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 :)

Gday all

Just wondering if anyone can advise me on some good accomodation for Jurien Thinking of taking the boat and the missus (and a few other couples) for some fishing in march.

Cheers

 my uncle who usually fishes for carp way up the murray is over for a visit so i knew i had to get him out for a fish. booked onto saltwater charters and yesterday was the day. the fishing started of great ... for him but the wind was making it difficult. long story short i couldn't catch a cold he caught a 66 cm snapper blackarse sea sweep and a few others. weighed the snapper at 4 kgs poor little fellow had to sit down after it. psssht victorians time to take him sambo jigging hahaha

a few photos

 hooter harlequin

  denis pb hahhah

Went down yesterday for another flatty flick and managed to get through the bream and ended up landing a coupla of nice ones this time. Nice fat ones too. I know they arent the monster 50cm+ models i've seen posted but hey they are getting there :) I love catching flathead!

 Last time I went to Northcliffe/Windy Harbour I caught some King George Whiting and small salmon trout. I fished the beach adjacent to the caravan park. Does anyone know what might be biting this time of the year off the beach around this region? I had planned a day trip hoping to catch salmon off the beaches around the local area, most likely this Monday 6/2/12. Advice welcome :)

Went for a quick troll after work and got TimVB onto a nice mac north of Mandurah, cracked his mac cherry only 20 minutes into it.

Blew a gale while we were out and bucketed down so was a tad unpleasant at times, the maccie more than made up for it!!!! Fresh maccie all round.

Well done Tim, cheers to skipper Matt.

Just got the word Whitey of sea sport charters went for a troll late arvo yesterday with a mate and got a 180kg Blue....

I had the chance to head up north with a mate to a remote area near Cape Levique, about 2.5 hours north of Broome by car. There was no shortage of fishing talent up there aswell, with Peter Tucker, Robert Vaughen and Mark Jones all up there with their families.

Day 1: We arrived in the afternoon, so didn't have enough time to go out on the boats, so we ended up casting maribou jigs along the flats. Although it was an outgoing tide, we still managed a fair sized queenie (81cm) and small flathead between the 3 of us, a bit slow but the fishing picked up over the next few days.

Day 2: We went wading in the bay early in the morning and managed many queenies and trevally up to about 3kgs. There were heeps of bust ups happening offshore so we were licking our lips when we got to take the boats out. We headed straight toone such bust up of mackiescrashing baitfish, but only managed a few small fish to about 3kgs. We headed off trolling and found a steep drop off, going from 13-18m. First drop had me calling it for a small reefie judging by the small taps, but the little 4-6kg rod with 20lb line buckled over with the reel going berzerk, before the inevitable ping on the reef. looking the drag pretty much exactly the same happened, except the tug of war lasted about 10 seconds before yet again another bust off. This continued on for about an hour, with not one of the monster reefies being landed, only a 6ft bronzie and countless goldband being caught along with a nice bluebone. we suspected massive fingermark (10kg) were the culprits, but we'll neve know.

The afternoon session proved productive, with birds crashing the surface we had mackies all around the boat, first cast yielded a hit, then second cast a hit then from underneath the boat a mackie smashes the jig right infront of my eyes, and then goes on a blistering run of about 50m, a second about 20m then it started circling underneath the boat. This was my first properly big fish and when it hit the deck it was high 5's alround. it went 101cm and about 8kgs, and tasted just beautiful. there was more action like this and then we headed back in and called it a day.

Day 3: We started the day throwing jigs at exposed bits of reef, with queenfish to around 50cm being the only fish showing up, along with a black trevally. We continued on to another reef with no results, then decided to go for a troll around the edge, which yielded a 10kg golden trevally within 10 seconds of the lure being in the water. we had to head in early due to going on a toor around the islands.

On the tour, we had a fishing rods there just incase, which was very lucky, as on the way back we saw an enormous bust up of tuna and trevally. We fired the jigs into the pack of fish and within 2 minutes I was on, and not long later a 5kg goldspot was in the boat. He was released quickly so we could get stuck intomore fish, and we didn't have to wait long, when i hooked up again to something a lot larger, and 10 minutes later after a solid fight, an 8kg goldspot hit the deck. With 2 ther mad keen fisho's who didn't slip a rod on board, I gave the rod up and let them get into the action, which lasted 15 minutes later wit another 3 fish being caught. Not one tuna was caught, but one followed a jig right to the boat. The others onboard went for a swim, while we retired to some rocks to try our luck, and the fish were biting. A stripy seaperch was cut up for bait,and a small bluebone was pulled up, with my mate being done up by something big. A school of juvenile gropers swam past, but failed to hook one. The scenery on the way back to camp was stunning, tall cliffs with tidal water rushing through it, and water draining off reefs.

