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

Got the heads up on good blue mannas in the sound so we headed out for a freedive to grab a few.

We got out there a little early but still found some beauties.

If your going out and going be in the water make sure you have a full suit on as theres loads of stingers about.

Jiged 6 squid too but all small

Anyways

No matter how many times I've fished the toman, I still &  always have the big  urge to fish  the snakehead again & again.....   :(

Priory the trip, I've checked with my regular boatman (as always) regarding the weather & the bite rates. I was informed that there has not been any landing of toman for the past few days.

Hmmm...........inside my minds, I was pondering whether should I go or not ???  I just bought a new lure & a new  color for rapala deep diver. Maybe this will works !!! haha !!!

Anyway, I love challenging fishing. Fishing in the wild is a  test within yourself against the nature and of course , against the toman fish. ;)

I just packed up my tackles & hit the road. Fish first think later. ;)Drove some 350KM to reach the toman spot. Crazy me !!!

Enjoys the exciting vid clip and highlights photo shots.

Fastest Snakehead (Toman) Fights 5KG- Powerful Daiwa Ryoga 1016H.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoxxX35ZC_w

Full story....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KETwuY8bmtU

My prized catch of the day- 5KG toman on my rapala risto rap. ;)

Rapala Risto- BEST !!!

Actions !!!

 With all this warm water around havent heard too much about cockburn sound Pinky action. Has anyone been having any luck or too busy taking advantage of this warm water?

Oceanside Staff, Shaun have been chasing mulloway lately. Last Saturday night went out late and managed to hook one very late. Got it close enough for a good look but was lost when it went for its next run. Estimated around 20kg, quite a large fish. Sunday night I decided to join him for a short session. 1 hour into it and he got a run and gently set the hooked. We beefed up our gear this time, running 15 and 24kg spinning gear and 120lb leader. It was a short fight and was quickly gaffed. Smaller fish, estimated at around 9-10kg but a mulloway nonetheless.

Please excuse the poor pic, blame Nokia...

Went out the other night to the FFB for a bit of a snapper run.

Was windy as a bastard out there, howling from the West, which made things pretty unpleasant.

Got a herring on the first drop, which went straight in the esky as bait.

First big run of the night was on the lightest rod I was fishing that night (always the way) and the length of the 7foot Okuma Precision X gave me a lot of grief running around the boat. Unfortunately called it pretty early for a ray, and it was, a decent sized eagle ray, which (thankfully) basically fell off the hook as we were trying to dehook it. With they were always that easy.

Next up were a couple of toothy little snook/long toms, have caught a few others of these out at the FFB, but these were quite a bit smaller.

After the tussle with the ray decided to put something heavier out for a shark as it was now really dark and the burley slick had been going for a couple of hours. Used a baloon and floated the herring around 40m back from the boat, and wasn't long till it took off. After a bit of a fight (not too much though as was a heavier rod), I saw a nice pinkie come to the surface. Thankfully, when it hit the bait, it pushed it up the shank of the hook on to the trace and just copped the point, so the bait was still in top nick.

Drifted it back again, and soon enough got another good run. Could tell this was a shark early on, but was still good fun in the reasonably shallow water. Ended up being (yet another) of those smallish bronzies. I think that makes 10 or 11 of those things since January, they seem to be in plague proportions!

By then the wind had died off a bit and the girlfriend had had enough (her first night trip) so seemed a good time to head back in, only fished a few hours but had had a good time - so motored back to see if my car had been busted into at Woodies - thankfully I had played the russian roulette of parking there, and got away unharmed *touch wood*.

All fish except for the sacrificial herring, were released.

Dan

hey all,

just learning the trade and was thinking bout having a little fish tonight at the marina. anyone had and luck inside or out?

 Myself and a mate wrer lucky enough to get on a boat - 37 Riv and fish the NSW Game Fish Interclub Tournament out of Port Stephens. The whole crew including the skipper were all rookies having never caught a billfish of any description so we were all pumped to get into some fish.

Final result Day 1 Tag & Rlease of a Shortbilled Spearfish taken on trolled skirt purple on 8 KG line class est.weight 25- 30 KG

                 Day 2 Tag  & Release of a Blue Marlin taken on skip bait slimy mackeral on 15 KG lineclass est.weight 150KG

                 Day 3  Cancelled Bad Weather

                 Day 4 Tag & Release of another Shortbilled Spearfish taken on trolled skirt purple on 8 KG lineclass est weight 25-30 KG

If we had killed either of the Spearfish and weighed them would likely have been a record as the record is  26.5 on 8KG

Although other boats in the fleet of 176 boats caught more fish and some less we were all stoked about catching our first bills and watching them swim away again !

