went breaming yesterday and caught absolutly nothing (we were using lots of different hard bodies/soft plastics). we have caught fish on lures at this spot before and this time they just wouldnt take it. the more devastating thing was that the bloke next to us was catching heaps on coral prawns!!!!

Hey All 

Spent 4 nights down in dunsborough this long weekendend. Not a salmon anywhere. Water temp was averaging 22.8 degree before that first front came through then dropped down to 21.8 for the rest of the trip.

 There are bait balls every where!! from castle rock to to bunkers in depths of 5m out to 35m. We found that if you found the the right bait school, you'll find the the fish(thats the key). We had balls on Southern blue fins to 6-8 kg/strippeys amd bonito to a fat 4kg. Neally got spooled on one of the SBT's which was a bit hecktic! Boated around 10-15 SBT in the trip, and around 10 strippeys and some bonito. as well as the bread and butter stuff.

We did have two, big blind stricks out in 30-40m of water. big disappointed as one was screaming line for around 10 secs, to just here a pop and the braid snapped! lost my 3 favourite lures

We did a small amount of bottom bashing, im not the most skilled at bottom bashing yet out deep, and just gotta get some more experience,dont really know where to go , wha to look for, fully understand my sounder yet.... Caught one queen snapper looking fish, but obviously isnt it, does any one know what it is?(pic 2/3)

Im down again next weekend, will only take boat if i here the salmon have turned the cape, we were hearing reports that they hadnt really hit the corneer at leeuwin real hard yet either

Over all probs Lots of SBT,A handfull of strippeys and bonito, squid, bread and butter stuff, and getting experience with the new toy is the best! good trip. If anyone want to give me some hints or pointers regarding bottom bouncing down there or in general would be very vey appreciated.

im sure thats enough with the photos theres plenty more!

brett

Landed this horse bout 2pm today would have to say atleast 20kg ?

plus this one the missus caught two days ago

Well with the weather 'meant' to be reasonable on Friday, decided to head up to 2 Rocks with Scano, and 2 new guys who we had not taken out before.

Early morning start and at the ramp just before light around 6am. In the water and on the move.

Once outuside the 3 mile the conditions were no where near as good as expected, with a stiff easterly still blowing through. But we pushed on, at about 22 knots out to our destination out at direction bank.

Not long after we  arrived, the first casualty. One of the new blokes was not handling the conditions, and was already creating burely! not a good start.

We started to fish, with some good fish showing up on some lumps which has proved fruitful in the past, however nothing was on the bite, with only a small BB coming over.

Must have been 3 or so hours before any of us had even received a decent bite!

Sem one of the new fellas was first to hook up. I must state it was one of the first trips for him on the boat, and given the crap conditions didnt get sick at all. He thought he was cursed, as even beach fishing he just couldnt find any fish. So I was determined to prove him wrong.

After a nice fish, Sem brings up a nice baldie!!

I think the smile says it all! the biggest fish he had ever caught

Not too Long after Scano hooks up, again a ggood fight and another baldie hits the surface, 2nd good baldie!

Another couple of drifts later and both scano and Sem are hooked up. Strangely enough Scano hooks a great Cuttley, which even pulled drag on the Saltiga!! Not the best photo shot, but no net onboard!

Sem hooked up! As he was quite new to using an overhead, it was bloody funny watching him, Scano and i saw him hook the fish on the first strike, but he wasnt certain he had hooked it, so sat and waited, then tried to set the hooks again, still wasnt sure, even with Scano and i both giving it too him saying he was hooked up and to give it hell!

Finally the penny dropped!

and the Fish, a new PB for sem in any fish category!!!! his face says it all. To go out on a boat and hook into one of WA's finest eating fish. This dhu gave him some curry too!

can see the envy on Scanos face!

Quietened down after this, so decided to make our way in. Good day on the water, the conditions got better as the day went on, and a new deckie happy as larry! A quiet day by all means but a couple of good fish bought up

Cheers

Bodie

Hi all

Sunday 24th

As the weather wasn't looking too flash, we decided to have a look around town and take in the sites of the pinnacles. Did put the boat in the water at 4.30pm to chase some pinkies in the bay but we didn't trouble the scorer.

Monday 25th

Up at 5.45am and headed down to Cervantes for the dawn service. Back for some brekkie and on the ramp at 8am. Headed out to some ground that Auslobster told me about (thanks John)...on the way out we started seeing lots of red so we stopped for a quick fish but after a couple of norwest blowies came up, we moved on.

It wasn't long before we were on some good looking ground and some red shows....I was first on the board with a nice sweetlip, then not long after, mrs gates had her first ever baldie in the boat (with help from the rest of the family)....followed shortly after by another, but this one was undersize and went back well on the weight. 

