Had a great day at a secret beach down here, secret because its just so hard to get to! Salmon were firing all day, right in shallow too.... so the whole family had a go catching them. My wife loved it as did the young fella, who is a bit of a salmon vet...catching his first one at age 4!

Surfpopper was out fishing the ganged mulies!!  I had a ball on my bream outfit and a 10gm twisty......love winter days like this!!

I'll be going out later this afternoon for the first time targeting Cuttlefish. Looking forward to it and hope to post a report for you guys to tell you where they are and what jigs were the winners. A couple of squid as a by-catch would be welcoming. Will be hitting up the Southern Groynes and rock walls and will jig hard for 2 hours before the sun goes down.

Luck needed as this is officially a first for me. Will post report tonight

Dave

Went out towards rotto yesterday after the forecasted winds died down, for my first attempt at jigging, with another fw member, Eric, to show me how it's done. I'd grabbed a handful of jigs to try out and for some reason, I left half of them in the garage. I also had some gear stolen from my hilux overnight as well, so the start to the day was terrible. Couldn't have been any worse really. But sucked it up and headed out anyway.

Started sounding around for some good ground (I'm still very amateur at the hds 10) and soon enough found something that looked worth a shot. Sent the jigs down, tried out a few different techniques, knots and rods, and after a while Eric got creamed, line peeling off his reel. The fish was unfortunately dropped, but while I was busy watching him, my own rod went off. He got hit again while I was fighting my fish and bought up an undersized dhuie that got sharked right at the surface and I boated a 60cm dhuie! While its no monster, its the first size dhuie on my boat, and my first fish on jig! Not a bad way to open the account at all!

The rest of the day saw lots of action with numerous big hookups, but nothing serious boated. We called it a day at 4 and headed back at around 24 knots. Awesome weather. So all in all, a wicked day on the water, with a great first time jigging session and stoked to land my first dhuie, went down a treat for dinner. Also a big thanks to Eric for introducing me to jigging.

To the pricks who stole my gear, eat shit, you didnt wreck my day and I still caught fish!

One thing I realized is the importance of understanding my hds 10. But I'll start another thread about that one. Thanks for reading :)

I hear one of my new Karratha fishing buddies had a bit of a day out yesterday, may as well give him a bit of a pump coz I think he deserves it with his efforts.  54 boats in the comp, 8 billfish tagged for the day and he landed 3 and dropped 2 (due to a triple hookup) to be 1000 points clear on the leader board.  Looking outside its blowing a good 15 + easterly (which may not seem much to you perthies, but it seems to do horrible things with the tides and swell up here from what I've seen)

Just thought I'd commend him on his efforts, sure he'll speak up when he gets in!

Heading down to yallingup for the weekend, anyone got any reports for landbased fishing around that area at the moment?

Cheers

hey what fish have been round Mindarie marina or ocean reef boat harbour .

I m heading tomrrow afternoon if anyone have info please share

Thanks

I took my young lad out for a quick trip out, of Hilarys, on Saturday to try and get some squid.

He has been out a few times but was not really interested in the fishing. I got him rigged up and left him to practice letting the line out and reeling it back in.

Not much happened to begin with but soon i heard the "daddy, daddy i've got one", and another.... and another.... I thought the large one was going to pull him in.

Anyway the final score 3 - 0 to the young chap... and he's definately looking forward to his next trip out....

Any salmon reports from dunsborough lately? going to give it a crack friday and saturday.

 Hey guys,

Just a quick report that there are heaps of big squid at the busso jetty at the moment. I took home 2 (hoods just shy of 30cm) and we seen heaps of big ones being caught as we were walking up.

Good spots were just about at the end of the jetty and also right where the handrail on the right hand side stops the first time (where the banks meet the reef).

Also a few 50cm+ taylor and big skippy's caught right at the end. Barely a bite anywhere else though.

Happy fishing

 My mate and I got a few days of fishing in over the last few days and he had a bit of free time today to whip up a report which i thought was worth sharing, Enjoy

FISHING FRIDAY 25th TO SUNDAY 27th MAY –

Friday:

We headed north of Perth on Friday 25th for three days with our fingers crossed that the fish would be biting as we had not packed any dinner for a two night stay and had no spots in the GPS. Arrived at our destination, launched the boat and, after a short trip, were in the right depth to start waiting for a show on the sounder.

First drop using bait confirmed there were decent fish under us with a size dhuie coming on board. 

Milsey deployed a Lamble Haoli F2 jig whilst I stuck to bait. A few drops later and the deck looked a lot better with a baldy, the dhu and a nice 65cm pinkie on jig – more than enough for dinner.

The drift slowed down a fair bit so I dropped a McArthy Bullhead Minnow having never caught a decent fish on soft plastic. Up came a 50cm dhuie. Not bad for a first fish on SP.  After Milsey’s jig was smashed by a sambo we decided to head in shallower to find some reef to hunt a few crays.

Snared a few and called it a day. Found a nice spot to spend the night and into the pan went the baldy and the cray fish.

