The Clubs monthly overnight competition was held on Saturday ,North of Perth in near perfect conditions.

Fish were scarce on the night but that seems to be the trend at the moment for some reason or another. Rays and Shovel Nose Sharks made up the bulk of fish caught with two massive Black Rays landed by Shaun and Werner using Assassin made rods and Shimano Overhead reels

Photos of the Rays with weights and measurements will follow , congratulations to the boys on their captures , hope your backs and arms have recovered

Results were         Shaun               1st Place

                                Werner           2nd Place

                                 Dave              3rd  Place

A Club meeting will be held next Monday night 10/ 3 at 6pm at Shaun's work place , can all members please attend .

Shauns Ray caught at night measured 162 cm and weighed in at 141 kg

Werner's Ray  was caught early morning , it measured 163 cm and weighed in at 143 kg

 With two rocks still closed we went looking for some new ground out of mindarie on Saturday. Found a nice little lump in 38m and dropped a couple descent fish amongst a few undersized dhus, a nice baldy, coupe blackarse and heaps of rat sambos until my mate Pez land this big fat dhu. Went 1050mm and 18.3kg when weighed back home after it threw up its stomach including a whole occy and being bled. It was so fat and the biggest dhu I've seen in the flesh and we were all sure we finally had a 20 club member....but no. Need to get some scales on the boat I think. Didn't land anything else after this one 

Hey all

GF wants to go to the beach with sis and brother inlaw and i remembered a spot near the penguin island sandbar last year where we had a little fun on herring and i even caught my first KG, just round the southern bend towards the launch ramp. was wondering if anybodys been fishing the area down there lately and if so is anything about? heading down tomoro arvo most likely altho looks less windy in the morning (willy weather). happy just to get into some more herring or whiting would be great.

cheers

Niko

 Tradewind and I headed out early to see if we could get him a good dhuie, we initially went exploring an area not tried before having passed over a huge fish aggregation in 43 metres, first drop yielded a flathead, hmmm, interesting, then things went horribly wrong as we passed over that aggregation, three rods with total bite offs, rerig and try again, same result.......... It was a massive aggregation all right but of N W blowies, grrrrrrr.

Whip the sea anchor in and head North for a mile, hmmm, more fish, first drop, double headers of dhuies but all were just under size, all returned well with and without release weight.  Drift again, good black bum, more undersized dhuies, and sothe day went on, no current whatever and fish feeding well, I got a 66 cm dhuie, good K G W on skinned occy and Tradewind got a horse of a baldie.

We thought he had finally cracked onto a good dhuie on the final drift as the wind dropped off to nothing but up came a bloody ray and another baldie to get him to the limit

Great day on the water, back at between 23 and 27 knots on glossing off conditions

Thanks mate for the company !

 has any one been fishing in the fremantle sailing club and if u have what have u cuaght and what on

 havent put anythin gup in a while and havent been taking many photos or even fishin a lot compared to normal but still nailing some great fish on spear and line.
anyway here is a few recent pics from our efforts and some screenshots from a heap of footage ive collected lately. 

 I have been away from Perth for three weeks but before I left i could count at least 15 small boats crabbing between the Canning Bridge and in front of Barrack Street Jetties. I haven't seen any over the last couple of days?? What's going on? Have the crabs all left or been fished out?

Is Mandurah or Cockburn doing any better?

 Hi lads,

Just thinking about heading north up to Gladtsone and wondering is anyone has had a crack fishing there ... whats the story? is the fishing any good?

If anyone could share some reports on what to expext and catch it would be much apreciated.

Cheers

 I have finally got around to editing all my footage from my trip to the 3 kings nz last May. Highlights were the monster bass we encountered, the 500+ pound swordie we hooked after letting the bait about 5 mins earlier and the xl kings on the best top water session you could ask for. Can't reccomended lance and the boys from enchanter enought. They are the best in the biz 

for best pic watch in 1080

http://youtu.be/Cg6wkpdXGDc

hope that link works. Enjoy

 went up to cervantes this weekend for an overnighter. fished all afternoon and night, not even a tailor.

that next morning was herring galore, there were hundreds hanging around our burley trail.

managed to get a feed then headed back to perth. overall wasnt a bad trip just needed more chop and swell in the water.

heres a couple of photos.

cheers.

Was just wondering if anybody been out to the FADs or trolled the trench lately. I havent been able to get out there and there hasnt been much said about them lately. Thought I heard a couple of FADs lost or have dragged away. Has anybody at least raised a marlin/tuna or hooked any?

