Me and my dad took the boat out near the point walter bank to try out my new rod, i cast in a bit of squid, left it for around 5 minutes then got a huge strike, after a few minutes of fighting the fish, i finally got it close to the boat, i couldnt see what type of fish it was really, tailor, giant herring maybe but it made my deep sea overhead combo bend over, what ever it was, mustv been pretty big, got a few small herring there aswell, worth a try

Me and my mate Braden nabbed the old boys boat on Sunday and Monday to go and have a crack at some sambos up at Cervantes.

Got up there at 9:00 on sunday morning and headed out to the sambo hole, that we have had success on previously. A couple of drifts over it (well what we thought was over it - need a better sounder) and there were no sambos but Braden hooked up to a nice Baldy!

After a couple more drifts with nothing else to show for it we heading further in to the 25m mark and had a couple of drifts over some reefy ground. We had been mucking around with little pickers for a while and then my Twinpower 3000 got smashed. After a decent fight with a blistering first run up came a nice size Dhuie for the esky.

Since we were getting into the fish at 25m we decided to stay in the area and keep drifting. The next fish to come up was another nice size Baldy. After landing a few other smaller Dhu's and Snapper we then headed in.

We got the boat up on the trailer and started cracking some cans and put some baits out for some fun with a few big eagle rays. Within 10 mins my Stella 8000 screamed off with a couple of large fins breaking the surface so we knew that it wasnt an eagle ray. After a ripper fight which had the fish swimming in big arcs from out the back of the boat (as you can see we were anchored up nicely- haha) i finally beached the massive Shovely.

After landing the shark everything went a bit quiet, so we resorted to catching a few Blue Mannas by dragging in the ray baits and grabbing them once in close.

The next day, we headed out and with no luck at the Sambo hole again so we decided to do the same as the day before and fish around the 25m mark, which produced another Baldy and a good size Blackass.

Once these fish were in the esky on the ice we headed in as the SW'er was starting to blow, on the way we saw some fins breaking the surface abouth 50 metres away, thinking shark, we immediately threw out a whole herring on a wire trace. however they turned out to be 2 massive sambos which weren't in the least interested in our baits or lures.

 i just heard of a bloke getting bitten by a shark off exmouth on the news! has anyone heard of many shark attacks that far north before??

Picked these few tailor up this morning biggest was 57cm.Lost another one slighty bigger at i estimate 60cm in the shore break and watched it slip through my fingers.Also released a smaller tailor.My new stella 5000sw and jigging master shore game was fantastic.Set a balloon out after the tailor session and got bitten off back at my pr knot by what i guess was a mackie...

 What a arvo session - Went out for a dive this arvo with Spooled and a mate locally. Weather was fantastic and the visibility not to bad..... Started off snaring a few crays with todd in 10m while waiting for spooled to finish work then moved out around the lighthouse.... proved fruitless as abit of groundswell had really stirred things up.... Back around and out off the cray factory we headed.... jumped in and shot a nice little dhu straight up - todd followed suit and nailed its twin 10mins later! 

the 3 of us checked a few nocks and crannys and managed a couple more crays before moving on.... this time first drop seen me bump into a healthy trout in 9m - back to the boat swap the snare for the gun and after a few drops added him to the esky! Starting to look extremely healthy by now... 

Ended up moving once more to bag a few more crays and finish the day off...... Highlight for me tho was bumping into a school of boarfish! never heard of or seen them here in gero - not overly huge but shot one and so glad i did - the fillets look fantastic.... Turns out it was a YellowSpotted Boarfish judgin thru all the fish book and google pictures....

Ended up idling back to the ramp enjoying a icey cold beer at 5knots over a glassy ocean...

12 crays 2 dhuies 1 trout and a boarfish = pretty decent afternoons work out from gero (not more then 5mins from the ramp)

fantastic

Went out on Sunday in that horrible bloody wind. 

Seems I always end up going out when it is windy as hell! 

Launched at Hillarys, and my tub is pretty small so with the way the swell was coming we were getting bloody drenched on the way out. 

Didnt go that far, couple of mile out just near little island on the back edge of the reef. 

