set too early...but this time, I pulled back and felt weight. The fish barely moved off bottom on the hookset...but as soon as it felt the hook penetrate, it freaked out! I was shaking during the whole fight. I had a scary moment when the fish looked like it was going to run under the bridge. However I managed to stop the fish from going under and guide it to the waiting net that Eli that put into the water. After a 45 second fight, the Greater Redhorse was finally mine!

Greater Redhorse (Moxostoma valenciennesi)...#212! It took me 4 years of trying and I finally caught it! What a journey it has been. I had checked all the rivers west of Toronto such as the Grand, Thames and Conestogo. These rivers hold Greater Redhorse, but even though I've fished there in the spring, summer and fall, I had yet to find them. Finally, this chapter can be closed. :D





Since these Greater Redhorse are in the river to spawn, we do not want to stress them too much. So we decided to fish another river after to search for a River Redhorse.

Eli had a few locations to try and we run and gun a few places. We didn't see much of any signs of River Redhorse. But we finally settled on a location to fish for whatever fun.

I was bottom bouncing the rocky bottom in the current while Eli fished the tail end of a rapid letting the bait sit still on bottom. I caught a few Smallmouth Bass while Eli caught a Silver Redhorse. After about an hour, we repositioned slightly downstream to fish a large back eddy. Here, Eli caught a couple more Silver Redhorse included his handsome specimen.



Eli noticed some Common Logperch on the river bottom. These fish are very common, but strangely, I've never really seen them while fishing. This was another opportunity to catch a new species. I tied on a 3lb leader and a #20 hook. Using a BB size split shot to keep the rig on bottom, I quickly attracted the attention of the Logperch...plus other fish like Pumpkinseed, Rockbass and Fallfish. Unfortunately, the non-target species were always quicker on the bait. I also had a small school of Logperch being chased by a larger Rockbass. Luckily, I noticed that there were even more Logperch hanging out on a pebbly area close to shore. After a few tries, I landed my first, second and third Common Logperch!

Common Logperch (Percina caprodes)...#213!



We had already fished late into the afternoon. With another new species added, we called it a day.

At 5:45am on Sunday morning, I picked up Eli at his apartment. We drove upstream of the spot I fished on Friday to fish the weir area. Hopefully the Lake Sturgeon is in the area.

I decided to fish a large back eddy where the sturgeon may feed. Eli said this area could also be good for Channel Catfish. It was a very slow morning with only a few quick taps, a cigar walleye and a Channel Catfish. When Eli called me to offer a fresh fish to use as cut bait, I caught a 15" Channel Catfish with the cut bait.

Eli was fishing upstream and he caught a Silver Redhorse, a Freshwater Drum, a 4lb Channel Catfish, a Mooneye and a couple of Shorthead Redhorse. However, this was considered very slow by his standard. He suggested that we should move to the other side of the river where some carp were rolling.

We grabbed some fresh worms, some cold water and some nice for my catfish. A short relocation after, we started on some very slow fishing. There were a few quick taps on the rod, but nothing too serious. At about 2pm, I found an area with a rocky flat where a school of Shorthead Redhorse had moved in. It was steady fishing for these Shortheads. Between the two of us, we caught about a dozen Shortheads in about 1.5 hours. We released most of the fish quickly without a picture since we were fishing a high bank. It took a little effort to get down to the river's edge to release the fish gently. We really didn't have time to take picture.

Eli noticed some butterflies around so he went to get a few shots. While he was shooting, his rod went off and I went to grab it. At the exact same moment, a fish took my bait so hard that my rod tipped over and was flipped out of the rod pod. I just grabbed in time before it fell into the river. While Eli took his rod, I played my fish and landed a decent Channel Catfish.



We also had a couple of fish snapped us off. There were a lot of zebra mussels growing on bottom and our mono or braid was no match for it. Both times, a good hit that completely bend the rod was followed with a solid hook up and a line snap before you can even say "nooooo".

We ended the day with a couple more Shorthead Redhorse. We did take a picture of the last fish of the day.



Initially, we were hoping to fish Monday as well. However, after two days of hard fishing, we decided to save the unfinished and next to impossible task of finding a Lake Sturgeon or a River Redhorse for another trip. I had to leave Ottawa by 12pm and it just wouldn't leave too much time to check three different locations and have any meaningful attempt at those fish.

