The forcast was looking good so headed out with 3 mates from Mindarie at 6am. The plan was to go a bit deeper than normal for us and try to find some ground in the 70-100m range. We had an area picked from the charts that we though looked promising but it was really going to be hit it and explore.

As we got to the 40's we passed over a nice lump in the middle of nowhere and decided to hit it for a quick drift so 2 of the blokes could get their gear sorted. 2 of us were already prepared.

Bluey, who was on only his second fishing trip ever, hooked up and landed his first Dhuie, a nice little 55cm model. On the back side of the lump i hooked into a 5f bronzey that was released to live another day.

The easterly had started to pick up a bit of pace by then and the skipper decided he didnt want to head out much deeper in case the wind got nasty as it would be an uncomfortable trip back. The decision made we headed for some spots in the 40's to see what was around.

The morning was very slow after that with almost no pickers and only a couple of little pinkies released and the biggest sargent backer any of us had seen. As the arvo rolled around it picked up a little bit and i landed a nice 74cm pinkie that went 4.5kg. (the only photo that we took for the day)

We landed a nice whiskery shark and while that was being sorted the skipper hooked onto another little Dhuie of 56cm. As he was de-hooking it Tony got a big hit that he lost. I told the skipper not to spike the dhuie as we were going to hook a much bigger one and 15sec later i was on. After a nice little fight up popped a 8.3kg model so the smaller one was released.

The southerly was picking up by then so we headed in.

Good day out with mates and a feed for all.

Mackerel mackerel mackerel

Received a text from zOOm yesterday asking if I wanted to take advantage of the forecast good weather and head out this afternoon?  My trips with Michael been very enjoyable in the past, plus we have got some good fish so I was keen.  After the last couple of trips on his boat, I thought we should take mine but the Sea Fox had just been serviced and needed a run.  Took the better half out to lunch at Hillarys (a good plan) and headed off after that about 1.30pm.

The “plan” was to see if we could find some Sambos for sport and give the pinkies a go on dusk.  Headed NNW out the back of the 3 Mile to continue the burley experiment.  We spent a bit of time looking for the schools on the sounder but to no avail.  Anchored up on one spot but it was quiet so moved to a bit of known ground.  Within a few minutes Michael’s rod went off and the fish was going hard.  I was calling it for a Sambo until this thing leapt from the water – haven’t seen a Sambo jump yet so reevaluation was required.  The fish, of course, headed to the anchor rope and Michael’s work to get his rod around it was quite entertaining.  At the same time, my floater went off but didn’t hook up.  After a good fight, the fish was in the net no thanks to my multiple failed attempts to get it there.  A solid Salmon of a few kilos that was photographed and successfully released.

The bite was generally pretty quiet however and the only other fish of note was a 350mm pinkie that took my floater (also returned successfully).  After a while, and when the burley ran out, it was time to go somewhere else.

We decided to head South off Scarborough to a spot that had produced before.  We managed to get a few fish (a just undersized Dhu that immediately smashed a live Wrasse, a large Skippy, undersized pinkies, sized but released Tarwine, and a variety of undesirables) but nothing of note.  Then, my floater was smashed.  I initially called it for a Sambo but it headed straight for cover.  I could feel the leader rubbing on the rocks and then I was bricked.  I put a lot of “heat” on the fish and eventually got it free and it was starting to come up.  Tragedy, as the line went slack and the fish swam away.  I had straightened my bottom 4’0 and to make matters worse, the hooks contained some very large scales.  My call was a big Dhu, and one that got away (sob).

The bite slowed considerably so we decided to move again and set up for the “pinking hour”.  The wind had come up and to tell you the truth, it wasn’t that comfortable.  There was not much action at the new spot but just as the sun went down I got a fairly meagre bite on the bottom rig but that all changed when I set the hook.  This one was a “screamer” that was just stripping line from the 4000 Stradic and putting the little Gomoku to the test.  The nice smooth drag of the Stradic slowly started to pull it up and after a good fight the “happiness” of seeing the large pink colour coming up was achieved.  The circle hook had set in the jaw and we got the fish to the net.  A nice fish “out of the blue”.

