Biggest 162mm

Went for a fish at Floret drain yesterday morning with my young bloke. No tailor but got 4 Dart a Herring and most surprisingly a Striped Threadfin between the two of us. Also fished down on the river at Burswood Saturday arvo and got my first two Swan river flatties. None of them monsters of course but a pretty good start to my three weeks off work. Hopefully Kalbarri in a couple of weeks will see a few big ones for us.

Cheers.

Ive been in Canada for about 6 months now and havent done nearly as much fishing as I would have liked with work taking most of my time. When I first arrived I was pretty keen for some fishing, but was told not to expect much with the water too warm. Gave it a shot anyway and had some fun with a few carp. 

Tried again a few weeks later, this time after bass, but it was a pretty poor effort with a bunch caught but none any bigger than a small herring lol.

I was hoping to get into the salmon run around October but things were crazy busy at the time and that didnt happen unfortunately. A while back I saw KenTse's post about his sturgeon fishing and remembered we had a fishwrecked member in Toronto, which is not far from me. So I hit him up for some info and got some great advice re rigs, bait, gear and spots. Thanks again Ken!

So with this new info I tried for some Niagara river trout and after striking out the first time I came away with a 55cm steelhead (migratory rainbow trout). Was good fun with the 8lb leader and these fish know how to use the current to their advantage! I wasnt fishing for a feed but the guy who netted the fish for me assured me it was perfect eating size. Gotta admit he was right, probably the nicest tasting fish Ive caught from shore.

Such a strange style of fishing for someone with no freshwater experience. Casting upstream and letting the rig bounce along the bottom with the current. Every rock the sinker hits feels like a bite and takes a while to get used to. Also seems like tiny hooks with size 8 or 10 the standard, but I guess its all about deception with trout.

Anyway was good fun. Got down again this morning and lost a good fish right at the bank. Hopefully will get a bit more time for fishing over the next couple of months while work is quieter. Goddam itss getting cold though, had to buy an ice fishing suit just to get through a few hours of fishing. Literally have to scrape the ice off the rod guides every few casts. Hopefully will get out on a charter or something in spring so might have something a bit more impressive to report

Cheers guys and have a good xmas!

Adam

well the fishing gods have been looking after me with a 50cm to start the summer then a few days after a 60cm then giant herring the next day , an im off to broome now so should have a good report when i get back

 From a short session at Quinns beach off the rocks

hey, i went down to wonnerup on monday at about 6pm to try for some tailor. we ended up catching 15 but only a few that were just size. i think its abit early yet need it to warm up again. im going to try again tonight will let you no how i go.  cheers kurt

 Went for a flick yesterday evening to a spot I frequent,met a guy there who was bait fishing and he was quite happy withhimself after landing a33cm,the biggest he had got in awhile and i thought maybe it could be a good evening!with no hook ups after an hour(usually an active spot for me).

i decided to move on to a couple more spots with not much luck,couple of tiny fish but nothing major,not put off as the weather was good and I was just enjoying being by the river,then hit a spot where it got interesting.

hooked onto"a decent fish" awesome power my heart was racing as I new if I landed it it would be my pb. Landed her for a quick pic and released again,went 36/37

shortly after hooked another,smaller fish but actually gave an even better fight than the previous.landed for another quick pick and  release.things went quite for a while and then hooked on to something big again that started peeling line,changing direction hard,then changed again And went rite for a tree,put pressure on the spool to slow down and tried to guide him out but he broke me off,was using 6lb braid with 5lbleader, I decided not to rig up again and left them bitting.fish caught after 6pm,upper swan on z-mans grub in pumpkin seed colour

not massive fish,but certainly a big jump up for me from high 20 to 30 cm range I was gettin before,have to say I was buzzing after it. Still stoked so wanted to share,please excuse the bad pics,was rushing the process to get fish bak in ASAP, can't wait to get out again,

During the ban many bevy's fell victim in the discussion of fishing & suffice to say Harro & Nizzy sold me the virtues of deep drop all too happy to pop my cherry! I was keen to put my tub to the test & had a nice cruise out there before handing it over to Harro for tuition time. The boys had only touched the bottom after sorting the drift & both began wrestling with double headers, Nizzy with a Puka & Blue Eye whilst Harro was dealing with a double Blue.

