Hi,

Thought it was time I got on board great site.

Went to the monte's last week had a great time 12 mates from Rockingham

On that thanks to the crew on the KYLIN great crew and Sam C for his help and advice, will send a report and photos over the next few day.

Cheers

Brad

Great trip again out wide over the shelf! The red snapper were like flies and hard to get through them to the cod. 400 gram jigs were suitable on pe6 saltiga boat braid. anyways enjoy

 A couple Salmon from Friday 27/5/11. Caught on live mullet. We landed 3 and busted off on 1.

Landed 1 and lost 2 on Saturday aswell using same bait

 Hey team

Head out at around 7am from hillaries in search of some good ground......within 2 hours we had some, quite choppy conditions. The morning sesh we had resulted in 4 boldies (one lost at the boat, biggest 520mm), 3 undersuze pinkies, 2 black ass (one returned), various reef stuff, a trolled up stripe tuna, and the wierdest capture today was a monster cuttle fish on a patenoster rig! Obviously we kept to our boat limit of fish as well

We lost two real decent fish, didnt get a look. First we had a not pull , second was a hook was straightened.(the hook straigtening fish, didnt hit like a sambo, in fact i barely felt the bite, till i decided to put the real in free spool, and when i putt drag back on boy did it buckle over.  No snapper head shakes, didnt fell like a sambo full stop, real small runs with not a wholo lot of power. struggled getting it off the bottom, then tighteneded the dragg and the hooks straightened! Devoe!!!!!

After lunchtime when it glassed off, the bite really slowed down. So much for these northly winds i was worried about!

Interesting pointer was in the morning we were fishing with freshly caught squid, in the arvo tackle shop frozen squid, and boy did we notice a difference in action, even in the morning i was experimenting with one piece of shop squid with a piece of fresh squid, and the results speek for themselves.

thanks to every one who sent me pms regarding info on bottom bouncing, with your info you sent it helped so much in regards to what to look for in your sounder, techniques etc etc got told everything i probaly needed to know bar spots. So thanks all

photos tomorrow all

have a good night

brett

Well after heading out to sand a job this morning and watching all the boats heading up I felt a little down I wasn't going early. but I guess we missed the rush. We got to the ramp at around 9:00 and were on the first spot for 10:00.  Conditions were looking good and after sounding around there were fish and still in good numbers. After setting up our drift I gave the nod for all to drop and it was a few seconds and Jesse was on, not big but a dhuie. Then James, then Jody. yep the fish were still biting and although not the size of last week's fish, still good fun.

Things slowed down after a short time so we moved on. We fished 7 patches and all had some good numbers of fish on them. James the new guy was showing the hardened fishos how its done.  He had only caught one dhuie before and not big so he was having a good time. He did get two around the 9kg which one was kept for dinner. We did recapture a dhuie from the 7/5/11.  780mm. It was in very good condition was released to fight another day.  Thats three we have recaught.

Well the day was another great trip and we were back in the marina at 3:00. Days catch 20 dhuies, two keepers, tagged 16 and two swam from my hands before I got the tag in ,+ 2x baldies kept.  Also dropped half dozen fish. I think that is around 70-80 tags in all.  good looking forward to them turning up in the future.

 Went down applecross jetty and caught this 34 cm bream

 Went to Busso Jetty. Was a good night overall

Hi Fallas

Just wondering if anyone knows if the salmon are still down at Yeagerup thinking of a trip next weekend??

Cheers

Headed out from woodies just before 5. Out to a few weed patches

12 in a buckted in 1hour and 10 mins, lost a couple more, 5 tubes went over 20cm, but the others, theyve turned into fresh bait for saturday!

there still out there

Pink and Orange were the colours of choice

brett

My nephew gave me a call and said I’ve got the day off tomorrow, let’s go squidding.  Why not I said squidding is something I have never tried before.  We met a Woodman Point at the gentleman’s hour of 9am and we were off in his recently purchased 3.9m dinghy powered by a 25hp Honda motor.  Not long after we stopped over what looked like some weedy ground and he produced the tackle of the day (two $40 Big W specials, purchased for his kids).  After the first drift we hadn’t had any action when we were approached by another boat that had been in the area (obviously a pinger I thought, he’s after our spot).  As he got real close he yelled out ‘are you guys after squid’, we nodded to which he responded ‘if you go in closer you will have more success’.  Well, cheeky blighter I thought, first pinging our secret squid spot and then trying to tell us where to go.

