Hey guys went up too Garvey park today with my cousin to catch a few bream. Got there around 6am and began to fish. Got a lot of small bream and a lot of big yellowtail grunter earlier on but then we had a bit of a dry spell so we decide to move long the river a bit to a few more snags.So I was sitting there holding my 3-5kg rovex air strike rod and then all of a sudden it doubled over and my reel started to scream. I instantly thought BIG BREAM! I fought the fish up and down the bank for about 2 minutes then started to worry when it started heading towards some big snags along the bank. I got a bit of line back on him when he ran me into the snag unsure emoticon (fantastic I thought) I tried to get it out but with no success it snapped me off. I tried and tried to get him to bite again but had no luck. About 1 hour or so later my bigger Rod with a live trumpeter on it which I put out hoping to get a mullaway got tight and started to loose a bit of line very slowly. I pick it up and striked and then what ever it was took off like a rocket for about a 15-20 metre run then bit straight through my 80lb leader. Then I got thinking would this have been a bullshark that far up river I don't know. But all in all it was a great days fishing and also great to get out of the house just before school starts again.

 Hi guys

Just a heads up to anyone going past Binningup that there are a few big schools of whiting schooling up right in front of the boat launching area and swimming beach. I went for a dive amoungst them today with the Go-Pro - it is a pretty shit video due to not getting down there until after the sea breeze came in, but I will try to upload it to Youtube anyway and will post a link. There are thousands in the school (some are big!!!), and would be great for the kids to have a dive amoungst them (only 5 - 10m from shore). I dont know how long they will hang around for, but they have been there for the past few days and if they move too far along the beach the pros will net them...

Would be great fun with poppers....

I decided to have a crack at Yellowfin Whiting popping after reading so many articles on the topic both from fishing magazines and FW reports.

Fellow FW member (John) is kind enough to show me the ropes. According to him, there are no hard and fast rules. So I rocked up at the estuary, armed with my bream outfit and a bag full of tiny lures, I was ready to give the ‘tings a serious bash.

To my delight , we arrived at the spot with glassed out condition but John was concerned that might put the fish off. We walked about 2km into the flats and started casting from the middle of the flats towards the shore. The lure of choice for me was Sugapen 70F in tiger prawn colour. I had replaced the Owner Trebles with twin assist hooks. After a few retrieve the mirror surface was shattered by a mini explosion and I was on! My heart nearly skipped a beat!  After a short fight, I landed my first Yellowfin whiting on popper. I was stoked to say the least, managed to deflower a new lure! 2nd cast, pop, pop, pop and bang! Another hook-up, another fin landed.  Although I had my polarized on, I couldn’t spot the fish but was merely blind casting to prospective spots. By the 5th fish, I said to Johh that it’s time to give other lures a chance.

CHECK OUT THE MIRROR CONDITION.

On my next hook-up, I backed down my drag such that the fish would peel some line off the reel. Finally my Complex Ci4+ 2500S F6 screamed in protest – sounded like sweet music to my ears. 

I went through a handful of lures and deflowered a good number of them. By noon, the fish were fired up and it didn’t matter whether the tide was incoming or outgoing or if the wind churned up a chop. These feisty litter buggers were shouldering each other to get a piece of the hook! At one stage, one fish actually went absolutely air-borne and crashed onto the lure before hooking up. That was absolutely insane!

I had an absolute ball and between both of us we landed at least 30 fish, biggest measuring 35cm. We released all fish less than 30cm and kept a few for the table. Add in those that missed the hooks we are looking at 50 over strikes for the morning sesh!

There were several highlights of the trip :

1.     John landed a mullet on his Atomic surface lure. Not foul hook but bona fide hook-up.  Who says mullet doesn't take lure ? Lol.

2.     I hooked up a whiting on micro metal squid but the fish threw the hook whilst I was unhooking it, so there’s no photo to show. (bugger!)

3.     I also landed another whiting on Rapala Husky Jerk minnow!

4.     I tried micro jigging and landed one foul hooked on Saurus micro jig of 5g!! Obviously the fish made an attempt to eat the jig and got hooked in the process.

