Hey All,

Quick report on a 4 day trip to Kalbarri I undertook last week.

Was my first time to Kalbarri - so super excited. Towed the Mustang walk around up behind the Patrol and made reasonable time - 7.5 hrs from memory.  Chewed up some juice though (4.8l)!

The bar was a little lumpy first day - but was fine the rest.  Keep me on my toes being first time through it.

Had a great 4 days of fishing - weather was absolutely superb.

We were generally catching 4-6 mackies (95-130cm) a day, with around 4 hours spent on the troll.  Tried North and South, but had the most luck approx 10-12 miles north of the bar.  In around 18-24m depth.  We tried a variety of lures - blue proving popular and we also seemed to have better hookups on smaller sized lures.

We also had some good luck with the bottom fishing - a few dhu's, red emperor, baldies and an estuary cod were the highlights.  We were bottom bouncing in around 42m of water.  Didn't pick up any big lumps in this depth, just tried to pick out the change in colour of the seafloor on the sounder.There were some lumps closer in (20m) that we also had some luck on.  No luck on the craypots - NW blowies!

With such perfect weather, 4 days fishing wasn't long enough, but packed up Friday morning and hightailed it home - 7hrs - though chewing even more juice!!

Cheers,

Pete

With yesterday arvo looking wind sweet i thought i'd go out a get my squid fix. Zen came out for a late arvo run and i wanted to try something a little bit different this time. That being squiding in deepwater than my normal 1-6m stuff. I decided to try out from Freo in the 16m mark over some broken ground. Found the size varied alot from small/med & large but was nice to try something dif.

The size #4.0 Yozuri Olive coloured squid jig was producing more than Zens Tsuriken Red head #3.5 but as soon as it got later/darker his was out producing my jig so it balanced up. The usual always apply, have different sizes & colours & mix it up. We ended up with our boatlimit of 30 in less than 4 hours and released smaller squid & little cuttlys. Was a great way to see out the arvo with very nice conditions and a few coldys!

Went out yesterday afternoon in search of some pinkys out deep.

Went out 20 or so mile, and spent a couple of hours before dark and a couple after out there for not even 1 single bite.

Decided at about 9.30pm to head in, and take a look at a place i marked on the way out on the back of the 5 fatham bank.
Found the ground and worked out our drift line and dropped the pick.

Had 3 blocks of mulies so cut a heap up and got the burely trail working.
Had 4 lines int he water, with the other guys opting for boottom rigs and i tried my first attempt at drift baiting.

Sent down my first mulie into the trail and within about 2 minutes the first fish came up, being about a 35cm skippy.

after this the other guys started to get some bites, and then 2 of them loaded up on good fish, unforuntely both busted off to whatever it was.

Next frop i got a small 30ish cm pinky, things were looking up.

I dropped my drift bait back over the side, and handed my rod to my mate while i started to set him up a new rig. Within 30 seconds he was on, and on to a good fish.
After about a 3 minute fight, a nice 65cm pinky graced the side of the boat. First fish in the esky!!!! And his bigges fish he'd caught.

After this the water lit up, with Sambos between 5-8kgs coming up, more pinkys, and plenty of pinkys between 35-45cms which is great to see.

Managed to get a nice 50cm Tailor on the drift bait aswell. Quite a few pike were also landed, and many many many Skippy.
Plenty of sharks about too, often circling the boat. Lost a lot of tackle to them. Makes fishing from the marlin deck a little more interesting. Most big fish that came up had a shark right on its hammer. Reminded me of fishing the north west.

All in all ended up being a great night, besides getting to be at 4am!!

First for me getting pinkys on 5 fatham, and on drift baiting!!

Bodie

Well, I leave you all with these pics before flying over east at 12 30am for a job opportunity that I am absolutely stoked about.

