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

Tryed my luck for a mulla for the 9999999999999999999887755542156 time.

Had no luck but while i had a livie out i was fishing with the smaller rod and landed 4 nice sized whiting and hooked a massive blue manna crab o my fishing line. I released it becasue im no sure if its legal to keep one caught on rod and reel.

Met a guy on holiday from borneo. Really nice happy guy. He wasnt catching much so i gave him my whiting. Never seen a guy happier ;)

Also hooked a starfish haha . All in all it was chilly but a good way to unwind after work and it was good to give that guy some fish to try as he hadnt tryed fish here and what better fish to eat than whiting

Hi Guys, been a pretty dry start to the winter and have gone for a prawn a few times this year without almost any luck. I have been fishing from a jetty but not sure how the guys in the boats are going. any updates would be good but i haven't seen or heard of any good catches yet. hopefully things change when we finally get a few consecutive days of rain!!!!!!

Hi everyone im adam new to fishwrecked,

Went out for a fish wednesday about 10am with my dad and uncle grant

headed out to the five at the south end of garden island, started our drift as we just passed it

seen alot of big bait schools but nothing realy chasing them, got a few nice sand whiting and a heap of small flathead on the light gear, and about 6 small scorpion cod, the fish died off a bit when grant picked up this nice flathead on the light gear 

The wind died right off and werent realy drifting nor were the fish biting so headed back to the five by this time the wind picked up slightly in the other direction so we started the drift as we hit bank instantly started geting pecked of by wrass caught a few of them, also caught a small black ass and a nice skippy, but couldnt rely get away from the wrass, slowly drifting over it went dead again which i thought was good coz i didnt realy want to catch anymore wrass, not long after grant was on and pulled up this nice 4 kg dhue closly followed by a small hammer head so it was landed pretty fast

drifted a bit more grant was on again ended up losing a nice bronzy close to the boat, and no more action for 30mins or so where thinking of packing up when line started peeling off my line and i was on took a good 50 meters off me then short quick runs we were sure it was a shark until i got it close enough to see and we found it was a decent tuna to our suprise after a good 30 mins of circle work from the tuna we had landed the 14kg 1.06m monster me and grant 3 goes each i think its a long tail? thats the first tuna for me i was over the moon hi fives all round.

we decided to head in and this is mixed bag

This has got to be my best day fishing and the best fish ive caught.

Ok before i start this i want everyone to know this is my first squiding attempt hahaha so was not the best but managed some results!!

Went down to woodmans point with a cheapy squid jig from the deli went for the green one figured thats what everyon on here uses, and baught some berly. So what i know about squid weedy bottom with sand patches so found some thing that i thought looked like that(forgot my polaroids).  first hour caught nothing but there was no wind and beautiful so still enjoyed it. I tried ever retrieve i could think off fast wind, sloww twitching, fast twitching. Looked like a bit of a bannana for a while there hahahah

Then when the sun started going down bang i was( retrieve slow twitching)  on my first squid ever and it was big one the tube was 38cm (not sure how this rates with you boys), the next half hour i caught 3 ore squid and one cuttle fish. Kept one more and threw the other two back (only me to feed tonight)  plus was unsure how to clean the cuttle so let him go as well  

So first squiding session a sucess i think im on the board and they taste great, got photo but will put it up when i get home

Hey guys,

Its my first time posting, ive been a avid follower for a good 2 years but for some odd reason i could not get my account to start.. this time however.. it worked!

Anyways, ive spent this month teaching my mum how to fish, it was my mothers day gift to her.. i dont usually fish the swan but this is the best way to get a newbie to enjoy the thrills of fishing.

We headed out the the river 3 times and all three times it has been productive. Mums first fish was a whopper 35cm bream.. which obviously annoyed me cos all i got was weed and twigs this was up stream in the Valley. Have a look at the

gills of the bigger one.. check out the reflection..scared the hell out of me!

The second time out,we fished the jetties in the nedland and mosman area and it yielded good size bream and big crabs. The bream went 30-36cms and the crabs averaged about 18cm.

