Hey all

first time poster!!

 Headed out to the fads yesterday morning. Resulting in some dollies and tuna. nice morning, weather was disgusting with southerly screaming offshore.

- Frustrating when other boats ram the fads, in hope of getting hooked lures back, or hooking fish. Guys remember there is NO need to do this. The fish will come to your spread, or baits. getting to close to the fads just sound the fish, and then no ones happy

Water Temp out there is 25 degrees

Photos to come

brett

 Big shout out to Gully for going beyond the call of duty in getting a big cod back down to the depths whilst fishing up at Exmouth last week.

After a massive fight Gully pulled a huge metre plus cod up from about 40m and when the release weight wasn't enough for hit he jumped in the water and swam it down three times, the last time we added three dive weights to the release weight and together with the several metre dive by gully had the fish released back to its home.

Great to see an angler going to such great lengths to look after the fish. Maybe they should talk about that on 60 minutes.

me and my bro went down to the busso jetty last night chasing the squid. its a full moon and the wind was down so thought it might be a pleasant night to go out - and it was. 

I bought a new jig following you guys suggestions...only thing it was 7pm on a sunday in busso so could only get an el-cheapo from the shell. it was a 3.0 but i had trouble getting it to sink so switched up to my fluro yellow 4.0 and got taken within a few minutes and was quickly followed by my brother who pulled in another. these fellas were only small tho with hoods of perhaps 10cm - but it was the most success id had in ages so kept them! there were quite a few squid we could see swimming around but none were going near our jigs - or theyd go up have a sniff and clear off.

the guy just down from us pulled up a good sized one so we shifted camp a bit further down the jetty after an hour or so of no further takes. in our new spot we pretty quickly caught another 2 - this time a bit better size with hoods about 20-25cm long. a couple of other blokes came down and camped along side us and were using a live herring as a teaser which pulled in a couple of squid..but then they were having the same hassles as us with not being able to get them to take a jig.

I put a herring out on a 2m trace under a float on a pencil jig as a couple of you guys mentioned to me but didnt get any takers on that.

from what i gathered from talking to other people out on the jetty last night people were catching a few good sized ones but no one was really doing that well with the numbers.

beautiful night tho - not too chilly and bugger all wind and bought home enough squid for me and my old man to have chili squid for breakfast!

looks like a bread and butter plate in this pic but its a good sized dinner plate - enough to fill 2 of us up for breaky!

Well, we went about 3 miles of the back of 3 mile and started to spot schools of bait fish. we trolled through 2 schools, and on the 3rd school, we finally got a hook up. it was the only hook up we got but it was enough.Turned out to be a 15kg macky. I was wrapped. I would post a photo but i cant find out how to resize it. Its 4.05 meg.

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Been working for three straight weeks (apart from one Sunday when the weather was crap), and viewing all the local mackerel reports on here with equal amounts of disgust and envy while not being able to do anything about it, until finally we got out behind GI this morning and got onto our first metro mackie...took ten miles of trolling, along with four different depths and five lure changes, but we did it!

Mate up in Jurien got seven today, so I think we'll go up there next weekend!

Hi All

Went out to Bluff creek yesterday in search of some salmon. Left early and hit the beach about 830am. Drove up about the beach 300 metres before spotting some fish in the waves, heading in the direction we just came from. Quick u turn and back up the beach we head to try and get in front. Lures on the rods and my first cast I pitched out 100m into the surf, couple of cranks of the handle and bang on straight away! At this stage I was knee deep in water and fish started bumping into my legs - I was surrounded my salmon! No need to cast the 100m.

Look up the beach and Jane is also surrounded by fish, rod bent over and her hanging on hard! The salmon were all splashing around in less than a foot of water, chasing 100's of herring! Was amazing.

Was a good session with many fish caught and released by all! We followed them up the beach for ages, throwing the herring back in that were stranded on the beach.

Best little session with salmon for a while - just couldn't believe they were swimming around our feet. Was good seeing them hunt down the herring in the shallows, as well as hunting down our lures! Sight casting to single salmon and watching them hunt your lure down is awesome!!

