Hi guys ! Well waking up at 5am  and hearing rain and thunder..i was quick to roll over and continue with my blanket show. Then after waking at 8am, i staggered out to the lounge room, to be greeted by the wife to be. She has the computer open on seabreeze telling me, the wind has dropped off, shes packed the boat, we're going fishing....whom am i to argue with her.

Got to the ramp at 0900 to find a three quarter full car park..and the sunday zig zag boat backing brigade in full swing. We get out the front of the Marina, to be welcomed by the flatest sea i have seen in a fair while. I could feel "The Wedding Fund" itching to be opened up to full throtle under my firm hand. So with out hesitation, i opened up  me 30hp suzi and steamed down to our secret fishing grounds off Scarbs.

Once to our spot, i killed the engine and it was game on!

 Well..well true to form once again, Claire drops her squid jig down and im sure landed on top of a frigging squids head, as she is hooked up before i have even got my line in the water. This has happened 3 times now, and its starting to wear a little thin. Is this arse..or just a good skipper???

Anyway after listening to her tell me how good she was,  at 1100 the wind picked up...and the whiting come on the bite bigtime! I have never come across them feeding so aggressivley since fishing for them. After an hour we had bagged out on some big whiting....so it was back to the squid.

Claire once again called that she was on. So i grabbed the landing net..slowly carressed, her squid into the net. Handed her the net and continued to clean the 36 bloody whiting i had left. Next thing i hear is..awww shittt...i turn around and Claire has just copped a facial from mr squiddy. He did a great job, and i couldnt help but laugh..after she bagged the shit out of me about 6 months ago, when i copped a good inking!

We headed back to the ramp at 1500 with  good feed of squid/ whiting in the esky and one slightly bruised ego!

Hi Guys

Just got a call from a mate that went down to Albany for the weekend chasing Salmon.

He went out to Cable Beach and got 30 good size Herring.There was a school of Salmon but too far out to reach.

Andrew

Hi Guys,

I've finally got my boat ready and i was wondering if anything has been happening in the cockburn sound lately.

Cheers

G'day all... newbie to fishwrecked, but no stranger to landbased fishing in perth. Decided to pop my posting cherry with a bit of info from a recent trip to mandurah a decent spot for your bread and butter species.

 Me and a convoy of mates recently made an overnight trip down to whitehills in search of some tailor and the hope of a passing mulloway. We were fishing with a decent south westerly wind so decent tailor were a real possibility with the choppy conditions. Ended up landing plenty of whiting and herring for the frypan before, a great tailor session at dusk. Caught alot of choppers with the biggest going 45cm. Wind was blowing till about 1:30am so baiting up a tailor fillet with a running sinker setup was inneffective for mulloway. At about 2:30am was lucky to bring in a very heavy dead weight. Calling it for a large clump of seaweed was suprised to see a large wobbegong shark hanging on to the bait. It went about the 1.7m mark. Successfully released her back, decided to stay till daylight and were once again greeted with chopper tailor in the morning. All in all it was a decent trip to mandurah will be doing it again soon.  

Cheers Rob

Was heaps of these around on Saturday, this little one stayed still long enough for a pic before we put him back

Any suggestions as to what type of Tuna

Hi guys wondering if anyone has noticed how bad the crabbing has slowed down in the peel inlet in the last couple of weeks?  Spent all day on the water sat for 15 crabs. We had 3 boats 20 nets, and spent inbetween pulls snorkeling. There was stuff all around....looks like its been raped!

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Caught a Fiddler Ray last night at a local Jetty any one eaten one ? We kept our's to try, flesh looks good NO smell like a ray O Yer, 1 pink snapper by a friend was released as it was only a baby one, couple of Yellow Tail and a Gobbleguts by Jasmine TT

Had a dive with Ozlobster down Mandurah way.



It was a bit surgy and not all that clear but still a good dive. 1syt locaction was a lot of ledges, but the second was full of crazy swimthrus and caves.



