Last Tuesday and Sunday I visited my usual metro tailor spot looking to catch a feed.  I didn’t have high hopes on the Tuesday because it was a lowish high tide and not ideal moon phase.  I don’t evaluate moon phases too much, but I have been keeping a keen eye on it, just to see if it does make a difference (and I THINK it does?).  I pay more attention to tides, but the two are related at the end of the day. Although not huge, high tide was just on sunset and it was blowing a decent southerly, ideal! 

What a dramatic evening (for all the wrong reasons!), it was one of those nights where you lose more fish than you land, getting bitten off at the swivel, fouling hooks, and resorting to using makeshift rigs because I was very low on stock.  Still managed to come home with 5 tailor, ranging from 32-40cm.  They didn’t hang around for long, but I wasn’t expecting them too.  All in all, success.  Also went back to using cork to keep the mullie off the bottom. As much fun as rays are, they are a burden during peak tailor time!  Which my mate experienced, Tuesday tailor score: 4-1 to me.   

Sunday I was quietly confident, all stocked up with rigs, sinkers and an esky full of VBs.  High tide was around 9pm with the usual gusty southerly and from my research, an ideal moon phase??  …few days either side a new or full?!?!  

Anyway, my mate and I were surprised to arrive to a near-empty rock groyne!  This spot is usually very popular so it was a nice surprise.  We got there right on sunset and it didn’t take long before the VBs came out and the esky became an ice slurry full of tailor.  They hung around for an hour and a half, and there was a 30min period where they were smashing the bait before I could close the bail arm!! Sunday tailor score: 7-3 to me.  Again I used cork.  The ones we kept were between 35-43cm, 30-35cm specimens were released.  My mate also got onto a fat 45cm snook, which came bait.  I will never get sick of the tailor aerial displays and their final lunge close to the rocks!!

The Port Jackson’s moved in, so out went the snook fillets.  They didn’t take long to get some attention, however we both got smoked.  I was devo because I reckon I may have been onto my first ever toothy, but I stupidly didn’t top up my spool and was soon on shitty old unknown poundage mono backing.    Then lost a few rigs to rays on yellow tail fillets.  After losing 7 star sinkers for the night and no more beers left, we packed up.

After 3+ years of fishing the same spot, learning from my own experiences/mistakes and doing my own research, I think I can finally say I’ve sussed that spot out.  Now I am no fishing expert, but if I am to give any advice, it is to go out and see for yourself.  Pick a fishy spot and keep trying.  Observe what others around you are doing and pay attention to conditions.  And if you’re getting outfished, don’t get angry, GET BETTER!  It has taken me ages to be a confident fisho at this spot. 

But, im still searching for my first 50cm tailor and for a shark with teeth   I really need to get off my ass and buy some gas for these bloody balloons sitting in my boot!

Dark, phone pic of dead fish available upon request.

Cheers,  Alex.

Well, what a day it turned out to be yesterday, best conditions I've seen in some time (mind you it looks pretty superb out there again today)  Heaps of coral spawn out there yesterday and strange tides which made the bottom fishing very tiring, all my usual favourite spots around the rons were shut down.  I had to do the solo and after being frustrated for the first few hours of not finding anything substantial, my day was made when around 100 'short finned pilot whales' (please correct me as I'm not really sure what they were) decided to play under the boat and ride the bow wave. 

The sonar singing was amazing to listen to and when one of them launched a couple of meters out of the air with a 5kg + mahi in his mouth (like a dog with a bone) it was a sight to be seen.  He then brought it over under the boat and let the little ones hunt it down again, was a sight I'll never forget. (I have it on my phone camera but the footage doesn't really show it well, you can still make out what is going on - will edit it up later) 

Anyway, headed wide behind Peak only to find more crazy tides/current (surface water moving one way, tide on the bottom moving another) which had the fish completely shut down.  Deciding it was time to do something else I chucked out some lures and looked for ground around the back of the island.  Around 70m I had a solid hit on the lumo which stayed connected (even after not snapping out of the outrigger clip for 30 seconds), the water visibility was so clear you could see the lumo and the marlin about 60m out a few meters down. 

After a quick tussle and some awesome jumps at the back of the boat in glassy glass conditions I had him boatside for the release.  Unfortunately my good camera battery had died after the 'whale/dolphin' photos so had to capture it on the phone, which I'm spewing about as the marlin pics would have been sensational.  After setting the spread again it took about 5 minutes for the next billie to come up and smash the lumo three times before not staying connected. 