Attached is a few photos!

Finally heading to Exmouth, perfect conditions out to sea as I drove along the new Indian Ocean Drive - couldnt help wondering how many good fish would be out there in the warm water flowing down from the north.

Had been pretty much been planning the trip since Coral Bay 12 months ago and was pretty excited about what lay ahead.

Over the next 3 days the plan was to go hard on the troll fishing solo then fish with my son Loki flying up for the last 3 days which would include the Fishwreck Comp.

My first day out was brilliant, not having a 4wd i decided not to risk launching at Tantabiddy and took off from Bundegi skimming out through tuna schools, tossed up between the Muriens or the deeper water around the corner and decided deep was it.

Put the skirts out when I got to 35mt and immediately had a soft grassy butchered by a small spanish mack before re setting and pushing on out, got to the 50's when a sail smashed the shotgun lure and jumped all over the place, interesting times sorting that out and winding in the other 3 rods plus the teaser plus trying to get the gopro video working. I had the gopro mounted off the rocket launchers but missed capturing the main action, the sail was belly jagged and took about 15 minutes to get to the boat and release in good nick - called it about 30kg.

Heading further SW to 100mt another sail hit the 9 inch Polu Kai, looked to be a bigger fish but pulled the hook in around 15 seconds when I lost tension, things went quiet after that - plenty of striped tuna around, easy to catch as i headed further out towards the gas rigs where I picked up a little black marlin that was covered in sea lice ? released very alive (hope the parasites dont claim it) and worked the same area for a couple of good hits that could have been anything?

On the run back I picked up a nice cobia in close but felt bad separating it from its mate that swam with it the whole time - still being under strict instructions to bring some fillets home into the ice box went mr cobes.

The next few days were pretty patchy as the weather was fairly breezy, I launched out of Tantabiddy close to high tide and came back in 3 hours not sure how the tides work with retrieving the boat - turned out that Adam had picked the perfect tides as subsequently I never saw sand exposed at the ramp even when out all day.

Picked up Loki from Learmonth on Friday and later on we went to Adams place for the FW Comp briefing, great to meet Adam some of the crew including little Alex who is still buzzing about his recent state record wahoo!!

First day of the comp saw us out of Tantabiddy heading straight to 100mt and out with the spread ( 2x 15kg, 1 x 24kg and the Tuna rod with a little pink Williamson) plus the 2 teasers .Quite a few birds working the tuna schools but not much else happening for us for a while, to break up the lack of action we picked up plenty of striped tuna plus one mackeral tuna  then surprised to get a nice dolly that came in fast on the 24kg gear and went completely berko inside the boat. Later as luck would have it a black marlin chose to hit the tuna rod with the littlle Williamson on 37kg leader and took 40 minutes to almost get to the wind on when the hook pulled - pretty dissapointed really thought i had it, looked around 40 - 50kg. Had a whale scoot past the boat when we fist hooked the marlin - no idea what it was big black thing very rounded at the front - gave us a bit of a shock as it rocketed past. We headed in to Helby Bank and trolled minnows along 25mt line back to the ramp for zilch apart from a good mackeral lost and a smelly old cuda, back to the Lighthouse Caravan Park to gear up for the next day.

Day 2 of the comp was completey different to the light winds predicted as we woke up early to the sound of heavy rain and worse still strong winds, drove up to the lighthouse and the sea looked very ugly so we opted out for the day to give it everything for our final day on Monday. Paul N and crew who were my neighbours in the cabin next door went out early on "In Pursuit" and reported white out conditions and a very slow trip back to the ramp.

Day 3 of the comp and our last day in Exmouth brought perfect conditions, high hopes and in the water out of Tantabiddy at 7.30 - trolled out from 50mt but the weed was shocking having to constantly clear the lures and must have wound them all in at least 20 times during the day kept going wide to find clear water but that stuff was everywhere even out to the 500s.