A bunch of us headed up the coast Sunday for a bit of a dive at a couple of well known (to us anyway) locations. The first spot produced a few good baldies, a couple of parrot fish and a flathead but seen dozens of other quality species. We had the privilege of swimming with a few of the locals (sharks that is) including a couple of manta rays with a few cobia hanging off them which was pretty cool – a first for me. On this day we probably covered barely 3-400m in the water so it gives you an idea on just how well preserved our coastline really is.

The boys were a bit photo shy so no individual shots – nothing really special to shoot anyway. Fish of the day went to Ben with an estimated 4-5kg baldie.

We then headed south to a spot which has always produced crays in the past and this time it didn’t disappoint with the boys bagging 14 in total, all of respectable size.

Enjoyable and humorous are two words I would use to some up the day and it was great to have filled the esky with some fresh meat which is always a bonus.

Well hope you’ve enjoyed the pics and this little read. I will definitely try to stay in touch.

Take care and tight lines to all the FW crew.

Damo

On the 5-5-09 tuesday i had a few freinds from over east out in the boat of tanabidie,we were trolling for mackie when out in front of the boat i saw 3 fins pop up ,i told every one to get the lures in that there where killer whale approching the boat .they stayed with us for about 20min before getting board of us and left it was an amazing experiance.Soon we put the lures back in the water we pulled a good mackie not long after that i told them to get the lures back in and they said why ,i didnt answer i just put my mask and fins on and jumped over the side to swim with the whale shark that was heading for the boat .The others were getting there gear on but didnt need to get in the water as he swam up and touched the boat,they stuck there head in the water to look at it eye to eye. they had a ball of a day i think one that they said they will remember fo a long time.

with a few spare hours today i shot out from woodies and picked up 10 nice size squid in 2hrs feeling happy with that i headed in,walked up to the car in the top carpark and thought i had left my drivers side window down,but no my window and 5 other car windows are laying on the ground smashed not happy i went over to an elderly couple on the other side of the carpark and asked if they saw anything,they said only 2 little kids on a small trail bike near the cars.they only took about 3$ in change.what i would"nt give for 60seconds with those two....

Quick report of the results, sure there will be many tales coming up when the guys/girls get back:

Largest Red Emperor - Ewan 74.5cm

Largest Mackerel/Wahoo - Tim Jeffs - 133cm

Largest Spangled Emperor - Pilbarabrad - 71cm

Largest Rankin Cod - Tie - Gully + Dazza - 81cm

Largest Trevally - Pilbarabrad - 77cm Bigeye Trevally

Largest Landbased fish - Pilbarabrad - 77cm Bigeye Trevally

Largest Dolphinfish - Tim Jeffs -  119cm

Largest Coral Trout/Coronation Trout - Vanessa Pohara - 64cm

Most Marlin - Tim Jeffs - 3 Black Marlin and 2 dropped on Saturday

Largest Tuna - Mako Magic - 77cm Yellowfin

Best Photo of the Comp - Dazza

Hit up Karratha for a fishing trip while i was up there for a few days work.

Managed to get out for an arvo fish and into the night

Plan was to try for some mackies on the way out to the plateu then get some reds and rankin when we arrived.

42 mile trip out, managed to see my first spannish mackie jump a good 10+ metres out fo the water!!! what a site that was and quite a few did it aswell.

Sent down some red and white halcos 2m and 7m and managed a couple mackies. Man you have to reel those buggers in quick there to get away from the sharks!!!

On the last trawl around my mate hooked a niec big cobia!!!. First thought was a trout, but this big fella sooned donned the side of the boat!!

Managed a few rankins but the reds were not playing ball. Plenty of action on the sounder but very quiet on the red front.

Headed back in with some mackies, cobia and rankins!!!

Not a bad day at all. All pictures of mate from Bunbury up there aswell who landed a few firsts for himself.

So can anyone tell me if Tims Thicket fired up on the week end , I was set go with a mate but he decided his Mrs getting a hair cut was more important '' Looser ''

Hit Cockburn sound yesterday after som squid.

