nothing much was happen at work today so we decided to go for a fish out the north wall at hillarys. We went down and set up down under the light house to hopefully get onto sum skippy and hopefully a pinky. This is where it was all wrong there wasnt a skippy in sight. But istead pulled up a lot of bream. The tally was 10 bream 4 size and 6 under which were are realeased. This all in a couple of hour session. My question is where the hell did all the skippy. We have fished there regularly and always caught skippy wheather they were undersize or whoppers

Well its been a long time but got back into a 20kg fish. Gave a great fight, had me on edge all the way to the top. Had called a sambo ,and a ray .not bad on light gear.

Also had a dolphin come to the boat for a look .was happy to get a feed of fresh snook and mackrel

Geez...Seabreeze can make the forecast look so good. UNTIL you get out!! What a PAIN IN THE ASS ride out to find fish. Still enjoyed the company of Brody and his mate out wide of Hillarys today. Ended up with only a sized Pinkie and undersize Dhuie. We came right in after we had enough of the tumbling water out there to find some squid. Wasnt a whole lot around but still managed to score about 10 with some corkers! Atleast 2 of them easily over the 1kg mark.

These 5 came all at once. Size 3.0 jig for size comparo.

Kick arse Dhu......Biggest I've seen  

come on Paul.......

My friend Harry and I went out from Johnston St ramp again this morning. We were hoping for a few squid around the more and then perhaps out further.

Sadly that shitty weather this morning made us change out minds and we just headed out to the Sound for a few drifts on the squid. There were plenty there, and much better size than my previous trips. Probably the best jig colours were orange and brown.

It eventually fined up and we decided to go in, rather than out, and settled for a quick day instead. Hopefully we make it back out again this week while the weather is good!

Anchored up on 3 mile today just off Hillaries near a likely looking lump in hopes of a good, short morning sesh. Absolutely beautiful morning and I was feeling good as we berleyed up.

Rig my bream combo with an unweighted circle hook and cast out into the trail. In no time I was tangling with a 40+cm skippy that gave my little outfit all she wanted. For the next 45 minutes we had fun with a big school of skippy in that size range.

Suddenly the ultra-light rod in my literally bent over double and my little Daiwa was screaming. Another minute and I was buried in the reef. I was so pissed I almost chucked my rod in the water!! Five minutes later, I'm rerigged, and it happens again. So I put the light rod aside and break out the horse. I'm so excited to drag up whatever monster that busted me off. Problem is nobody under the water wanted to play with the heavy line.

So I've got one rig that they'll hit but can't bring them in....and one rig that could bring them in....but nobody will hit it. hmmmm....this fishing thing ain't so easy... So all in all, a great morning on the water and delicious dinner tonight....but still the lingering frustration of the ones that got away...

maybe they'll be waiting for me next week!

Yours truly and a mate went metro fishing this morning, the first break in the weather for weeks. Launching before dawn we headed out to a mark we fished previously.  The 585 sounder was ablaze with colour as we we passed over some massive balls of fish showing brilliant red on the sounder.

First drift, a little south of where we hoped the drift would take us, drew a blank so we pulled in the sea anchor for a second shot. 

We were both fishing with two rods each, all relatively light and all rigged predominantly to target deep water kg whiting. Oh and thanks Ryan for your time and freely given kn owledge passeedd on yesterday which set us up for this trip with rigs per your instructions and carefully peeled occy tenticles for bait, the KGW's we were targeting would surely cooperate today.

The second drift had only been going a minute or two when one of jeff's rods bends double to something slightly larger than a kgw, I'm on he shouts, hang on he says me other rod is going off as well.

Well I hardly needed the invitation did I so I quickly move to try and subdue another obviously good fish.  That might have been OK but for the fact no sooner had I picked up that rod than both of mine go ballistic as well!