We ran some live stripeys at 2 knots in some awesome looking water colour and had almost instant action, the back stipey about 50 mt behind got raked and pulled the hook while gunning the boat forward, pulled it in and fed the other livey further out and got a short run but dropped it and started winding it in when then the other now dead stipey was being dragged straight under the boat, gunning foward we hooked up a big sail with stunning blue colurs erupting out of the water but it was all over in about 15secs pulling the hook again!

Trolled around the tuna schools out deep with more liveys for another hour and saw a good marlin at least 100kg free jump 4 times about 300mt away, with hearts pumping we slowly swam a tuna out to that area but it was gone and that was the end of our trip.

The windup that night at Adams was a treat really well organised comp (loved the tides!) top people all round, plenty of good fish caught by all and we seriously hope to back up next year.

Here is a video of some of our action......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckB7HB7S8tE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckB7HB7S8tE

Hit the Canning River last night after hunterdive had to pull out of a night fishing session. Five casts in I got a 45cm flatty which is a PB for me, it was the fattest flathead I've caught for a while too... a seriously overweight fish.  I wandered downstream for a while picking up a few grunter and the obligatory blowies.  As it got darker I decided to go to a lighter lure and picked up a few bream around 27cm.  It was a killer night to be out wading, with virtually no wind when the sun went down the water was like glass.  All fish were on the HRT Small Fry, the gold lure the flattie was caught on is getting me a lot of fish at the moment.

Can't resist them !!! I everyday think of 'her'.

Damn !!! I got return to 'her' for more actions !!!

This trip round , I brought along my video cam. I specifically instructed my boatman  to take some good shots at the topwater actions on my lure when I'm pressuring the mama toman during chasing.

It  is fun !!! It is electrifying !!! I simply love topwater actions !!! ;)

Watch the youtube clip below . You will see how I diligently tracked the toman fry for almost 45mins, pressuring the mama on every step of the way, keeping changing my lure and finally to the point of pissesd  off the mama toman & she finally attacked my lure.

All actions captured in this explosive video clip.

Enjoys guys !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkrROZXbRvU

Some hightlight photos of the day....

I came & I Conquer it !!!

The catch report will follow later.... :)

i have just been on a fishing trip down south ( 3 weeks ago ), i started off in walpole and got nuthing so we started to head back up the coast on the way home. We stoped in a Salmon beach for the night and on my 2nd cast i got a nice salmon, then about 30mins later my mate was running after his rod that was heading towards the water, he had another salmon on, we camped up for the night and a surfer came along in the morning and was saying there was 100s of them swimming around where he was surfing but we didnt get any more so it looks like its going to get a good year for salmon ( well i hope so :p )

we had to leave the fish in the sand coz our other mates took off with the esky with the ice in it

we were a little to the rite of here but that is where the surfer was

the 1st salmon of the season for me :)

Hi Guys

I went out yesterday on a solo mission from hillaries, The plan was to troll out to the 40's and find some ground to bottom bash.  No sooner had I passed the 3 mile when one of my lures went off. Just as I staarted to get some line back my other rod went off every solo fisherpersons nightmare but not a bad problem to have.  The first fish was a nice 7kg longtail tuna so I chucked that on the deck to go ballistic and got the other one in which was another long tail tuna of about the same size. 

I continued on my merry way and just kept getting weeded up till i hit the middle of direction bank and the water temp started to climb the further i went ending in 24.6deg.  I was thinking of winding the lures in but glad I left them out as one reel starting screaming in a way only a mackie could make it and pretty soon I had a 8 kilo mackie decked and a 1 handed gaffing record of 3 out of 3 

I tried for a bottom bash but it was extremely rough out there in my little boat and I started to feel sick so I trolled back in for a chance at 1 more mackie but it was not to be.  I had a good feed anyway.