Had a ball the other day with TimVB and Langa with three multiple hook-ups in one short sharp metro maccie session, which resulted in one triple hook-up with one bite off and two landed, and then two more double hook-ups, all landed. Six maccies in quick time, we left them biting. Pretty mad stuff on the deck with trebles flying around and some pretty sharp teeth snapping at our toes!!

A few maccie fillets to tide us all over for a while.

 Got a crab lure yesterday, took it out for a session this morning. 

1 full day of fun and excitment fishing trip with BKKGUY in Thailand.

Our fellow forumer ' anypuddle' will not forget this day.

The day he landed his 1st ever barramundi and his dream snakehead of his life.

I let the pictures and video say it all.....

Enjoys the exciting  video guys !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfEiHxc08lM

The big barra !!!

The popular BKKGUY signature toman posture..

The damage done by the snakehead. 

Got the weather gods onside so Monday we went out wide from Cape Jervis SA heading south past The Pages. Had a bit of a look around the Threshold Bank but no schools visible so continued south to Saunders Bank. Once there saw a few birds diving and small bustups so lures out.

About 15min or so later hooked up and reeled in a nice bluefin around 15kg. 15 min later another hookup on a dropoff. got colour and noted it was a kingie so a nice by catch. Bit more trolling but nothing happening so headed a bit further south following the 50m line.

Skipper was tired so handed the wheel to me so he could grab some kip. 5 min later I told him to get off his arse as tuna were busting up all over the place directly ahead. trolled around them a few times but no takers.

Noted the baitfish were all around an inch long so tied on a slim profile lure onto my 30lb outfit and cast this to the edge of the school. Third cast landed around a foot from the bust up. reeled fast them saw a tuna breakaway and chase down the lure grabbing it off the surface. about 15 minutes later boated a decent tuna of around 25kilos or so.

Still busting up so started to throw out pieces of pilchard and next thing there all around the boat. Pilchard with a hook in goes over and we're on again. dropped a couple and then managed to get another tuna around 25kg or so on board. By this time we are both stuffed and the cooler is chockas so decided to head in to clean the fish and head back home. Great weather and all in all a good day and the freezer is full. Will put up some go-pro footage once I get the chance to edit it. Cheers

 heres a few pics of some of the bream ive caught in the past year from the swan, canning & moore river.

 Any tailor around metro beaches at sunset lately might go have a crack 

 With the weather looking like playing the game last Friday, decided to give it a crack in the 40's out from Mandurah. Last full moon out there I got onto a few small to just legal pinkies but no Dhus. Well a month has changed it quite a bit. Within 20 minutes the bro in law and I had a double hook up on a pidgeon pair of Dhueys. Doug hooked his first and while I was getting the net organised and untangled. My Stradic that was off the front of the boat bobbing a Daiwa Pirate jig got nailed. The dhu's went 5.5 & 6 kg each. 

Now we just have to get a couple of snapper and we'll be done I told him. I went over to where I got the snapper last time but only managed to get a nice Harly and a couple of smaller Dhus that went back well. Also got a couple of nice Skippy which had us thinking we had the snapper we were looking for.

Doug then hooked a nice fish but took his time getting it to the surface as it was pretty clear it was another Dhu and wanting it to swim off strongly. Then he felt a strong tug on the line and up came this.

Doug has fished out from Mandurah for years and has never lost a fish let alone a Dhu to sharks, and it wasn't to be the only one for the day. I hooked a Sambo on the drop a while later at a different spot. That put up a spirited fight for a few minutes until it turned into a freight train and took off under the boat, I finally got the head back from another hungry shark. Hope the Metro area isn't going the same way as up north!

Anyway it was a great day out on the water and a few fillets in the freezer. We ended up keeping 2 Dhu, 1 Harly, 2 Skippy, 2 Sambo's (thai fish cakes yumm) & managed a small Southern Bluefin that went 5kg! Sorry not great or many photos, too busy having fun.

Cheers for reading

Chris

Pinkies..

 few crays over xmas and interesting find cleaning out the boat. .

 Gday all,

I saw Ryans post and am so stoked with tonights efforts thought I would post.  

Not much free time atm, but managed to sneak out tonight on my lonesome for a crab in the river.  Hit the water about 4:30 from pt walter, headed to mossies and dropped down in the deep 18-22 mts.  First crab about 5:30 not heaps, but as the sun set seemed to pick up.  Had four gooduns on board and moved the pots 50-60 mts closer in among the moorings and struck gold.  Hit my 10 by 7:50, home by 8:30.