We landed a few more undersized pinkies until it got really dark and cold and it was time to come in.  Another really enjoyable trip with zOOm where we had a good day and landed some nice fish, and others that were not so nice.  The pinkie measured 770mm and weighed 4.75kg and was certainly the highlight.  It is always very satisfying to catch the target species during a “quality” day on the water.

Hit a thick patch of salmon offshore of Ocean Reef with a quick late arvo fish with Langa. Surprising they are still about. This is what they looked like on the sounder.

Me and Langa jigged up plenty, lots of fun with aerials and hard fighting.

I downsized to 8lb and had a heap of fun with some 5 inch soft plastics until an amberjack joined the fray, had me working hard.

 Caught a feed of skippy and coupla squid today on the 5 out from pt Kennedy 

 After moving to Broome in March to dive for pearls I bought myself a tinny and the fishing adventures began ! Ill.let the photos do the talking. Im hanging around for the Wet and planning on hitting the barra pretty hard but have bugger all knowledge so if theres any locals around that are keen to  share lnowledge, go for a fish or a beer then let me know. Cheers Nick.

Headed out solo mid-week late afternoon from Hillarys when the wind was light to continue the “burley experiment”.  A bit of a delayed post as I have been writing my application to the City of Wanneroo to allow the proposed Shore Catch activities at the prospective premises in Wangarra.

Wednesday conditions were good, although the ocean was a little “lumpy” so I stayed inshore.  Pulled up on the “spot” to a lot of activity on the sounder.  No doubt it was Sambo schools smashing up everything in the water and once the burley went out the bite was strong.

Landed a few skippy and had the gear busted up big time by a number of “unstoppables” – even broke a couple of hooks.  I did manage to get one to the boat though which was great fun on light gear.  Released nicely to swim away.

Just on dark, a lovely 50cm KG.  The KGs are such a good fish and to get one was a bonus – and appreciated by the better half, and not released.

No pinkies though, and I was tormented by the text photos from Dean and Mark from the trip into deeper water out from Mindarie on the day.  Nice fish that were 800mm+.

 does anyone ever use filleted blowfish meat as bait for catching yellowtail whiting etc when blowies are thick.I went to the ammo jetty this morning with only 2 herring that I thought would be O.K. but they were not real fresh.I caught a blowie and cut strips of the tail without busting the belly and started getting yellowtail whiting and small skippy.The other blowies virtualy ignore it.I was given some fresh mulie when the rain came and everyone left but it did not last 2 seconds in the water.I was using a small white bait gang about size 6.

 The rain coats and bilge pump copped a work out yesterday morning out from the cut. Was all good fun still, with 3 good snapper landed and a coupple more hooked that diddnt want to play nice on the light gear. 

The Italian fishery is wonderful right now and am really looking forward to getting back there in October, but when a shipment of the brand new Yamaga Blanks Blacky series of tuna rods arrived at my house at almost exactly the time my friend Dirk was taking his boat to Spain for a month - the offer on the table was far too good to refuse!

I had limited time available to me so it was to be a short and sharp trip, but right from the first day I knew I was in with a good chance at getting a proper bend in this rod. The model I had decided was to be the primary weapon was the Yamaga Blanks Blue Sniper Blacky 81/8, which is the medium model of the 3 in the range. My reasoning was it should have plenty of guts, but also be soft enough in the tip to flick the light lures as I'd heard the fish in the region were mostly targetting tiny anchovies.

Day 1 came around and there were plenty of serious fish bust ups, but the fish here were very different to Italy. The fish on my earlier trips in Ancona were in small groups, but feeding very aggressively and seemed quite keen to hit the lures. Here though, the schools of fish were huge, but it didn't seem to matter what we threw at them. We just couldn't get them to bite! Football field schools of fish were boiling the water to foam and you'd lob a cast right in the middle, all to no avail. A frustrating day for sure, but at least the conditions were lovely and we got into some small bonito to kill the time.

Day 2 was a bit different. Conditions a little rougher, and very few fish to be seen. We thought the schools had moved on, and I have to admit I got a little worried. All was not lost though - late in the afternoon, we found a school that was going absolutely mental. Surely we had to get something here! But cast after cast, nothing would grab. However, we persisted, and finally - result! A fish nailed my lure and started peeling line off at a rate of knots. Sadly for me, the fish decided to go back through the enormous boil of fish, and another fish touched the tight braid - shearing the line. To say I was devastated is such an understatement, as I had a mainline failure cost me a great fish on my last Italy trip also. But I had one day of fishing left to turn things around......

