Just got back from an evening up at guilderton. Me and a mate drove up, fished for a few hours, and I drove home. My mate is still on the beach in a swag haha.

The weed according to him is shocking along the beaches and its a struggle not to lose gear, and the river itself was pretty quiet which is what we fished. Ah well, combination of loads of weed and a falling tide
probably didnt do us any favours.
Very dissapointing :(

Anybody else been up that way lately?

Hey guys, Wondering if anyone has been down to the cut latley; What's the fishing been like

A report from my latest jetty shanannigans. Storms have stired up the water so the mulloway fishermen are out in force. I have been tailor fishing over the past few days and have landed a few decent ones despite the mirky water. Large squid are starting to show up in reasonable numbers. A few Pinkies have been landed up and down the jetty some have been very large, I caught a juvinile 38cm while fishing for Skippy. There is plenty of yellowtail near the surface for use as bait. Herring are there as always.

Hey guys, just got back from an enjoyable week with friends in Exmouth.

Our original intention was to drag up a mates dingy but after a few mechanical issues in the lead up we decided against that and hired a boat

for 2 days from Exmouth Boat hire who looked after us

After a few days of hanging out with our better halves, Snorkelling and wasting time (drinking) we got into some fishing.

After launching from Tanta's (new ramp is great) and sneaking out the reef we pretty much had no idea where to go so just had a troll

and looked for some ground for a bottom bash.

Trolling was slow so no highlights there but we did manage these.

After a precession of small Emporers Dane (Daneox) nailed a neat Coronation.

Then had a hell of a time landing his fish of the trip this Chinaman.

Personally my highlight was catching my 2 PB Coral Trout in consecutive drifts.

CT 1 @64cm

Then my new PB CT @70cm!

Bagged us out and couldn't be happier!

Unfortunatly not much else other than 1 size Red Emp and a heap of the usual Red Throats and other NW Snappers.

Cheers guys and now I can't wait to return in July!

 Hi Guys, 

Reluctantly, a few weeks ago I left Australia and headed back to the UK after an amazing year cycling and fishing WA and the Northern Territory. Just Over a year ago I posted here on fishwrecked so this post is to say thanks to the guys and girls that helped me along the way aswell as to give an overall report for everyone particularly if you missed my earlier reports:)

A big thanks goes to Ben (Goodz) for welcoming me in Perth when I arrived last april. Ben kindly took me out on his boat and gave me my first taste of vertical jigging. We landed a couple of small sambos and olater some smaller species on bait. Come the second trip I landed a good pink snapper on soft plastic. We were both ecstatic prticularly as it was one fish i was very keen to catch while in Australia. Thanks mate for the fishing and some great advice:)

Ben and a small sambo

A great pink snapper that snaffled my soft plastic off Perth

Thanks to Bryan (sarcasmo) for taking we out on his boat while I was also in perth. We had a great time and caught a range of species and got stuck into some good squid over some weedbeds. That was an interesting experience..some of the most dangerous fishing i've encountered...particularly if you have your best t-shirt on:) Thanks mate:)

Bryan and some of our squid.

After Perth a friend from India joined me for  couple of weeks and from reserh on here we decided to go and chase some salmon down south. Fishing was hard going but the scenery was fantastic, particularly the forest around walpole...something i had always wanted to see. When we di finally get into the salmon it was faat and furious to say the least. Some of my friend Abbey's bet fishing to date:)

We landed 16 big salmon in around an hour and lost countless others

Abbey and a decent salmon

After our trip down south I climbed onto my Bicycle in Perth and started cycling North to Darwin

Don't worry i did go the right way;)

Launched on Saturday from hillarys at around 6am.Trawled for macks fo 2 hours and managed zero except for one lost strike as the pull was on the inside rap,  on a tight turn around a bait ball.Wind moderated for about 20 minutes and so we headed out for some bottom bashing.wind changed direction several times to make it interesting getting a decent bearing on a drift.Scratched up some skippy and a black-bum and then managed this sambo.Gave a good account of itself on the lighter gear and managed to make us forget the weather for minute.

any reports outa the river?

Hey guys

me and my 3 mates battled the weather this morning going to rotto for some metro macks.

Left Hillarys marina at 6.20am and were south west of rotto by 7.  Put the gear in the water and within 10 mins and we were hooked up. Sammy85 pulled in a nice stripey tuna. It was absolutely bucketing down. we couldnt see rotto and we were 700m off shore.

