We picked up a couple of dhu on Thurssday, one at about 65cm and the other 75ish plus a few under or just size which went back.  The second fish below was taken on a Pirate jig, the others were on bait. It was a cracker day on the water, glassed off nicely around 1pm when the wind started moving around to the SW.

Cheers

First Baldy for me and not a bad one caught another two after this one kept this one others were released

 Caught a few of these this evening but not to sure what they are?, biggest was 35cm also lost a decent fish in the surf kind of thinking it was a tailor.

yellow fin tuna on stick baits today off 2 Rocks out in the 40's

 Friday night had some good success. Conditions were terrible 

Pinkie went 750 KG went 550.

Where's Bougainville? North/west of the Solomon Islands and east of Papua New Guinea.

Why would you want to go there? My partner Roz was born and grew up there till the age of 17. Her father Joe worked at a copper mine in Panguna from the early 70's untill a civil war closed the mine and expats had to leave in the late 80's. Roz had wanted to return to her island home for a long time but this place is well and truly of the beaten track as far as tourism is concerned. She spent over a year researching and making contacts with new and old friends to see if a holiday over there was possible. All I had to do was put a travel kit for fishing together.

A couple of Tcurve 7ft 24kg travel rods, Stella 18k PE8, Stella 10k PE6 and a few lures etc.

 Nice fish on Sunday with the weather also adding to a good day

 went out for a quick squid jog this morning just north of the marina in exmouth, wind was there but not enough to make it uncomfortable. Ended up with getting 6 with 5 nice big ones, the biggest i have ever got and a small one which was the first one i caught. all cleaned ul ready for a feed and got some heads for some nice bait on the weekend. not a bad way to spend your wednesday i reckon.

Had the brag mat out ready to measure but started cleaning them and forgot to measure, oh well next time... The largest cleaned hood measured 30cm !

Cheers Joel

Anyone been out to the Rotto Barges recently?

Tomorrow is looking really good to blast out that way after a stop at the FFB for an early Pinky... time for a day off.

Trev

How did you go today. Headed out from Mindarie to Direction Bank. Beautiful conditions with a glass off most of the day. Tried heaps of spots and different tactics for 2 under size dhuies, 1 rat baldie, 2 tiny BB's and assortment of crap including gold spot sweetlip, sea sweep, seargent bakers AKA dhuie crack and a small fox fish. Came home empty handed but was a nice day on the water.

 Chasing a report on what dalyellup beach has been producing lately cheers guys

 Decided to take one of my riggers out fishing on sunday. Coming from tasmania he was keen to get into some dhu's. We were both eager and pumped for the day ahead as the forecast was looking shmick, but were about to be let down. 

The swell inside the reef was very messy and acounted for a very ordinary (read shit) beach launch. The boat came off the trailer no probs but then the water just disappeared and then reappeared in a big surge that pushed the boat sidewards and onto the sand. A couple of surges later and we are okay and pointing in the right direction but very wet (didnt matter because it pissed down about 30 mins later). Finally we were on our way when I looked down at the sounder to see all sorts crap on the screen- bloody weed on the tranny, or so I thought. Put the motor into neutral and went to clear the weed only to find the tranny completely snapped off and hanging by the cable! Fu#k Fu#k F$ckety Fu#k. I dont think I've ever sworn so much without taking a breath.Obviously our profesional beach launch was to blame.

I had to get Twig onto some fish but with no sounder it was going to be a challenge. My only option was to blind drift some of my marks and hope for the best. Spot one saw 4 dhu's, two on jig(me) and two on bait(twig) then everything went dead until twig caught a boltcutter- time to move. At spot two  I hooked up a donkey dhu only to have the bastard reef me due to a sticky drag on an old reel that desperately needs a service (I had to back the drag off and thumb the spool- blister on right thumb) Twig followed with a dhu and a pinky(both kept) and then it was my turn to get smashed again. As I was pulling up something average it got munched by an unknown that took about 50ish meters of line in about 5 seconds plus my fish and my snapper lead- leader was shreaded to bits, any ideas? Was too fast to be a shark I think. Next drift I caught a rather greedy sargent baker that was filleted and sent back down on a sort of modified drift bait rig (I used assist cord to snell the hooks together to make them waft around a bit better than fluro) to see if I could get the big bastard that reefed me earlier, didnt work, I could only manage one of his kids(kept). 

By now the weather had turned from a sloppy easterly to a nice calm ocean which would have been ideal for searching for new ground, just my luck. Anyway after a bit of whale watching we decided to call it a day so I could head home and sook to the wife about how I need a new Furuno (wink wink). All up not a bad day I suppose but it made me think just how much we rely on electronic devices in our lives. 