Day 3, the final day. It was make or break for both of us. So we shook off the dusty heads from the nights festivities, and hit the sea. Happily - we knew that the fish were back in numbers. Conditions were awesome again, and there were loads of birds around. Something had to be under them.

By mid morning we'd found some great schools, when all of a sudden we came across another of the massive bustups that just spanned forever. There had to be a thousand or more fish in that school. We stopped the boat but they were literally boiling all around us. This was going to be it! Surely! But after about 40 casts into a bustup that just kept going and going, I remarked to Dirk that I was very glad the girls were not here to witness this - because they would think we are the worst fishermen in the world! Almost every lure in the box had been tied and thrown, and I seriously was ready to throw the rod into the water. Luckily though, I didn't. I don't know what it was about that cast, or that lure, or that fish, but finally a fish decided that the little 29gr stickbait I was using looked just too good to resist. Fish on!

It pulled some drag, but to be honest it felt like a pretty small fish, so when Dirk asked if I needed a gimbal belt I just said 'no man all good, keep casting!' but then the fish woke up. I realised after the first huge run that I had a real fight on my hands, and quickly changed my mind about the gimbal!

A great battle ensued, running as much drag as I dared on my PE6 line. There were some very tense moments and more than a little yelling when I got the fish boatside as the leader I was using was only 100lb and I could see the fish had rubbed through it quite a bit. We had no chin gaff or anything, so we ended up having to land it by hand, and it took us both to haul it onto the deck. The pictures really dont do the thing justice, it was a very tall and thick fish and was bloody heavy. I was stoked to get this fish to say the least, as it was my PB bluefin and to nail it on a new rod on the last day of a trip in good company made it all the more rewarding. Dirk did manage to get some video also, which I'll post when I am back in London in a week and a bit.

Counting down until the next chance to get into one of these fish! If anyone is interested in any of the tackle used or is keen to book a trip to come chase their own tuna, drop me a message or head to www.adventureangler.net

 managed to get out for a fish with my brother a couple of weeks ago being my first proper fish in nearly 6 weeks so i was hanging to get out!! target for the day was sambos at a common spot but after 6 hours of live herring not a sniff but with the light gear throwing half mulies as bait we managed a pretty fun day!! managed to land 10 little pinkies and 2 small dhuies off the rocks between us, all the undersized fish went back and one pinky was kept for a feed. went bloody hard on 20lb gear, 3012H certate and assassin amia 11ft rod for me landing all but one pinky and a dhiuie myself.

Flew in last night, never seen the ocean so calm,

 So my wife had monday off so we thought we get away for a little weekend trip 2 and half hours north of broome. I checked the forecast and was considering not bringing the tinny but luckily i did as it was pretty flat.

Left saturday pretty early as we were meant to leave friday night but finished work later than expected. When we arrived the place was pretty busy and we missed out on the spot overlooking the water but in turn we got a bigger campsite and a bit of grass. 

On the drive up the wheel arch broke and ended up just ripping it off because it would have caused more damage if left on. 

Luckily that was the only trouble we had on the trip. The dog almost got bitten by what to looked to be a 1.5 metre brown snake but had him on the lead so could pull him away in time.

Got another macky for the tinny which was pleasing on  a old school rapala(wooden body) and the biggest blue lined emp ive seen so far came in at 52cm and was just a heavy fish .

Fishing blind for most of it as the sounder hasnt been working since i bought the tinny but the fishing is that good you only need navionics and find ground that way. whales are everywhere at the moment which are nice from a distance.

The family was nice enough to give us some fire wood so rewarded them with a couply of bluelined emps which they were stoked about.

If anyone anyone comes to broome with a car make sure to check out the cape as i call it the exmouth of Broome.

Old FW member and fishing buddie DazSamFishing, who now lives in BrisVegas, gave me a call, back in Perth for a few days, any chance of getting the arms stretched. With a dodgy forecast and the Eagles playing in the arvo, I said a short trip would be possible but no promises.

