Any one been doing any good with the crabs in the Bunbury to Busso are lately?????

 Put the boat in the water for the first time in a while and managed to bag out, in a pretty short space of time, which was good given my deckie had a function to go to in the arvo.

Picked up a very nice Baldie.

Plus a couple of fun size sambos

And the capture of the day was a tagged dhuie. I checked my tags and it wasn't one of my current crop, so will be interesting to see who caught it originally.

Finished the day with whiting and squid using my deepwater squiding technique. 

Picked up a couple more tailor down Pt Walter way this morning... we got four and they were all size, the largest went to 35cm.

Got them all trolling around a couple of little Rapalas (I think).  We had a couple of big schools follow in the caught fish, must have been 20-30 of them following.

 A quick session along southern flats this morning, for just the one small but pretty little fish that went back.

But I keep having problems getting snagged, so I'm hoping someone might tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Lost three lures this morning, all of which I only just got this week. One 1/8 TT blade, one damiki vault and one MX40.

The ground there is not that bad I just keep finding rock. I went with the heavier lures cause the wind made it hard to get smaller minnows out.

But that's $40 of new lure gone on just over an hour. Fishing is expensive the way I do it clearly.

Anyone give me any suggestions on how to refine my technique? May try and get back out Sunday again if anyone else is interested.

For real!!!!! i'm starting to get fed up with these asians taking undersize fish. i think it is about time for us to help the fisheries and confront these ppl who are raiding our fish stocks. Was out at ammo jetty bout 3 years ago and seen 3 old asians pulling in 15cm skippy and keeping them, by the end of the night they had at least 30 and everyone they were catching made me furious. i confronted them with a fish measurer and told them that they are fishing illegally and i was going to call the ranger if they didnt throw them back!! after a heated conversation i did manage to get them to throw all of the live ones back. and wot made me even angrier was that they were aware of the size limit and bag limits. Please guys dont be shy about confronting people like this. Remember that your in the right and it is only a good thing if we work together to improve fish stocks in metro waters

cheers

Hi all the crab season did open on the 15th of December is that right.

Any one had any reports as yet .

good luk to ya

coley

 it was a quick trip down the beach and the 2 fish just didnt release so they ended up as dinner [garlic prawns,queeny and trev with paster ]

 was great just to see a fish

      was a good way to end the day

   thanks   jeff

Hi Guys im looking at dropping some pots over xmas, heard there isnt a lot out there but never the less worth a crack........i want to keep it fairly close to town ie freo way - saftey bay - point perron etc..............ive also seen loads of pots around the south and north moles.....does anyone know if there has been any action there......any suggestions on where to try or where its happining would be much appreciated!!

so we arrived at the hot spot alot earlier than last time and arrived to a 20-30km wind and weed scattered everywhere got the lines in and waited for the tailor to say g'day. 30min ticked... one hour ticked.... then bang by about 4.30 scott99 beats his personal best from last week of a nice 59cm tailor (sorry mate couldnt make it 2 footer, next time u will ;)) and the bite was on.. but only this time they didnt hang around for long but we did manage to get 2 over 55cm and about 8 around the 45cm mark including a 55cm snook and quite a few big bull herring. So the suns coming down, time for quick cook up, change of rigs and game plan. 

Out go the big baits chasing shark, was very quiet for some time before the runs started happening around midnight! But so many runs for so little shark. Rays were literally everywhere and no matter wot rig we changed to we just got smashed over again by eagle rays, we couldnt even balloon a bait out cos the wind was terrible. WE both landed 2 eagle rays each the largest tilting the 25kg mark. Though we did get a run which almost spooled us 300m before snapping. we thinking it was one of those big bull rays because we seen a monster well over 100kg sifting in knee deep water just beside us early this morning, never seen a ray so big in my life!!! not including mantas of coarse.

That pretty much wraps it up, bottom line weather and wind were against us and the rays were on the attack, always a great time when ya fishing though :)

Cheers!

Went for a fish yesterday arvo at a nor beach, arriving at around 4 pm. Second cast got nailed by a salmon that would have been pushing 3 kg. Popped my salmon cherry! After that, all went deathly quiet. With sunset approaching I decided it was time to go home after one more cast. Boy am I glad I gave it one more cast because the action started. In the last 20 mins of visibility I landed another salmon of similar size to the first one and 3 tailor that measured in at 56 cm (a new pb), 48 and 45. Gotta love being in the right spot at the right time :)

Hi all,


So I've been a member for a few months but this is my first post so here we go..