The other night we headed out again, but this time with about 5 mates and it got us this!

Theres a few monsters in there.. a few of the crabs hit the 400g mark.

Make sure you have a good look at the first image.. it still gives me the chills!

Chino

Hey guys,

headed south last week and got into a few, mostly injured ones in the gutters besides 1 school of maybe 80 fish. Got up on the cliffs for a scout and spotted larger schools out of casting range.

Living the dream

Regards

Jimbo

 Hey all went for fish over the weekend just north of Perth

Couple of mates got 2 mulloway in 20 mins!

One went 25kg plus and one went about 10-12kg

Latest report for all from the water off Gero

Left the marina early yesterday morning thru intermittent showers and a squally sth west wind forecast to drop right off. So we hoped....

Along for the trip was robbie my usual spear buddy and a sponsored diver from queensland - Chris Peiro with whom id made contact on a dive forum. Chris had been working in perth and is now heading north and back towards his home in the east. Hopefully we could put him onto some fish!

Fairly average wet trip to the area we had chosen to dive and a quick sound showed some promising grounds in 12-16m. Set the anchor and geared up. 0800

My first drop to the bottom in 14odd m showed promise with small baldies , trout and dhuies about along with the usual buffies. Good signs early. With all 3 of us now in we decided to get to work on some burly so a couple of buffs found the end and a steady stream of scales and flesh was soon drifting to the bottom.

First casualty was a 6kg dhu for robbie followed by chris with a 4kg trout. A monster spangled emp joined in and looked headed to join the other fish in the eski but as i lay in the kelpy weed waiting for the right shot , a couple of average bronzies came flying in and spooked everything! spewing

Bit more burly in the water column soon saw a school of spaniards arrive! Small school fish of around 10kg. I dove first and stoned one , chris second following suit and then rob in pretty quick succession. Sweet

Back at the boat i took some snaps for chris of his trout and everyones macks, we then discussed the next dhu. Being a east coast diver and having limited time in the water of Wa so far he was yet to shoot one. Decided between us that the next dhu was his. What a decision it was!

Rolled back into the drink , breathed up and dropped to a small ledge in 16m. Staring into the gloom and watching my dive time tick by steadily... Felt comfortable but also had that feeling of a large something close by.... Very slowly i turned 180 degrees.... HOLY $hit..... The biggest dhu ive had in range was slowly cruising past.

Looked up at chris and pointed , watching him do circles trying to spot wat it was! No good i surfaced after the min plus dive and screamed at him to dive! BIG DHU!

Chris took a hook breath and was gone..... From the surface i watched him scan the area first left then right... then he extended his euro 120.... Closed the distance a touch and fired!

The rest was history - he had stoned the 15kg male dhu cold! high fives and handshakes between all! AWESOME

Big pic session followed understandbly and we where all very chuffed.... The following 10 or so dives we awesome! Dhuies everywhere! Counted atleast 6 fish over 8kg in the one area and quiet a number of smaller fish aswell. Great signs & a spot to be kept veryyyy quiet and probably left alone for another 6months to avoid over fishing these beautiful fish.

Ended the session with myself nailing a nice 4kg trout.

Moved location 2 more times in search of a baldie but not to be despite considerable burlying and good ground.

Finished the day off in style tho - everyone had spread out just a tad and with the quiet fish action i decided to have some breathhold practice. First drop into a sand hole saw 1min 17.... Feeling comfortable and after a extended breath up i dropped again after 4-5mins. This time set on a min 20 or 30.....

Laying on the sand with my arms folded and eyes closed , my euro laying beside me i felt so relaxed it was great. Opened the eyes to check the watch.... 55 secs and a big spaniard.. WHA! A thumper spaniard with whiting disease had cruised in on the sand checking me out... Grabbed the gun , extended and fired - 20kgs thanks muchly....

Back at the ramp at 1230 for fillet session with 4 macks and 4 demersals between the 3 of us.... no where near our limit but more then enough fish for us all....

