Well im finally gonna sit down and right up a report for everyone on my 6 days of diving starting last monday (week before chrissy)

Left the ramp fairly early sunday morning with a very stiff nth east wind and no swell - decided not to head too far so just stayed local... visibility was average in the morning and got better as the day went on. a howling north current meant not a greaat deal spotted - small baldies small pinkies the odd baby dhu and small trout. Changed spots a few times and managed to bag a nice trout of about 4.5kgs mid afternoon and spotted a nice spaniard but proved too elusive.

Tuesdays forecast was look very nice - a late departure as i was going solo and flagpole was heading out so i decided to dive in his vacinity just to be safe - had a greeat dive - nailing a nice trout first drop of 6kgs. So much fish life around it WAS funny.... 2 monster sambos well over 30kgs came for a look , 2 western blue groper ( not often seen this far north) TROUT GALORE chasing bait along with dhuies and skippy. Some big parrots about aswell.... Tried a few different locations looking for that big dhu but ended up bagging a nice groper and calling it a day very satisfied...

Wednesday - Phone call to my regular dive buddy had him VERY keen to get out after being abit iffy to start with.... up nice and early and it was one of the flattest most beaut mornings ive been out on off gero... millpond conditions.... again fish everywhere! rob got some good video of me shooting another 6kg trout and we got some grreat footage hand feeding a sambo also... very friendly.... caught up with flagpole again and changed locations. proved a wise move shafting a lovely 8kg dhu and seeing a couple of others a tad smaller.... Rob didnt have the greatest of day having gun problems and also not feeling the best but he did shoot a very nice 7kg blue bar parrot and i added another small dhu to make our 4 fish limit.... another fantastic day....

Thursday - still bugger all swell but the winds where abit stronger today - the current had died right off which didnt help but today i dove the some local freedive legends. Antony and his dad Nigel Sercombe.....Tried many different places but struggled to consistently find anything worth shooting... I got a pb dive when i shot a 6.5kg trout in 16.5m altho i did need ants help to extract after 3 up and down attempts. end of the day showed a nice trout each a small groper to nigel a average yellowtail king to ant and a small parrot to myself.....

Friday i dove with ant again - today we decided on chasing macks hard again even tho yesterdays efforts drew a blank on the spanish front....

ant had a small 7kg fish before i was in the drink! it did have a friend with it (15kg ish) but it departed pretty quickly when 12ft of tiger came in all lit up like christmas looking for a feed... i stood guard while ant despatched his fish but the tiger stayed well away and didnt bother us.... it was one of a number of tiger encounters for the day..... Ant got some decent footage of myself nailing a 6kg baldie out of 13m also before we moved on to some other ground.... Again a wise move with ant nailing a lovely 7kg dhu and a small trout.... 1 more move showed some great looking ground and i dropped down to nail a twin of the mornings groper! stoked......

Christmas = a restttttt haha

Boxing Day = work

Today ant and i got one more dive in before he headed back to perth..... forecast was all buggered up but still very divable.... burlyed very hard to see 1 tiny spanish some small tuna and a small school mack before we went off after our bottom fish.... ant got a nice groper and 4kg dhu and i shot a nice 5kg groper and 6kg dhu to finish it off.....

Weather was variable but lack of swell helped considerably! Some quality fish taken for the table and a very satisfied group of spearos....

cheers poddy

Hey all,

After seeing yesterday's forecast saying it was going to stay windy and then deciding not to go. Leah and i headed for a swim down at the beach and saw some flat ocean. Got me thinking today may do the same, woke up at 5am windy so went back to bed. Decided to head out at 11 for a jig as it was starting to slow down and thought there may be a window of nice conditions. Left the ramp at 11 and headed norwest, found 2 lumps in around 35m about 12 mile out. Did two drifts and nothing so pushed on...my mark to fish was still another 7mile away so i thought i may look around a few pots. Found a group of 3 and nothing but on the 3rd pot i did a figure 8 and found some good ground about 12metres away, stopped the boat and jig went down.....hits the bottom well what i thought was the bottom but it pulled...lost it then a couple of tugs later bang! Was somthing hefty and got me thinking sambo as it had the stradic screaming. 10mins later a pb dhuie pops up still kicking and had me hooting for a while. Bottomed out my 7kg scales but will weigh it before i clean it on my big scales

So drove out 40mins fished 40mins and drove back in 40mins.... Sweet lil 2 hour sesh and beat the major crowds as the ramps carpark was still chockos with trailers.