It was a great pleasure to fish with Eli. We chat a lot about where we've fished, our experience with different species, and upcoming trips that were highly anticipated. I hope to fish with Eli again. If I can manage it, maybe I can visit Ottawa in the fall to try for some night time sturgeon fishing. :D

Thanks Eli for being a great local guide and my friend Jerome for hosting me for the weekend. I hope Eli can find time to visit me this summer so I can return the favour and help him add Golden Redhorse, Northern Hogsucker, Longear Sunfish, Brown Trout, Quillback and Grass Pickerel to his list :D

just a question, where is the best spot to go for some salmon. ive heard challenger is alright but just want to no if anyone else has had luck and where abouts. cheers

 The big ones our out and there hungry, get into them while u can, this is my latest tailor catch this season

Hey guys

Apologies firstly for lack of pics. stupidly left camera behind.

Anyhoo , It had been planned for some time to hit Jurien with a couple other family's , and tow up the boat, in the hope of 1 good day out.

Arrived friday and had 4 days there.  I'd dropped by seasport tackle on sat , to get the weather update and to get a cheap jetty rod for mates kids.

We had some fun on the jetty catching a few littluns and giving the kids something to do on sat eve.

With sunday looking pretty good on the buoyweather report , It was decided that an earlyish start was in order , and hopefully get out wide to the back of the bank.

We arrived at the ramp sun morn with just another boat behind us. (turned out to be fisho ron and the boys) .

The guy I was taking out , hadn't done much fishing , and certainly hadn't caught anything decent , so it was my aim to get him onto a decent fish.

We headed off out into a bit of a lumpy confused sea to look for some likely ground.  It took about an hour before we came across a likely looking spot with some good signs hanging around it.

Mate had bought an old rod along which really should have been consigned to the shed , an old rig still tied on from months ago. He had one drop with this but got caught up and snapped the whole rig off. 

I then gave him my DJ200 and torsa 16n combo to use.  We came around on the mark again and dropped.  

His bait had barely touched the bottom when I heard him grunting away.  turned around to see the rod fully loaded up. He was sweating a bit and swearing a lot.  took him a few mins but got the fish off the bottom , and up it came. 

Well , he scored fish of the day on first drop .  A solid mulla which didn't have a hope of fitting into the esky. I did overcall the size for over 20kg , which surprisingly turned out to be only 14.5 for such a sizey looking fish.     Couldn't wipe the smile off his face , and the shit slinging started soon after , until he started to get a bit green around the gills , and made the suggestion of heading in.. 

No way , not till I'd got onto a couple , so , numerous repeated drifts were done and jigs and plastics were sent down. 

had to lighten up the jig to a 100gram caprice before I got hit , and bought up another very nice mulla.

Tried the 10 inch pink dildo's and once again , smashed by another good mulloway. (expensive fishing the dildo's eh, one or two fish and it's past it's best)

caught good amount of them on everything , along with pinkie's sambo's and a couple of unstoppables.

Came in early , but seems a few guys had the same idea.

Top trip , but def need to spend some more time up here

 Has anyone had any luck with bream in the maylands to guildford area. All i seem to get is small fellas. Hoping the recent rains and the river being murky may start some of the big guys moving about ???. Tried bait and soft plastics with the same results.

Hi guys I thought I would do a report on one of my fishing seshs

Last Friday me and a couple of mates went to the cott groyn for a fish. That night as soon as I got there my mate hooked a massive shovel nose (about 1.7 meters), reeled it in, later we caught a massive eagle ray, put it back. About half an hour later we caught another eagle ray on for it to snap us off in the reef, Later we got another ray this time a smooth ray.

Sucks we only got rays, we kayaked the baits out about 200 meters from shore hoping to catch gummy sharks and tigers. 

Thanks for reading

Headed out on Saturday with Chrisp and TimVB on my tug for a day of demersal jigging near Rotto. Easterlies were stronger than expected and it was not that comfortable for most of the day.

Got 6 dhuies for the day, only 1 was size to Chrisp but was in such good nick that we released it along with the undersized ones. Tim also lost one to a very large shark after slowly bringing one up to reduce barotrauma.......no barotrauma but a fair bit of other trauma I suspect.... despite trying numerous spots were could not find any large dhu's.