Apologies no pics as they are all on chris's camera and he has limited internet access whilst travelling... Will post a couple when they are sent thru.

Cheers guys poddy

As some may have known already, 3 FW members: Myself, Marky and Percula were off to Cone Bay for a week.

Well the weather turned sour and we called it off. Travelling 50km in 25kn+ Easterlies in 2 tinnies was suicide!!!

Instead, we camped 3 nights at Telegraph pool we we were treated to some HOT barra action.

We had 32 hookups which resulted in 19 landed fish. We kept a points tally, had beer-skulls for F-ups and great a fantastic time.

No meterey's, 3 in the 90's and only 5 under 80cm, boy these fish were FAT! All taken on lures, with trebles crushed!

The snag in the structurescan pic produced many of the big fish. The scoreboard was Marky-7, Dicko-6, Percula-6....Enjoy!

Had the day off work today, so I headed out for a quick squid bash in the tinny.  Picked up a couple of corkers out towards Carnac, then things slowed.  I had to start heading back so I went right in close behind to the beach behind the groyne and picked up another 7 or so and 2 cuttlefish.  Back home by half 10 with a good feed to tea.  Got to love a solo session, was a little windy out there, but still nice.

First time I've kept a cuttly, anyone have any tips for cleaning, preparing cooking.  For what I've seen on a quick search it seems you cook it just like squid, quick and hot.   Seem like slimy buggers.

Jared

 While filming bull sharks, a shark specialist gets a bite on the calf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjbH5OuBc4&NR=1

Headed out roughly around 2pm for a quick squid bash,hadnt tried squidding around perth in the new boat, so found some nice weedy/sand looking ground, and boy were they thick!!! Would of caught around 25, lost more easily another 10 , due to conversation/beer drinking and not watching the rods!!!

a couple of things we noticed:

Size wore on as the day went on,it was getting to the point of squid only a 1/4 of the jig size larger!

Pink was colour of the day by far.

Orange did ok....

Was on the water from 2-5 30ish

And now very large feed of squid rings mmmm...!

cheers all

brett

 Just dashed out with the only chance I had to get on the water for this weekend and nailed a few nice squid. Took my bro out and we had lines in the water for no longer than an hour and landed 21 good sized squid. Certainly the best consisent sizes I've had in any session this year. 

The jig on the handline trailing a few meters behind the boat landed more squid than either of us working our rods surprisingly. Right at the end we had atleast 3 big squid under the boat but none of them were interested in any jigs. Had to go help out a boat who couldn't start their motor, a jump start with a bit of chop was certainly a bit sketchy but somehow they got it started after we took the lead OFF. 

Always great to get out on the water and can't wait to taste the spoils of our labour!

I got the chance to pop out for a quick fish on friday arvo, with the medium easterlies i decided to stay in close and get some squid.

Headed out from Mindarie and started a drift close to shore in front of the surf club. The water was a bit cloudy and it took a while to get the first one in the net and with a hood of 30cm i was pretty happy. After that they got a bit more active and within an hour we had 12 squid on ice , the largest having a hood of 34cm.

With enough for a good feed i headed out just in front of the first reef and send down the whiting rigs with the hope of some sandies to eat or for bait. Picked up one straight away and my friend got another two, not very big but good size for bait on the next outing.

The next drift we both hooked up on some thumper skippy and continued till we had 8 plump ones in the esky. They were all about 35cm and were great fun on the bream rods with 4 lb braid . On the last drop before heading in my friend hooked up and line started tearing of his reel at pace, i thought it might have been a pinky as we landed a few small ones earlier. As the fish got near the boat i realized it was a big skippy, and at 43cm on 4 lb gear my friend did well to get it in the boat.

I used to fish like this quite often but now i tend to head out deeper chasing the Dhu and snapper, I forgot how mutch fun the small rods can be , and altho i was chasing whiting there are lots of other species that can turn up and keep you happy .

