Went for a run off two rocks on wednesday, Had a couple of dives about 15- 20ks out. The swell was pumping on the way out never seen it like that before it was like crossing a bar... Good to get wet got a couple of dhuies this was the bigger of the two and saw a shit load of whales out there.

Just wondering if anyones been around lancelin past week or so, wanting to know of the beach conditions weed etc...

cheers jim

Went out to rotto on sunday and produced heaps off undersize dhuis and loads off nice size skippy. gotta be careful off the whales out there too.

Went out to rotto again on wednesday and had a killer day on the water. Bought home 2 pinkies, 2 king george whiting and 1 breaksea cod (blackass).

got about 8 undersize dhuis, big skippy's, nice amberjack and a few small pinkies. a few sharks out there though so take loads off tackle coz you will be bitten off.

Hey guys, im heading up to Jurien this weekend just to get away and relax a bit.

Was wondering if there was any good fishing going on there off of the beach at the moment? i have heard at this time of year there can be quite a bit of weed?

oh i have a 4wd aswell so not limited to the road!

Cheers guys

after having no luck at the dam for trout went to a diffrent spot to try for redfin ,is my first ok size redfin so im happy 

Ended up with a few fish last night.was slow to start with and tried 4 spots before finding them.

Just looking around for a good spot to fish tailor..

went to north mole yesterday morning and mate got two medium sized ones but was a long day.

going out this afternoon and was thinking the two rocks outside wall out at the tip and wanted to know what sort of light they have there and if anyone has recently heard anything about this spot?

cheers.

 Hey all, this certainly isn't one for the brag bag but thought I'd share as some may find it interesting.

Went out with my bro for an afternoon kayak up the canning river, from the old riverton bridge headed SE. Decided to bring the light rods along for a bit of a flick as we went, see if we could entice a strike out of any bream that may be hiding out in the snags up that way. Just for a bit of fun to break up the paddling. No such luck with the bream, but just on dusk as we were headed back, this juvie mulloway decided he'd have a go at the soft plastic i was dangling. Even at this size, good fun on a light setup. Lil fella was of course sent back to get much bigger, and he took off at a very healthy speed.

Got us wondering if they're common this far up river, anyone else caught as bycatch while breaming up that way?

(also wondered if they were the reason we saw so many smaller fish breaching the surface all afternoon?)

Guys

Caught this off Two Rocks on Saturday. To me it is definatley a Red Throat Emperor but a mate was tell me it is a Small Chinaman. If it is a Red Throat does anyone catch many of these in the Metro Area I thought it was pretty unusual for it to be so low. I caught a lot at the Abrolhos and Port Gregory but never down here. Of course this one went back. We also got 1 Dhuie, 2 x Blackarse, 2 x King George Whitiing one going 650mm. I was a pretty slow day did anyone else find it slow on Saturday.

Regards

Glenn

Had to head up to Karratha for a day for work and couldnt head up there without trying to get out for a fish. Gave a mate of mine a call and it was on... all we needed was good weather!

The ride! was a tough day in this.

30ft Westcat, only 5 weeks old. Twin 300 Verardo's. only one word could discribe this thing....insane!

Weather held up!

Didnt get too many photos of fish because i thought I'd see how filleting my finger with a swebo would go....so didnt / couldnt take too many pics.

Day ended up with Reds, Rankins, Saddle tails, sharks, Mack's... Good day. True to the word, big bait big fish, snelled 10's won hands down in the fish tally department.

Fished 47-50 metres

1st drop out deep.

Next

Couple of the fish

Hoping to get up there again shortly for a monte's trip the boys are planning!