Burleyed up a fair bit and got one good run, felt like a sambo possibly but threw the hooks pretty quick. 

Then 15 mins or so after that a tiny bit of drag got pulled, so decided to bring the line up and check the bait, felt heavy and thought possibly weed clump but ended up being a small Wobby. The bloody thing was just sitting there, could hardly tell it wasnt weed till it hit the boat.

Around half hour later another run, this one felt a bit slow but had some grunt and came straight to the surface. Ended up being this shark in the pic. We had been doing shithouse with the table fish so decided to keep him for the barbie. 

I got a larger one of these a couple weeks back, can someone confirm it is a bronzie?  

Hour or two later got a big eagle ray to the boat, fought bloody hard but managed to release it well and off he went. 

Then about 20 mins before we left got another shark the same as the last one, but a bit bigger, this one was only lip hooked so managed to release it successfully without bringing it into the boat. 

Anyway no luck with anything else aside from 1 skippy and the obligatory 4 million wrasse, but there certainly seems to be a lot of sharks around! 

All of them caught on Deep Jig 200 with Stradic 8000. I reckon lighter gear in order next time! That or bigger baits  

Oh and didnt weigh/measure anything, im always too lazy for that! 

Dan

On Monday and Tuesday this week I went out to Blackwall reach for some crabs as I heard the pt walter spots werent firing.  Monday morning was a late start getting on the water around 9 and with the howling westerlie Blackwall reach was a glassoff. I had promised to take a colombian friend from tafe out for crabs but diving off GI. But with the wind the way it was I said we should pot the river.  Juan didnt have his licence so we set our sights on 10 crabs and were soon underway. A couple of pulls of the string and it was getting hot so I showed him the path up the cliff and we jumped off the cliff.

With 10 in the esky and a cold beer in hand around 2pm we were pulling all the pots in and got another 3 which went back with me promising to come get them on tuesday.  A bit of a cook up back at home and Juan was on his way with some cooked crabs for his missus. He had never seen, caught or tasted a crab before.

I also had offered to take a family friend out for a crack so we went out at 5:30, on the water for 6:15.  I told Ray it was going to be a beautiful day as we went around pt walter flat out.  Pots into the water and there was another boat in the bay who were already on 4 when we started.  Ray had his licence so we set the target a bit higher and ended up with 15 by lunchtime.  Back home for another cook up and Ray and I had a huge feed out the back on the table with newspaper for a tablecloth, bread, vinegar, salt + pepper and a fan to keep us cool. Plus a few coopers pale ales to rehydrate.

28 in two days. Not as quick as 20 in two hours but relaxing days anyway. Biggest was 18.5 cm across the shell. Only two undersize and two tiny females in the two days.

Bryan

my uncle Michael is back in Perth from the UK and last time Ryan got him and me onto huge bass groper this time Ryan was kind enought to take us to the Swan to get a feed of crabs.he said he has been going heaps of late and they are going off with some big bruizers.we headed out yestrday late arvo and got our 20 bag limit in 2 hours wif all crabs being 150mm to 180mm.

awesum arvo Ryan and the sunset beers on the Swan was a perfect way to finish off......thanx for taking us out m8

Hi all went out the busso jetty this morning for the first time since it been open.Wow wot a great job they have done just a shame it took so long .Any got a few herring and some nice size skippy and some squid but had to work for it . Its just good to have the jetty back for every one to use 

was down the ammo jetty last night just for walk to the jetty and back at around 10pm.  as i got to my car i noticed a car that had its back window and side window smashed.  now this has been going on for years but as of november last year they had put cameras in the carpark and that seemed to stop the break ins but as of 3 weeks i think they took them down and now were back to this same sh*t again

they sit in their car, wait for you to head down the jetty out of sight and smash. wat a crock of bs. so if your ever there and you see a white vs commodore sedan v8 that sounds like a hunk of *##* with people.......you can hardly see in it dont bother... waited out the front of woodies for about an hour, had another friend with me who went back down the carpark to see if anything else and wat do, you know, another 5 cars....

called the police while i followed them to the cockburn boat ramp probly looking for cars in that area as well.  i think they mite had recognised my car from the hour b4 and decided to get out of there as the police arrived 2 minutes 2 late

now i dont get it.  they put cameras up in the carpark to fix this problem, it works with hardly any reports and now were back to square one...what an absolute shambles on the cockburn shire. they put on all these co-safe patrols for what...?.....

what an absolute waste of tax payers dollars...!