There was one more in that esky, but it was surrendered for the loan of the car. Still, thats plenty for dinner!







PS: thats quite a small esky

Went down freo traffic bridge last night with ziggy, scano and exmouthfisher and the snapper were biting hard!!! I caught 4 . All released well. Also caught yellow tail, butter fish, port jackson sharks etc.

I had a half yellow tail out that got smoked twice and snapped me off. Not sure what it was :(...

Here are a couple pics....

1st, sorry about not getting fotos as my phone is craping up again

2nd, just got back from e shed and just to inform anyone who is chasing gar fish for bait that that'll be the place to go as that place is just flooded with them and nothing else.

3rd, bluff bream? is there a fish with that name? not too sure about it but like normal, i was using the bream set up with 4lb main and 4lb lead and this fish took my bait which was for the gar fish. was not ready for it but manage to set the hook. great fun, had it on for about a min or so b4 it snap me under the platform. some guy next to me told me its a bluff bream and call it for about 1kg minimum. silver color was all i remember seeing as after taking the bait, it was down and only down.

any advice on what will the best bait for me to get them will be most welcome. as after the snap, i tried again but they seem really shy.

Finally found time to sit down and post a couple of pics from the last couple of weeks. Went out on sunday the 8th feb with a couple of mates and got a nice mixed bag. Included was 2 dhuies (biggest 17kg) a baldie, 2 king george, a pinkie, a BA and a harlequin. The dhuies came from what was decided would be the last drift of the day. Mate got the big one and now his head has grown considerably. On the same day got to try out my new saragosa on a sambo, it handled it no probs as did the strudwick I got off Neil. Went out again last wednesday and got 3 dhuies, 2 BA, 2 kgs and a queenie. Successfully released 3 smaller dhus and a few small BA. The 2 mates I took out this time were over the moon as they had broken their dhuie drought. We were having beers to celebrate at 8.30-9o'clock. Both days were really nice with wednesday being one of those days where it was glass. Hoping the wind is nice next week as have been invited to stay couple of day over a rotto.

GO BLUES

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headed down to pinaroo last night with chan and liam with the hope to stretch our arms on some rays tehe

was tons of whiting around but hard to hook, the herring came on at dusk and the odd yakka so we had our baits

managed about 6 runs and landed 2 rays aswell as a little fiddler and a nice shovelnose but got smoked by something substantial on the last run of the night

all the fish were taken on my rod strangely but i shared it around with us taking turns in catching em

 wasnt a bad night but the sand that gets in everything is driving me insane

 might just stick to the stones for now 

gidday all well the conds were a lot better than expected glassy goin out , went for a spot of bottom bouncin with the wrassinator, nailed 5 dhues kept 3 released 2 in by lunch awesome day. one of the biggies for the day

the other day i got my PB tailor :D

at our secrete location a tad north of mandarie me and my dad caught 2 tailor one going 46cm and the other 52cm witch was my personal best

unfortunatly we had no camra when we caught them but im still pretty stoked about it being my personal best :)

Felt like going jigging, but unfortunately no one was out heading out for sambos, so Brenz and I decided to head out with bluejuice and jig anyways.

With alveys with heavy mono lining the starboard, we headed to the back with our PE2 and 3 jigging gear.
I dropped a shout jig down which promptly got smashed and pinged on the reef straight away. Must find a new source of these.

Rerigged up with a zest and not too long after landed my first demersal on a jig. Great eating size of 58cm and 3.2kg, and a great first demersal jig catch. First fish onboard too (if you dont count a norwester)

Managed to find a school of what we thought were sambos so we send down some bigger jigs on heavy gear. I hooked up to something that went on a big run before the line snapped. The leader was completely frayed and bitten off so likely a shark. Brenz hooked up to a sambo but dropped it. On the second drop, a massive hit, lots of drag, then bitten off by another shark. We went around and tried with some wire, but no bites this time.