Got together DazSamFishing (Daz), TimVB and Hoooked (Marki) and we headed out to see if we could hook a few sambos.

Sounder lit up with heap of bait and a few fish at two of the 4 spots we tried.

The arms got a stretching.

A few good fish landed and a few bricked us in the shallow water.

Fun times with old mates.

 Had a new bubs recently, so sold the motorbikes and the trusty little dory to upgrade to a safer more family friendly boat. Id been lucky to decky for burra a few times so with the weather looking decent today I thought Id return the favour on her maiden voyage. We headed out from Ocean reef before sunup to fish behind 3 mile, was quiet going early on but managed to find some bait, it wasnt long before the fish were on. Mack tuna was first fish landed, followed by a couple of sambos, undersized dhus and a couple of goat fish. Lost a couple of decent sized units due to my albright knots letting go, not happy. Moved spots when it got quiet and came a across a school a pinks. Caught a couple of undersized fish before we landed a 53, 59 and 65. Headed in just after lunch, was a good first outting, still need more practice launching and retrieving the bigger boat but overall very happy with the new fishing platform. 

 Hey everyone. Finished my edit of ranfurly bank trip last year aboard enchanter. My second trip with lance and the boys and thoroughly recommend them to everyone. Best watched in HD enjoy

http://youtu.be/x3Z5rtI_clg

Me n my mate Bads decided to give Cervantes a go on the weekend given the great weather forecast.

Headed up on Saturday morning at gentlemans hours to a light easterly and relatively flat seas.

Went straight out the back and picked up a few Dhuies and Baldies for the esky and then proceeded to muck around with a few sambos as well. Video link below:

www.fishwrecked.com/forum/cervantes-sambo

The water glassed off around 10:00 and we deceided to hit closer reefs for some snapper for a bit of a change.

After a couple of initial drifts to find some lumps we deployed the burley bomb made up of blended herring frames and IT WAS ON!!!!!

Having a drift of 100m every half an hour so meant the fish just followed us and the burley. Floating a bait down and as soon as it got out of sight you were hooked up.

Had a mix Snapper, Sambos and Dhuies all coming up off the bottom to smash our baits. Sounder Porn!!!! 

My Snapper went 75cms.

The sun was getting down and we were running out of time so last baits were called and Bads hooked up to something with a lot of weight! Granted he was only using his Stradic 2500 with 8lb line so anything above a herring looks huge. After a massive fight that lasted 10mins or so with huge powerful runs, up popped a decent size Dhuie that went 75cm.

Cruised in at 20-30 knots the whole way with a few cans to celebrate a ripper day! 

The next day looked just as good as the following but the tacho shorted out and blew a fuse so we decided to be safe rather than sorry and leave it at one day only.

Hey guys, thought i'd put up a little report from Ningaloo last week.

This is our annual work fishing trip with 14 crew and 3 boats this year. A perk that is simply second to none. 

After a tough start with some car and boat trailer issues followed by alot of wind over the first 4 days fishing was tough.

We managed some good pelagics with Wahoo, Mahi Mahi, Spanish, YFT and a lone Sailfish (on Hardbody) and various demersals but nothing of great note.

Sharks were a major issue when searching for Reds with most good fish lost.

Here are some of the pelagics.

Then the last 2 days of our stay turned on sensational weather and simply some rediculous deep drop action.

Rubies came thick and fast with the best fish in the 18-20kg bracket along with a cracker Greyband that would had to have been close to 30kg.

We simply had to leave them biting as our Ice Boxes couldn't handle the load and freezer space was filling.

What a finish to the trip and the deep drop action was something i'll never forget.

Happy days!

 In this video, I show a spot that was hard to share online. I have hundreds of hours on film, but find it dificult to share without people swarming the area and taking every thing they catch.

If you take the time to watch this clip, you will see the same bait fishing tech's that i posted before.  fishwrecked.com/forum/bream-baits-video

And the last video  fishwrecked.com/forum/40cm-bream-video   was the exact same method of bait fishing for Bream.

Here, I don't land the fish, but is still worth watching as it was the biggest i had seen for the season. Hope you like it, Cheers Grant...

youtu.be/f90xjJMWm6g

After the Wednesday night KGs (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/metro-kgs-0), and the best few days forecast I have seen for a while, it was time to fish – and get the burley experiment going in earnest (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/shredder-ultimate-burley-machine-burley-experiment).

