Headed up to Kalbarri for a couple days with Callum on a boys trip. Conditions weren't too bad but different to what was forecast with the swell staying up resulting in weed being a major nuisance.

Fishing was slow and we delayed coming home by a day, allowing for a last ditch trip up the coast with Tangles (a big thanks to him for everything) in hope of a big mulloway. I managed a small one before first light and then a nice shovel which put me through my paces. Callum dropped a good fish which would without doubt have been mulloway of the trip with only a few schoolies hitting the beach.

The tailor were on the chew with Callum and I landing 5 between us (4 on lures) over the few days with the biggest going to Cal at a cool 78cm (20mm short of the mark that's been haunting him for a while) and the smallest coming in around 65cm. A bigeye trevally was a first for me on spin, not such a common catch that far down the coast apparently.

A great trip with plenty of laughs, you'll land that Spaniard you lost at Red Bluff next time Cal!

Hutch

It's nice to cook not under the pressure of the mkr and following someone else's recipe. Defiantly appreciate it a lot more when you've caught it yourself

Hi all 

well after a horror run to steep last year seeing me have 5 days stuck in Geraldton while my cruiser was repaired and missing most of the trip.

having to call a big favour from my brother to extract my gear and another bloke and gear, cost of fixing cruiser and stay in gero around $5000.

I returned again this year with some anticipation .

stayed for 8 nights and while the wind was blowing we caught some great fish .

we fished a little heavier gear this year (usually 20 and 30 lb) due to losses to sharks and reef on previous trips.

I was using a Terez/Saratoga 10000 combo with 50lb braid and still lost some battles.

anyway here's some pics.

Hit it early Saturday and it was on from the first drift. All my spots were producing dhus around 8-10kg and we couldnt find anything else besides an undersize black arse, a tuna and couple of squid on the metal jigs so gave up around lunchtime. One mark in 24m had a school on it and resulted in a triple hookup as soon as we hit the bottom. Max depth of 32m and all fish were brought up slowly and released well.

Epic conditions out there

Couple of nice pinks Saturday morning out of Bunno in the 40's. Best conditions I've been out in for a fair while.

Ladies King George, Plus More!

Inaugural MAAC ladies completion yesterday.  All the girls that fished did well.

I was skipper and deckie for Jill and Sarah and we had a nice day on nearshore and inshore waters out of Hillarys. 

14 King George over 0.6kg and we left them biting to chase others – the biggest KG was 0.87kg.

The Harley was 2.1kg and the tailor 1.75kg.  Nice work Sarah, and good for a junior to win the best bag of the day.

Nothing better than fishing with family, in good conditions.

 coast harliquin. Caught down around the cape and Albany before and an awesome chew this one i couldn't bring myself to keep as I don't see many around , they are a stunning fish , and taste great so best it gets breeding. Nice day out off the mindge with truckloads of skippy caught inside the 3 mile and the harli, out the back we hit a sand patch and retrieved a 51 cm flatty. Blackarse , schoolie, and squid came over on the ground to follow. Great mixed bag morning with superb conditions. 

Yesterday good mate Rhyss from Furuno rang me and said we’re going fishing Ryan (chasing pinkys) so knock off work and come for a fish!

We headed outside the banned area and started searching. We searched some of Rhyss’s spots and some of my spots and things were quiet!

We could of anchored and did “chuck & chance“ but I said to the guys I reckon we keep on persevering and we will find fish …. hopefully!

After a lot of driving around we went over a spot and the Furuno sounder lite up and I said to Rhyss “yep pinkys” and within seconds the anchor was dropped and baits in!

All of us were looking at each other thinking okay why aren’t the rods loading up? within minutes all the rods started to load up periodically and what happen next was a hectic bite session that was all over quickly with us bagging out (8 fish)!

The fish were good size with a few big ones and geez they fought hard. We got one tagged fish that I will hand in the details soon to Fisheries Research!

Awesome session indeed, cheers Rhyss for the invite and great company with Chris & Dave also ... cheers fella's 

MAAC Comp on Sunday and we fished inshore and nearshore out of Hillarys in my small boat.  A pleasure to go out with Sarah and Birdy.

We had a nice day and got some quality eating fish (the KG, Dhu, and Breaksea fillets have already been consumed).  Perth local waters hold a lot of fish, and you don’t have to go far to get them.

