G'day went for drive along safety bay sat arvo about 5.30 and seen what looked like spanish mackerel jumping approx 100mtres in front of bp servo and looked pretty big so decided to go home get boat and have quick troll got to ramp could still see fish jumping so thought would have good chance got out to spot no sign of any fish chucked out lures but to much weed headed home aw well maybe tomoro. Left point peron sunday about 12.30 with a light sw headed for back ffb got to spot approx 25mtres and my deckie got this spaniad on a deep diver,tried for another half hour no hits headed for west end rotto heaps of bait fish around trolled for hour no hits so headed home anyway was a great day and the deckie was stoked. Cheers, Nick

The week it was ..started with the AIBT first.   Day one   started with fresh crew and a great attitude on day 1. 

    First day was a day of trawling...  First fish was Baz's Sailfish popped his cherry. Was a great little fish we switched up from a plastic to a bait.

    Day 2.  Very uneventful day but still raised 3 Billies.

    Day 3.  Was a long rough day , we went out wide and trying to play with the big boys no no avail.  We decided to head home about 1ish to beat the rush at the ramp . We raised a sail on the 37kg which i hooked and landed. We did the big turn around and set the spread and Cliff hooked up again on the same lure and the same rod. So that was 2 on the 37kg..

   Equals 1 on 15kg and 2 on 37kg which equals 1000 points.  for team deepwater.

Runner up Tag & Release Sailfish section.. Team deepwater.

                                                GAMEX

Going to cut this one a little short as only 1 fish weighed in.  and 4 tagged sharks.

   Most days were pretty reasonable conditions with some real crap moments in between..  raised about 11 billfish in the 6 days for 0 tags. not even 1 hook up. 

Day 4  we were out trawling the 400m mark when the 10kg went screaming out , it didnt jump so i got the little fella up to take charge. After 10minutes he had the monster subdued and it was a 13kg Wahoo. I rang the wife to let her know we would be weighing in a fish for a photo as it was our first fish for the boat to ever be weighed in.  Vicky ( Deepwater widow) rang back with the news i was hopeing for .. the state record was 12.4 kg so we were hoping it was gonna be bigger than that.

  Last day of fishing we were fishing in the passage and we picked up some snapper for tea and 2 of the sharks.

Presentation night was the night we were waiting for...  Alex collected the prize we were hoping he hadn't been beaten on the last day.  Alex took out the 10kg line class section winning a Shimano T-Curve rod and a Tyrnos 16 with some tackle and lures and 1000m of 10kg line and some vouchers.

Was a fantastic prize to add to his growing collection.

Big thanks to all my crew AIBT..Cliff and Baz thankyou very much and GAMEX a big thanks to My uncle Simmo and Alex my main man..

 Jeff

P.S  A BIG WELL DONE TO ALL THE WORTHY BOYS.VERY WORTHY WINNERS .        IT WAS GREAT TO CATCH UP WITH YOU AT BOTH TOURNAMENTS  THANKS A LOT GUYS.

Took out 12 guys which is more than we take with individual bookings but they hired the whole boat so free to bring up to 22.  12 lines in the water was very hectic. Bagged out on dhuies and released 2 by 10.30.  Also got 3 sharks, 2 nannygais, 2 nice pinkies, 2 cod and a fox fish.  Had people fishing off the bow.  Big Al from Harcourts organised a top crew for a great day out. 

I just returned from a 3 day popping trip to Ningaloo, we were spoiled with exceptional weather for the 3 days as well as ideal full moon tides.

Day 1-
On the first day I made my way down from Karratha roughly a 5 hour drive and arrived to light winds and beautiful sunny skies. We packed the boat and departed around lunch time. Shortly after we arrived at the first popping grounds. Fortunately there was a small swell so this made popping easy on the outer reef edge. It didn't take long for some action and Glenn had a feisty red bass boatside. Not long after I hooked another, a little bigger. We continued to pop the reef edge slowly making our way further north when Glenn hooked up again, this time a nice little GT. Glenn was next to hookup again this time another bass but it made it's way back to the reef in record time. Fortunately we managed to extract the abalone GT2 minus the bass. I hooked up this time and after a reasonable tussle turned out to be an average GT around 20kg. By this time the wind had picked up a little so we decided to make our way into the lagoon and find an anchorage before it got too dark.

