hit up the canning today, armed with river prawns. i rocked up just as the water became slack, so i was hoping for a good little session. already rigged up on the train so i could get straight into the action. first drop down i nailed a small bream, 23cm. went quiet for a bit until the water became slack. perfect cast onto a pylon, waited no more than 3 seconds and had line screaming from the reel. forgot to tighten my drag, so i lost him to the pylon. landed another 7 bream, undersized in about the same amount of casts. then went quiet until i had another solid hookup. at this stage, the current had picked up quite a lot. managed to land him, 35cm. very healthy fish. next cast got absolutely smashed by a big bream and shortly after he bricked me. unstoppable haha. some asian bloke using mussels managed to pick up a beautiful 42cm blackie after a long tussel on ultralight gear. put my bream to shame! finished up around 2:30ish when i ran out of bait and headed home. id put photos up, but i cant get them off my phone!

Just thought I would share this.

Neels

Makes you realise how many houses etc are effected.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm

After only fishing bait most of last year this year i have started using lures and caught my first bream on a MF40 that went 31cm.

So i revisited the same spot and gave it another crack.
In the first 30 mins i hooked up on a mf40 and within seconds it bust be off on a pylons. And felt like a decent bream (35+)

With morale low i kept fishing and hooked up again on my mf40 and landed my first Flathead from the Swan River. This fish went 31cms. and with no one around only got a release shot and some other average shots.

I kept fishing and thought i'd change to a snapback grub( inspired by Aussie_Breamer) this was in avacado colour. I hooked up with it 3rd cast and land a nice flathead that went 42cms and was stoked.

It would have been a cracka day if only the first fish didnt get away but it was still good for a quick 2 hr session.

Cheers duffman.

Gear used was a sienna with 6lb braid and 8lb flouro

Headed out at 4am this morning, hit the first spot and on the first drop everyone loaded up on pinkies as expected. By sunrise (around 5.30am) we had 8 snapper, with the smallest going 6kg and 5 over 9kg. We then set out 2 tiagra 50s and did some trolling around West End, but with no luck. From this, we headed deep and worked 400gm jigs. Unfortunately it was quite windy, and didn't work in our favour with the Sambos. Hooked up to a monster and got bust off, while my mate got spooled on lock up with a torsa 30. Seeing as we didnt have any luck with the Sambos we went after some tuna. Saw a few on the surface and some around while jigging. Didnt have any luck getting tuna either, so worked some jigs in 30m water, picking up a few small sambos and dhueys, oh an wrasse half the size of the jig aha. Got back by 1.30, with an esky full of pinkies.

Anything under 65-70cm we released to fight another day

The picture of the reels in the picture probably equated to about 1/6 of the reels on board aha. Stellas, Van Staal, Tiagras, Torsas, Saltigas - Galore!

Managed to get out in the river last night for a quick session before the sun went down.

Got 7 in an hour and a half. Few big buggers too which is awesome to see.

Will look to head out again this week to see how early morning goes.

Had a weekend up in moore river and went just south of the rock groyne of the bach at 4:30am on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Saturday was very weedy but managed to get into some good fish.

Got some tailor there and a few big herring. One of the tailor being 51cm. Also got my first eagle ray which was good fun but put him back.

First tailor Ive caught from beach fishing. All fish were off the bite by about 7am.

Took my 4 1/2 year old son down to mindarie yesterday for a fish. Caught and released 5 baby pinkies,also caught some whiting and a flying fish,James had just as much fun watching them swim away as he did catching them. Perfect way to spend a sunday arvo. Also  dolly pics from last tuesday fishing with Whitey on his charter out of jurien.