Things were biting but not hooking up, so we drifted for a while before heading further out. Not much there, so we decided to drift over our previous ground, where I picked up a bigger baldie than Friday's...then the daughter's partner chipped in with a double header of blackarse and undersized dhuie...a quick photo and down it went on the weight.

By this time it's mid afternoon so we called it a day and headed home. Fish on the bbq for tea and a couple of fillets for tomorrow and we're all happy.

Now it's time to pack up and load the car and boat for a 10am departure Tuesday morning for the trip home. We all agree that we've had a great time up here and that we'll be back to Jurien shortly....a great place for a holiday with plenty to do and lots of fishing opportunities. We sure ticked some (fishing) boxes on this holiday but there's still a few more to go...trolling for a mackie is just one!

regards
rusty...

 My Granddad and I headed out today with FAD’s in mind, we were off to a good start when we forgot the jerry  and had to head home to get it. At the ramp and in the water by 6:30 and we were greeted to some more than ideal weather.

We got to the FAD and were surprisingly the only ones there, and it didn’t take long for the fish to show. We hadn’t had the lures in for more than a minute when we had a double hook up to very nice size dollies. My granddad soon lost his and I continued to battle it out and I soon landed my PB Dolly at 7kg.

With the lures in again it was on for young and old literally, my granddad lost another one and I continued to land my second for the day and another stonker at just under 7kg.

It was granddads turn to get in on the fish and the next fish he managed to land and this was soon to become his biggest dolly.

 It was then time to have a bit of fun and the light gear came out, I lost a monster on a softy, I quickly re-rigged to hook one the polar opposite to the earlier fish, it wouldn’t have gone much more than a kg. We continued to catch a few more and loose plenty more on the light gear and we left soon to more glassy water. What a day to be out on the water.

 Normally Anzac day i spend with 8wt flyrod in vast salmon schools at rotto - not this year!!... instead,

Launched at Mindarie at 0530 this morning to see if the spaniards were about.

After trolling the whole back edge of the three mile - from the leads, to north of staggies, at 6knts, for nothing.... i was starting to think the spaniards may have gone quiet....thus not too many forum reports lately.

I though to head further north to where i have done well on the last few spaniard missions and as i got close the bird life picked up a notch and the water looked good.

To cut an even longer story short.....I noticed a surface bust up that i mused must be small tuna so i slowly tonked over to where they were, and as i got within 100m the school dispersed, bugger, not even a small tuna today- i thought.

Basically a second later i noticed a small splash at the bow then a much bigger boil along side the boat - bigger tuna i thought,,,beeaaauuwdy!!

Next thing i know im staring at a decent spaniard which is now audibly chewing and knashing its teeth less than a boats width away from my boat -level with my head.

Luckily it was going the same way as me!!

I then just happened to be in the right place and time and watched a school of at least twenty, realistically i would think easily more, spaniards rip into a massive ball of bait.

NEVER before have i seen this many spaniards airborne at once - they were busting out of the water attacking the schools of scaly macks with so much aggression!

Best bit about all this was i was now eagerly awaiting a hookup on these bigger spaniards and it took longer than i expected and i almost made it past the melee when the x/wrap went off.

anyway still spaniards about, i ended up with three released one kept two - 14 and 18kg - my biggest so far for perth this season.

then topped them off with a dhufish and Baldy before coming in and leaving the marina by 2pm.

All spaniards were taken on a xwrap in a ridiculous yellow and silver colour right in the bait schools that were out a bit wider in 24m - 28m - did see other bait balls but nothing happening on those for me.

So if your thinking all is over on the mackie front like i did - dont, get out there.They aren't as thick as a week ago but still worth a troll.

Happy Anzac day!

Bec and myself and Faye and Adrian from Bunbury headed out for a bit of relaxing around some of the islands out in the gulf for easter. Had a bit of a look out there last weekend and thought the Pikes are in town without their boat so why not take them too. 4 adults living on a 24 foot centre console for 3 days/ 2 nights should be easy.

Loaded the boat with rods, dive kit, swags, beer , wine, food and ice and all ready to go. A bit of Qantas inaction at the airport friday meant the 1.30 start was delayed till 4. Finally got the boat in the water and blasted off to the island of choice for the night. Got there at 5.30 and into the water for me so we didnt have to eat chops for dinner. First dive a nice little bluey gave me a look, second dive and he was dinner.