Day 2-
We woke up early and continued popping along the same section of reef, it was difficult looking into the sun which meant we couldn't see the reef or any fish we raised. On about my 5th cast I hooked a small fish which I called for a mini GT but turned out to be a little Green Jobfish. We continued to pop for not much action so we headed wide to try some jigging. Found a nice lump that rose from 40m up to 20m. Sounder showed plenty of fish but surprisingly little interest besides a few Sweetlip Emperor. We decided to head back into the reef and continue popping. Within a few casts I had a Spaniard jump on, pesky little things at times. We came across a section of reef that was just loaded with bait, Glenn had a hookup and we called it for a small GT but turned out to be a beautiful Bluefin Trevally, one of the biggest I've seen. Shortly after I hooked a GT around the 20kg mark and got him to the boat rather green, as Glenn went to leader the fish he took off and pulled the hooks boatside. Soon after I hooked up again this time it was a much bigger fish, fortunately he didn't take off on a screaming run and I started to wonder if my initial estimate was wrong. We towed him to some deeper water, then he woke up and after a blistering run the line busted. Glenn hooked another bass after teasing it out from the shallower water and fortunately this one didn't have a chance to brick him. Glenn hooked up again and after a lovely fight we got a GT of about 25kg on board. We made the call to spend the afternoon steaming north to a new spot which took a couple of hours. When we arrived we spent the afternoon fishing the lagoon but it was reasonably quiet.

Day 3-
The next morning we began fishing the edge of an entirely different section of reef. The weather was sensational but the water was a lot dirtier than further south and we struggled to find some clean water. It turned out that it just wasn't to be our morning. I lost count of the number of missed hookups & pulled hooks but I don't think we landed a single fish along this section of reef. Glenn hooked yet another red bass although this time he didn't stop it getting to the reef and didn't get his popper back. We decided to make our way south back to the reef popped on Day 1 & 2 as it seemed far more productive. When we arrived at our spot it wasn't long before we had a hookup, unfortunately it was another one of those pesky mackerel and it managed to snip the leader and get away with my Craftbait GT3. Soon after I hooked up again but it was a extremely large red bass in some very gnarly terrain and it was all over before I managed a turn of the handle. We were now past midday and neither of us had boated a fish all day. Spirits were down.

What happened next I don't think either of us expected. We had one of the most intense sessions I've ever had, anywhere. We came across the same section we popped on day 2 that was loaded with bait and the fish were going ballistic. Probably every second cast had some kind of hit or hookup from a myriad of species including more bass, jobfish, bluefin trevally, brassy trevally & GT's. Most fish we didn't photograph unless it was an exceptional capture as we just wanted to get back into the action. Glenn had some of the worst luck I've seen. After getting busted off by a better than average GT he then pulled the hooks on two very respectable GT's after surviving the first blistering run and once we were in deep water. Eventually he managed to stay connected to a fish and boated a nice fat GT around 22kg. I changed to a Hammerhead C Cup and on the 2nd cast got absolutely monstered by a good size GT. After a nice fight we boated the fish and estimated around 40kg. I think I boated one more GT around the 18kg mark then we decided to call it a day and head back to the ramp as it was starting to get late.

Tackle and Lures Used-

Hammerhead Faube 77H
Ripple Fisher GT78PF
Carpenter SP78UHL
Carpenter CV79RF40
Fisherman GT Game T-RSH

Shimano Stella SW18000HG & Daiwa Saltiga Dogfight
Shimano Stella 10000SW

Varivas Avani GT PE8 & PE10

The best lures were medium poppers in the 120-150g range. Natural colours seemed to work the best, ones that had a light (white-silver) underside contrasted by a dark upper body. In particular the Craftbait GT2 and GT3 (150g) in Skipjack and Craftbait & Hammerhead in Yellowfin tuna colour. Blue and white orion Cono Cono's also worked exceptionally well. Most of the time bright coloured lures were used it yielded little or no interest at all. We also had minimal interest on Stickbaits but we didn't use them often as the bloopers were working very well.























































 

Headed out with some customers on Friday with Craig at Saltwater and had one of the best days on a metro charter that i have ever seen. 1st port of call was a run past rotto to troll for some mackies, about 20 minutes in one of the rods went off and after about 10minutes the first fish of the trip was landed,a nice 15-17kg mackie. We then headed out to one of the barges, i jigged away on the bow and scored some nice sambos and xos skippy to 4kg while down on the stern i see this rather large fish floating 20meters out on the surface.Most think its a sambo but i see a big paddletail pop out of the water.One of the boys had scored a 15kg+ mulla off the wreck.Then 3 minutes later another punter hooks up and scores another mulla of exactly the same size. I had always heard of the occaisonal mulla coming off the barges but was super stoked to see two off these awesome fish landed in less than two minutes.