This is the first time I have actually kept tuna i have caught and they were fantastic with a bit of marinade and on the bbq.  and after about 15 hours of trolling over the last month thats my first metro mackie  but my smallest for the year as I was spoilt in steep point earlier on.

rig

howdy.went to busselton jetty last night fished my own lil spot along the jetty,the place is plaqued by fat herring and giant squid and few snook

sh#t load of sambos and mullas around,but mate you,ll wanna make sure

that you have sum tuff gear ,didnt even land 1.got a metre plus golden  giant to the surface ,then spat the hooks  i was devastated.

must have hooked about ten more that all got away.it was one of the best fishing missions ive ever done even though i lost em all.

came home with nice squid ,herring,..................next time i,ll b ready.

Hi Fellas, We just came home from 3 days in Onslow with a further 7 at the Mackies. We had an absolute ball and the next trip there wouldnt be that far away id hope.

First ever Red Emperor, on plastics, 30Lb Power Pro in 15 meters of water. Went 550mm

A nice shallow water Coral Trout on the placcies too. 750mm

My first Rankin Cod gee they pull in the shallows. 4000 Fireblood 20Lb line with 5-10kg TCurve Close too 600mm

Another 750mm plus Coral Trout

Many more fish but these were my favorites

We had an awesome time there many memorable time from huge bait ball bust ups chockers with GTs Mackies Tuna and of course Sharks. Its so spectacular too see a 10 foot Bronzie chasing a Trev thats hooked letting the reel freespool and managing the beat the shark something ill never forget.

All we used were placcies light rods and reels 5000 Stella loaded with 30 Lb was the choice most turned too. Stayed in close 90% of the time only 5-10 ks from the mooring. We did loose a fair bit of gear either snagged or bricked but thats all part of it. Lots of boats went deep we sort of missed out on the big Reds but we were a bit under gunned for 50 plus meter water, they missed out on sport fishing side. But all crews went home with a pretty good bag.

Id recommend the island too everyone, a great place, awesome fishing, and the crew over there are so friendly and eager to help out. Drew and Tracy absolute champions such long days for ya but always your always happy, I guess living and working in paradise helps. Thankyou for making our trip so good.

Cheers Mick

finally got one of the bastards. im happy :D

Gotta say the new busso jetty is looking great..!

went there on the 1st april with a 3 mates

squid are everywhere but gotta work for the bigger ones managed something around 90-100 squid in 4 hours various sizes ranging from 25-60cm tubes ofcourse throwing the little ones occasionally with a set of 7/0 on em

while jigging under a light at about 12pm with a good number of squid under the light was getting em left right and centre.. as i dropped again after the 5th squid i hooked another squid and a mulloway over a metre in length enhailed it close to the bottom and shot off out in a flash busted me off in seconds..

was an amazing sight just to see it cruising along and power off.. 

 Anyone had a fish in the Avon river??Is there fish in it??

Well we headed of to Gnarloo last friday Afternoon..

2 boats in tow from Perth picking up another in Gero and a hire boat from the Kalbari turnoff..

Must say the new coast road claimed all three cars thru there after dark all colection a roo..  Only minor damage but still anoying.  Those roos thru there are still Kamakazi.  They take three jumps into the bush and you think your safe and then they do an 180 and whan into the side of the ute..

Arrived at the overlander roadhouse to find its no longer 24hrs..  Had to syphon some fuel from the boat. 

Made Carnarvon early Sat morning and the blowholes for an amazing sunrise.

The track into Gnarloo was the best i have seen in 6years.  Managed a steady 60kph most way and managed to be at the staion unloaded and on the water by 11 am..

The Beach.  The worst I have seen in 6 years very soft and almost quicksandish in places...

With all 4 boats over 2.5 ton and 7 meters in length made for some interesting double snatch moments..

Fishing for this trip was very average.

day 1 and net result was not a fish landed.  Nothing trolling nothing from the depths.  We tried 30 thru to 120 meters all on good groung and plenty of fish showing on the sounder.  just not on the bite..  Water temp was also a very warm 28.8 degrees.  Also their was zero bird activity also..

DAy 2 and a couple of boats manged to find a couple of decent fish. 2 Reds and a couple of rankin and baldies..  2 boats also manged a Marlin each.  one being in the 30 - 50 kg range about 2.5 meters long. The other up around 80kgs and a little over 3 meters in length.

