Went down to the swan to  a jetty near a well known big bream spot looking for river squid , and came across a few guys with buckets full of crabs. Was quite surprised to see a bag full of crabs at this time of the year, but proceeded to chuck a few baits and lures around with no real luck apart from bringing in crabs holding onto the bait.

A while after we arrived I started to shine the torch around and noticed crabs moving into the shallows everywhere I looked. I have never seen such a density of blue mannas in my life, they were literally 2 to the sq meter minimum around the jetty. Only problem was the majority were females, with only a few monsters males lurking deeper. There must have been some breeding event occuring as the males were often sighted latched onto a female.

It was quite the event and with a scoop net whoever was there could have bagged out during an hour of madness, which is rare from a jetty in my experience. Ended up keeping a couple for dinner myself, although they were covered in green gunge.The only downside was a couple that backed the car right up to the jetty and proceeded to take liberties with the bag limit. After i confronted them and they pleaded ignorance they hid there bucket in the boot and just walked the crabs to the car. After talking to others I found they have apparently been doing it all week. I just hope taking so many females doesnt ruin next years season as this spot has been producing consistently for a while.

Is this a common event for this time of the year and could it be related to rain flushing last week?

also, even after cooking and scrubbing the crabs, there was still a lot of green gunge on their shells. The meat tasted fantastic, but is the gunge toxic from the swan or just algae accumulation?

Cheers

Cam

No pics as it was too dark

Went out with hunterdive (Jared) and enjoyed the nice conditions on Friday afternoon.  The wind was a bit stronger than we expected it to be but the conditions weren't uncomfortable.

We started off trying for a few squid close to the Woodies ramp and between the two of us we had three small cuttlefish and about five squid in the icebox in fifteen minutes.  The sizes weren't great so we shot over to the other side of the channel closer to Carnac and got a good sized squid there before deciding to move outside the Sound.

We found a spot on the back of the Five at about 5:00pm, anchored up and started burleying.  We put some baits out but the tide and wind (S/W) were going in opposite directions which made fishing quite difficult.

Things were quiet other than a small breaksea cod that Jared pulled in so just after dark I thought I'd try dropping a placcie down in the hope of giving my new Luvias a workout (cheers Twitchy).  The first drop was nailed straight away by a 40cm breaksea.  I was pretty stoked as I didn't expect to get anything on it.

The rest of the night was pretty unproductive (any PM-d tips for fishing the FFB at night will be gladly appreciated) but a couple of bustoffs, a large eagle ray and a hooter cuttlefish kept us entertained.

hi guys

well we finally got on to some fish off mandurah, being such a perfect day we decided to head out to the 50mt line which is a bloody long way out in a 4.75 but it was the best conditions i have seen in a long time.

we started fishing around 8.00am and caught a couple of skippy and that was it for that spot so we went in a little bit shallower around the 40-45mt mark and this is where the action started first drift we got 3 pinkys and a massive sambo which was a awesome surprise as we were bottom bouncing baits it is the biggest fish i have ever caught and my first sambo ever aswell so i have set the bar high to beat that. at a guess it would of been 30+ kg's.

2nd drift and another 3 pinky's and a black bum as well as a couple of skippys. 3rd drift some more skippys and a massive bust off just before we could see colour guessing a sambo. the water glassed off now and the fish went off the bight pretty quick so moved on to a couple more spots with not muc success. most fish were returned to see another day only kept what you can see in the pic.

and to the bloke that abused us for pinching his spots we also have spent alot of time/money on the water searching for spots and we were only fishing spots on our gps which happend to be within 50mt to you on the first spot which was a quick look around before we went to our main spot. when we got to our main spot which im guessing you assumed we followed you out there as we left not long after you from the first spot, we were a good 500mt away from you as this was the spot marked on the gps then you steamed over to us and lost your rocks for no real reason so grow up mate your not the only one that deserves to fish these spots which we caught sfa on anyway.

cheers

Roddo

Well it's been one year since I transfered here to Kununurra in the East Kimberley.

Although I've been active in the outdoor pursuits I must admit I have been rather slack on the posting front, but maybe that had something to do with my really old laptop's slow speed, but now I've replaced her. 

Anyway, as they say 'a picture paints a 1000 words' so here's a small snapshot of photo's from our Kimberley adventures.

I know some of you are heading this way this year so feel free to stop over and say G'day.

It really is a playground up here

My second passion is trekking. I've been fortunate to trek some of the most remote places around the globe but it's definitely a big draw card here. As the season swings to the Dry and the Barra shut down it's the best weather here for exploring on foot.