Gday

Just wondering if any one has had much success over at hamo and if so what charter did you go on. Ive done a search and found some info but they are all about a year ago and not really saying too much. There seems to be two companies Renegade and Rapture both offering similar days but renegade being a bit pricier. Will be up ther in march and want to get on to some mackies and trout/emperor

Does any one know of any othere charter options

Cheers

hey guys any one heard of many if any tailor been caught at the drain recently tryed a few week backs to no avil hangin for a feed cheers guys

Went out for a fish last nite. Got some nice size baits to use live. A nice high tide at 10.30pm. Okay might be in with a shot.

Had to re anchor a couple of times because the wind was that strong it kept dragging the pick. There were some gusts to 35 knots or so.

Ended up landing a few rays from door mat size to coffee table size. They arent silver with 50 cent peice size scales though.

The last thing of the night slammed an 8" mullet and lolled around slugging it out 20 or 30 mtrs from the boat before it decided to bolt off into the darkness. It is a strange feeling loosing line into blackness.

At 1 stage I put the rod in a holder to wind the other rod in and get it out of the way!! It was looking like a complete spool job. This thing actually broke the spool clicker while it was running!! haha. mongrel.

And with about 30 metres of 20lb braid left out of 200 odd metres 'the thing' busted me off on the wind on leader.

Ahh well, better to have fought and lost than not to have fought at all.

Considering how cold it was last nite, I decided to head home and marvel the happenings over a few brews!!

When that big Mulla comes along though, it will make it so much more rewarding.

Cheers.

Went out for a quick solo troll this morning after hearing some good reports of macks and even a good size black being caught lately. hit the water about 5.30 just as the sun was coming up. took a while for things to start happening then Bang, had the drag up to tight on my 10kg outfit and got busted off by what i'd say was a mackie hitting it at full noise. Out goes a new lure and reset the drags, after a few laps of the same area got a solid hook up, after around 10 mins i had him in the boat. very lucky to land him after he did a lap round a cray rope. Ended up going 14.4kg on the digi scales. 

After that continued doing laps of the same area, got probly anoth 3 hook ups but dropped them all. The lures all came back looking pretty mauled so it looked like mackies were to blame. At around 8.00 i got a solid hook up but it didnt feel like a mackie, it took around 150m of 24kg braid befor shredding the leader. thought it must have been a sambo but it did have me wondering. Anyways rerigged for a few more laps, around 8.30 i was reeling in a lure to inspect it after dropping another fish when off to my left i see what i thought was a big mackie cruising on the surface towards the lure i was reeling in. Then i seen the big mackie had a bill, he lit up an almost bright blue colour and charged in. after a short 10mins with a few flips and tail walks i had him boatside. it was a bit tricky but i managed to grab him and lift him in the boat to dehook him and get a few quick snaps. After swimming him for a few mins he was giving a few good kicks and biting down pretty firmly and away he went.

(Dont worry the blood on the carpet is from the prevous mack not this guy)

Spent another 30mins cruising round and picked up another mack that was just size he went back and i decided to call it a day. got back to the ramp by 9.30, Beers cracked by 10.

Cheers Kye

still plenty of bluey's around in the river.... and pretty good size too. biggest 180mm

here's silly and my effort from last night

Hi, Im new here but thought i would fill you in. Had a top night last night at pt walter jetty. Caught around 50 tailor, only 4 keepers though but plenty on 25 cm. Went out there at 8 for a quick throw and ended up staying till 2am. Even had to go and get more pillies. Is this normal there or were we lucky? Its my 4th time there and have changed takle/bait/lures ect every time and watched others with their setup and have finally found the right combo.

5/2/11

Went down last night and had another another cracker. 8 herring and 9 tailor between me and my mate. 2 x 37cm tailor which was good also. I think i am ready to give the north mole a go and chase some bigger tailor on the same tackle and setup. I attached some photos.