At one stage, we found a patch of large KGs and landed 5 over the bite time.  Sarah 3, Birdy 2 and me, SFA. 

They were Sarah’s first KGs and I am still copping the good natured sledging, which is awesome.

Couldn't get away from the dhus today. Had pulled a 7kg and a 17kg out of 21m by 9am. Big one was just under a meter. Had a ball catching and releasing several 600-700mm models in under 10m of water on the way home. All caught on jigs and placcys

 Lost a few big ones last night but managed a few 

 First cast bang 70 cm barra on the livie fought it then moved it to the rocks and then quickly climb down than pounced on the barra. I grab it in between the eyes that doesn't work so I grabbed the leader which gave way a wave comes pushes the barra into a hole I quickly grab it and it slides through my hands through the hole and out the otherside back into the ocean. Meanwhile I slip fall into the hole all cut up and bruised and the score is barra 1 josh 0 but I was never going to give up that quickly so kept my head high and got some more livies and kept persisting took another 2.5 hours but I got there in the end. Landed a 72cm 70cm and 60. Kept 2 and hooked a few more. Things I've learnt high tide is good, receding tide is better. 

Bloody stoked as it's my first legal barras on line. 

Good mate Frank and myself went for a pinky fish last night outside of the Sound/Ban area!

We went to several of Franks spots and mine and the night wasn’t looking promising!

I said to Frank we’ll check this spot out as my last spot before it was sunset and always the way … found fish!

Took Dad out off Bunno for some pinks last night.

Ended up with 3 58, 75 and 77 cm and 2 tuna.

Also tested the arms on a 5000 biomaster with this 25Kg plus sambo.

The Tuna were crazy as they were busting up in the middle off about 4 brozies feeding at the surface!

 First afternoon in the mid west, rained all the way up and raining hard now. The old man got his first dhu on plastics in ten metres than out to 35 m for  a good fish on bait. Always good to get a couple on the boat given the crazy weather today. Weekend looking good for few more than off to the Leeman sporting club for a beer.

 Done a solo run today. Went out to the 40's and got smoked. Hopefully just a Sambo. A few squalls came through. So decided to play it safe, came into a lump in around 32 metres and got a Queenie on a jig, a 1st for me on the jig. Also got an undersized Dhu and Sambo, then moved in closer to the Whiting patch and pulled a few nice ones and a few bait sized ones. Enjoyable morning on the water.

Bluewater Tackle World
Friday 22nd of September 2017
  
A recent full moon, late morning high tides and the sudden return of wintery conditions have been very favourable for the land based snapper fishermen. Quinns Beach, Club Capricorn, and parts of the Mindarie Marina rock wall have been regularly producing pink snapper to 5kg in the North. South, the Moles and Woodman’s Point have still been producing and some fish that have been very large.



Customer Andrew with a very respectable landbase fish. Good work mate.

Plenty of boaties were lucky enough to have been able to take advantage of the epic weather last Monday. Stores had stories of demersal bag outs with dhuies, baldies, and pink snapper making numerous appearances. A trip up to Jurien Bay is worthwhile for those chasing some fun and fillets as most boats have been catching their bag limits of dhufish in no time. The fish haven’t been huge with the average size around 6-8kg but the number of fish out there is outstanding. It would seem that the future is looking bright for dhufish as reports of releasing under sized dhufish to catch another day keep flooding in.


Joondalup customer Travis with a 97cm pinkie..........horse!

The Cockburn Sound is holding large schools of huge snapper and will be holding even more so after this blow. Finding the schools can take a bit of time and some days they have been quite shut down. If the snapper aren’t touching soft plastics or even fresh squid then try reducing your leader size to 20lb with a cube of mulie on a single 4/0 hook drifted down you burley trail. Do not forget however, that the closure in The Sound starts on the 1st October.

Staff member Pete has found squid to be pretty small from his land based haunts but the numbers have been there. This can change very quickly though and some very big ‘hoods’ might be in closer to shore after this weather. The Sound remains full with some kayakers and boaties getting there limit in 30 minutes. Further north plenty of squid can be found around the south cardinal marker off Scarborough. Just after sunset has been the most productive time with multiple squid following the squid jig right up to the side of the boat. Also on the cephalopod front, cuttlefish seem to be everywhere when dropping a bait/jig/plastic for demersals with plenty of anglers coming up tight on what feel like an enormous clump of seaweed, only to find one a massive one of these critters at the end of their line.