Good luck to all you guys chasing those West Coast Bills over the coming weeks

I'm thinking about having a crack at Wonnerup or Peppi beach, has anyone got any latest catch reports?

Another long weekend means another fishing trip.

My mates and i went to quobba.

Not the best weather but we still managed to fish all day for the 3 days there.

The first two days were spent spinning slices for macks at various spots but we only managed a few small sharkies and little spaniards.

The first good fish of the trip was the tuna  that was hooked casting a soft plastics on a 3000 reel and 7ft rod darda had no chance of getting it in before the sharks came.

We ended up losing a few fish to some big sharks.

We had a ball using light gear and small poppers, stickbaits,slices and plastics catching little trevs and queenies.

With only southerly blowing the whole trip and no luck on slices visit decided to send out a balloon and with in a minute and 10 metres from the ledge his gardie got nailed resulting in a 17kg spaniard.

Hope ya like the photos.

Hi guys me and some mates headin up to wagoe in 4 weeks and just wondering if anyone has been up there lately.what's biting up there at the moment and what's been working and not working lately?

Any information is greatly appreciated thanks. Sammy

Got out yesterday arvo to our normal spot to try and get a few for a feed. after 3 hours on the water ended up with 15. biggest being 185mm and the smallest was 134. average size were between 160mm and 170mm.

This is the biggest 1 at 185mm with the smallest 1 at 134mm.

Already cant wait for lunch,

Hit the canning around the bridge this morning for a couple of hours and every second cast was getting nailed from bream and flatties also seen some monster bream,anyone seen those bream there farken huge.

I had a phone call from my brother and sister at about 10 this morning saying they had a marlin hookup trolling for tuna out from the jetty. Just rang them back and theyve got the fish close to the boat . . . . All the sister said was "its big and it jumps "

The brother is 5"11 and 120 plus kilos to give you an idea of the size. Gear was a finnor rod and spinning real and 30lb braid

Going to moreton for a 4 day fishing trip, anyone been over there recently, if so, what was biting and where?

Looking for a new rod to suite an Accurate 665HXM loaded with 700m of 50lb braid.

Have had a look at the Saltiga Deep Jig rods (30-60lb) and they seem nice. Anyone recommend anything for around the same price, or what these rods are like? 

Also, anyone had experience with Van Staal rods?

hey guys,

well it was drama drama drama today, even before we got to the ramp. this was the first time weve been out for about 2 months and since then weve had a new driveway put down. we were at the top of the drive when we heard a loud scrape and dad slammed on the brakes. the front keel support adjustment part on the trailor that hung down about 20mm was chewing up the new concrete, so out came the angle grinder and in a matter of minutes the trailer was circumsized and we were on our way.

when we got to ocean reef we had realised seabreeze lied to us again... not happy. it was a tonne windier then 10knots and looked rough out there, so we made the decision to troll behind the 3 mile and get some tuna for tea.

once we were out we were definately feeling the sea in the 485 trailcraft but we soldiered on as the reason of the trip was to check out the new pair of hds units we purchased before we make the treck to shark bay in april.

once we were behind the reef and in about 26m of water we threw the lures out, with dad driving and me on decky duties i made the call to go mono trace as there werent too many reports of macks at 3mile and the tuna reports were buzzing all over the new sounder.

after about 20 minutes of trolling dads 10kg overhead combo started shooting off, once again the 190DD in chrome pink was on fire and pulled up a nice 6kg SBT, which meant dinner was in the bag. (sorry about the crap pic, mum was on the camera)

as the weather wasnt getting any better we decided to troll back and call it a day, when dads reel started screaming again, and yes the 190DD is still my fav tuna lure. this one wasnt as big, but had way more power!

we still had the lures out when we passed a 4ft hammerhead just cruising by, which was a cool sight, no pics as we were all doing the awww stare. so we left the ramp at about 9:00 and got back about 11:00, which made it a nice and chill sesh.

no trouble getting our freshly circumsized trailor down the drive and its was a breeze getting the boat in the new shed.

we had a great day, even though it was 2-0 to the old man and hope to get out next weekend as the 2 month brake was way too long.

cheers rob.

ps how did everyone else fair today?