Well with cyclone Bianca bearing down on us we weren't to sure what was install for us when we turned up at Woodies Saturday morning. As we headed out it looked pretty sh!t with lightening and rain coming over GI. As it hit we decided to stop and do some squidding as we couldn't see where we were going and that rain sure does sting when your moving. Luckily after half an hour it had passed and the weather for the rest of the day was great.

Headed to my usual trolling spot but decided to do a few drifts first over some lumps but came up empty handed. After a few hours decided to go for a troll and got smashed straight away. Ended up with 8 tuna landed, 6 bluefin and 2 stripeys (I think that's what these are?). Then fisherys decided to pay us a visit, they were very nice chaps, did the usual inspection of our catch and then were decent enough to show us on their sounder where a nice patch of demersals were (I need to get me one of those big sounders). Marked the spot and did a few drifts. Ended up getting a bunch of small snapper and being smashed 4 times by what I expect were Sambos. Landed one of the smaller ones...

Then it was time to go back in as the dark grey clouds started to roll in over Rotto. Thought we'd beat it in but we got smashed about 1km out from the ramp. All up a good day. Hadn't taken my brother and his missus out for a while and they ended up with their frist Tuna. The first one went 8kg so in a couple more months they will be stonkers.

Went out yesterday morning 5:30am, just after the thunderstorm came thru.  We first went out to the Five Fathom Bank and drifted over a few times and caught 4 nice skippy, we then went out to 40m mark and caught a 3 nice King George Whiting.  It was nice and quiet out on the water as most boaties werent sure with the approaching cyclone.

What is the easiest and best way to cook up King George Whiting? Any tips?

Cheers.

Went out yesterday in the 25 knot 3 metre conditions and hunted some Dolphinfish which are running hard at the moment. We got a couple early and then bled with nothing for about three hours. We decided to head home about 1200 and trolled the reef on the way. I picked up a very welcome doggie (probably about 8kgs). Then at the end of securing that in the esky we saw a massive dolly school, left the reef and got into them. It was Mahi Madness with double hook-ups and only me to get them in as it was too rough for my mate to leave the wheel. There wasn't even time to reset lures as whatever was left in the water ended up connected to the next fish. An awesome 45 minutes to finish the days fishing. We got another four before heading home, leaving them biting.

Without a doubt my favourite eating fish in the ocean.

Not much is going to survive these choppas. My hardbodies are starting to build up some pretty cool scars.

Rictor Jellybabes. Got to love em!!!!

They weren't big by any stretch but they were there in numbers and going nuts for our lures.

Dogtooth sashimi and crumbed mahi - now that's a quality lunch.

A brief report from a trip that a mate and I did out at the FFB recently.

Was blowing a bloody gale out but decided to give it a whirl anyway as the swell was low. Ended up with 3 decent pinkies, 2 good tailor (one really good), a bronzie and the usual smaller stuff.

Snapper went pretty hard on fairly light gear, but was using the heavier kit for the shark (was trying for his big brother) so wasnt much of a challenge there.

Let 1 pinkie go, and hosted a shark bbq the following day - shark burgers were awesome! You can tell by the pic of the shark that I got a bit carried away with the iki jimi, but the thing was never going to fit in the esky and I wasnt sitting it on the deck next to my foot till I knew it was dead for sure!

Used a tailor head and a herring together for the shark and mulies for the rest

Dan

After seeing Richard Snellin's post about Tailor, thought id head down to my local beach where i normally flick for Tailor with a twisty lure. Within 5mins scored a nice fish which i saw take the lure about 5m out, ended up being a lil salmon. Got a Tailor just on sunset and then lost another just after the sun went down. All good fun and a lil feed

Sha

Decided to head to north mole for a few casts last night.
The weather was perfect just a light breeze and very warm.
I got there a bit late just missing the sunset however my first cast hooked a a lovely Tailor right at my feet which subsequently detatched itself at the rocks, half an hour or so went by before another hookup but when it came it was huge, line peeled off in three or four powerful runs and a couple of minutes later i was carrying my biggest Tailor ever at 49cm up the rocks.
Bites came fairly regularly after that and i soon had another tailor of 40cm in the bucket which was then followed by a horse (by my standards) at 51cm. At this time the southerly started to pick up so i called it a night despite the fish still being on the bite but i was more than happy with my catch!
Richo

Thinkin of headin out to 3 mile early tom, but last time i went their wasnt much action. has anyone had a good run their lately?