Bungle Bungles was first on the list;

Heading out

Up Picanniny Gorge

Making camp

Macpac & Wilderness Equipment backpacks

Refreshing waterhole to soak your worries away.......

We also get out camping heaps......

Some more shot's of the surrounding landscapes

Ancient landscapes.......

Can't leave the dog at home

Even won't let you bath in peace

Now to the business end of things......the fishing

Well suffice to say we have plenty of space and options

I have a favourite in the Victoria River in the NT

Leah scored a PB Barra at 96cm, only her second  ever Barra

Escarpment at Angalari Creek

Typical runoff colur change, a few fish bagged here and biggest was 98cm on a live longtom

This little bugger followed the popper all the way to the boat and then sat under the bow......lucky he was only small

This shot is a Barra from Dicks Creek which again is in the NT about 80km west of Timber Creek. She holds unbelieve Barra and it's not a matter of hooking them but landing them as it's small hard wood. Lost countless meteries as she always finds the wood. You either fish the bridge were they hold up boofing bait or just downstream.

Next real option outside of the Ord is Wyndham.

Plenty of options and it's a 80km run to the big blue. Here's some pictures of various trips with some mates.

Nick my usual fishing buddie

Craig with some Nulla Nulla Barra. Was balistic for about an hour

Wet season runoff

Ultimately this is what the Kimberley is all about. Wide open spaces, Beautiful colours, peace and solitude, remote locations and fishing and spending time with mates. We caught Barra this day but who really cares......

So after being here a year I made the decision to upgrade the boat. Sold the old girl to a mate here and bought a Noble SuperV 5.1 side console. She's running a 115 Suzuki 4 and a Minn Kota 80lb i-pilot. She's one sweet rig and will serve exploring the Kimberley (and where ever else) well.

Picked her up from Ingham, QLD, way cheaper than Perth and closer by road

Front end of the boat

Transom end

If you are ever in the market check them out. I dropped her in the water yesterday for her maiden voyage. We hit the Lyne River which ended up being a 160km round trip. Report to follow.

I've travelled and worked different parts of the world but there really is something magical about the outback. Hopefully you will get the chance to travel and experience it.

Got a late call up to tag along with a few diehard DHI landbased fisho's, spent 10 days at the Withnell Point shack.

The drive up the island

The shack

It was my 3rd trip and the 8th for the others. The other guys were flat out bait fisho's and laughed at the amount of lures I brought along. "You might as well just walk up to the waters edge and empty your wallet, they wont do any good here".  We will see

The swell was pumping on the first few days but we made do fishing their secret bream hole. Was a bream a cast, with the majority being 40cm plus. Great fun on the light gear. The most frustrating thing was that I threw every bream lure I had, hard bodies and plastics only managed a few runts. Was not a good start for the lures. I gave up and converted to the prawns.

Bastards loved the prawns

Ventured up around the turtle bay area and had a blast on medium sized spango's, pinkies, baldchin and trevs on the shallow reefs. Pinkies on richter plug a highlight, sp's were doing well on the spango's. Also found a new reef system that was holding thumping stripeys, pulled in some that would have gone close to the 2.4kg state record.

Both quite hungry

Light tackle fun

A regular session catch

The swell finally dropped and we hit the west side, the guys promising 80cm plus tailor. The three sessions we had on the reef were by far the most productive with some solid spango's & baldchin landed. The tailor were on aswell, I spent the majority of the time chasing that trophy tailor. My biggest was 65cm, Rowan landed a solid 84cm monster. Had plenty of follows, dozens of missed strikes and landed 6.  With the platform only being 2m high and the water depth knee deep you could see all the action. The oyster stacks took a hefty toll on the tackle supplies.

I watched a jumbo tailor smash my popper, bust off on a oyster stack, only to continue chasing bait fish for the next 5 minutes, all with the popper still connected.

Some of the best tailor wash in the state. Was definately a few metre long tailor in there.

The pure variety of land based fishing options on the island would be enough to please anyone. The scenery isn't too bad either.

Will be back next year.

Hi,

Thought it was time I got on board great site.

Went to the monte's last week had a great time 12 mates from Rockingham

On that thanks to the crew on the KYLIN great crew and Sam C for his help and advice, will send a report and photos over the next few day.

Cheers

Brad

Great trip again out wide over the shelf! The red snapper were like flies and hard to get through them to the cod. 400 gram jigs were suitable on pe6 saltiga boat braid. anyways enjoy

 A couple Salmon from Friday 27/5/11. Caught on live mullet. We landed 3 and busted off on 1.

