A mate of mine and I have been talking about having a crack at the super deep fish for a while now, and over the weekend we decided to give it a look.

I've not been out to buy an electric as i didnt know if it would be worth spending the 2k or so required if its not something I'd do more than once.

So the combo of choice was a single speed Tyrinos 30 loaded with 800m of 50lb Braid on a 24 kilo Penn rod.

This time my boat stayed home, and went out on my mates boat which was equipped with a 585-1KW transducer but never been tested in the deeper water, so this was a chance to give it a run. The plan was to start in shallower, see what happens and slowly move out. With the weather forecast being perfect for most of Sunday, time was not really an issue.

We started in the 170ish mark, sounding a around a bit, and did a drop or 2 for only a couple of BIG leather jackets but not much else. Next was to the 200 or so, again a bit more sounding but not a lot showing up. We then moved out to the 270m mark and found a nice drop off of about 20-30m which looked the goods, and probably worth another revisit to do a bit more sounding around, however we had changed out approach a bit, and if we did not pick something up on the 1st drop, then move on. The first drop resulted in one bust off, and 1 Bonito... bit strange at 270m Deep!

We made our way out deeper, and being beginners to these depths we were a little unsure of what fish actually looked like on the sounder in 400+ but none the less we sounded a lot of ground, and almost decided to head back in until we came across a school of fish. The school did not look real dense on the sounder (as some photos i have seen on FW showed), but showed a lot of fish. It was the best image we had seen on the sounder all day so decided it was worthy of a drop. Upgraded the rigs to 250LB droppers, BIG circle hooks, Baits you would normally only put out for sharks, and 50 oz Sinkers.

Down she goes......and down...and down... probably 4-5 minutes before you reach the bottom.. Now the first thought is holy shit thats a lot of line im going to have to retrieve on theTyrinos....And had not even considered hooking a fish!! well only a few minutes later the Tyrinos and 24 kilo Penn loaded up!

The call was blue eye....because we didnt know what else would be caught in these depths!

15-20 minutes later... up popped the first couple of fish!... too say we were pretty pumped was an understatement... First attempt of the deeper water, resulted in bagging from what i understand the species of fish that lives in the deepest water (Of the super deep fish).

2nd Drift, this time a little straighter on the school of fish, and as soon as the baits hit the bottom, the rods were loaded up again! Doubler Headers too!

The Weapon! Tyrinos Single speed..... Who needs an electric

All fish were between 15-18 kilo i think, so no monsters by any means. We ended with 5 between 3 of us from 2 drifts which was definitely enough.

Jury is still out on targeting deep water fish.... Blue eyes were a little dissappointing, didnt put up a hell of a fight, and whilst tasted pretty good, I'd put Dhu and baldie ahead of them. Using a manual reel, isnt as hard as you would think, and i would definitely do it again without needing an electric. Nothing like a bit of sweat whilst catching a good fish!

Will msot likely try again in shallower looking for grey bands, bass grouper and hapuka.

 Thats the last time you are coming with me to dhu town Zen. How dare you out fish me! And to top it all off, blame me for dropping your daddy of all baldies. Glenn and I are gutted. I hope all you catch in the future are bolt cutters. 11 size stripey eyes is just showing off you prick!

out from pt peron

Hey guys

First post so please be nice :) I've been browsing the forum a lot as of late and am loving the wealth of information so cheers everyone!

Read about the bonito runs at the north mole so presented myself at 6am till about 8 the last 2 mornings and things have been very quiet. Even looking up and down the wall no one seemed to be catching anything the north side. The south side (facing the south mole) I think a few herring etc were caught. No bonito seen the last 2 mornings. Mix of people baitcasting as well as using lures as well.

FYI if no one has seen the last post in the discussions or driven past the light up billboard the north mole is closed for maintenance from the 5th till the 21st of this month.

Cheers,

Jon

 Fishermen - settlers choom.

Today i was 300m offhshore in the scarborough to floreat area at 10m depth where I was pulling in whiting....

A large fish atleast 80cm that resembled a mackeral followed up a whiting and almost took it. The odd whiting had scratches and some had even been biten.