Micro Jagging or Micro Jigging ??

5.     Last but not least, double header on my Sugapen! How good is that ?

6.     One fired up whiting actually made 5 attempts to inhale the lure before hooking up! It went boof, boof, boof, boof, boof, BANG!

These are the thoughts I’ve gathered from this short sesh:

1.    Most whiting popping articles advocate working the lure consistently to mimic a fleeing prawn. They claim stopping the lure will result in the fish shying away. My experience tells me that ain’t true. In fact, I’ve caught whiting on the pause or when the lure sits completely still in the water! The twin assist one being shorter than the other also ensured a secured hook up. It is not uncommon to have 2 hooks in a fish mouth, or one in the mouth and another outside. There’s no way the fish is getting away no matter how hard it thrashes around.

2.     The same articles also advocate mono over fluoro carbon leader claiming the latter will sandbag the surface lure, dampening its action. I was using 8-10lb FC and that didn’t seem to discourage the tingz.

3.     I also read somewhere that the lure should track straight ‘cos that’s how shrimps behave when they skitter across the surface to escape predation. So I tried walking the dog in a zig zag fashion but didn’t seem to put the fish off either.

4.     Use a rod of less than 7”. My MajorCraft AirRock Kurodai (black bream) Special is 7”3 - too long for this purpose. I find it difficult to stab the rod side ways to induce walk-the-dog action because the rod tip will be poking into the water. To compensate that, my rod was held high pointing towards the sky all the time, resulting in sore shoulder and upper back.

5.     Change the trebles for singles or assist hooks. In fact the latter will fare better than the former due to the downward facing mouth position of the tingz. They are designed to suck up worms and prawns from the sand, not snatching prey from the surface.

6.     They are no prawns visible in the estuary that I fish. I reckon the fish just struck the lure out of aggression and hunger. So any preys small enough to fit the gob will be food. That may explain why the Rapala Husky Jerk got nailed!

Thanks for reading. :)

 Friends of mine just got home said they got over 14 fish at the reserve today, flathead an bream all returned to water. Sounds like be worth visiting this week.

Never been there myself but off to check tomorrow.

Went down to Harvey last night for some marroning.

Overall was fairly quiet and the wind was up a bit, but managed these two jumbo's. Both had 140mm carapace's

 Popped down to Herron point for a baitfish miss and got afue mullet for bait and as I was netting there was afue squid getting around ,so on went the jigs and I got 3 squid 

 a good mate just got back to the ramp as I was getting back to the car and he had got afue prawns and gave me a handful  ,that's Macca 

 so the end result was 30 mullet ,3 squid and a hand full of prawns , a god way to kill some time Exmouth style 

       Jeff 

 Did a bit of early morning scooping along the Coondanup foreshore and Dampier Ave with pretty disappointing results. Only managed 9 crabs between the 4 of us. Barely any crabs out, even undersized ones were few and far between. Coondanup also seemed pretty weedy compared to last year, not too many sandy spots. Even chucked the mask and snorkel and dunked my head under to have a better look and nada. Hoping it might just be this particular weekend.

Not sure if it was because the tide was going out, or if because the weather's been a little on the cool side lately, but it was sparse pickings this morning. Had a chat to an older couple walking the flats and even they've never seen it this bare. Anyone else had any luck early morning scooping in the estuary?

A group of us went out this morning with Allan from Shikari charters (0412131958) to hunt some pink snapper.

After a some-what slow start they came on the bite big time, with plenty of snapper to share around. 
Was a morning of great fishing & great company. We might have even got some tuna, if "Wiggy" hadn't spooked them by planting his ballista popper right in the middle of the school on the way back!

If you want to experience some crazy snapper softplastic action right on our doorstep this weekend give Allan a call.

Visit www.shikari.com.au 

Even those afflicted by sea-sickness managed to catch fish! (well sort of).

Largest fish went 85cm

Softplastics did the damage (gulp/madeye paddle prawn/zman)

 We left last Saturday to start our new chapter in our life. I had a decent night the night before so instead of leaving at 4 am we left at 8 pm .