The gear went back in the water and 20 mins later we were on again. I grabbed my new tyrnos reel which hadnt seen a fish yet. this fih was giving it some runs. within a couple of mins we had it up. and there it was, 2 saturday mornings in a row - metro mack.

we then decided to have a bottom bash. Sammy85 hooked a possible sambo and got busted, Matt was fighting the skippy. i hooked by best king george. was the biggest i have seen. few more skippy and a norwester.

Was a quick 30kn ride home thru the chop

Turned out to be ok weather. jut one major shower. was a good day on the water

JC85

 Well it’s a very sad day, my mate and i braved the rain and hit Woodies at 6:00 today. Steamed out in the dark and had lines in at 7 and i was set on sticking to lures and my mate bait. The fish were very quiet and i was struggling to get a fish on lures when My mate hooks the first solid fish of the day that turned out to be a nice Pink, Did a few more drifts for another nice Pink of the same size and a BB. We decided to move and second drift my mate hooked up solid and a confident call was made for a dhu, few minutes later a nice 15kg buck popped up and we decided to get the eeeff out of the relentless rain and head home. So for the first time in a long time the dark side won out today.

 

 Just got home from Augusta empty handed after a couple of days at what are normally salmon hot spots, was talking to a couple of pro's at the pub and they reckon they have only been getting them from the south coast, how true are the reports of salmon as far up as Perth? Hmm maybe not.

Are you allowed to fish inside Hillarys? Like on the boardwalk near The Breakwater or infront of Hippo Creek etc. ?

I see multiple schools of large whiting swimming around at night and heaps of silver trevally in the day time and sometimes at night, I've never seen anyone try to fish them?

 Any one have any reports for Eshed or around that area

 Considering heading to jurien on Saturday, was there about a month ago and got heaps of mackie just wondering if there are still many around?? I'm presuming that with a few still getting caught in Perth they must be up there still but any report before I head up would much appreciated?

Cheers

 got a few more mullet at hillarys today.

mullet averages around 42cm ish.

largest mullet went 45cm

also got a tailor at 49cm.

the clear ruler in the pic is a 32cm ruler. (30cm + 2 cm extra plastic)

mullet were taken on corn.

tailor taken on the corn cob :)

Evening all

Managed to get out today, meeting up with forum member at point peron and heading to the back of the 5 for a sniff around.

With Daryl on board, pleasantries and lies exchanged we set off for some fresh squid and a few yellowtail for the Arvos fishing. The squid were thick and it looked like the fishing gods were on our side, but we all w better than that!

Arrive at the back of the 5 and have a few drifts, and find a nice lump to set some burley going. ( the old bloke managed to lose all my marks.... a couple of nice skippy to start and the usual plague of wrasse had us entertained for a while until the soft plastic I had lurking out the back went hell for leather.  Buggered if I know what it was...sambo? caught plenty of pinkies over the years and the way this think went m sure I had a steamtrain with epilepsy!  

Anyways long story short I was bricked and left a bit intrigued, so on went a livie on the duke gear.....same result. 80lb braid onto 80lb fluorocarbon and this thing was just playing  games.

one more try... Drifted a fresh squid out the back and another run, this time for old mate but it was dropped.

Things died off pretty quickly after his mayhem....thank bloody god my back is killing!

Managed one keeper snapper grew 3 small ones back and stopped in for a few whiting and some eating squid on the way back to the ramp.

Anyone have any ideas what I was getting pummelled by? Tactics?

fresh squid and whiting for tea:)

Recently got the opportunity to go on a friends boat over to the Mackerel Islands.
Got hit with some pretty average conditions (most days >15knots) but the 27'er cat made it bearable ;)

Surprisingly landed no respectable mackerel or pelagics for that matter, but managed to get into a few decent bottom fish on the artificials.
I decided this trip I would not use any bait and stick to just plastics, lures and jigs and it proved the goods, hands down outfished those with bait...

Got some nice trout, cod and a chinaman fish that went 11.6kg on the scales (will upload that pic when I get it from my mates camera).
Also managed to pull up a Malibar? cod that went just over a metre and estimated 20kg on my 4000 sustain with a 12lb rod, took about half an hour to land.

Had an awesome time in such an amazing place, pity only had 4 days on the water. Caught thousands of little to mid-sized trevally (all sorts) and queenies on surface lures around the island on the days that blew up... could do that all day long. Will have to do it all again soon!