After a reasonable night out last Saturday chasing the pinks with my mate Dean (Dirt), I gave him a call to organise another pinkie session for last night. Leaving Woodies ramp at around 3.00pm with a 20 knot + ssw breeze we decided we’d hit the same ground we fished on the last trip. After the calm conditions last Saturday, making it difficult to keep position on anchor, the strong breeze and current we had this time was holding the boat in perfect position and the slick from the burly trail was pretty impressive. With a rod out each, now it was just a matter of kicking back with a coldie and waiting. As it usually happens leading into the change of light the little ones started to feed with a few under size pinkies keeping us amused, suddenly my rod was hit by something that had a little more weight to it and after a short fight a nice 55cm pinkie was measured and released. It was just starting to get dark now and Dean gets a touch on his outfit, then bang this fish is peeling line of his reel like there’s no tomorrow on his light gear. Once again we were thinking ray? Shark? This fish worked Dean from one side of the boat to the anther with some amazing runs finally in the light from my headlamp there’s a flash of colour and the cry comes out “holy shit” it’s another horse of a pinkie. This fish measure 88cm. That’s three pinks over 80cm Dean’s pulled off this spot now on different occasions. He’s a big fish magnet!... lol.

 After some high fives and a few photos it was back to concentrating on the fishing, and shortly after, my rod buckles over and I can feel the distinctive head shake only a pinkie gives. After a short fight another 57cm snapper comes on board, as my bag was looking a little sad so this one I decided to put on ice.

We are now in total darkness and it’s around 7.45pm and we’re still getting the undersize fish hitting our baits, little buggers. Suddenly there’s a touch on my rod. I lift it out of the holder, in anticipation. I feel some weight and it almost felt like a big squid pulling on my bait...I strike....Oh boy this ain’t no squid. Away it went, but again giving me the feeling that “shit is this a bloody ray”? But after a few decent runs I felt a couple of nice thumps through the rod that had me saying to Dean, I think I might have a horse pinkie!  Once again as flash of colour comes at the rear of the boat and it’s a beautiful big snapper that is nicely netted by dean and my PB Pink Snapper is lying on the deck of the boat. It blew out the Re-Pete fish ruler at 92cm. Totally stoked!....Big high fives and a hug and time for some pics.

A little while later and I was on again with another fish that was giving some really good head shakes and taking some line of the reel. After another good fight, another beautifully coloured pink snapper is netted by Dean. This fish measures 82cm. What a fantastic pink snapper session with a good mate. Not good about the footy score though.

 Hope you enjoyed the thread on our Pink Addiction!

Cheers

Paul

 Just got back from buffalo and ended up with a flathead and two tailor, best I`ve done out there yet.

Got there about 3:30, and after setting up had a 35cm flattie within 10 minutes of my first cast, but was very quiet untilnthe sun was very low on the horizon, getting lots of little nibbles, but nothing getting on my hooks, no matter what size i was using. About 6 when the sun was just above the water line, i got the first tailor, around 40cm. The second within 10 minutes of the first. Went really quiet again and didn't have another bite again. Decided to pack up and left about 8.

A couple of guys next to me were in for the night, had their wood and a fire going (Almost worded them up for using green wood, the smoke was thick!), they got there just after me and didn't get a thing before i left. I was to the right of the 'channel' directly in front of the ramp, and they were to the left. It always seems to be one side does good and the other gets nadda.

Also had a guy who decided to go for a drive up the beach with no recovey gear and had never been off road before. He was stuck for a good two hours, and hadn't even let his tyres down before he came and asked me if i had a tow rope. He was very lucky he didn't roll it, given the angle he was on, but one of the guys he was with got a lift home and went and got his 4x4 and they eventually got out.

 So that was my afternoon, great time!

The fishing has been reasonable over the past few weeks considering it is usually quiet at this time of year. The winter murky water has started to clear over the last week with visibility being 3\4 the way to the bottom out at the end. Chopper tailor are starting to turn up in good numbers after dark all along the second half of the jetty with sizes getting into the mid 30's. Small pieces of squid and soft plastics have been working quite well for the tailor at the moment since they are feeding in close to the lights and pylons. Herring are down in numbers as per usual this time of year however a good feed can still be caught right on sunset using small metal lures such as twistys or gillies baitfish. Large skippy can be found at the end in good numbers during the morning but have been going off the bite in the afternoon. Squid numbers are very good at the moment with most fisho's landing a good feed with 2 or 3 hours effort. The squid can be found all along the jetty after the bend with the best numbers coming from half way out. There is plenty of mulies hanging around under the jetty for use as bait for squid, just throw a bit of burly in the water and jig a small metal to catch them. Mulloway season has come to an end with no catches to be reported.
 

