With the weather being reasonbly good, we have had a solid bit of fishing being done this week. This wont be that long as we are about to head out for our last days fishing before heading back south into the winter weather due to work.

7th: Headed out sth tanta's, trying to get a couple mackies, we got way passed mangrove bay, t-bone bay till we found some real nice water/ current lines. And yerh we caught mackies nothing to largey but fish in the range of 7-10kg.

8th: Murions bash chasing GT's , we were the first boat out there, and thanks to some friendly local advice from our neighbours, we found an area which Resulted in spangos to 700mm +, GT bust offs , Goldens, Red throat, and some things we never just saw which i was assuming big GT'S that just drove us straight into the coral. Funny enough i lost around $100 dollars of poppers and placcies, where my crew lost none and boated every fish.

9th: Chasing bills out wide. it was a slow day and wasnt expecting to much, i would of preferred putting in much more time chasing billfish, but its hard taking two people billfishing when they have never experienced what catching one is. To them its a mystery fish. Frustrating as s*** as this is one of the main reasons i wanted to come up here. Next time i know now not to let other dictate how we fish,as it is my boat and this is whats happening. The first week we here wi=ould of been much better times to chase billies apparently. Only one hit, but sadly no hook up, think it was a sail as it was only small.

back to the murions today again specifically chasing GT's, and then in the arvo heading wide for a red or two. will post that up with some photos of these reports soon enough. Dont want to leave this place its good to be true. Starting to understand here more and more with the tides, moon phases, its very different fishing to down perth ways.....

In October 2009, I chartered a boat for (what turned out to be) a sucessful solo Malaysian Sailfish expedition.

Armed with photos of the 2009 trip and details of an Air Asia sale, it didn't take much convincing to get my mate Dale and brother Sean (not normally a fisherman) to agree to get on board for the 2011 jaunt.

We arrived in KL and drove down to Kuala Rompin to meet our guide Captain Lam (the man to see for charters in Asia). He warned us that it had been a slow start to the season, and a particularly slow August.

Still it was great to get away, and I had a new combo that I wanted to test out, which was much lighter than what I'd used in 09, and to date had not caught a fish. I was running a Stella 5000SW on a PE3 Yamaga Blanks Blue Sniper 65/3, and this ended up being the only combo I used for the trip.

The first day lived up to Lam's warning, the fishing was incredibly slow - even the livebait hunting. Sean, concerned he might never get a decent fish photo, got us to take this pic of him holding the beast that took him hours to subdue :-)

Finally though, my rod took off and we had got our first run. Much to my dismay it turned out to be a 'Singapore Marlin' (Long Tom) rather than the Saily I'd hoped for. Still, the combo was blooded.

Unfortunately this was to be our only fish of the day, and we made our way back to land for some much needed consolation beers. The trip was half over, but we were hopeful that things would improve on day 2.

The weather conditions on day 2 turned out to be even better than the first day, certainly beating the Perth winter. We steamed out of port to try some new bait catching ground, unfortunately it didnt pay off. After spending a couple of hours for limited results, we motored to the ground from day 1 with an empty livewell. Thankfully, the fishing gods smiled on us shortly after we got back to the original ground. We loaded up on liveys and sent one out, and it wasnt long until Dale had a hit. After a solid fight he landed his first billie, also blooding a new combo. The curse of the trip had been lifted.

A bit of time passed and finally my rod went off again. I thought the combo would finally get a saily, but again I was wrong. A short fight ended in this Cobia - which was my first, so not overly disappointing, and good on the table that night.

At long last though my time came. We saw a sailfish finning around the baloons and my rod took off. The fight was on. We could see from the start that it was a solid fish and it certainly gave me some grief, but after a long fight with some tense moments when line capacity was tested, some careful manouevering by the skipper and plenty of spool palming, we landed this nice sail. Definitely my PB, and the biggest that our guide had pulled this year.

Sean was up next, hooking onto another Cobes. As you can see he decided to get intimate with it, but in fairness he had just spent 4 weeks on a rig.

The action remained hot for the rest of the day, with the next strike resulting in a double hookup. Both fish were landed.

Dale was up next landing another solid saily, with me finishing up with one more before we retired for beers back on land (thankfully - this time they were beers of celebration). We ended up with 6 sails from 6 strikes for the day, which is a much better strike rate than the previous year. All sails were cleanly hooked, and released succesfully.

Some of the fish got very aerobatic, which certainly got the heart pumping. I look forward to getting back there again - next mission is to get one on stickbait!