After an awsum feed of fresh fish and a few drinks we rolled the swags out and nodded off under the stars. A wind change in the early hours meant Bec and I didnt get a really good nights sleep, Pikes down the back of the boat slept pretty well though. Saturday morning we moved the boat around to the other side of the island out of the wind and cooked up bacon and eggs for brekky. Faye had never snorkelled before so we got her in the water in the calm shallows and after a bit she was confident enough to try some deeper stuff. Up with the anchor again and off to find some crays for lunch. After a bit of looking we had 5 greens and a nice red in the bait tank , lovely. 3 squid made a tactical error and swam past the boat so they got nabbed for dinner . Someone tell me why we have meat in the fridge ??

A spot of trolling after lunch ( a little sleep for Bec) and a wander around on another island and it was time to head back to the anchorage for a well earned drink and some squidrings. The wind dropped right out just on dark and we spent the night in a total glassoff . . . Best sleep I`ve had in a while .

Sunday morning and a bit of a blast around to brekky bay for more eggs and bacon and then off to look for something to dive on. Bec and Pikeys chucked poppers while we motored around the end of the island and got a few little gt`s at one point . Moving around to the next point and look at the size of some of those , the big ones easily went 25 kilos. Bec hooked one of the smaller ones and after some fancy boat and rod work did really well to boat a nice GT on 14 pound , The leader was split about 200mm up from the lure when it touched on the rock at one stage.

I was pretty keen to get back in the water by then so out a bit deeper to look for a fish. First little ledge gave up another red cray. Second spot had hundreds off buff bream and a few sharks but nothing else. Third spot we found I finally got to pull the trigger and a couple of nice trout went onto the ice. With my urges satisfied we let the boat drift and made some lunch . As luck had it we drifted over a pretty big lump, 12 metres up to 6 with some pretty big golden trevally swimming around under the boat. Bugger lunch lets have a fish.

Bec gets cut off by a mackie and there is mackies to about 15 kilos in sight so I get back into the water to try and get one. Bec hooks and lands one about 10 kilos while I`m loading the gun. I finally get it loaded and none of the bigger ones are in view, plenty of smaller macks but not what I want. Swimming from one end of the lump to the other theres a few trout and blues but nothing outstanding,plenty off buffs and a few sharks. The water is pretty clean and I spot something different in amongst the buffs, quick dive and my first green jobfish is on the spear. Nice. As I put him in the boat a pretty chunky cobia swims under me, this spot is looking good. Follow the cobe to the edge of the lump and there are some really solid fish in with the buffs now. They are a bit deeper and I cant decide if they jacks or red bass. I dive to try and get one and they vanish either out into the gloom or into a cave in the lump, as I turn to surface another cobia cruises past so I swing the gun and after a short but intense contest Ive got my hand in the gills of my first speared cobe . . Not huge but it`ll do . Drop him into the boat and back to try for one of those big red whatevers. After 5 or 6 frustrating dives one turns for a second look and I get the spear into him. I`m a bit dissapointed with the shot and that its not a jack but I`ve got the fish and happy with another first and a pretty good fish. Thats enough for me so back into the boat for a rinse and beer. Pikey nails a very solid golden while I clean the fish and we say thats enough and decide to head back to the marina.

The wind was nonexistant as we blast back at better than 30 knots with a stubby in my hand , perfect way to end an absolutely fantastic weekend.

Magic surroundings, excellent company, perfect weather and a couple of crays and fish thrown in as well. Does it get any better ??

Gday Crew,

Finally decided to put up a few photos from our trip to the Mackies earlier this month. Absolutely awesome spot, Cant wait to get back there... which I dont think will be too far away!!

Finally managed to get away for a few days. Headed up to a spot just south of dongra for a few days. The plan was to test out the newly fitted engine and all the new gear.

Day 1 fishing was a solo adventure fairly far offshore. It was a late start but the water was still flat as.

First stop was a troll at the back bank where it drops from 15 to 23m. After 30 sec with a pink halco chrome I was onto a macky.

After another 40 min trolling with no luck and the wind starting to pick up, I dropped down a bottom rig. first drop produced a 49cm pink (released), second drop produced a nice dhui.

With the wind picking up, I decided to head back in. An hour of fishing and a fair end result:

next up was watching the sunset and cooking up some fresh dhui

Day 2 of fishing was slower with only a few reefys, undersize demersals, bb cods, and a solid samson

Got to play around with the new lowrance units. I was suprised at the level of detail and accuracy.

All packed up ready to hit the road home

 hope you enjoyed!

Cheers

Day 1 – Sunday 17th: A few of us decided to try our luck at Bundegi  after lunch. There were heaps of small Red Throats, Spanish Flags and other small SP “nibblers” to keep us entertained. Mattyoga  caught a nice sized cod and Yakyaker had some follows from good sized Trevors  over the reef later in the afternoon. All up it was a good shakedown session on the water.