Did a Gentlemens start at about 10.30am. First spot we tried (Thanks Dave) we got squid almost instant. With about 5 boats in the same location we were the only ones catching squid from what we could see. Soon after the 3rd squid came in 2 boats came up within 15 metres and started drifting next to uss!!! :evil:

So we moved over woodman point way and found some small weed banks in about 3 metres of water. Got a few small squid from here but wasnt producing too well, so moved further over into about 2.5 metres of water and soon found a good spot, getting some squid and big ones too. Up over 35cm tubes!!!

Spent about 3.5 hours on the water for our bag limit of 30. About 8-10 were good bait sized and went straight into the freezer for the next pinky trip. Split the rest up and its salt and pepper squid for dinner tonight!!!

Cheers

Bodie

hi, i've recently moved from brisbane to bunbury and keen to find out the local fishing. please, any local knowledge would be greatfull, what, when, where, how etc. cheers

My nephew and I took my 5.00m boat out yesterday. We went and fished near the rocky islands about 4Km north of the marina. There were only four other boats in the area.

We caught 51 Herring and 18 garfish. There were heaps of Garfish but they were fairly reluctant to bite. We seem to be catching the most fish probably had something to do with the fact we were using maggots for bait. That will be a few feeds for three families and some balloning bait for Steep Point.

 mackerelmauler

peterb and myself caught a mulloway each at pinaroo point the other night so i thuoght i'd rub it in and post the pics. im not pictured in this post cos i shaved my beard off 2 join the army and i look like a cross between E.T. and Tintin

After several rapid phone calls between Dave and I (that I referred to in another thread), My grovelling had paid of and Dave, Ron (a mate of Dave's that I had not met) and I headed out from Emu Point just after 07:00 am.

The plan was to head out between the main islands for some trolling that had produced good sized salmon for Dave and Ron the Day before.

We headed from Oyster Harbour into King George Sound, but not before we were pulled up by Tony and his colleague for DPI. Fortunately for Dave and Ron, who I'm sure you agree, look VERY dubious, I knew Tony and, after vouching for the two dubious deck occupants, showing the necessary equptment, we were soon back on our way.

I was anxious to see and experience Dave and Ron's recent natical acquisition, an old Guardian Cuddy/Half Cab and I was not disappointed. The deep V, flared bow and broad beam made ease of the seas outward bound.

We lined up a troll between the islands:

Alas, Dave (expectantly) had no hits and Ron went along in Dave's penumbral abstinence. I manged one 3.5 Kg Bonito on a small skirted lure: (sorry for the blood)

We continued trolling for a while without further result and tried bottom bouncing in various locations with nothing of note to show for it. Even a previous haunt that produced KGs served up nothing, even with Dave furiously studying the cutting edge technology sounder and Ron posing for the camera:

The morning was coming to a close and with it, a drop in the wind convinced us to lay up at the end of Breaksea, the outer island.

Immediately, my superior fishing skills produced a size black bum and a reasonable Blue Morwong: (sorry again)

Ron, not to be outdone completely, hauled up a nice pan sized skippy:

AND THEN, WITHOUT WARNING, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE! 

Some fish had finally taken pity on Dave's absolute deperate catch state as his Rod buckled savagely:

My initial thoughts were Salmbo!  But then when we had colour, with us bottom bouncing in 30 plus meters, I called it for a YTK.

Nope! a thumping Salmon! . On the bottom of 30 plus meters - go figure!

Moment later, Ron was was doing battle:

The result - a good sized salmon in the 4.5 Kl plus range:

Now THIS is where I eat humble pie. Both Dave and Ron had two on the deck, before I'd landed one. One of Dave's having hit his paternosta rig on the way down! (He was wondering where the seabed bottomhad gone because the fish was just screaming off with the line unencumbered by the bail arm).