Jigging

Everything seems to take jigs, even smaller fish like Sgt bakers, wrasse, scads, small swallowtail, and even this scorpion cod Brenz landed

Tried some octa jigs and octa/bait combos but didnt get any hits. 

Brenz got this good sized queenie on a driftbait

I really wanted to get a pink snapper as I havent caught one on any kind of jig, so after jigging a few more spots, this pinkie happily obliged . 73cm and 4.1kg and a fun fight on light line

Also managed to get a skippy on a jig

And a surprise catch, this bonito

Not too many fish landed on board for the boat, though a great 7 and 14kg dhuie were pulled up as well as another queen snapper, a blackarse, a swallowtail and another pinkie. Oh, and some eels :p

The jigs proved to be effective as I hooked up first and ended up catching the most fish, all on jigs on 20lb gear. Great fun

Went down to Golden Bay Monday evening, ended up a dead calm, glassy night.

Herring were going nuts on squid pieces, but weren't touching blue sardines or mulie. I fished for herring while my mate Brendan was on the lookout for tailor. The tailor run did come about half an hour after sundown, and he ended up landing 5, all over 32cm.

We were there for about 5 hours, ended up with a decent feed. I have to say it's one of the better nights I've had in a while haha

Mike

A big thankyou to Paul Maindok who is Kalbarri Electrical Services for his sponsorship and naming rights again this year.
Thanks also to The Kalbarri RSL who donate a $50.00 voucher each month that goes to the meritorious catch of the comp.
Some pretty ordinary weather presented itself for the boaties but the fish were biting so most did not notice. Only a few fish were weighed from the bottom, a big snapper from the landbased guys and lots of bream from the river.
On the first day Steve Wiseman was out early aboard his boat “Top Deck” with Lance Turner and son Dylan fishing as a junior.. Lance had the luck landing a good mackerel on 6kg line that went 9.8kgs and Dylan had one to the boat but the hooks pulled at the last moment. Very unlucky Dylan! Stan Sutherland was out with Alan and Sue Olive aboard Alan’s new 8m boat. Powered by twin 225hp outboards, that boat must fly! And so it proves that the bigger the boat the more fish you catch! Stan had a 3.5kg tuna on 2kg line. While Ron Neumann weighed an 8.1kg mackerel on 6kg line from Paul Maindok’s boat “Santa Barbara”. Laurie Malton with Sue and Jared aboard “Bulawayo Buoy” missed out on the action, being at the right place at the wrong time and later at the wrong place at the right time!

Stan with his tuna on 2kg line and biggest mackerel for the year so far Lance Turner.

Ron Neumann’s 6kg line class mackerel.

The river produced some very big bream and looks like everyone got one. The juniors were thick on the ground with Dylan Ivey, Beau ivey, Ryley Eley, James Dooley and Luke Dooley all weighing in.
The senior section all found bream with a lot of the bream bigger than normal and mostly kept alive to be returned.. Garry Ivey had 3 bream while Son lee had 4, Peter Duigan 2 and Brett Bain 4 bream with one of them going 1.085kgs.
No one landed a fish from the beach the first day but Karen Hartig was there but no luck.

Brett Bain with his 1.085kg specimen
The second day saw the junior catch rate drop with only Luke Dooly weighing in a mullet. The seniors brought in a lot more fish with Lee Ivey with 3, Gary Ivey, 1, Brett Bain 1, and Peter Duigan 4 of which a couple were tailor. This was a surprise for Peter who won his first ever river section prize! Rylee Eley maintained her lead from the first day winning the junior section.
Karen Hartig again fished the beach without lick but Nic Bramwell showed us how it is done with a big 7.8kg pink snapper and a dart, winning him the landbased section and the RSL meritorious prize of a $50.00 voucher donated by the Kalbarri RSL.

