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

Asked my bro if he wanted to go for a flick around the Canning on Saturday, he moved over from Adelaide a couple of months ago and I was keen to get him out and into the flattie season. As well as that a mate of mine recently sent me some new HRT Lures to get wet so there was another thing pushing me to get out again.

We ended up fishing between the Mt Henry and Canning bridges from 10-2pm and picked up about 12-15 flathead between us in that time. Most of them were caught around what I'm guessing was the turn of the tide at about 1pm.

Most of the sizes were around the 35cm mark but we got onto a couple of larger ones, I got one at 42cm and one at 46cm, Jay got one around 45cm but it spat the hooks at his feet which was great to see...

A couple of pics from the session below:

Hey Guys

Just thought i would right up a quick report of the white hills trip!

Started off really well we got there around 3pm and within about 20min started catching tailor the earliest i have ever caught them in perth but we managed around 8-9 between us the biggest 3 made there way to the frying pan the biggest was 47cm the smallest was 35 but the rest went back to fight anothere day. there where also plenty of whiting and herring around.

On the big rods it was really quiet untill i threw a live herring and whithin minutes that took off but i was never going to turn it and eventually it snapped me off, i called it for a massive stingray so did not bother me too much, after dark it completely died off we did manage two small school sharks but then nothing we fished to about 3am not even a bite. so we got some sleep tried early morn nothing not even herring or whiting so we packed up and left around 10am

quick report fishing was really good but still in search of that mulla thinking of trying s-bend this weekend

jas

Thought I'd start a post for Geraldton area as there doesn't appear to be much written up here.Plenty of herring around Pages beach of late.Looking forward to end of ban to chase some Demersals, will be taking a few live herring out to start with and see what else we can pick up, (maybe some Mackies).Anyone been picking them up yet.
Does anyone up here do much late arvo/night fishing in the boat i.e. anchoring up and burleying. If so what techniques do you employ and what results do you have.
Also does anyone have any luck chasing LARGE whiting in deeper water out of Geraldton.

Got home at about 2am this morning after work and did some website stuffs that is way overdue and had an hour of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Was deciding between fishing or just going to bed and wetting a line trumped. (Hence this post!)

So got changed and picked up my bucket and onto my car. Reached my spot in the river at about 5am and rigged up my trusty Rapala Xrap. There wasn't any action on the first three casts so I cast at a different spot and on that cast, after retrieving a lil, my drag went off a bit. That fish fought quite a bit and I managed to land it. PB skippy! measured up to slightly over 34cm. Yea.. nothing compared to the big guys with the boats but I was fishing the river. haha! Not much more action after except for a small tailor which was released. The bait fish were all around and they were jumping off the water but no takers to my lure. Had a couple of small sambos chasing my xrap but didn't take the lure. Oh well.

My wrist was starting to ache a bit cos of my injury so decided to pack up and go.

I saw a couple of guys fishing when I was about to leave. The kid wading into the shallows seem to have a cast on his left arm. Was that you aussiebreamer?

went down for a quick fish 2night, saw brenz with a couple of nice squid.
got myself a nice one, flicking over reasonably shallow weed.
then spent about 45mins, catching prawns to use as live bait on some bream.
changed location to our bream spot and flicked arround some live prawns.
only fished for 30 mins then had to go home!! :(
any way, had some fun gettind a couple of juvi pinkies, a skippy, a big
yt grunter and a couple smaller bream. no big bream unfortunetaly but got a alright one arround the 30cm mark on a damaki sp.
chees, tom

btw, do hav photos, but can't attach photos to this report for some reason???/?

Hi Guys, Have been out nearly everyday this week except Thursday and not looking good for jigs at the moment. You get a triple hookup on first drop then maybe 1 next, then nothing. Sharks have moved in on inner barges straight up. Got my first one [shark] tied up to back of boat from the boys from Malaysia. Good effort, took 40 min and 6 guys.Easy 8 foot and 200kg. Let him go, couldn't do it.Crayfish going well with 30 in 3 days, biggest one 2.2kg and heaps of biggies. Caught a whiting and a wrasse today and after 3 hours of jigging put them down as we forgot about them and instant hookup[ double]while people jigging.And we got them up and let go.That spot a secret! So hopefully with the full moon the Sambos get thicker and spread out to the smaller spots and away from sharks. The both Barges are absolutely no go to sharks so if you want to catch a shark not a sambo go there. I will not be going to the barges, Hillarys Patch again unless to target sharks .Just thought i would pass on.Craig

went down to the river on tuesday to fick some lures with some of my mates. was a awsome session with bait schools every where and preditory fish smashing them everywhere.

throughout the afternoon, we had a good time catching flathead after flathead on the flats. we ended up with 18 flatties. all caught on prawn stars, bevy vibes or minnows. we also caught lots of tailor and big herring, fishing the bait schools and 3 squid and some nice bream on the flats.