Stoked..

ps sorry bout the pics it was on self timer

  hi all had a quick trip with the family today out for a troll ,

 we hit the 30m mark and trolled from south to north and got 1 spanish mac {10kgish}ok size fish ,but we lose a heap the kids just could not get them in fast enough,Alex had one fish on for about 8 mins and when it got near the boat a billy was wacking it and then the sharks started on it ,we got the head and the lure back thank god

 after losing so many to sharks it was time to go home ,i think we lose 6 on lures and i lost about 12 skipping gars all choped in half

 was a good fue hours fishing

 sorry no pics the kids wherent to good with the camera

   jeff

I just came back from 3 DAYS of wild fishing trip with an Italian couple to the dam (400km) drive away. Simon STRICTLY emphasis to me "NO PONDS FISHING" (take away Pilot 111) for him, only want to relax fishing in the wild dam with his wife. The hunting game & true fishing as a real fisherman. He has  NEVER fish a snakehead before in his life but always  amaze at the sudden attack on topwater lures and speed of this unique freshwater fish.

Simon was so happy & falls in love with the nature wild fishing with me that  he is planning another return trip to fish with me again in the month of May 2011. Next round, he is going to plan a even longer fishing trip-5-6 DAYS in the wild with me to 2 different places in Thailand .

Simon thanks you note to me:

" John thanks for this unique experience of fishing. magnificent scenery, a place where you are in contact with nature and with the people who live it every day. For me it 's important to have fished with a true lover of the true professional fishing: one made of the constant search for prey."

I'm always happy to see serious 'willing to learn ' angler migrate from  pond fishing to the challenging wild kind of fishing. Although you don't get as much bite rates &  hookups as compare to the well stocked  pond fishing but at least you get to enjoy the beautiful scenery and 'true fishing' what the mother nature offer to us.
Enjoys the beautiful & attractive scenery  of wild fishing in natural habitual surrounding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni9eTGhM5Tc

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fished my special spot again 2day only with soft plastics and was a bloody thumper of a day, first drop for both me and my mate ended in a huge line burning run and then bot got brilled in the pylons, I then put on a megabass metalX lure witch a mork mate of mine imported over from japan and gave me one, and I hooked a nice sambo which again drilled me in the pylons.

I then switched back to SPs and fished close to the structure, hooked up again and landed a nice little bream about 35 cm, I caught another 2 little ones arround the same size, then hooked a bid tailor that went 40cm.

contuinued to catch tailor and herring untill they bugged off and then targeted bream again.

hooked into a very nice fish and after lots of nice runs and manouvering him through the pylons, a BIG bream surfaced. He went just over 45cm..... and a good 1 1/2 - 2 kilos.

contuinued to catch some more nice bream arround the 30 cm mark.

hooked into another massive fish which when landed, again went over 40cm, about 43cm. and a good kilo.

had a awsome day with huge bream, none of the 8 i caught, went under 30cm!!!, If only It was the swan river WABT today!!!

over all, my mate got 5 flathead, 1 small bream and a herring,

and I mannaged 8 bream (2 Big blue lips), a nice tailor, multiple herring and unfortunetally lost that big fish and that Sambo which took my special Megabass lure!!!

will have to take you there somtime Marco...

cheers,

Tom

Merry Christmas to everyone

In upholding the family tradition of doing a spot of crabbing on Christmas day, Team Gates launched the tinny from the Dawesville ramp around 10.30am and headed across the estuary to find some shelter from the easterly winds. 