We then put out the skirts and trolled out to the fremantle fad but the surface action was very quiet,not even the ever reliable southern blues were around.When we got there the spearos had been out and the dollies were very skittish and not really interesed .We then trolled out to the Derwent for a look but only a handfull of pan sized pinkies were on hand.None less we had enough fish for everone and headed back to freo witha a boat load of happy customers. It had been a while since ive headed out Craig but good to see the passion is still there for putting the punters onto some different fish and quality snacks as always.

 Had a fun day out on the water, with some mates today. Got a good feed, no luck with the pelagics unfortunately> Got smashed twice using the saltiga in 27m and picked up a small stripey which was used to catch the fish below, and a few sambo's. 

Rod is 4'4" to give you an idea of the fish lengths. 

Fish ID on the red fish on the bottom

Another great day out off Gracetown. 4 dhuies (14kg, 10kg, 10kg and 8kg), 1 small wobbey (released), 2 nannygais, 1 harlequin and 6 cod. Not bad for a small crew. A great start to the day with both deckies falling in the drink ... shame no one else was there to see it. Shayne and Dean (Deckie Dean not skipper Dean) both started the day with wet butts! Sounds like an episode of Faulty Towers LOL

I headed out today with my granddad planning on landing my first dolly, the day started off with a bit of herring collecting at Rotto. We then started trolling at the west end and didn’t have to wait long with a shark Mack taking the laser pro after 5mins

The Mack went 8kg, we then trolled all the way to the FAD’s with very little reward. We hit a school of little tuna, not quite what we were after but will be good crab bait.

We finally arrived at our first fad to be greeted by a boat of spearo’s who took off soon after we arrived, it didn’t take long for the first dolly to show its iridescent blue back. It smashed a casted skirt and a good 20min battle between 15lb and an estimated 10 dolly. It put on an acrobatic act jumping over 4m on some jumps. Unfortunately granddad struggled with the camera and there wasn’t any good footage however this wasn’t half as disappointing as what then unfolded. As I brought the dolly into the net the fluro leader broke at the hooks. To say I was flat was a slight understatement.

we then started trolling around the fad and it didn’t take long for a hit, the deep diver started peeling 80lb like there was no drag, as I started this tussle the other rod went off and we were tiptoeing trying to keep both fish attached, my granddad had another big dolly on that was putting on quite a show, quite different to the fish I had on which did hard deep dives and was putting some serious hurt on, my granddads line soon gave out putting the pressure on me. I was calling it for a big Mack or Hoo, and as I got colour I saw I was correct. The fish was measured at 1.6m and my first Hoo.

So I went home without my dolly but the Wahoo was a good little bonus. 

Is it just me ,or has there been very few reports on either of these tournaments. The Exmouth Gamefishing Website has had no results posted from the the AIBT and no info on what is happening in Gamex . If it wasn't for a couple of threads on Fishwrecked and piss-poor mention about the AIBT in last Sunday Times you wouldn't even know the events were on. Like a lot of others , I'm heading up there in a week or so and I was looking forward to reading all about the action of these tournaments or at least seeing a pic of the leader board.

Could someone post the links if there are any results or updates anywhere on the web .

For a state and national tournament that had a lot of coverage in the leadup to the events , I think the follow up with results has been a bit slack. Would have thought EGFC would at least have updates on there website.

So I thought i would be the good fella and take the missus to monkey mia for our 5yr anv on the basis that if we go i have to have 2 days fishing soo she agreed!! WINNER! now does anyone know where to go (on shore), what kind of gear i should be taking and what fish live up that neck of the woods?

any help would be great

luke

With the long range forecast looking good, Wednesday morning saw the Merman and I leave town for an overnight adventure to some islands NE of Exmouth. The run out was glassy with tuna schools busting up everywhere and after 1.5 hours we pulled the throttle back and prepared the gear for a spear. 

It was going to be a spear trip with maybe some line fishing if we got time but we really just wanted to dive as many spots as possible to load the GPS with reefs for future visits. The GPS now has a lot more blue crosses on it.

We spent the entire day in the water and the Merman was the in form spearo. Biggest trout was 69cm, which I found, he shot then as I was retrieving it out from under the ledge shoved my hand onto a big urchin and got a heap of spines in my mitt. My hand is still swollen.

We ended up with 6 bluebone to 66cm which was a PB for Merman, 2 trout to 69cm, a jack and a few crays. We left heaps of fish and only selectivley shot some for the freezer. 

