Hey all,

Had a great day out with saltwater charters today with ,Darren,Daz (Dazsamfishing),Jamie(till) and honsu.The sambos were thick and good size.

One of the highlights apart from the sambos was a 12ft white pointer making off with my fish right at the marlin board. Im sure the other boys will have some good snaps but heres a few of mine.

 my biggest of the day..

 Daz with a solid fish

 Grey coat

 smith amj 54h loaded

sore arms and satisfied..

cheers

chris

gidday all went for a spin to an offshore reef with a mate on tues, picked up some nice tailor lotta fun on light gear, they shut down pretty quick might of had something to do with the huge sambo cruising around lol

Well the weather has cut rough again, and another trip goes down the pan!!

seriously considering giving all my gear to the charity shop, it would get the same amount of use...getting fed up now!!!

Tight lines....i wish

rog

any reports at the action of harvey dam lately ?thinking to head down in the morning after the rains

Hey Guys,

I just came back from Hill River up near Jurien Bay. I have been waiting quite some time to get out and enjoy some quality fishing off the beach and a few mates and family decided to pack up the car and head up.  I was very happy to be finished work for the week, I packed the car with all the essentials required for an overnight fishing trip. I just purchased a new Engle 60L combi for the back of the Prado and its the best investment I have ever made. 

Said goodbye to the Mrs and my kids and left Sat lunchtime at about 12:00. For those of you that dont know, Hill River is in between Cervantes and Jurien Bay. Full of excitement of what I had been hearing in the reports that had been coming for that area  and with me still on my mission to capture my first Mulloway there was plenty anticipation.The drive into Hill River is pretty basic and once you start following the track that leads off the road from Jurien to Cervantes its not hard to find the mouth of the river. From the mouth  of the rive south had good gutters and holes along the beach.

Just a word of warning  for someone who has never been before when you follow the track that runs paaralell to the beach you will drive into a big sandy open area, which you can see in the background of the first picture. It looks a little decieving, what you wont know unless you check first, is that there is a steep decline on the other side in which the right had side of the track is non exisitant with a very steep drop so as you go over keep well to the left, the second pic is very decicieving it is a lot steeper than it looks. You can actually avoid this all together and just the track that is to the left hand side of the first picture and that will take you all the way along the beach.

So we got to our spot and inspected the beach  for the best possible location. There seemed to be a big gutter running the full length of the beach. There was a bit of weed around but with the current pushing everything to the right of us we picked a nice spot that had cleared up set the berley bag up in the water and started fishing. 

Reports had stated that the Tailor were coming on the bite at around sunset and they were spot on. As soon as the sun hit the water the Tailor came on the bite and they were not choppers they all averaged over 40cm!! Not only that but for a short period of time it was a fish a cast... its been a while since I had a Tailor session where we were getting a fish a cast.

Heres a pic of my mate Russell with  a good size tailor

A few more good Tailor

Heres a shot that will give you a bit of a better perspective of the size, between our group of 4 we caught 14 Tailor - the other group of four caught the same.

By about 8:30 they had gone off the bite and we started dinner.  I fished untill 1:30 in the morning looking for some Mulloway action with a fillet of mullet but to no avail. I considered using a fillet of tailor but I thought it would be better served for our dinner!

We got up early the next morning and there was no action at all not one single Tailor. There was  few small Herring and a some big Gardies.. would have loved to have kept a few but the Exmouth trip is a few months away still and I prefer to use fresh bait up there o at least if its only been frozen for a few weeks or so. 

After a nice breakky it was time to head home at about 10:00 so we packed up and headed back to Perth. Hill River is an awesome spot not only for fishing but the beach is beautiful. I cant wait to goack and fish there when the river is flowing. I will be keeping a close watch on it during winter.

Hi Guys,

Havn't posted in a while so thought I'd share some land based fish over the last few days.  The lack of swell down here meant the groper fishing was amazing with plenty of good fish landed and released (a couple kept for a feed).  Some good bottom dwellers such as harlys, queens and blackass were also picked out along with one decent sambo and an absolute dusting on 37kg from a monster Seriola of some description.

Hope you like the pics!