FINALLY, as I was winding up to allow Dave room with his third Salmon, I copped a strike and, after a short tussle, pulled in my salmon (again sorry for the blood):

Needless to say, between Dave, Ron and I, there was no shortage of cheeky qqips and mirth a plenty:

With a VERY full esky (in fact we had to transfer the salmon to the kill tank - they wouldn't fit in the esky!), we headed home, very satisfied:

The final result :

Cheers Dave for another great and entertaining day out mate! Looking forward to next time!

gidday all shot out to the 65 70m mark yesterday very nice conds all day picked up this baldy and a 12kg dhu, mate got a top black ass and a big queenie few nice ones around lately

Headed out of C’von with quite a surreal sunrise in rather sloppy conditions and got completely soaked just after 6:00am.  We didn’t mind taking a bit of time to thaw out and get the anchor right as we arrived at our destination because conditions were not ideal but the forecast was for better weather as the day went on.  Second drop for Dave and he came up with a decent Mullaway of about 8kg before we even had our lines in the water!  Talk about a good start to the day.  Had my bait jig demolished by small Snapper instead of the slimy’s I was after but was fun on 8lb gear.  The result of this was 5 bent hooks with 1 snapped clean in half!  Conditions started to improve very quickly and so did the fish with a couple of 70cm+ snaps coming aboard as well as the usual smaller ones and a few other species.  A few rigs started coming up without hooks so flicked around a few metals which ended up becoming lip jewelry for a few small suspected macks, eventually landed one of about 80cm which made for great bait.  Was throwing around a small Halco Roosta when what looked like a huge GT come up and had a swipe at it about 10m from the boat, just as well I didn’t hook this thing as it was only on the 2-4kg setup!  Strait out came the bigger gear and a R2S Dumbell which I used for the first time, after about 10 or so casts I hooked up to a good mack and after a few quick bursts and a couple of laps of the boat it was onboard, my first spaniard on popper!  Can’t wait to seriously pop for some big GT’s and other popper lovers because that was awesome!  Coxy was on soon after and boated the biggest Golden Trevally I’ve ever seen, estimated at 15kg which was released after a few quick pics.  He was on again within 10 mins and after what seemed like forever a bronzie of about 10ft surfaced just before biting through the trace, saved us having to deal with it anyway, caught on a strip of fresh mack.  Anyway it went quiet after that and a quick troll on the way produced only one missed strike so hit 35 knots for a quick trip back to the ramp.  Quite a good day really with a good feed to enjoy in the coming weeks.

After an early start we left Freo to try and get into some of the salmon around Rotto... With plenty of bait and birds smashing into the ocean all around us we were pretty confident, but after many km's of trolling didn't manage anything....

We decided to go deep and hit the 100m mark - first drop of the jig and I got a little skippy and we thought it could be a good day.... For the next hour or two we boated another skippy or two, with three guys using bait and me working the forearms and jigging all morning... 

Each drift took us in a different direction with the currents moving all over the place... A change to bait by myself, wind picking up and another change of direction in the drift over some good ground immediately resulted into a triple hookup - a little dhuie for me, a nice skippy and a big fish hooked next to me.... The result a nice mulloway of about 16kg... 

 Following the mulloway we went back and hoped to drift in the same direction, with the sounder coming alive... A change to jig and a nice little sambo immediately hooked on and landed (and released)...

The next few drops resulted in amberjack as a small school of fish moved onto the lump... great fun to catch! A local favourite sportfish for me...

Good day on the water with a small tuna picked up trolling back in to round out the day... 

With a nice day forecaster for yesterday morning i took the oportunity to get amoungst it. The weather was looking good for the morning but not so for the arvo so i decided to pass up on the deepwater stuff and get into some local KG's!

That decided, i though a gentlemans start (late morning) was in order and reckon a few hours on the water should make for a nice morning sesh. Dan came along for a fish and was keen to get into a few big KG's as he hasnt targetted them yet. I said to him on the way out they can be fickle sometimes and we may have to try many spots & do many drifts. On arival the winds were light which is a big help and on dropping our rigs to the bottom the fish were hungy straight away!