I had been too lazy to ask for deckie assistance so headed out solo on Thursday morning from Hillarys.  I have also been too lazy to fish the right times in the mornings this year but did manage to get away before dawn into the mid 20’s before the sun came up.  I started to fish a spot that has produced for me before but it is fair to say the going was fairly slow.  I’m sure a pilot whale wanted to mate with my boat as it must have surfaced about 30 times within 50 metres.  It scared the sh*t out of me a few times by blowing “close” in the still conditions.  After an hour or more I had to move to get away from it.

Got to the new spot and burleyed up and it was a whole different story – I do think it had something to do with the high tide (and my burley slick that was heading to South Africa).

Mayhem really and I probably landed 50 odd fish of all different varieties in the next 2-3 hours.  Don’t you love it when your floater and bottom rig are going off at the same time and you need to decide which fish is bigger, or more desirable, before taking it on.  I kept a size pinkie at 530mm (I very rarely catch size pinkies during the day) and the biggest breaksea (I have “orders” to bring them home) with everything else released.  Back in before noon with sore arms from the workout.

I had a message from zOOm about potentially going out on Friday in his boat after our successful mission a month or so earlier (http://fishwrecked.com/forum/zoom-pink).  That was a really good day with good company in a nice rig to fish off so I was keen to go again.  Since receiving the message, a couple of the dads from my young ones footy team had contacted me about going out on their boat on Friday to show them how to fish nearshore for the pinkies.  These dads cop my stream of fish photos at games, and I even had a mum tell me I had to go out with them so the boat gets used and doesn’t just sit in the marina.  Mind you, the boat is a 36 Flybridge with all the “trimmings”.  Dilemma.  After lots of texts and phone calls the Friday plan was hatched.  Fish with zOOm from mid-morning to mid/late afternoon, meet the “dads” at the marina about 3.30pm, swap the boats in the pen and head out again, with Michael invited along as well.

I had a bit of family and work stuff to do on Friday morning so got to Hillarys about 10.30am.  Prep the boat, load the gear and off we go.  Headed south to the Hale Road reefs but that was “flat” so we decided to go to our previous “found” spot and give it a go again.  Burley up and it didn’t take too long.  Michael and I had another awesome little session on this spot with a constant supply of fish.  Tarwine and big skippy were the common species, as well as undesized pinkies and dhu, and we kept a couple of very large tarwine for Nana and the skippy, for other purposes.  The highlight however was the 6kg Dhu that I landed on the little Gomoku (we won’t talk about the very large fish that bit Michael off – no it wasn’t really a monster dhu!).  We left the fish biting with good times all round.

Back to the marina and we “upgraded” the boat.  The SW wind had come up a bit but was no match for this “beast”.  As we headed out I “handed over” the coordinates to one of my “proven” nearshore pinkie spots, but with no guarantees.  I have found the nearshore pinkies are very hit and miss but trust your technique and the results sometimes happen.

What do you know, they did.  Michael was first to hook up on the floater and landed a nice 630mm model.  An hour later my bottom rig was smashed and the little Gomoku got its second 5kg+ fish of the day (750mm).  Top this off with a few cold ones and a boat cooked pizza on an awesome rig and it was a very nice end to a quality day.  It is so good when you guide the mates out and are lucky.

Saturday was the MAAC comp which was postponed from the week before due to the strong wind warning.  With the young lady’s netball hiatus, for some unknown reason, she was keen to come along to fish her first comp of the year.  With a lot of “lectures” during the week about how there could be no winging and we were going to be out there for 8+ hours with no coming in she was still keen.  Even after the 5.45am wake up the look of anticipation said it all.

MAAC comps are all about species so we headed to “Terry’s pike spot” first up.  With the burley in the water the herring and pike were on fire and we soon had what we needed (Nana loves her herring and I always fillet them for her after the comps – the only time I ever target them).  With a couple of species in the bag, some nearshore sand whiting were next at another spot -a bit slow but everyone got one so we moved on.  The easterly was still blowing 15+ kn so we stayed inshore to try and find some tailor on the reefs.  After a few unsuccessful attempts we finally found a school feeding on baitfish.  We took turns on landing the strikes and I got the first one with a fish over a kilo.  Next was the “favorite little deckie” and this was a quality fish.  What a pleasure to watch her fight, and learn, with a predator that goes hard.  After 10 minutes we got it in the net and at 580mm and 1.54kg it was a quality specimen.  We made sure that everyone got one and moved on.