Jeff's winning the battle and a double header of easily size dhuies hit the surface to woops of delight, which got even louder when the fish I was fighting on his other rod also popped up away from the boat in classic dhuie behaviour.  Dropping the fish on the deck I grab my $9 dollar special rod (yeh I know cheapskate) as it was loosing line fast and was by far the lightest rigged with only a small okuma and 20lb braid much of which had vanished from the spool> This fish was solid and wasn't coming in easily but the final rod was now also bent double and I called for jeff to grab it and return the favour.  Giving that fish hell he quickly subdued it, you guessed it another size dhuie while all along I continue to very slowly gain line on the fish on the 9 buck special.  After perhaps 10 minutes it pops up away from the boat and it is a really beautifully marked and by far the biggest of the five dhuies.  Jeff quickly returned the smallest fish to see it swim away strongly to the bottom.........bag limit of BSB's in a drift and a half by 8.15 in the morning, the sun had only just hit the sky with it's not so warming rays.

We toyed with pulling stumps but we went out there chasing KGW and Jeff had also dropped what was clearly a good snapper from the vibrating fight it gave him.

Next drift and another BSB to jeff, again easily size and again returned sucessfully - the key being perhaps the fact we were fishing light and were taking our time getting hooked fish to the surface minimising barotrauma.  

It went quiet for a while before I hooked a steam train on steroids again on the really light gear, half way through the fight I clearly felt some weight come off and called it for a lost fish but still had plenty of weight left and fight to boot, several minutes later we gaffed my personal best WA pinkie @ 85 Cms.   Oh yeh and we got three kgw just to round out our bag limit of four fish each.   Two more sized dhuies were also returned without problem and we were broken off by several unstoppables a couple of which felt like really big dhuies..............all in all a SPECIAL DAY on the water in the metro area.  Photos will follow, I refused to take a camera as it seemed to moz us but Jeff sneeked one in this time !!!!!! 

So...Once again on night shift on an oil rig up off thailand....I go upstairs to have a slash over the side and see a big mother of what I am 99% sure is a marlin or at least definately a billfish of some sort....

Last trip to work I saw a massive school of dolphin fish and armed with a handline and home made popper i managed to snag a couple, this time i have a rod and reel and a popper aimed at getting dolphin fish (which i havent seen one yet this trip) so anyway i race down and grab it and start frantically casting toward this beauty....but unfortunately i couldnt get it to show any interest in it, other than when i almost foul hooked it across its back and it took off like a shower of shit...

My thoughts are the poper was just way too small for it to show half an interest but im now curious to see if people have had much luck with billfish on poppers...especially smaller 120mm length poppers...

Much to my annoyance i saw 2 more in the next half hour rounding up fish, none of which showed any interest at all in my popper...

Having said that the lightish gear i was armed with i would have been slaughtered in the fight within about 10 seconds but that is half the fun just getting a hook up on a beauty like that...

Arrived home after five days in Exmouth on Saturday. The weather was pretty average with only two of the days calm enough to fish the outside in a 21 footer and the cooler weather shut the fish down but we still managed a feed each day and it was nice to avoid the rain which hasn’t stopped since we got home.

Heres a few pics out of the hundreds we took. A video is on the way and should be up later tonight.

Hope you enjoyed.

A big thank you to the girls from Gorges cafe for their sponsorship this month.
The river section fished very well again this month with some nice bream weighed in. Di Stewart had 3 live bream, all caught within a couple of hours as she had to work most of the day. Cheryl Eley had 2 and Brett Bain one. New member Maryanne Muir debuted with two bream out fishing husband Peter. Well dome Maryanne. Weigh master Gary Ivey did it again showing 4 live bream with the biggest at .758grams making it the biggest for the year so far, and winning the river section.

Maryanne shows off her bream.
Only 2 juniors fished the river this month and Beau Ivey won the section with a bream and a whiting. Beau’s bream equalled the biggest for the year at exactly .758grams that Gary had. 
Drawing for the biggest for the year, junior angler Beau Ivey
The land based or beach section was very quiet with no anglers fishing, might have been a bit to do with the big swell pounding the beaches over night.
An extraordinary good day presented itself for the boat anglers amongst the windy, cold, rainy weeks we have been and are having, so the three boats who took the advantage and went out were rewarded with some fair fish.
Nik Bramwell was out early in his dinghy “Hurricane” thought about going west, saw the grey sky and turned south along the cliffs. He need not have worried as the day just got better and better. Nik told us that he could not get past the dhuies to the better fish, releasing multitudes of undersize ones and missing out on the snapper?
His haul of 4 fish included 2 dhuies, a small sambo and a cod that was the biggest for the year at 1.044kg. That won’t last long.
Laurie Malton and Jason Agrela were out aboard Bulawayo Buoy, mixing it up between game fishing and bottom. The mackerel and tuna were absent but they found a snapper spot with Jason landing a 2.1kg pinky on 2kg line to win the game section. Jason’s first line class fish, well done Jason.