Nic Bramwell’s 7.8kg pinky

Lee with one of her bream and Lui and Brett release the tagged bream after the weigh in.

The second day out in the ocean was windier than ever, and the bigger boats faired well. Stan, Alan and Sue found the fish with Stan weighing 2 mackerel on 3kg line, Alan had a 7.8kgmackerel on 4kg line and Sue a commendable 4.05kg tuna on 3kg line.

Sue Olive with her 3kg line class tuna and Stan holds the Overall Trophy.
Ron Neumann again had a mackerel on 6kg line but was not big enough to beat Lance Turner who won the 6kg line class prize. Alan Olive took out the 4kg line class, Stan Sutherland the 3kg line class as well as the 2kg class and the overall. Well done Stan!
The bottom section was fished by Graeme Black and Lou Palmara aboard “Southwind” but only recording a few fish between them and Phil Hearps aboard “Gunna Doo” weighed a 2.1kg baldie but Graeme took out the prize with his 3 fish.
Amy Gardner and Phil Hearps won the scratchies raffle and Phil also picked up the Mystery fish for his baldie. Sue Olive won the restaurant draw and Nic Bramwell won the RSL Meritotious as well as Mug Of The Day with his broken down car that he was bragging about that was running so well for so long, and breaking his tow strap as well.
Every thing is flowing smoothly for the big Kalbarri Classic at the end of February and info packs and entry forms can be obtained from the Kalbarri Visitor Centre free call 1800 639 468.
Next local comp is on the 21st February followed by the Kalbarri Classic on the 27th Feb. to 1st March.

Laurie Malton

Got my flathead!!! heehee~ only two more type of fish and my list will be done for 2009 (salmon and KG). or i can get greedy and start adding more now.. nah...

Thanks to all who have given me advice on type of lures and location. will be trying for more from different location.

bigger one was caught on SP(pink) and the smaller one on prawnstar juinor, went at 38cm and 33cm.

time caught was between 5-6.30pm. location is pt walter sand bar (west side). and i have to add.. there are more and bigger ones there. just that i am too amerture to get them. btw, this time i was using a 4lb main, black swiver, 12lb lead line about 2ft lenght. 3" pink sp or the blue prawnstar jr.

Well what can I say, more Fish

Ocean was flat as a pan cake, I was waiting for the SE wind to come in, I think some one made a boo boo about the weather last night

It was a night of bait fish, they were every where, bucket loads of Yellow Tail jumping about the place.

First live out was a Herring, nothing touch it, change it for a live Yellow Tail, nothing touch that either, changed that for a size Tailor, nothing touch that either, strange probley to calm, going to give it another shot tonight.

We bag our self's 18 Yellow Tail, 1 Garfish, 8 Herring, 2 size Tailor

gear used, light lines with floats, gangs with mulies

was a good night for the family, at lest I got fish for dinner tonight and my sugar levels won't go up again LOL

Got a photo here to show you the Tailor were choppers, NO bigger than my hand most of them, my self and Scotty and his mate got a few size Tailor

TT ( karl )

Went for a dive lunch time today,to a while but we found a few crays at the end off the dive .The crays seem to be molting, as there was a heaps of shells around and the crays were soft. The water was nice with vis up to 8-10m found some great caves in the white water ,will be certain to give that reef another visit.plenmty of small fish swiming around.

Well after an extended summer break, I finally got the chance to get the boat out of dry dock for the first time in 2009.

Plan was to get a few fish to start building up a little bit of stock in my empty tuckerbox to cater for the next extended break from the water (either a cyclone or the fact that the boat is due for a service and I've got to tow it to Karratha to get it done) and maybe see if the odd red cray was still around.

A 6.45am launch saw James and I head down towards Anchor Island. First stop was to get a couple of small queenies for strip baits for my favourite leadhead bottom bashing technique.

After 3 casts for two queenies, we continued heading towards a little lump I have near Anchor. Two miles from the lump I came across some coral and a small show on the sounder. Two quick drifts producing nothing but juvenile blue lined emperors so we continued heading out.