Here are a couple pics with more to come later.

 went to hillarys marina to gather some bait for the freezer. So tired of buying mullet for $7 a kilo at the bait shops.

got this bunch on saturday night.

and got another 8 last night.

picture doesnt do them justice, as the big one was close to 2 kg. 1.82kg on my fish scales at home.

 Do any of the local sw boys know if there has been any mullas running yet

does anyone know were i can get bulk blood? for burley etc

me, the old man and my brother headed down Cheynes beach friday morning with nothing but the rods, beer and high expectations, got there around lunch on friday and headed down the rocks to flick a few lures around for a hour or 2 and much to our dislike it was very slow dad hooking a bonito but losing it at his feet although a small seal came up and was sussing us out (perhaps why the salmon wernt biting?), we headed back and called it a day, only to come back down first thing saturday morning and the rocks were packed managed to find a spot and start what turned out to be an awesome session was slow to start but then the salmon were chasing bait fish about 100m off the rocks with waves of small fish leaping out the water, we managed to land 12 salmon while a good 15-20 spat the lures right at our feet, also a few guys just down from us landed 2 big sambo's. towards the end of the sesh a turtle popped his head up and had a slow swim by. Things started to quitet off so we called it a day, we came back down early sunday morning and it was quiet again, only seeing 1 salmon get landed, but then out of no where a (what i think it was) southern write whale surfaced was a good 12-15m long and only 5-6m off the rocks we thought it was a submarine surfacing! was crazy too see we didnt even know it was there till she came up! so we watcher her swim off and then headed back to pack up and head home, was a great trip cant wait to get back down there was good to see so much marine life! will never forget seeing that whale so close!

Hey Guys

My new tub arrived from sydney on friday arvo..  Took her home and had the boys come round to have a few drinks on it.

The plan saturday was to spend the morning giving it a wash after being on the truck..   Had a guy come put a HIN number on it first thing.  Once he left the weather was still looking good..

We were on the way to hillarys ramp at 12 to take it for a quick spin and see how she goes.. on the way to the ramp we saw how good the weather was so turned around and went back and got the mackie rods.

Back at the ramp 2 mins later, we launched for the first time. Headed straight for rotto.  the twin 200hp s were humming along.

Within 45 mins of being at rotto off went the rod..  The result a nice metro mackie on the new tub.

there was plenty of bait around

Left soon after that as the storm came in.. not a bad 1.5hrs testing the ride.

Hopefully this is a good sign ahead

cheers

JC85

My own personal account from the Jurien trip with Chrisp, Daz, Schecky and TimVB from Thursday/Friday. There were simply too many highlights for one report, so here are a few of my own captures from Thursday and Friday to supplement Chrisp's excellent report.

Boys, great trip, great company, great skipper but sack the deckie....hahaha......man that young fella could fish! I learnt a thing or two from the young fella....never too old to learn eh!

Friday was the best days fishing I have ever had, enough said. Most fish were released apart from a couple of small pinkies, baldies and yellowfin tuna we kept for a fresh feed.

Heading out, what a sight......

I know what your thinking Daz.......if we spent less on fishing gear, we would be able to afford something better than a few jam donuts for breaky!

The PE5 gear ready for a spot of sambo stretching on dawn.....ended in tears for me, with 2 big fish pulling the hooks, and a couple of Mackie snip offs thinning my jig stocks.

Bring out the PE2 gear, and the sambo's come out to play....only a small one, but plenty of fun on PE2.

My PB pinkie of 88 cm, on PE2 on day1. Went quite hard and called it for a sambo. Released excellently as most pinkies do.

Another PE2 pinkie.....Chrisp was meanwhile pulling in 3 pinkies for every one of mine! Released.

Twin hookup of red bight fish on jig for me and Daz on day1. Nice variety.  If its red, its dead I am afraid.......

Gotta chuck in the big dhu one more time....yep, I was stoked! Never thought I would better a 98 cm dhu on PE2 I got earlier in the year on my boat, but this one went a genuine 100 cm and with 30 lb leader, it was touch and go. After a long battle on light gear, we revived the worn out dhu with the big deck flush into  its mouth for a few minutes while Whitey released the air out from the air bladder, it started thumping its tail and biting down hard the hose indicating it was ready to go......we gave it every chance to survive and released back to the depths hopefully to make more dhuies.

Hey all,

Headed up to Jurien last thursday friday and while the thursday was slow by Normal standard all memories would be erased by the end of Friday as the fish turned on Big time!