Doing a loop in the area it took another 2 minutes before the third billie came up, a solid 50+kg and was so fired up he had half of his body out of the water angrily looking to smash the lumo, was one of the best takes I've seen in a long time.  Unfortunately the clip in the rigger got stuck again and when I managed to free it the slack from the drop back was just as he was about to jump, spppewing, but still pretty stoked.

I tried back in the shallows again to no avail, everything extremely quiet on the bottom - tried trolling the ledge for an hour on the way in - no love, but all in all had a phat day in some sensational conditions (even though it was pretty bloody warm)

Cheers,

Adam

(Will add some video to the thread later)

Hey all,

          Went out to my regular spot on a Northern Beach, in hope to get some Tailor for a feed. (Saturday night)

They were scarse on Saturday night. Hardly any bites. I thought that there might be something out there scaring them off.

I was fishing with a 20 pound line and the regular rig for Tailor. (Top surface rig). Then behold a massive bite, which had set the drag off. Couldnt reel it in.

It snapped my wire trace. The trace was 45 pound. Set up the same rig again and 10 min later another run.

Managed this time to reel it in and land it. A whopping 4ft Bronzie. The regular rules. 700mm from back of top dorsal fin to rear dorsal fin. Just under 700mm.

I decided that this was a decent catch, and call it a night.

Took me 20 min to skin and enough fillets for 15 people.

For all you that considered taking up my offer for an all-included fishing trip yesterday your lucky you didn't come. Rain, I've never seen so much rain. Pohnpei is the second wettest place on earth; I have a feeling the country was chasing the number one spot yesterday. I still went out, even though I couldn't see further than 15m in front of the boat at times. Managed two wahoo, a solid barracuda and nice little bluefin trevally. Not too bad considering the conditions.

Went for a troll with the prego missus and young bloke in ideal conditions, water was crystal clear and the tailor were aeronautical smashin little poppers. Brock christened his new rod whilst in hand got a good strike and hook up and boated for a photo (had a little assistance with the reeling in). Always plenty of these 35 to 40 cm choppers around, kept a few for a feed and released the rest, great fun on light gear.   

tailor though.. 3rd cast hooked up and didnt stop from then on, i was catching more than my mate who was using halco twistys (1 vs 8) wouldnt have been there more than hour and a half just proves that what cost nothing to make works just as well as the shop ones and u dont stress out when you loose one! few pics for the books!

Hey crew, I was out fishing off Margs today and spotted an amazing white pointer, it came from behind us an cruised around for a look at us and just wanted to keep cruising south. It was just swimming slow and was bloody awsome, It was about 4 km offshore, we followed it for a while, staunch creature thats for sure and very large, I was thinking it was like a small whale shark at first. It was a total buzz thats for sure. 

 Where is the best place (Metro) to pick up a couple macks lately?

Went down to the Swan for a little flick around the Maylands area. Haven't fished the Swan for a while and I was so pleased to see how healthy that part of the river looks and it showed in the fishing. Caught 14 Bream (all undersize) some trumpeter and a flathead that went 32cm all within an hour and half. There was a couple unstoppables that took me into the structure but even the little ones had some go on the light gear. All taken on prawn and bony herring. Wasn't game to throw lures as there is a lot of structure to negotiate with in the area.

Got a few pics of the Bream below. Flathead caught on unweighted prawn right on dark hence no pic.

Cheers

Pezdog

 Morning all

thinking of heading down rockingham tonight/tomorrow

any body know whats biting and where? was thinking (ship wreck) the old cemented in boat across the road from the bottle shop.

all ways pull good sized whiting there but up from something new.

 FW member Uncle and I hit Mindarie today for a few hours trolling, we werent going long and Uncles reel screamed off and he was locked in a battle for some time against a stubborn tuna which took him around the boat several times before being brought on board for a quick photo and released.  It was a pretty good size for metro estimated at least 12kg It looks like a long tail tuna to me.

We carried on searching for some bait schools or bird activity but didnt really see any or any spanyola's.  But we did manage 2 spotted mackeral which was a good result with one coming home for dinner and the other released. Back at the ramp by 11.

Thanks for taking me out Uncle.