500 metres further on we came across another patch of corally ground with some good fish shows so we pulled up for a drift. My first leadhead down was snaffled in quick time and the first trout for 09 soon graced the icebox, second leadhead was down there for a couple of minutes and then a better trout crashed the icebox party. Back around for another drift saw James add his first trout to the box and the day was off to a flyer.

We continued out and finally arrived at the lump. First floater lasted about 30 seconds before the whole scaly was clean bitten off. James then picked up a rat mack of about 90cm which he released. Meanwhile on the bottom he was two jigs dropped for two blitzkriegs, luckily we make out own jigs so the losses were not to painful.

My floater then went off and I thought I had a nice little mack on for a couple of minutes before it grew steroids and screamed off into the distance, I actually thought I had been sharked but I soldiered on. Twenty minutes later a nice 50lb mack ghosted into view, after the obligatory run around the anchor rope. He was promptly processed and added to the box, albeit cut in half minus the head and tail.

James then added a nice cobia before we called it quits and went for a dive.

Murky water still evident from the TC Dominic made it hard work but we picked up out bag of 4 reds. Spent a bit of time looking for some greens but we gave up after 30 minutes, the murky water making it that bit to hard.

With the new job, I occassionally get an afternoon off, and this was the case yeserday.

For that reason, I keep a change of clothes, Plueger President 2-4Kg, small reel, Berkley Tackle Bag (FC, Jig Heads, SPs and HBs, Owner Trebs,Braid Scissors and Alvey Measure) in the back of the 4by. 

So, after popping in to my local tackle shop for a top up of 1/32 Jig heads and a couple of packets of river prawns and some more Jig Heads, I headed off up the Kalgan, with the report of plenty small bream happening.

Even catching these would be great fun, I know the scenery is always fantastic, the time in quiet solitutude very peaceful, and there was always the change of hooking into the odd decent fish.

A walk trail along the river bank, provided me the opportunity to explore and try different spots. 

That's the beautty down here, you can walk for miles, especially during the week, and see no one. You have the whole wonderful experience to yourself.

Interstingly, I'd gone bream fishing on Wednesday armed with no bait (well ok, gulp camo's to the purists ), but didn't even raise a twitch. So it was back to the 'old fashioned' bait approach yesterday.

In a 90 minute session, I landed 18 bream (with a hookup on every cast) with most, as expected being small. The largest came in at 23cm, but alas, no 35plus (light) tackle testers.

I didn't bother taking photos of the fish, wanting to get them back in the water, but here's some scenery shots I thought Id share with you:

Rock up to point walter at about 6ish this evening. wanted to try out some of the new lures i obtain for flatheads, but sad to say... after about a hour or so, other then blowies.. nothing was on.

till i was about to turn my back, give up and go home for a nice warm dinner, bait fish was jumping!!! hear stories about tailors at point walter therefore could not help myself but to change from lures to slicer. halco 5g slicer, silver... 2lb main with 12lb lead about 2ft. and boy! to my surprise... 1st cast and game on.. but it return with a herring. still they were good fight.  they kept me there for another hour plus. total landed about 30+ and many more lost when they jump into the air and throw the hook out. almost every next cast was a hookup.

all where release other then the above two which i bought home.

gut and clean... into the steamer for 3mins and its dinner(chinese style)

no flathead yet...