Thought I might get in a last minute stir up for some of you west coast anglers who are enjoying the demersal ban and show you all what we caught on the weekend. Just a beautiful place on our south coast that has a few great fishing options...  and great bag limits too

I won't say to much about the weekend i'll just share the pictures and say that it was a great weekend and thanks to Justy for the accommodation and for taking us to some great spots. And cheers to Webby for being a good sport!


Fish total

Friday arvo- 10 Nannies

Saturday- 20 Nannies, 2 Pinkies, 2 blackarse


Enjoy the pics, sorry if they're not too clear.. and sorry bout the mo!!


Vince

Friday Arvo, not bad for 2 hours on the water

Nice double header

 Look at the colour difference.

 Nice looking school

 Red fish, Red cans, what a combo

Just to cap it off a couple of pretty black bums

 Not a bad day out!!

seen a heap a people at the end off the south wall looked like salmon season at easter.cheers

Hi Guys,

Went for a quick session today with the yak at point walter, got there about 11.00am and left around 12.30pm, end result was 6 flathead, 4 flounder, 4 whitting and many blowies. Largest flatty was roughly 58cm smallest was 38cm, largest flounder was roughly dinner plate size the others were average, all caught on a TT vibe golden boy 1/4 oz. all released to fight another day, was impressed with the whitting hitting the vibe though, that's a first for me, weren't huge or anything, but still a first for me.

Sorry no photo's but haven't got me a water proof camera yet, and wasn't risking the phone going for a swim.

cheers.

well the rumers where that the waters gettin warmer and the mackys should be here soon so i went out off hillerys for a bit of a troll. a constant 21.5 degrees of water but not even a hint of a fish. did see 2 bait schools but nothing else happinin. that was in the 18-28m depth anyway. trolled hillerys to past 3 mile, then just went for a bit of a run out deeper on the way back to see if i could sound any schools or fish but didnt see sweet f.a. did get a flat head near the ramp but so didnt go home empty handed.

Hi all

Headed out this morning at 7.30am for another go at the crays and I'm happy to report that we got another feed. Didn't have to go too far out from The Cut again.

Snared 8 in total but lost one trying to put it in the catch bag....of course, it had to be the biggest one of the day 

On returning to the boat it was out with the gauge and while these 4 didn't need to be measured, the other 3 were close....the minimum size is 76mm and I've only got a 77mm gauge and this was a 'loose fit' so I erred on the side of caution and returned them to the water....I know where they live!!

Saw heaps of kackas so that's promising for later on/next season. The vis was only about 7 - 8m and the undercurrent was reasonably strong but it wasn't too uncomfortable.

Don't know whether the shark shield zapping me had anything to do with cramp, but my left leg seized up and that's a bastard when you're trying to get back to the boat....yeah, I know, toughen up gates!!

Back at the ramp just after 11am and home for bbq cray for lunch...went down a treat, again.

regards
rusty...

Team

Instead of consistantly starting a new thread when posting up some reports for crays, Thought i would just upate one thread with weekly photos etc etc

Did the best so far with 7 keepers, 5 decent size crays as well, All in all 24 crays  and 17 of them went back in the drink. No whites

Fishing ban is over on friday brintg it on!

brett

 Hey Fisho's

Went out today with aussie_breamer for a quick 3-4h sesh. We got 8 bream all up (very quiet) with the biggest being 32cm but despite the small size it was VERY FAT! The vid of the fish can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfog6cGwzA8

Cheers,

Barrabass

ps: don't bother fishing the spot in the vid as we moved spots for pics. :P

Hi Guys, been a while to get to write this up. After i reached Darwin i went to South Africa for 5 weeks and then returned via Singapore to Darwin where a friend and I got a camper van and drove down the west coast fishing. it was a bit easier than riding the bicycle and gave a bit more fishing scope!! 

just starting to arrange Norway to south africa on the bicycle so if any of you guys have any contacts between those two countries that might help catch me a fish i would be most grateful for the help...

all the best, Scott www.worldbiker.blogspot.com 

In singapore my mate and I went for a fish on the reservoirs targeting the Peacock bass that have been released by some aquarium hobbyists. We managed a few small ones on the fly and spinner and saw a few beasts in the shallows. this was the best of the bunch. A good looking fish!

In South Africa I managed to get after some Sharp toothed catfish and blue Tilapia on the local crocodile river. These two tilapia were the best of the bunch and pretty tasty after being bbqed.

Sharp toothed catfish. We found dead doves were good bait..nice amount of blood that pulled the cats in quick. was quite fun collecting bait too!