From 6 pulls of our 3 dropnets, we scored 2 sized crabs! Besides 1 being 1mm undersize, everything else was at least 10mm undersize. Even a spot of snorkeling didn't add to our catch....not that we saw too many, but the ones we saw were quite small. The encouraging aspect is that we'll have something to look forward to in the coming weeks/month as these undersize ones grow bigger.

The sun was shining, the water was nice for a dip and the family was all together...what more could you ask for.

I'm guessing the kid on the tube being towed round and around and around behind his dad's boat was having a great time on his Chrissy present!!

Have a great day

regards
rusty...

While dads gone (fisho-ron i believe he calls himself lol) i decided to take the tinny up to to river and go for some bream and flathead, never expected to pull in a blue manner.. This was all the way up near the old Ascott Water Park. just off tonkin hwy-grt eastern bridge. Thought it might of been a snap but i was anchored and not moving at all and the rod was bending more and more, thought it might of been a flathead or even a cobler.

Have you guys ever seen grabs that far up? Might have to drop some nets and see how many i can pull in, decent size one aswell.

As I've never actually seen people crab or drop pots around there i thought i might give it a shot.

How many pots are you allowed to use per boat? if there is a limit.

Whats a good crab bait, just a big bit of meat like a sambo head? haha

 headed out with a good bloke called Darren on his bream boat for a flick, a good time and to teach him Luke's technique of bream on mussels

had a awsome day heading to some of his and my spots throughout the river. Flicked arround SPs and HBs and mussels and hooked into some verry solid fish at A SPOT and got busted of nearly every time in the pylons by some huge bream.

In the end, I landed 2 nice flatties and 8 bream, biggest going just over 37cm. and unfortunetly my mate or Darren didnt land any throughout the day, but they they did hook quite a few.

Merry Christmass everyone, have a good one and hope to see you out fishing some time throughout the holidays.

cheers,

tom

Hey fellow members,

Decided to head out Tuesday with the weather looking good, 1st time out after the ban so we were after the elusive Dhui for Xmas... We Launched from woodies at around 9am and decided to look around the 40mtr mark south of rotto. After alot of sounding around we found an area with lots of nice lumps. 1st couple of drifts resulted in a couple of wrasse and couple of skippy and black arse, on the next drift my dad hooks up to a nice 60cm dhui. Followed by couple of undersize dhuis which was released well without the release weight. Good day out on the water!

Headed out wednesday, and hit up the barges plenty of large sambo's around didnt land any after loosinig 2 to sharks we decided to head in closer for some demersals. Sorry no pics

Managed

2 dhuis both just undersize which realeased well.

1 size pinky Released.

1 queeny, 

3 black arse ( 2 realeased) 

1 large ray released

and the odd crap fish

Thanks

Justin

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freezer was looking a bit empty of decent fillets so close to xmas , so , with the winds looking ok today , i decided to head out from mindarie on a solo mission.

arrived at the ramp at 5 45 am and it looked pretty quiet. quick launch and headed due west to some previous marks. got to the spot with a few lumps in close proximity showing fish.

dropped down with the light jigging gear and .. nothing. bugger. worked the area for half an hour , but nothing on the chew.

the cray boys were west of me so dicided to have a sound around a pot. loads of fish sign but once again , nothing seemed hungry.  moving on , found a massive school of baitfish on the bottom to mid water , so had a drop and was rewarded with a little 3kg sbt on jig. nice.

didn't get anything else off the bait , so headed further west. saw another pot and had a sound around. there was sign of fish , but it wasn't lit up like the previous pot.

tied on the lamble jig that resembles the caprice. dropped it down and it was hit before it got to the bottom. some mins and a good fight later and the dhu popped up . weighed in at 10kg.

expensive jig but worth it already.

turned to head in quite happy , when i ran over a small 2 meter lump in a desert.

tied on a zest baitfish and had a drop. straight on with something better again. really giving me some stick when mid fight , i feel the knob starting to get all slack on the little stradic. uh oh.

finish the fight with just the handle , no knob.   interesting. see colour about 10 mins into the fight and ... oh no.    i've gone and done a jamie and foul hooked a sambo . (hehehe)

not sure on weight but would have to have been upwards of 15kg

headed home happy and out the water by 11

Well, after bearly a days fishing in the last 4 months apart from a few whiting sessions with the kids, it was good to get a clear day from work and a good weather forecast to coincide with one another.