after early start on sat getting that nice gummy i was buggered so had a bit of a sleep in and the hit the whiting again was a very slow start picking up heap of under sized pinkies about 20 massive toads but did bag out with 40 more whiting biggest went 45cm and 4 others 43cm also lost 1  trying to lift it in the boat that prob woulda went 46 47cm till it hit the snapper racks and snapped the trace, what a bummer

any you fellas / Lass' got any feedback on the SALTIST 4500H? Bought one yesteday spooled with Diawa Si PE3

i fished thismorning  wanting a gummy  after catching so many whitting last few weeks  after about 30 min wait  i got a hit didnt hook up  put rod back in holder and 20 sec later it took off again  this time i was on  after about 5 min fight i boated a nice gummy not sure what it would weigh tho as dont have scales. put lines back down picked up 3 nice pinkies and my  20000 stella took off which i had  a big  salmon head out hoping for a toothy  after boat 20 min fight  got it up 2 be a bloody massive ray  would have been biggest ive seeen.  then after that afew more big hits but got busted off then a nice cuttlefish aswell so  not a bad  1st day targeting the gummies

Seeing all the crabs coming out of the Swan myself and Silly thought we would have a crack down at the usual haunt.

Ended up picking up 15 odd keepers between us and missed a lot more. Dived in 6-15m. Vis was no good where we were, max 1m at best. I think the tide was turning which probably didnt help.

They are pretty good size at the moment - biggest were close to 70cm between the tips of each claw.

Got the usual bycatch - scallops and also a reasonable flatty in the prawn net.

A lot of small prawns sighted but not really any decent sized ones.

Going to make chilli crab tonight :)

cheers

Hi everyone,

I just want to say thanks to the members who posted warm welcomes and some info regarding Hillarys on my original post here. 

And to DieHard, I'm sorry I didn't meet up with you that Saturday. I was supposed to meet up with my sister at 4pm at Hillarys after fishing on BlueJuice. She didn't end up coming at 6pm. Since it's a big marina, I thought she got lost so I spent 2 hours just walking around looking for her. By the time I met my sister, I was too tired to fish. Hope I have a chance in the future to visit Perth again and meet up with you. Thanks for the invite!  

I just want to check in again to say thanks and give a report of my trip. I remember the Faulkner Family said this:

"hope the trip over will be one to remember for you. would be great to see you with a big sambo in your arms."

Thanks for the kind words...because it happened!!!  You can see the pictures below. 

Anyways, I thought I would share with you some of the fishing I did during my travels between Nov 25, 2010 to Dec 30, 2010. I visited Thailand, Australia, Malaysia and Hong Kong in that order. I would have liked to have spent more time fishing...but this was a sightseeing trip and a family trip with a wedding (my cousin's) thrown in for good measure. So actual fishing time was very limited. Total fishing hours was 57 hours between the 13 days. 

All the fish were released except for 2 of them (one queenfish and one seabass). Most fish, especially the smaller ones, only received less than 30 seconds of "handling time"...although some appeared to be in worse shape than others.  I do try to keep fish handling to as little as possible...but some fish just would not stop jumping around! 

Fish from Phuket, Thailand 

6” Scisortail Sergeant

5” Yellow and Redbelly Fusilier

7” Bluefin Trevally

6” Whitespotted Rabbitfish

6” A species of wrasse

Fish from Khao Sok National Park, Thailand 

9” Giant Kissing Gourami

11” Tinfoil Barb

9” Grey Featherback

13” Hampala Barb

9” A species of Leaffish

Fish from Koh Samui, Thailand 

25lb Giant Barb (aka Siamese Carp)

70lb Giant Mekong Catfish

Bait for Mekong Catfish and Siamese Carp

Fish on!

60lb Mekong Catfish

Last cast…I’ve been waiting for this fish all day…

40kg Redtail Catfish

Fish from Perth, Australia

5-foot Bronze Whaler Shark…cut the line before we got it to the surface :(

Samsonfish!!!

Smallest adult on the boat caught the biggest fish! All 40kg worth and they made me hold it up.

Annoying pufferfish…the harbour was full of them and there was no way to get way from them. They even chewed up soft plastic lures and they were so thick I even snagged them using crankbaits and Kastmasters :roll:

7” Sand whiting

Fish from Langkawi, Malaysia 

5” Russell's snapper

7” Spottail Needlefish

5” A species of goby

7” Indo-Pacific Tarpon (on the fly rod no less!)