One of Pete's calamari from the last week.

For the shore based fishermen, the tip of the South Mole and Mindarie and Two Racks Marina’s have at times provided some light tackle fun on 40+cm skippy. Throwing in a handful of oil soaked pellets or cubes of mulies is a good way to keep the fish within casting distance.

There have been consistent reports of herring at the Grant Street Reef in Cottesloe with many anglers taking home a tasty feed of the little pocket rockets.  Tailor have been sporadic with early morning fishing being more productive than late arvo and fish to over 50cm have been taken. Some anglers have been having increased success with garfish baits which have consistently been in stock over the last few weeks.

Staff member Pete Berlinksi has been stoked with the arrival of Spring and some warmer weather, as he is an avid bream angler who loves chasing them on hard body lures;

'With the change of the season I've been prospecting the Canning for some black gold.
 
I've had little luck in trying to crack the minnow cranking code this time round, each year is different depending on environmental and weather patterns.
 
I was blanking badly and only getting a few timid hits here and there each outing. This in turn was starting to really test my patience and will.
 
My good buddy Han scored some fine gold nuggets the other night, making me question my own abilities.
 
Well persistence and a little 'inside information' resulted in myself sharing a bit of glory with a successful sunset wade.
 
A few plump rats caught and released, not worthy of pulling out the Canon dslr... then...a long cast with the wind towards the bank landed in shin deep shallows. A few muffled bumps through lightly weeded skinny stuff and hookup big time! Line peeled over and over as the unknown went even shallower as I followed in haste. With glimpses of a blue back protruding my thoughts of a soapie faded and I beached my bluenosed black gold.
 
Yeeeooow!'

 
Pete's very good bream on a Zipbait.

Bluewater Crew member Brad and Paul Worsteling get stuck into some quality fish right here in Perth and there are plenty of tips and tricks to learn. An episode not to be missed!

 

 Hey fellas

Moved to the NT from perth almost 2 years ago. Having a ball chasing Barra and blue water species. In darwin I've been planning a few trips with boys from Perth. So the most recent one I've been on is to wiligi outstation in west arnhemland, and we had a ball! Caught plenty of pelagics, with Spanish makeral of 10-12kg coming on board less than 1km from the ramp. Plenty of tins and great times. The NT does have some great fishing to offer in the blue if you can get the timing right, Barra are always unbelievable in the runoff and buildupx I would recomend a boys trip here when you can, you'll have a ball,  it is like WA without the rules. 

Anyways enjoy the vid and any questions let me know, cheers boys!

josh

After a few months with the new boat and limited use due to weather or other, took it up to Kalbarri for the yearly family trip. not solely a fishing trip but as long as we got a couple of days out i was going to be happy. spent alot of time on the site and google trying to find as much info on the river mouth, weather and inshore fishing as possible, also managed a day out of ocean reef and caught some herring which was vac sealed for bait so all was set.
Rolled in Saturday midday and had time to check out the town and speak to the local shop about the weather and advice.

sunday was looking good with low wind/swell untill lunch so we got up and at the ramp by sunrise, not keen to tackle the mouth in the dark. made it through without any trouble and we were met with some amazing scenery, sun coming up and fog over the cliffs as we head north towards the sand patch and sounded around, not long before finding a small lump in about 25 meters. tried drifting the first lump and between me and the brother inlaw landed a red scorpionfish, a charlie court and my PB flathead at 470mm. lost a bit of tackle to snags and got reefed once or twice. so we moved on  to look for another spot, the sounder was setup quite well on the boat and could pickup a lump while cruising up the 25m contour at 16knots quite easily. had a few drifts and picked up another charlie court and some more lost sinkers to snags. left my rod in the holder while cleaning up to head back when we saw it load up, ran back and set the hooks/drag, felt the rod load up and the fish just ran, emptied half the 20lb braid off my 3000fk stradic and was still going. was thumbing the spool to try and slow it untill i burnt my thumb, call out for the brother inlaw to start the boat and give chase. followed and fought this fish over a km  before seeing colour, each time it saw the boat it ran again. finally got it up and was pretty suprised to see about 5-6foot of shark, i think it was a bronzie, got some footage but not keen on bringing it aboard so once we had some good shots i tighted up the drag and snapped it off. funny thing was it was only a 2 hook snelled rig on 30lb trace, must been hooked perfectly.so some fish on board and experience on the boat so head home, on the way in found some more ground in the 15m area and marked it for next time.