Went for a quick fish this morning down near rockingham with one of my mates and after walking up and down the beach for an hour managed to get into a nice school of tailor. We caught over a dozen 35cm plus tailor and kept these 4 for a feed. They were a bit smaller then usual but still good fun on light gear and lures.

somewhere between Mindarie & two rocks....

a 14 and a 11.....released a couple smaller ones (one was pushing 10 again)...all off the one lump

everything else was dead quiet.

 Had a crack at the drain today, mucked around trying for whiting but none around so i chucked a mulie out on a gang,  2nd cast and bang, hook up.... Didnt run much immediately but gave a good run about 20m off the beach then gave up. I had it called for a tailor and was pleasently suprised when this little fella came ashore. Certainly was fun on my little whiting rod with 20lb.

a quick photo then was released successfully to fight another day.

Anyone catching mulloway or heard of any in the swan besides e shed?

cheers

Arrived back on friday from a flying visit to Coral Bay.

Travelled up the previous Saturday doing the trip in 11.5 hours, with light traffic and good driving conditions. Had more than a couple of beers with the lads and ended up not that flash for the first day out. Weather whilst there was great, warm, sunny and little wind.

Any fishing in close resulted in getting monstered by a horde of sharks with very few fish making it to the boat. So we ended up fishing wide, 20+nm out in anything from 100 to 270m. Plenty of sharks out wide as well by mostly smaller models being the most annoying, tangling lines and biting off tackle but amongst these were some bigger units up t 7 foot or so. We brought several of these to the boat which was bloody hard work from the deep water.

When we could get away from the sharks we managed to boat good Reds up to 11kgs and plenty of good Goldband up to 6 kgs or so. Also picked up Saddleback Sea Perch, Robbos, Rankins, Pinkies, Tomato Cod and plenty of smallish cobia 8kgs or so. We looked for Rubies but not sure that the sounder had enough grunt to give us enough detail so we gave that away and concentrated in the 160 to 100m depths which seemed to be the most productive with consistent Reds and Goldband until the sharks moved in, then it was time to move.

Gave the electric reels a go in the 150's so as to get used to them for fishing the deep down here. Man do they save some work when pulling up to rebait etc and mostly made light work of whatever we caught out there including the bigger Reds and Goldband. They also did not have that much trouble with 6 foot sharks although I could smell the drag starting to smoke up on them. But when you are pulling up from 150m every 10 minutes or so they were a godsend.

Only took a couple of pics and they are not very good ones at that. Weather was closing in for the weekend so got out at the right time, leaving at 6.30am to drive through fog for the first 40kms for another easy trip home arriving ay 6.00pm

cheers

 Went out for a little bash in the sound last night and had absolutely no luck! Fish seemed to be under the boat just didn't want to bite.

To add insult to injury when we returned at 2:30am (tired & wet) my boat trailer was stolen (cu*#s!!)

They also smashed our cruisers window, stole the ash tray and left a huge mess. Hopefully these guy get what they deserve.

*THREAD CLOSED - VIGILANTE ACTION PUBLICALLY PROPOSED WILL ONLY LEAD TO BAD OUTCOMES FOR ALL.

any1 having anyluck on bream in the swan at the moment?? i dont think this rain is helping though. tryed up near fish market reserve midland to no avail, any suggestions on were they are biting at the mo??? i usualy fish unweighted prawns or strips of mullet/boney herring & black crabs. am yet to have anyluck on lures or fly any info will be much appreciated cheers

Hi all , out for most of the day ,not the best conditions but had fun on sambos close in .Went to a spot to anchor up for pinks ,but couldn't hold ,even with sea and pick out ! Had nothing in the esky by mid arvo and wasn't looking good with the wind not helping .Hit a spot in the low 20's and got anchor right on the spot , ended up with a 68 cm pink and a thumper unexpected blackbum that went 52 cm and very solid ! ( post pic later ) All only a few km's from Quindalup ! Happy days .

Went out to James service few weeks ago. Missus out fished me but good to see her get into some good fish.

Gday everyone it has been awhile since I posted but I guess I had nothing to post about :D and now I do...

The first trip was a very well planned diving trip to Rotto. Last year my girlfriends mum passed away from Breast Cancer and it was very tough on her and her brother. anyway we were throwing a bit of a do for her and the local pub for her one year memory and I figured that everyone loves fresh crayfish so I rounded up a good crew and we were off. Plain and simple it was a perfectly flat day, the vis was the best iv seen it, we found the spot and caught crayfish !! Once we had enough lobster I told the skipper to take me a certain spot where I had seen a Dhuey lurking earlier and I jumped in with the spear and on my first dive there he was, my first Dhuey, plenty of crays and home by 11am.

After this successful day out our Captain Marcy who just so happens to be my girlfriends brother headed off up North to work therefor we were land based for a few months but now hes back wev been into it ! After a few quick trips and nothing major to report, I was in his ear about tales of Jigs, Placcies, big dhues, pink snapper, Jurien Bay, two rocks and other fabulous ideas that I come up with after lurking the fishwrecked forums. So off we went to the fishing store $1500 later we were set to explore the grounds beyond the sound.