6” A species of grunter

13” Great Barracuda

13” Talang Queenfish (TASTY!!!)

7” Five Banded Archerfish (These fish were so picky…but I finally fooled them using a hopper pattern on the fly rod :twisted:)

Fish from Hong Kong, China 

13" Crescent Sweetlips

5lb Japanese Seabass

6" A species of mojarra

3" A species of ponyfish

4" A species of rockfish

If I counted accurately, that was 30 species of fish caught...of which 28 were new to me!

Thanks for reading everyone!

 Was eager to christen the new dive torch(Modified Maglite) so had to try it out at the local spot, the pic with the crab on the gauge is from the top right corner of the original pic for idea of size, the visibility was great can see about 2 metres ahead.

 Hey guys,

heading to rotto next week for a few days, doing a land based mission to land a kingie or mackie. anyone got reports of em aournd yet? 

any tips of rigs, bait, spots etc I should give a try, 

much appreciated.

got to the cockburn boat ramp about 5ish in the morning and was glad to see there was no wind at all. as soon as we got the boat in the water we headed of to the club marine FAD lookin for some dolphin fish. after about an hour of trolling lures around the FAD with no luck we decided to bottom bounce and about 60meters away from the FAD 2 or 3 decent sized dollies swam past the boat straight to the FAD. after bottom bouncing for bit with out no luck like trolling we decided to go and look for a charter boat and find a spot. finally first drop i hooked up to something good then came off. then my dad hooked up to something this fish wasant much of fighter but once we got it to the top it was a 50cm grey banded cod. after with no luck again we decided we were gonna move untill fun size tuna started jumping around the boat but we got none eney way. so we moved again to about 20meters of water, about 10 minutes into fishing a 4ft hammer head swam around the boat then took off. after the hammer head left i got a fairly good bite it kept on biting and then suddenley i set the hook into this fish is wasant much of a fight on 50lb. once got to the boat it was black ass and was 30cm he was size but decided to send him back because of his size. a couple of minutes later i had an even better bite so i set the the hooks in this one and this one was fighting a bit but not much. once it broke the surface it was a big buff bream with my rig in its mouth and a snapper flasher in its mouth from a recent fight. so once i got the hooks out of him i chucked him back the drink. soon as i chucked him back my mate (thafishingkid) hooked the 4ft hammer head unforntently it wasant hooked very long and the line snapped he was a bit disapointed but he got over it after while. after a while the wind started to pick up and we were gonna move untill i hooked something that gave a good fight. after about of a couple of minutes of the fight a meter gummy shark came to the surface so we quickly got its head of and guts out and put it straight into the ice slurry. about a couple minutes later me mate got a 40cm black ass so we chuck him in the ice slurry aswell

by the end of the day we ended up with 50cm grey bannded cod

                                                         meter gummy shark

                                                          and a 40cm black ass

 Hey all   Just been looking at going for a fish at burns beach.  Just wondering if any one else has tried their and what they have caught  ??   

Are there any still hanging around stragglers or have they all gone walkies from there

Hey Guys,

Just a quick report from Whitey's charter last Thursday. Apologies for the late reply but im pretty sure ive only just caught up on sleep from this day!

Anyway Chrisp, Daz, JohnF, Schecky, Gweedo and myself headed up Wednesday night to get a good sold 14.5-15min sleep the night before to awake a nice early 0330 start. A series of different events happened which was due to the lack of sleep, but these best to stay at hush....

Steaming out in pitch black on our way to tease some dolly's and tease them we did. With McArthy's and sinking sticks to be their downfall. As most of you already know Chrisp' standout bull was at the top of the list, with JohnF getting his first which showed to be a handsome fish also.

After they shut down, a hunt out in the 200m+ was worth a jig as a few nice pinks of ~650-700mm hit the surface with Hotdog's coming up trumps. After the deep jig back the Red FM FAD for more action, size dropped off a little but we still managed some line tearing fun!

