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was on the water by 6:30,

water got sloppy as we went over the 5 fathom bank,

so it was a slower ride out than expected,

we got the a spot out in the 40s and drifted a few times over a show of fish

but it was verry slow nothing bitting (even wrass) then hefinaly gets a nice KG to start it off,

we moved probly 150m closer to the origanal lump i found out there,

and bang Mick my father inlaws on he pulls up a double header of dhues, 1 undersize and 1 size,

we moved again the drift was awfull at this time and could bearly fish (current) wasnt looking good for me,

then my rod bent hard and i was on it faught reel funny compaired to anything ive caught before i was thinking yes this could be my fist dhue i end up getting coulor and yes it is my first dhue just over 6kg i was over the moon,

 next drift i landed a 6kg pinky and the one after mick got a nice shark,

headed home at 2pm 25kts all the way sweet as,

fish caught all up 3x Dhuis, 1 snapper, 1 KG, 1 shark, 2 fox fish, 1 B/A, 1 sargent baker,

keepers 2x dhue's, 1 kg, 1 snapper and a shark.

Hey guys,

Went out off trig at 4.30am ballooning for what ever was swimming around. Managed to pick up 2 small black tip sharks.  One at around 5.15 and the other at around 6.30.

As soon as i set the first balloon out about 450m, i went to set up my other rod then it just took off.  The second one was caught but couldnt tell it was on the line.

howdy all

i took my son out for as fish today in warnbro sound, preety warm out there so a few swims were had as well. conditions turned out perfect,we ended up with a good mixed haul including.

black ar**e

skippy

whiting

tarwhine

many wrasse

port jackson shark

stingray

north west blowie

1 spikey looking fish

anyway was a good day out especialy when you are catching something my son realy enjoyed the day.

                                                                                                   cheers

                                                                                                    dakka 

Went out yesterday for a troll in search of the elusive Mack! Launched around 6.30 to be greeted by quite lumpy conditions due to a combination of seas and swell. Headed out past the reef and dropped the trolling lines in. Weed was a major issue with lures having to be brought in every few minutes but we kept on persisting. Finally after an hour or so we had our first hit. With only short burst of speed and no long run we knew that we got ourselves a tuna. After a few circles of the boat we got him in. Intially thought it was a SBT once in the water but after looking at photo's i believe its a longtail. (please confirm)

As we reset our lines we kept going heading towards the huge amount of birds working an area.

With this much commotion going it was hard to drive past without having a flick at the feeding school. So lines in and pulled up on the edge of the school and casted out towards them. Didnt take long for the stripeys to hit the lure.. Not the biggest of stripeys (3kg) but still good fun. Ended up fishing 5 or so school with a couple of fish landed in each school before they went deep. Ended up catching a little long nose grey amoungst the school which was a suprise.

Once we got bored of chasing tuna we got back on the mackie troll. Trolled for a good couple of hours covering various depths and over some spots we got them over last week but this was fruitless. Decided to call it a day and head back in. Pretty much as we brought our lnes we saw a couple of little splashes not far from the boat so out came the metals again. We both casted out and Double hook up!! After quite a longish fight on PE2 we landed a couple more stripeys but alot bigger this time (6-7kg)

No macks but a good day fishing none the less. Definately a good warm up for exxy in a few weeks.

Fished E-shed two nights fri/sat, very quiet. Friday went by myself, sat I had my friend with me which made it a bit better. Didn't even see anyone get anything great at all. I've still been chasing that elusive Mulloway. Anyone get anything I missed?

Hey fishos,

Just wondering if anyone has any news or whispers of any salmon turned up yet down south yet? Hoping for some news to start filtering in. Cheers!

on behalf of my son in law.....well he will be in a couple of weeks, he just got

back from a day out with bluejuice, his reaction when i asked how he went was "absolute shithouse" now I know fish are where you find them but with

18 people on board there was ONE count em ONE fish caught for the whole day! well apart from a couple of undersize unknowns he never even lost his bait all day, there was a lot of unhappy customers. @$210 per person thats $3780 not sure how much fuel they would use but thats thats taking the piss! even the deckie didnt have to do anything

 We got this dollie out at the FADS was too big for mate to lift up put on a good show on light gear

Headed out yesterday avo for a bit of a solo mission in the tinny. Waited till the avo for the easterlies to die away and ended up leaving hillarys at around 230. had a pretty slow day but a reward at the end.

Had a dive out the back of little island. Being alone did it at a random shallow bit of reef, vis was pretty average at only a few meters and can't remember the last time i did a solo dive looking over my shoulder as much as i did yesterday. I was hoping for at least a few crays after seeing the pro's had their strings in 26meters the other day, it had me guessing they are comin back in. saw only two crays for the whole dive, bagged them both with one being half a mil under.