Saturday:

Saturday morning was very cold, but the very nice conditions willed us out of the warmth of our beds on deck. A couple of jumpers and a few poached eggs later and we were ready to head out again, deciding to explore deeper today.

We found a few good lumps on the way out in about 35m, and decided to scan around them. With fish showing, down went the lines. Milsey was hooked up to a solid fish within seconds on jig so I popped my bait rod in the rod holder to film. It lasted about 30 seconds before it was absolutely smashed so I dropped the camera, and picked up my rod. All hell broke loose with line peeling all over the deck. A few minutes later and up popped Milsey’s fish – a 8.5kg dhu,

followed by mine which weighed in at 12kg. Not bad for the first drop of the day. Decided to give the spot one more drift without bait, resulting in another two size dhuies, around 5kg on plastic and jig.

Headed out deeper next trying a few spots on the way which only produced more dhuies and by that stage we were hoping for a bit of variation – maybe some pinkies or baldies. Got a good show at about the 50m mark and set the drift. The added depth and the drift meant my plastic was struggling to get down so I swapped to bait and had barely hit bottom before I was smacked by a decent fish. Milsey grabbed the camera to film whilst still working his jig. Talk about multi tasking... Off went his jig after about 10 seconds of filming and down went the camera as he got stuck into what he called for a big dhu. My fish, being a 70cm pinkie, surfaced so I turned my attention to filming some of Milsey’s antics.

After nearly a 10 minute fight on PE3 a nice dhuie could be spotted doing circles as he came up under the boat. We netted him onto the deck and the lie detector registered just over 18kg with a length of just over a meter – Milsey’s PB dhu and on jig.

We chose to set off after this excitement to prepare for another cold night.

Sunday:

Once again we were greeted with beautiful conditions and wasted no time getting stuck back into it. Headed straight to the 30s again to find yet another spot which produced, you guessed it, more dhuies. We were both hooked up on the first drift with my 70cm specimen on McArthy the pick of the bunch.

Two drifts resulted in four dhuies so we decided to find some new ground out deeper. Again had a few good shows on the way out to drop on, but only produced more dhuies. I changed to jig for the next spot in the 50s with Milsey deciding to use a Pirate style Eupro as his main weapon for the day.

First drift and bang, I was on. The same again on the second drift resulting in my first baldy and pinkie on jig.

Now it was Milsey’s turn. His jig was getting nailed by something big and after two big thumps whatever it was came back for a third crack. Milsey well and truly set the hooks this time and his line went tight... After another decent fight he had tamed the beast and the 15kg, 94cm dhuie surfaced. What a way to finish the trip.

Overall it was great few days. Nice to add some new spots to the GPS and good to know the fish are more than happy to pounce on a few artificials. We lost count but over 30 dhuies were caught over the three days, with one day alone producing 18 of the buggers. The majority were successfully released with the 35 odd meter depth helping their cause. PB’s were broken and firsts achieved, and the fantastic weather and free flowing beers added to the experience. It was a classic trip and one which could prove difficult to top, especially so close to Perth.  

Thanks for the read

Nick 

With the weather looking pretty good Saturday, we decided to try for a few squid in the morning then head out deeper looking for some bigger fish.

Squid were pretty easy to come by, once we found one we found a few, got 25 in about 2 hours or so. Quite a few cuttle fish about too!

First squid

a couple more

Bright colours were doing the damage, orange and pink being the most productive.

Moved out deeper once the wind had backed right off.

Was a little quiet to start with, i started with plastics and jigs, getting a few hits on the plastics but nothing real promising. The bait boys were just as quiet so at least it didnt look too bad

After a bit of moving around we found some fish as the day went on, HEAPS of swallow tail (not sure why but these guys always show up this time of year, just before winter?)

Found a little flare on one of my older lumps and managed 6 dhu's in 2 drifts.

First reasonable one to Carl

Second one was to me! (been a while since I'd caught a reasonable dhu, always put the deckies onto them but not myself!)

Managed a couple baldies and black ass too, nothign huge but easily legal

Picked up a couple small sambos, then scano got his arms stretched on PE3 by this guy. He was hoping it was the mother of all pinky's or dhu's as he'd not put anything in the esky at this stage and was copping a bit of flack over it! But we all knew what the result was going to be with the long rungs away from the boat.

Fish of the day to Sean

Pretty good conditions and sunset on the way in! all in all a good day on the water!

soaked a mulie from 5;30 thismorning untill about 9;00. beautifull morning but no fish or runs,anyone else have any luck thismorning

 Took the oportunity to do some more exploring today with Pete B. We have both been  eachother's bad luck charm in the past, so we weren't expecting much and the almanac thing said it wasn't going to be brilliant either.

Anyways we headed out just as the sun was rising, always a great start to the day.

The wind was light but by the time we were out 10nm or more the steady wind had knocked up some pretty big waves, which made slow going for the trip out. I had decided to head out to a lump we had found last week with Greg and then use that as a starting point to move further north and try and find more ground.

Well as usual we didn't quite make it to the first mark as we found some new ground on the way there which delivered this nice Breaksea. (Hmmmm, not supposed to be a great day according to the almanac so lets keep it.)