At one spot in the 40's, we were amazed at the water temp, at 23.6 degrees, compared with 18.5 on the 3 mile.....wow, still maccie temp......and that proved to be the point very soon after with a couple of jig snip-offs mide water (me loosing my second Slide Actor to Maccies with a grand total of about 4 cranks of the reel handle.........) and then Chrisp hooking up to a nice maccie on jig for about 30 secods before it bit through his asssit hook and left some big nasty teeth marks in the jig.

There was plenty of bait on the sounder so we toiled away with the PE2 jigging hoping for a maccie hook-up or a stray dhu, then bang, I was on, and on in a big way.......numerous sizzling runs on the Stella 4000 had us calling big dhu, maccie, sambo, then maccie again......ended up a good sambo on PE2, certainly lucky not to get bricked.

Tim then backed it up with another sambo soon after on his PE2 outfit, his Stella complaining as loudly as mine.......

Tough day on the water but still good fun and a few nice fish all released.

Bit of a belated report, but between a new bubs and starting a new job, has taken a bit of time to get around to writing.

After heading out a few weeks prior just before bubs came along, me and the old man ventured out a bit further than we normally did off mandurah and got stuck into some dhu and sambos.

Well, Friday week ago for another shot.  Forecast was about 9knots and 2m of swell, so we went for the 40km trek out from Mandurah.  Back to the same spot on the sounder and nothing.  Second spot nothing. We sounded around for a bit and nothing really came up.  Ended up pulling close tot he mark and just drifting around, at the casual pace of 0-0.5km/h :).  When we came out previously there was a big blow up like some baitfish on the bottom in 2 spots, with large pickups above, presumably the dhus and sambos, and now was barely a flicker.

A sort time into the drift dad pulled up a nice size sgt baker for bait then a good size blackarse.  Then I was on.

82cm and my now PB Dhu.

Kept trying to work the area now with plastics and the bait for anly a small bit of activity.  Had a Nannygai come up, legal, but not really worth keeping, dad picked up a very good size blackarse on the placcy, his first fish on one and then I got a small pinky.  We decided to head a couple hundred metres north and got a small patch on the screen, once we eventually lined up properly instantly dad was on, with another blackarse, and so was I.

Now a 62cm Dhu.  So the BA went back and so did we, all done by 1pm, back at the ramp at 2:30.

Both the Dhu were caught on baker fillets, the rest on squid, and one fish on a placcy.  Was a great day again!

Definatley have some faith in the metro fishing now, was really starting to miss coral bay!!!

Went out with Whitey on Wednesday. Was only myself, whitey and his decky on the jigs the rest were fishing bait. Both was slow as the drift was opposite to the wind but once that stopped the jigs took over. I ended up with a decent amount of fish on jigs so i was stoked. Pb snapper to go with it pulling my olds scales down to 10.2kg i think whitey said it was 87cm. Was awesome to see as usual Whitey taking care of all unwanted fish and released properly watching each one swim off into the depths especially those dhuies...always have a great time out with the king of jurien cheers mate. 

I'm posting this report for a friend of mine who had an encounter with a large shark yesterday ( Thursday )

They had hooked a large Bronzie and fought it for a while then it became just a dead weight. They were in amazed to see what was left of it as is came to the surface .

Shortly after a visiter started to circle the boat.

Estimated at over 4 m it stayed around then decided to have a munch on the outboard wich now started to worry the guy's .

The boat owner decided to give it a whack with the gaff and all hell broke loose.

Now with a 3m gaff stuck in its side it went crazy and started to free jump, on the third jump it nearly landed on the transom and the disappeared into the deep and was not spotted again. The owner of the boat knows his sharks and says it was a Great White . I'm no expert but didn't think a GW could jump that high, but ive never seen one with a gaff stuck in its side either .

All i can say is You Guys are Crazy . lol . Cheers Grant .

Catching some decent Tailor-60cm+ northern metro at the moment, bigger than the 40-50 they have been the last couple of months. They seem to only be in small schools but they're around and fun. Use Bull Chops or River to Sea 150mm dumbell poppers, they seem to be doing the trick and an hour before high tide. Remember to change trebles to single hooks and crush the barbs, if you dont you will injure the jaws of the fish, tailor have pretty fine jaw structure.