Jason shows off his line class snapper and tackle he caught it on.
It wasn’t long until the blowies moved in and began destroying their tackle so they up graded to the heavy stuff and found it hard to get through the blowies to the snapper, but Jason did it again landing a nice 3.5kg specimen. Laurie’s two snapper added points for the boat.

Jason with his 3.5kg snapper
The third boat out was Jo Jo with skipper Craig Gibson and new member Russell Page. They also went south and had trouble getting past the skippy! Both had 8 fish mainly skippy with Russell’s skippy the biggest this year at 1.88kgs while Craig romped it in to win with skippy, black arse cod, a small samson and the biggest snapper so far at 4.117kgs.
Jason Agrela won the RSL Meritorious voucher of $50.00 for his line class snapper as well as the restaurant prize from Gorges Café. Clint from Perth won the $50.00 worth of scratchies raffle, and there was no mug of the month stories, so the free beer went begging
Next event is a monthly comp on the 22nd August.
Laurie Malton

After last weeks success had to go back for another session jigging the Cape.

Barneyboy (Mark) volunteered to be deckie for the day as he has not experienced the Cape.

Great weather and once again plenty of fish.

Here's just a snap.

Thanks to Matt (hlokk) for the jigs and thats a Smith MJ105.

Mark certainly caught his fair share of sambo's and strectched the arms

And Thanks Ryan and Honsu at Oceanside, Mark used the Zest 120 jiggs and smashed the fish. Can highly recommend the Jig Master PE 2-3 rod. Dynamite rods guys. Cheers for the advice.

Back to the cold cold wintery days of Perth after the warm sun of Exmouth.

Took #1 daughter out for a fish and found a nice patch of whiting to later use as bait for the big stuff. While we were drifting we were both watching the sounder and Rachel said "what's that" pointing to some striations on the sounder screen. "That's a patch of weed sweetie, its places like this we get King Gorge Whiting on the edges of this stuff" I replied.

No sooner had the weed patch gone from the screen I was on.

"This doesn't feel like a sand whiting" I blurted. Low and behold this lovely specimen came into view.

Not as big as some we catch in deeper waters but a great start to the day none the less.

We then moved out to some ground I fish a little wider and on the way out I noticed a nice rise on the sounder. It was near some other marks I had but definaitly new ground.

That's what I love about my Lowrance 37x it can plot a mark to the GPS by putting the cursor over the lump on the sounder.

We headed back over and set up a drift. I landed a sargeant baker whilst my daughter hooked up big time.

I was very proud as she fought the fish well, keeping an arc in the rod at all times and letting the fish run when it needed to.

After a great fight up surfaced a PB Baldchin Groper. One of (if not the) best tasting fsh in the ocean.

After a few high 5's and a big hug for dad I dutifully renamed the mark in my GPS as "Rachel's PB Baldie" and continued on towards the spots I had originally wanted to fish.

Whilst we didn't get too many big fish, we were entertained most of the day with a few small Dhufish that we carefully returned using a release weight.

On a past trip my daughter had caught a huge cuttlefish, but it took me too long to get the net (too busy filming it all for the magazione) that we lost it boatside...she never forgave me for that and so when she hooked up to something that was surging and quite heavy we called it early for a cuttlefish and readied the net.

As it neared the boat all I got was abuse from the daughter and threats of what would happen if I stuffed up the net job this time.
Thankfully I managed to get it onboard without any ink and it filled our bait esky nicely (didnt want to put it in with the other fish for fear of an ink bath). Another PB for Rachel.

We started heading back in and hit a few more marks and wouldn't you know it I hook a cuttlefish too. This one was a bit bigger though and after some banter about netting it, the daughter managed to scoop it up and into the esky.