On we went and again found more new ground, "now this looks promising" I said to Pete and we both rigged up and dropped down. Within a few moments I was on big time. I struggled to get it off the bottom but then as it got 10m up it became easy, so I slowed down, but still thought it was a reasonable size fish. Just as I saw colour Pete's rod bent double and he was on with a similar beast. As I stopped for my usual decompression stop I noticed that it wasn'nt one but two fish. "Jeez, that's allright Pete a double header Dhuie".

At this stage Pete was still struggling with his and it too became easier as it got closer. He called it for a good dhuie but we were amazed when we realised he had a double header of Dhuies too. Not bad for first drop on new ground.

We kept them all boatside while we grabbed the tagging kit and rigged up the release weight. We were going to keep two boatside but realised they were very lightly hooked so brought them all onboard.

That's the first time I have had 4 onboard at once so technically was I breaking the law (and if I was then the law is an ass).

I tagged one and Pete did the release, and by the time he had the release weight back up I had tagged the next and so on. It was a very quick proceedure and whilst not as good as leaving them boatside in the water it was the best we could do under the circumstances.

We kept the bigger of the three for the table and released the rest. 

We then proceeded to catch, tag and release a few more and whilst we tried the boatside technique again when we had more double headers several fish jumped off all by themselves, so apart from the 9 dhuies we tagged another 4 released while boarside waiting for us to get organized. I guess its a good sign that they were all brought up slowly and decompresion stopped, so they dove back down under their own steam.

We found more ground throughout the day and tagged a total of 12 fish keeping a good size baldy (sorry no pic, the blackarse from early in the day and two of the dhuies (both in the 60+cm range). The captures were pretty even with 7 of mine getting tagged and 5 of Petes.

Last spot dished up a nice Pinky for Pete, which was tagged and shot down to grow some more.

What a great day on the water. All fish taken on new ground so I couldn't be any happier.

This is my first fishing report so here goes…

I came home Tuesday evening and decided that I would hit the beach for a fish with my housemate as the fishing was supposed to be good. We fished for a few hours and I got three great runs,  I missed the first two runs as the fish just picked the bait ran a metre or so and then dropped it again, which I thought was strange, and lead me to believe that it could possibly be a Mully. I then finally hooked a fish which felt a good weight and my line snapped. I was not a happy camper to say the least so I packed up and headed for home.

I have just purchased a new rod (Nitro 13ft) as my old rod had a damaged eye ring which must have frayed/damaged the line before I noticed it. The next evening and purchased some new line on my way home from work, spooled my overhead and we were off to the beach once more, this time feeling a lot more confident. On the way I stopped by the fish shop and picked up some fresh bait. We arrived at the location just as the sun had set and the horizon was turning amber, and there was hardly a breeze. There were three or four other guys fishing the same beach when we arrived but the spot that I had the runs from the night before was free and the surf was low, perfect fishing conditions. I tied on my pre made rig, baited up and cast out into the gutter. I then tied a rig for my housemate as he has just moved to Australia and this was his second time fishing.

By the time I had this done I had just sat in my chair and my reel started to scream I quickly picked my rod from the rod holder flicked the leaver, engaged the drag, struck, and the fight was on. The fish took a good first run of probably a hundred metres followed by lots of head shakes, the sound of my reel screaming attracted the other anglers from down the beach as the rushed to see what was happening. I could feel the head shakes which assured me that it was not yet another ray, I knew this thing had a tail!!! I called it as a small shark or a Mulloway at first and said “I hope to god it’s a big Mully”, after a 10-15 minute fight and the fish began to tire, I walked closer to the waves, my headlight was nearly out of battery’s and with the faded light it was hard to see, I pulled with the wave washing up on the beach, and as it receded low and behold there it was my first decent size Mully. I could not believe it; I had fished this stretch of beach hundreds of times before and never got a Jewy.

The pictures from the beach didn’t turn out too good as my I phone screen is smashed. So the picture below was taken when I got home, which is a pity. The other anglers left the beach about an hour after I caught the fish however the fun was not over yet. We got one more run each and landed two decent shovel nose rays (one female and one male). We called it a night and headed for home both of us with our heads held high. My first decent Mulloway and my housemate’s first decent fish not to say he is truly hooked!!! After four year chasing the big Mully prevalence has paid off!!!

 headed out from ocean reef today.

got 2 dhus. 1 released.

4 baldys. 1 released

1 black arse

1 large KG

Did a most enjoyable fishing seshh with Magneto,

A junior Sambo on my already christened Daiwa sealine-X rod/Daiwa sealine SL50 reel combo.

Also a giant blowfish, an big ocky and other associated fish!

 Any ideas or advise for some good light tackle boat fun Saturday 

Hello everyone. Here is my report about the long awaited trip to Steep Point. It is my second time to the Point, the previous being just for an overnight stay. This was my first at taking the boat any great distance. My internet speeds are playing up (the family has exceeded the download limit again this month and it's reverted to dial up speeds), so when that changes back I'll upload photos. The first couple of days are brief because I didn't start taking notes until about Day Three and had to rely upon my increasingly failing memory.