Over the next 3 days we managed to locate the odd red but if it wasn't for the red throats and a solid 37lb spanish mackeral caught on a red throat fillet floater then my freezer would have been very empty..

By the time thursday came around the low had pushed seas up to 4 meters and 30 knot winds so we packed up and headed home lunch time Thursday..

Long time reader, but first-time post - the following describes how the trip I made with HunterDive last week panned out...photos aren't great (phone camera), but pictorial support helps.

Hi guys,

went out bout 2 weeks ago with a mate from down there on some ground near a spot that i had given him.

He had done well the trip out before so I thought I better go down there and see if i could get one. We meet at the boat ramp around 6.30 in the morning and headed out but the wind proceeded to blow its arse off till about 12. We fished some old marks of mine that were very quiet and considering the speed we were drifting it was ineffective to say the least. Went out a bit further once the wind dropped and once sounding around I/we saw fish on the sounder and once the drift was set right we were into it and i dropped a good fish half way up, which i'm positive was a dhu, then my mate hooks up and it cuts through his leader. new drift and we are on again and my mate hooks up, then drops one, hooks up again and drops him, by this stage he is ready to punch whatever he can get his hands on, and then I hook up which frustrates him even more! after a really good tussle that lasted a good ten minutes we start to see colour and then up pops mister dhu. I was stoked and even though not a horse still my best dhe to date by a mile. The pics dont do him justice cos my fat arse is holding him, but he measured up at 101cm. not sure on weight though.

anyway after this my mate hooks up again and drops another one, I caught a little fella bout 55cm which quickly went back and then we had to hit the road as Al was supposed to be heading to Walpole about ten minutes ago and we still had a fair drive ahead of us.

thanks for reading guys

cheers carps

 Hey Guys,

Im just getting back into fishing now that work doesnt chew up all my time. Just wondering if anyone can give me a couple of spots to fish round the bunno area. I got a 4x4 but no boat so just land based (unless you are offering a spot on your boat :) )

I wouldn't mind trying for a mulloway. What is the best bait/setup for them?

Cheers

Rob

Well, who said there wouldn't be a Salmon run this year.

Went for a 3 day fish over the weekend with 10 mates, sighted PLENTY of Salmon in the surf and landed 10, biggest 6.1kg with the average just over the 5kg mark. Dropped just as many. Herring in the surf in plague proportions. Made for an awesome weekend on the light gear, a Stradic 2500 matched to a 3-6kg Shimano Jewel with 10lb fireline. All fish were taken on Halco Twisties or a Rapala X-rap 

Anyone hesitating about going south to get in to the fish.....DON'T! Can't wait until they hit metro beaches now.

Hey guys decided to head down to two rocks today just before high tide. Got there and cause of the howling winds heading out to sea blocked off by the rockwall it was flat as. Basically only person fishing there :), started chucking around a 40g surecatch knight and varying up the retrieve. When on a medium retrieve skipping across the surface I saw a huge tailor come from beneath and BANG! I was on. The water was that clear that i saw the whole fight (great leap too) and due to my panacing of getting busted off I skull dragged him in. Let me tell you that when you are by yourself with nothing but a glove it is very hard to land a fish on the rocks. So as I picked him up the line cut (lost my lure) and he fell into a crack in the rocks. Managed to get a photo of him upside down in the rocks hehe my only proof before I pushed him back into the water to swim off with my lure :(

It was my last metal so after this I tried for about 30 minutes using a popper with no success. Anyone know the best way to work poppers for tailor?

Will try upload the poor photo in a second for some size predictions. So disappointed I couldnt get a good snap to show my family so next time I can try and drag one of them along!

This was my first tailor experience and now I am hooked!!!!!!

Quick report on the FW comp day 1, great conditions early up which turned average late afternoon.  Plenty of fish were caught from the few teams I've spoken to.  Reds to 70cm, a 1.75m 35 odd kg spaniard, plenty of big rankins, several marlin (ours was 70kg), big jobfish, coronations, spangles and lots of tuna and I've only spoken to 4 of the 16 teams. 