It was a really good start to the comp but when the wind died so did the bite.  We headed out into the 20’s and gave the towcam on the downrigger a test.  Not quite the best option in a comp but we wanted to make sure the ground we fished had a chance.  It was awesome – how can you fault a live feed from the bottom on a split screen with your sounder.  We proved it works and will further refine this technique – I will post more stories in the future but the below photo gives the general idea.

We searched a number of spots with no success in the light northerly wind, until a floater was taken.  The little deckie was “first up” and she grabbed the rod with a fish on the end that was bigger than anything she had caught before.  I must pay credit to Dean and Wal for talking her through the 25 minute fight and the instructions on how to play the fish.  No assistance was given but Dean did have his hand on the butt of the rod to ensure the very expensive combo wasn’t dragged out of the hands of a 10 year old girl into the ocean.  The delight at landing the 850mm sambo had to be seen to be believed after the work that had been put in to get it on the boat.

What an awesome day for the young deckie.  It was topped off by her winning the mini-juniors, juniors and biggest tailor in the comp.  And yes, I was outfished by my daughter but loved it – if I could have weighed in fish from the previous days I would have cleaned up, but that’s fishing.  Let’s just say I filleted a lot of fish today and our freezer stocks are high after the good weather marathon.  Perth metro nearshore is a fishing paradise.

 After a failed attempt to head out Deep with JohnF on Thursday (Engines issues on my Fury) i hooked up with a mate who just happens to be a pro cray fisherman for a morning trip out in reasonably close chasing some demersals and hopefully some KG's.

Hit up a spot not too far out whilst the wind was just enough to be annoying from the east. 2 of us jigging whilst old mate crayfisherman was skippering! (holding the boat on top of the ground).

First drop we were just off due to the wind, but 2nd drop i got hit on the way down just off the bottom. Was using a 130g Dhu drop and loaded up heavy on my little PE 1.2 Ocea jigger. After about 10 minutes up popped this big boy, no scales on board but measured 96cm so put it around 14kg or so. not bad consdering is was barely light! My biggest on jig to date

Next drop had us with our 2nd dhu of about 5kg so time to move on as we had our limit of dhus. We moved not very far to the inside of a little bit of coral and dropped down some droppers for KG's. Instant success with me hooking an assumed double header (Could see them coming up on the sounder) to lose one half way up. Up popped a nice 51cm KG! you beauty!!

Moved around a bit more and changed back to jigs. Next spot i got hit, nothing too massive so took it slow and to my surpirse up popped this guy on jig!! went 53cm!

Ended up with 2 big KG's on jig which was a first for me.

Moved on again to the next bit of coral where we changed back to droppers with occy for KG's. Something tells me the Dhu stocks are good on this bit of coral!!

Needless to say we moved on straight away, all 3 of these swam off strong as they were bought up super slow.

Ended the day with 4 KG's (2 on jig) 2 dhu's and plenty of other bi catch of small pinks, rat sambos, and other bits and pieces! back to the ramp by lunch!

Bodie

With the weather looking good and a nice northern current hitting the mid west we decided a day trip was in order. Set off Thursday arvo and woke up to epic conditions Friday morn

Got to our destination on sunrise and started with a big sharkie and small Spaniard on the troll. Next strike thrashed on the surface and then took a 250m run right down to the backing on the little Trinidad 20A. Called it for a Wahoo and 15 mins later after a bit of chasing we sunk the gaff into a 28.5kg number. Pretty lucky with 100lb leader and no wire... Good start!

A couple more Spaniards and a little yellowfin rounded out the trolling then we jumped in for a go with the straight hook.

Vis was pretty average around 12-15m and plenty of noahs including a couple of 10ft tigers but they were being fairly well behaved. Macks were in abundance and we put some nice models up to 23kg in the boat.