Saturday 12 May
Pack trailer and boat, pizzas for dinner and me, Andy and Dan leave with the boat at 6pm. Peter will leave with the trailer on Sunday. Camped at Eagle Bluff (right in front of the 'No Camping' sign for a couple of hours kip before arriving in Denham around 7am.

Sunday 13 May
Unpack the boat and straight out to fish the shipping channel markers, particularly the Bent Peg. Nothing to keep from the bottom, best catch being undersized blue lined emperor. Trolling back Dan hooked onto a couple of shark maccies which were later put on the BBQ for dinner.

Monday 14 May
Awoke to a windy morning. Off to the Bakery for a pie and coffee for breakfast. Departed Denham for Steep Point. The boat was heavily loaded and struggled to get onto the plane. Wind died off a bit and by the time we got into South Passage it wasn't too bad at all. Set up camp at Tip Camp. Peter told us he copped some grief from members of the other camps due to the weight of the trailer. Got bogged a couple times on the way in. Went out for a troll and Dan picked up a few sharkies using a Halco pink and blue pilchard. Andy got one using a green xrap. Dinner consisted of a nice Japanese curry and rice prepared by Dan.

Tuesday 15 May
Breakfast of shakshouka (fried onions, capsicums and tomatoes with eggs poached in them). Tried hard all day for a fish without any luck. Came back with an empty esky. Dan hooked onto, landed and released a big ray off the beach that night. BBQ steak and snaggers for dinner.

Wednesday 16 May
Bottom bounced near the Rangers Hut and I got a nice 55cm pinkie using squid as bait. Trolled along the southwest cliffs of Dirt Hartog Island. Not long and we had three spaniards on the boat including a double hook up to Peter and me. Andy got the third. Peters was on a red head, and mine and Andy's on deep diving pink chromes. Bottom bounced for a couple more pinks and three sharkies finished off a great day on the water. Dinner was tandoori chicken and rice by me. A planned early night was not to be when we were raided by our neighboring camp insisting we drink much more alcohol. To add to this, Peter found a stray hook in the sand, the hard way, barb and all into his foot! Ouch!

Thursday 17 May
Awoke to a breakfast of cooked bacon and scrambled eggs by Dan. Weather was the best so far. Light winds and a much smaller swell. Trolled the cliffs of Dirt Hartog and I got a 93 cm spaniard on a xdd pink chrome. Not long after Dan's reel screamed into life and kept screaming as he was almost spooled. Soon a spaniard was in the boat that turned out to be longer than our ironing board filleting table, and the best fish landed of the week. Bottom bounced around Black Rock for one baldie and one sweetlip emperor to keep and lots of baldies and a just undersized spangled emperor all successfully released using a release weight. Moved in close to Surf Point for another baldie to keep and lots more released. One of the other camp members got a treble hook in his foot whilst the spaniard was still attached to the lure. We heard the cursing from our boat about 200 metres away! To add insult to his injury it wasn't even his fish! Unfortunately, it resulted in a quick boat trip back to Denham where it was removed at the nursing post under local anathestic. Dinner was some shark mackerel prepared in a fish curry by me (using a Neil Perry recipe - caramelise onion, ginger and garlic in a pan with some oil. Add garum masala, turmeric, paprika and salt, chicken stock and the cubed fish, cook through and serve with rice, yoghurt and lime juice. A great simple recipe, especially when camping and fishing!)

Friday 18 May
Awoke to another windy morning. Sat and waited. Took advantage of the down time to sort out some generator power problems, weigh our catch to date, and talk fish and drinking stories. Headed out to troll but didn't have any strikes. Decided to try some bottom bouncing in the calm waters of Shelter Bay. One the way in Andy picked up one spaniard on the troll. Bounced around the sand spit at the north western end of Shelter Bay in about 7 metres of water and caught and released a lot of cod, pinks and some blue lined emperor (black snapper). Dan got a couple of just size blue lines, before getting smashed by a 50cm blue lined. Headed in, hoping for less wind tomorrow. Dinner was a chicken curry prepared by our neighboring camp, (quite) a few beers, lots of stories and ribbing of those who hadn't caught much and the odd game or two of 'dice'.

Saturday 19 May
Awoke to a perfect day for fishing so out earlier, less Peter who was suffering the after effects of almost an entire bottle of bourbon. Trolled out of the passage and Dan picked up a 44 cm rankin cod on a lure, a 2m pink chrome I think. Turned north towards Black Rock and soon had several sharkies in the boat. I got a 93+ cm spaniard on a pink chrome and off we went again. Dan hooked onto a decent size fish but lost it, probably to a shark. Not long after my TLD25 absolutely screamed under the strain of a good size spaniard. The fish went on two long runs before I got some line back. On his retrieve, Dan hooked up so we had two on the go. Dan lost his to a shark, bringing aboard only a good sized head. I was getting some line back on my fish when I felt some violent head shakes which made me feel that not all was good below. As I just saw a lovely big streak of silver a fair way from the boat, I saw three large brown shadows lurking not far behind. It was only a matter of time, and despite my attempts to get it closer to the boat, in one foul swoop the largest of the sharks appeared to swallow my fish whole and then took me on a short run before biting straight thru the 80lb wire trace. Sighted a couple of whales out to sea. Andy hooked up and landed another spaniard and I got another sharkie before bottom bouncing for a while and then heading in to fillet and pack for tomorrow's long trip home to Perth via Denham. We divvied up the fish fillets. 46 kg's in total meaning about 11 + kg's each. Mainly spanish mackerel, with a bit of sharkie, and some nice reef fish to round it out.