Side note : I have been throwing lures at the tailor over the past few weeks, I have been giving Blues Code a go and found they work very well, almost too well, I lost one to a very large Sambo this last monday.

has anyone fished the busso jetty lately if so much around

Hi Guys,

any news on the sambo action lately? They should be starting to fire up.

Kind regards,

Unfortunately I am without a boat at the moment as I'm having my trailer regalvanised. I was stoked to get a phone call late last week from my good mate Paul (DeCrais) to invite me out on his boat on Saturday night to chase pinkies. It was a beautiful day out with extremely low winds and glassed off water, great conditions for boating but not normally that productive for Snapper. We headed out to one of Pauls favourite spots in the sound and set out the anchor. Things were a little quite except for some snook that must of been about 800mm long, good fun on the light gear. Things didn't improve over the next couple of hours so we decided to move to another spot of ours out between the islands. It was that calm that the anchor rope was slack and the boat position was constantly moving around with the small gusts of winds. It was impossible to keep the baits in position, so with dark looming we decided to move back into the sound again. Paul continued to struggle to keep the boat on the mark and repositioned the boat several more times. With no real luck and it being around 8.30 we were nearly ready to give up and Paul said we will move one more time (and I'm so glad he did)  bang they started to fire with numerous undersize snapper coming over the side. All of a sudden my rod buckled over and was losing line like it wasn't going to stop, both Paul and I originally thought it must have been a Ray, but after some blistering runs we managed to turn whatever it was and slowly gaining line, it wasn't until we surfaced in the light of the boat at the transom that we realised that it was a horse snapper, with a quick net shot from Paul and a few snaps it was quickly on ice.  We quickly increased the burly trail and got our baits back in the water.  Not long after this Pauls rod buckled over landing another nice snapper.  Several more smaller snapper came on board over the next hour or so until the boat started to swing around again, making it difficult to fish. We eventually called it a night at about 11.00pm, and as trying as it was it ended up being a great night.  I would like to thank Paul for the invite and hopefully we get to head out again soon. 

 I have been looking at trying night fishing for pink snapper, I have seen quiet a few posts of people doing it and catching a few. My local boat ramp is woodman point and I wanted to know if anyone could give me any pointers, direction where to go, bait ect. I have never fished for pink snapper so I need to know a few bits and pieces so I'm not flying blind!

Cheers guys

With Spring weather staying true to its reputation, we have had a taste of all four seasons over the last fortnight. When the conditions have been right, they have been outstanding, and unfortunately, the same goes with the bad weather. Both landbased and boat anglers have succeeded when out and about, with a host of species being targeted and landed. From the shore, Herring, skippy and whiting have all been around in good numbers, with beaches between Dunsborough and Bunker bay proving worthy.

 On the west coast, adfter the herring slow down after dark, tailor to 75cm have been landed, with one session for a Dunsborough Outdoor Sportz Employee landing 4 fish over 55cm with largest at 69cm and a whisker under 2.5kg. The following night saw another angler lose approx 170m of 50LB on a Saragosa 10 000, what we can only determine as being a shark. There were no head shakes, and the more drag that went on, the more line would peel. Great to see, from dry land that is.

Out in the boats, Pinkys, Dhuies, and the usual Sambos, YTK and Amberjack have all been around. The dhuies have been in depths from 30-90metres, with jigs and plastics still proving too tempting for them. One angler had a ball on light gear landing 25 sambos ranging from 15-35kg. They were apparently so thick, a set of pliers was dropped overboard by accident, and as they sunk , got smashed by a pair of hungry sambos. Pinkies are still in the bay, with the 4 and 8 mile still producing great quality fish.