Next drift I had a crack getting my own double of Puka & Blue Eye, too stoked on the Blue to worry about the Puka.

2 drifts, bagged out & time to go home. Cheers for the day lads, good banter as usual!

Hi,

New to this website so thought i'de post a few pics of fish i've caught in Dampier off the rocks the last few days.  Working in the Pilbara FIFO, used to fish a bit 20 years ago and just got back into it.

3 at 150mm jumbos and a feed of whiting

Went down for a flick Pt Walter way yesterday and finally got my first flatty for the season.  Nice way to do it with a 48cm number. Also got a fat-as 34cm yellowfin whiting and a small breambo.  Good way to spend 1.5 hours.

Enjoyable 8kn cruise out to the FADs, took about 30min.

A million rainbow runners, very flight dollies though.

Water about 32 degrees.

just thought i would share some photos with everyone of the past year as it has been an awesome one ,starting with an exmouth trip around new years, a trip up to leeman then my beautiful wife suggesting that we go to exmouth again for our honeymoon, a boys trip to the abrolhos islands with saltwater charters in june to various days off perth and jurien.

JC85, matt020, andyh and knot big enuff my mrs aimee and my brother luke sporting the maddest mullet in perth, make appearances in these photos

this year also signifies my first whole year absolutley bait free!

bring on exmouth again in 12 days!!

  thanks for looking and reading.

Sammy

my first GT out with eddy

A good feed of swan river crabs

days out off leeman

a few photos from our honeymoon in exmouth ( heaven )

a few from a day at the fads with andy and hesh

a few from the abrolhos islands with craigo from saltwater charters

my first trout

think this would be up there with my catch of the year- 20kg ish sambo take on a placcy with my stradic ci4 4000 with 15lb line was a very good fight and a bit of touch and go for a while

me and my brother with a pair of dhuies

Jc with a good sambo out with whitey

and various days off perth and two rocks

Caught this in our pots this morning, first time I have seen one as bad as this, suprising he was still going..

Cheers

Does anyone have any news or opinions on what's happening with the whites?  We've had 5 pots off the back of the 3 mile in 23 metres out from Quinns Rocks since before that massive storm but have only picked up about 15 whites.  Noticed this morning that most of the pro's have moved on from that area and we got no crays out there this morning after a 3 night soak.

Is it worth hangin out there a bit longer?  Thinking about bringing them inside for the locals.

 Me mate just got back flatty fishing the swan and was amazed to see a picture with him in it with a 50+cm giant herring. Hooking up to several but only landing the one. Big flattys, solid bream, schools of healthy tailor everywhere and now giant herring. Who said the river was unhealthy?

Had call from Beau yesterday afternoon,to see if I was able to head out with him around Garden Island on the Ski's. 

The conditon's were ideal for trolling around the reefs,and we had a ball catching these tailor.

Anyone know if spanish mackerel are being caught behind the islands in Jurien Bay?

Hi, haven't posted before but have followed many of the threads for a while.  Have made a concerted effort to get out for the last couple of weeks from Hillarys, even in the rougher weather.  Bit of a novice and frustrated so far by the lack of crays and also what seems to be someone who has 'moved' or taken a couple of our pots.  I'm hoping they turn up but looked all around our area and nothing this morning.  Has anyone else been having any more luck?

Me and a mate went for a shore dive today to get a few fish for the freezer, ended up with a nice grouper some swallowtail and a harlequin. Had a shark follow us on the way back so jumped out and sent out a fish head and had some fun.

Someone should be on here soon to do the writing

Hey Guys / Girls

I have a mate down from the South West and was thinking about trying to go out tomorrow for some squid in Cockburn Sound. Does anyone know if there is some squid still around? Someone told me that Winter is the time to get them.

Any info is appreciated

Cheers

Hi all,

A friend and I are looking to head down Dawesville way at the weekend.  Has anyone fished the cut recently?

We will be landbased - Are any of the rock walls/groynes doing well right now?  Also, what can we expect to catch down there at this time of the year?