Sunday 20 May
Awoke just before dawn to a heavy fog and dew. Great photo of the boat at anchor in the early moring fog. Packed up and away by 9.45. Great run back to Denham. Flat calm. Couple of dolphin and dugong sightings along the way. Back in Denham by 11.15 and Dan peeled for a week with the family at Monkey Mia. Andy and I started the long drive home to Perth.

All in all a wonderful trip, lots of fish, lots of laughs and as always, lots of great tales of ones that got away.

 hi there FW crew,

Well after being home for a week and a bit, the reality of work and life has set in again.  We had 3 fantastic weeks in Coral Bay, enjoying great weather, company and fishing.  The real highlight for me was to nail this Sailfish on jig.

We decided to head out the North Passage to some ground that had held fish in the past.  Conditions were almost glassy calm, so we shot out into the 70s and sounded around.  All our usual spots were bare, showing nothing on the sounder, and after a few drops with bait and artificals we decided to head out furthur and look for more country.  

We pulled up on some likely ground and again had a few drifts to no avail.  I then saw all this bait in the water and with the water so flat and clear you could see down 20m or so.  I grabbed my Stella combo already rigged up with a Smith Masume Jig that had already seen some action the day before, dropped it down and 40m or so..... then Jig... Jig....  wack!  Some thing hit it hard, but then nothing.  I dropped it down again,   Jig   ... Bang again.  I looked down to see a Sailfish 20 or so meters below turning, full sail up.  Hell a Sailfish!  I dropped the jig again and it followed and nailed it big time on the drop.

Then all hell broke loose.  I had him on a Stella 5000 SW with PE2, and a Taiyro Nano Speed  8-10kg Rod.  Plus I had about 400mm of 40lb Flurocarbon leader left from the day before, tied with an Albright to my double.  He then proceeded to jump about 4-5 times close to the boat, then just took off down deep.

For the next 30min, prob more,  run after run, I gently gently brought him up, arms aching cause it was a short but rod, to about 2 m below the boat where he stayed and just went around and around the boat with a few close calls

Lucky I was on the new Whaler Centre Console, because I meant I could just walk around the boat. Then gradually he came up and after a few attempts and misses we had him by the tail. After a few yahoos and photos, we swam it by the boat till he kicked hard and off he went.

During this the other boat we were fishing with saw the commotion and came over to see what was happening, and got some good pics.  Thanks to Greg and Chris on board to following instructions and putting up with my ranting during the fight.  I was stoked, still am...  

The funny thing is, that a few days later out a bit furthur, I managed to jig up a Black Marlin the same way using a big 7 inch Megastrike Plastic and again all hell broke loose, but he got off after busting through the leeder.  So in all, great fun, my Billfish tally stands at 2.

Stella stood up so well, very impressed with the Nanospeed, insane value, great combo that sadly was stolen from the boat while we were away

also here is what is left of the jig-  he totally smashed it 

Thanks for reading-   Jared

Thailand by far one of the most beautiful country in asia. Not only the people are friendly, the country has also  one of the BEST FRESHWATER  game fishing in the world.

I'm amaze and fallen in love with this beautiful country in which I call home. I am fortunate to have a thai family and children (thai ) who live together with me in Thailand.

Fishing is my business and fishing is also my hobby + passion.

I believe I'm the only avid or you can call me crazy angler who ......

"Live  to fish and fish to live" haha !!!

Enjoys yet another one of my exciting youtube clip and catch report....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UZpPchxboU

Highlight photo shots....;)

Toman on sights castings.....

Wild sebarau (Jungle perch) on sights castings.....

Eli, a member on Roughfish.com, and I had been chatting for a bit about organizing a trip to target American Shad on the Ottawa River. Unfortunately, this spring's weather was a bit messed up and the shad did not arrive early as we hoped. However, Eli said he would try to help me to add a Greater Redhorse at the minimum. I also hope to be extremely lucky to find a Lake Sturgeon and a River Redhorse. However, the latter two targets are harder to find than winning the lottery.

On Friday, I began my drive at 06:30. With a couple of stops for food and gas, I finally arrived in Ottawa by 11:00. Another hour outside of Ottawa, I arrived at a spot where Eli had caught 3 Lake Sturgeon two weeks prior.

As I set up, Eli texted me and asked how everything was going. Well, nothing much was going at all, but Eli said there could be a lot of freshwater drum this time of year.

It was slow fishing. I got the occasional fish rang the bell on the rod...nothing really serious enough to take line off the Shimano Baitrunner. Luckily, I did get one skunk buster at about 3pm.