Does anyone know of any shore based metro spots where the bonito are biting of late?

a few photo's from our dives over the past few weeks.

Mainly night efforts in the swan for crabs, but have been able to pick up some decent flathead in the prawn net as well.

Went for a quick dive on aus day and looped a cray that was moulting. looked like he had two heads!

No reccord breakers but plenty of good feeds :)

heres the latest track map

My first lady student for toman wild fishing for year 2011 is from Malaysia. Henry and his wife done a 4 DAYS 3 Nights safari trip to the Burma- Thailand border dam with me.

Henry's wife came without any proper casting or luring skills experience. For the very first day, I've tried my best to help and teach her the correct way to cast out her lure , balance on the boat and crank the lure etc. At the end of the fishing trip, she passed with fly color and is fit to wear my Giant Snakehead T- shirt with logo stated " NO LIMIT' when come to wild fishing. Just work hard and have faith in yourself. The big catch will come one day.  ;)

After this safari trip in Thailand, she is hooked to wild toman fishing.

I told Henry that the biggest catch for this wild fishing trip is not the big fish but be able to poison his wife to love wild fishing. This way, he got excuses and can make many wonderful memories fishing trip with his wife in the future.

"Wonderful memories is made & created by loved ones together"

Henry like many other avid lurers, fancy the wild kind of challenging than ponds fishing.

For this particular trip, Henry landed his first fish for 2011- A 1.22kg sebarau and his wife first toman caught in the wild on lure of course- 2.29kg toman. The magnificent view and beautiful natural, enough to melt any angler's heart.

Without much delay, allow me to share some of the highlights photo shots for the trip.....

For live actions....view the vid clip.

YES....YES.....YES.........shouted Henry's wife when she finally landed her first toman in the wild in 2011.
 
In the vid clip, you can see her casted her luer with great confident. Drop her lure in between narrow gap & casting non stop on the boat and under the hot sun.

Great angler is created and not born. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1c_YoryTH0

Highlights photo shots....

Hi all,

Cam here, been lurkin in these forums for about a year and decided to contribute something. Was a mad fisherman as a youngster and lately getting back into it with my mater

Last few weeks I have been fishing the river, looking for the elusive land based blue manna ( Any tips would be appreciated). A short write up of the spots I have hit up follows.

Garrat Road: 1) Went on the incoming king tide, managed a handful of bream, the biggest goin 29cm. No crabs in a 3-4 hour stretch off the jetty

                    2nd) Went on the low tide for a short lure session last night. Didnt manage a fish but saw a group taking 15-20cm baby bream and tailor and hiding them in bags under the pylons, reported to fisheries who unfortunately didnt have anyone available.  They did follow up the call today however, and had a discussion about what to do when they are off duty.

What does everyone do when they see this? I wanted to confront them but couldnt count on me or them holding their temper.

Applecross Jetty and surrounds:  Had a good session on bream 2 nights ago from 25-29cm with several bigger ones being lost. We were using small rock crabs, snapbacks and river prawns.BLowies were surprisingly not that bad. Still no blue manna crabs in a 3 hour soak (7pm till 10pm) A local told us about large yellowfin whiting in the area, anyone else heard about

Peppermint Grove/ Mosman Bay: Fished further towards chidley from the Freshwater bay YC. Heaps of small tailor around 15-20 cm chasing large bait schools, Only one legal amongst the ones we caught so put them all back. Never caught one that small before, they have no fight in them whatsoever at that size, even on 2kg. Again no crabs, but large masses of blowies around to go with the bait fish.

Anyone have any surefire LB crab spots or tips? We are using spleen, chicken, bony herring, farkin sausages and all.  I just want a couple for tea. hahah