JD 

Well with all the reports of alot of tailor on our northern beaches and having a great session Saturday arvo with Colin and the chance to sneak out again, who could say no to a Sunday session.

After having a nanny nap to refreshen up in the arvo i had the car packed and ready to head off at 3:15pm and arrived at my destination at just after 4pm.

Got to the beach unloaded the gear and upon walking down to where i intended to fish seen only one other guy fishing, woohooo i thought, that was until i got close and seen all the weed floating around then thought bummer.

Anyway what can you do except persist and alot of the time it will pay off.

It was alot different to Sat arvo taking atleast 15mins for the first fish after endless lumps of weed on the lines and hunting along the gutter to find the part they were holding up in.

Once the first fish was in , it was full on after that for the next hour, throwing fish back that were smaller(under 40cm) and only keeping the 40 plus fish.

By this time another guy joined in on the action and that saw 3 of us getting into them.

Looking over on the beach i say kempy fishing there and getting huge lumps of weed so i told them to come over and get into them.

By that stage they slowed a bit but the younger boy still got into a couple.

best part was i was all done nice and early and left by dark(normally when you would expect to start getting them)

Came home with my bag of 8 fish, a couple over 50cm and most around the mid to high 40's

my bag of 8 fish

kempy hooked up

Sunset upon leaving the beach all bagged out

Yer headed out this morning looking to catch some kg's and some herring,condisions were ok so we headed out to 30/32m and did a nice long drift through some good looking ground,got some wrase and rock cod,no Kg's ,so of we went to the back edge of the bank.as soon as we pulled up the police patrol pulled up along side and checked my rst and safty gear,alls good so back to the fishing ,heaps of whiting with double and triple headers coming over the side,we got around 20 whiting and moved on for some herring ,we anchored and got the burly going it didn't take long and herring were hitting the deck then came the skippy and then the gardies,came .We had a good couple of hours catching these fun fish in all we got 20 whiting, 27 herring ,5 big gardies, and 6 skippy ,1 cuttlefish, 8 wrase .Had a show from some whales pounding the surface with ther tails. a lot of fun and a good morning on the water..

With the spring tailor run in full swing a few Fishwrecked members decided to head to a known big tailor haunt north of the river.

Matt (Mako) and I had done all our chores so we decided to arrive at "the spot" at around 4pm to ensure we grabbed a possie for ourselves as it can get pretty overpopulated with anglers later in the evening.

When we arrived we noted that there were a few fisherman type vehicles in the carpark and were a little nervous that the best spots were already gone. Happily when we popped our heads over the dunes they were all fishing on the beach and the rocks were unmanned.

Watching the water for a few minutes it was easy to see why. The sea was fairly high and a bit of a swell was leading to waves smashing over the rocks. It can be a bit daunting if you aren't an experienced rock fisherperson and you don't have
the right footwear to head out where you know the waves are going to be hitting you pretty hard - and that was probably why the other anglers were battling the weed on the beach.

Thankfully Matt and I were well prepared with quality rock boots and were soon out in the best spot.

As most tailor chasers know, the prime time for these fish is sunrise and sunset - and recent experiences at this spot suggested that we might have a few hours before the fish came on the bite.

So it was a pleasant surprise to have my first bait smashed as soon as it hit the water, Matt quickly had his 12 foot Xzoga rod and Twinpower reel in action and he too got hit straight away.

I think we managed five fish in five casts - and they were all 40 cm plus, with a couple well over 45 cm.

Things then went quiet and we caught another five or so fish in about six casts. This was tailor fishing action at its best.

Matt and I were looking at each other and thinking - this is incredible - we are going to catch our bag limits before the other guys get here.

So we then decided it was time to start using a bit of catch and release - only keeping the really solid fish.

In the meantime, you could see the looks of envy on the faces of the fisherman who were only 30 or so metres away on the beach and whose only catches were large pieces of weed.

The fishing action continued and our bucket started to fill right up. There were some quite periods where the fish moved off, but generally that only lasted for about five minutes.

Eventually, Uncle Stu and Ragbag arrived and set about trying their luck. Although the fishing slowed right down at about that time Stu was able to pick up a few nice tailor and Ragbag (Dave) sent out some big baits hoping to snare a Mulloway or a shark.