Darryn and I headed out around 5-30am with visions of catching a couple of dhuies for Xmas, given that for the first time in as many years I can remember my freezer was completely devoid of fish and needed replenishing quick smart.

We trolled a few skirts at the back of staggies first up, in the hope of some SBT's but not a single bird in the sky, so we blew that off pretty quick and headed out to some spots in the 40;'s. We had to work hard for the fish and whilst we managed about 5 pinkies in quick succession (damn, didn't manage to pick up my tagging kit from Jody last week) they were mostly undersize with one just legal. All released well without the need for a release weight.

We moved out a bit further and with plenty of fish on the sounder it was proving difficult to get a bite from anything of substance,. A few Blackarse were landed one kept and the rest released and we managed a nice Harley which was also kept for the table.

With 2 table fish onboard we thought we should get at lease one dhuie between us so we headed out a bit wider and fished a few sopts I hadn't fished in years. Thankfully they came up trumps and I boated this nice little Dhuie, which went 60cm. However as I was bringing it up (nice and slow) Darryn hooked up as well, on a bigger fish. We kept my fish fresh as we landed Darryns in the net. Then a quick pic of mine before sending it back over the side with the release weight. (Damn, didn't have that tagging kit)

We then took a few pics of Darryns dhuie which was a fraction under 80cm (went 7kgs on the lie detector).

One more drift and I managed a very nice baldy to complete the bag limit. So we had plenty of fish for teh table between us.

We ended up the day with 2 dozen plump sandies, 5 dhuis (4 released), 6 Pinkies (all released), 4 Blackarse (3 released), 1 Harlequin, 1 Baldie, 1 sambo and a billion mini flatties as well, so all in all the drought was broken quite nicely. Weather was perfect (apart from the fickle drifts with current and wind creating strange angles that needed several drifts to master). All in all a great day on the water with a top mate, looking forward to the next trip now.

Merry Xmas one and all.

Today marked my first sesh amongst the demersals since the ban. Finally!

I agreed to meet John F & do a co-op effort around some unfamiliar territory. Tim (Timvb) was my deckie for the day & he was keen as mustard to nail some demersals on jig. He's been doing a bit of work overseas & has a short stint in Perth before he heads back - so, as you can imagine, he was frothing for a fish.

Within minutes of leaving the marina, we were joined by a little bird that called the boat home for the day. It was quite unreal - this bird would sit aerodynamically anywhere on the boat whilst we travelled at 20-25kts throughout the day. It wouldn't leave us & at times, would also sit on our shoulders!

Today was a day of effort. As mentioned, we were in unfamiliar territory & needed to do some sounding out to find some structure & fish. It wasn't easy. John scored a nice patch of ground 2kms away from me & we communicated over the radio about what was happening. He was scoring pinks, pup dhu's & sambos

Tim & I continued to search & after almost 2 hours of headless chook driving, I found a big patch of something special. We continued to sound around the area to get a feel of where we were fishing & I managed to punch in numerous new co-ords of fishy territory.

We chose to jig the area. Tim hadn't scored anything to talk about on jig so I coached him in technique & it paid dividends. He started off small but soon worked into some bigger models. We used IMA Ro's side by side scoring numerous Dhu's over a large area. Tim's effort resulted in PB's - and fair dinkum was he happy.

Boy did some of these fish go hard. Drag pressure was fundamental given the territory we were fishing & we did have a few nervous moments. I did end up losing one which went especially hard - would've been one of those dream monster Dhu's.

Early by-catch included pinks & a baldie (which is being carved up for dinner!).

We successfully released all but 2 Dhu's. We cradled these fish like babies & released the fish that were in good condition.

Gear we used:

Light jig rods

4000-6000 reels.

PE2 & PE3 mainline.

40lb leader.

John will be a happy camper with Dhu for his BBQ tonight. P.s. John - cheers for the beers!

It was great fishing with another boat - especially, when we needed to find ground!