As the weather continues to warm, we all look forward to those days with perfect conditions. Whether it be fishing from the beach with the kids, or deep dropping in 300m, stay keen, stay safe, and happy fishing. For all advice on your tackle and diving needs, feel free to drop us a line or find us on facebook or on our website.

Until next time, good luck and happy fishing!

 Hi all, I will be heading up north with the 4x4 to Denham and Kalbarri next Monday for a week of fishing. Its our first time fishing that far north. Just wondering what type of stuff we will be able to catch and where some good spots would be? 

Also what type of rigs would be best suited to those conditions?

Thanks 

 Hi guys,

Heading down to Mandurah for the long weekend.... Never fished down there so just wondering whats around and were are the best spots?

Cheers

2 rainbows out of the 4 i got this morning,the water was like glass with trout hiting the surface every where

Hi all,

Sitting at work thought I would post a few photos from a trip to Exmouth last month.

Had a mate from Melbourne come over to Perth so we headed up to Exmouth for a quick fish, he told me the biggest fish he had caught was a very small flat head so I thought to myself I will fix that. (hopefully)

Organized a charter for a day and what a day 3 sailfish and a little marlin. The 3 of us had a great day catching fish watching the whales and a few drinks.

Any way back to work

Cheers

Brad  

Dragged myself out of bed at 6 and walked down from where we're staying to a very fishy looking spot on the beach/reef.

First cast landed my biggest tailor for the session. I was stoked because I seriously wasn't expecting anything!!! Proceeded to be a hook up a cast, landed & released a couple, dropped plenty! Blues code did the damage until I lost it. Hooked up on a popper, which was an amazing sight!! But dropped what may have been a pb.

My aim this season (as per another thread) was to lure a 35cm+ tailor... Mission accomplished! :-D Biggest went 49 and kept two for dinner tonight. Back again tomorrow morning... So stoked with my first ever successful land based lure session!

...now to find a spot this fishy back in metro Perth...

Havent had much time to write reports. Works been full on with first fire of both units in the next 10 days. Been getting the odd day off here or there. Hitting up the tongaro/Wanganui systems the most. Over the last 6 weeks I've done alot of solo fishing, which has dramatically improved my technique, fly choice etc etc....Slowly getting over fishing the same systems, but only 3 weeks till the back country open island wide. Thats when the fun will start trying to chase my trophy..

Got a new camera for all you camera lovers got a tripod and everything so pretty rapped.....

Got a 6 days of adventure/Fishing using helicopter and quad bikes through some extremely remote and pristine areas before i leave in the last week of november for a months break.

The last two brown photos is the biggest brown ive caught by myself to date...(not being with my guide) and it was a long 30 min tussle which resulted being so deep into the river water was running down my waders to stop it burying me in boulders.....followed by a clap of these other two fishos on the otherside of the river when i eventually netted....fishing larger systems by yourself is a struggle.....

Enjoy the photos and have a good one....FIRE UP EAGLES

tight lines.

Hey all, am new here so be gentle with me!

Am heading this arvo (07/09/12) in search of some good pinks. Am tossing up Cockburn Sound or Warnbro Sound. Any thoughts on where is best at the moment?

Cheers!!

Branchy

 Hey guys i was wondering if some of you guys can give some more up to date info on the Perth Fishing Charters.  My Babies have given me a voucher to use during the week to go out on 1 and i typed it in your search engine and all i saw was alot of negativity...  So i was hoping things might have changed.  Also what can i expect out there??  Any help or opinions are welcome.

Well, just back from what can only be described as heaven on earth.......the Monte Bello Islands.

Was invited by Baron (Troy) as part of his 40th birthday shindig, along with his bro (Kenny Gay), bro in law ('Cuda Jack), old man (Ken)and old man’s mate (Trev). What a cracking bunch of fellas!!!!!!!!!! We went with Chad Mills from Blue Lightning Charters, what a top young fella and excellent skipper.