First stop Horrox. Went for a walk along the beach with my girlfriend and dog to find some gutters. 

Got excited when i saw a monster fish head on the beach which i intislly thought belongdd to a mulloway from a distance. 

Ended up being a cod of some sought possible a queensland groper do back to camp to grab the rods and fish the beavh outside the carvan park. Had now bait so i used gulp bloodworms and 1 inch grubs which i converted into dart, herring, sandwhiting and tarwhine.  

Now with bait sorted it was time for the big rod to come out. 

The dart fillet resulted into a decent 40cm tailor which i strippef baited and managsd another 6 tsilor between my girlfriend and myself. Also landed 3 stingqrays and had a possible mulloway run which spat the hooks  3 mins into the fight. 

The next day it was Coral bays turn. I had kept the tailor on ice as its a great bait

Hi all,

I'll be taking the boat down to Augusta next week and was thinking of launching from the new marina. Does anyone know if there has been much action recently down around that way ?
If so, would I need to go out far ?

Cheers

I’m just back from Bremer Bay, on WA's south coast, where I spend last night and yesterday.

I haven’t been rock fishing in years and spontaneously decided to head down for a quick solo fish.

The spot I intended heading was bottoming out the Triton, so I reluctantly gave it away and had to suss out a new spot.

New spot didn't have very deep water for kingfish and snapper, but was safe and contained plenty of species to keep me intrigued on light gear. Most fish released, but got a feed.

Pretty amazing variety of species, makes every bite interesting. Breaksea cod (black arse - nice on the fang), wobbegongs, skippy (silver trevally and this one turned yellow for a photo), leatherjackets, herring (tommy rough), western rock blackfish, zebra fish, wirrah cod, buff bream (silver drummer), sea sweep and different wrasse.

Also saw heaps of seals, 2 mallee hens and vibrantly marked tiger snake.

A big effort/drive (6hrs one way) for an overnighter, but just swimming in that big rock pool with beach all to one’s self was worth it.

 Went out early yesterday for some crabs. Got 7 crabs all over 150mm, with the smallest one kept measuring 135mm not bad size for Mandurah. Spent 2 hours out there but took our time to make a few upgrades. 

Fish box too small. Deckie has a heck of a time getting it in.

 Good trip south for our once a year Marroning trip the wind was  blowing it,s head off but it keeped the fly,s away and Mozzies at night 

"You don't get in life what you want.
You get your life what you ARE....not what you want.
We can always become more while working to develop ourselves."

"What give your life a sense of fullfillment,
a sense of joy.
What does a full rich life mean to you ?
What is that you could love doing seven days a week that will bring
a smile to your face.."

" Live your DREAM."

Hope to share my dream with you guys here.

"This is my DREAM."

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpC3b6g2mBI

I've been chasing and fishing wild snakehead for a long time, my big break came in 13th april 2013.
I finally achieved my long time dream.... to attain the IGFA World Record for Giant Snakehead.

With God blessings and hard works, I've lived my DREAM.

IGFA WR for snakehead 2013.- Biggest achievement in life.

Others  big catches of my life.

Giant Mekong Catfish.

Giant Freshwater Stingray.

Sebarau (Jungle Perch)- Hampala

Arapaima fish on topwater popper lure.

Hi,

Anyone catching any Tuna around Rotto or out wide towards the FADS and the Trench?

What sort of sizes, are they still small footballs or are they starting to fatten up a bit?

What is the weed situation when trolling?

Cheers

WB 

Hi Guys

Had a big day on Sunday. Hit rotto for a bit of a troll around. Then we saw some birds hitting up a reef with some action underneath, which resulted in my first yellow tail kingy caught on a stick bait!!

After that we hit a couple of the fads. Had dolhinfish jumping around the boat and swimming around but couldn't get them to hit a lure or a mulie! Spewing! Really wanted to cacth one of these but just couldn't tempt them. What do other people use? I saw in another thread a silver blade so this might be a goer?