Caught this 12.5kg pinky when out last week out from hillarys in 30m of water.
Ended up with 2 baldies and a dhuie to round out the day, Best fish ive caught.
They were all caught using mulies on snelled hooks with a octojig or snapper lead
on the bottom. Good way to break in the new jigrex rod.

Arrh..........just came back from the toman trip last week ,was pestered by my thai friend Film to go fishing again. He missed a few close encounters with the toman but failed to land any toman from our last toman trip outing.

This week, I received a phone call from my boatman source that a certain distant dam (300KM)having a toman frenzy party.

Without waiting time, called up Film to tag him  along for this fishing adventure. It 'REVENGE TIME' for him this round. haha !!!!

Enjoys the actions & exciting vid clip..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxhmTF-luy4

Film with his prized catch of the day- Almost 7KG Giant Snakehead (Toman). This round, he finally got his revenge trip he looks forward to. haha !!! Well done Film !!! ;)

Me and my 4.5KG toman...
This round , Film champion over me... ;)

Well after some pretty lean pickings due to horrid weather over the past few weeks, things seem to be on the mend with the fishing starting to pick up. 

Even though we didn't get a hell of a lot today, you can just feel that its not far off getting good.  Got to Bundegi this morning and was greeted by 2kg GT's smashing the hardies, moved over to the Islands and got a nice 70cm trout, a Rankin, a Spango and a few other oddities.  (Lucky and Merman did it tough on plastic and jigs for most of the day)  Having to get back early we decided to go for a quick dive on the otherside of the island which was still quite green in 4m, but better than what it has been and able to be dived, but not easily. 

Heading back in we found masses upon masses of mack tuna going off, hopefully they stay in the gulf for a while and we have the awesome sessions on them like we did last year.  If sheer volume of fish and today is anything to go by, then we should have some excellent options coming up.  Back at the ramp one local guy had been getting a few jacks, queenies patrolling the shallows and large schools of yellowfin whiting all looking hungry.  There also has been some other news floating around of things happening in the gulf, but thats just secret squirrels for now, nothing you Perth guys would be interested in anyway. ;)

The weather is forecast to go crap again for the next week, but once it clears up, Lucky and I will be giving the billies a red hot go and I would be expecting some action!

Cheers,

Adam

Here's a pic of today's trout and why the gulf was and has been stirred up for so long.

 hi all i went down to one of the local beaches for a tea gathering mission this morning,was the for about 2 hours and managed 2 good spangs and lost about 5 ,so mission was a success, sweet and sour spango for tea to night

 its the 2nd feed of fresh fish in like 5/6 weeks ,even in exxy we find it hard to get out !!!!

                     jeff

  pics will be soon

Took a crew out today off Gracetown.  We trolled on the way out to the fishing ground as we had heard the extreme water temperatures (26.8 degrees in some spots) were producing good pelagic activity.  Had 2 stripey tuna and a 10kg bluefin tuna on board before 8am.  Ended up with 5 dhufish, 6 breaksea cod, 1 nannygai, 1 swallowtail nannygai and a big whiskery shark. 

We have been commercially fishing out deep (more than 25 miles out) in the past week or so and there is bird activity from the beach right through, heaps of tide lines - we have never seen so many different tide lines in different depths.

When we got in, a 14ft zodiac had 2 spanish mackerel onboard (we saw them) - he said he got them about 400m north of Gracetown in 20m of water.  We know of another guy who saw quite a few and speared one last week in the 20 to 14 metre rises between Gracetown and Guillotines.

If you have ever wanted to catch a mackerel between the Capes, put the effort in and there is a fair chance you will be rewarded.

Gday Crew,

I havent posted any of our fishing trips on here before but i love this site and love the reports and comments that everyone puts up. We head out most R&R's we are back pending weather and do alright. My partner and I are very keen fisherman

First drop for bagafillets 630mm Trout

Was nice to get some decent weather for R&R for once so managed to get out and hit a couple of spots and get a keeper or 2

First day we headed straight out of the mariner, second day we headed south, third day we headed north and the fourth just outside the shipping channel

These are some photos over the days, bagged out on trout everyday and caught and release alot more (must be the warmer water) but they were everywhere.

All fish were picked up on plastics and lures

Then another...

Second days first drop... another 600mm... yep mines coming, by this time i was red with envy... and told him wasnt allowed to fish anymore!! LOL

My first for the day, on the trawl... not a big one but a keeper

So this is the start of the 3rd day, i was winjing that i was a couple of days a darker shade of brown but the fish were on the bite and guess what? His first drop for the day, produces a nice little baldie 

Mine, but not as big...