This post is promised from another fw members comment on another thread so here goes.

Woke up about midday, the norm lately and wandered down stairs to look out the window, complete glass off on the river so figured see if dads keen to head out for some squid. (he was extremely jet lagged only arriving back from NY monday arvo). He seemed reasonably keen so rods and beers loaded, a trip up the deli for ice and snacks and we were on the water by about 1pm.

Arrived out the front of FSC not long after and proceeded with the first drift, after 5 or maybe 10 mins with not 1 squid.  discussions of a move were being made, spoke too soon. Over the next 15 minutes 12 squid and a couple of cuttle fish were landed, the cuttlefish going back. We continued to go back over the same drift and repeatedly produced 2's, 3's and 4's.

A couple of drifts further away and for some reason we couldnt get past the cuttle fish, caught about 10 in 20 minutes was a bit annoying as a big cuttly feels like a monster squid until you dont get those lunges characteristic of a large squid on light tackle. Dad managed to lose his favourite jig which i had another exactly the same in my bag but upon producing it and offering it to him he proclaimed its not the same, mine was browner in colour (it was the same effing jig brand, weight, colour i know because i bought them both).

So after reluctently accepting my offer he put the jig on and again claimed it wasn't the same. He had a point as he was doing pretty well with the previous jig on his 3ft ugly stick and shimano hyperloop super cheapy outfit that he wont let me replace for him. So i tested a whole heap of the new jigs i bought and seems they worked well, so tested 4 out of the 12 new colours i purchased. Really like new the Yo-zuri range, clear bodys and chrome reds to be exact.

On a final note one of the first squid we caught was attacked by something, at the time dad mentioned felt like something was hitting it, kind of took a small run and when what came up afterwards i thought holy crap maybe a macky, then thought about it and figured more like a norwester. Let you guys decide.

Cheers

Righteo

(excuse the phone photo quality)

well , wednesday was a killer, being stuck at work and seeing how good it looked outside.

Just had to get today off after seeing the forecast , but didn't fancy my chances , as I have a long weekend booked already.

Well , the boss was pretty good about it and good job too.

I'd lost my main deckie, as he was heading out on his mates boat, so it was a solo bash. headed out early from two rocks with the intention on getting to my spots around the tide.

It worked out well , and I arrived and began sounding around.   found another little lump a little way off my mark that looked the goods.

I'd bought bait just in case , but it was a new smith mejiyume that was sent down first.  a couple of twitches , and I'm on straight away. love it when that happens on the first drop.  

It was a good fish and it didn't want to get off bottom , but after a bit of boat manouvering 1 handed , I was directly over the fish again. the little jig force had a pretty decent bend in it , and a few mins later , up came the fish of the day .  15.8kg on the scales at home. 

the next hour saw some decent dhu's over the gunnels up to 70cm ,from different spots ,  but after that , they weren't so keen on the jig .

i relented and switched to fresh sgt baker fillets , which got pretty smashed by pinkie's , queen snapper and more dhu's

Bite seemed to shut down around 11, so didn't bother persisting , with the decent dhu in the esky.

 Headed out yesterday with my next door neighbour on his boat with the view to exploring some new ground north of where we usually fish. We were going to take two boats out to increase the ground coverage but after my eldest daughter pulled the plug I decided to hop on board with Greg and his son and just use the one boat.

We launched from Mindarie and headed to some ground we both fish regularly before taking a northwesterly heading in line with those patches of ground we had. It wasn't long before we had a few new spots to fish, but apart from a few sambo's that made Matt grunt and groan we didn;t land much until the afternoon tide change.

We were lucky enough to find several new lumps in the afternoon all of which had fish on them and we finished with a full bag of 2x dhuies, 3 x pinkies and a big baldie between us. Not to count the other dhuies, pinkies and blackarse we released. 

All in all a great day on the water and to pull every fish from new ground was especially pleasing.