We did 6 drifts with 8 plump KG's coming aboard with skinned ocky doing the job just nicely. With eight fish in the ice box and the hint of the Southerly wind changed we agreed thats more than enough for a feed and lets head in. On the way in i couldnt help myself but give Mewstones reef a quick go for tailor or salmon on popper. After a few bloops i was on, i landed & released a descent tailor and after a few more cast of no takers we headed in.

The short sesh was great and good to catch up again Dan.....a few pic's;

Well my Barra itch has been bad for some time and to make things worse my good mate Steve Palumbo who now lives in Broome sent me a pic of a descent Barra and said i've lost a few over a metre "your missing out". Mmhhhh okay i said next time they're happening i'll come up. After just settling in after my Exmouth trip i got the call "Fitzroy is looking great and the fish hungry come up"......mmhhhh short notice>....... bugger it so i booked my flight.

The plan was to head to Broome, stay with Steve & his good lady Jules and get a few barra sessions on the Fitzroy. The river water has slowed down after the wet and soon some of the better spots will be hard to reach as the water drops and the fish landlocked so we had to act soon. I've fished the Lower Fitzroy but that was mud stuff and not much scenery but still enjoyable.

This trip however I got to see the other side of the Fitrroy and thats the greener more lush side with big arse snags everywhere & pandana's etc. We had plans to use the ever reliable Rob Gadens F18 Pro Alternative +12 lures with one very load rattle to wake up the barra. This trip was awesome,we landed plenty of barra from small to large(ish) and no meter plus fish but some goodens none the less. We managed barra,mangrove jack and a sooty grunter with plenty of "pain in da arse" catfish....gook gook's :)

Here's a few pic's;

The launching ramp, drop the dinghy off and slide it down a steep embankment and when you wanna go home just snatch it back up.......close your eyes stuff but when in Rome;

The scenery made the whole experience even that much better, nice back drop!

Plenty of sunken timber making every cast a possibility!

Steve Palumbo's Barra;

Mangrove Jack;

One of my bigger Barra;

** Thanks again Steve & Jules for opening up ya house & Steve for unselfishly putting me onto some great fish.....you made that trip awesome mate....Thanks again!

Went to the same spot today from ocean reef, fish werent on the bite .....then i pulled up a 2.5m tiger shark on handline that could be the reason, after he left got a few baldies.....post video of tiger soon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJvWui0j61Y

South coast fishermen are experiencing one of their worst salmon seasons on record, with the total catch at 15 per cent of normal levels. Cheyne Beach fisherman Dumpy Wheatcroft said last Thursday was the first day he had caught any salmon for more than a week.

He estimates the total south coast catch could be down from about 1600 tonnes to as little as 200 tonnes.

“We’ve only had three shots (hauls) this year, total,” he said. “In the month of March, we’d normally shoot once a day on average.”

Mr Wheatcroft said salmon were travelling in bigger schools than usual but were staying away from permitted fishing areas.

He attributed the downturn to warmer weather and cyclical patterns.

“These things vary from year to year and it’s probably one of the warmest years we’ve had,” he said.

The decline in the salmon haul would hurt fisherman financially, with some relying on the catch for about 30 per cent of their income, Mr Wheatcroft said.

Department of Fisheries regional manager Phil Shaw said big schools of salmon had been reported off the south coast. “The salmon are definitely there, but for some reason they are not coming in close to the beaches where commercial fishermen can net them,” he said.

“A possibility is that the Leeuwin current is strong, which is carrying warm water flows in closer to shore and the fish are hanging out in the colder water,” Mr Shaw said.

South Coast Licensed Fishermen’s Association president Paul Benson said catches across the south coast had been about 15 per cent of usual levels.

About 20 commercial operations for salmon usually exist along 19 southern beaches, stretching from around Bremer Bay to Windy Harbour, west of Walpole.

The number of operators is down slightly this year.