Big day tomorrow, great weather forecast.  Stay tuned for more reports and some great pics to come.

Cheers,

Adam

I always have the liking of mama toman, their beautiful stripes and distinguishing color pattern. The joys of having your topwater lure in actions when the mama whack the lure. It really exciting & your heart can stop beat for a second. haha !!!

"Nothing beat fishing mama toman in the wild" ;)

Pound by pound it is still the BEST & STRONGEST freshwater fish in asia.

So when I heard of news of mama toman with baby fry in a dist location DAM off bkk, I loadup my fishing gears, lures box and off I go for yet another wild fishing adventure trip.. ;)

The distant drive 400KM (4HRS) from bkk city.

Fishing toman fry in Thailand is not as easy as some pPls think.  You need alots of  patience, endurance and it mind fishing game with you vs the mama toman.

As more & more local thai anglers  practise catch & release in Thailand. You will not be surprised to see a mama toman been hooked up before. Once those mama toman hooked up once, it will be very wary of lure and will not strike so easy..

If that is the case, you need to keep pestering & pressure the toman fry. For those young & impatience anglers, after a few castings may give up chasing the fry.

For angler like myself, who love the great challenge & love the mind fishing game with the mama toman. As long as the mama toman starte to chase the lure away from its fry, I know I'll have  the chance. It is only matter of time, it will bite my lure.

But still, you have only 1 chance if the mama strike. If the mama toman bite your lure and you failed to give a good strike. It will not bite again for the next 3hrs or so... Having a proper set of medium-heavy tackle and hooks are important for a 'home run' on the mama toman.

My recommended tackle for toman :
Rod : 10-20Ibs
Line: Braided Power Pro PE 3 or 4
Hooks: Change all split rings and strong 4X hooks.
Lures: Bring all kind of topwater lures and deep diver lures.

 
See all actions in this short video clip of mine..

Explosive actions !!! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSsEboXsma8

Some of the highlights photos of the day...

Has anyone been giving North Mole a crack lately thinking maybe give it a go this wekend was wondering if anyone has given it a go lately

During my last service trip we had plenty of time to get a line in as there was over 800 nautical miles of travel involved. At 10knots i was able to run skirts most of the time occasionally picking up the odd fish. At Clerk reef we had loads of action, tuna, macks, barracuda, mahi  but couldnt pick up a sail or marlin.  Then on route to brouse island in some clear water i landed a blue marlin which went 35 to 40kg i guess. It went deep at the end of the fight and on a jigging outfit it was punishing me well. In the afternoons at the island i was able to do a little jigging with average success. The Black trevally were in plague proportion, Caught the odd small trout, some good longnose emperor, and those bloody grey coats fleeced me of loads of jigs.

Was supprised to see crocs 50knm out at Adelle island. Its a hellish place, scorching heat, sand dunes, thich long grass full of mossies and sharks that ate all my poppers.

Spent a few days in the gorges/ creeks. Up around cockatoo island, Gods counrty up there. Amazing landscape and coastline. Went to the Squaters and had a beer with those guys. They were great but there departing moon is was a disturbing image.

Fishing the creeks was a learning curve. I had to leave what i know about southern techniques behind and learn afresh. Had some great sessions on the fingermark, jacks, cod and barra.

Diversity Charters looked after us and definately going to take the Mrs, kids and friends back with them. Theres a lot more id like to see up there.

Anyways heres a few photos

My cousin caught a baby bull shark at a secret spot in fremantle and i also found a bull shark head in the same place where my cousin cuaght the bull shark.

Well I joined the Metro Mac Club today.

1m Spanyard .

Ran a spread of lures and fresh baits, but in the end a well used and beaten up laser pro 190 in chrome pink did the trick.

Gday decided to go for quick troll with weather being so good boat in water by 430 headed out to ffb put 2 divers out and caught stripey tuna in 10min and these macks in next hour,tried 3 different lures but all 3 fish caught on the one lure halco 160 anyway was a awesome little session and back by 630 cheers nick