Going to keep this one short.  Headed out with Lucky yesterday to try and get the 'Triple Trifecta' - Trout in the shallows, goldies in the mid water and rubies out deep.  It was a gentleman's start due to the easterlies but once out there it wasn't too bad, things were very slow in the shallows and only two solid 'bites' were recorded and dropped for one reason or another - definitely not convincing enough to spend more time looking for fish. 

So out to the midwater we went, we decided to throw the lures out straight away just to test our luck - as would have it something fiesty took the pink oscar in record time - zipped sidewards at a rate of knots (very unusual) and then went limp - only to find everything missing and the line snipped on the wind-on, must have been a few hungry teethy buggers around.  Not much later we got into a nice sail about 20-25kg that played up, unfortunately didn't get any good shots as he decided to beeline for the boat and had us a bit worried about being skewered.  All in all a fine catch and release and a nice little bonus bonus.

Out at the Goldie spots, the first three weren't really firing and there were a couple of boats nearby, heading to the orginal goldie spot we managed to sneak two fish up before the sharks moved in and made it un-workable.  Heading deeper again we got to the ruby spot and the wind had eased off but the current was still relatively strong, which meant constantly on the gears to keep over the area.  Tim lost a few baits at the start but things were hard going, we did manage to snavel one smallish ruby before giving up as it was extremely quiet. (sad tides too)  We then worked our way back in and tried the goldie spot again but the wind had swung and so had the tide and the whole place that was alive two hours earlier was dead and buried.  We did a troll into the shallow ground again to try and complete the trifecta and had no luck, but once in the shallows things were heated up again and a nice little lump I had in 40m was flaring with life.  First drop resulted in a few pickers, second drop resulted in Tim getting buried by a 'big reef dweller' and third time around I got sharked and Tim got a monster 'trout' about half way up before being sharked and destroyed.  We then called it quits and got to the ramp with no queue!! Awesome.

Not the most productive day, but still an enjoyable one.

Cheers,

Adam

Should i go fishing tomorrow ?

If anyone would like a very keen deckie for fishing this week please call me or msg on 0433349777, more than happy to chip in fuel bait etc. cheers! Steve.

 got to canning bridge at about 830 and started to fish with crabs and mussels, only landed one fish about 29 cm then me and a few mates headed over to blackwall reach and fished off the rocks with crabs between the four of us we landed 13 fish biggest was 44cms. good days fishing i think :) 

 I headed out with my granddad with the plan to look for some new ground around rotto. We hit the ramp just after 7:30 and were hit with some pretty sloppy conditions past the islands but we pushed on and it soon flattened off and became a beautiful day. We looked and after 30mins or so we hit a patch that looked the goods. First drop and we boated a pair of dhuies, next drop was the same result. Both fish released and we thought one more drift and we both hooked up to suspected dhuies again, we did all we could to lose the fish and decided to move off with a nice spot in the GPS, next lump produced a nice kidney slapper for granddad that’s when we pulled and heading in with the glass off.

Well after a look on sea breeze this morning at 5:00 oclock the calls were made .and the trip out was all go. Jesse stayed in bed and Collin Hay came for a ride.with guess who yes Jody as #1 deckie.  The wind was light but still lumpy from yesterday .The plan was to stay in close [30m] but the fish weren't playing the game.only 1 small dhuie and 2 breaksea in the first couple of hours all released. And a 100kg grey nurse shark gave her a hard time. We headed out a little deeper 40m and things started looking better no big fish but fish .Over the next four hours many dhuies were tagged and released .most small from 350mm -700mm Jody was on fire catching fish after fish and Collin also getting a few stray dhuies.landing his PB.Wasn't till after lunch we found some bigger fish landing 2 around the 10kg mark they were quickly spicked and put on ice.On the way in we stoped at one more place for a quick drop and Jody nailed a great snapper and dropped another not long into the fight .In all a great day with plenty of fish TOTAL 21 dhuies  ,2 breaksea cod ,2 snapper 1 Gray nurse and a cuttle fish. We kept 2 dhuies and a snapper all other fish were tagged and released without venting We got 2 recaptures both dhuies .Both were tagged on the 23-5-2011  one had grown 15mm and the other 10mm both were in good condition .

 I haven’t seen many prawn reports on here this year so I thought I would see how everyone has been going. I haven’t been down for a few weeks now but we had quite a good run where we were getting well over a hundred each night. Heres a few pics of some of the ones we got.