GEORGIA LONEY and JODIE THOMSON

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuId=146&ContentID=134731

Went out from ocean reef on sunday and picked up

7.5kg Snapper

5kg Dhuie

2 Baldies

1 blackass

All in 46 m

gidday all picked this up on the way in sunday saw some surface action goin on and chucked out a lure this being the result

Headed out on sunday and picked up this 8kg dhuie and a 40 cm blacka$$.Released 3 other dhuies and getting the knack of a very slow wind and watching them venting off just under the boat(As andy mac described previously)Got checked by the fisheries research guys for the second time this year which is very good to see them out and about.

Got a phone call from my old man in albany this morning, he goes out into Princess Royal Harbour in albany in his kayak quite regulary, this morning however blew his mind of what he say..

he sounded like a kid stepping into a lollystore for the first time..

He said it was really flat and could see fish splashing the surface just a short distance from him, so he paddled over towards it, and what he saw next took time to sink in... Dolphin fish, this is 110% true, he has personally never seen them apart from photo's but he said the Colour Blue and yellow was so bright and the hump shape head.. they circled and hung around his kayak for about an hour, he only had his flick rod with him.. he tried Soft Plastics but they werent interested.. how ever no camera onboard as limited space.. he was no more than 300m's from shore.. Just off Frenchmans Bay Road,, he thought at first they could have been tuna as they've been sighted in there before..

anyone else heard of some wierd things like this before..

I wish he had his camera

started off leaving woodman point aroun 5.45am heading to the FAD's.

cruised out at about 25knots and therein 1 hour. Tried PGFC FAD first, but it was dead not a fish in sight. 2 other boats arrived a few minutes later and didnt see them have any luck.

Quickly bolted off the freo FAD and another boat beat us there just and on his first pass hooked up a big dollie, but a jump or 2 later it was off.
We went through for a couple passes and got a couple hits and jumps on the christmas trees but no hookups.

another 2 boats were drfting through with live herring and they got 3 or 4 between them, but we had not live herring.

Also tried Hilarys and Furuno FAD's but same again nothing would touch the christmas trees, soft plastics, small bibs, frozen herring but couldnt get a touch.

After about 5-6 hours of trying we went deeper out to 200-280 metre marks.

My sounder starts to play games at about 260ish metres as only got 600w transduver. Hooked 2 big fish in 270m but got done by sharks on the way up.
Plenty of green eyed monster out there most seemed to be about 70-80cm in length.

Headed back in to back of rotto and tried a few lumps we picked up ont he way out. Lots of fish on the sounder and got 2 good queenies, 1 horse probably 5-6kgs in size.

But besides that what a crap day!!! and was hard work.

100 mile travelled in 1 day!!!!!

Will post pics tomorrow of the queenies.

Headed out today on Apache charters with some customers.Managed to get work to pay which is always good..

We headed out to around the 140mtre mark and first drop Bear(freobear) picked up this nice queenie..

After that we hit some really strong current so we headed out to around the 180mtre mark.Meanwhile i was copping shit galore from the boys for bringing 3 different outfits and not yet bagging a fish so i changed to a 400gm jig and picked up a nice red..got the monkey off my back

At around the high tide the pinkys that we were chasing came in the bite and everyone had a good time bagging pan size snapper..

Not a bad charter as perth goes and a awesome day on the water with pure glass late in the day

Cheers

chris

A telephone call from Dave(y) the night before had cemented the day out. The two fat bastards where going out in the (hornet) basket. The forecast was reasonable, the winds moderate and the swell and seas low.

Despite all the years going fishing, especially in boats (mine and others), I slept restlessly and finally gave up, getting up at 04:30am. Quite doable, when you've hit the hay at 08:00pm the previous evening, after some dental work that Friday evening (the perfect way to rap up a working week).

Gear packed, and after a short stop at an Albany Service Station for supplies, I arrived at Dave's place and we were in the water just after 07:00am.

Already, the Emu Point boat ramp car park was half full, with cars/trailers that had disgorged numerous small boats for what look liked part of a fishing comp scheduled for this weekend.

As we manoeuvred our way out of Oyster Harbour, we discussed the plan of attack and decided on trolling out to the islands. Half way across King George Sound, Dave suggested we pull the lures up and increase the speed to make Breaksea (the outer of two islands) before the wind came up.