After that we belted into some more general ground to sink some lumps of lead in hope of some demersals. Good start with the Scheckanator getting his first Baldie on Inchiku untill the Mr Sambo turned up and rods were buckled and reels were smoking as some were lost and some solid fish around ~12-15kg we boated on PE2 & 3. A noteable catch of the little Gweedo's Sambo of around 20kg on the light stuff!

A move of spot was in order as donating expensive jigs to sambos wasn't fun for me. A good move it was with the Dazman jigging up a solid Dhu and his PB Dhu at just shy of 14kg, taken on a IMA Ro. He was chuffed to say the least after been a banana bender for so long. Whitey managed a lil pup Dhu and a few other odds and sodds including B/A, Goatfish, Pinks and another top Baldie. The Dazman finished the day off with a koota little pinky around the 550mm mark.

All in all, was a good day and yep 'tis true, Whitey knows his shit! Heres a coupla pics for you all. I between being camera bitch all day, i highly enjoyed loosing jigs and PE to the the local Sambo and suspected Dhu town late in the day. Was not my day....

Cheers,

Sam

JohnF's First. Top stuff mate!

The "Noodle" Lemax in struggle town

And the result....

The Juvie with a Baldie Burger

The big boy...

The big boy different angle

Gweedo's Sambopotamus...inexcess of 20kg and made him pisssss

And a sweet bit of pink to finish of the day....

 Had my normal week off from work ( 7days on /7 days off)

it went as follows

last tues morn ,first day off, north of rotto, day before the bad weather.

had some good drifts, lots of bites ,all small until a decent pink.

came home ,took daughter to ammo jetty,only a handful of scalies,everyone said last week they where 

going off,of course.

wed and thurs,storm, rest time.

friday afternoon ,went north of two rocks,beach very weeded up ,spots like flat rocks etc very sandy,unusual for summer

normally rocks are all exposed,very trying conditions ,got 3 tailor about a kg each

sat night,ammo jetty no scalies at all.

sat night ,went to south mole ,some just size tailor been caught.

sunday morn,crabbing at harvey inlet ,walked until found some soft ground ( the key) got my 10,all males.

monday morn ,today ,crabbing again, got our 10 each in about 90 mins,home to east freo by 9.30am

tues (tomorrow) return to work for rest!

stayed well within our limits ,had a great time with the kids and mum,as well as some feeds.

so yes I am married ,it can be done

love from the"quadfisher"

 out working today pulling near the shippping lanes saw a disturbance on the surface the boss whent over for a look and it was a school of tuna about 5 kg in size smashing scailies on the surface pretty cool to see it ma be worth towing come lures thru the sound on your way out deep next

Hi all

My daughter was keen to go fishing, especially after seeing the dhuie I caught just after Christmas. So we headed out from Dawesville this morning and headed out 'sort of west'. After checking out a couple of marks without success, we headed out a bit further and found some nice arches on the sounder. 

I think we were getting 'wrassed' because we could feel lots of little bites which only resulted in the continual loss of bait. Then, all of a sudden there's the familiar scream of line being pulled from the reel. As it stopped, the daughter started to gain some line back, only to lose it again with another long run. The excitement at the possibility of her first dhuie (or first decent fish, at least), however, was short lived because all of a sudden the weight on the line was gone...bugger 

When she retrieved her line, there's a rather dead looking wrasse which she'd hooked, and had obviously been grabbed by something big....never got to see any colour so we don't know what it was.

I boated a 50cm blackarse which she took home as a consolation prize!

The wind turned southerly around lunchtime so we headed back in and by the time we got back to the ramp, the seabreeze was in!! A nice day on the water and it was good to wet a line with my daughter.

regards
rusty...

just a couple of hours in the swan  .great eating ,full of meat  ..ps gotta work them nets 

 First report for the year & the first spear for the year!

Rob and i where both coming off nightshift which made things alittle harder but with not a drop of swell and the promise of half decent conditions we bit the bullet and headed out about 730am straight after knocking off work. Along this time with us was Robs future son-in-law Timmy. Very keen surfer and dosnt mind spending time with a gun in his hand. 