Then about 30 minutes later literally 10-15 metres from the boat a school of medium size fish, perhaps 50cm, were almost jumping out of the water with their tails flicking everywhere. Looked as though they were trying to evade something.  Had sharp tails looked a little like trevally, maybe juvenile giant trevally?

After seeing my whiting being chased i put out a mulie connected to a float, and a live yellow tail on another line. This was before the fish started jumping out, but they didnt go for the mulie which is very surprising, hence my thoughts on them trying to evade something.

But...

- What fish resembles a mackerel and is found in sandy spots?

figuered milsey posted about the trip we had north a couple of days ago, and its my turn to post something. We had some epic experiences spearing as seen in miles post and in the video of our northen trip witch we should be able to post up soon. anyway got out today on a mates boat in an attempt to get him onto his first dolly. spent some time casting all forms of lures around the metro fads, as we all know they can be fussy. so into the water to grab some lunch. spotted a solid wahoo around 1.5-2m length, which unfortunately wouldnt come in to close enough range to get a decent shot off. either way an amazing sight. with that in mind still plucked a nice mahi for the grill.

just as an update we also spent a few days in jurien a couple of weeks ago. Shot a few nice baldies, looped a few nice crays and got into a few dhu's and co on the fishing gear. Got out to the fads up there which was packed with dollys unfortunately had the same problem with them not being fussed on lures so spent abit of time in the water. had a very strong current running which I belive is normal for up there. so here is a few pics from that trip. stay tunned for north video to come!!!! thanks for reading. 

 Hi Guys and girls

I was wondering if anyone knew if there were any mulloway preferably around Kwinana/ Henderson? Ive tried the Eshed and spent about 60hrs there and about 50hrs elsewhere in the river over the last few months and only watched others pull them in. I wouldnt mind trying the ocean but not sure where to go. I live in Armadale so anywhere bewteen Rocko and Cott dont want to travel to much further.

Even a shark would be good but smaller rather then larger as I would like to eat it and My gear is a 10kg setup but with heavy leaders Using scalys for bait.

Im goin fishing tomorrow evening (Sunday 3/3/13) and Im land based.

Any advice would be much appretiated.

Thanks

Brendon  

 Anyone fishing land based lately around Busso? 

Heading there for 4 days from Thursday and after some updates

appreciate any info

"Passion" Creates Drive, Courage, Energy, Power and Ambition. Find your Passion, Follow it, and you will discover your World. My World, My Passion"-

Nothing beat fishing in the wild fishing terrains.

Want to beat fish, beat them in their nature terrains..

That's what true fishing is all about... :)

Enjoys my Fishing adventure !!!

Actions !!!! Actions !!! More actions youtube clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7dI8Ci2FVc

Photo shots highlights.....

What a beauty MAMA toman!!!

IMG_2922 by bkkguy,

IMG_2947 by bkkguy,

IMG_2939 by bkkguy,

IMG_2937 by bkkguy,

After enjoying an awesome arvo feed of KG whiting (for the first time) and defrosting some stored abs, managed to turn the frames (as crab bait) into some nice blueys and two nice flatties on a lime-green vibe in between drops around Nedlands-Point Walter, probably the two funnest days fishing I have had for a while. Gotta love summer...

Hey guys, loooooooooooooooooong time reader, first time poster, just wanted to share my elation with a couple of sweet KG's I caught recently on a mate's newly bought tinny out from Hillaries after being landbased for ages. After a perfect arvo trolling the three mile for not much more than a bit of weed and quite a few ice-cold cans, managed to hook into these two beauties on the way back in, less than a km out and in less than 6m, almost had a beast NW blowie take the big guy, stoked to get a couple of Kings after catchnreleasn a heaps of just undersize kgs in Augusta the day before. Stoked 

 For the past few months I had been planning a Marlin trip for any part of February but after a few things came up we were narrowed down to the second half and as per usual the weather gods had other ideas and the long range forecast was for southerly’s and lots of them. Given we were to be tenting and in a fairly remote location we made the call to pull the pin which was devastating. My brother and I were still keen to head north even if it was only for a few days. Finally a window opened up last week and we hit the road on Monday. Leaving the big boat and the heavy gear this was going to be predominantly a diving trip, the mid to low 40’s each day reinforced this idea.