Although all the boys are pretty well entrenched bait fishermen, they were al intrigued by jigging, so I bought all the boys a light jigging outfit for the trip and all the fellas including Ken Senior, at 65, gave both jigging and soft plastics a crack and all landed fish on artificials. Great stuff. But bait was their passion, and there was no doubt bait out fished jigs and softies on the trip, although there were little periods where artificials held their own.

Jigging is my passion, so apart from a 5 minute period of madness where I put bait on a soft plastics jighead at the insistence of Team B Captain 'Cuda Troy when we were a few fish behind Team A, I only fished plastics and jigs. On artificials I landed saddletail, Rankin, dolphinfish, coral trout, trevally, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, gold band jobfish, cobia........the list goes on. The only fish I could not hook despite 6 days of trying was a red emperor...........Friggin Troy the jammy prick got a red on jig after trying for only 5 minutes.........dead easy he reckoned!!!!

Many memorable moments, with the following highlights:

-Quietly revealing numerous sparkling Stella's to Trev as we first rigged up....Trev was talking up his Stella 18k at the airport to our silence, thinking he was the only one on the trip with a Stella..........priceless.

-spending 7 days with a bunch of cracking fellas.....never laughed so much.

-getting my first billie........cheers fellas for the opportunity. I fully get it now!

-Monties.......oh my GOD!

-having my first beer in 10 weeks after about 1 minute of stepping on the boat.......followed by about 50 more over the next week.........DETOX time.

-spending the first night drifting the high seas on a distant sea mount 45 km north of the Monties, taking 2 hr turns on watch all night....

-Chad, Leah and Kurt....perfect hosts.

-Curry mackerel courtesy of 'Cuda Jack..........5 stars.

- "Stealing" a cobia with my soft plastic casting right in front of Chad's.......only to have Chad repay the favour the next day on an awesome pennant trevelly as I reached for the softie setup.

-Red Emperor wings on the BBQ. YUM.

-Getting absolutely destroyed by a pack of large Spanish Macs on stickbait ......every hit resulting in airborne action for 30 minutes, depleting my stocks of Blackjacks.

- Getting bricked by a horse GT that was way better than me and my dodgy back......

- Having my FG knot break right on the middle of a solid GT fight, losing my favourite stickbait, after telling everyone how good the knot is......GT knots for the rest of the trip.......cheers Chaddy!

Many many more. Here are a few of my pics:

 I got up very early Saterday morning and picked up two of my mates , then headed down the freeway to Harvey dam. Getting there in great time we were greeted with perfect conditions , with only 20min till light started to glow in the sky we quickly rigged up and started to flick lures in to the flat glassy water.

I had spotted a few fish mooching around in the shallows just up from my friends, grabbed the fly rod and headed up towards them only to hear my mate calling out those magic words, " I'm on " His fish put on a great fight as we all know sometimes the don't do much, but this one gave him quite a bit of a scare in close but was finaly lianded.

A very nice Rainbow to start the morning.

I quickly grabbed my gear and headed back to the fish i saw. It was rolling around only 2 feet from the shore so i had to stay back and try to get the fly in front of it. After 6 or 7 attempts it finaly took the fly and went crazy doing a few jumps and heading for deep water very fast. I had him on for a couple minutes but just as i thought i had it beaten the fly pulled and it was gone .

I chased another one up and down for a while but it wouldn't play the game and eventualy dissapeared.

It all got very quite not long after the sun came up so we started to walk the shore flicking lures along the way, pretty soon my friend came up solid on a fish and landed it fairly quick . Not a bad trout for his first one and he was happy to say the least.

We moved around to another part of the dam and with the numbers of fisho's turning up the trout got a bit shy. I have seen a few big Brown's come out of this water but the one that frustrated us for nearly half an hour was huge. He would follow the lures but not commit to a strike, my friend would draw him in with the lure and i would present a fly right in front of his nose but still no take. We tried a variety of lures and flies but he wanted something and it wasn't what we were offering.