Day 2: We hit a spot south of town for a crack at some bigger fish, but the gap through the breakers was not passable, with waves breaking right across ruling out any attempt to fish the back of the reef. The tide was huge too, coming right up past the camping area. As I was heading out I was visited by a school of Cobia, with a couple being in the 15 kilo range, but they didn’t hang around unfortunately. That was the high point of the day for me, as I caught bugger all and donated some lures to the reef. This location certainly looked fishy though, as proved to be the case later in the week!

On the way back to camp, I stopped in at Turquoise Bay and managed one reasonable pic of a Cod sitting on the bottom. I also saw some good sized Chinaman Fish swimming with some trevally, so it was a good snorkelling session.

Day 3: The day dawned a ripper, with light winds and a dropping swell. We tried a different spot  closer to camp and had some success both offshore and inshore.  This is where poor old Fozzy’s not so excellent Adventure almost met a watery grave. We were just heading out when we heard a yell – “I’m sinking”, upon which I looked around and was incredulous to see Fozzy’s bow pointing up at the sky, the stern submerged and him bailing out into the water. I caught a Red Bass plus a couple of Red Throat Snapper offshore. Mattyoga was the hero of the day, as he trolled up a sizeable Spaniard of 17 kilos plus. Yakyakker also scored with a big Trevor he estimated at around 20 kilos and Shufoy caught a good Coronation Trout plus a small Red Emperor.

Some of us headed inshore to some reef and had a ball casting poppers at the back of the reef. Here we got blown away by some horse GT’s that could not be stopped. Yakyakker and Brendon did manage to extract some “smaller” specimens though. You could hear Brendon from a mile away when he caught his – he was a happy chappy!

Day 4: The weather was again close to perfect and we hit the same spot again, with Shufoy, Carms and me heading out wide hoping to troll up some mackies and going over some good lumps found the day before. Unfortunately the mackies weren’t on the chew and the bigger bottom dwellers weren’t too hungry. I caught a succession of small cod plus some Red Throats and lost a good fish that spat my SP unfortunately. The guys who stayed inshore also had limited success too. We blamed this on the moon phase and the tides.

Day 5: As the swell was still very low, we decided to try the spot we went to on day 2 and this time we got out behind the reef with no dramas, although the wind was a bit stiff and the sea a bit choppy. We headed south trolling for a while with no hits. Shufoy caught a fish of some sort casting a lure, so I thought I would try chucking a small Twisty. As it was on the drop something grabbed it and proceeded to strip line from my little Shimano Slade at a very fast rate. Whatever it was ran quite high in the water initially then dropped deeper in the water after a while, but unfortunately I wasn’t using wire and the inevitable bite off occurred. At this point Brendon, Alec and I noticed a fairly substantial drop off from around 20 to 30 metres in the space of around 10 metres, so we started dropping down jigs to see what might be lurking below. This is where we experienced the best fishing of the week, with Brendon and Alec landing good sized Rankin Cod and yours truly landing a nice Coronation Trout. We also hooked some absolute monster fish that could not be prised off the bottom and ended up reefing us. I was reeling in my Octa Jig and it got smashed on the retrieve and promptly dragged straight back to the bottom by something evil. I put as much hurt on the fish as I could, but my $45 cheapy glass rod just wasn’t up to the task and eventually my leader frayed through on the reef.

After a while we started heading back to the gap in the reef and I thought I would try trolling my trusty Green / Gold  Rapala CD18 Magnum for a Mackie. As I approached the others who had already gone some way further ahead, I felt a hit on the lure and hooked up solid. The fish didn’t take much of a run at all and slugged it out near the surface mainly. After 5 minutes I had colour on the fish and it was a Spaniard of around 8 – 9 kilos. I have been dreaming for quite some time how I would handle a bigger / toothy fish if I managed to catch one and now the dream had come true! After a good gaff shot, I grabbed my club and gave the Mackie a couple of good clouts on the noggin which pacified it well and truly. I managed to slide it in along the right foot well and let out a triumphant yell and punched the air in my exuberance. This was the icing on the cake on what was my best day’s yak fishing ever, despite the big ones getting away.

