With the new job, I occassionally get an afternoon off, and this was the case yeserday.

For that reason, I keep a change of clothes, Plueger President 2-4Kg, small reel, Berkley Tackle Bag (FC, Jig Heads, SPs and HBs, Owner Trebs,Braid Scissors and Alvey Measure) in the back of the 4by. 

So, after popping in to my local tackle shop for a top up of 1/32 Jig heads and a couple of packets of river prawns and some more Jig Heads, I headed off up the Kalgan, with the report of plenty small bream happening.

Even catching these would be great fun, I know the scenery is always fantastic, the time in quiet solitutude very peaceful, and there was always the change of hooking into the odd decent fish.

A walk trail along the river bank, provided me the opportunity to explore and try different spots. 

That's the beautty down here, you can walk for miles, especially during the week, and see no one. You have the whole wonderful experience to yourself.

Interstingly, I'd gone bream fishing on Wednesday armed with no bait (well ok, gulp camo's to the purists ), but didn't even raise a twitch. So it was back to the 'old fashioned' bait approach yesterday.

In a 90 minute session, I landed 18 bream (with a hookup on every cast) with most, as expected being small. The largest came in at 23cm, but alas, no 35plus (light) tackle testers.

I didn't bother taking photos of the fish, wanting to get them back in the water, but here's some scenery shots I thought Id share with you:

Rock up to point walter at about 6ish this evening. wanted to try out some of the new lures i obtain for flatheads, but sad to say... after about a hour or so, other then blowies.. nothing was on.

till i was about to turn my back, give up and go home for a nice warm dinner, bait fish was jumping!!! hear stories about tailors at point walter therefore could not help myself but to change from lures to slicer. halco 5g slicer, silver... 2lb main with 12lb lead about 2ft. and boy! to my surprise... 1st cast and game on.. but it return with a herring. still they were good fight.  they kept me there for another hour plus. total landed about 30+ and many more lost when they jump into the air and throw the hook out. almost every next cast was a hookup.

all where release other then the above two which i bought home.

gut and clean... into the steamer for 3mins and its dinner(chinese style)

no flathead yet...

Took the family over to rotto on Sun for olivers bday and we were extreamly lucky with the weather and had a glass off for 4 hours, an the clarity was amazing. we droped the ladies off on the land and went for a free dive at swirl reef where we were disapointed by the fish the with only a small baldie, a few blackasse and the usual reefies seen. after that we went for a quick fish with big fish and light rods in mind, we started pumping the burly and had a ball catching massive buffies, sweep and skippy on the light gear. We then went in and went for another dive before we headed home before the wind picked up to much. heres a few snaps

cheers Miles

Mixed Bag @ Bridport Point

mainly bait fish apart from the Tailor

Fished last night untill around 10pm

Started off using a pencil float to see if I would catch any thing after reading my fishing book. ( Australian Fishing & Lure Encyclopedia )

First fish caught using the pencil float was a Yellow Tail, ya that goes onto the live bait rod, wishing and hoping for a strike

2nd cast I land a Herring and a Whiting, both in the bucket for Live bait, so far so good

3rd cast I land a garfish, nice fat one too, into the bucket for eating, yum

4th cast I land a yellow eye mullet, into the bucket for Mulloway bait on Saturday night

In the mean time kids are landing Herring and Tailor, all my kids caught two Tailor each, all toll we caught 14 Tailor, came home with 6 this time round and happy faces from the kids, boy did they sleep well,

No takes on the big rod, some thing took my Yellow Tail with out the line moving, and I think the crabs got the live Tailor I had out, no sign of Mr shark yet

TT ( karl )

when up to hillary north wall at the disable platform this evening from between 4pm till about 8pm

out of 4hrs of fishing with frozen mulles, only did manage two run with no hookup.

both runs return with missing head and cut up mulles.

not too sure what hit the bait but was kind of sure that it was my mistake of using a 8/0 circle hook.

should have bought along some smaller hooks. but again, on the light line, using sand worms. nothing

much was caught other then the normal blowies. no whithings, no herring, no gar but manage to land myself

a 26cm skippy which quickly when back as live bait. by the end of the day, the skippy returned with its tummy all

chewed away. must be a great work of them blowies.

just waiting for this coming sat night where the boys will be meeting up at the south side of narrows for a fish. hope

at least someone will hookup to decent size mulloway that night. if you r around the area that night, do pop by to

say hi. see u guys there.