I spotted Spess and a mate of his walking up the beach with their rods shortly afterwards and invited them to join us for a fish. They said that not knowing who we were, they had been cursing us for grabbing the best spots and catching so many fish while they had been battling the large clumps of weed on the beach.

Blake finally arrived after work and he was pretty keen to get into the action himself. By this time Mako and I had bagged out and were freezing cold and soaking wet so Mako gave Blake his rod and reel and I gave Spess my Moonraker and Saltist spinning reel combo and they proceeded to get stuck into the tailor themselves.

The action started to pick up again and there were a few double and triple hook-ups and plenty of happy anglers on the rocks.

Big Dave decided it was time to pull out the big weapons - a three piece Lumis Sharkey he had imported from South Africa. He rocketed a tailor head out and it wasn't long before he was hooked into something massive.

With the sun setting it was time for us to clean the fish while Dave continued to battle the monster from the deep. It was a fierce battle and Dave had to manoeuvre the fish over to the beach side of the rocks.

He had the thing beaten and was just just bringing it into shore when tragedy struck and his rod gave away - surprisingly right down near the butt. The snapping of the caused Dave's reel to come back and smash him in the jaw. It also helped the big fish escape.

Apart from that disappointing end, it was an incredible evening and I am sure we will remember it for sometime.

Just got back from All Marine Services where the FADs working bee was held. I met a few new faces with the PGFC including Rhyss who has been posting here a little lately.

We had to drag each of the float out of the container where it has been stored since last year and assemble it in the right order; float, 10m chain (to prevent fishing lines cutting through the anchor rope, a shrouded swivel, a long length of rope, a small chain, another long length of rope, more chain, then 2-3 anchoprs, each separated by chain. These were all shackled together, and the shackle pins wired up.

Next they were loaded up onto the truck whole, a feat in itself given the length of the rig and how cumbersome it was.

Then we had to unload them at the dock. The last pic shows them lined up at the dock, ready to go!

The work completed, I picked up a t-shirt, mag and a couple of beers and had a chat with a few of the members. If any PGFC member has any better pics to put up, please do! With people working away in a couple of locations, I never really got a chance to get snaps of the many people there. 

Hello all

just a small report of our first mulloway of the season. hopeful the fellow fw we meet there will show his face as i know he was hunting for mulloway too..

last weeks kgs mmmm

Sick and tired of having Sherbs continually texting "happy snaps" of his holiday tailor captures, Jody and I thought we had better get into the action and join the "tailor master" for a session at one of his favourite haunts.

We arrived late afternoon to find almost perfect weather conditions - a low swell and a slight south wester - for the rocks we wanted to fish from.

Unfortunately there was also a fair ammount of floating weed about which threatened to upset what should have been an ideal fishing session.

It soon became apparant that there was also a lot of little Whiting about and most of our mulies were coming back picked to pieces.

Things were a bit quiet until something picked up one of my mulies and began stripping line off my new Daiwa Saltist 4500H.

Whatever it was had a fair bit of weight to it and the guy fishing next to me was quick to call it for a Mulloway. Anyway, whatever it was, behan swimming up and down the channel we were fishing in, picking up kilos of weed on the line until finally something gave - my line. I quickly convinced myself it was a stingray or a small shark.

Anyway, that seemed to have upset the chap fishing nearby more than me because not too long afterwards he smashed what looked like a custom made rod on the rocks and then threw all the pieces and a nice looking reel into the water (amazingly, another old bloke fishing from the beach managed to hook and land the section that still had the reel on it a little later).

Anyway, back to the fishing, and after a few hours of largely non action things weren't looking to flash. There were no sign of tailor and the floating weed was really starting to build up in the channel.

Sherbs, Jody and I started to look at each other, wondering "what's happened to the fish", "how much longer are we willing to keep pulling in weed and feeding the whiting".

But then, it all came together. The weed gradually thinned out, the wind dropped and all of a sudden the tailor came on the bite.

For the next hour, to an hour and a half, it was pandemonioum, with the fish hitting the baits almost as they hit the water.

And these were good sized tailor, with plenty of vigour, and most of them put on quite spectacular aerial displays in the fight to the rocks.