Hey guys. we had a late morning start yesterday at 11am out of two rocks. the swell was kickin it and it made for some fun on the way out. glad we had travelcalm or i woulda been burleying for the whole day. anyway, i started off with plastics - 7inch Slams. got some good smacks but no hookups. Rob then switched to bait and soon had a sgt. baker on board. put him into the tank for bait if we ran out. i then switched to bait, and that drift managed a just undersized dhuie and a tiny blackass. next drift, rob managed to pull up a stonka blackarse, which went straight into the esky. i then managed a smaller blackarse, but he also went into the esky. things went a little quiet so we set up a redrift, and just as crossed the mark, rob was on again. this time, a nice sized baldie. next drop, he had another baldie on board. in the meantime, i managed to pull about about 3 tiny blackarse, one scorpionfish (or spiky,poisonous thing) and a large norwester. in the next 3 hours, we had little luck. we finally managed to hit a good patch, which resulted in rob and i hooked up. my fish was a nice baldie; robs was a very nice queenie. the next fish up, after a long fight, had us calling a big dhuie, arose a big blackarse. we already had 2 on board, so we released the guy with the release weight. felt good releasing it.

final catch was:

8 baldies, 2 kept

5 blackarse, 2 kept

an undersized dhuie

Queen snapper

2 norwesters

3 scorps

two wrasse

got into the marina at 8pm to start the trek back home. we stayed out longer than we expected, because the conditions were absolutely mint. didnt take long at all to get back in. we headed out this morning aswell, hoping to replicate the efforts. the day was pretty much over before it started. we got 2kms out and turns around because it was way too rough. the top half of our bodies were absolutely soaked. hoping monday stays good, hoping to get out again. i have some pics of the fish at home, but i will put up the actual pics of the fish when i get them tomorrow.

cheers guys.

 Does anyone know if the river is still dirty?

Hi all

Team gates arrived Thursday arvo and after checking out our holiday house, we checked out the marina, boat ramp, sea rescue group and the local beaches. There's some weed on the beaches but the water looked ok, colour wise.

Hit the ramp at 8am Friday (yes, I know we should have been out there earlier but we've got some sleepyheads in our family!!). With a light easterly blowing, we headed out thru the north passage and decided to troll south along the 20m line behind the islands. After about 30 mins and not much happening, I got outvoted because 'trolling is boring' and so we headed out to a spot we'd been given.

Heaps of red on the sounder but nothing was really taking out baits, but the drift was pretty slow so we moved on the wind a bit.

The daughter was first on the scoreboard with a double header of undersize pinkies (38cm)...spewing! Both released with the weight, so that was good. A short time later, we had a couple of rods loaded up and after alot of anticipation, we had 2 norwest blowies in the boat, then back over the side....double bugger!! The commentary on the video went from excitement to bemusement.

Moving further west into 50m of water, we finally got some runs on the board....the daughter landed a nice baldie and a black arse, both firsts for her, followed shortly afterwards by yours truly with his first baldie...bigger than the daughter's so I got the bragging rights.

Got back to the ramp around 3.30pm, tired but happy with our catch. Baldie on the bbq tasted so sweet!

Saturday 23rd

Headed for the ramp at 8am and joined the queue to have a boat inspection by the local water police...formalities over with, we headed out for some trolling again because the winds from the NW was making things a bit lumpy. Lots of boats doing the same thing but we had no luck, not sure about the other boats.

Decided to try some bottom bouncing a bit further out, but the sloppy conditions meant we called it a day and got back to the ramp at 12.

Baldie and blackarse fillets for lunch went down a treat....conditions tomorrow are looking worse than today, but Monday looks a bit better.

Hope everyone is having a great Easter...take care and stay safe.

regards
rusty...

It's been tough going of late to hit the water with work etc. but recently I have been able to put some hours in with MattMiller in some very trying conditions. We have been searching for a dedicated Sambo jigging spot & on the way out 2 days ago we hit a lump whilst on the move & luckily decided to hit it up, that brief session was hectic with YTK's smashing us on light gear & staying well clear of the heavy. Matt almost boated a beauty but it wasn't to be so sadly no pics.

Today we headed out with my old boy in shite weather, after some messing around we decided to have a jig at the spot & it was on! Matt was killing the Sambo's & whilst I got into the YTK's & the old boy watched on as a novice to jigging let alone much fishing.   

It took him one drop to get into & he took YTK line honours today with the most boated, he also provided much amusement for Matt & myself when i cranked up the drag on the Stella & gave it back to him none the wiser hehehehe. Unfortunately didn't get any pics of Matt's Sambo's but he was slaying it & did very well on them with a switch to some light gear punishment. 

I was decided to have a break from jigging at the end of our drift and chucked out a McArthy on the pe 1.5 for this dhuie to give me some serious stick. Good day out in shit wind & just stoked to have a fish with my old man.

Better pic at home

As per the title, headed out with my brothers today from midday until 6.30. Very quiet in the 30's and 40's most of the afternoon, so we headed into the 3 mile. Bait balls everywhere but we couldn't connect with anything, apart from a few very angry pike. About an hour later we see tuna free jumping about 150m away, we tried sneaking up on them, roaring around at WOT  and gently meandering, but whenever we approached they disappeared, and no matter what we tried they just wouldn't take what we had to offer when in casting range. Tried popping, stick baits, spinners, bidded minnows, even ganged mulies at one stage.