Well it has taken me two weeks to post this but it has taken me 5 months to catch it! I headed out on a friends boat 2 Sundays ago. It is a large 45 footer but it was well and truley needed that day.The forcast wans't great and by not great i mean it was for 20 plus knots and 2.5 mt swell.... We didn't have many options of another day to go out so i made the call to go as the forcast (very unusally) for Perth was for this howling westerly to drop during the day.

So we putted out of the heads and straight to the lee of Carnac to grab some squid.7 in three drifts was good but as skipper and "fisherman" on board i knew we couldn't sit there all day in this awesome boat catching squid.... So out past the reef, line in the water and a slow troll towards stragglers was the plan. Man, to say it was rough was a massive understatement. Lets put it this way, I didnt see one other boat on the water fishing all day(never seen that before).

It was blowing over 20 and a good 2.5 meter swell side on. My brother inlaw was lain out in the cabin for a good hour sick as a dog. So I called it to pull the lines in and head to the lee of Rotto for a try for whitting. This was a waste of an hour other than for those who were a little green to get some colour back and for the rest of us to have a beer. The forecast had been for the wind to drop midmorning but unfortunatly it was after 1 and it was still blowing. Another call and we dicided to head aorund from the lee and try for a mack and brave the wind.

The wind did start to drop and even with the 2.5 meter swell it was fishable once the westerly died down. 10 mins in a fish, lots of whooping from me before it was dropped. We 20 mins later I was on! A quick fight and after who knows how many hours, how many shark mackeral and how many liters of fuel this summer my first metro mack was boat side. Gave the rod to my mate and made the gaff shot my self. Wasn't going to miss that one.

It took a while to stop rocking but at least the day was salvage somewhat.

I wish i had a photo of the weather, this one really doesnt do it justice.

I've been back from my Exmouth and Coral Bay trip for a week and a half so I thought I better upload some pics.

Had an interesting time in Exmouth this year, started off with the comp with Team Red Shirts winning 2 prizes thanks to the great work by deckie Amanda. The second day of the comp was interesting with boat problems stuffing the day up. Thanks to Adam for organising the comp :)

We also did some excellent snorkelling at Oyster Stacks and did Kayaking up Yardie Creek.

The highlight of the trip was scoring my PB Red Emp 10.57kg.

The lowlight was the F##king sharks, I swear its getting worse.

Anyway heres some pics from Exmouth. I will upload some Coral Bay ones later.

Gday,

Haven't posted any reports before but while avoiding doing Uni work I've been looking through some trips and decided to share. I'm not great with a camera so forgive me if my fishy shots aren't that great. Shark Bay 2010!

This was my first trip north with my old man, we've camped around the southwest heaps and decided to try something different. Plus I really wanted to catch more than redfin and eastuary species! We headed up in late June and it was raining on and off pretty much the whole way up. It was about 10pm and we were somewhere past Kalbarri (i think) and looking for a spot to camp for the night. It was looking pretty grim due to the rain and no cover, when we came past some now familiar rain tanks and both went "YES thats perfect!"

Continuing on it wasn't far to the turnoff and then we got our first glimpse of shark bay. The plan was to head straight up into the national park and camp at Bottle Bay, as the old man had heard it was a good spot. First disaster- the tracks were closed due to the rain. That left us with only the 'bottom half' of the shark bay peninsula to choose from. We ended up following a trakc onto the east side that went along the beach a bit, and set up camp. Its really shallow on this east side, but it just so happened that when we arrived it was high tide.

As soon as we had set up i grabbed my rod, tied on a soft plastic and cast out. I started bouncing it along the bottom and got a shock when it was attacked, first cast! i had a short tussle with whatever it was but it got off. bugger. Second cast same deal. Third cast untouched. I figured whatever it was might have clued onto the lure, so I tied on something different, and again first and second cast got attacked but couldnt set the hooks, very frustrating!

I waded out to a series of small sandbars and continued changing lures and getting the same result, until finally i managed to set the hooks and pulled in my first ever long tom, he must've been about a metre long, i was pretty stoked!

Must be the meanest fish i've ever met. Ill have to try upload the video, as i released him he actually came at me and latched onto my foot! cheeky bastard.

I got no more bites after that so retired to the campfire for the rest of the day. bit more drizzle that night but a beautiful morning greeted us.