I went back down that night at 9:30, and started to flick out a Smith Luna sinking minnow, and first cast hooked into a nice bream, next cast again, another bream. stayed down there only for 45 minutes and every cast on the flats with the Smith Luna was either a nice hook up or a couple of good hits by either a bream or a tailor. ended up with 13 bream and many tailor in the 45 minutes that i was down there.

next morning, I headed down there again with one of my mates at 4:30. started flicking arround the Smith Luna on the flats  and was rewarded untill untill the sun came up with bream and tailor again. once the sun came up, we headed over to another location to target some flatties, I got 3 flathead and another bream and my mate got a nice squid. we then headed back to our first place and started fishing the bait balls in the deeper water, caught lots of tailor and herring, I then let my 10g twisty sink to thte bottom and then did a pretty fast retrieve back, it got hammered by somthing, i initially thought it was another herring or tailor because it was just swimming towards me, but it was staying deep, when it reached my feet, at the jetty, it was still deep and i couldn't see what it was, but it then realised that it was hooked and took of strait out towards the pylons, it took line off me as if it was nothing!!!. it eventually busted me off in the pylons.

would any one have a idea what it was????

thinking it was a sambo??

it didn't fight like a big skippy, but could have been a huge bream.

sorry, i have photos, but they are all sh!t quality.

all fish were released succesfully.

cheers, tom

is anyone getting good catches of crays in their pots at the moment at the back of garden or carnac island?

Hey I was wondering if anyone had been down to whitehills im going on the weekend to do a overnighter fingers crossed want to get my first mulla i have been trying for about 5 years now with no luck. i know i should really try the river at this time of year but i want to get the 4x4 out as well.
hoping there is bugger all weed and the wind looks like it will die of as the night progresses high tide is at 11 so should be good i hope anyway if you have been let me know. also whith that strech of beach is anywhere good or is there a cirtain gutter reef area i should be looking for? i have only fished there once before.

cheers guys

Hey Guys

Its been a very long time sinse my last post but i just thought i would let everyone know! i have been going down to the new coogee habour lately and been doing quit well on small tailor all over 30cm but nothing to right home about i am catch and realse so i just got the really light gear and they can be quit fun! all the fish came after dark mixed in are a few snook.

i also set out a big bait and caught two 3-4ft sharks one was a nice gummy the other i was not sure about i think it was a small school but i could be wrong!

any way its a nice little spot that does not get to crowded and catch a few de cent fish! sorry no photos keep forgetting the camera

ive been hitting canning bridge pretty hard with no real luck

im looking for another spot to try out

cheers :)

Went for a quick flick today down at the river.

was very hard to fish as i have a broken arm in a full arm plaster!!!

started off slow, hooked a massive flathead on my squid jig!!! which threw the hooks at my feet. decided to chase some bream, got two in the first couple of casts, one on a rmg scorpion in the jelly prawn colour and the other on a bevy vibe, both around the 30cm mark.

baitfish were getting smashed everywhere, and spent a while catching tailor and herring one after another.

I then jagged a couple of bait fish and put them down live, first one got absolutely hammered was taking copious amounts of line (was difficult to fight because of my arm) and just wouldn’t stop before it did me in the pylons.

then put down the other one and fed it to the fish for a while, I then set the hooks and it went on a screaming run. I eventually turned its head, and got it to the surface and went to lift it up onto the jetty and my line bloody snapped!!! estimated to be around the 45-48cm range.

had enough of being obliterated by the big bream so we headed over to the flats to target some flatties. ended up catching a couple of flatties and i even hooked another one on  my squid jig again!!!

forgot I had my camera so unfortunately got no photos.

still trying to download those photos of the 40+ cm bream i got a couple of weeks ago.

cheers,

tom

hey any indercation if its worth heading out tomorrow arvo into the night will the weather be decent enough? and whats worth targeting around the perth area?