In the end we threw on the X Raps and trolled back, and with 15 minutes of light left we covered the last 8nm back to the marina at a lovely 35knots. Conditions were beautiful after 4.30pm. So wish I went to Rotto tonight like I had planned.

Sooooooooo much bait in the water up there, very frustrating.

is there still macks around mindarie and hows the gemini wreck fishing

 Planning to head out for a fish Saturday arvo/night, was planning on going to Woodmans Point Jetty but the prospect of having my car broken into has made me look at other locations. Used to land a few rays at the Esheds but last time it was quiet, anyone had luck with the rays or anything else half decent? Dont mind just catchin the bread and butter variety.

Cheers,

Langerz

Im heading down to bussleton this weekend for a couple of nights and was wondering if anyone has heard any reports on the fishing there. I've been told that the squid there is pretty amazing, but wanted something a bit bigger. i was there two weekends ago and managed to catch a banjo shark and a monster ray, but looking for something decent. Also has anyone heard any news on the salmon? eagle bay perhaps. any reports would be appreciated.

oh and also, if ur looking for any camping/fishing/boating gear for the long weekend, come into getaway outdoors in malaga, i work there, and would love to have a chat and hook u up with some great deals. corner beach rd and malaga drive.

stay safe and catch lots of fish peoples.

Anyone been down this way any reports going im off there tonight with my fishedwreck shirt say hello if you see me!!

HAVE A GREAT EASTER GUYS AND DRIVE SAFE

Well where to start

Spent almost 3 weeks up at port gregory and Exmouth.

First 8 days were at port gregory just south of Kalbarri.

Interesting time there, alot of wind

Drove up on the saturday arriving late saturday afternoon. Un-eventful drive, which is the best way to have it!

Sunday was going to be the first day on the water, and the weather was looking good. As it was a beach launch i was very hesitant to launch my boat (being 3.5 tonne) so decided we would launch the razorline 23fter that day to see how the beach launch was.

Was a piece of cake with this boat, and was launched using a cruiser ute so problems.

First day was just a bit of a play, taking the girls along for a drive to see what was about.

We only trolled about, but did manage to land a cracking first trout on lure, only about 1km from the launch!

Once back at the caravan park, spoke to a few locals about the prospects of launching my console from the beach. The consensus was, piece of cake with the assistance of the towns biggest tractor.

Against my better judgement decided to give it a go.

Getting down along the beach was a piece of care, barely dug in at all, but once reaching the water line, that was a different story!

She sunk!

Every minute it sat there, the worse it got!

We tried in vain to get her to move, even with a 2nd tractor, max tracks the lot, but it was just not going to happen. The only option was to wait for the tide to rise and pull her off backwards with another boat. (tide would not rise high enough to float her off) Ended up taking the transducer off just to be safe

We were fastly becoming the talk of the towm, and every local wanted to come for a look!

Actually came off easier than i expected. The end result 4 hours later! atleast no damage was done!

Finally on the move!

Since we had missed most of the good weather decided to stay inside the reef and play with the light gear.

Scano with a little baldie

A nice little trout

A few more smaller fish were caught, and a few good fish lost to the reef that day

The next couple of days the weather was crap, howling 25-30knot easterlies, turning 25knot southerlies.

After a couple of relaxing days (mainly drinking beer) we decided we couldnt sit around any longer and had to put up with the wind.

Spent a little while going over the gps charts to find some ground, found a rise which looked interesting about 10 mile out, and the next morning headed to it.

To say it was rough was an udnerstatement. Only took the Fury out, as the ali boat would have stuggled. It was 38 degrees and the 2 deckes were wearing rain jackets! For the first 20 minutes or so it was a battle to just see from all the water coming over the side, as we were side on to the easterly.

We pushed on, finally making the 12 mile out, not cracking 1 knot above 20 knots the whole way!

What was to come was fishing chaos, no sooner than 10 seconds of the lines hitting the bottom, everyone was on. Pinkys, baldies, dhuies, trout, and a surpirse cobia too!

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Photos were a little hard to take given the conditions

Only fished for maybe 45 minutes before we had enough for a feed and time to head in. Coming in was fun following the southerly. Chop would have been easily 6-7 foot! needless to say we burnt some serius fuel in those conditions.

Scanos cobia

The next day was pretty much the same, windy as hell and we pushed out again to the same grounds. Fishing was just as crazy, with large numbers of fish coming over the side, we were only fishing in 15022m of water! I did score another nice dhu of around 6 kgs, but also some more baldies, trout, and BIG sambos.