Give the Stella FE and Tournament Master Z a good work out

My biggest for the weekend, finally... Not sure about the rod in the mouth shot tho

Last one for the day, time to head home

After a fun few days, get back to the ramp and think oh no... Poor guys!!!

4th Day, its absolutely cranking from the NE and it was S#$T!!! Cause we had such a good day at our northern spot we were going to head out there agian, but cause it was so rough we thought why not trawl on our way and hopefully by the time the weather drops we'd be there, so other half is setting the spread, my rod first... then his rod... and hey, that'd be right... not even 20m into it, his rod gets a hit... Look what it is...

After getting this we decided to head in... other half had a fix out job to do... mind you on his week off! But got out again that arvo

We decided to hit the same area again, this ground gets a bit of a hammering but obviously the fish are there but there had been a few small tuna and mackies caught in the same area so we went out in search of them

One of the tuna we got

and one of the small mackies

Bit of an over kill but our new combos wanted first blood, i got a Stella 8000SW with the Live Fibre Venom or alternative Smiths Offshore Stick; the other halfs Saltiga 20/10 5000H on a very blinged up... Spartan or the alternative AZUZA. Thanks to Pete, Tim and Tyson at Bluewater Tackle Morley and Brian at Complete Angler for your assistance, always do the righty by us everytime we are down.

These combos are for our Mackies trip at the start of April, I know there will be a few crew there, hopefully get to meet some Fishwreck crew there to exchange some fishy tales over a couple of quiet beers

Cheers crew, Happy Fishing

 HEADING DOWN TO NORTH MOLE TONIGHT FOR SOME BALLOONING. AND SOME TAILOR. COME SAY HI IF ANY OF U PEOPLE ARE DOWN THERE. 

Hey guys, im takin advantage of this week's long weekend and decided to head down to Dunsborough with my boat, a couple mates and the esky full of grog.

I've done plenty land based fishing in my time in Dunsborough, but this will be the first time taking a boat, I was hoping anyone out there with offshore knowledge could help me out in finding some decent fish.

Any information will be greatly appreciated. I'm actually heading back out there for the Easter break, so this weekend is just to suss it out. I am familiar with the beach ramp in Quindalup and Also the ramp at Canal Rocks.

I have fished off these ramps and have seen many boats return with laods of fish, I wouldn't mind getting into some of that action!

Cheers in advance

just wondereing where the fish are off bunbury help???

Hey guy’s im heading up to Jurien Bay over the long weekend for some land based action, possibly taking the boat but doubt it. Just wondering if anyone would like to share info on some fishing spots? il be on the 4x4 tracks so accessibility is no prob. Haven’t fished there since i was a kid so any help or advice would be much appreciated. Cheers

Can't think of anything if there is no fishing for me.
Love my life !!! Love my works !!! God Bless !!!

I managed to squeeze in 1 free day , in my rather tight fishing schedule ,to have a leisure fishing myself. First is ease my fishing itch and secondly is to test out some of my lures. ;)

My favorite pastime fishing is none other the Giant Snakehead (toman) of Thailand. Pound by pound is one of  the strongest freshwater fish of all. Some call it the ' torpedo fish' of asia. The initial run is the strongest especially when you land the snakehead on lure.

Thailand  snakehead is famous for their ferious and strong fights. it has a longer body than other region snakeheads.

This month is not the toman fishing season but who cares. As long I 've a day break for my own leisure fishing, I'm more than happy.

Enjoys the rest of the catch report...

Music vid clip for easy viewing purpose.. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGMZi35q20Y

My big catch of the day- A whoppy 5.21 KG toman landed on my rapala risto lure. ;)

left two rocks at 5 on sat morning weather was looking awesome as we where out at a spot in no time at all. first spot got nothing no fish on the sounder and no bites after a few drifts and a very strong northerly current, headed to another mark, this looked better fish up off the bottom and a nice weedy rocky bottom.

first drop we both hooked up 2 nice dhuies on the boat a 4kg and a 6kg next drift had a 8kg and a nice skippy on the boat and last drift produced a nice 13kg one and a nice pinky dropped, the 4 and the 13 where kept with the rest released to fight another day, ok bugger its 7:20 and where bagged out, headed into shallower water to try for some kg,s in 28m but none there yet must still be to early. after a bit decided the ramp might be not so busy so we decided to head in. back at the ramp by 9:30. awesome day on the water.