We tried wading around casting in the hope of a flathead, but the tide was out and nothing was happening. further up the beach we came across this shack behind the dunes, where we stopped to make bacon sandwiches before venturing on.

The next two days were pretty uneventful as the track to the national park was closed, and we spent the days driving around the bottom half and camping wherever. finally we were alowed access to te national park, and we headed straight up to the beautiful Bottle Bay.

As soon as we'd setup I started chucking a lure around, and in the fading light I hooked into something decent (on 8lb Suffix mono). I pulled in a little mackeral and cast out again, instant hit but got bitten off. Chucked a dodgy old wire trace on and kept casting but got no hits.

Macky got turned into green fish curry, yum.

the next morning i went for a walk up the beach and came to a fishy looking rocky outcrop. When i say fishy i mean there was literally fish fins poking out, circling around in a patch of water about 5 mtrs from shore! I lobbed a cast out well behins them and hooked into what turned out to be a nice tailor. I continued casting, landing another three and losing just as many. I also had a flathead dart out and take the lure almost at my feet, which actually gave me a fright he was that close haha. apologies for the picks but i was by myself and trying to get the lure back out there asap.

Flathead released btw, oh and the fish fins turned out to be fat mullet! The tailor got eaten for lunch and i kept the frames for bait. Later that day, we decided to have a go for flathead again, and started walking the shoreline casting small minnows with no luck. seeing baitfish jump was a pretty regular occurance, but seeing some getting really harassed and having no flathead luck, i switched to a metal and lobbed it out, and again started hooking into tailor.

My old man followed suit but got busted off twice in a row, blaming the line on his rod and saying it had been sitting in the shed for eons. Being the top bloke that I am I let him have a go on my rod, and we each caught and lost a few tailor. I didnt get a picture but they were all similar size to the medium ones from earlier. The old boy had a go at hot-smoking them that night, and they turned out pretty good.

Had another cast around sundown and got another little mack.

Put a tailor frame out on gangs that night and got my first Mulloway!! haha wasnt exactly huge tho, old man's foot there for scale.

Later on I hooked an unstoppable ray (cheapy beach rod combo) and that was all for the night. We left the next morning, and despite the first couple days being somewhat wasted I had an awesome trip. cheers for reading.

testing photo uploads

abc

I have read the forum for quite a while now so thought it time to share some of the results of my most recent trip – first week of May in Coral Bay!

Thursday night departure from Perth at about 6pm. About an hour into the trip, the first (and thankfully the last) casualty of the trip when a trailer blows a tyre just out of lancelin – ½ an hour behind schedule.

Next stop – Shell Gero

Cars are fuelled. It’s just after midnight when we pull out only to have the red and blue lights show up in the rear vision mirror – despite the pre-trip checks, it seems that the driving lights on the trailer have failed! The indicators and brake lights are fine and after a few precautionary words from the boys in blue, along with the standard breatho test, we are off on our way again- next long haul to Carnarvon commences.

Carnarvon at 6am, cars and boats are fuelled for the final leg into Coral Bay.

Depart Carnarvon and we are hit with 3 hours of pea-soup – the fog was incredible and a bit daunting at the same time – just waiting for cattle to appear in the 30-40 metres of visibility that we had – again, thankfully, this didn’t happen.

15 kms out the fog lifts and at 9am we pull into coral bay to be met with light offshore winds – the cars and boats couldn’t be unpacked/ packed quick enough and by about 1030, we launch at the ramp.

The first call of the day was “false passage?” and the nods are all around – anything to get us out to the hunting grounds that 5 minutes earlier.

The winds were light and the swell almost non-existent so we head in the direction of false passage (for those not familiar with Coral Bay, there are two main avenues to the deep water – North and South passage – north is in the realm of 3 – 4 km wide and is an all-condition safe navigation – South Passage not so much. It’s about 200 metres wide and breaks on a swell of 2.5 metres or so and a low or outgoing tide. False Passage is a relatively unknown exit of the sheltered waters and called false for a reason – it’s not a real one!)

Anyway, as we line up to head out, swell lines build on the horizon and proceed to close out the false passage! A look between the boats confirms what we both know – that it could have been an early exit to the fishing week on the first outing so we proceed to the South Passage – no dramas.

Throttles are dropped and the salt slaps the ally chariots as we power out wide. This is the first day of the week long trip and expectations are high.