With the winds up, we headed into the gulf via 4wd and found some nice mangroves. Reef walkers went on grabbed out the muddie pole, and within 30 mins we had 6 real nice muddies in the eski. Cant complain with that! This was a first tiem for mud crabbing in the groves for me, and i honestly walked passed so many with the boys to give me a helping hand and show me how to find them

Also been doing a bit of a placcie bash on the reef side (obviously where you can fish), starting to get some what of a hang of soft plastics. Got goldspots and juvi GT's in a nice lil sesh.

Winds starts dropping tomorrow and the weekend and early week look set to be pearlers. Cant wait to be back on the boat hunting fish.

Sure beats work eh

couple of fliCKS Added.

Went down for a cast last night, haven't been fishing for 2 months since I got my last couple of gummies from a beach. Mainly reasons of being overseas and losing motivation since I've been back in Oz. 

After 2hrs and filtering through 6 eagle rays and 7 fiddler sharks I was loosing hope. Then one of my rods took off with belting headshakes.....I immediatly called if for a PINKIE upon picking up the rod which had that thumping feel. 
My first LB pinkie, and a decent one at that which meant I had to compose the nerves a little. During the fight, i noticed my other rod was bouncing around. 
After a 10min struggle with some long runs, managed to finally get over to my now settled rod and pull in a Gummy shark. Couldn't believe my luck.
Immediately, I packed up and went home. Enough fish for me for a while :) 
I think i'll be waiting for those Spring Schoolies in Sept. before wetting a line again. 

Pink Snapper: 12kg (exactly) and 97cm
Gummy Shark: 5.5kg and 111cm

Addy and I rolled back into Exmouth late last night after 1000km in the car and 210nm by sea so we could farewell Brad from the Pilbara- Montebello's style. We had a great trip, even though none of us did the usual stuff. There was three boats this time, Adz and I in mine from Exmouth, while Brad and Sheldon took Brad's and Leith and Paul towed Leith's down from Pt Hedland. Wanting to get value for money, Ady and I left Thursday night and camped at Fortescue Roadhouse for an early refuel and launch on the morning high tide.

We were treated to a pretty sweet ride out, enjoying the wildlife and scenery as the miles passed.

Nearly there.....

Cracking a beer to celebrate our arrival

The other boys weren't arriving until the next morning so we set up a temporary camp and headed off for a pop. The GT's were slow compared to previous sessions but we landed a few to keep us interested.

 

This seagull was being eaten?? by what looked like a big sea anemone, it was half inside this thing and couldn't get away so Dr Harry came to the rescue and it managed to walk away and sulk, it's final fate unknown.

Tea was fish and chips, with Leith copping a oil burn courtesy of the frypan so no, he's not reaching for a beer.

That night the wind picked up and Brad and I had to take a midnight swim to reset his dragging anchor. We woke to a stiff 20kt Southerly for our long trip home and for about 2 hours didn't we know about it!

The photo is very complimentary to the conditions, we were all drenched and battered. Closer to shore it got better and by the time we hit the islands off Fortescue River it was near glass- go figure! We had some lunch, a fish and relax then hit the road for the long drive home, with a trailer tyre blow out after Nanutarra our last drama.

Cooking pancakes for lunch

Food for fishermen!

All in all we got 4 days of nearly perfect weather, great company, awesome fishing and a nice change to our usual Montebello sorties. Hope you enjoyed yourself B-Dog, it was a great way to send you off.

First time in exmouth, arrived saturday night.

Headed out first thing sunday morning and its provided us with a couple spaniards at north west reef. Also landed a barrcouda (i know these arnt a sought after fish, but for a first you get pretty stoked).... Headed towards the murions and tried reef fishing there in the 40s. Nothing.

Decided to head into the gulf and chase some of the longtails/mack tunas we were seeing making splashes on the way out to the murious.Resulting in numerous hooks up we would litrally see  jumping clean out the water 5m's away from the boat. Two of us would of hooked 7-8 fish each in the result of around 30 mins they were that thick....Not smashing slices a certain hard body lure in a certain colour pattern killed it.

Day 2:

Head out to the murions and trolled most of the day for a result of around 20 hits and one resulted hook up. It was very frustrating to see the rods constantly getting wacked and only 10m pelling out all of a sudden for it to stop. Honestly this happened around 10 times over a certain patch over around 45 mins. any ideas what these could of been were trolling the 25m - 40m..... Our local neighbour has been giving some advice, and even popped the question saying is there a seat for him on the boat and hell teach us a couple things about exmouth or two. He knows the offer is waiting!

Didnt head out today, unfortunately due to the fact the boys didnt want to go out and wanted to go snorkling/ 4wdrving... frustrating with the weather turned for the next couple days....