At about 4:30pm, I called it a session and drove back to Ottawa to grab a bite and try location #2. There was some road construction which made me terrible lost in the one way streets of Ottawa...but finally, after 30 minutes of driving round and round, I arrived. Eli said location #2 should have some sauger. I had caught sauger before...but I want to catch another one for a nice picture. However, location #2 only yield 3 cigar walleye and 1 mooneye about 14". I released all the fish without any picture...you just have to trust me LOL. Eli came by the river after work and after picking up a new car. It was great to finally chat in person. We made plans for the next morning.

I left at about 8:30pm and arrived at my friend's house where I'll stay for the weekend. I've known my friend since we're kids and it was great to see him owning a house and expecting a baby in 6 months.

Saturday morning, Eli picked me up at about 8:30am. It was a 40 minutes drive to our Greater Redhorse river. Once we arrived, we looked from the bridge and saw a small pod of Greaters in the deeper channel of the small river. Eli instructed me to cast downstream of the fish and retrieve upstream into position such that the worm would be places just an inch or two from the fish. It was much easier said than done since the river was riddled with Common Shiners, Creek Chubs, Pumpkinseed Sunfish and Rockbass. Most times, those critters were much quicker than the Greater Redhorse and they would get to the worm before I could even position the bait. After a few tries, the Greater Redhorse pod was spooked.

There was one more fish left and it was a redhorse. We thought it was a Silver Redhorse, a decent size one. With the first perfect presentation to the fish. it grabbed the worm quickly. After a good fight from the bridge, Eli netted it by the river side and I quickly ran down to join him.

Awesome Silver Redhorse!



But we're here for the Greater Redhorse. Since the fish vacated the downstream areas, we looked upstream to find a few skittish fish. At last, we finally found a few more below a weir. I made repeated attempts at them, but the fish appeared to be feeding on other things living in the algae covered rocks. They were not at all interested in my worm.

While I try for the Greater Redhorse, Eli was testing out his new telescopic Shimano ultralight with a spinner and a bit of worm to catch some minnow species. Strangely, all the fish, including the rockbass, were not very receptive of the spinner. However, they continues to taunt me by stripping my bait every few casts.

After an hour of trying, Eli checked downstream again and he saw a larger Greater Redhorse from the bridge. He called me over and I positioned the bait in perfect location after several tries. We saw the fish swam up and the lips flashed. I thought the fish had already sucked up the worm so I went to set the hook...but instead, it spooked the fish. It was likely just tasting the water for the worm and had not taken it fully. Darn! It was so close! That could have been the only shot I'll get!

I went back upstream to fish the weir. I had a perfect shot at 3 Greater Redhorse. Just as one fish was right on top of my bait, I heard Eli called for me. I had to wait until the fish ignored my bait before I ran back to the bridge. From the bridge, we could see a larger Greater Redhorse hanging out with the Silver Redhorse that I had caught earlier. It took only two tries this time to position my rig in front of the fish...and soon enough, the fish gulped the worm in and Eli screamed "Set it! Set it!"

I was slow on the draw since I was afraid to set too early...but this time, I pulled back and felt weight. The fish barely moved off bottom on the hookset...but as soon as it felt the hook penetrate, it freaked out! I was shaking during the whole fight. I had a scary moment when the fish looked like it was going to run under the bridge. However I managed to stop the fish from going under and guide it to the waiting net that Eli that put into the water. After a 45 second fight, the Greater Redhorse was finally mine!

Greater Redhorse (Moxostoma valenciennesi)...#212! It took me 4 years of trying and I finally caught it! What a journey it has been. I had checked all the rivers west of Toronto such as the Grand, Thames and Conestogo. These rivers hold Greater Redhorse, but even though I've fished there in the spring, summer and fall, I had yet to find them. Finally, this chapter can be closed. :D





Since these Greater Redhorse are in the river to spawn, we do not want to stress them too much. So we decided to fish another river after to search for a River Redhorse.

Eli had a few locations to try and we run and gun a few places. We didn't see much of any signs of River Redhorse. But we finally settled on a location to fish for whatever fun.

I was bottom bouncing the rocky bottom in the current while Eli fished the tail end of a rapid letting the bait sit still on bottom. I caught a few Smallmouth Bass while Eli caught a Silver Redhorse. After about an hour, we repositioned slightly downstream to fish a large back eddy. Here, Eli caught a couple more Silver Redhorse included his handsome specimen.



Eli noticed some Common Logperch on the river bottom. These fish are very common, but strangely, I've never really seen them while fishing. This was another opportunity to catch a new species. I tied on a 3lb leader and a #20 hook. Using a BB size split shot to keep the rig on bottom, I quickly attracted the attention of the Logperch...plus other fish like Pumpkinseed, Rockbass and Fallfish. Unfortunately, the non-target species were always quicker on the bait. I also had a small school of Logperch being chased by a larger Rockbass. Luckily, I noticed that there were even more Logperch hanging out on a pebbly area close to shore. After a few tries, I landed my first, second and third Common Logperch!

Common Logperch (Percina caprodes)...#213!



We had already fished late into the afternoon. With another new species added, we called it a day.