Took the family over to rotto on Sun for olivers bday and we were extreamly lucky with the weather and had a glass off for 4 hours, an the clarity was amazing. we droped the ladies off on the land and went for a free dive at swirl reef where we were disapointed by the fish the with only a small baldie, a few blackasse and the usual reefies seen. after that we went for a quick fish with big fish and light rods in mind, we started pumping the burly and had a ball catching massive buffies, sweep and skippy on the light gear. We then went in and went for another dive before we headed home before the wind picked up to much. heres a few snaps

cheers Miles

Mixed Bag @ Bridport Point

mainly bait fish apart from the Tailor

Fished last night untill around 10pm

Started off using a pencil float to see if I would catch any thing after reading my fishing book. ( Australian Fishing & Lure Encyclopedia )

First fish caught using the pencil float was a Yellow Tail, ya that goes onto the live bait rod, wishing and hoping for a strike

2nd cast I land a Herring and a Whiting, both in the bucket for Live bait, so far so good

3rd cast I land a garfish, nice fat one too, into the bucket for eating, yum

4th cast I land a yellow eye mullet, into the bucket for Mulloway bait on Saturday night

In the mean time kids are landing Herring and Tailor, all my kids caught two Tailor each, all toll we caught 14 Tailor, came home with 6 this time round and happy faces from the kids, boy did they sleep well,

No takes on the big rod, some thing took my Yellow Tail with out the line moving, and I think the crabs got the live Tailor I had out, no sign of Mr shark yet

TT ( karl )

when up to hillary north wall at the disable platform this evening from between 4pm till about 8pm

out of 4hrs of fishing with frozen mulles, only did manage two run with no hookup.

both runs return with missing head and cut up mulles.

not too sure what hit the bait but was kind of sure that it was my mistake of using a 8/0 circle hook.

should have bought along some smaller hooks. but again, on the light line, using sand worms. nothing

much was caught other then the normal blowies. no whithings, no herring, no gar but manage to land myself

a 26cm skippy which quickly when back as live bait. by the end of the day, the skippy returned with its tummy all

chewed away. must be a great work of them blowies.

just waiting for this coming sat night where the boys will be meeting up at the south side of narrows for a fish. hope

at least someone will hookup to decent size mulloway that night. if you r around the area that night, do pop by to

say hi. see u guys there.

Fished just behind GI & 5 fath on saturday with a mate, about 25-30m. Was a slow start to the day picking up the usual wrase and skippy when the call was made to try a couple more spots to get stuck into some real fish! However on the way to the other spots we discovered a new lump which looked nicely populated with big red blobs, we did several drifts the first picking up a double header dhuie, both which were just size. We decided to throw them back and see if we could get something better. The next drift my mate picked up a red snapper (swallow tail? looked a bit large of a swallowtail) anyway i picked up a nice black arse, next drift i got a nice dhuie 5-6kg, another drift i picked up another dhuie about 4kg, then the spot went dead. We spent the next few hours trying different ground but with no luck, so the call was to stay 10 more mins then head in, so 5 mins had past and i stoped fishing and cracked the first beer when my mate hooked into what i thought was a shark or stingray doing a typical run. After about 5 mins of overusing "stingray boy" my mate pulled up a nice dhuie 98cm and aprox 15kg. Ended up being a great day on the water.

Cheers,

Pete

ACTUAL AUSTRALIAN COURT DOCKET 12659---CASE OF THE PREGNANT LADY 

A lady about 8 months pregnant got on a bus. She noticed the man opposite her was smiling at her.  She immediately moved to another seat. This time the smile turned into a grin, so she moved again.  The man seemed more amused.  When on the fourth move, the man burst out laughing, she complained to the driver and he had the man arrested.

The case came up in court.

The judge asked the man (about 20 years old) what he had to say for himself.

The man replied, 'Well your Honor, it was like this, when the lady got on the bus, I couldn't help but notice her condition.  She sat down under a sign that said, 'The Double Mint Twins are coming' and I grinned.  Then she moved and sat under a sign that said, ' Logan's Liniment will reduce the swelling,' and I had to smile. Then she placed herself under a deodorant sign that said, 'William's Big Stick Did the Trick,' and I could hardly contain myself.  But, Your Honor, when She moved the fourth time and sat under a sign that said, 'Goodyear Rubber could have prevented this Accident'... I just lost it.'

'CASE DISMISSED!!'