Surfaced with the wind coming from the west at about ten knots and hardly any chop so i belted out to 30 meters to troll some skirts around. I arrived to a mass of bait being busted up everywhere. The next hour had me trolling and casting out everything i had at them and I ended up giving it away when i noticed the bait were only around a centimeter or two, had nothing that would match that. So i headed in to behind three mile to try my luck at a mac around high tide... 2 hours and around 10 miles covering the 17m ledge from three mile to staggies for nothing but a little spotted mackerel that fought about as hard as the usual clump of seaweed. That went back as it was too small to keep for bait. Kept soldiering on, making bzzzzzzzz mouth noises all the way to keep the excitement and motivation going.  On my last pass of the reef just after six i figured i'd turn back and do one shallow pass behind the reef before packing it in for the day, my luck was defianately all gone when a pod of dolphins started buzzing the wake of the boat and playing in the spread. Being lazy i kept the lures in and turned back on my track to mark a good bit of reef i missed for a potential dive site, 20 meters short i was astonished to actually see my rod bouncing around in the holder and line peeling off, stoked and all by myself panic set in as i weighed up wether to retrieve the spread or put pressure on the fish. I knew i'd kick myself if i lost it to a tangle so I got the spread in with the fish luckily still peeling off line. Stoked ten minutes later to have a nice blue fin in the boat just as the sun was starting to set! pushed down the bathroom scales to 8kg, not bad for 12 meters of water! Happy as, flew back to the ramp to come home for a tuna feast!!

Sorry bout pic quality but its hard to take self portraits in a rocking boat!

A great set of neap tides, coupled with a long weekend was the perfect opportunity to have a crack at a decent black jew and some good fingermark.

A soggy departure due to a 3.00am deluge saw the 'Further North' and a mates boat depart Wyndham at 7.00am on Saturday morning. An hour and half glassy ride later we decided to have a crack in the Lyne River for a barra. Trolling and casting lures resulted in some rat fingermark and a small queenie. We then left the Lyne and arrived at the very top of the gulf 35 minutes later.

Started sounding around for fish and then the normally smooth as silk Yamaha started running slightly off. Mmm, after trying to get up on the plane to hopefully clear the crap out, she stalled. Fark, 50 nm from the ramp, not good. The culprit turned out to be a blocked water separating filter, courtesy of some water and sludge. After a few anxious minutes trying to get off a jammed filter, we eventually sorted the problem, replaced, primed, dumped, refitted and primed the spare filter and back under way inside half an hour. Glassy conditions were a god send, could have been a lot worse.

Finally started fishing and picked up a couple of good fingermark among a heap of 300-450mm models.

That arvo saw us head to the other side of the gulf to have a look for some jew. A good sized school of large arches on the 585 had us pretty keen. Took half an hour for the first decent fish, but at 1.13m it was a nice Pb. Half an hour later Jamie and I picked up a double of identical fish, 1.22m and full of milt. We had to vent these to release them and not wanting to kill breeding fish, we headed in to drop the plough anchor and try and get some sleep.

Sunday morning had us heading for another new location about 10nm away. Great spot and great day, several good fingermark and about 20 black jew up to 1.05m caught and released in 8-17m. Good fishing. That arvo we relocated to the other side of the gulf again, with the aim of getting a few more fingermark up until the 10.00am low tide, with us planning to ride the rising tide on the 50nm trip back to the ramp.

Plan worked a treat and being able to leave 60-70cm fingermark on the chew at 10.00am was a real buzz. Trip home was on a glass bed, awesome.

Here's a few pics.

Big John

 Came across this sinking boat on monday just out of Warnbro Sound, does any body now what happened?

 Another cracker day in Exmouth with my husband and his father who has flown in from interstate. Caught this little black who put on an awesome show. Enjoy the photos. 

Smithy took me and my 11yr son out on Monday, was a slow day out wide, decided to head back in with trolling two lures out the back then WHAM, a BIG Sailfish was on.

We had to turn the boat round and chase it or Terry was going to get spooled!!!! After a couple of acrobatic jumps clean ou the water and alot of boat maneuvering we got it boat side, unhooked and pulled aboard for a quick photo, must have easily been nearly 8ft long, Terry's boat is 2.5m wide and it wouldn't fit in sideways !!! 

Spent 5 mins helping it recover, then released to fight another day.

Been buzzing ever since, even though I didn't actually catch it, I feel part of it all with the boat work and getting it on deck and released.

Fish of a lifetime !!! 

A big thank you Terry for taking us both out and hope to do it again soon, think we'll struggle to match that though, Spaniards next.