In the end, the Moonraker gang (Jody and I), came out ahead of the Heartland guy (Sherbs) with Jody landing four very solid tailor, me a further nine (I threw a few back) and Sherbs four nice fat beauties.

Thanks Sherbs and Jodes for a fun, action-packed evening and may the spring tailor run continue to bloom.

My first little sambo, just to give my reel a test-drive. It really did very well, even if this isn;t much of a test!

This one tried a lot harder!

A little Sambo on a Caprice jig - ta Kasey!

The Daiwa Saltist Lever Drag 30 2-speed was good. I really need to back it off because 300m of YGK Ultra Jigman 8x PE4 doesn't go anwhere to fill it and the spool was very small and took a lot of winding. Took a bit of work to match the 6:1 gear ratio to the stroke length, but once that was sorted it was all good. 

Not too many casualties for the day. I had a GT knot snap at the base of the wraps, losing quite a good fish and a cheap jig. Tony lost a horse right up when we had colour. J_D had one bottom hookup and the knot I used broke at the bimni, perhaps I could use some practise there.

I have to run along to cook dinner, fresh sambo fishcakes with garlic chives and coriander. The rest released well.

Check out J_D's horse below though!

Went down to City Beach the other night managed a nice feed of good sized whiting not much else was on the bite saw a few herring caught and a descent flattie.

Went back a few nights later with some big gear put a nice 25cm whiting out for bait hoping for a noah only to  lock horns with a bonnet sized ray for the better part of an hour I think I will stick with light gear  I dont like being reminded of my less than average fitness especialy by a fish.

Kev 

Not necessarily in that order, but first off I noticed Paul G on the freeway on my way past in the scooter. Don't think that one was a fishing trip, looked like work!

Made it down to Woodman Pt and caught my brother and Sayano, launched and motored quickly over to Carnac, despite the blustery conditions. Slipped in and bagged 38 Abalone, Cam found a big occy but the ab size was pretty ordinary out there. Got out of out dive suits and tried for some squid, but it was very very slow and headed back in.

Must say I'm pretty underwhelmed by breeden jigs, the hooks pulled out of mine in only the second outing. 

Retrieved the boat and got carded by fisheries, they just wanted to check our licenses and skippers ticket, that all checked out and while we were getting the boat ready to drive back home, I noticed a Fury towed by a Jeep and sure enough it was Bodie. Good to meet another FWer in the flesh!

Sorry no snaps, my brother has the haul as he had to come back via Freo, I just came straight back up the freeway =)

Today went out with my dad around 6 pm had alot of small bite of yellow tails and skippy then around 7pm just as the sun went to a dim light tailor were in masses....
so much that we end finish around 8pm due to catch to many even with release of small ones and undamaged fish.

the biggest one was caught by my dad measuring at 40 cm :D 

gotta love the fight of a tailor on a small bream rod :P

also there was a guy who hooked 2 small rays and lost one and just as we left he was on again ... not bad for 2 hours though he was not a very happy guy for watever reasons ...

hey guys when do the salmon run around cockburnsound and wanbro sound im realy keen on geting some this year on plastics

Big thanks to Pete for taking my mate Willie out for a fish of squid and whiting yesterday.  Needless to say had a good day to be on the water.  Willie had never caught a squid in the day before, so that was a real eye opener for him. 

I forgot my camera, but I am sure at some stage Andy will put up a pic of his PB squid.

Oh the feed tasted real yummy too!  Once again Pete, thanks for a great day.

With ideal metro conditions last evening, Sherbs and I decided to hit one of our favourite spots north of Perth.
Surprisingly there were very few people about and Sherbs quickly set up a burley trail and we had our baits in the water.
Despite the area being totally isolated, Sherbs - who doesn't mind a chat - managed to find a pair of middle-aged Swiss travellers to regale with his theories on fishing.
While the weather was looking pretty good, the fishing was surprisingly quiet, with the only action coming from a swarm of small whiting.
Sherbs soon had his trusty ox heart baits out in the water and began pulling in some nice bait sized whitings.

As we waited for the sun to get lower in the sky - and hopefully the bigger fish to start biting - we ran into Paul G, Jesse and one of Jesse's mates. Seeing our lack of early success Jesse and his buddy went off in the search of some rock crabs for us to try.
Finally some decent fishing success came when Sherbs landed this very nice flathead - which took a small whiting.