Still struggling hard with reef fish inshore and offshore....Im not wanting anyones red spots, but just any info to find something even if there golden trevs or queenies to have fun with would be appreciated...

-We picked up the grunter tevs in 90m out from the murions on what i thought was decent ground only to pull these up consistently(would of boated around 5).....

added a couple photos of the weather we have recieved lately.....beautiful.

photos added

Went out with till on my boat the other week to try for a few demersals on the jigs.

Despite the sounder lighting up with what looked to be big schools of snapper, they would not have a bar of the plastics or the jigs.

Then went out around Rotto and picked up this Yellowtail King on the troll. Rapala X-Rap did the damage

Got another smaller one a bit later in the piece also.

Bit of sashimi when I got home followed by a few marinated YTK steaks on the BBQ later that night, went well.

I'll let my deckie post his catch here if he wants to!

Dan

Hey Guys

Thought I would post this photo of the fish we got a couple of weeks ago out from Two Rocks. The Dhuies were not huge but good feed. The one on the end was approx 6kg-7kg but did not weigh it so could be wrong. The Baldie was 650mm and the Blackarse was 550m so stoked with them. Only took us a couple of hours to get our limit.

Cheers

JUST GOT BACK FROM EXMOUTH WITH MY MRS AN 3 MATES  SPENT THE FIRST DAY LANDBASED GOT ONLY A SMALL SPANISH FROM THE BEACH AT BUNDEGI NO OTHER SUCESS THE NEXT DAY WE TOOK OUT THE GANNET A 13FT TINNE WITH 5 OF US IN THERE IT WAS A TIGHT FIT SO WE DONE SOME TROLLING HEADED OUT FROM THE MARINA WITHIN 3 HOURS WE GOT 3 SPAINARDS 1 SHARK MACK AN A COD THE NEXT 3 DAYS WE HIRED A BOAT SO WE HEADED OUT TO THE ISLANDS WE GOT A COUPLE OF SPAINARDS AN A FEW SHARK MACKS THE NEXT DAY WE HEADED OUT FROM TANABITI WE TROLLED FOR COUPLE OF HOURS AN ON GOT A MACKIE SO DONE SOME BOTTOM BOUNCIN DROPED OUR FIRST BAIT FOR THE TRIP A MY ROD WENT OF PULLED A NICE BRONZEY GOT A NICE CORAL TROUT AN LOTS OF OTHER REEF FISH WE TROLLED OUR WAY BACK AN WE GOT A LONGTAIL TUNA WAHOO AN A FEW MACKIES THE LAST DAY WE HEADED OUT FROM THE MARINA AN TROLLED FOR HALF A DAY WITH NOT MUCH SUCESS OVERALL A GOOD TRIP WITH LOST A DIFFERENT FISH BUT NO GT.                                                                                                                                            

After seeing Leighroys post I decided to have a crack at the Winter fishing myself.

Headed north of quinns for a bit of a walk and found a good looking reef.

Hooked a big one but lost him and after about 50 (lol) more casts managed this guy.

Put up an amazing fight as I had my drag so loose from fiddling with a snag prior!

Released him and checked surroundings for confirmation on my new and only tailor spot.

Maybe I should get out a bit more in Winter......

Sorry about the pic-solo fisherman with a phone- Oh and this has no reflection on my

favourite shapes, I much prefer BBQ and Nacho Cheese :)

hi all heading down to margaret river soon with the yak just woundering whats lurking around the river mouth and river any tips would be appreciated

 Been away from Perth for a few years and have finally managed to get out for a quick fish in my local area. Got a nice little bream on a bass minnow on the drop... must have landed the lure on its head, hadn't even had time to wind up the slack before it took off. Dropped one earlier on my first cast on a vibe. Seen a few bream caught down around south perth the last couple of weekends, mainly on bait. Also saw one older guy taking a few undersized ones so had a word to him as I walked past.. think he said something like "... its mine... "which made me reply "well you could get a fine for that..." poor bream was thrown back into the water after living in a plastic bag for about 10 minutes... think he had a few more in his bucket which he'd taken to the car earlier.

Bec and I launched at 3.30 this arvo and managed to nail these couple.

Three of us headed out from Two Rocks last Sunday morning, conditions were less than ideal for comfort levels and took their toll on the skipper but they were fine for hungry fish.  We got onto a patch of fluffy bottom that the other two blokes had found on a  previous sortie and first drop resulted in a Pinky that went a few inches over legal & a Whaler shark so things were looking promising. We fished the same drift for the next 5 or 6 hours moving across a bit each time and came up trumps. Jimmy boated a double header of healthy undersize Dhui's which gladly swan off and some thumper Blackbutt which went in the ice bin before hooking onto this beautiful 10kg Dhui. His PB and a fish that got us all excited.