Excuse the smudged photos - forgot to bring the good camera, but fortunately, I had the boat camera at hand.

Daz

Well with Jody out off town ,Bruce from up Ktown jumped aboard for the day Traffic was slow on the ramp so it made for a quick exit from 2Rocks.sea was flat and no swell things were looking great.The first few patches were quiet .But as we moved out deeper things started to fire. Bruce had never caught a dhuie so it was good to get him onto a good fish .His first dhuie was just size ,and had to be kept as it didn't release to well .His next one was around 5kg and ahealthy release .and his third pb around 10kg .also released .jesse and I had a double hook up a nice fish around 10kg (one in photo),double hooked I sould say .One side off its mouth Jesses SP and the other my baited hook.so we sheared the prize.the end result for the day was 9 dhuies 2 kept 7 tagged and released (between 4-12kg)all released well without release weight.2 baldchin kept 1harly and a blackass kept .Also 2 blackass tagged and released.In all a top morning on the water home by 1:30.

Just want to share another wild toman trip I did 2 days ago. Hand itchy and also to test out some of my rapala lures. The journey is rather  challenging, some 500KM from bkk city.

The day before I just have a fishing trip with a fella SG  angler to Pilot 111. I had  less than 5 hrs  of sleep , chop !! chop !!! packed  my lures and tackles and hit the road.

Left bkk city at 1.30am and reach there almost 5.30am. The weather was fine and less winds.
Landed 2 monster toman 8.02KG & 5.40KG and lost one really big one . Still falls short of my personal target of  > 10KG toman in order to submit for my IGFA World Record.

I will be away fishing toman for the next 3 DAYS (17th-20th Dec)  with SG anglers (father & son team) for another  attempt for the toman record purpose. Wish us luck !!!

Tackle  & setup use:
Rods: 10-20 Ibs Gloomis 6 ft &  Valley hills 6ft 7'
Reels: Daiwa Zillion 7.3 limited & my all time favorite Daiwa Ryoga 1016H
Lures: Rapala deep diver
Line: Power Pro PE 4
Shock leader: 50 Ibs super soft

I have trouble uploading my vid clip to youtube for the past 2 days. :(
Instead I've since uploaded my vid clip  to one of  the china hosting video site.

Enjoys the 'LIVE ACTIONS' in this clip. :)

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/gbuYoInsI6Y/

Highlights shots !!!

 Headed out with Marko (Hookt) for a bit of a fish. Got to the spot, to see a family catching (only) under size pink snapper around 15cm-20cm and keeping them. By the time they left they a bucket full, even after I had told them several times it was illegal. As for the report, picked up another 2 King George, slightly bigger this time though, around 45cm, and Marko got into a good feed of squid.

A few shots from yesterday.

Plenty of sambos to wrestle with and some great table fish as well.

Found some guy sleeping under the ramp which i brought out. He had some bling gear though!

have been hearing stories of tailor been caught as far as lilac hill is that true or is the water to fresh for them i know some have been caught at south guildford where ever that is >;)

Hi everyone,

Had a later than usual start as my deckie could only meet me at the ramp at 7am. Ended up seeing JohnF as i was launching and he retrieving his boat with his son after pulling up there pots. I wanted to head out to the lump i found just before the closure when i jigged up 2 small dhuies.

Tried a few spots on the way for a few blackass and just undersize pinks. Got closer to the lump and started fishing again. Sounder fired up and so did the fishing.

I coudn't get away from the Dhuies they were hitting my jig from every angle whether on the drop or pulling up. I even had one take it as i was dropping it to the bottom for the first time. Also getting a few hits then leaving the jig still for a sec or two and then jigging it again and they were coming back to much it. Nothing of big size but none the less dhuies on jig. My deckie couldnt believe it and i think i didnt either. They were almost like a Tailor sesh with poppers just going nuts. I ended up with 5 today and my mate using bait managed 1. Nothing big just size fish and all were released.