The first day was an eye opener as it was both our first time up north during summer and the heat made things a little interesting, the 29’ water wasn’t all that refreshing either. Luckily the fishing was as hot as the barometer. Our first dive both of us bumped our pb baldies on straight hook and also filled the fridge for the trip. The fishing was equally as good on bent hook with many spangos, trevs, long tom ect falling victim to our offerings.

The remainder of the trip was just as good and we were blessed with glassy mornings and a nice 8kn sea breeze in the arvo. We crammed a lot into the four days we had up there and I lost count of how many dives we did but we saw some amazing things including a monster GT to 40kg, many many many sharks, some small some not so, some nice crays and millions of crabs that chewed through everything from cans, ipod cables, feet and even our tent which also added another element to sleeping. Another highlight for me was watching my brother fight a monster for half an hour getting towed all over the place and dragging us off shore only to see a bloody big turtle surface, made for a pretty funny WTF moment. I won’t bore you all with the thousands of pics we took so here are a few of the better ones. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the vid that should be done in the coming weeks.

Regards Miles

Hi Guys and Girls,

Havent posted in a bit, but just thought I'd pop up a few photos of the last couple of times out.

Was finally nice to get a couple of days great weather and a few fish.

Enjoy!

My biggest Spanglie so far, measured at 800mm

Cheers Sammy J

is there any good lan based fishing around bunbury or eaton???

 Fished two rocks on nothing but jigs....few firsts for the tub .........5 dhues (3 size), a baldie , black bum and a juvi pink

hit the fads up the next day for some dollies then the derwent for a amberack, then inshore for na

 Just moved up to Tapping from Hillarys so thought ide give Burns Beach a go. Slow start and got busted off by 2 big uns, rays i think then landed a tailor just before tea time. 

Made it out to the 40m mark southwest of rottnest last thursday, ending up being a good day, got to woodmans ramp just on daybreak and headed out between carnac and garden island, Kept 1 dhuie which was 65cm, 1 queenie at 55cm, 1 50cm KG  and a couple of breaksea cod. the day just got better the later it went after a couple of small showers in the morning it fines up and the wind dropped until we had very little drift at all. Released three dhuies that were just size using release weight.

 Plenty of herring (decent size), Skippy.  No squid or garfish sighted.

Caught my first spotted mackerel.  Just over 52cm.

Cousin caught a 35cm skippy.

Pretty good day by my standards!

 Hey all,

First post here. Great site! 

Fished a beach between cervantes and Jurien saturday night. Staretd around 4pm and aside from feeding the local nibblers we had a pretty lean afternoon / evening. One small tarwhine, a 300mm soapie, dart, two small flathead, an eagle ray and a big *&^??@! north west blowfish. All went back in. 

The howling southwesterly slowed down around 9. 

Weed floating everywhere, and we were fishing a pretty clean section of beach. It got a little better when the wind died down but still made the night a little friustrating - as it always does. I swear I magnetically attract the stuff. 

FA tailor at all, which was a first for a session in that area. 

Seen a huge school of 'herring' swim past us about four times - our baits obviously offended them as the didnt even stop to try our treats. You know it is going to be slow session when even the herring arent interested. 

Using locally (Pert) caught tailor, scaly and trumpeter as bait, along with a slab of table cuttlefish (thought i'd try them out for the mulla) and the ubiquitous mulies. 

Hardly anyone around too. 

Still enjoyed oursleves!!! The night sky in between moonset and sunrise was epic. 

cheers

 Hey guys 

So went fishing last night and finally caught my first mulloway after months of trying 

I know he's small but in happy as thanx for everyone's advise as all I've been doing lately 

is asking questions and not delivering any fish..

Just got back from 5 days landbased fishing in Kalbarri which I have to say was a whole lot better than when I was there this time last year, didn't catch what I was targetting but got some pretty good bycatch in the process.