We continued to get results on each drift until after one spew too many we convinced the skipper he should get back on dry land to settle his guts down. He agreed reluctantly but insisted we stop for one last drop at a spot he had on the way back, which we did (gotta admire the dedication!). Damn happy we did that myself as after he hooked another nice Pinky, on the last drop of the day my Octa jig which I had decided to tie on a few drops earlier was inhaled by something solid and certainly not just another pesky cuttlefish. A bit of fun on the lighter gear later and up came my PB Dhui and certainly my first on jig. I was stoked to say the least and the smiles on all of us was of result of great day on the blue. 

Hey just got back from Quobba.

Arrived Saturday morning with plans to balloon all week.

Fishing was really quiet as far as ballooning and spinning. Only saw one other Mackeral at the table all week.

After a lot off effort i was lucky enough to get 2 over the week. One being my pb.

Did see a lot of nice bottom fish get landed by others at the station.

Hope you like the photo's.

Hi all just got back from back from Quobba.

Nice tuna was dropped by Blake

80cm Tailor was land aswell as a good spanglie by a mate

Kris landed a good mackie

And i dropped a good mackie and another good mackie sharked on my last morning

Kris and Blake are still there so there will be another report.

Toman season has arrived, I brought my elder son Michael  for his first virgin mama toman trip with me.  Show his some ropes on landing the mama toman.

Fishing in the wild need local knowledge and basic fishing skills. Bait cast will be good but not necessary .... a good 2500-3000 spinning reel  can do the job.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. " ~Robert Altman

My setup :
Reel : Daiwa Ryoga 1016H
Rod: Waterloo 10-20Ibs- 6ft
Main line: PE 4  (Power Pro braided line)

My son's setup :
Reel: Shimano Calcutta 101 B
Rod: Berkley  10-25 Ibs- 6ft
Main line: PE 4 (Power Pro braided line)

Morning I went with the boatman alone, landed 4 mama toman with my rapala lure.
Biggest landed 5.5KG . My son joined me in the afternoon, we were chasing after a big  toman fry, he was lucky  to land a whoppy 7KG toman by himself. I'm proud of him !!!

Well done son !!!

Enjoys the explosive actions vid clip below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU1c7KCmr5M

Here highlights photos for the day !!!!!

My son's prized 7KG mama toman..

 I just got back from Warroora last night after a week of beautiful weather, the fish unfortunately were pretty quiet and we had to work hard for what we caught. A few of the old blokes reckoned the colder water shut the fish down a few weeks ago. My highlight would be hooking up to my first marlin, I didn’t get it up but we got a good look when he launched which got the blood flowing. Hope you enjoy the pics.

hi all just new to the site i have been reading the forums for a quite some time now so diceded to become a member anyway more to the topic i was just woundering whats been going on down at woodies point latley i have been hearing some good and bad reports and was planing to go down tomorrow with some mates and make the most of the school holidays untill dad gets the new boat we  were planning to bring a couple of  spining combos to target some herring scalys ect and a couple of over heads to target some rays maybe the odd gummy shark any tips or advice?

Headed out around 7 on saturday morning for a inshore snapper fish off hillaries. Bit swelly out there but still managed a few fish. My mate got a 60cm female dhu on plastic which was in such good condition we decided to release it. We also managed a few small pinkies around 30-40cm and also got this 70cm specimen. Also quite a few small sambos around to keep us entertained. Was a good mornings fishing...

Went out saturday arvo for a quick snapper bash out from hillaries. In a 2hr session out there i managed to burley up a big school of small snapper rangeing from 20 to 40cm's but also managed to pluck out a few larger specimens, both just over 60cm's. Was great to see so many smaller pinkies getting around. Bit of a dodgy pic due to a bit of a rough ocean and a small ally boat rocking around, so took another of the finished product. Baked pink snapper with garlic leak and tomato with a side of hand cut roasted rosemary patato chips, also some garlic aioli, lemon salt and a ice cold beer :)

Both Bec and I got our first Marlin today. Weather was awsum (thanks Adam), the company lovely and we got two fish up for two fish released at the boat.

No good pics but a couple of quick vids. Any ideas on the sizes ??

Now I know what all the fuss is about :-)

http://www.youtube.com/user/BecandBen71

Hit the Sound last night after not having been out for quite a while.  Scored this gummy and lost at least one other.  Had a few unstoppable rays come through and picked up a few herring on the surface while we were waiting for the heavier rods to go off.