Cheers Grant

fed the blowies today, fished from 4-8with no real luck, few small whiting and flattys returned but might be worth another go.

Hey guys, my bro inlaw just got an 18.5 ft boat and we are looking for a good spot to go for a fish we live in gosnells so do you guys have any suggestions where to go? Would be great if you could share some spots

Thanks

Nathan

Headed out late yesterday arvo for a squid. We left it a little late hitting the water around 4:30 Shot over to the islands and worked some banks. Didnt really get onto them but managed some beauties. Best one going a 30cm tube. The $5 dollar green cheapy did the damage.

Headed out on the troll off Rockingham and headed norwest. Matt Lined out and as soon as he flicked the bail he was on. We dropped that fish but shortly after got a double hook up and boated 2 blues almost double the size of the fish at the beginning of the year. Hunted around on the bank for a while looking at lumps but nothing exciting. Left the bank and headed for home and picked up a few more blues and a big sharky which went a smidge under a meter. Bit sad when it wasnt a spaniyard but thats fishin. Anyways fun session out there.

 A 75-pound spotted eagle ray leaps from the water in the Florida Keys, striking a woman riding in a boat, killing her. The stingray died from the impact. Officials say stingrays do leap from the water, but do not attack people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ikwk7C0DI&feature=feedrec_grec_index

Here's some pics from our time in Coral Bay. The weather wasn't the best but we still managed to get some great fish. The boat is parked up as the next 2 days look too windy and we are leaving Saturday.

 Time for another trip report!

Leading into the weekend it was either a Abrolhos sojurn or a SharkBay adventure... Closer to the date and a monster swell put payed to enjoyable diving so it was Shark Bay here we come!

This was to be my first big trip in the tub since we joined forces and i was pretty excited at the chances of some good fish and good times with the boys.. Along with us was "Team Rukkus" Consisiting of capt Toddy & his faithful deckies Briso and Friesy on board the ever reliable Quintrex hunter 445. "Team Shoot 2 Thrill" was myself and Dave on the "big" centery

Left Gero around 6 friday arvo with some coldies in the waeco and full tanks of juice. The 4 hour trip passed comfortably in the cool night - regular bearing checks and tinkle stops the only interuptions beside one unlucky roo. Saw the poor bugger 400m ahead in the big lightforce spotties and slowed to a crawl litterally... 15kph... the roo bounded off the road , stopped and bounded straight back into the car and under the drivers wheel - no damage done beside the poor skip. Hit Denham late friday and went straight to the jetty to try for a few squiddlies!

Dang the poor things had copped a hiding over easter! Just the site of a jig on the jetty sent them screaming for dirk hartog! We perservered and managed 3 for a quick taste but nothing special - couple more beers and bed for the next day.

Team Rukku's where up and off early - keen to hit the board while the late start of Team Shoot 2 Thrill saw a more gentlemans approach. the rukus mob heading west to the bent pin area in search of big pelagics while dave and i had our sites set on reefies north of town.

The big Yammie 4 stroke pushed us along at a easy 26knots in 3-4ft of sharkbay's crystal shallows and after a quick stop to film a decent tiger moochin around hunting rays , Dave & myself finally reached our first destination. This was where my decision to wear the 2mm top and wettie shorts quickly revealed itself to be a absolute shithouse idea. 20C warming later in the day to 22C.... BRRR

First area showed some good tuskies but too elusive and plenty of other odds n sodds. The 2nd spot alot more sexy! Dropping in revealed 2 thumper trout. Did the team thing and let richo have first crack as he hadnt shot a real big trout yet. First one spooked tho as he dove on it and the 2nd one ripped off under a ledge on what dave called a good holding shot? Very disappointing.

Abit of a swim away from the boat saw a monster 10kgplus tusker spook into the gloom and a decent rankin evade me. Not happy jan - dave however fared better locating the first big trout again and this time it all went like clockwork. He did however have the decision of Big trout or big Rankin as they sat side by side. The pics show which decision was made! Mandatory photos taken and a visit from a beautiful manta ray (my first time seeing one underwater) and back into the spearing proper.

this time i came up trumps with a solid 6kg tuskie and 2 nice rankins. Things looked up!