20 minutes later, after plenty of samples of how warm the water was, especially when bow sprayed, one Dave(y) and flat bottomed me arrived and scouted around of the south west tip. We both agreed it was too much on the lumpy side and headed for the shelter of calmer waters between Michaelmas and Breaksea Islands. That was, of course, after I had reacquainted the skipper with where we'd been and Central Channel (between the Islands) wasn't King George Sound.

It's a worry when the skipper becomes disorientated, especially LOL.

Anyway, we dropped the pick on the leeward side of the outer island and I managed a couple of small skippy, with Dave(y) doing his superb best not to show me up, by selflessly not catching anything. Dave said that it was (apparently) very hard for him to achieve that. What a kind honest guy!

Dive.com (a local dive charter) soon arrived, so that signalled the end of that spot. So we pulled the pick and poked the bow of the boat out at the south east end of Breaksea. I managed a respectable breaksea (BA) cod whilst Dave continued on very determined not to show me up by catching a small Nanny, but only after I had. What a kind honest guy!

Due to the orthodontically administered anaesthetic the previous night (AND ONLY THAT REASON!) I unfortunately started an involuntary burlying session so, Dave, having continued to considerately not catch any fish, suggested we move in closer.

At this point Dave's consideration diminished, when he very cruely and completely inaccurately spuriously (sic) suggested that other reasons for my bilious state, which included, but was not limited to, my parentage, my wife, my 'equiptment' etc etc. You get the idea.

Once underway, I went for the 'kill or cure' approach and stuffed a cold sausage roll into my gullet. I soon felt remarkably better and the 'tete a tete' between Dave and I ceased to be one sided (et all, Dave giving me sh*t, while I just tried to live).

I (ME Dave, right!! LOL) SUGGESTED a KG spot that I knew and we soon dropped the pick after I landed a decent kidney slapper. Dave continued to hone the fine art of not catching anything! The EVENTUALLY he caught a decent skippy (that somehow must have missed my line).

The wind soon blew up, so we trolled back into King George Sound, stopped briefly near Middleton beach for a short fish, which included me releasing a small pike that had lodged on to my bibbed lure and Dave, well, doing what he does best - catching buggar all!

With the afternoon marching on, and some bait we had left, Dave suggested we head to a SPOT he knew, and I was soon latching on to more KGs. OH!!! I nearly forgot Dave even caught some too!  

THANKS AGAIN DAVE - ANOTHER GREAT DAY OUT MATE - Looking forward to returning the favours when we finally get our car back so we can take my boat out mate!

Had a very interesting night out fishing on the coast of mandurah.while fishing out of my mates six meter boat we had a very scarey expereance which in hind sight should have been reported.The date was 11:04:2009.

We were in 14 meters of water just two klms off shore out of halls head.The moon was out and the water seemed so clear.

My mate vern was sure he had a touch on his line and bent over the side of the boat as if to get ready to set the hooks.

The time was about 2200hrs.His anticipation of a fish turned into a nightmare as a white pointer shark went right under the middle of the boat.

I am of no doubt the shark was all of 5.50 meters long just half a meter short of the boat,with an estimated weight of over a ton.The water seemed to light up under this amazing creature it was shit your pants stuff.

You see the news with arial shots of sharks on the tv sometimes but they are just babies compared to this one.You can belive the source of this storey as vern is a well respected goverment employee with a very credible trusted posistion in the W.A goverment

The shark passed around six times his back grazing the under size of the hull.I have no doubt,he was after a feed as he looked up at us every time he passed.This no doubt would have made news headlines if verns son had come along.

As he has some very good camera gear which would be worth a fortune.I have seen hundreds of sharks in my trips out in my boat but this one will never be beaten.

Sorry for the belated warning which I regret not reporting.I have no doubt that a smaller boat would have rolled.But as verns boat is an american imported boat with a lot of weight under it possibly gave up and left to look for an easier meal.

Rabbit