Back in Darwin i went out with a mate on his boat. we did a little fishing but most of the time Jamie worked as he is a coral collector. when we did stop the action was fast and furious with small gts all over the poppers.

Parked up on a reef to the east of darwin at low tide. Two big Gts nearly nailed my roosta popper here. they were trapped in a big deep blue hole in the middle of the dry reef...the last second they turned and vanished! damn

we stopped in Kakadu where i hoped my mate would bag a few fish to start the trip off. he got some barra and lost a few tarpon. Croc phobia seemed to have hit him pretty bad so it wasnt long til we were back on the road.

Camping in kakadu

Nick with a small barra taken on a surface lure in Kakadu

On the move south somewhere in the kimberley region. 

fruit bats roosting next to the road.

This was the first sea fish we caught. at point samson..not quite what we had in mind but welcome all the same!

along the road we saw some decent wildlife including this frill necked lizard who was keen to eat a fly!

Exmouth was the destination and we headed there fairly quickly,,,...seemed the best all round destination where we could get some good fish land based

Got this little beauty in the marina. also dropped a couple of small trevally that day and saw a few sharks sniffing around

First day and we had a look around bundegi and managed to lure a few fish including three coral trout, a nice rock cod and a little barracuda...

coral trout on metal slice

Cod on soft plastic

we did a bit of night fishing for sharks and rays.. got this nice leopard/ zebra shark first up

and then this beauty

and this one..

and nick got this one that nearly spooled his twin power 12000 which was quite amusing! see here

http://www.youtube.com/user/worldfisher1#p/a/u/0/LbR6ZabxJA4

The Flies were pretty annoying in exmouth

Resident Osprey at bundegi..

Down at the mildura wreck there were a few small gt's around just before sunset everyday..a silver stick bait produced the hits and the biggest probably went 6kg which was fun on light gear. wading out to waist deep water gave the best chance to reach fish...turtles and sharks were swimming around my legs and even a dugong past within a few metres from me..

trevally on the stick bait..

hi guys this is my first report hope it goes alright....  A mate and I decided to spend an allnighta a few hours nth of perth (between lancilin and cervantes) ;) to do a late arvo tailor sesh, early night for shark(bronze whaler we after) then go for mulloway from 12 to dawn till the tailor bite again in the morning. WOT A CRACKER OF A SESH WE HAD!!!.

got the lines by 5:30 arvo, first cast!!! Mates on to his PB tailor in seconds while i'm still baiting up!! From then on we landed tailor after tailor, there were jumping all over the place. The smallest one being 43cm and the largest 59cm! we both landed 10 each about in an hour and a half, we kept 3 for dinner and due to some ferious hookups, some were fatal so ended up filleting 2 for bait. aahhh finally a smoke and a drink break before cooking some very fresh tailor on the gas burner. Perfect!! but.. its far from over.....

We then walked up the beach to a point where very shallow sandy waters meet a drop off that runs into some deeper reefy sections. We change rigs to capture a shark or two and on go the fillets! 2 beach rods 50m apart. Now the waiting game..... didnt have to wait long within 5 to 10 min my reel sizzles.. then nothing. i'm baiting up again my mate reel screaming for 15sec, then nothing!! WTF is going on!! Out go our baits almost instantly on again and again spat the hooks. 2min later my mates on finally hooked. with not more than a 40 sec fight a small bronzie appeared in the shallows absolutley exhausted!!! We beach him!! This little shark has been going back and forth taking our baits!!!! My mates first bronzie and i have to congratulate him on that!! we had i big bust off with a large run of about 200m before busting on reef! It took a whole large tailor head. WTF??  landed an eagle ray small one.

By this stage it bout 2 in the morning and nothing was seeming to fire so we rested up and got a lines back in at first light for a few casts at the tailor before heading off. and i was rewarded with the biggest tailor of the trip.

all and all very good trip but not perfect... still no mulla

Abalone at Trigg

The abalone season had come around again and it was time to hunt for some of the tasty little beggars at the local reef. I like the short season as abalone is quite rich and you could not eat it everyday (i'm sure some people would disagree), so having only a few weekends a year to have a feed works out well. I also enjoy the early morning swim and the fact that it's all done in under an hour.

My brother Jimmy has finally come back to live in Perth with his wife (and new baby son), after spending a few years living in LA and playing guitar for the metal/rock band Helmet. I thought it was high time to bring him back to reality and get out there in the ocean and pick up a morning feed of ab's. He was actually really keen to get in the water again, it's funny beacuse the spot where we hunt for the ab's is only a few hundred meters up from where he would take me snorkling when I was a kid. 