Forecast was for fairly light sth-west winds which where pretty much spot on and made the trip fairly slow but not too bad but the grey overcast skys and intermittent rain showers didnt help the viz once in the drink! Arrived at about 845 and geared up. First in the drink was robbie and he came up stoked the water was clear as and fish everywhere! I jumped in armed with the camera in a attempt to get some nice shots - that lasted all of a min when a monster baldie came ghosting in from the gloom. Tim traded my riffe for the camera but it was too late the fish had continued on...

Went for abit of a swim and came across a nice groper of about 4kg so my first shot had me on the board and we where on our way.... Dropped the fish at the boat and swum over to find tim and rob on some beaut looking ground in about 10m and timmy just dealing with a superb baldchin of about 6kg! Great Fish....

Little bit of buffy burly and i spyed a nice spango off on the sand along with another big groper and a couple of small dhuies... Being a good swim from the boat tho rob made the call to head back abit closer so the fish where left be for next time.... Caught up with rob who was burlying a buff and had woken up every wobbie in a 10mile radius - had 7 swimming about at one stage all different colours and patterns quiet cool to see...

Timmy mean while had knocked off a big Blue Bar Parrot on his swim back to the boat and he had his 2 fish limit on the first dive!

I traded the gun for my camera again and was busy taking snaps when robbie called us over for some pics - he had nailed his first Blue Groper! Not very often seen up this way and he was pretty happy to chalk another off the list! Beautiful soft white fillets i might add when doing the cleaning later on! Cant wait to try it

Moved out into some deeper water which proved fruitless so headed back in to try find the area i saw the spangos before.... Stumbled across some ok looking ground nothing spekky but set about spearing a buff and getting some action happening... One small sambo of about 15kg came looking but was let continue on his business and then suddenly the spangleds appeared... Timmy was following with camera and i was flat out trying to burley these flighty fish in closer when rob gave us a warning yell! "OI LOOOKOUT"

Turned around to come face to face with a 10ft tiger 5ft away.... Dropped the burly and put my gun between us and the fish while tim did his best to climb on my sholders and rob came over to lend a hand.... Ate the buffy i dropped and came for a couple of tight circles really watching us before drifting off... AWESOME ENCOUNTER... Tim wasnt really in picture mode therefore only got the one snap - Video would have been unnnnreal. He retired back to the boat after that...

Traded gun for camera again incase he came back in and fired some shots off of some small dhuies , groper and trout - robbie missed a nice baldchin and we decided to move again to try find our 2 more fish....

Viz had begun depleting here in the deeper water which didnt help - fair amount of swimming for me only showed a couple of parrotfish but nothing worth shooting... Rob managed one small groper which left one fish to shoot.... We caught up and where discussing one more move or what to do when i looked down to find a ripper 6kg plus baldchin moochin in under me... SCORE

Quick breath up drop down and nailed my 2nd fish for the day and our bag of 6 was complete....

Home cleaned up and ready to do it all again next time the weather permits with some beautiful fillets for dinner!

Great day out

Cheers Poddy

Greeting to all. I would like to share my experience sailfish fishing in Kuala Rompin Malaysia. In this trip we manage to land nearly 20 sailfish in 2 days fishing. Kuala Rompin is deemed to be the sailfish fishing capital of Asia, it has one of the best fishing grounds in this region. Other than using live bait, surface popping also can attracted sailfish. Nestled on the south east coast of the Malaysian peninsular, Kuala Rompin is a unique area offering anglers of all experience and skill levels spectacular sailfish action. The sailfish are drawn to this part of the South China Sea as the warm currents offer them the ideal feeding grounds for the masses of baitfish within this area. Sailfish work in packs hunting these waters for bait schools and their aggressive feeding patterns offer anglers numerous sport fishing opportunities. The warm, calm waters off the coast of Kuala Rompin are ideal for anglers to target quantities of these billfish. 40kg sail Double hook up Birds flying over sailfish In action Ladies Angler Toying with bait Hook up More hook up Fishing boat Using sabiki/apollo rig to catch some livebait

Here's a few pics to go with the video I've posted in that section.