Anyway we heeded his advice and spent the next few hours catching squid and small cuttlefish (released) and getting inked.  We didn’t get our limit but plenty for a feed for both families and a few smaller ones kept for bait.  Not a bad way to spend a Wednesday.

Hey Guys,

Just returned from a week up at the Montes/Exmouth. Had a ball with a big diverse range of species coming in on the jigs. Spaniards and Asstd trevs on the stickbaits :)Only got a small pop in for the week, which was a bit dissapointing, hard with a lot of diehard bottom bashing punters on board.

What a place! I want to head back there ASAP..

Here's a couple of pics from the trip, enjoy!

Cheers,

Sam

Went down to my local mulla haunt for a cast tonight, as being the only night this week I was free. 

hey guys,

went down in hope of getting some salmon. I came across one small school and no takers, and a few loners but they werent keen either.

There was plently of herring, squid and string rays. The group caught 13 rays all up and released them, was good fun for the boys whose biggest fish they've caught was a tailor ahha.

All in all a good trip away with no salmon. Just mates and sore arms and backs

Hey first time posting pictures all off my iphone and have no idea how to doit so yeah, sorry not very good qaulity.

The queenie is off my dads boat in esperance

The big gummy shark is from esperance too

The little bronzie is from our local groyne 

The shovel nose is from our local beach 

and the little gummy is from our local groyne too

Thanx hope it shows up allrite!

Well with a day off from work and the fish on the bite we hit the water again leaving the marina at 8:30. The fish were still on the bite and didn't take long and Jody was onto a big one .then Jesse and Kev .Conditions were lumpy at first but settled around lunch time .We kept 2 dhuies one 18kg and one 13kg 1x baldie 1x blackass.11 Dhuies tagged and released from 5-12kg. Have to say the fish are thick if you hit them one patch now has had 14 dhuies tagged and released .I would say there could be up to 50 dhuies sitting on that patch .Well its back to work tomorrow ,but hell what a weekend .

Hey guys,

Had a mate take me out on my boat out back of 3 mile reef for a troll and hopefully some tuna and macks. No macks to speak of but manged to pull up my first stripey and bluefin tuna.

Went back yesterday and managed to pull up another good BFT. Awesome fun. Will keep trying for macks though ;)

Well me and a mate got out early today.headed out of hillarys with great conditions slight easterly. both of us pretty new to perth so didnt have any spots to hit up. we were chasing an elusive dhuey or two. seems everyone has been catching  them like blowies lately. after sounding around found a bit of bottom in 30m only to get a couple of wrass and an under size pinky(released). thought we'd drift it again hopeful find the older brother but no good. decided to push out a bit further, hit 35m bit of broken ground but nothing to write home about and not much brought to the surface. moved on again and as we were going spottted a few bait balls busting up the surface, out went a couple of lures and with in 5 min bang, a nice stripy.  lost site of the bait so thought we'd just keep the lures out and search for ground. didnt find much but bout half hour later off goes the rod again and after a nice little fight the second stripy was landed. kept going after that for bout 20 min with out any luck and no spots found to find our nice dhuey, made the call to head in clean the boat and watch the footy.

no dhueys but still agreat day on the water. and good to see west coast ddemolish the bullys. great day.. 

also forgot to mention, i pulled up an octopus off the broken ground, any one else caught an occy on a hook before. first for me.

if anyone would like to point us in the right direction of dhueys feel free.. haha i know what the reply will be... cheers anyway..

Headed out from 2 Rocks at around 7:oo With Neil from bluewater mindarie Jody Jesse and me. Condition were good with light winds and little swell first spot dhuie  [ This dhuie I tagged and released 15 days ago ] ,snapper .2nd spot dhuie ,snapper blackass.mmmmmmmmm things were looking good as we had only been fishing for half hour.Things slowed a little as we checked some ground out a little further where we got fish a couple of weekends ago.The fish had move from these patches.With only a few small stay behind fish.After that all hell broke lose. The next spot two nice fish around 9kg ,the next spot 13kg ,6kg ,4kg fish then the next shit triple hook up of dhuies they were going off.Neil got a nice double header 1 around 13kg and 1 around 4kg NICEEE .I don't think I have ever not gone to a spot because I would catch a dhuie But I refussed to fish any more dhuie spots .We headed into some ground for some baldies,snapper and bugger me Jody pulls a 18kg dhuie.That was it home time .We finished the day with 2x Dhuies around 7kg 2x baldies and a Black ass. We tagged and released 20 fish .12 being dhuies 15,18,13,10kg fish and others around 4-7kg .also snapper and black ass .We were home for 1:30 and feet up for the football.Have not done up the pics yet but will post them in the next couple of days .