Daz on the first drop of the day, He backed up with another next drift..

Schecky with the only Mack on jig thet didn't manage to pick our pockets during the day,

I then scored a nice Yellowfin on troll,

The result after a rest in the fridge overnight

Whitey had mentioned that he had seen some solid yellowfin hanging around the bait schools at our next spot. First drop and Tim hooks up solid,Line is searing off the stella on a tight drag faster than anything i have witnessed.After a 10 minute battle on Pe5 he lands a Solid barrel on jig. Very Jealous of this capture.Good stuff Tim!

We then lost a number of jigs to macks which were also around in good numbers. I remember John saying to Tim,"How Much is this Slide actor?". "About thirty Bucks". "ok if i loose it ill pay your accommodation".John drops down,Crank Crank, snip! Shortest loan in history.
I was using a lamble and got snipped so threw on a old 160gram Sacrafice leaf for 2 drifts and got nothing. So thew on a old lamble bait and hooked up solid for 5 minutes to something large but was then snipped again. They sure love the quality goods!

Off to our next spot which produced lots of quality pinks-released

Daz with the first Dhu of the day-Released

More Pinks-released

This time on a piece of Yellowfin! ha ha

John Then hooked up on somthing solid which went on several screaming runs.None of us were paying a lot of attention as we thought he had just hooked another sambo.That was until the fish started surfacing 15 mters out from the boat and we all knew what was coming....

100cm Dhu on Pe2 and a New Pb for John beating his previous pb by 2 cm. This fish was also well cared for and released. Good stuff mate!

Not to be outdone whitey Jigs a Solid Trout.The first He has seen in Jurien and he was stoked!

Daz and another nice Dhu-Released

Last drop of the Day and one more honky for me on placcy-released

Well that was a case of second time lucky as i had already spent an hour loading this only to have the system crash right at the end.

It was the best day of fishing i have been involved in for the shear variety and size of the fish landed.We also accounted for Baldies,Blackass,Slimey mackeral,Sambos and Ambers.
To add to that spending it with a good bunch of mates made the day a breeze and super enjoyable.

Thanks again to Whitey. He never fails to deliver

Chris

A few weeks ago, I towed the boat up to Exmouth for a week.

We were ostensibly up there for a 50th birthday party, so it wasn't meant to be a 'fishing trip' per se, but that didn't stop me from getting out on the water nearly every day.

One of the guys up there was Trent (Simbad off FW), so I always had someone willing to get out and chase the fish.

The weather gods were pretty kind, and we had some pretty awesome conditions almost every day.

In summary the fishing was pretty slow, with just enough short pockets of really hot bites to keep us heading out.

We put in 2 days trolling for the beakies - picked up plenty of tuna, but on the first day we didn't raise any bills. Second day of trolling we raised 2 or 3 (still some debate about what one of them was!) and hooked one black, but it threw the hooks on a jump. Right at the end of the day long corner went off on a solid run and I could see something jumping in the distance, but couldn't make out what it was. There were a few premature marlin calls made, only to reveal this dirty barracuda that kindly trimmed my soft oscar. There were a few interesting moments trying to get a pic before the release as he had some angry teeth and was pretty unhappy about being on the boat.

As with the last time I went to Exmouth, the Makkie trolling was really slow. We put in quite a few hours, but this is the only mak that fell to a trolled minnow. An X-rap did the damage.

We headed out for some GT casting around the islands one day, but after about 10 casts I realised that the shoulder I'd injured a few weeks earlier wasn't going to let me cast anymore. Bugger. Trent carried on, and after we saw a makkie launching itself meters from the water he lobbed his popper in its direction, and was on immediately - his first fish on popper, and a christening of a new rod.

As others have mentioned, the grey coats in Exmouth at the moment are bloody rife. We found some good ground in around 160m and I dropped the jigs, but in 2 trips to that spot I couldn't land a fish. Plenty of hookups but kept getting sharked. With many jigs lost, we decided to move on. Trent did pull one pinkie off that spot which I haven't seen up in Exmouth before. One of the sharks I spent a solid 20mins wrangling to the surface under serious drag, only to have him bust me off 40m from the boat. Probably for the best but still would have liked my jig back!

Whenever we fished the bottom I fished exclusively jigs, which turned out to be a winner. The jigs fairly consistently outperformed, though I did lose a hell of a lot of them to makkie snips and sharkings.