Fished just behind GI & 5 fath on saturday with a mate, about 25-30m. Was a slow start to the day picking up the usual wrase and skippy when the call was made to try a couple more spots to get stuck into some real fish! However on the way to the other spots we discovered a new lump which looked nicely populated with big red blobs, we did several drifts the first picking up a double header dhuie, both which were just size. We decided to throw them back and see if we could get something better. The next drift my mate picked up a red snapper (swallow tail? looked a bit large of a swallowtail) anyway i picked up a nice black arse, next drift i got a nice dhuie 5-6kg, another drift i picked up another dhuie about 4kg, then the spot went dead. We spent the next few hours trying different ground but with no luck, so the call was to stay 10 more mins then head in, so 5 mins had past and i stoped fishing and cracked the first beer when my mate hooked into what i thought was a shark or stingray doing a typical run. After about 5 mins of overusing "stingray boy" my mate pulled up a nice dhuie 98cm and aprox 15kg. Ended up being a great day on the water.

Cheers,

Pete

ACTUAL AUSTRALIAN COURT DOCKET 12659---CASE OF THE PREGNANT LADY 

A lady about 8 months pregnant got on a bus. She noticed the man opposite her was smiling at her.  She immediately moved to another seat. This time the smile turned into a grin, so she moved again.  The man seemed more amused.  When on the fourth move, the man burst out laughing, she complained to the driver and he had the man arrested.

The case came up in court.

The judge asked the man (about 20 years old) what he had to say for himself.

The man replied, 'Well your Honor, it was like this, when the lady got on the bus, I couldn't help but notice her condition.  She sat down under a sign that said, 'The Double Mint Twins are coming' and I grinned.  Then she moved and sat under a sign that said, ' Logan's Liniment will reduce the swelling,' and I had to smile. Then she placed herself under a deodorant sign that said, 'William's Big Stick Did the Trick,' and I could hardly contain myself.  But, Your Honor, when She moved the fourth time and sat under a sign that said, 'Goodyear Rubber could have prevented this Accident'... I just lost it.'

'CASE DISMISSED!!'

Wnt out off 2rocks with bodie and we got a few nice fish.

This was one of them..

very nice eating fish....

Been a while since we had managed to get out for some bottom dwellers, so took a mate from work and Tailor marc out for a run.

Couple we got from two rocks on Sunday. awesome conditions.
huge amounts of black bums about at the moment!!

Good day on the water.

Had a great morning hitting the tailor on some inshore reefs.  3hrs fishing produced about 30 fish.

First cast of the day, my mate landed a 54cm beauty!  Last cast of the day my other mate landed a 72cm monster!!  both released!  That second one is the biggest tailor I've ever seen!  I took a pic, but my camera is playing up, and won't load to my computer.  I'll add it here if I can get it to work.

Most of the other fish averaged about 40cm.

We were all a bit surprised bc it was flat, no swell, and low tide.  The fish were very tentative bc of the conditions, very light strikes, hitting mostly unweighted ganged mulies in green water.  Except for the big fella.  He at a metal slice just cms under the surface, it looked like someone dropped a compact car in the water!!!

 beautiful morning....and a beautiful meal tonight!  Now if we could only learn to be so successful with bottom bashing!  Hope y'all had a great day.

went for all nighter down at hilarys last night with james(flangies) and liam(SOI).

managed 2 stingys, 1 big preggo wobby, lil banjo, a little port jackson or two, a nice shark which im not 100% of the type but yeah hes dinner.

lots of bite and bust offs and a 30min fight which resulted in a bust off

 a few herring(which are abundant from about 8 til 11 or 12.....so if ur after a bag of herring hillarys definitely worth a try

 and 2 or 3 squid....quite alot around aswell but most quite small

sorry about blood on the shark

take note of liams face as he holds the wobby thats pregnant haha

i wanted to go 4 a flathead fish could som1 tell me were the best place is and best lures 2 use

Just got back from gero/greenough with callum thought I might let everyone know how we went.