Despite the great conditions and the fresh baits, the fishing wasn't getting any better until Sherbs hooked a nice 45 cm tailor about an hour after dark.
That left the score Sherbs 1 flathead, 1 tailor and about a dozen whiting - me zero. I am sure the mulies he stuck in my bait bucket were tainted with sunscreen (Lol).

Despite the moderate fishing, it was a great evening, with an awesome sunset and I can't wait to get back down there and kick Sherbs' butt.

PS There was one disturbing incident. Sherbs had told the Swiss couple of a good place to take their van to stay the night so they wouldn't get moved on my the local rangers. Being the kind chap he is, he later decided that he would donate his fish to them. After hunting around we spotted a van parked in a little layby and Sherbs pulled up and started hitting his horn. Personally, I don't think it was there van, and the poor people inside were probably having fits wondering who these two scruffy looking people were walking around their van at 9.30 at night. No wonder they didn't come out.

Hey Crew,

Its been a while since I did a local Exmouth report, mainly because I haven't been out in ages due to the foul south easterlies.  Anyway, today presented an opportunity to go out a find some new ground and see what had moved onto some of the spots we had been resting for several months.

Heading over disappointment hill (past the lighthouse caravan park), Jeff (deepwater) and I could see the oil slick water and knew we were going to be in for a good day.  Our only concern was the .18 low tide and trying to launch from Tantabiddi, which proved to be no problem.  I decided a couple of quick photo's of the conditions were well and truly necessary to supplement the report to follow.

Our plan was to put out some skip baits for big marlin and head out to the goldband spot.  With teasers working feverously and baits going off, we were feeling somewhat confident, regardless of my feeling that full moon game fishing is a bit of a waste of time.  After 45 minutes of trolling the current lines we had only had one enquiry that we didn't see, so we decided to try and get a few fish into the esky.  First drop resulted in a small but tasty sized goldband, which was quickly despatched into the ice slurry.  3 more drops and we had 6, a great start to the morning.

We then decided we would head down to a common marlin ground that we fish quite regularly that produces fish of all sizes throughout most of the year.  Upon reaching the area, we noticed a 25m + drop off on the sounder that we decided to mark, after 5 minutes of discussion we convinced each other that we should go back around and examine the ground properly.  We only had 3 drifts over the spot, but the following pictures show what we found and what we caught.  It will definately be an area I go back to with some jigs as there seems to be a current eddy that flows around it, one minute we were drifting south and then caught the ledge and moved directly east.  In hindsight, I should have taken a photo of the GPS as that was a spectacle in itself.  I decided not to fish the spot to try keep the boat in position as the current had started to move quite strongly, I also didn't want to take my eyes off the sounder!

Anyway, the current got the better of us and we decided to move down to our 100m red spot, which was absolutely lit up with fish, but as the tide was about to turn it appeared everyone had already had their lunch.  Putting the marlin gear out again we hardly even got the boat up to speed and Jeffo was screaming that there was a bill up on the right, turning around I see him smash the left lumo short corner and within seconds of missing that out on the black shotgun trying to bash it senseless.  It hit all three lures and hit the back lure 3 times only to miss the hooks, to say we were disappointed was an understatement as it would have topped the day right off.  We looped back around and worked the ground hard for half an hour, but as usual, not to be seen again. 

Heading back towards north passage we found one other spot that had a little bit of fluff on the sounder that perked our interest.  Again, first drop and Jeff's on, this time to a solid Robinson Sea Bream.  To see if it was a fluke I put him back over it again, this time to have a very friendly north west blowie come up to say hi. 

We decided on that note it was time to go, especially seeing as tantas only has 2 half bog mats left at the moment and very low tides with the springs (not an easy retrieve, but still not a problem)

Other notables for the day were Jeffo's monster catfish, his other north west blowie, the 9 ft sandbar whaler that took my goldband from 80m down and wouldn't bust off.  The 5 different varieties of sharks from 6 to 10ft that swum around the boat at the new deep spot.  I guess the only other notable was Jeffro getting his form back, well done mate and cheers for sharing a great day, I'm happy to guide you anytime. 