So on Sunday we met up at 6:45am at trigg beach and got geared up. As always there were heaps of people getting ready and it can be a real pain in the arse to find a parking space. I had picked Jimmy up an ab knife, gauge and bag during the week as this would be his first time going for ab's. He had some gloves that he had used for snorkling but had forgotten them - oh well, he'll be right. It was a beautiful morning, the tide was really low and the sea like glass. By the time we had walked down to the beach it was 2 minutes to 7am and for that we were thankful as it had become pretty damn hot in our wetsuits.

Diving into the water felt fantastic, there is nothing like cool clear seawater to wake you up out of that early moring daze.  The sight up and down the beaches is incredible on the abalone mornings - literally hundreds of people clambering over the reefs, some still fully dressed with absolutely no diving/water gear. Lots of people don't even seem to be able to swim - it is a real worry as even on a calm, flat day like Sunday, the surge below is still considerable. Some people have to remember that no seafood dinner - no matter how nice - is worth dying for. It was worth noting that even with so many people in the water at one place all chasing the same limited resource, there was not one fisheries officer to be seen. One would think that with a season of only an hour, that they would have every officer available at the main metro sites. They must have been up the road.

Jimmy and i swum around the reef and came up to the sides that would, on a higher tide, be bashed with the sea as this is were the abalone love to sit. Right in the white water. This obviously makes them hard to take on anything but the low tides as you just keep getting smashed against the reef before you can pry the buggars off. It was quite easy pickings and there were some great sizes there that meant I had more than ten in the bag within about 10 minutes. Just then Jimmy swum over and told me he had nicked himself by accidentaly grabbing the ab knife by the blade. Within half an hour we both had our bag limit (20) and proceeded to swim in. Jimmy showed me his cut finger and it was really bleeding now so we dashed up the beach and wrapped it up at the car.  

We met back at my place to shuck and trim the ab's as I've got a handy fish cleaning station in the back yard. A couple of band aids on Jimmy's finger and he was ok - I rekon it probably could have used a stitch or two though. The ab's cleaned up beautifully and I put them in a soy, chilli and garlic marinade to share with guests coming over later that day. Anyway, a couple of pics below of the abalone after cleaning - hope you liked the report.

Hi all

After hearing and reading about all the crays being caught since the season opened, I finally got out there amongst them on Saturday. We didn't have to venture too far from The Cut and although the ground was real lumpy, it only held a few...enough for a taste, at least.

Also got to christen the new shark shield and I'm happy to report that it was working just fine....I lost count of the number of times it zapped the hell out of me!

Didn't take the camera down with me because we were hell bent on trying for a feed, but sure will next time....saw a small dhuie, a monster sambo, schools of buff bream and skippy.

Cooked them on the bbq with some olive oil, pepper and salt...went down a treat.

The weather isn't looking too flash for the next few days but as soon as it clears up, we'll be out there again.

regards
rusty... 

Went trolling for Tuna yesterday South side of Rotto and my first hook up had the reel screaming off line. When the fish wasn't running, the weight was substantial and I could barely lift it up the water column. After about 5 minutes I felt something slip like the trebbles had tore free and all of a sudden the weight wasn't there but I still had a fish on. I thought I must have been hooked up to two Tuna or something and one had gotten off. Anyway when I got the tuna to the surface and into the boat I realised that it had markings that indicated something had been hanging onto it. There was only one small pucture mark on the top of its head and the rest was just discolouration caused by the pressure of whatever had been holding onto it. Even the drag mark along it body was visible from when I felt something slip.

Could a billfish have taken my tuna before I got to my rod?

Any other fish would have left teeth marks and it was a good sized tuna so I don't think a sambo would have nabbed it?

Any ideas?

Hey Fishos,

This is my report from my last weekend down south. (Margaret River Region)

Saturday:

Headed down to the Rivermouth for a fish. Fished for about 3h and was only rewarded by 2 tiny bream on bait and a herring on fly (and my mate got a tiny bream on a lure which he foul hooked). Pretty Crappy Morning but the vid can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXV68LZ_Nxc&feature=youtu.be

Later at night as we were at a friends house for dinner in Busselton my mate and I went and fished the marina for bream, ended up with 3 Tailor, a Snook, a Small Snapper and some random un-identifiable fish. Great time, after dinner we went out again to the marina walls in search for mulloway but we needed to catch some bait first. The only thing that took out bait was a 3 and a half kilo Sea Sweep which we lost as only using 2kg line so we tried to gaff it, AKA: no bait out for mulloway :( (If only I had kept that snook for bait!!! :( ) In the end we fished there for 5h and the video can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np-voC2ABmo

Sunday:

Took the ‘yaks out and headed up the river for a 3 and a half hour sesh and we had a lot of fun!!  The bream were all 20cm+, which is good size for the Margaret. Got about 15 from the yak and land based. The biggest was 27cm and was taken on a gulp crabby 2” (great lures and would highly recommend (not affiliated) ) Over all a great day, You can see the video at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CQTRPC8oxlA

Thanks for reading.