We headed home after a great day on the water. I had tried to use the scaling bag on the smaller one to remove the skin but all it did was scuff it so it wasn't photogenic being in several pieces. So we took it in turns to hold up the big one for the camera.


Its great seeing the young ones catch something decent, and good to have some quality time with a teenager who's otherwise only interested in shopping and girly things.

Get your kids into fishing and it breaks down all the barriers.

PS: Anyone have any good recipe's for cuttlefish. I have cleaned the mantles and they are roughly 1.5cm thick so need some advice on cooking as they are obviously a little bit different from squid.

Rolled over this morning at 6am to the sound of the alarm telling me to get up for a fish..Kicked Claire in the guts...bloody cold weather makes it hard to get going. Pulled off frozen boat cover,  redbull... check, pizza shapes..check, we are good to go.

Was very quiet at the ramp this morning, but then i remembered it was monday, and most people are at work.

First up we headed out to a great little lump we found in 35m of water a while back, hoping the skippy and squire snaps had pissed off, so we could hook into some of the bigger fish..but no, they were still there. So we thought we would try find some more king george near Rotto..so off to the west side we went. Was some great ground around there and after 3 hours of trying about 2 gazillion sand patches, Claire the arsey biatch hooked a nice kg that went 47cm. Skipper was happy as the pressure was off now, so it was off to test the new sounder out.

We headed out to a spot in the 60s we had marked on our nav charts last night, that we thought would be a good spot to do some bottom bouncing.  First drift for a 50cm flatty, mmmm bloody sandy shite i was thinking.  I then had a good bite, and a 48cm dhuie come to the surface. We drifted a little more and all of a suddden Claire the biatch was on again..she called for the net, and soon after we boated a nice baldie at 51cm.   We did a few more drifts for nothing..and when a whale surfaced next to us, we then decided to head back in to Scarbs. Had a few drifts for squid, but luck was not on our side.

Got back to the ramp at 1600, and Claire got to test out her new 3 speed boat winch. Another great day on the water with my beloved wifey the "Baldchin Magnet"

was out jigging today and the wonder of my day snaped in half peice of shit ugly stick blue water, the small trout on the end of the line was not a prob ,it had snuck under a hole and was not coming out so i give it the 14000 saragosa powers and bang!!!!!!..Will be wrighting to the ugly stick rod mob and asking for answers..  

Has any one elese had trouble with the bluewater jig rods from ugly?

aquagenes

Hey all,

Moved down to Bunbury a few months back now and haven't wet a line as yet. Hoping to change that asap so wondering if any of you guys could help me out with some shore based spots??..Thinking I might try this week if we get some nice weather like today. Anywhere nice and quiet and you can catch some herring/whiting etc?

Is the leschenault estuary any good?? .. I can honestly say Im still yet to see a single person fishing the shore - from bunbury up to australind. I have seen a guy riding a pushbike carrying a crab net though.

Cheers,

Ben

Hi there! Im heading out for a fish on monday...wondering if anyone headed out today, and if the fish were on the bite?? cheers

After what seemed like months, Sandra and I finally got out on the water last Sunday in Dreamweaver. Forecast, swell and seas where all excellent and we were in the water for 06:30 with the dawn morning air being a nice balmy 7 degrees .

Given the excellent conditions forecast and the fact that it was a Sunday, we were surprised to find that, on arrival at Emu Point, we were the very first. With no other trailers in site. Not even tagging behind us or rolling in as we undertook pre-launch preparations.

I guess the rest where snuggled up in bed - bloody fair weather warm fishos LOL!

The spot we were targeting was a 25m circular reef plateau, rising out of 65m - south of one of the outer reef systems. I'd passed over it on the way back from another trip and the structure definitely read FISH HERE!

As we headed out of King George Sound, at a steady 25 knots, a view of the ahead horizon was amazing. Dotted across, at regular intervals were large tail flukes and the frequent large splash from a rising whale falling backwards to the surface.

LOOK! Over there, suddenly yelled Sandra. Following her indicated direction, I spotted a large (whale) Cow and Calf, lazily surface swimming, not 200 meters off our starboard bow.