Just waiting for the pics, Come on TERRY !!!!

has anyone heard if the crabs and whiting have been around in augusta, will be heading there next week for a few days, hopefully get a feed

My brother-in -law from Darwin arrived in perth and being a keen fisho convinced me to launch on Monday.We set out at about 6.30am and travelled out to some rough ground out wide off hillarys . The first drop he caught one undersized snapper and  I managed a beast of norwester which I called for a baldy.After that dissapointment the day improved and the next drop i landed a decent baldy ,and down the track a legal pinky. he landed a baldy that was  a keeper and the last drop of the dqay got a 61cm baldy which tipped the scale at 4kg;s,a really decent fish for the metro area.Anyhow an excellent day had out and a great meal ahead.

Hey there,

Just a few pics of sundays effort off two rocks... Awesome weekend of weather and a great day of fishing to boot.

Early drifts with the early morning breeze produced a number of dhuies in around the 3-5kg range on bait... all released successfully, a couple blackass and a fat baldie that went in the esky.

All went quiet when the wind dropped off and the sea flattened making things hard... A few solid hits on jig to suspected bigger model dhu's were dropped. All we could manage were a heap of wrasse on jig and a large toothy pike that destroyed my pirate assist... decided to troll around for a while till the afternoon wind picked up which resulted in nothing.

Started to worry we werent going home with a dhu in the esky, arvo breeze picked up so decided to head back in closer to a mark i made on the way out while cruising, set the drift even though the sounder showed nothing promising. My bro Dave has his mc carthy finesse minnow smashed a minute later and lands a nice 7kg dhu on light gear. All smiles :)

A friend rocks up asking to setup a drift for him as his sounder has packed it in so we decide to reset the same drift to help him out rather than head back in.

Glad we decided to make that decision as the same placcie on the same outfit gets engulfed after a few twitches immedietley after hitting bottom. Fought the fish a good 10 mins or so struggling to get it off the bottom. Was pretty sure it was a solid dhu. Boy were we over the moon to see a 17kg dhu surface 50m from the back of the boat. A new pb for the new boat.

Family were all smiles to say the least ;)

Just a quick question? Having only recently purchased a boat and started fishing... we landed a tagged dhu but had no idea in regards to how to go about recording information and who to make the phonecall to. Wouldnt mind a bit of help in regards to what should be done for future recaptures?Cheers Rob.

 Here a the sharks we caught at wilbinga sunday nite and monday morning!

The first is the wobbegong that was caught on a whole mullet that we swam out 150m before dark!

The second is a little bronzie caught on blue mack under a balloon monday morning that got nailed in 15 minutes of being out there.

Hope the photos work and ps: Hello to sherbet! I met him on my way out haha :)

Well, with the best weather we've seen in a long time, just had to make the last minute call to get out there.  Heading down to Perth this weekend for Lucky Tim's wedding, had to get a few fish to take down for the oldies before your not allowed to anymore.  Joy day on the water!  Smallest was 450, biggest 650.  Happy days.

 Went out just from hillarys today (monday) with my uncle and his mate in 30 m of water little slow got 2 good sized kg's then my uncles mate hooked up somthing big went for a bit of a run then came up couldent belive my eyes it was a 50cm cobia seen some strange fish coming from metro waters latley but if i hadent seen it i may not belive it will try to post some picks in the next few days cheers

Anyone been down there lately?

Was there this morning chasing whiting after last weeks efforts (30+cm)...some old bloke was saying they had been jumping on the hooks yesterday. Today, just wee little whitebait and some good size herring...welcome addition to the fresh bait arsenal. Anyway, landed a few of these. Not entirely sure what they are but I think its the common dart...if anyone can confirm or deny?

Great fun landing them too...had a big fat one literally slam into the bait but lost it as I got it right on the shore line...bugger....think I have found my favourite spot now. Nice for a change to be getting amongst the fish after such a barren run.

Im going to keep this report as short as possible so here goes.

Just got back from Phuket Patong Beach, trip was originally 5 days but stayed for 10.

I actually went to get some tattoo's but after speaking with the guys realised a couple of them where mad keen fisherman, one of the guys showing me pics of snake head he'd been catching in little lakes/ponds dotted around the place (i really want to catch one of these next time, kept waking up about 2pm and he was telling me mornings were best). Next stop tackle shop, I was a bit disappointed with the gear there although he did stock some ok stuff like a couple of stella's and twin powers, a few accurate reels ect ect. I bought a little penn battle 3000, matched it to lemax slim max 8-20lb 7ft 2 piece rod and some 12lb line, a heap of lures sinkers hooks ect were also purchased, all up about $230 oz so no biggy. Next night we went for a fish at a local jetty after i spent 6 hours sitting in a chair getting tatt's done, nothing caught but was still fun. A couple days passed and another 6 hours in the chair and one scoota accident and 2 hours sleep we were off for a fish around some islands, the boys (my taxi driver and one of the artists from the shop offered to chip in but again for less than $100 au was my shout). I was extremely hung ova and cuts on knees elbow feet ect but enjoyed it nonetheless, the skipper cleaned up using a handline catching things that i would describe as spanish flag/stripeys from up north tiny coral trout/cod things that looked like small nannagai but striped, plenty of small nw snapper type species and a couple respectable size trigger fish. After a long day we pulled into a bay where they proceded to catch 4 squid in quick succession, and i got a big surface hit from something on a squid jig, one of the boys was saying they get quite a few small GT around the area but the water was a bit warm at the time. Most of these small fish were kept (i have no problem with this they eat em and love it) and were taken to a local resturaunt where the boys paid the cooks to make em up in soups and fried whole, chilli squid and a few other dishes, the guy doing tattoo's absalutely loved it, he's the guy in the last pic. Btw i caught a few fish but had my ass handed to me by the taxi driver and skipper using handlines, massive current light rods with mono and light sinkers just didnt cut it. Also my tatt artist mate snapped one of his rods, poor bloke he looked devastated, couldnt even laugh like i would at one of my own mates.