This one i managed to land on a plastic after busting off on 3 or 4 prior on PE4, guessed 20-25kgs?

Bloody hard work in shallow water!

The other boat decided to stay inside the reef this day, and play with the light gear. Not too many pictures of fish, however this photo is of a 6-12lb Samuri running 8lb on the certate! man these rods are awesome, look at the bend! hooked to a 5ft shark which was boated. The 2nd rod in the pic is also a samuri which was hooked to the same shark

The last day decided to drive up to Kalbarri with the boat, rather than try retrieve on the beach after the fun of launching! did manage to get the razorline out no problems. We did have all the gear including mats for the trailer.

The drive up on the water to Kalbarri was amazing. Seeing the reefs of Luckybay, and the cliffs of Kalbarri from the water was sensational.

some of the ground we found in shallow water was holding huge numbers of fish, however we only had our trolling gear, and managed to troll up this mackeral

Couple pics of the troll, teasers in and all

The result

Made it to Kalbarri, after being attacked by a swarm of whasps! stange being a few mile off shore.

That river mouth is fun!!! the swell wasnt very big, but geez I'd hate to go through it when it is!

Made it back no probs, packed and off to Exmouth.

Still got more photos from Exmouth to come but here is a few.

the Razorline went home, and a 2nd boat joined us in Exmouth, which was a 9m Protector.

These are some pics during the comp, especially the last day.

Some bling

Early morning start

Scanos 73cm trout, which lost the comp by 2cms i think, on the first drop. and no Adam its not the lucky tim spot, its the lucky scano spot! :)

Nice spango, as you can see conditions were horrible!

Mate frank hooked up to his first decent fish of the trip!

the result

The boys dropping on the spot that ended up being the hottest 2 hour fishing session i think any of us have had

Conditions sucked!

Bundegi on the Monday of the comp

Another trout from earlier in the week. Think first day in Exmouth

All in All we had a ball in Exmouth, some 20 cartons of beer, good fishing, besides a couple of crap days.

Looking forward to next year

More pics to come

Bodie

I dnt mind going under the narrows for a bit of a fish - but i havent been for a while...

Is there anything biting at the moment?

If not, where's the go for Friday night? 

With the weather looking good for a spot of fishing on the weekend, Bads Jarrad and myself decided to go up to Cervantes to test out some new gear we had all got the previous week. After a big night on friday we awoke early with fuzzy heads to make the trip up there.

With the boat in the drink at 7:00am we headed straight out to the Sambo hole to see if we could jig up a couple. After seeing a few fish on the sounder, but them not taking anything we swapped to bait and could only manage an undersize Dhuie. After a while Bads made the call to move and we headed over to some new ground we had never been in my boat before. With no real spots we sounded out some likely looking ground in 38m and had a drift over. After a fair few little pickers Jarrad came up solid on a nice fish on his new outfit.

Out of the depths came a Dhuie - a new PB for Jarrad and on his new gear to boot! (Tuff Tackle 12000)

Not long after Jarrad landed his Dhuie i started to get some decent bites, letting out line....... letting out line........BANG! i had connected with a nice Baldy - great way to christen the new rod and reel.

With a couple of nice fish we then started heading home, when we reached the back of the reefs we saw heaps of birds and massive bait balls everywhere. So out come the twistys and we started casting to the bustups of tuna everywhere after not being able to get any strikes Bads hooked up to a monster that started peeling line off at a rapid rate of knots! It wasn't to be however as the fish spat the lure.

After all that commotion we then headed back in.

The next morning not looking quite as good as saturday we headed straight back out to the sambo hole but there was nothing out there. On the way out we had passed heaps of bait balls but no tuna so we chucked the lures out the back and had a troll around. After 10mins of trolling around the bait, Bads Stella 5000SW screamed! he was hooked up solid and this fish was running hard. After about 5mins he had the Striped Tuna boatside ready for the gaff.

Out went the spread again and no more than another 5mins later my reel screamed into life and i was onto a ripper. After a lot of jumping over eskies and tackle boxes i had the Longtail Tuna boatside for the gaff. Got him on my 2010 Saltiga 4500 (awesome reel!)

With both me and Bads with a fish but not Jarrad he was next in line for a crack. So i reset the spread and as soon as i put my reel into the rod holder it was hit by a bit better fish than the others. Once Jarrad picked up the reel, and i grabbed the teaser out of the water the other lure got hit as well. With the guys onto the fish i cleared the spread. Bads got his tuna in quickly with another nice longtail in the esky. Jarrads tuna was taking line off the Saltiga with ease! Once he got it boatside we realised just how much larger it actually was.