A quick course correction away from them and 20 minutes later we were over the reef plateau, but not before sighting many other (whale) cows and calfs. The bulls all seemed to be content to frolic in deeper waters across our horizon. We executed our plan. First, we stopped the boat and (GPS) charted the drift. We then ran up the line and dropped a reef pick on the shallowest part of the plateau (20m), ran the boat astern as we paid out anchor line to the edge of the reef plateau's rise. 

With a large anchor well carrying 450m of anchor line, I guestimated we had about 200m of line out before we settled at just the right spot.

The first drop for me produced a double header of scorpion fish. These were on the small side and went back in the water - very carefully!

Next drop and I was onto something more serious, but still controllable. Another double header, this time banded sweep of about 4kg each. Also returned.

Sandra broke her trace on the surface loaded up with a nice Breaksea. She's definitely the breaksea specialist as she prefers to fish with prawns and these definitely seem to be BA's preferred diet. (At least that's what we have found down here.)

Next I copped a rig bust off, so, given the terrain, I decided on stepping up the rig and tied on a paternoster of double snelled 7/0 Gammy Big Baits and loaded them up with good sized mulies.

Bring it on!

And it did! BANG! The rod tip buckled furiously as soon as the snapper sinker hit bottom and a torturous 15 minutes later I had what I estimated to be a 25K ish Salmbo alongside. No photo - as a released it boat side to minimise harm and ensure it's healthy return below the surface.

Sandra meanwhile landed another BA.

Back down again and BANG. More back pain! Another 15 minutes and another smaller Sambo broke the surface - this one near the 20Kilo mark:

Sandra's BA was a good size and well worth keeping:

Yet another drop with the rig and the rod tip exploded with rapid succession of very substantial bites. A well timed upward strike and the rod tip buckled furiously! (Insert expletive here). I don't know what was protesting more - the rod or my back! As I slowly regained line and brought the catch to the surface, I tried (as we all do) to call it. Nope, not the head thump of a snapper, not the run of a sambo etc etc. The end of the line felt like it was being ripped apart in two directions.  Shit! Noth ANOTHER  double header! Finally we saw two sets of colour and brought them on board.

Two very decent sized skippy - 53cm and 49cm! No wonder I was having problems :

A brief rest and the rig was down again.

BANG! BANG! BANG! boooooooom!!

What the! All hell broke loose! Drag locked up, the reel and rod screamed in protest as I battled to reduce the amount of braid screaming out of the reel. (Insert a string of expletives here). This fish was heading down,to where? A Cave?Then, one of the worst sounds. No, not the crack of a rod tip or reel seat, but the neat clinical ping of braid snapping. It had buried me and snapped the braid on some structure.

BUGA!!

That's it, I said to Sandra, I'm back to single hooks for something normal, I painfully announced.

On to another rig and down it went. COLIN!! Yelled Sandra! Whales!! Yup. 50 meters astern and closing directly on us was a VERY sizeable cow and her calf. I'll get the anchor! Yelled Sandra. No time I said. Two blurred hands and rods and rigs were on deck. I dashed for the helm and kicked the motor into life. Cut the anchor line yelled Sandra. Nope! Not necessary. Hang on! 

Having 200m of line out in 20m of water gave us a 10:1 scope - enough to take a 'radious (on the rope) heading away from the whales. A minute or so later, the two passed calmly astern of us, probably wondering what all the comotion was about.

I manouvered back to our spot and dropped the rig down again, as I drew in a string of deep breaths. Phew, that was close.

But the whale visit hadn't finised! While loaded with another decent skippy, the surface immediately astern of the boat was broken by a 3 meter wide bubble!

Yup, a whale had just passed directly under the boat!

By now it was 11:30 and we both decided we'd enough of ALL SORTS of action. So we pulled the pick and headed for home, keeping a careful helm watch for whales which I'm thankful to say had finished their interaction, at least with us.

A great day, good fish, sore back and lot's of excitement. Some of the elements that make fishing what it is! 

.