Landed 1 and lost 2 on Saturday aswell using same bait

 Hey team

Head out at around 7am from hillaries in search of some good ground......within 2 hours we had some, quite choppy conditions. The morning sesh we had resulted in 4 boldies (one lost at the boat, biggest 520mm), 3 undersuze pinkies, 2 black ass (one returned), various reef stuff, a trolled up stripe tuna, and the wierdest capture today was a monster cuttle fish on a patenoster rig! Obviously we kept to our boat limit of fish as well

We lost two real decent fish, didnt get a look. First we had a not pull , second was a hook was straightened.(the hook straigtening fish, didnt hit like a sambo, in fact i barely felt the bite, till i decided to put the real in free spool, and when i putt drag back on boy did it buckle over.  No snapper head shakes, didnt fell like a sambo full stop, real small runs with not a wholo lot of power. struggled getting it off the bottom, then tighteneded the dragg and the hooks straightened! Devoe!!!!!

After lunchtime when it glassed off, the bite really slowed down. So much for these northly winds i was worried about!

Interesting pointer was in the morning we were fishing with freshly caught squid, in the arvo tackle shop frozen squid, and boy did we notice a difference in action, even in the morning i was experimenting with one piece of shop squid with a piece of fresh squid, and the results speek for themselves.

thanks to every one who sent me pms regarding info on bottom bouncing, with your info you sent it helped so much in regards to what to look for in your sounder, techniques etc etc got told everything i probaly needed to know bar spots. So thanks all

photos tomorrow all

have a good night

brett

Well after heading out to sand a job this morning and watching all the boats heading up I felt a little down I wasn't going early. but I guess we missed the rush. We got to the ramp at around 9:00 and were on the first spot for 10:00.  Conditions were looking good and after sounding around there were fish and still in good numbers. After setting up our drift I gave the nod for all to drop and it was a few seconds and Jesse was on, not big but a dhuie. Then James, then Jody. yep the fish were still biting and although not the size of last week's fish, still good fun.

Things slowed down after a short time so we moved on. We fished 7 patches and all had some good numbers of fish on them. James the new guy was showing the hardened fishos how its done.  He had only caught one dhuie before and not big so he was having a good time. He did get two around the 9kg which one was kept for dinner. We did recapture a dhuie from the 7/5/11.  780mm. It was in very good condition was released to fight another day.  Thats three we have recaught.

Well the day was another great trip and we were back in the marina at 3:00. Days catch 20 dhuies, two keepers, tagged 16 and two swam from my hands before I got the tag in ,+ 2x baldies kept.  Also dropped half dozen fish. I think that is around 70-80 tags in all.  good looking forward to them turning up in the future.

 Went down applecross jetty and caught this 34 cm bream

 Went to Busso Jetty. Was a good night overall

Hi Fallas

Just wondering if anyone knows if the salmon are still down at Yeagerup thinking of a trip next weekend??

Cheers

Headed out from woodies just before 5. Out to a few weed patches

12 in a buckted in 1hour and 10 mins, lost a couple more, 5 tubes went over 20cm, but the others, theyve turned into fresh bait for saturday!

there still out there

Pink and Orange were the colours of choice

brett

My nephew gave me a call and said I’ve got the day off tomorrow, let’s go squidding.  Why not I said squidding is something I have never tried before.  We met a Woodman Point at the gentleman’s hour of 9am and we were off in his recently purchased 3.9m dinghy powered by a 25hp Honda motor.  Not long after we stopped over what looked like some weedy ground and he produced the tackle of the day (two $40 Big W specials, purchased for his kids).  After the first drift we hadn’t had any action when we were approached by another boat that had been in the area (obviously a pinger I thought, he’s after our spot).  As he got real close he yelled out ‘are you guys after squid’, we nodded to which he responded ‘if you go in closer you will have more success’.  Well, cheeky blighter I thought, first pinging our secret squid spot and then trying to tell us where to go.

Anyway we heeded his advice and spent the next few hours catching squid and small cuttlefish (released) and getting inked.  We didn’t get our limit but plenty for a feed for both families and a few smaller ones kept for bait.  Not a bad way to spend a Wednesday.

Hey Guys,

Just returned from a week up at the Montes/Exmouth. Had a ball with a big diverse range of species coming in on the jigs. Spaniards and Asstd trevs on the stickbaits :)Only got a small pop in for the week, which was a bit dissapointing, hard with a lot of diehard bottom bashing punters on board.