After seeing Wednesday's weather forecast decided the only sensible thing to do was take the day off work and do a spot of fishing. Packed up the boat, picked up the deckie and we took off up to Jurien hoping for a Mackie or two. On the water at 9 and we were greeted by magic conditions. Went behind the islands and started trawling in the 20's just behind the reef.

Things started off rather quiet with no bait schools on the sounder. We pushed on south and soon spotted a nice looking current line roughly SW of Boulanger Island. As we got close the water errupted around the boat with bait jumping everywhere, tuna launching into the air and in amongst it all sharks getting in on an easy feed!

15 seconds later both rods went off and we were on! After a good fight we had two Yellow Fin Tuna in the boat. You beauty!

With water still bubbling all around us we tried to get the lures back in the water but before I could get the second one out the first got hit again! After another good fight we had a Longtail Tuna in the boat. This went on for a while with both of us boating a number of Longtails in a hot session within sight of Jurien Bay!

The only disappointment at this stage was that we hadn't got into a Mackie yet but this was soon rectified!

We kept the Mackie and the two YFT and released all the Longtails.

Things went quiet after lunch so we tried some bottom bashing but this close in there wasn't much around, the only note worthy capture was a small Dhu on a Daiwa Pirate. The seabreeze picked up so we headed inside the islands, anchored up and had some fun with Herring and Skippy. Back out of the water at 4 and back home at 7. Long day but well worth it, easily the best palegic session I've had this side of Shark Bay!

Water temperateure still above 23deg up there!

A mate and I went down to a local spot this morning for about 2 hours.

Turned out to be very productive.

1 skippy- 1.5kg (awesome fight)

1 KGW

1 Snapper

1 salmon

1 Flat head

1 flouder

All were a decent size and all on gulp S-plastics

i got up early headed out  freaking cold and the fog coming of the  ocean looked  cool

i got 2 small skippy returned

1 pink snapper only 15cm long returned saftly like the other fish

other than that didnt get anything else

hey guys,

justa very brief report from my trip to the bow holes in carnarvon. there were some great fish caught up there never really got on to any big schools of fish of the same species as we always ended up with a mixed bag at the end of each day. these included trout, cobia, macks, pinks, spangles, rankin, eastray cod, finger mark, tomato cod and plenty of spanish flag. the weather only got better as the days went on. we left gero early sat morning and it rained most of the way and continued raining the rest of the evening in carnarvon and up at the blows. sundays weather was not bad had a light nrth east - east wind which blew most of of the day with a light swell so we headed north. highlight of the day was the 93cm trout.

monday welcomed us with a couple of storm front moving through so we headed south and hung close to shore and floated a few baits for spagos managed to get a couple but this is where my mate blacky hooked up a nice cobia in 5-10m of water. from here the weather got a bit better so we decided to head out a bit deeper and bottom bounce for a bit, not a lot was happening here picked up a pink or 2 but had a bit of trouble with a few sharks. we persisted for a bit and next minute my old mans line peeled off, after a bit of a fight he got the fish to the boat to discover it was a nice spanish mack. another storm front moved in so we head back to the bay and threw a few squid jigs around to no avail. but as we had givin up all hope the front moved on and we were faced with a glass off in which head headed back out and went south for the arvo for a good session with the spangles.

tuesday we woke up with no wind at all and bugger all swell so we headed north and tried a few spots from sunday, all we mangaed to get were a few pinks and they moved on pretty quick. the weather was glassing off and the fish wernt biting, think it was to still for them. by this stage the water was glass so we decided to head quiet a few km's offshore in the search of a few reds. no luck on our boat with any reds but managed a few rankins, eaturay cods, tomato cod and a few norwest snapper to finish the trip off.

anyway heres a few pics

Hope you enjoy

Looking at heading out to the FADS on Sunday. Anyone catching anything out there at the moment or is the fun all over? Is it back to hunting Dhuis?

Any Macks/Wahoo/Dollies still around?

A mystery FW angler (only a mystery as my laptop SD card reader has just shat itself) landed a stonking Sambo in about 30 odd meters of water jigging with pe 1.5 and a teeny rod. Said man repeated the act later in the day with a setup that can only be described as a step down from a herring rod with no backbone just to prove his point- all you blokes who are worried about the size of your rod may need to consult this guru in technique... oh and style!