Thanks in advance,

SOTR

It has been a great year 2012 for me. I've a few great photos and catches to showcase for memories. No wild fishing this time but all are fishing ponds located in different part of Thailand.

Fishing in Thailand required great amount of local knowledges and experience. To be able to organise and make angler's dream come true for their big catch are something I take it seriously and with due diligent.

Hope you guys enjoys my youtube collections for 2012.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypy1XyJirQY

Some photo highlights.....

 Hi guys I'm heading up to lanno on the weekend just wondering has anyone been catching anything between lanno n wedge

Lets just say, on the improve.

Top arvo on the water.

Cheers Pete

G'day

With me and a mates new tub sitting in the driveway and a day off work, we decided to head out and get amongst it. We heading out of Hillary's at about 9:30am with the weather looking pretty good. We had the trolling gear on board with the hopes of getting amongst some metro tuna. After about 2 or 3 hours of fruitless trolling and the usual copious amounts of sh1t being talked we thought this may be a bit of a fruitless outing. Decided that we would head it a little closer to the reef. A quick rip in a little closer and the lures were back in the water, as we were searching for our CD case (only so long you can listen to the same tunes!) all three rods buckled over and it was on, our first bit of action for the day and a triple hook up! All three buckled over at exactly the same time. With just two of us on board it was mayhem... but the good kind, I'm sure ya' all know what I'm talking about.

Thinking we had finally run into a school of tuna, we were both pleasantly surprised to see 3 YTK's on the deck. After a quick high 5 we released all three successfuly. The three first fish weren't the biggest fish in the world ranging from 55 - 65cm. Great fun never the less on an otherwise slow day.

Ended up trolling past another spot close by an picked up a single larger fish that went 90cm and then another slightly smaller 80cm (fish pictured). Managed a few more smaller ones and called it a day. Kept one each of the larger models for a bit of a feed and released the rest. As well as dropping a couple more.

I think we landed 7 ish fish in the end could have been a couple more.

The thing we noticed was, we hit two hot spots. One spot held the smaller models and the other the larger fish. Interesting to observe.

Great day while the demersal ban is on. Nothing like a session on the metro YTK's on a tuesday arvo to induce a couple smiles between a couple mates...

Cheers for listening.

Alex

Hi all,

I rencently fished the top end of Fraser Island on the east coast. Conditions were fantastic and by lunchtime we had picked up some good fish but the sharks were flogging the hell out of us on just about every spot. We still managed some good fish including some nice reds and good mixed bag of reefies.

I dropped the underwater camera down on a spot where sharks were giving us grief and captured some great footage. Some big sharks cruised past the camera while red emperor, morwong, amberjack, green jobfish and hussar were in plain view.

I came back to that spot just on dark hoping the sharks may have moved on. Trent pulled this awesome red just under 17kg on the first drop so to say we were happy was an understatement.

The next day was pretty quiet so we decided to have troll for some Billies. The action was insane with loads black marlin being caught left right and centre. We had 3 or more fighting over the lures and double hooks were a common sight. We trolled for just over 2 hours and ended up going 31-18-8 which was just crazy. I ended up with 4, Trent 3 and the Oldman 1. We trolled Pakula cockroaches in Lumo and purple (frigate) and micro sprockets in lumo all on 8kg line. We broke one gamagatsu SL12's hook and bent the tips on a couple dojo hooks as well which didn't help our conversion rate as I'm not sure how long the hooks were damaged for.







The bait we were pulling the Marlin off

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Greg

  I went out Whiting fishing on Sunday arvo and after a slow start found some flats with rocks and shallow holes. We started getting Whiting chasing down and smashing our lures more akin to something ive seen in Salmon before. Some were having like 5 goes at the lures.........It was amazing visual fishing! Some of the fish were around 35cm so they pulled HARD on light gear was a blast!

Anyhow we went back Monday arvo and things were different only got 3 solid connections 2 of which i hooked while winding really fast to try and elicit a response........the Whiting seemed a lot more sluggish and followed our lures without hitting them. I tried going smaller lures same story, tried minnows nil.......only difference was the breeze was in more from the SW ( more of an onshore ) on Sunday and we had caught 8 of the thumpers out of the area on the Sunday. Love to hear of other experiences on this style of fishing