 Bit old, but headed out on the weekened with a mate in a tinny. Windy as hell working the islands, but managed a good feed of skippy, whiting, gardies and a healthy 6.8kg dhuey from around the pots back of Garden Island on a pirate jig

 I headed out last Friday from ocean reef with a few mates, we were targetting macks but unfortuantly they didnt wanna play ball. We hadnt had the lines in for more than 10mins when we hit the first school. We ended up landing 5 and loosing one on the light gear. Heres a few pics

Howdy Crew,

Just a quick one, headed down to Jurien last Friday for my bday and get the boat out for a day, weather wasnt the best so didnt do too good. But managed to get a trawl in tho and pick a few nice Mackies.

Here are photos of a couple we got, had a few boys come up from Perth as well, they manage to bag 2 the same day and 5 next morning

Hopefully we can get down there again when the weather is a little better

Cheers!

(Bagafillets in the photos)

Went for a bit of a night fish on Friday night, at a regular spot on the Five.

The trip was not off to a good start, when half way to Woodies I realised that the bait was still sitting in the freezer. Thankfully I managed to get some squid at a servo on the way down there, so at least we had something.

Anchored up fairly shallow and started to burley with some pollard, using a plastic on my bream rod, to try and snag some herring for bait. Ended up getting lucky there and pulled up around 16 to 20 herring in about 40 minutes. These all went into the bait esky, and I thought our fortunes had changed for the better.

Once it got dark my mate was running squid, and I was running whole herring. My mate became known as the ray master throughout the night, as he couldnt get away from them, pulling around 4 or 5 to the boat.

My first proper run was an absolute beast. Got some good head shakes so knew it had to be a good shark. As is always the case, it took the lighter of the 2 rigs I had out, but this was still an 8000 Stradic with 50lb braid so i thought I was in with a shot. About 4 minutes in, and with my spool largely depleted, it went slack. I presume that his tail touched my braid and that the 1m of wire and 2m of 80lb mono that I was using for leader might not have been enough.

Switched spools on the Stradic and lobbed another herring out there, and less than 15 minutes passed before the EXACT same thing happened. Was seriously annoyed about this as the same rig I was using on that setup has accounted for many sharks, but there must have just been 1 or 2 big boys out there that kept taking me to school.

Quite late in the night I hooked up to what I could immediately tell was a monster ray. After a solid 90 minute struggle and with me still having a stack of line out in the water and making no progress, I decided I had had enough, so grabbed the spool - pointed the rod at him and pulled. I got lucky, as one of the wire snelled 6/0 gamakatsu that I was running pulled straight before the line gave way (a good testament to Till's Daiwa braid and my PR knots haha).

Every one of the herring I caught ended up getting slammed over the night, some came back chopped in half, others mysteriously disappeared off my hooks after a small 'bzzzzt'. But end result was I caught f*ck all except for one annoying port jackson.

First night trip I have done on my boat without bringing a sized demersal on board. Also the first I have done this year without a shark being landed (PJs dont count!).

No pics, as didnt want to document a failure

Dan

Went down with a mate to see if the salmon were running yet and decided to do some shark fishing the night before. Ended up with my first wobbey and a port jackson. Never caught anything this big before so was stoked. Both put back to fight another day. Wobbey was estimated at 30kg. No salmon to report of the next day. didnt see one school :(

Hey Guys,

Was using these pics for an article, but was a no go in the end. Hope you enjoy!

last weekend i headed out in bass straight out from cape woolamai chasing a mako or 2  perfect flat  conditions   set the trail where i got 1 last yr in 45mts of water after bout 1 hr of burleyin  sfew birds flyin around  i heard a slap in water  about 10 secs later heard another 1 this time i was watching n knew it wasnt a bird then 10 more secs later reel screamed off  which rod i didnt wanna get a big fish on  it was  my gummy rod  a nitro godzilla   well i was on hooked up   the fish headed down  to the bottom which i thought it was goin 2 be a blue shark which they dont usually do to much  after bout  30 40 mins i got it up which it jumped out the water and couldnt believe what i saw it was a thresher shark  then straight down the bottom again  worst thing was the butt of the rod was to thick to fit in the gimbal which made it better hard  for me  then after 1hr 30 mins got it back up again    and was right next to the boat  which was just bout 2 gaff it when it decided to have a quick last dive when the wire trace snapped in half  i was heart broken  the fish was 150kgs plus  then after that no much sharks for rest of the day  then came in close next to the shore and hard a blast on catching  a stack of salmon to about 3 kgs on  light gear which hopefully in next few weeks will turn them into  some gummies

A lot of squid have turned up on the Busso jetty the last few days but a bit on the small size. It's all to do with the moon. It might account for the action we've had recently.