First night fished the sand bar on the river and hooked a monster shovelnose, stuffed around for about 40 minutes trying to get it shallow enough to land but everytime I got it into the drop off next to the beach it would take off before I could get a hold of it. I'd had enough so grabbed the line to hold it in close while I tried to get a hand on it but it was to much pressure and the line snapped.

Second and third night were spent fishing the jetty where the missus caught the usual huge amounts of small silver bream and finger marks plus a few small estuary cod, only notable catches on the second night were two size Javelins by the missus and a small shovelnose by me. On the third night the jetty was going off! Baby mulla's were smashing bait fish right along the jetty while giant herring were leaping all over the place with small tailor following suit. To say I regretted not bringing my bream rod along would be a massive understatment! This was also the biggest and only tailor caught the whole trip after hours of throwing poppers and waxwings at a few different spots.

Fourth night hit Red Bluff beach where my second cast with a half eaten mullet fillet must have landed right on this little mulla's head as he hit it before I could put the rod back in the holder. Third cast resulted in a little gold spot with it going quiet after that and no more bites except for the pickers.

Last night so went to the jetty again so the missus could have some fun on some smaller stuff, again the usual countless undersize silver bream and finger marks with the occasional cod. Had an AUSTRALIAN couple near us who were filling their bucket with undersize cod, until what appeared to be some locals had some words with them after which they reluctantly released the next few caught until the locals left. Later that night hit Red Bluff beach again but was having trouble getting baits out behind the waves, after a couple of hours of no bites even after sliding out a half mullet well beyond the waves we made the move back to the sand bar. Few slightly larger finger marks from here and the one and only big run was from this nice little cod, not much of a fight but was nice to get one a bit bigger than all the little ones around.

Apologies for the shit fish photo's the missus hadn't used my camera before

Cheers,

Brett

Ps. For anyone going up for the classic, there was cops set up on the main road in front of the pub during the middle of the day doing random breath tests which I never seen there before

Ventured out to the Perth Game Fishing Clubs FAD yesterday, with the intention of doing a bit of bottom bouncing on the way back in. Tigh was in flying form forgetting to put the bait on the boat before leaving, so we stopped at a spot and picked up a couple of livies, then went for my first trip out to a FAD. Strong easterly in the early morning slowed our progress out, but started dying as we finally got there, and the Dollys were everywhere. Very, Very finicky and after throwing a handful of different lures at them Tigh hooked up on a soft plastic to the biggest of the day, on 20lb gear, which was a great sight of aerial display and after 20mins we got him on board (The guy in the blue shirt + biggets of the fish). Tigh continued his stella form by then dropping the fish overboard while cleaning it and sending down to the bottom. :( . So after another hour or so of throwing everything we had at them including the same plastic colour and many others, I decided to rig up one of our livies and throw him over. 30 seconds later the reel was screeming and I had 10mins of fun before bringing him boat side. Grants turn was next so rigged up another livey and 15 seconds later he was on. All in all a good first attempt out wide.

 Hi Crew,

Heading to Steep on Sunday for 10 days.....anyone got any current info?

fishing and staying on thr point, so the usual balloon and spin action is planned - wondering how its been lately?

also, any reports on the track in - good / bad etc.

Will hopefully post a report when i get back (fingers crossed pictures too).

cheers,

chris

 A couple of nice fish from a couple of weeks back- both released successfully from 32m. As you can see the conditions were against us!

Any reports around rotto, heading out tomorow and thursday! trolling x-rap 30s and a skirted blue mack

any Albany folks on here that have seen or herd of Salmon schools going past? heading down to cheynes beach next weekend for a work doo and wondering if there will be any early schools around other than the odd resident. thanks in advance

Well after spending 20+ hours trying the e-shed and not having much luck the

past week, i decided to go back to "old faithful" the swan river.. Heading down 

a bit lower towards Guildford area.. Was a good session, pulled in plenty Bream

biggest being around 25cm.. couldnt get any to take a soft plastic.. all caught 

on river prawns from local servo...