With a couple of nice Tuna in the esky for some sashimi on the beach and steaks for tea we headed in and off to the pub for a pint to celebrate.

All in all a great weekend with the gear getting a little test out and a couple of PB's

Cheers

Chris

 We headed up to Sandy capes just north of Jurien over the weekend for a bit of camping and hopefully a bit of fishing, We arrived Saturday arvo to glassy conditions. It was the first time we had been there and we were very impressed. Eating dinner on the dunes over a glassy bay was pretty special. 

Sunday was predicted for light winds and a small swell so we took the dinghy out after a few pelagics. We left the beach at 7:00am and had the lures in by 7:20 and had the first strike by 7:30, the fish felt like a Macky and put up a bloody good fish but it spat the hooks. Lines back in and we didn’t have to wait long, this time we landed the fish and were stoked with possibly the biggest fish in the Dinghy.

We set the lines again and didn’t wait more than two minutes and Ollie was on, he fought the fish and landed our second Mack for the day.

Lines back in and again instant strikes we had a few missed strikes then one stuck and Ollie was connected to a bloody good fish, some smoking runs later Ollie landed the first Tuna in the Dinghy, we were bloody stoked.

Lines back in and we decided to start trolling back to the Ramp as we had plenty of fillets, before we could clean the blood off my rod went off again, this time the fish felt small, and a few seconds later we landed what we believed was a school Mack, unsure we released the fish.

We then set the lines again and again before we cleaned the blood Ollie was hooked up again, it felt slightly smaller but not tiny, a few minutes later his Second Mack was onboard, it measured 100cm so we decided to release her to grow bigger. Lines back in and seconds later Ollies rod goes off again, and again a solid fish. After a few solid runs his thirds bloody Mack was onboard. 

We decided to head in where we were followed but a few dolphins and seals. Back to the beach by 9:30 after what was easily the best day in the dinghy without doubt.

First time report guys.  Be gentle.

Finally convinced a long time mate to come along on one of my fishing trips off Jurien on Saturday. Started off early at first light, but North Easter was up a little so decided to go for a troll first before heading deep.  Couple of hits and misses before we were on to the first mackie.  After 2 hours of trolling the count was 3 spaniards, 1 shark mack and 1 long tail tuna.  Macks (including sharkie) were around the 10 - 12kg mark.  Tuna probably around 6kg.  Kept the spaniards and tuna.

Wind had dropped a little, so decided to hit up a couple of lumps out deep.  Second lump seemed to have a bit of action on it and pulled up 4 dhuies, 1 blackarse, 1 sambo, 1 sgt baker and some pretty thumping NW blowies.  Kept 2 dhuies around 5kg and 12 - 14kg and the blackarse (which was about as big as they come). 

My mate was the hero of the day catching majority of fish.  I was happy to put him on to them.  We were on our way in around 11:30am pretty satisfied and even saw a whale to top things off.  Never seen one come through in May and I've spent a lot of time crayfishing out there at that time of year.

Looking good for all the holiday makers heading up there.  I'll be looking for them again for sure.

Hey guys, just got back from 3 days in Kalbarri.

Doing the trip up fellow member Dane (Daneox) we'd planned to mainly fish landbased but after getting a decky offer to good to refuse

we spent 2 days fishing on local Kalbarri member Kye's (Kye86) boat.

We had a ball chasing around schools of small Tuna (longtail, Striped, Yellowfin) and trolling around looking for Spanish Macks. We scored 18 Spaniards over the 2 days. Size was in the 6-12kg mark.

Thanks alot to Kye for getting us out on the water.

Hope you enjoy these pics

Cheers.

Stripies were great fun on 3kg.

Longtail, I think...

Skipper Kye with a nice Spaniard.

Dane with another...

Mackies everywhere....

This being the best mackie, est. around 12kg

they just kept on coming on Day 2...

Dane with another mack.

Back to the ramp and off for a few well erned brews.

 Awesome fun popping for yellow fin whiting and long toms. The little metal jigs worked a treat retrieved flat out too. Thats fisho-ron in the background. A beautiful part of Exmouth, despite the flies. I also managed some cool vid footage of some of those little fiddler sharks being spooked as I walked along the beach.

 Just for Brad. 

This is about the best this old man can do..... (hehehe)

Great fun on 1 kilo. Lure was a bubble pop. Phone camera only.

got my new cannon  electric digi troll 5 today  worth $3200 with transducer  got a bargin at $300 when they guy actually wanted $1500  for it    powered it up n all good    works unreal

hi everyone just wondering if tuna are still being caught of mindarie and if anyone is catching ?