We arrived in greenough abit dazed as to where we were ment to be fishing but after getting some local knowledge and tackle restocking we were on our way and had this done just in time for a 3 hour fish on sundown. Managed afew tailor and a couple wobbys but nothing special but in greenough a bad day of tailor is a good day in perth.

Next day we went for an all nighter down at the fishermans wharf at gero harbour and caught tons of snook, herring, whiting, yakkas, baby mullas and more. Even buffys that took mulies with a strange aggression haha

Got our 1st run early at about 10 which we think was a mulla but it dropped the hooks on us. After this run we got a few more but got bitten off, busted off pulled hooks...you name it.

at about 2.30am we got a nice run and callum managed to bring in a 1.2m hammerhead.

had shark burgers the next night along with a cray given to us by a random which was delicious

Night after that (Sunday) we headed down to the rcoks at greenough again and saw baitfish getting smashed by tailor.

We used mulies under floats and was certainly awesome to watch as you knew when a fish was about to take your bait because baitfish started going spaz around your float.

Once we ran out of mulies we used some tailor fillets and they worked a treat along with the odd snook whose abundance became a nuisance.

Then on monday we went for another all nighter to try get that ellusive mulloway.

No luck on the mulloway front but managed another hammerhead and a PJ shark.

We also got smoked by a couple rays.

In mid arvo we were getting into a heap of chopper tailor on the bream gear which was abit of fun on 4lb.

Was a shame to see no mulla's but was good to try somewhere new

Just a quick thanks to the lads who gave me advice on 4WDing the area, they gave me some great tips to ensure that the 4WD component was trouble free - and it was.

Fishing wasn't too good, we were about 5kms south of the whitehills beach entrance, fishing a sandy bottom. The water was pretty rough, the wind was a strong southerly and our bait was drifting unbelievably quickly, even with size 4 star sinkers attached. Our aim was to fish for whiting/herring, then switch to tailor/mulloway rigs on sundown.

Unfortunately nothing came about on the tailor front, but managed about 7 whiting. Will definitely go there again.

Was just wondering what your advice is for fishing for tailor in these rough condidions? I was usinf a free-running size 3 spoon sinker which stops at a swivel, then attached to that a leader of about 40cm with gangs and a mulie.

Have a great Australia Day guys

Mike

Went for a pond fish yesterday in the 37degree heat, and my mate caught his first pond barra for 2009.

They are still sleepy and just seem to be waking up now there has finally been a few stinking hot days.

If you don't catch any, they sell plenty of cheap seafood at wholesale prices, and check out their live tanks full of crays & barra.

Just a quick heads up for any tuna chaser's near ocean reef, whilst pulling the pots on saturday 8.30ish we noticed a fairly large school of tuna busting the surface inside the three mile. Good luck to anyone going to have a crack at them

gidday all recent trips catch off rocko and hillarys in 40 m ,sorry just got pic thing sorted lol

Hi all

Just had a text from my brother in Albany saying he's catching heaps, He's landed bucket loads of large herring and 8 Flat Head so far, biggest reaching 50cm. Flat Head are taking chucks of Herring for Bait.

He's off there again tonight, I'll see if he can send me some good images

TT ( karl )

Spent a lovelly few hours catching up with Vince (Uncutrigger) and his lovelly Wife Wendy this afternoon, where a few beers where forced down Vince and I's throat by our wives, despite our prodestations . Followed by a very civilised cheese, meat and condiment platter. Yum!