First drift is set..

 and high fives go round as the first notch on the Red scoreboard is made! This is what we have waited the 12 months for!

The following 7 days produced some notable highs and only a couple of “disappointments”. From Red’s in plague proportions, 150Kg+ Marlin swimming up to the boat, witnessing a 14ft tiger shark catch and eat a huge sea turtle, to getting ‘sharked’ a few times and a couple of comical failed net/ gaff attempts (for which those involved were appropriately penalised)!

Each day presented us with some amazing conditions (some days too good in that we could not drift), and some amazing fish.

We didn’t hit any patches of trophy reds but we did manage some nice ones in the 8-9 kg range and a heap not far behind. Heaps of Cobia and Rankins around also which provided for some tasty sashimi and thick fillets respectively. The eskies were then topped up on a daily basis with the usual suspects – Robbo’s, Spanglies, Sweetlips, Goldbands and a few Pearl Perch thrown in for good measure.

An few more shots below display some of the week’s work, an amazing place and another fantastic fishing trip. Bring on 2013….

average conditions??

Part of day 1

Day 2

Day 3

bit of variety. Coronation and Cobia

smiles all round

little goldband

Day 5 I think... Red Alert!!

luckily we managed to keep most of our fish away from these guys - were plenty around though.

goodbye for another year :(

I have read the forum for quite a while now so thought it time to share some of the results of my most recent trip – first week of May in Coral Bay!

Thursday night departure from Perth at about 6pm. About an hour into the trip, the first (and thankfully the last) casualty of the trip when a trailer blows a tyre just out of lancelin – ½ an hour behind schedule.

Next stop – Shell Gero

Cars are fuelled. It’s just after midnight when we pull out only to have the red and blue lights show up in the rear vision mirror – despite the pre-trip checks, it seems that the driving lights on the trailer have failed! The indicators and brake lights are fine and after a few precautionary words from the boys in blue, along with the standard breatho test, we are off on our way again- next long haul to Carnarvon commences.

Carnarvon at 6am, cars and boats are fuelled for the final leg into Coral Bay.

Depart Carnarvon and we are hit with 3 hours of pea-soup – the fog was incredible and a bit daunting at the same time – just waiting for cattle to appear in the 30-40 metres of visibility that we had – again, thankfully, this didn’t happen.

15 kms out the fog lifts and at 9am we pull into coral bay to be met with light offshore winds – the cars and boats couldn’t be unpacked/ packed quick enough and by about 1030, we launch at the ramp.

The first call of the day was “false passage?” and the nods are all around – anything to get us out to the hunting grounds that 5 minutes earlier.

The winds were light and the swell almost non-existent so we head in the direction of false passage (for those not familiar with Coral Bay, there are two main avenues to the deep water – North and South passage – north is in the realm of 3 – 4 km wide and is an all-condition safe navigation – South Passage not so much. It’s about 200 metres wide and breaks on a swell of 2.5 metres or so and a low or outgoing tide. False Passage is a relatively unknown exit of the sheltered waters and called false for a reason – it’s not a real one!)

Anyway, as we line up to head out, swell lines build on the horizon and proceed to close out the false passage! A look between the boats confirms what we both know – that it could have been an early exit to the fishing week on the first outing so we proceed to the South Passage – no dramas.

Throttles are dropped and the salt slaps the ally chariots as we power out wide. This is the first day of the week long trip and expectations are high.

First drift is set..

 and high fives go round as the first notch on the Red scoreboard is made! This is what we have waited the 12 months for!

The following 7 days produced some notable highs and only a couple of “disappointments”. From Red’s in plague proportions, 150Kg+ Marlin swimming up to the boat, witnessing a 14ft tiger shark catch and eat a huge sea turtle, to getting ‘sharked’ a few times and a couple of comical failed net/ gaff attempts (for which those involved were appropriately penalised)!

Each day presented us with some amazing conditions (some days too good in that we could not drift), and some amazing fish.

We didn’t hit any patches of trophy reds but we did manage some nice ones in the 8-9 kg range and a heap not far behind. Heaps of Cobia and Rankins around also which provided for some tasty sashimi and thick fillets respectively. The eskies were then topped up on a daily basis with the usual suspects – Robbo’s, Spanglies, Sweetlips, Goldbands and a few Pearl Perch thrown in for good measure.