At 5:45am on Sunday morning, I picked up Eli at his apartment. We drove upstream of the spot I fished on Friday to fish the weir area. Hopefully the Lake Sturgeon is in the area.

I decided to fish a large back eddy where the sturgeon may feed. Eli said this area could also be good for Channel Catfish. It was a very slow morning with only a few quick taps, a cigar walleye and a Channel Catfish. When Eli called me to offer a fresh fish to use as cut bait, I caught a 15" Channel Catfish with the cut bait.

Eli was fishing upstream and he caught a Silver Redhorse, a Freshwater Drum, a 4lb Channel Catfish, a Mooneye and a couple of Shorthead Redhorse. However, this was considered very slow by his standard. He suggested that we should move to the other side of the river where some carp were rolling.

We grabbed some fresh worms, some cold water and some nice for my catfish. A short relocation after, we started on some very slow fishing. There were a few quick taps on the rod, but nothing too serious. At about 2pm, I found an area with a rocky flat where a school of Shorthead Redhorse had moved in. It was steady fishing for these Shortheads. Between the two of us, we caught about a dozen Shortheads in about 1.5 hours. We released most of the fish quickly without a picture since we were fishing a high bank. It took a little effort to get down to the river's edge to release the fish gently. We really didn't have time to take picture.

Eli noticed some butterflies around so he went to get a few shots. While he was shooting, his rod went off and I went to grab it. At the exact same moment, a fish took my bait so hard that my rod tipped over and was flipped out of the rod pod. I just grabbed in time before it fell into the river. While Eli took his rod, I played my fish and landed a decent Channel Catfish.



We also had a couple of fish snapped us off. There were a lot of zebra mussels growing on bottom and our mono or braid was no match for it. Both times, a good hit that completely bend the rod was followed with a solid hook up and a line snap before you can even say "nooooo".

We ended the day with a couple more Shorthead Redhorse. We did take a picture of the last fish of the day.



Initially, we were hoping to fish Monday as well. However, after two days of hard fishing, we decided to save the unfinished and next to impossible task of finding a Lake Sturgeon or a River Redhorse for another trip. I had to leave Ottawa by 12pm and it just wouldn't leave too much time to check three different locations and have any meaningful attempt at those fish.

It was a great pleasure to fish with Eli. We chat a lot about where we've fished, our experience with different species, and upcoming trips that were highly anticipated. I hope to fish with Eli again. If I can manage it, maybe I can visit Ottawa in the fall to try for some night time sturgeon fishing. :D

Thanks Eli for being a great local guide and my friend Jerome for hosting me for the weekend. I hope Eli can find time to visit me this summer so I can return the favour and help him add Golden Redhorse, Northern Hogsucker, Longear Sunfish, Brown Trout, Quillback and Grass Pickerel to his list :D

just a question, where is the best spot to go for some salmon. ive heard challenger is alright but just want to no if anyone else has had luck and where abouts. cheers

 The big ones our out and there hungry, get into them while u can, this is my latest tailor catch this season

Hey guys

Apologies firstly for lack of pics. stupidly left camera behind.

Anyhoo , It had been planned for some time to hit Jurien with a couple other family's , and tow up the boat, in the hope of 1 good day out.

Arrived friday and had 4 days there.  I'd dropped by seasport tackle on sat , to get the weather update and to get a cheap jetty rod for mates kids.

We had some fun on the jetty catching a few littluns and giving the kids something to do on sat eve.

With sunday looking pretty good on the buoyweather report , It was decided that an earlyish start was in order , and hopefully get out wide to the back of the bank.

We arrived at the ramp sun morn with just another boat behind us. (turned out to be fisho ron and the boys) .

The guy I was taking out , hadn't done much fishing , and certainly hadn't caught anything decent , so it was my aim to get him onto a decent fish.

We headed off out into a bit of a lumpy confused sea to look for some likely ground.  It took about an hour before we came across a likely looking spot with some good signs hanging around it.

Mate had bought an old rod along which really should have been consigned to the shed , an old rig still tied on from months ago. He had one drop with this but got caught up and snapped the whole rig off. 

I then gave him my DJ200 and torsa 16n combo to use.  We came around on the mark again and dropped.  

His bait had barely touched the bottom when I heard him grunting away.  turned around to see the rod fully loaded up. He was sweating a bit and swearing a lot.  took him a few mins but got the fish off the bottom , and up it came. 

Well , he scored fish of the day on first drop .  A solid mulla which didn't have a hope of fitting into the esky. I did overcall the size for over 20kg , which surprisingly turned out to be only 14.5 for such a sizey looking fish.     Couldn't wipe the smile off his face , and the shit slinging started soon after , until he started to get a bit green around the gills , and made the suggestion of heading in.. 

No way , not till I'd got onto a couple , so , numerous repeated drifts were done and jigs and plastics were sent down. 

had to lighten up the jig to a 100gram caprice before I got hit , and bought up another very nice mulla.

Tried the 10 inch pink dildo's and once again , smashed by another good mulloway. (expensive fishing the dildo's eh, one or two fish and it's past it's best)

caught good amount of them on everything , along with pinkie's sambo's and a couple of unstoppables.