Vince, Sandra and I are heading out tomorrow morning. Hopefully, conditions will be right to head out WIDE and hook into some decent Pinkies and even that ellusive Southern Ocean Dhui! . I've been given some serious intel .

Conditions are forcast as good - here's hoping!

Watch this space for a report

With the marron season upon us again i took off in search of these little devils which i enjoy. I rang up Scott (FW-Soupster) and said lets get some tasty marron as the season is short and with very little arm twisting we were off. The opening coincided with the full moon so i gave that a miss this year and thought we'd hit up the mid week new moon time period. So off we went, Harvey weir was the destination and snaring the game. I enjoy the snare and its not that hard once you get the nack!

The esky was full of piss and as the darkness fell the marron filled the empty esky  

Ended up with our bag limit, a tasty feed for sure and was delish tonight cooked up on the BBQ.....going back soon!!!

Was a great nite Soupy, cheers mate!

With the warm weather over the last few weeks i thought i'd get out for a few hours yesterday to get some big blues. I've been doing well in many different spots in the Swan and there's no doubt the Swan blue manners are big, full of meat and right on our door steps for many!

Nick (FW member) came out for the late morning gentlemans hours sesh and for those 3 hours our effort was our limit of blueys. The wind did pick up after lunch so that was it and on my last string we had to throw back big crabs!

The crabs have been wide spreed with myself favouring the shallows this trip and doing well. Spleen & mullet combination in my drop nets did the trick and i had a feed last night with the meat being sweet and the body chockers with meat!

Here's a few picks;

Our limit; 

All crabs were males and no need to measure. The smallest went approx 135mm and most were 140mm to 178mm!

Some of the blues!

Good to catch up again Nick, I had a great day!

Went to my local tonight took my fishing gear and kids,

We decide to head more up towards Long Point tonight arriving at the beach around 6:30, so we looked for a spot along the beach that had no sea weed at all, we found a likely spot which was around 200 meters either side was just clear blue and you could see the sandy ground with no weed, we set up and started fishing and I was hoping to land Sand Whiting it's been some time since I've caught Sand Whiting at Port Kennedy, time went by and all we were getting were the Western Australian Butter Fish. We bag out on them, lost count after a while.

Always fun on very light line's, sunset came and a few more people arrived and still NO Tailor in site, wasn't till around 8:40 that the Tailor were on the bite. landed my first one which was size, saved that one for the live setup rig I had for the night, after that was casted out we landed another 8 Tailor all being under size.

We kept fishing with no more luck for the night, by 9:30 the kids were getting into the Herring, even I was catching them, they were taking pieces of mulie with a burley rig setup, between me and the kids we bagged 19 Herring and 3 yellow Tail and they were still biting when we left and that was around 11pm.

Came home with 19 Herring, 3 Yellow Tail and NO Tailor and NO Sand Whiting

All in ALL we had a blast wasn't too cold and the ocean was calm

TT ( karl )

Threw a few prawns around the raffles. Spent a bit of time on the little jetty down there but no luck. Few people looking for crabs but don't think they had any luck either.

Was chasing flatties so crossed over the bridge and hit the flats on the other side, had a few bit which felt like flatties but nothing that stuck.

Bloodworms seemed to get a bit of interest. Was fishing just on dusk till about 10:00. Real keen on getting some flatties this summer. Any advice??

first time ive managed to get out wide for a while so had a bit of fun landed 7 fish sizes were pretty good got sum up to 25 - 30 kilo lost about 10 not sure what was going on.  were very hard to locate on sounder and had to move arround alot. then cam in close and got a few kings whch was good. then had motor problems so had to gun it home.