Hope you enjoy the report, next time im going to do an overnighter and maybe offshore for some jigging as they catch reasonable GTs, Amberjack and things that look like massive mangrove jacks/cubera snapper, Also want to hit the ponds for a giant mekong catfish and even maybe organise a trip with bbkguy for a giant snakehead (toman).

Cheers

Righteo

Well, photos can tell the story, I'm cactus, been a big weekend, billying yesterday and diving today (plus a troll).  Add to the mix one missed striped marlin and one small black today, but overall, pretty happy with this weekend!

Cant ask for much better, beautiful day, beautiful location, rig up then thread on the mulie and spot this guy less then a meter in front of me in a foot of water, dropped it on its lips and BANG!!! Took it, almost felt guilty ! I usually catch and release but this guys going to be dinner tonight. Packed up 30 min later and went home, great day!!!

Tonights dinner, Swan river flathead by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr Beautiful Swan river Flathead, very yummy! by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr Oh and this Blowie haha The Swan River Blowfish by Marc Russo (Australia), on Flickr

With these bad boys about i think the juien FADs are going to be a sure winner.

The moring session on the first bank was exciting.

 Took the family down for a fish at Myalup yesterday arvo... Stayed til about midnight but not a hint of a tailor or bigger, tried mulies, live herring, whiting, lures etc.

The 6 kids had a ball though with the flick rods though, catching 2 dozen fat sand whiting and about the same amount of herring... which are all filletted and ready for a big ol feed of fish n chips tonight... 

I was surprised how many 4wds were down there, but most of them disappeared by about 8... bumped into a couple of fellow fishwreckers too, cant remember their names(sorry guys)...

No salmon run yet :(

Troy

Went out in the sound for a few hours on sunset to see if I could get a few squid... got 1 squid and a crab that grabbed the swivel (released)

Gonna give it a go again tomorrow.

Thought I'd take the boat out for a run today as it has been over a month since the motor has been started due to bad weather and a new bub being born so I hand balled the wife and kids off and launched from Point Perron with a mate. No bait as I couldn't be bothered so I took out a soft plastic rod with some home made plastics with the intent on just running the motor and no worry if I came home empty handed. Pretty quiet fishing wise to start off with a scorpion fish and a sargent baker with lots of weed in the water. Ended up sounding around on the ocean side of five fathom bank in about 18-20 metres of water on a lump after no luck on the inside and I must have hit this snapper in the head with the soft plastic because the first jig of the plastic and it was on. Got it in the net and the hook fell out of the corner of the mouth. It measured 675mm from nose to the fork in the tail. That was it for the day and we called it quits.

Then whilst retrieving the boat, snapped the winch rope on the trailer. Off to get a new one. At least it happened today and not tomorrow as I could get a new rope before everyone closes for the long week end. No boat winch, no fishing. All set for Monday;)

Hey guys,

Few of us went for a fish early thursday morning and did a bit of ballooning and some fishing off the beach.  there was a fair bit of weed around the beaches but after driving a few k's we found a nice stretch with none at all

Had 4 balloons out. One of the boys got a nice black tip reef shark on the balloon and we got 2 baits that were smashed.  saw the splash below them but cant determine wat it was that hit them.

Sherbs got a nice tailor first thing in the morning and i got a nice little black tip later on in the morning.

Jeffery saw a big sting ray cruising up and down the beach and decided to try to catch it on his 5000 stella. basically he said it was the worst fishing decision he's made after it made its first run that didnt end :P

headed off at about 11am after Jeff and Sherbs had some fun with som herring and Sherbs showed us what a crazy old man he is by driving back to two rocks on the beach (or should i say in the ocean haha)

Overall a great morning :)

morning all

any one know how rockingham and places near by that are fishing  atm ?

as its a long week end there is only one thing to do FISH