I'll do a seperate report when I can detailing the new rod.

The link to the videos section below

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/some-nice-lutjanids

Enjoy!!

What day !!! What a relaxing trip for me !!!

Whenever I'm not going for any fishing trips. I would take my car, go for a spins  and look for potential wild fishing spots for wild toman & sebarau around the countryside..

This particular fishing location , not far from bkk (250km -2.5hr drive) has many sebarau. For many fans of sebarau (jungle perch)anglers - This catch report will be a delight for you. :)

I landed some 20 sebarau fishes and missed a dozen more , all landed on my topwater lures. The said location has many seasweeds thus usage of those deep diver lures & spoon is out of the question.

Follow me to the adventure of wild fishing trip for sebarau (jungle perch) in Thailand.

Spent an enjoyable evening a Timms Thickett last nite,gentle breeze till dark then still till the northerly 7.30 thismorning.

Fishing wasnt as good as it could have been,Blowies are thick,never seen them as thick.Between my bro and I we removed around 120 of them.

I did get 3 nice Tailor 35,37 and 43 cm.Makes up for the 6 just undersize I put back into the cut last week.

Shame about the blowies,prevented us targeting whiting,well catching them.Was told the blowies are thick all the way up that beach.

Andrew

No kids, a Striper, not a stripper! Anyhow, Monday lead to MightyMouse, his FIL Con, pal Aaron and myself all heading up to Cervantes in convoy: The work truck and van, and the Carl's Seaswirl Striper 2601. Nice drive on the new road, most of the traffic going the other way after sucking up a week or so of the usual Jurien windy xmas holiday weather. Occasional local Andy gave us a few quick tips on the launch site, remembering to round the post and then loaned us a genny. We then took the boat down and set up camp, just in time for BBQ dinner. I'd like to make sure that you all know we ate meat AND vegetables on the trip, and not just fried onion either! We launched the boat and left it moored, with a fore and aft anchor because the tides really weren't going to be ideal the next day.

The next day, I woke to find that we didn't quite have enough water under the boat to float it out, but a combination of weight movement, rocking and the anchor winch got us over the edge of the dropoff. We had a quick breakky and waved bye to Con and headed out for some fish! Can't get away from the fish there! We headed North to the 30m mark and sounded out some ground and I think that Aaron, Carl and I had landed 5 dhufish in two drops! Aaron got his first legal dhu on plastic, and next couple of drifts I was busy getting a quick tour of the boat!

That turned up my 10kg specimen. He came up on a 7Seas Hooker, in a lumo/white/holo pattern.

Next Carl was getting some good whacks on his Pirate and this is the result! We guessed the fish at 10kg, but it came up in such good nick, we took a quick pic and then we released him. We might come visiting when he puts on another 10kg.

We were worried that we were just going to get dhufish all day, but we had a few of the usual suspects on jig also; Sambos, Sgt bakers, later some small pinks and finally a few Baldies.

The bite really tapered off in the arvo, so I had a dive, Aaron and Carl having a doze on the boat. Not much love there in 10-15m, crays are long gone and there were just a few small kackers. After that, I got my light outfit out. After dragging 450g jigs around in 300m, just 70g jigs in 30m of water was just like a holiday!

And the results;

We headed back in, cleaned the catch and the boat, and then time for another fry-up! Day 2 we went back out to the 30m mark, Aaron picked up a nice dhufish on bait, and then we pushed out to the FADs. There were a lot of fish out there on the Southern Fad, but the bit was a little slow. We caught one fish going 820mm on a 5". We tried a few more spots on the way back in to Jurien, just managed a few small pinks and a large sambos. Con drove the truck up and we retrieved at the ramp, no sweat! I ran into Whitey at the wharf, we had a little chat about what they had been onto all day - including a forum member bagging a +20kg YTK! All in all, a top trip thanks to MightyMouse for organising it and ta to Andy for the genny and a few tips on that launch!