PS: Good work to the Firefighters whom fought the Prevelly fires as they did a great job, there is so much burned bushland and most of the fires have burned peoples front yards even but those awesome firefighters put is out in time and saved many homes…They did a great job.

(FADS next weekend :) )

 hey there Gang,

I put decided to put the tinny in at Point Walter this afternoon, after my Saturday fishing plans were interupted by a garage sale that went a bit out of control.  After all the reports of tailor around, and a week earlier having got a couple up towards Freo, I shot over to Matilda Bay and put out a chrome twisty on one rod and a small Impulse shallow diver I picked up from the bargin bin at Bluewater Melville.

In the next 2 and a bit hours I recon I landed over 40 tailor, mostly undersize or just size and lost a lot close to the boat, it was manic.  I had most hookup on the diver, but the chromy still got a few.  It was great fun on the bream gear.  I didn't see any bird action that others have mentioned, but the most productive area for me was from about the Royal Flying Squadron yacht club around to opposite Point Walter before it gets shallow right over on the northern side.  That said, I still got fish right in front of the old Swan Brewery and Matilda Bay areas.  I would be good to consistently get the larger ones some how, I tried a few different size lures bit still lots of choppers.

So in all, a great fun solo session, there was plenty of other out there doing it too, probably a few FW members.  I saw Dan's new Contender fly past me and maybe a few other boats I recognised, Ryan C's Trailcaft with Verado with engine cover maybe??  Get out there guys, they are thick.

Jared

Went for a fish down around Stirling Bridge in the early hours of this morning. Picked up 4 Flathead around 30-40cm, 7 choppers & a heap of Tarwhine. I also threw a whole squid & scaley out on my heavyish beach gear. At about 2am I hooked up to something on the heavy gear that emptied my spool of 280m of line (25lb leader 30lb main) in about one minute flat. I had the drag done up as tight as I dared & this thing peeled line off like I had the reel in free spool. Once the spool was empty the leader popped & I was left rather stunned to reel in my main line. Wasn't a Mulloway as I've stopped them up to 19kg on this gear with ease & a shark would have bitten straight through my mono trace. Don't know what it was, maybe a dolphin managed to snag itself while it was swimming past or something but whatever it was it game me a hell of a rush while it lasted. Before anyone says it, there were no boats going past me anywhere near the time of the hookup.

Got out a couple of times in the last few days in the Claremont area chasing choppers... got 5 keepers last night when the run went hot. Three of them would have pushed 35+ which was a big surprise for river choppers, plenty of 20cm little tackers. Also saw a big flock of birds working just out of point walter... if you've got a boat get out there!!!! saw plenty of people trolling no where near that school but they were still getting fish. 

My young bloke Bill, 5, is busting to catch something on his line.  The first dad and lad session last summer to Guildford, his first cast, a giant blue swimmer crab.  Next cast a 44cm black bream.  Dad and uncle got zero between them for the day and bless the boy, each time we see uncle, nearly a year later he still says "Remember that fish I caught and you got none?"  He's been a bit traumatised because last time we fished there bout a month ago he caught a large long necked tortoise, we got the hook out but he's not keen on dad performing amatuer dentistry on another squirming, croaking reptile.

Where can we chase herring or even tailor in the metro area?  Haven't got a tinnie yet but it's on the cards for Xmas.  Any help would be awesome.

Thanks, Bill and Dunc.

This is my first post, pleased to be part of the team.

Am I dreaming or is there a place in the metro area where you can get a bucket of mussels, for being doused a serve of tomato and chilli ofcourse!

Also I'm chasing a spot to take the young bloke for a sure fire hit of herring.

I can feel the love, any help would be mucho appreciato.

Dunc.

This is my first post, pleased to be part of the team.

Am I dreaming or is there a place in the metro area where you can get a bucket of mussels, for being doused a serve of tomato and chilli ofcourse!

Also I'm chasing a spot to take the young bloke for a sure fire hit of herring.

I can feel the love, any help would be mucho appreciato.

Dunc.