What a place! I want to head back there ASAP..

Here's a couple of pics from the trip, enjoy!

Cheers,

Sam

Went down to my local mulla haunt for a cast tonight, as being the only night this week I was free. 

hey guys,

went down in hope of getting some salmon. I came across one small school and no takers, and a few loners but they werent keen either.

There was plently of herring, squid and string rays. The group caught 13 rays all up and released them, was good fun for the boys whose biggest fish they've caught was a tailor ahha.

All in all a good trip away with no salmon. Just mates and sore arms and backs

Hey first time posting pictures all off my iphone and have no idea how to doit so yeah, sorry not very good qaulity.

The queenie is off my dads boat in esperance

The big gummy shark is from esperance too

The little bronzie is from our local groyne 

The shovel nose is from our local beach 

and the little gummy is from our local groyne too

Thanx hope it shows up allrite!

Well with a day off from work and the fish on the bite we hit the water again leaving the marina at 8:30. The fish were still on the bite and didn't take long and Jody was onto a big one .then Jesse and Kev .Conditions were lumpy at first but settled around lunch time .We kept 2 dhuies one 18kg and one 13kg 1x baldie 1x blackass.11 Dhuies tagged and released from 5-12kg. Have to say the fish are thick if you hit them one patch now has had 14 dhuies tagged and released .I would say there could be up to 50 dhuies sitting on that patch .Well its back to work tomorrow ,but hell what a weekend .

Hey guys,

Had a mate take me out on my boat out back of 3 mile reef for a troll and hopefully some tuna and macks. No macks to speak of but manged to pull up my first stripey and bluefin tuna.

Went back yesterday and managed to pull up another good BFT. Awesome fun. Will keep trying for macks though ;)

Well me and a mate got out early today.headed out of hillarys with great conditions slight easterly. both of us pretty new to perth so didnt have any spots to hit up. we were chasing an elusive dhuey or two. seems everyone has been catching  them like blowies lately. after sounding around found a bit of bottom in 30m only to get a couple of wrass and an under size pinky(released). thought we'd drift it again hopeful find the older brother but no good. decided to push out a bit further, hit 35m bit of broken ground but nothing to write home about and not much brought to the surface. moved on again and as we were going spottted a few bait balls busting up the surface, out went a couple of lures and with in 5 min bang, a nice stripy.  lost site of the bait so thought we'd just keep the lures out and search for ground. didnt find much but bout half hour later off goes the rod again and after a nice little fight the second stripy was landed. kept going after that for bout 20 min with out any luck and no spots found to find our nice dhuey, made the call to head in clean the boat and watch the footy.

no dhueys but still agreat day on the water. and good to see west coast ddemolish the bullys. great day.. 

also forgot to mention, i pulled up an octopus off the broken ground, any one else caught an occy on a hook before. first for me.

if anyone would like to point us in the right direction of dhueys feel free.. haha i know what the reply will be... cheers anyway..

Headed out from 2 Rocks at around 7:oo With Neil from bluewater mindarie Jody Jesse and me. Condition were good with light winds and little swell first spot dhuie  [ This dhuie I tagged and released 15 days ago ] ,snapper .2nd spot dhuie ,snapper blackass.mmmmmmmmm things were looking good as we had only been fishing for half hour.Things slowed a little as we checked some ground out a little further where we got fish a couple of weekends ago.The fish had move from these patches.With only a few small stay behind fish.After that all hell broke lose. The next spot two nice fish around 9kg ,the next spot 13kg ,6kg ,4kg fish then the next shit triple hook up of dhuies they were going off.Neil got a nice double header 1 around 13kg and 1 around 4kg NICEEE .I don't think I have ever not gone to a spot because I would catch a dhuie But I refussed to fish any more dhuie spots .We headed into some ground for some baldies,snapper and bugger me Jody pulls a 18kg dhuie.That was it home time .We finished the day with 2x Dhuies around 7kg 2x baldies and a Black ass. We tagged and released 20 fish .12 being dhuies 15,18,13,10kg fish and others around 4-7kg .also snapper and black ass .We were home for 1:30 and feet up for the football.Have not done up the pics yet but will post them in the next couple of days .

After seeing Wednesday's weather forecast decided the only sensible thing to do was take the day off work and do a spot of fishing. Packed up the boat, picked up the deckie and we took off up to Jurien hoping for a Mackie or two. On the water at 9 and we were greeted by magic conditions. Went behind the islands and started trawling in the 20's just behind the reef.