Cheers,

Adam

Fisheries caught a fisherperson at the Bunbury Power Boat Club with two Dhuies onboard

his vessel during the closure. Apparently the fisheries towed his boat away to be locked up and charged him.

So stay tuned to the local paper as there will be a story published about it.

my journey in the red sea

As mentioned in my first thread here is some details on this years FADs for those who are interested.

As usual PGFC are putting out 6 FADs.  The only difference for this year is that the southern FAD is now sponsored by Alex from All Marine Services after Yamaha pulled out due to budget restraints. Yamaha have been a sponsor for years so it was a shame to see them go.  The FADs normally would go out sometime in the coming week depending on weather.  TAFE with the Maritime Image help us out here with the deployment.  This year though we were contacted by the Navy and asked if we could postpone the FADs deployment until 26th Nov due to exercises they were conducting out there.  So they wont be going out till after the 26th Nov and this will then depend on the availability of the Maritime Image.

So all going well we are having a busy to put them together on the 14th Nov with plans to deploy hopefully on the 28th.

Its a pity they are going out late but its better than getting a FAD tangled up with a ship and doing damage to the Navy or losing the FAD. It costs the Club quite a bit to construct, maintain, deploy and retrieve the FADs and replacing them comes straight out of the Club's pocket as its not nice asking the sponsor to cough up some more money for a lost FAD.

We are having our Tuna comp on the weekend 21/22 Nov and it would have been nice to have them out there. Oh well.

Below is the FAD names and co-ordinates foe where we will be dropping them.

Cheers all

FAD Sponsor

Approx Depth

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S 32° 05.171' E 115° 10.934'           

219 m

S 31° 57.50' E 115° 15.82'      

140 m

173 m

188 m

182 m

weighed a nice snapper of 4.5kg for a customer caught yesterday morning at the north mole, said it was dead calm too, so there is still a few around

Hey all, some mates and i have just returned from a week long trip up at steep point, heres some happy snaps of a few fish we caught. We got some nice pinkies, baldies, SUPER SPANGOS ( thats for you MARK79 ;) ), mackies and a few tuna. Cheers, enjoy.

Hey guys just thought i would see if anyone has come back from steep point lately???

i am on my way up on sunday cant wait last time i went the best fishing i have ever done!!

a question for all the guys that go up there a lot tho i really want to get into some mullas up there as i have heard there is some monsters but last time i just got snag after snag! if anyone has any tips or different rigs to try please let me know!

With a list of fish to target we headed out from cockburn with what was looking like a superb day. And a good day it turned out to be. First on the list were tailor in wash around the islands. Metal slices were working and a bomber XT shallow diver produced the biggest fish.

Rumours are true. The larger sambos are in shallows. Had a 20kg/ plus fish cruise under the boat while we were targeting tailor.

We werent hanging around though and headed out for the 100meter barges. On arival we found very little activity on the sounder, Just a little flare right on the edges. On our second barge i christened the new fireblood 2500/ Hearty rise 1-3 on a solid skippy and then the sambos began to fire up. Landed around 6 or 7 fish ranging in size. All juveniles 2 to 6 kilos. On two occasions we had double hook ups. The bigger fish eluded us or just werent there.

We decided to pick up a feed of squid and whiting before heading in.

Gotta love Perth.

Anyways that was yesterday on the brine.

Following on from here - http://fishwrecked.com/forum/broome-story-so-far 

Just got back from two days up at Kooljamin Resort at Cape Leveque, 2 hours north of Broome. Simply awesome! Whales could be seen breaching from the beaches and our safari tent the entire time. One afternoon and morning had me exploring the shallows of Eastern Beach encountering small trevally, queenies, cod and small reef sharks - one of which almost beached itself trying to eat my popper lol. Monday arvo we visited One Arm Point community with the Sunday Island group just offshore which was quite interesting - never seen anything like it. After only two days here and a week or so in Broome I'm well and truly hooked on the Kimberley!

There's a few...

Spotters vision

Eastern Beach

Leveque Island

Boat Ramp

A few of these around

Bozo cobe

Jologo Beach

Western Beach

I'll be back...

Damien