Today remembered what I used to do in making fishing lures that i could not afford as a kid.

Used to "Borrow" spoons from our kitchen and used my fathers tools to make these jiggers.

As we are having a bulk rubbish event in the burb, a few spoons were being sacrificed by the one I have to listen to.

A little light went on and the memory files flashed images implanted a great many years .

So 4 spoons, Stailess steel, were resqued from the ever passing hordes of scavengers eying the massive piles of throw away items, and a little manufacturing went on.

Bought some laser tape at a $2 store a while ago and that went on the outside.

Tried the spoons in the pool and they work just as well all therse years ago!

There is nothing as satisfying as catching a good fish on a lure you made yourself.

These are just about indestructable and very easily remade at almost no cost at all. 

Howdy Crew,

Havent posted anything on here for a while, the weather hadnt been in our favour the last couple months on our R&R.

But... the last day of break looking at good old seabreeze, was looking like the day to be heading out. SO dad, myself and the other half (bagafilltes) loaded up the boat and headed out to on our spots, and ended up with an alright feed.

Here are a few photos, enjoy

Sammy J

Within minutes of pulling up and dads first drop produces a healthy Coral Trout, these things were like pest... everywhere!

And another one

Bagafillets with a nice Estuary

Double hook up, a couple of nice fish

And after many more trout and other bits and pieces, finish off the a healthy Pinkie. Home time

End result, some fresh fish for dinner

Not a bad effort for a day out on the water in a while :-)

hi all

i finally got 2 days off so my lovely Wife wanted to go fishing ,so out in the gulf we go, not far out we find a bait school and drop a slice down and up comes a nice golden trev,a nice start to the day 2 mins from the leads

  as we got to the first spot Alex {Shallow water} was jigging and up come number 2 a nice school mackeral

as the fishing was a little slow alex got a snag and as i was getting it off up came this little fella came up Blotched Jawfish. we always get them on this spot, so back he went for another day

 bait casting a floater out the back i managed a nice little shark to the total i havent tried shark up here so im going to give it a go

 the fishing had slowed to a stop so i was going to go for a swim, 2 mins in the water a got a 510 trout 

  sorry about the 2 trout shots

  as we started the track back home we managed a nic mac tuna off a bait ball and was released for another day

 was a great day in the gulf and spent with family on the 40deg day

 thank you all for reading

    jeff

                                            Yep not a bad night down at White Hills, Light to moderate N/W to westerly all night. Very little weed to contend with. Got snagged on reef a few times, good practice on rig making. Did manage to snap me 10 ft ugly stick just above ferrule (casting out).

Got lines in the water about 4:00pm, fished till late. A few herring, tarwhine and a crab to start with tailor on the bit off & on from late arvo last one pulled in about 11:30pm smallest 33cm largest approx 45cm. Nothing on the slide rig but a good night all up. Be heading down again soon.

Getting a lot more people staying overnight which is alright but many heading into the dunes and leaving rubbish behind. One group of youngsters using wood that was placed to protect dunes for fire wood and throwing broken chairs on the pile before heading home. (Tims Thicket south).

Went down to one of my favourite spots for an early morning lure flick in the gutters, was an awesome morning but looking onimous for a while though... The fish were definately on the bite for a good hour or two.

Well the water is still warm, pretty sure the salmon aren't going to rock up in a hurry. If they don't I won't be too worried as long as the tailor hang around. They seem to be getting bigger over the last few weeks which is awesome.

I dont usually take a phone due to the wading i do but did for some reason this morning, some geat changing landscapes, a pic of the beach and the kept catch:

 Just a video of Lurcha's Dolphinfish. They were real quiet but for my first time out trolling out wide i can see why people get addicted to that zzzzzz. Short video i got with my gopro but missed the take, fish jumped maybe 3m in the air with the marlin skirt in his mouth got us thinking marlin at the start. Fish went about 7-8kg good stuff Luke. Good seeing few others out there and meeting some new fellas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjiau22RT4Y&feature=youtu.be

Sha

Ok firstly computer is on the blink so I can't upload pics to I pad. so report only.

Left home on Thursday morning 4 o'clock. a nice two hour drive and we were sitting outside our unit looking at a flat calm bay. Unload all the no fishing things and off to the marina. After a quick launch and log into sea rescue we were on our way. Out to the 50m mark where we were given a few marks. None of which were showing fish so we went to look a little further, a small rise and flair on the sounder and we were onto our first fish, nice baldie then a dhuie. only small ,tagged and released.