Next onto the jigging and some old faithfulls were chokas with Dhus but after 4 way hook ups on two drifts in 55m we moved on to some coraal lumps and found the trout. The www.abrolhostackle.com.au jigs did all the damage on dhus, big trout and even a 6ft grey nurse which hit it on the move and had me guessing all the way up.

Headed for home mid arvo 33 knots all the way and back tot he ramp and in Perth by midnight!

Pretty impressed with my Madfish Fish bag which I keep tucked away on the boat in case of some surprise pelagics - fitted 6 big macks and the XL wahoo and kept them all nicely iced all night. Thumbs up for another WA company www.madfishgear.com

On a bloody cold, wet and wintery day last week, found a heap of bait and some angry red blobs on what looks to be a wreck of some sort in the 40's.

Lost a heap of jigs before we managed to land a few smaller ones.

Ended the day with a half dozen KG's between 45 and 48 cm. Forgot how good those things are to eat, secret is not to overcook the very delicate fillets. In panko crumbs, I think they may be my favourite.

 Good effort for these boys.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-14/two-tasmanian-brothers-land-potential-record-breaking-tunas/6699376

 Got the call Fri lunchtime from a mate who should have been in the goldfields. His gold prospecting partner had heart problems last night and is in the hospital getting monitored. Do i want to go fishing??

Loaded the car and kissed the missus goodbuy.  Launched at Mindarie around 3ish and headed out about 100m, well just the other side of 3 mile. Was planned for a bread and butter fish with a few floaters out the back. 

We got a good sounder reading in the middle of nowhere and decided to pull up in the 10m mark. As soon as we stopped there was a sizable silver shadow moving below us and in our haste to rig up i tangled my rig up so Darren got the first line in the water. Bastard hooked up straight away and landed a 78cm pinkie.

That was a good start so we repositioned the boat and dropped the anchor. Got the bearley going and had a hot session with a heap of skippy landed and a few blistering runs (not landed) over the next few hours.

Ended up with 2 pinkies and a bucket of skippy. Pretty good for an arvo not planned for.

 It has been a long trip !!! An awesome fishing trip for my customer from Switzerland.

 Just throwing it out there have not land based fish for sometime in the metro but I can head out tomorrow and I into the early evening 

any thoughts on where best. to wet a line 

I'm south of the river but can travel 

thanks in advance 

coley 

Launched out from point peron on Thursday morn with the intention of heading towards rotto somewhere, however wind and weather dictated terms so ended up anchoring and bellying on the back of the 5fb, between 6 am & 7 am I managed to boat 3 dhu between 44 & 47 cm, lost a thumper to a broken swivel before another small one of 28 cm, lost another thumper boat side spat hooks, took photos of fish caught as well as school ball on the sounder, between 7 am & 8 am caught 5 undersized pinkies before getting a keeper of 68cm, again took a pic of the sounder, I noticed a big difference in the way both schools showed upon the sounder, the dhu showed up as a big ball about 1 or 2 metres from the bottom where the snapper showed coming from the bottom, anyway as soon as the tide changed the bite stopped, I don't normally follow the almanac's but Thursday's was spot on, also I'm f@$&ed if I canwork out how to upload pics to this site, can it be made easier pls?

So while my brother and sister in law headed out wide and slayed them (see the big Trout posted, they got more than that) I took Narelle out from Cairns to try and get her a fish. We had about 2 and a half hours fishing due to kid duties so I took a punt at a spot I have and luckily it paid off. I was hoping for a mackerel or two and we ended up with twelve (school macks). We probably lost over 20 as well and Narelle was in her element and getting stuck in which was awesome to see. A few Bludger Trevally and Mack Tuna added to the fun. As you can see the weather was awful. Good fun but a little jealous now after seeing some other photos sent to me .......

 Went out at gentlemans hours, easterly was fresher than forecast, anchoring was the only option. Didn't go very far north, initially. Busted up on 40lb leader and bait first drop, then nothing. Faffed around slowly working my way north for nothing, bait and jigs, stuff it, head up to Baldface. Immediate action, first a sambo before the anchor rope was straight, then a nice 70 cm trout, then another sambo. Went quiet and wind dropped, pulled the pick and started to prospect, then the southerly came in with a bang, certainly not forecast. Headed straight for home and really bashed the last four miles or so.