Our first trip proved to be completely useless as we headed out to the South Western corner of Rotto in search of good ground. 20s,30s,40s,50s nothing, no bites, no strikes, lost jigs (snags I think) and our expectations far from exceeded. I convinced myself and the captain it was matter of time and patience before we succeed and before we knew it we were back at the ramp with our tail between our legs. Never the less its was an amazing day on the water last Saturday and good to try something different cant wait to catch something on a jig or placcy and show the boys there are other ways than just a piece of bait.

If anyone out there is also new to the jigging and placcy scene and can shed some light on anything we may be doing wrong that would be awesome.
Cheers T.K

Hey guys, just a quick report on an overnight last weekend. The conditions were unreal - 23, sunny and little breeze. Not bad for the middle of winter, right?

Camped (fished...) overnight several kays up the beach, and found a beautiful gutter adjacent to some reef. Managed a bunch of whiting, dart and herring (one was huge), a decent flattie and a skippy of around 30cm. Pulled in two reasonable tailor just after dusk, and missed several more, before they shut down quickly. Had a whole herring out which got a massive run around 9pm and just came back with the tail... I was sure to convince the guys it was a massive mulloway ;-) Also just before lights out pulled in a nice little wobbegong around 1m.

The weeds situation on saturday was good.. some spots were a bit weedy but plenty of clear areas. Sunday has weeded up considerably - I'm not sure if it was just the high tide dragging it off the beach or not.
 

Cheers

Mate Nic and I had a ball catching Pink Snapper and Skippy on Five Fathom Bank. See YouTube video at http://youtu.be/NMbVHN1nyFs

Couldn't go to work last Friday with the weather looking so "sexual" so ended up convoying out wide off two rocks with a few mates on 2 boats. Hit up some spots 35-45m off ledge point and spent the first few drifts watching the boys on the other boat hooking up straight away- my mate Leroy nailing his PB dhu of 14.2kg second drop. The wether was perfect all day and we ended up landing pinkys, a baldy, blackarse, and heaps of dhuies-(Ended up putting back 8) and was circled by a whale its calf for 3 separate drifts. The other boys bagged out on demersal aswell as releasing a huge sambo so we all had a sic day! 

So with the wife’s blessing (after I failed to get out Friday.....) a few mates and I headed out from Point Peron to 5 photon bank hoping to land a decent fish on my new boat. We headed out around 2pm and on the first drop started catching big Skippy like they were blow fish, after catching and releasing about 50 of them we decided to move spots.

After a slow start at the next spot we started to get a few bites as the tide changed. My mate jimmy pulled up a nice 50cm KG.

I then started to get smashed, pulled up a under size Dhu a large cuttle fish and a port Jackson shark (1.5mtrs) on the same pull and heap of wrasse

The next drop I finally pulled a nice 70cm Dhu so the boat landed its first decent fish (The fishing gods where finally being nice to me)...all in all a fantastic first trip out in the new tub

looking forward to the next bit of nice weather....:)

 We had been waiting for the right weather to take our first boat out on a proper trip and Saturday looked the goods.  A later than desired start due to swimming lessons for the kids and a slight hangover for the skipper who definitely wasn't the skipper the night before.  All the safety gear was purchased the week before and we loaded up with a variety of bait, snacks, painkillers (for the head) and beverages (for the head).  We headed out from Hillarys to our family whiting spot, conditions were beautiful and the boys and wife were happy to arrive at the destination.  After only a couple of minutes we hooked up to our first fish and continued from there.  A smallish shark (less than a metre) followed up one of the whiting and apart from a couple of wrasse, flathead (undersized) and a scaley mackerel we ended up with 22 whiting, some nice fat ones amongst the bag.  The eldest boy was very relaxed and pulled in his first solo fish, followed by four more and the youngest boy was assisted to pull in a couple of his own.  All in all a very successful trip out and back.  Am loving the new boat and looking forward to getting out as often as possible to find ground and get some decent fish on board.

Thanks to all the members that offered advice and tips in the lead up to this.  Will continue to provide updates and reports as often as possible.   

Had planned on hitting the deep drop today but weather did not play the game, seabreeze underestimating the wind strength in the morning by some margin. Was pretty nice after lunch, so just punted about in the 40-80's..

Did a lot of km, dropped a lot of jigs and got stuff all. One of the toughest demersal jig days for a long time.

Stopped for a sambo jig on the way home to make us feel better.........went pretty hard on PE3.

Nice to meet you today Dougie. 

Having a BBQ tonight with a couple of snapper that I caught last night.
Can anyone tell me how long I should cook these on the BBQ.
I normally fillet my fish because its easier for the kids.