On the way home we did a couple of drops. Second drop on some likely looking ground resulting in 3 dhus (1 released)

and a baldy, in a period of half an hour! Stoked! 2 abouts 53cm and 1 about 80cm. The baldy went 55cm! Couldn't be happier with that when I am still learning the sounder and reading the bottom etc!

So big day out trying a few things and it paid off! Long trip home and big day but worth it in the end.

 When I was there two days ago I saw a lot of small stuff about, an some small flathead on bar.

Location: Swan River

Bait/Lures: Skippy Frames and Chicken Necks

Gear: Crab drop nets

Rig: NA

Target species: Blue Manna Crab

Decided to go crabbing on Sunday morning with a mate. We both have Kayaks which was alot of fun and relatively easy to do. We arrived at around 6am and had all the pots out and dropped reasonably quickly.

After a couple of hours on the water we ended up with 7 keepers. Did manage to catch one berried female but she went straight back.

I was amazed at the size of the swan river crabs having only caught Mandurah crabs before.

Three photos

photo 1 - bloody crab wont let me get a beer

photo 2 - the haul

photo 3 - crab stack (recipe from fishing WA magazine highly recommended)

Thanks for reading.

today me,my dad and a mate went out from two rocks. We got to the boat ramp at 5:45 and launch straight away as their was no boats in the line. We headed out towards direction bank to find some new ground. We finally got to the late 30's and slowed down to try and find a couple of fish or some new ground eventually we found a nice patch of fish and set up for a drift. On the first drift we were getting de-baited fairly quickly by what we eventually found out were sargent bakers ,skippy and the obvious wrasse. We then moved a bit further south to find more ground, we found a nice patch of fish on a little lump. On the first drift we got a nice dhuie around the 8.5kg mark and 80cm long. We stayed around this for a couple more hours to land 3 nice baldchin grouper, a morwong which was released and also a Malabar cod which was caught on a jig and was also released. we had a little more excitement on our last drift when our floating mulie screamed but failed to set the hook. overall we had a great day on the water hopefully we can get out again soon. cheers Boyd.

Me and my mate headed up to cervantees on Sunday for the 1st time to check it out and see if we could find a couple of fish. The day started off with a beach launch before the sun had poped it's head over the horizon, we took our time heading out of the bay sticking closely to the lead line because it was out first trip out from there, our plan was to just start trolling some lures around watching the sounder for any signs of life on the bottom. The 20knot SE wind made things a bit wet and uncomfortable for a while, but that was forgotten about when we heard one of the reels scream to life. A nice short fight and we had a yellow fin tuna in the boat. YFT was my target fish for this summer so I was pretty stoked to finally land one! I've done about 220km's of trolling over the last month for that fish haha. Anyway lures back in and 20mins later and landed another YFT, this one fighting much harder and a little bigger then the first.

With a fish each already and the wind backing off we deicded to try focus more on the bottom, up until now we hadn't seen any bottom worth dropping on but that soon changed with some small readings here and there, marked a few spots and then decided to go back and start dropping some baits down on them. Stopped the boat close to the first mark and rigged up a rod while I watched the chart plotter to see what way out boat was drifting, meanwhile my mate dropped down a bait for fun. Once I was rigged up I said come on bring it up and we will hit this mark up. The reply from mate was, "wait... wait... wait... YEP! I'm on!". After a good tussle with a couple of good solid runs and me telling him to hurry up and get it off the bottom, a nice dhuie popped up, estimated around 9kg so a new PB for my mate, couple hi fives and hoots and the fish was in the esky!

After that the pressure was off, we went on to find a few more spots and catch a few more fish, 2 baldies for the esky and 3 small dhuies between 40 and 60cm's were caught and returned, plus a few other bits and pieces. Decided it was time to head back in with one last drop at the first spot we marked to try get another Demersal. Sure enough first drop again and up comes another decent dhuie about the same size as the first one, except for me this time. More hooting and hi fiving and then headed back to the ramp feeling pretty pleased with ourselves.
Dont you just love it when a plan comes together!

 Wondering as I will be going there Sunday morning 5am.