An few more shots below display some of the week’s work, an amazing place and another fantastic fishing trip. Bring on 2013….

average conditions??

Part of day 1

Day 2

Day 3

bit of variety. Coronation and Cobia

smiles all round

little goldband

Day 5 I think... Red Alert!!

luckily we managed to keep most of our fish away from these guys - were plenty around though.

goodbye for another year :(

Hi all,

Went for a fish down Trigg Point yeaterday. There was a massive school of salmon hanging about, an a fella also told me he caught a few at Floreat drain also. I was there for a few hours an only managed to hook a couple an they didnt really seem to interested in my bait (mulie gang rig) . I was just givin a heads up that it seems the salmon have arrived, an also if anyone can give me some hints in bait it would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Been back for a week now and finally got everything back in order so I figured it was time to get a report up on our trip to Coral Bay.  We went up with hunterdive and his family plus a couple of other crew, we scored great weather and spent plenty of time on, in or around the water.

Fishing-wise we got off to a great start but things slowed quickly with a couple of really slow sessions just before we left.  I'll let the pics do the talking with a bit of commentary in between on the highlights.

We spent the first copule of nights at Monkey Mia taking the kids to see the dolphins along with all the other hoards.  Pretty much the whole contingent of dolphins were out on the morning we were there including a couple of the young pups having fun getting airborne.

We had a few good sessions fishing in the early days, this golden tested the mother-in-law

Smashed by tuna on a Seven Seas Hooker, great fun

hunterdive followed suite with a Smith jig and got caned by a fat bludger trev

Back in the shallows there were always a few tasty demersals

Headed out for a cruise on the Coral Breeze and had a few snorkels on the inside reef, saw plenty of action as you do there.

Rafted up the boats one arvo just outside the sanctuary and spent a few hours snorkelling around again.  Managed to burley up a bunch of small fish which the kids had a ball trying to catch in their butterfly nets.  They all managed to get a few which were quickly returned after a few pics.

Had a pretty cool start to one of the days.  We got out to 60-70m line and started fishing, hunterdive noticed a bunch of baitfish under the boat so he dropped a Smith jig down and got spanked by a sailfish.  We were fishing in our boat about 250m away and heard the hooting start just to look over and see the saily going gangbusters on the surface.  It took them about 15 minutes to bring it to the side of the boat and pull it up for a few pics.  We got over there when it was back in the water having a swim.  I'm sure hunter will put some pics up when he gets back but the jig is smashed, literally... there's about 1cm of jig and the rest was broken off when the fish whacked it.

Anyway during that mayhem I picked up a robbo on a Duel jig and then a cobia on a floater.

A bit later we were heading to another spot and we spotted some mayhem on the surface so we shot over to check it out and this small school of baitfish was getting obliterated by a bunch of sharks.  When we pulled up alongside it the baitfish came under the boat and so did everything else... cobia, remora, 1-4m sharks, tuna, the works.  It was a pretty cool experience, we even had a couple of sharks get airborne about 10m from the boat.  Crazy stuff.

Few other fishing pics to finish off the trip.  We all had a pretty good time.

"Nothing beats fishing in the wild" quote BKKGUY
How true the above statement hold. For any true angler, the real test in out there in the wild.
The uncertainty and the surprise catches at time, make wild fishing trip one of the best ever fishing adventure of all time.
For those who love sightseeing for beautiful scenery and the challenge of wild  fishing , this is one of those guided and planned wild fishing trip you may not want to miss..... ;)

Enjoys my vid clips and photo highlights in the wild....

Wild sebarau (Jungle perch)......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAn95yoL57U

Wild toman on sights casting.... (Snakehead)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry7YsTrMBrw

Some of the photos highlights.....

 Hooked one whilst bottom bouncing  in 40+ metres SW of  Garen Island yesterday .  Lost it boatside when it bit through the mono 

Still got a great baldie, blackbum and two stonker KGW so not complaining 

 Hey everyone, im a keen fisherman still green at ameruer fishing a bot but loce to take tw missus

Sumwhere were gunna go catch some decent

Edible fish ?