This nice rankin fell to a lamble bait that I'd bought just before the trip (cheers Sam). Trent pulled another rankin and a tusk fish on the same drift.

This trevor smashed a fanky in shallow water, which made for an interesting tussle.

On the last day we hit the islands planning to get a bit of Mak trolling in early, and then hit the bottom again. All day the fishing was exceptionally slow - the fish were all over the sounder, but nothing was interested. The call was made to anchor up near the islands, pick up a small shark for fillets, then head back to the same marks on the change of the tide. We got the shark within 15 minutes of soaking the bait, and then went back to the spots. What a difference the tides made. As soon as we dropped there were fish all around. I dropped a few good fish on the bottom, but what really impressed me was the pelagic jigging. During an hour I jigged a few macks and quite a few cobia off the same spot. They were hitting the jigs on every drift, and thankfully I was actually landing the macks, unlike other days where I was just getting snipped. After that hour the bite died right off, so we called it quits.

Unfortunately we didn't get a whole heap of pics for the trip as the action was concentrated in short bursts and whenever it happened we were more focussed on the fish than the pics! I didn't even bring a camera up with me - so thanks goes to Trent for taking the photos.

All in all was a fun trip, with enough fish caught to get us back up there again - particularly to get that elusive beakie.

The snorkelling, weather and views like this from the lighthouse lookout will also be things that will keep bringing me back. What a great part of WA.

Dan

Probably my last serious day of fishing in Exxy, headed out with good mate Jeff (Deepwater) looking for some table fare.  Got to the deep spot and first drop resulted in a grey band that tangled with the other line, whilst untangling a shark took hold of the bait half way up and busted it off, not a good sign.  Decided to have one more drop which resulted in the inevitable, ruby sharked and time to move. :(

Got to the next spot which was littered with goldband and rosies, managed to pick up 5 and a few bits and pieces before the sharks moved in again.  Must say I have never seen them this bad in my 5 and a bit years in Exxy.  We decided to troll for an hour to try and get back up near the passages incase the northerly came.  Unfortunately no action so zoomed up to the goldy spot and picked up the last of our bag limit, trolled for another hour with no love, tried the trout spots to find the fish well on the bite but just couldn't get through the small stuff to the good fish.  Ended up with a couple more back breaking sharks before deciding to give it another hour and a bit of trolling to get a bill, again with no luck.

Overall a bloody great day and has been awesome sharing the last few years fishing (and drinking) with you Jeffro.

Cheers,

Adam

Not much to report I'm afraid, other than some wet weather. I was flicking 10-15g lures from my favourite rocks (SoR) hoping the tailor might come on the bite. My day must have been written in the stars, because after half a dozen casts I caught a stargazer. Pretty rare in itself, but to get one on lure was something else. Was only a babby....no more than 10cm, but put a smile on my face. On sundown, got myself a good sized starfish. Had a few nibbles all afternoon, probably herring and they were few and far between. A bit tentative and they never seemed to come back for seconds. Saw some incredible herring acrobatics, so something bigger must have been doing the rounds. Sadly, metal wasn't on the menu. :-)

The day turned rather sour when crossing some rocks in darkness I experienced a 'blowout'. My $2 thongs finally gave way, I am however eternally grateful for the rocks underneath me which (eventually) cushioned my fall. Messed up my toes and back a little, but somehow kept the rod in the air....must be my surivival instincts kicking in.

All this weather, nice swell and fairly calm water makes me wish I had bait with me. Looks like a great night to be out hunting snapper / mulla.

Tight lines.

Buschy

Hello

been a while since i have posted anything been getting stuck into a lot of fly fishing around Fraser Island of late, had a ball on ANZAC day battling large bait balls of longtails and mack tuna

Put together a series of photos to try and capture the moment of the day somewhat

Cheers

Brad

Ready to leave Wathumba creek

First baitball fist hookup

The result

Another baitball and another hookup

The result

Fly Caught Shark Fodder

Good morning all - further evidence of the strength of the current this year and the fact that it's now a distant memory for 2012. Check out the article from the West Australian.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regional/great-southern/a/-/sport/13510796/dead-fish-stuns-surfers/

Maybe a good reason to be dragging pushers early next year! Have a great day!

Hey just wondering if there is any slamon running around Margaret river heading down that way for a couple of nights. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 Has anyone caught any salmon at hamilen or of the rocks at cosy corner taken me pop down he want to catch one before he goes back to the wheat belt so any info around that area would be great cheers