Now on a mission to get the pics & load them up 

Update:

Mystery maestro unveiled, none other than Mr Honsu Chin

Absolute hooter of a Sambo that had to be brought in via the transom door because Seaquest & myself couldn't lift it

Also another damn fine angler with a Dhu on plastic: Mr Seaquest

The rod that can only be described as a flick stick for light hezza fishing & this battle had us pissing ourselves as Chinny ran around the boat, all said & done he nailed it & I am still gobsmacked.

Cheers Brendan & Chinny

Tryed my luck for a mulla for the 9999999999999999999887755542156 time.

Had no luck but while i had a livie out i was fishing with the smaller rod and landed 4 nice sized whiting and hooked a massive blue manna crab o my fishing line. I released it becasue im no sure if its legal to keep one caught on rod and reel.

Met a guy on holiday from borneo. Really nice happy guy. He wasnt catching much so i gave him my whiting. Never seen a guy happier ;)

Also hooked a starfish haha . All in all it was chilly but a good way to unwind after work and it was good to give that guy some fish to try as he hadnt tryed fish here and what better fish to eat than whiting

Hi Guys, been a pretty dry start to the winter and have gone for a prawn a few times this year without almost any luck. I have been fishing from a jetty but not sure how the guys in the boats are going. any updates would be good but i haven't seen or heard of any good catches yet. hopefully things change when we finally get a few consecutive days of rain!!!!!!

Hi everyone im adam new to fishwrecked,

Went out for a fish wednesday about 10am with my dad and uncle grant

headed out to the five at the south end of garden island, started our drift as we just passed it

seen alot of big bait schools but nothing realy chasing them, got a few nice sand whiting and a heap of small flathead on the light gear, and about 6 small scorpion cod, the fish died off a bit when grant picked up this nice flathead on the light gear 

The wind died right off and werent realy drifting nor were the fish biting so headed back to the five by this time the wind picked up slightly in the other direction so we started the drift as we hit bank instantly started geting pecked of by wrass caught a few of them, also caught a small black ass and a nice skippy, but couldnt rely get away from the wrass, slowly drifting over it went dead again which i thought was good coz i didnt realy want to catch anymore wrass, not long after grant was on and pulled up this nice 4 kg dhue closly followed by a small hammer head so it was landed pretty fast

drifted a bit more grant was on again ended up losing a nice bronzy close to the boat, and no more action for 30mins or so where thinking of packing up when line started peeling off my line and i was on took a good 50 meters off me then short quick runs we were sure it was a shark until i got it close enough to see and we found it was a decent tuna to our suprise after a good 30 mins of circle work from the tuna we had landed the 14kg 1.06m monster me and grant 3 goes each i think its a long tail? thats the first tuna for me i was over the moon hi fives all round.

we decided to head in and this is mixed bag

This has got to be my best day fishing and the best fish ive caught.

Ok before i start this i want everyone to know this is my first squiding attempt hahaha so was not the best but managed some results!!

Went down to woodmans point with a cheapy squid jig from the deli went for the green one figured thats what everyon on here uses, and baught some berly. So what i know about squid weedy bottom with sand patches so found some thing that i thought looked like that(forgot my polaroids).  first hour caught nothing but there was no wind and beautiful so still enjoyed it. I tried ever retrieve i could think off fast wind, sloww twitching, fast twitching. Looked like a bit of a bannana for a while there hahahah

Then when the sun started going down bang i was( retrieve slow twitching)  on my first squid ever and it was big one the tube was 38cm (not sure how this rates with you boys), the next half hour i caught 3 ore squid and one cuttle fish. Kept one more and threw the other two back (only me to feed tonight)  plus was unsure how to clean the cuttle so let him go as well  

So first squiding session a sucess i think im on the board and they taste great, got photo but will put it up when i get home

Hey guys,

Its my first time posting, ive been a avid follower for a good 2 years but for some odd reason i could not get my account to start.. this time however.. it worked!

Anyways, ive spent this month teaching my mum how to fish, it was my mothers day gift to her.. i dont usually fish the swan but this is the best way to get a newbie to enjoy the thrills of fishing.

We headed out the the river 3 times and all three times it has been productive. Mums first fish was a whopper 35cm bream.. which obviously annoyed me cos all i got was weed and twigs this was up stream in the Valley. Have a look at the

gills of the bigger one.. check out the reflection..scared the hell out of me!

The second time out,we fished the jetties in the nedland and mosman area and it yielded good size bream and big crabs. The bream went 30-36cms and the crabs averaged about 18cm.

The other night we headed out again, but this time with about 5 mates and it got us this!

Theres a few monsters in there.. a few of the crabs hit the 400g mark.

Make sure you have a good look at the first image.. it still gives me the chills!

Chino