Well my brother and I finally chipped in to get a slightly larger boat than the tub to take up to Exmouth tomorrow. We ended up with a 12 footer which was in pretty average cosmetic form, however made it up with reliability. We took it out on Monday arvo to test it out after we had added a new bung, 9 hod holers, a bait board, a glove box, a cleat and heaps of smaller things. It handled the mix of massive tidal swell and 80ft Sunseaker wake and got us out the heads and into the calm open ocean,

We left the heads around 4 so we didn’t have much time for travelling so we just stayed off north mole. To catch some bait for exxy and let my g/f catch a few squid. The weather was perfect and the fish were seriously on the bite and after half an hour we headed back to the ramp with a decent bag of bait and a few nice size squid.

When we get back home I think we'll treat her to a fresh coat of paint, and then a gps/sonar, sound system and a flat floor.

Cheers Miles

Alright one and all

At last a fish!!! 

After a few weeks of being busy and struggling to catch when I do go, I finally found some fish willing to play.  An early start to day at 4.30 and me and me mate Pete were on the road and heading for the lake.  The customary sausage roll and pork pie was devoured en route and the discussion came round to swim choice, we decided to do the right thing and walk arounf=d the lake looking for signs of fish.

 The long and short of it is we ended up in the swim we'd decided on in the car...loads of snags and trees and loads of fish.

We tucked ourselves up in a couple of quiet shady pegs and cast our baits out to the edge of the tree line on the opposite bank.  Within an hour I landed a 15lb 5oz mirror carp on 2 bollies as bait, surrounded by trout pellet.  The fish fought like a train and made a great start to the day.

15.5lb

An hour later my rod shot off again...and with Pete still yet to catch I enjoyed milking this fish..a common this time but slightly bigger at 16lb 5oz.  Again fought really well and again on the same bait...the day was hotting up.!

16.5lb

Quite soon afetr Pete had a screaming run, an unmissable one...that he somehow missed...gutted!  Almost immediately after  he had another run and landed a small common of about 2lb.  The day went quiet for a bit, the sun was out and all the fish were on the surface...uninterested.  As the day progressed Pete had another smaller fish and I banked a 5lber and an 8lber.  But overall it was fairly quiet.  I tried fishing in close with maggots and a light line for smaller carp, but one of the bigger fish picked up the bait and shot off around the lake with me in tow....for abit!!

8lb

As the day cooled off  we had a 45 minute period where it went mad, we landed 2 fish each, of which Pete's were 10.8lb and an 11.8lb common

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11.8lb

Mine were slighlty smaller with an 8lb common and a 10.8lb common.

10.8lb

We then got really excieted as we thought we were goning to catch one of the bigger fish in the lake as they were crashing everywhere and it felt like they were gonna have a real feed, especially as it was a lush evening!

But alas afetr about 7 o clock, no more fish were caught.  However a great day was had with a total of 11 fish caught, 5 of which were over 10lb.  Not long to go now and hopefully I will have some Aussie fish!!

Rog

I took my tinny out for the very last time today. For a fish and to say goodbye as I have sold the old girl. I was on my second last bait when this nice fish turned up. I didnt weigh it but would have weighed between 8 and 9 kilos. The last fish I will catch out of the tinny. Stoked with the fish/ sad about the boat!!

A gentlemans start, 9:30 launch at cockburn ramp. headed south to some weedy ground. it was the purple yamashita v the orange $15 jobby whos name i cant remember but it has a rattle in it.

 Scoreboard after 3 hours

Purple Yama    : 12

Orange jobby  : 17 squid and 1 cuttlefish

Most pretty small, the biggest was really nothing to write home about.

Kept a handfull that will soon be treated with a light dusting of flour a healthy serve of salt and pepper; and returned the rest.

A nice day out and a painful wash down after. Bloody ink. 

The weather looked good and after the last few weekends of storms  we decided to hit the cape on a jigging sorte. Two boats went out, mine with Ian7739 and myself and Bluetonic's (BJ) with Garbo and couldntcatchacold (Chris). This was a serious jigging (and Soft Plastic) trip and no bait. Had to christen the new jigging gear and it was time to introduce Ian to the excitment and action of jigging. We had a PE 2-3 and 6 outfit and were ready to hit the fish. BJ and I have been talking for a while now on jigging techniques and we decided to try a new technique looking for dimersal species and then continue our search for Kingfish.

Arrived early at the ramp and the wind picked up. BJ and crew were already anchored just of the ramp catching some livies.