Day went on and my mate couldnt get away from the blackbums he got 6 and they were all size with one going close to 45cm id say. He also managed a pb as he got a queenie of about 55cm, he had never caught one til today. I had one massive hit but ran like crazy im sure it was a sambo, I managed a great Harley on the jig and made my eyes light up when it surfaced he ended up at 51cm. Though just cooked it and its very mushy almost like a sambo thats had worms:(

Cant complain though with perfect weather lots of fish and finally starting to get success with jigging. I will start my collection on submarines/pirates jigs forsure!

Cheers

Sha

Checked out the ocean from the top of Whitehills this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see flat seas, so we finished packing the boat and hit the Dawesville ramp at 8am. Headed out to the 19 fathom bank and enjoyed a very flat trip out there.

We set up the sea anchor and drifted over a couple of marks I had...even with the anchor, the drift seems fairly steady. Had the sounder dialled in on manual to 6m and the other half of the screen on bottom lock....the images we were seeing reinforced the previous catches from the coords we had.

Plenty of bites and lost fish, due to a bit of inexperience but we managed to land a couple, much to our delight.

The final tally was:

1 gurnard (released)
3 undersize pinkies ranging from 30 - 35cm (released)
1 breaksea cod - 45cm, which we enjoyed tonight
1 flathead & 1 large sand whiting - these are on the menu tomorrow night!

If the undersize pinkies fight like they did, I can't wait to get into a sized one...boy, they were fun to catch.

Hope everyone else who ventured out today caught a feed.

Back at the ramp at 4.30pm and was greeting by the fisheries guys who came over for a chat and a look in the icebox...showed them my licence and skipper's ticket and off we went. Good to see them out there....they're only doing their job.

Turns out we got upstaged by my son and his mate fishing from our 4m runabout off Leeman.....their tally was 1 jewie, 2 pinkies and 1 baldie!!!

regards
rusty...

I Everyone

I just got back from Margret River and the Bream were firing, I landed 33 Bream in 3 days, or 28 Bream in 2 days.

In the Swan River Vlowfish nibble at your feet but down there Bream do, I caught my first Bream and you should to!

Catcha on the Water!

Tommyqueenfish

 Picked up these two last night. 

Went for a fish this evening, thought the tide/moon combo was looking pretty good. Hooked and lost several tailor through bite-offs right on the sand, which was a bit of a surprise. Got about half a dozen small bream to just-under legal, however the strange thing was each cast was getting nailed almost straight away by a mystery fish which was sitting on the bait and letting go about halfway in to shore. Yep, blue-manna crabs. Literally every cast! Managed to get several close in and one up onto the shore. I've never had this problem before so far upstream - they were literally in plague proportions. Anybody else had this problem?

No sign of a mulla yet though :(

.

 Anyone been lately? What's around..

Went to ammo jetty straight after work stocking up some scalies.. scalies weres shy.. had a baloon out no touches.. got back to my car..few people were there standing around I wonder why.  Then when saw my window was smashed.  4 cars' left window were broken.  Is there something that we can do about it as in report to someone?  Spwein no fish and window was broken.

James

Hey guys, just thought i would post up some pics from a recent trip to Steep Point in November. The fishing started out a bit slow due to the howling winds for the first couple of days but after that the weather was pretty good for the rest of the week and the fishing was the same.

We got these mackies on our first fish of the trip in the first 200m of trolling, the double hookup made it very interesting. Talk about a good start!! They went approx 10kg each

Just one of several night fishing trips that paid off big time, pinkies and spangoes being the main catch.

A couple of beauties caught on an afternoon session

We also picked up a fair few small tuna that worked like dynamite as bait!

This Yellow Fin Tuna was caught trolling the west side of the point on one of the calmest days ive ever seen up there, it pulled the scales down to 12kg

And a beautiful arvo in the bay

Cant wait for the next trip, cheers for checking it out.

Hi all , hit cockburn sound today for some crabs was a bit hit and miss, tried a few spots and got our 20 crabs in 3 hrs , all females except one ,few with eggs went back and some undersize but hardly had to use the gauge, biggest weight was 460 grams , the wind came in about 1230 so we packed up and went home to cook up a juicy feed of crabs