Moved around a bit early on getting feel for the area. lots of ground but not all holding fish. Next spot a small lump which gave up a couple more dhuies and half dozen snapper. We then headed out a little deeper 90m and picked up a nice lump holding a good school, well ,snapper city. got sick of pulling them up. Some up to 5kg but nothing big.

We then headed into the reef for a spot of trolling and things just got better with five macs in 20minutes with the biggest lost at boat side . Only one kept as they were all just under size. Day two and out to the 300m line great conditions and fish all over the sounder but after three hours and no fish gave it away. We hit the 80m line and found some ground and more bloody snapper some good size up to 6kg and maybe bigger. We tried some more ground heading back to the reef for another troll which was a no go, must have caught all the macs the day before.

In all two days of good fishing with around 50+ fish released and 15 kg of fillets. 5 dhuies tagged. Was a little surprised at the size of the fish but I'm sure there is some big dhuies hiding waiting my return.

with a good tailor year happening up north of perth , was wondering how preston , whitehills area was fairing

this year?

I have heard quads are no longer able to go on the beach ( another access  lost forever ? will 4x4 be next? )

worth thinking about.

thanks , I usually give help , not ask for it but, hopefully what goes around , comes around.

cheers.

I don't know if you Southwest fishers are interested or not but the mulie boat at dunsborough went out last night and filled up big time but among the pilchards in the net were some big SBFT.Others could be seen feeding on any fish that fell out of the net. The clue is that it was at night time.

 Anyone know of any weed from Alkimos upto Two Rocks?

Cheers

well just got home from two days fishing in jurien bay .I think I will stay home next time and catch some real fish .full report and pics on the weekend.

Went down to my local spot at the river tonight, first on a jetty then wading nearby. First cast lost a 35+ in around the pylons along with a three day old sx40 :( (shitty knot tying FTW)
Next I got another slightly smaller one but still pulled line, not enormous but not tiny either. Didn't clean him up as much as I should've for the photo but I needed to get him back. Put him next to a powerade bottle so you have some idea of the sort of size.
 

Good to see plenty of smaller bream around, landed around twelve or thirteen in an hour and a half all on pipi's. All of them were released and released well.
Also sorry about the crap quality pics, I was on my own tonight and only had my phone.
 

Oh and this is my first report, so cheers for reading :)

Just got back from a quick bream sesh near Shelley sailing club got 3 in about half an hour all legal size biggest being about 32cm all released.  Seemed to be a few around. All on ecogear vibe my favourite bream lure!

Hi All..heading out tomorrow for some crabs near parmelia bank ...inbetween was going to drift for some whiting and squid ...the squids be hard to come by of late for us... I know its not the prime time for squid , curious to hear how you guys have been going with them ...cheers chris

fished last night at swan river just up from race track  bream was one after another all night from 11pm untill 4 am not a lot of big sized fish but plenty of action it was nearly a full moon and tide ws on way out  well worth the drive down

Day off work, broken boat, so I decided to take my little darling, baby Mia, the only child of mine that isnt at school, in search of her first fish... the smile says it all, Just headed down towards Mandurah looking for a few sand whiting, they didnt play the game like last week when we happened upon the spot while me and the neighbour(deckie/apprentice) were working in the area, but even still, a bag of prawns, beautiful weather, sunscreen and the kind of smile that keeps daddy smiling for years to come!!! Ended up stopping at the Fishmonger at Singleton Shell and bought some whiting fillets... just to hold face at home ;) Baby Mia wont tell the Mrs!!

Got a little shark too that got released... Baby Mia got to touch it too and was totally amazed at it, she slept the whole way home... covered in beach sand

Troy

 Out to the fads

http://youtu.be/CW-vA_Gtrfs

Outrigger drill

http://youtu.be/K3ezZ29vpx8

fishing

http://youtu.be/-ygb9gMvME4

Back home.

http://youtu.be/rHHcm68SLwo

enjoy!

 Port beach has a nice selection of fish biting. got up there about 10 . Started catching 43cm tailor at about 11:15 including 3 herring on a low weight rig.

Hey Guys, Have any of you fished at Myalup recently and if so does anyone have any idea

of how far along the beach to go ?? Any help would be greatly appreciated :)