Decided to launch the boat when Ian turned up. Slowly headed out and was a slow trip as the ocean was really lumpy. About half way was going to turn around but a solitory dolphin turned up and decided to swin with us for a while. We took this as an omen of good luck and continued to head out. About an hour of steaming saw us round the cape and find markedly calmer water. Sounded around using the new colour sounder and found a good patch of ground with fish on the sounder. Dropped the jigs and instantly jigged some shallowtail. Ian hooked something solid that was either a snapper or dhiue judging by the power surges but alas half way up it spat the hook. My next drop scored me my first dhuie but at 20cms long I'm not bragging...ha ha. Got to start somewhere. Not sure if the bugger was greedy or just ambitious as the 90g jig was just as big as him.......fantastic colours though. More dropps resulted in monster St Bakers and plenty more shallowtail and some sea sweep and pike. Ian unfortunatley dropped another fish before the area shut down. Decided to sound around looking for more ground. 

Finally found some ground with skippy on the sounder and the sambo's usually aren't far away.......... down go the jiggs and Ian is hooked. After a tough battle on the PE 2-3 he finally got his first Sambo on a jig.

Plenty around and at one point when Ian bought another one up all we could see under the boat was sambo's. Lost count of how many we caught but had a ball.

Moved closer to the cape itself as the wind dropped and jigged some good boundies.......hooked something solid but a couple of headstakes and was smoked and qiuckly reefed on the PE6 so thinking a kingie as they tend to hang closer to the cape rocks/wash.

Great day on the water but as I dont have a dig camera only got these couple of photo's off my phone. Ian reckons he's hooked on jigging......can understand why...ha ha 

quiet day, my mate caught this squid in the first couple of casts. What is the cod esque thing in the middle image?

anybody been fishin up in the moore river lately - any bream, pilch, or freshwater catties?

went down to hillarys at 4 this morning. caught a lotf of small pinkies and skippy through them bak in then a couple of hours in caught two 45cm skippy. Lucky for us we picked a spot by the light house where we could get out of the wind. Pitty there was no big pinkies but oh well theres always next time

Stormy conditions this morning, where?

Was great not to get wet, but I only caught a tiny skippy, a small goatfish and I did catch a snapper!

Just returned from a short trip to Carnarvon and couldn't believe the Pinkie action up that way. I travelled out about 16 nat miles west on Monday with three other guys, bagged out with 3 to 4 kilo pinks in 20 mins and got back to the ramp mid morning. The big blow made fishing impossible for the rest of the week.

Hopefully I'll get back that way when the weather settles. 

regards Rob    

Weather was pretty horrible yesterday so being a true tailor fanatic i went down to my favourite spot armed with a halco rooster i bought on wednesday and hit this patch of reef up pretty hard, at first i noticed a rather large cod or someother fish kept following the popper, and other than that it was pretty quiet until i hooked the first tailor, at about ~55cm it was smaller compared to what i was after but still good fun on the light gear.

Then finally an easy 4-5kg one came in for inspection and my heart was pumping watching it go for the popper, but it failed to connect with the hooks and disappeared just as fast. i decided to call it a day but on my way back i thought nah i'll try for some herring , got about 30! on the paddletail snapbacks, they would only take it in the white wash so it was hard to time it right to get it with the waves and the breakers.

Then after that i tried squidding for a bit, Yes in this weather, got 12 squid in 13 casts then all of a sudden nothing, pictures are on my camera.

Did the same thing today, no tailor but a shit load of kilo plus skippy and a nice haul of squid aswell, the herring are an absolute plague at the moment and they take any plastic i put infront of them.

Will definately be back for tailor , i'm obsessed with big tailor its just hard finding good reefs in south metro area.

Who says shit weather is only for snapper? =P

PS. Suprisingly all the squid were about 1-2cm difference in size, there were no smaller ones or jumbos, like they were out of the same group

Been a lot of samsonfish around the inshore areas of Jurien according to Whitey.

"Friday afternoon was full of action in the marina, 15kg plus Sambos were smashing baits off the Boatlifters jetty. The boys had a blast catching and releasing these monsters in shallow water."

Worth a drive I'd say. There's a fair bit going on up there right now.