Went out from Two rocks early saturday (after an hour wait at the ramps!) and headed a fair way out.  Got to our spot, worked out the drift and then had our first drop.  Within 5mins i had landed a 1000mm 17kg Dhu fish 

After that it went pretty quite so we tried a few different spots here and there, didn't get to much else unfortunatly but didnt matter as i still had a smile from ear to ear.

 Just wondering, I know south mole isn't the best fish spot around but wanted to relax an havea go this weekend, or els go south to the cut an see....

Made a quick dash down to Albany on new years eve to spend a few days with the family and get some fishing done.

The olds already had my boat down there so that made things easier for me.

New years day we took the boat out launching at Hartmens wich is a easy beach launch. Shot straight out to some lumps marked on most good maps. Set up right over a lump in 50m to do a test drift and had a drop in the process. First drop of the day Twitch Twitch BANG i loaded up in a big way on  my PE5 stick after a blistering run i got busted off by a suspected big sambo or YTK.

Being to lazy to re rig i swapped to my PE3 Stick proceeded to Jig up a heap of rat YTK and Sambos while the bait boys smashed some quality Black arse and the unwanted Gurnard Perch and Sargent Bakers.

We fished up until lunchtime and ended up with a decent bag of Black arse, Swallow tail and a pinkie.

I didnt get as many pics as i should have done but here is a couple.

Angry Little Sambo on a Xesta Jig

The Days bag between 4 of us

The Difficult beach launch at Hartmens

Hopefully get back down there soon for some more fun on the sambos and kings and find some decent ones this time.

Cheers Jayce

With yesterdays forecast looking sweet I decided to head up to Tworocks (demersal jigging) and spend the day on the water plus escape the heat!

I took out my good mate Scott (FW - Soupster51) and on the way up Scott was saying I haven't caught a bluespot flathead on jig for ages and I havnt caught a KG or baldy on jig .... ever!

I said I have and you never know today could be your day. Who would of thought before lunch time he would have ticked off all these species on jig and Scott also got into multiple blackarse (1 big one) and 6kg dhufish keeper!

I ended up with multiple dhufish and the one pictured was my biggest ..... geez that fish went hard in 40m and on jig!

I ended up with several sambos on jig also (some solid fish landed), bluespot flathead and a " surprise "!

We bagged out on jig by lunchtime and the esky was looking very healthy I will say!

Whilst we were drifting, we contemplating going in but the wind backed off so why not hang out on the water!

We had seen many birds working and bait fish in the 40's, I said to Scott lets go and have a quick cast probably southern bluefin tuna but I said I cant see any on the surface?

Within seconds the birds & bait had come to my boat and underneath/all around we had a big school of dolphin fish (small fish) hang .... wow in 40m of water (metro)

I grabbed my spin stick with a twisty and first cast dolly ...... the school moved on and another cast at another bait ball got me a southern bluefin tuna!


Plenty of fish were caught on jig, great weather, awesome session and cheers Scott for being apart of it!!

We ended up with (approximately) 12 x dhufish  3 x blackasre 3 x sambos 1 x KG 2 x Blluespot flathead (all on jig) and 1 x dolphinfish 1 x southern bluefin tuna on metal twisty!


If your needing any demersal jigs, gear, advice or info on techniques ... pop in and my staff are happy to help!


Cheers

 a few from New Years day and Sunday. the 3 biggest were just under 180mm

 Managed to nab a half decent pinkie and dhuie out from mindarie on the kayak on sunday. Took a while to gind some ground and eventualy these two fell for the jig in the picture. Finnaly got the dhuie monkey of my back! Ide say ive caught atleast 15 undersize dhuies before this one haha

 Got out early on Saturday on the Swan and eventually got 9 nice sized blue swimmers. smallest was 140mm, biggest 173 mm.  One very  small u/s thrown back. cleaned some raw and prepared them as per al mcglashan's bbq recipe.  marinated them overnight and bbq'd for lunch on Sunday.

f..king sensational!

m

i am going to try other seafood in the marinade such as fish in alfoil :)

 Anyone been out wide this weekend, what was the temperature of the water?