We had one more rainbow hook up and dropped it near shore with a few more follows. We decided to have a feed before heading home and were greeted by Fisheries for a licence check. I'ts the first time i have ever seen them there in all the years ive fished the area. So good job guy's and i hope to run into them more offten down around the Trout dams and water ways .

Cheers Grant .

Headed out from Woody's point at about 6:30am on Saturday with Troy to learn a thing or two (or three or four or five). Decided to anchor up at the D9 and try our luck there while waiting for the wind to die down to go out deeper. It was all quiet apart from a herring or two when suddenly Troy's lighter line started screaming. I, having never seen anything like this happen on my boat, wet myself like a little schoolgirl and waited patiently to see what was on the end of the line. After about 5 minutes, it just seemed to become dead weight, so it was pretty obvious it was going to be a ray, after 2-3 minutes of it VERY slowly being dragged up, we learned that the bastard had wrapped itself around the anchor rope about 40 times and got the other hook of the paternoster rig hooked into the rope, so I started pulling the anchor rope in and of course, theres a VERY pissed off eagle ray attatched to it, waving it's tail out of the water. At this point me and Troy looked at each other not knowing what the hell to do, as I couldn't get close enough to it to get it off without it whipping it's tail at me, when suddenly our winged friend decided then was a good time to let go of the hook, thankfully, and left us with a hell of a knot to untie around the anchor rope.

After that little encounter I made the stupid mistake of saying "Wow, I've never had a ray caught on my boat before." as we went out a bit deeper to the five fathom bank.

There was very little wind, but the swell was, lets say, bigger than I've ever been in (not actually that big), but when you're looking at a wall of water about twice the size of the boat, it's a little concerning. Luckily, I decided to grow a pair and keep going because it just happens that it was one of the nicest days I've been out deep. We got to a lump Troy had found and started a drift, within 1 drift we had caught my first pinkie, Troy got the first Sambo I'd ever seen, and a decent skippy (good introduction to drifting on lumps for me!) and the ever present wrasse. After a few more difts and just being tormented by pickers and constantly hawrassed, I was sitting down with a rod in the water when something decided to grab the end and just about pull me and the rod into the water. I got up thinking I'd caught another boat, as I held on for dear life to my precious rod and line was just peeling off my TLD25 with full drag on. Of course, Troy had caught a sambo here recently, and this was the instant thought we both had, as it started going on runs through the ocean and i remember saying at the time "How the @*&% does a fish even do this sort of thing?" as it was laughing at my efforts to stop it. About 5-10 minutes later, it decided to give me a break, as I started to finally gain some ground; at this point I think it finally realised it was hooked, because it took off even faster than before as I stared in disbelief as my 80lb braid started disappearing off my reel again. Then I thought it happened, I thought I'd been bricked, as that sinking feeling started getting to my stomach, but then I realised that it was ever so slowly coming up (I thought I had caught the anchor like Troy did, before realising we were drifting, lol) and I finally saw color, I cheered a little as I saw color, as it was silver and thought it may have been something real nice, when I soon learned it was white and of course, it was the underside of the biggest stingray I had ever seen. As I pulled it up closer to the side of the boat, it was about 1/3 of the size of my 5.1 meter boat and must have weighed about 25 kilos, even though it was a ray, I was over the moon with it, I'd never had a fight before and I learned that fisho's aren't joking when they say 'getting your arm stretched'. So I cut the line and away she went, 20 minutes of labour swimming away seemed disappointing, but at the same time, ever so rewarding.

Even though we caught nothing worth eating that day, it was the best fishing day I've had to date and I certainly won't be forgetting that fight in a hurry; was a great introduction to fishing out of the sound. I now see why everyone gets really addicted to fishing those bigger fish. Next mission: Bigger boat.... might have to hide it from the missus though haha. Huge thanks to Troy for showing me how to find ground/drift/catch decent fish, 1 month to go to catch my dhuie/snapper before that ban.

EDIT: uploaded photos.