Tuna head FTW!

First one:

10!:

Go the swan 2014!

Finally got out for a fish on Aus day with a couple of mates who don't really fish much. Let them do most of the work getting the tiger in, then couple of guys fishing down the beach helped land it luckily, it would have been a mission by myself. Cheers guys if your on here. Hooks came out well and it swam away strong. Was a great night, always good getting away with friends, then a fish is just a bonus.

Me, TimvB and Langa headed out with the rest of Perth's boat population from Hilarys at 6 am yesterda to have our first crack at a fishing comp.

Pretty hectic 10 minutes clearing Hillarys and then the washing machine through the gap (sorry to the dude I almost ran over as a waved flung me sideways....).

Stuffed about for over an hour trying for live bait before we even got half way to our destination, that was a resounding fail.......so we headed out with the aim of having a quick crack at a Dhuie and then the main target for us was the Sambo/Amberjack prize and the tuna prize.

Langa got a good dhuie arounf 65cm and we released it, as the aim was to win the comp, not catch to eat. 10 minutes on and a substantial upgrade dhu, but it broke the line right at the hook......damn!

Time marching on, we trolled across to our sambo spot and Langa picked up a stripie, that in restrospect woud have won the tuna prize......more of that....

The sambo spot had a few marks on it, and in the past few times we fished there it has resulted in lots of 20 kg sambos and lots of unstoppables.....first drop, both Langa and Timvb are on, high up in the water column. Langa a nice Sambo, but we knew bigger ones were there so released.

Tim landed and reasonable stripie on jig, certainly nothing huge.......but turned out to win the Tuna comp. GREAT JOB TIM!!!! Tim then landed a few sambos in the 15 kg on his new overhead JM outfit, very nice.

Next drop, I am on big time, shiiiit, this thing went hard. Ended up being a good amber......next drop a sambo for me about the same size, the amber would pull it backwards easily!

Then Langa is on....and not making progress and loosing line against locked up Stella drag. Looking grim, so we motored off and got its head up and 15 minutes later up pops a cracking amber. Langa  not thinking bled it like all fish we keep.......hmmmm, about a kg of blood came out...... that amber ended up being pipped by a sambo 300 grams heavier......bugger.

Anyhow, great day out on team Whaler, first in the tuna division, a close second in the sambo/amber division, a few beers at the MAAC with Baron and the boys made for a great day. 

Shot out near Rotto. Tanks on for a few crays and then time to blood the new spear gun.
Dived through a big school of YTK with the tanks on but they never came back when I had the gun :(.
Anyway managed a good haul of crays and a tasty sized Dhu.

I've got a few days off between filming so I thought a bit of crabbing yesterday was on the cards!

Caught up with me good mate Shaun (Shabba) yesterday on the Swan for a crab hunt!

The plans was an arvo crab sesh and work the lower reaches around Mossy Bay (Swan)!

We ended up with a nice feed indeed including many big blues ..... as we were de-baiting they kept on producing (good problem) ....... but it was near sundown and we'd caught enought for a feed!

Was a great arvo Shabba, good to catchup mate ....... cheers 

 Fished the 40's for little result, water was brilliantly clear and 22c but no bird activity whatsoever, got a great breaksea but had a day where anything large was dropped, they seemed really picky and all hookups were light.

Dropped a large fish, called for a dhuie hooked using a small western king wrasse with the fillets reverse cut to flap in the current, good fight only to end with the hooks letting go.

Very strong current flowing from the North meant that the drift was almost due south despite the easterly, and what the hell was the bright orange jelly like material (you couldn't see it in the water but it deposited itself on the top eye of the rod on every retrieve seemingly collected on the rougher surface of the braid ,, coral spawn perhaps?

 Managed a last minute booking down at Busso for the last week of school holidays.

Bugger all crabs but did get into some nice squid and a coupla whiting.

Hood measured 33cm, the entire thing was almost as big as my 3yr old when he held it up.

Fresh chips from the local and squid rings from the day....nom nom!
 

Hello FW Junkies

Was curious to know if any FW Members are having any luck on the Trawl of late, the Leeuwin Current seems to of heated up of late yet quite a bit of ribbon weed was about last 5 days way south of Rotto?

Yep its been windy too!

We caught a some spaniads & tuna but it was bloody hard work

Would liek to know if any one else is having the same luck

R,