Hi fellas,

Well the weather/wind/water up my way has been average of late but we still managed a quick arvo session last week chasing flighty Tuna schools around the ocean. 

I nailed this 6kg fella on 4kg Spin and a 20 gram slice always great fun catching Tuna on light gear, also seen a monster Spanyard hit my metal slice but failed to hookup...

Cheers.

Hi all,

Saturday blew out early but not before the guys on board bagged 6 dhuies, 5 cod, a sweep and a couple of swallow tail nannygais.  One of the dhuies went 18 kg.  

Hey guys, got out for a quick fish off the Cape again today. Was pretty slow going but managed to jig up a nice Queenie on the Daiwa Pirate then guess what happened. Yep you guessed it, ANOTHER BALDY. This time on a McArthy 8in Bullhead minnow. Not sure what i'm doing right but this run can keep going for as long as it wants. mmm Baldy burgers.

Apologies on the Baldy pic, phone died out on the water. But a crap photo's better than no photo.

Cheers Matt

Just went to east fremantle at 11:00am with my 7 yr old son, caught a small flathead first cast and it was on from there.

Caught 5 small pinkies, biggest was around 30cm (caught by dylan my son, almost pulled him in the river on his 3 foot ugly stick), 1 decent 25cm bream (dylan), a large flathead that shook the gangs at the last moment, a flounder and got done by a small sambo on the weed banks. It got the loose gang hooks caught on one of the weed banks and shook itself free while i tried to get the lip grips onto it darn !!!

Was a great time, used whitebait on gangs with a running sinker and swivel. There is usually tailor and skippy around but they werent there today.

 went down to woodmans point jetty on friday night my mate caught his first ray the one in the picture but we didnt know wat type of ray it was i think it was a black ray another one of my mates got a banjo and i got a shovelnose about 1.5m we got 11 tailor between 5 of us and 17 heering , also had 2 hookups on baloon but nothingg got landed

Guys

Here is a couple more pics I'll work on getting the video up

With all the gear and esky packed, myself and a few mates headed up to Hill River mid morning on friday.

Two of the guy's were new to beach fishing so i packed a few extra rig's expecting to be showing them how its done.

As soon as we arived i was shocked to see access has been resricted to some areas.

I put Coug's on watch for the ranger as we set up for the night.

With light winds and no weed on the beach it looked very fishy. I helped the new guy's rig up for tailor and started to fish.

A few large herring were caught but the tailor were not around, only 1 was caught.

As darkness set in we hooked the usual handfull of stingrays, usualy i snap them off in the water to avoid handling them,

but we pulled one up for a photo as my new friend had never caught something that big.

Right on the high tide My other friend got a hit and soon had his first bronzie on the sand. Not huge but a good start.

Ididn't catch anything, spent most of my time helping the others but was glad to see some fish landed.

Rest of the night was very quiet so had to settle for a feed of herring in the morning (plenty around ) before we headed home.

Cheers. Grant...

Hey Guys

Went fishing off Two Rocks yesterday and had a 5m - 5.5m Great White hang around the boat for about 40mins. It was unreal to see one in real life. There will be a small section on chanel seven news tonight. Got a sensational Video and a heap of photo of it. We just finished having a BBQ on the boat and I jumped in the water and straight out and less than a minute later this shark surfaced. I'm lucky to be here today I think it must have been close when i was in the water. Needless to say have bought a lotto ticket on the way home.

Cheers

Haven't posted the last couple of charters we have done due to lack of time but have done about four since last post, off Gracetwon with similar results to yesterday!  Will post photos if you guys are interested.

Headed out off Gracetown yesterday with a great crew onboard - couple of guys from up Geraldton way and a couple from Sydney.  Caught 10 dhuies -released 4, a whiskery shark, a nice big pinky, a nannygai and 8 cod.  The crew were a great bunch of guys who reckon they will definitely be back!

Hey guys, thought i'd share a couple of pics from todays day off the cape with feral (Clint) and Ray. It was a little slow but still managed a good mixed bag on artificials inc. Dhu, Baldy, KG, Swallowtail, Blackbum, Sambo and a couple of Cuttlefish.

Cheers Clint for the day out, look forward to the next one.

Hey guys i have always wanted to give Guilderton a crack when the river mouth opens up does anyone know when this is? or give me some advise on this think it would a cracking spot when that is happening. Still chasing the first mulla and i really really really want one i have put in the hours time for it to start paying off hahahaha