Things started off rather quiet with no bait schools on the sounder. We pushed on south and soon spotted a nice looking current line roughly SW of Boulanger Island. As we got close the water errupted around the boat with bait jumping everywhere, tuna launching into the air and in amongst it all sharks getting in on an easy feed!

15 seconds later both rods went off and we were on! After a good fight we had two Yellow Fin Tuna in the boat. You beauty!

With water still bubbling all around us we tried to get the lures back in the water but before I could get the second one out the first got hit again! After another good fight we had a Longtail Tuna in the boat. This went on for a while with both of us boating a number of Longtails in a hot session within sight of Jurien Bay!

The only disappointment at this stage was that we hadn't got into a Mackie yet but this was soon rectified!

We kept the Mackie and the two YFT and released all the Longtails.

Things went quiet after lunch so we tried some bottom bashing but this close in there wasn't much around, the only note worthy capture was a small Dhu on a Daiwa Pirate. The seabreeze picked up so we headed inside the islands, anchored up and had some fun with Herring and Skippy. Back out of the water at 4 and back home at 7. Long day but well worth it, easily the best palegic session I've had this side of Shark Bay!

Water temperateure still above 23deg up there!

A mate and I went down to a local spot this morning for about 2 hours.

Turned out to be very productive.

1 skippy- 1.5kg (awesome fight)

1 KGW

1 Snapper

1 salmon

1 Flat head

1 flouder

All were a decent size and all on gulp S-plastics

i got up early headed out  freaking cold and the fog coming of the  ocean looked  cool

i got 2 small skippy returned

1 pink snapper only 15cm long returned saftly like the other fish

other than that didnt get anything else

hey guys,

justa very brief report from my trip to the bow holes in carnarvon. there were some great fish caught up there never really got on to any big schools of fish of the same species as we always ended up with a mixed bag at the end of each day. these included trout, cobia, macks, pinks, spangles, rankin, eastray cod, finger mark, tomato cod and plenty of spanish flag. the weather only got better as the days went on. we left gero early sat morning and it rained most of the way and continued raining the rest of the evening in carnarvon and up at the blows. sundays weather was not bad had a light nrth east - east wind which blew most of of the day with a light swell so we headed north. highlight of the day was the 93cm trout.

monday welcomed us with a couple of storm front moving through so we headed south and hung close to shore and floated a few baits for spagos managed to get a couple but this is where my mate blacky hooked up a nice cobia in 5-10m of water. from here the weather got a bit better so we decided to head out a bit deeper and bottom bounce for a bit, not a lot was happening here picked up a pink or 2 but had a bit of trouble with a few sharks. we persisted for a bit and next minute my old mans line peeled off, after a bit of a fight he got the fish to the boat to discover it was a nice spanish mack. another storm front moved in so we head back to the bay and threw a few squid jigs around to no avail. but as we had givin up all hope the front moved on and we were faced with a glass off in which head headed back out and went south for the arvo for a good session with the spangles.

tuesday we woke up with no wind at all and bugger all swell so we headed north and tried a few spots from sunday, all we mangaed to get were a few pinks and they moved on pretty quick. the weather was glassing off and the fish wernt biting, think it was to still for them. by this stage the water was glass so we decided to head quiet a few km's offshore in the search of a few reds. no luck on our boat with any reds but managed a few rankins, eaturay cods, tomato cod and a few norwest snapper to finish the trip off.

anyway heres a few pics

Hope you enjoy

Looking at heading out to the FADS on Sunday. Anyone catching anything out there at the moment or is the fun all over? Is it back to hunting Dhuis?

Any Macks/Wahoo/Dollies still around?

A mystery FW angler (only a mystery as my laptop SD card reader has just shat itself) landed a stonking Sambo in about 30 odd meters of water jigging with pe 1.5 and a teeny rod. Said man repeated the act later in the day with a setup that can only be described as a step down from a herring rod with no backbone just to prove his point- all you blokes who are worried about the size of your rod may need to consult this guru in technique... oh and style!

Now on a mission to get the pics & load them up 

Update:

Mystery maestro unveiled, none other than Mr Honsu Chin

Absolute hooter of a Sambo that had to be brought in via the transom door because Seaquest & myself couldn't lift it

Also another damn fine angler with a Dhu on plastic: Mr Seaquest

The rod that can only be described as a flick stick for light hezza fishing & this battle had us pissing ourselves as Chinny ran around the boat, all said & done he nailed it & I am still gobsmacked.

Cheers Brendan & Chinny