Few more spots changes here and there before time ran out , the water too bloody cold and the sun gettin low we hit the long road back to Denham at 28knots and 3 icey bevvies each where appreciated.... No BCF here but this surely is Livin!

Final tally saw Team Shoot 2 Thrill with 2 good tuskies 2 good rankins Daves big trout and a thumper spanish flag. Add to that 2 jumbo Red crays and we where stoked.

Team Rukku's where very dissapointing with just a small spanish and average grey mackerel gracing there decks... 

that night we hit the most western pubs on the mainland and entertained ourselves before hitting the sack around midnight. One Ruku's member a tad worse for wear... Victory was nearing for dave and I!

Day 2 dawned another magic day - light easterlys. Boats everywhere for the fishing fiesta and all sorts happening in town. Twas now that Team Rukku's , down one member after the previous nights entertainment declared there innings short and returned to gero tail between there legs. Dave and i pressed on tho in absolute magic conditions...

First dive was good - coral & fish about but nothing was killed. Again big tuskers seen but all too flighty. The half dozen boats zooming around showed that this little patch must cop a fair hiding. Did manage to hand feed a couple of Ripper Cod tho in the shallows.

Without too many details we ended up searching high and low in the glassed of bay but it just wasnt to be. Raging current in one spot was undivable safely - filthy water in others and spots that should have held fish void. Never mind you have days like that. Only added one more good Blackspot to the bag.

Overall tally for the 2 days saw richo and myself do about 275ks and use 90l of fuel which i was stoked about. The 100hp pushing us along at between 25 and 32 knots when allowed effortlessly. Being my first extended trip in the girl i was fairly stoked... "look out exmouth!"

Left denham at about 7 sunday night and cruised home steadily. Monday spent cleaning and packing and Dave off to perth with a eski full of prime fillets...

Gotta be happy with that

Took a couple of mates down to tantabiddi sunday to get a bluebone first then nail a red when the wind dropped later. Gotta love it when the plan comes together so well . . .

Aarons new pb bone. 830mm and 8 kilos of jaw and muscle.

 My red from 30 metres water just outside the reef . .

 Back in Freemantle after the short sortie for the Salmon down south I was excited to recieve a message from Ben (goodz) saying that there was a chance to head out on his boat for a second trip; of course depending on the weather conditions.  The plan was to begin fishing in more sheltered waters close to coast, and as the day progressed, and if the weather forecasters were correct, we could move out to deeper water as the wind was predicted to drop at midday.  Snappers were on the list of species we could target and how could I refuse after previously seeing pictures of magnificent big hump headed Pink Snappers on Fishwrecked.  A nice pinky would definately keep me happy for a while. Along with Mulloway, it's one of the two fish I am really hoping to catch while over here in Australia.

 

Just a quick report.

Spent the last 3 days down at Walpole on a house boat with some friends who had been there for a few weeks already. Fished pretty much night and day all through out the inlet and at Circus beach. First night we fished close to the mouth of the inlet and picked up a dozen king george with the biggest going 56cm along with bream and gardies. Within ten minutes of fishing there were about 2 or 3 rays around the boat. Second night we fished the Franklin river for bream and flathead, picking up the odd king george, and again the rays were among us. We set out a few live small mullet under floats and on the bottom. We lost one mysterious fish under the float and I picked up a lovely 4 ft gummy shark from the Franklin river among the snags on my stradic ci4 2500 and 2-4 kg nitro rod.

Next day we fished Circus beach, however conditions made it tough with seas to 3m. Picked up a few salmon around 6-7kg, a dozen bull herring and a good skippy close 1kg. We then retired to a good night in, with drinks and some freshly cooked fish.

Sorry about no pictures, didn't think to take any pictures. Shark and salmon were all released at the water.