Day 4: It was our final day and unfortunately the fishing had tailed off completely, with only a under size bluebone and coral trout being caught, along with a few reef fish. We trolled the jigs as they catch pretty much everything, but eventhey couldn't manage any fish, only a few cut offs from mackies. It was a dissapointing way to end such an extrordinary trip. It wasn't jus the fishing, the camp was really well set up and with the water being 30 degrees, we couldnit resist having a swim at shell island.

We also had a fish off the main jetty at Broome, with only a few snappers caught, but my mate having a massive run on a mackie, before the hooks pulled, probably a 15kg fish.

Gear used: FWA 4-6kg spin 7ft, Quantum energy 50 with 20lb braid

FWA 4-10kg baitcast, Shimano Caenan with 15lb braid

With all this pretty average weather of late for landbased fishing I thought of maybe giving the swan a bash for some flatty's. Got to my trusty hot spot about 4:30 in the arvo and away we go. The black bream were like blowies, we couldnt get through them, not one under 25cm and ranging around 30cm mark (mind you they werent the fattest bream i've ever seen) but every one was sized! As soon as it got darker we finally ended up landing heaps of flattys most of them undersized with the odd one or two going over 35cm and onto my dinner plate. We caught a range of different species. We ended up landing heaps of tarwine with one pretty nice size, a few tailor, couple of small pink snapper, flounder, snook and endless amounts of black bream. I reckon the river in the upper reaches is as healthy as ever, I've never caught so many fish in sesh in the swan river before.

one of the many black breamand tarwine

blackie release shot

double header

not a bad tarwine

nice little pinkie

one of the few tailor that came to play as soon as the sun went down on the flatty rigs

the only ones we kept the others were all released

OK

So I believe that this is the place to brag about your latest fishing conquests. Cop a load of this flounder that I caught in the swan this morning

thought it was a leaf then it shocked the pants off me when it wriggled - likely to take an arm off when it grows up..

Finally managed a leave pass on Friday 27th to get out for a much deserved fish, Met up with a couple of mates and went out in awesome conditions for a bit of a troll around Cockburn sound for sum tailor. Spent a ½ hr at the first spot but no hits, was a little bit of weed around which was fouling up the lures so we decided to move. Next spot we thought we would up our chances and run a 5 rod spread and a couple  of minutes later all hell broke loose when 4 out the 5 rods got smashed just as we hit the mark. My 11 yr old son was going to have to learn pretty quick how to land a decent tailor as all of us were hooked up and he was on his own, he had a good fight all the way to the boat only for it to flick the hook meters from the boat then mine to follow, with both my mates managing to land a couple of 35 cm plus choppers to start the count. Over the next 2 hrs it was on for young and old with fish flying over the gunnels and heaps more not wanting a bar of it and flicking hooks during their amazing aerial displays. At one point the lure would get smashed as soon as it was thrown out in the spread(Mainly the shotgun which was mine).Catch of the day went to my son Hayden with his PB 40 cm specimen (pretty sure it’s the biggest fish he has ever caught) Needless to say he was stoked and so was i as we had the 2 biggest tailor for the arvo, Mine going just over 39 cm. 

Headed out NOR in the perfect conditions on Saturday.  Trolled for ages on the way out - nothing except a few kilos of weed.  Hit up a few lumps in the 30s - nothing.  Drifted along the high 40s among all the other boats doing the same - nothing.  Well, except for a few wrasses of course.  Then we decided to move away from the crowd and target a few spot that didn't look very likely, but we got a few decent bites.  Within a few short drifts, we had these on board.  We couldn't see any bait on the sounder, but there were obviously fish there!

the dhu and queenie went 65cm and the flattie went 60.  The pinky and a breaksea were just under and went back for next year.

trolled back in too with no luck.  water was 24oC.

feeling a tad insulted at no responses and ran out of tissues to cry in thought ide post a couple pics to keep everone happy, keep in mind will not be posting pics of myself until after my plastic surgery and my facial deformitys are fixed.

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