Came in early , but seems a few guys had the same idea.

Top trip , but def need to spend some more time up here

 Has anyone had any luck with bream in the maylands to guildford area. All i seem to get is small fellas. Hoping the recent rains and the river being murky may start some of the big guys moving about ???. Tried bait and soft plastics with the same results.

Hi guys I thought I would do a report on one of my fishing seshs

Last Friday me and a couple of mates went to the cott groyn for a fish. That night as soon as I got there my mate hooked a massive shovel nose (about 1.7 meters), reeled it in, later we caught a massive eagle ray, put it back. About half an hour later we caught another eagle ray on for it to snap us off in the reef, Later we got another ray this time a smooth ray.

Sucks we only got rays, we kayaked the baits out about 200 meters from shore hoping to catch gummy sharks and tigers. 

Thanks for reading

Headed out on Saturday with Chrisp and TimVB on my tug for a day of demersal jigging near Rotto. Easterlies were stronger than expected and it was not that comfortable for most of the day.

Got 6 dhuies for the day, only 1 was size to Chrisp but was in such good nick that we released it along with the undersized ones. Tim also lost one to a very large shark after slowly bringing one up to reduce barotrauma.......no barotrauma but a fair bit of other trauma I suspect.... despite trying numerous spots were could not find any large dhu's.

At one spot in the 40's, we were amazed at the water temp, at 23.6 degrees, compared with 18.5 on the 3 mile.....wow, still maccie temp......and that proved to be the point very soon after with a couple of jig snip-offs mide water (me loosing my second Slide Actor to Maccies with a grand total of about 4 cranks of the reel handle.........) and then Chrisp hooking up to a nice maccie on jig for about 30 secods before it bit through his asssit hook and left some big nasty teeth marks in the jig.

There was plenty of bait on the sounder so we toiled away with the PE2 jigging hoping for a maccie hook-up or a stray dhu, then bang, I was on, and on in a big way.......numerous sizzling runs on the Stella 4000 had us calling big dhu, maccie, sambo, then maccie again......ended up a good sambo on PE2, certainly lucky not to get bricked.

Tim then backed it up with another sambo soon after on his PE2 outfit, his Stella complaining as loudly as mine.......

Tough day on the water but still good fun and a few nice fish all released.

Bit of a belated report, but between a new bubs and starting a new job, has taken a bit of time to get around to writing.

After heading out a few weeks prior just before bubs came along, me and the old man ventured out a bit further than we normally did off mandurah and got stuck into some dhu and sambos.

Well, Friday week ago for another shot.  Forecast was about 9knots and 2m of swell, so we went for the 40km trek out from Mandurah.  Back to the same spot on the sounder and nothing.  Second spot nothing. We sounded around for a bit and nothing really came up.  Ended up pulling close tot he mark and just drifting around, at the casual pace of 0-0.5km/h :).  When we came out previously there was a big blow up like some baitfish on the bottom in 2 spots, with large pickups above, presumably the dhus and sambos, and now was barely a flicker.

A sort time into the drift dad pulled up a nice size sgt baker for bait then a good size blackarse.  Then I was on.

82cm and my now PB Dhu.

Kept trying to work the area now with plastics and the bait for anly a small bit of activity.  Had a Nannygai come up, legal, but not really worth keeping, dad picked up a very good size blackarse on the placcy, his first fish on one and then I got a small pinky.  We decided to head a couple hundred metres north and got a small patch on the screen, once we eventually lined up properly instantly dad was on, with another blackarse, and so was I.

Now a 62cm Dhu.  So the BA went back and so did we, all done by 1pm, back at the ramp at 2:30.

Both the Dhu were caught on baker fillets, the rest on squid, and one fish on a placcy.  Was a great day again!

Definatley have some faith in the metro fishing now, was really starting to miss coral bay!!!

Went out with Whitey on Wednesday. Was only myself, whitey and his decky on the jigs the rest were fishing bait. Both was slow as the drift was opposite to the wind but once that stopped the jigs took over. I ended up with a decent amount of fish on jigs so i was stoked. Pb snapper to go with it pulling my olds scales down to 10.2kg i think whitey said it was 87cm. Was awesome to see as usual Whitey taking care of all unwanted fish and released properly watching each one swim off into the depths especially those dhuies...always have a great time out with the king of jurien cheers mate. 

I'm posting this report for a friend of mine who had an encounter with a large shark yesterday ( Thursday )

They had hooked a large Bronzie and fought it for a while then it became just a dead weight. They were in amazed to see what was left of it as is came to the surface .

Shortly after a visiter started to circle the boat.

Estimated at over 4 m it stayed around then decided to have a munch on the outboard wich now started to worry the guy's .

The boat owner decided to give it a whack with the gaff and all hell broke loose.

Now with a 3m gaff stuck in its side it went crazy and started to free jump, on the third jump it nearly landed on the transom and the disappeared into the deep and was not spotted again. The owner of the boat knows his sharks and says it was a Great White . I'm no expert but didn't think a GW could jump that high, but ive never seen one with a gaff stuck in its side either .

All i can say is You Guys are Crazy . lol . Cheers Grant .