Hey all

Got into a few last night, things started off real slow, sun set came and no show for the humble Tailor, night fall arrived and we were on with a 30 minute session of big bites, after that we went home with fish, landed 8 Tailor and we kept 3, 3 Herring, 1 Yellow Tail and even the Trumpeters were in action LOL I hate them LOL

Bugger all people there as well, which is what I like while fishing, conditions were windly with alittle chop on the water and mulies where the go , didn't seem to like the gardie fillets I had out.

TT ( karl )

I've been targeting Sand Whiting on soft plastics a lot lately, and starting to get some excellent results. Today i took my niece and dog down to the beach for a swim, took my rod, and landed a PD sandy first cast. This beast went 35cm, and is the biggest, Sand Whiting i've ever seen. I've caught a Yellowfin bigger, but this thing looked like a Bonefish in the water. Sure put up a great fight on the 4lb braid!







I went on to catch 9 in total, and there wasn't a single one under 30cm, ripper whiting!







Great fish!

Went out chasing billfish this morning in less than perfect conditions, with 5-8 knots forecast it was more like 15-18 south - south west and rather uncomfortable slop.  We were hoping to go deep but the conditions just didn't allow it so we sat in close and hunted around, we were fishing with two tiagra 80's with 37kg and a 50 with 24kg and were looking for some of the monsters that had been reported over the last week.  We managed to pick up a few dolphinfish which hardly even took line and were released.  Shortly after we found a couple of fiesty marlin that the hooks just wouldn't stay in.  One fish would have gone 12-15kg and the second one going 60kg'ish, which looked like a  baby blue, went nuts tail walking over the surface giving us not much chance to get line back. 

It didn't take long for the next fish to come up and chew on the lures, finally this one stayed connected and I got my first sailfish for the season, a nice 25kg fish.  Whilst it didn't take much line on 37kg, still did a few nice jumps and gave a show of itself.  (I will get the capture pics soon and post them up)  After that we raised and hooked another 2 marlin but just couldn't get the hooks to stick, one was an estimated 40kg and the other was sight unseen, but what seemed like a solid fish.  On the cruise in we picked up another dolly and dropped an octojig down in 40m to have it smashed almost instantaneously, but, as seemed to happen today - the hook pulled just under the boat and there was another story of the one that got away.

All in all is was quite a good day, if the hooks had stuck it would have been magic, but still not bad all the same.  Gribbo also managed to get a nice sailfish and marlin and met us back at the ramp at 2, lots of little rat billfish out there, just couldn't get wide enough for the monsters. :(  Sorry if the reports a little all over the shop, was bloody hot out there and am cactus as.  Couple of photo's to come soon.

I popped down to the Narrows last night to catch with Original Teenager and Flangies to present their prizes for the junior landbased competition (unfortunately Flangies' flight back from Tassie was held up and he didn't make it). A few of the other young Fishwrecked members were down there (Son of Irish and fishorueb), along with Chan and his lady. I also ran into kaitan who was with a big group of his mates.
The youngsters were planning an allnighter to try and catch a big mulloway and they were well set-up when I arrived.
Unfortunately the blowies were swarming and really didn't give anything else a chance to grab the baits - though the guys did manage a couple of nice blue mannas.
I left about 11 pm so I don't know how that finished up - I dare say they are still sleeping it off.
Great to catch up with you all and good on you all for being such keen anglers - I hope the fish ended up playing along.

All the best, Colin Hay

Hey all just joined up to the site i have been reading the reports for a while now and id thought id post my latest trip.Went to the beach just north of Hillary's last night.Got there just as the sun went down and left about 1am.Had a few decent bites and ended up getting a fairly big shovelnose.when i got home it measured 5 foot seven and sure put up a decent fight.The people fishing a bit down from us got a few tailor and stingrays.

gidday all took a mates boat out on friday off hillaries for a look bit windy and choppy in close but once u got out a bit it just turned magic all day wee bagged on dhues and baldies just before lunch spent the rest of the day picking up, kg ,red throatsand and trying not to cath any more dhu or baldie released heaps of size dhues they went back ok top day came in flat out too good quick flat trip back