the rest of the week was mostly too windy to boat but saw the sights, caught some decent bream off the dock jetty and thursday launched in the river and picked up some whiting off the sandbar on the other side, still good fun on the light gear.
was watching friday forcast all week and was looking good for another early morning fish before leaving to go home saturday morning. picked up more sinkers and advice again from the tackleshop, most importantly dont drift youll get snagged, ah well.

hit the water first thing friday just after sunrise and head north to the marks from sunday found one with a good showing and dropped anchor, threw out some burly and had kept some whiting heads for bait. not long before the Gf hooked up and reeled in a decent tarhwine at 340mm to start the morning and it was a fish every drop after that. by 9am we had bagged out, meanwhile we had whales breaching with 100ms of us (scared the crap out of us too) and pods of dolphins cruising about, was just a fantastic day of the water. Future wife is now a keen as fisherwoman after hooking a 700mm pinky (i had to pull it in for her haha) ended up with 3 decent pinkys from 560mm 2 spangled emps, a blackass and 5 tarwhine all around 350mm in the esky and head home, back at the ramp by 10ish cleaned and packed up to head home.

All in all a successful outing, ive read it on here before nothing beats sounding up unknown ground and pulling decent fish off it and i belive it. thanks for reading

Caught this ugly looking guy too, pulled hard and was close to the 700 mark, didnt know what it was so back it went and swam off strong. went mental and grunted/croaked while on the deck, looked it up once back and it looks like a fork tailed catfish. from what ive found they arent great eating but open to others input.

 Hi Guys

Went out with a mate Friday after work. Perfect conditions. Got to our spot burleyed up  and it was on.

Bagged out in less than an hour then it was just catch and release until the sun went down. Plenty of fish between 60 and 90cm. Great arvo with lots of fish and a couple of coldies.

Solo mission took a while but got there in the end, managed to lose 5 other possible fish. 760mm and 800mm just on sundown beween Garden and Carnac with the other mass of boats. 

It was during a recent flight back from one of our mine sites that I was seated next to Luke.  I met Luke about six years ago whilst living in Kalgoorlie and we have managed to maintain a casual friendship, mainly as we share a common passion – fishing.  Our 90-minute flight back to Perth was unsurprisingly absorbed by discussing fishing.  During our discussion Luke mentioned that he was keen to get offshore as most of his fishing to date was land based.  When I arrived home I checked WillyWeather and noticed that Saturday was going to be a good day to be out with light winds and a moderate swell.  I sent Luke a text inviting him to join me and soon received one back confirming his attendance.

We met at Woodman Point early the Saturday morning and as the first light was appearing on the horizon we were making our way across Cockburn Sound.  We stopped off between Garden and Carnac Island to try for early morning Snapper and to witness another spectacular WA sunrise.  After about an hour of no queries we made the decision to make our way towards Rottnest Island.  The water was relatively flat which allowed us to cover the remaining 25km in about 35 minutes.

Once at Rotto we surveyed the various bommies before we chose our drift line and with the wind gently pushing the Cruise Craft along, we did a couple of drifts over promising looking ground.  Luke managed an undersized Dhufish and also landed his PB Breaksea Cod in the process.  He also got smashed by a good fish which I put down to tackle failure.  After three drifts and witnessing a couple of whales surfacing between the boat and the island, we decided to drop the anchor and burley.   We had found a promising looking structure in about 20m where the Raymarine confirmed a couple of decent looking arches.

When I dropped the burley cage into the water, it came up almost horizontal behind the boat which meant that there was a heavy current pushing through.  This prompted us to upgrade our weightless traces to traces with large No 8 sized barrel sinkers in order to get the bait down into the zone where the fish were holding. This was completely against my grain as I normally try and fish as light as possible.   

It did not take Luke long to land his first ever Kingie and went on to catch three for the day – not bad going!   In the mean time I got smashed three times before deciding to bring out the “big gun” loaded with 50lb braid.  Once I had my bait down in the swim it was literally seconds and I was on.  This YTK was not going to get away this time.  When the fish eventually showed its number plate, it turned out to be a Snapper of about 70cm.  Now don’t get me wrong, I will be glad to catch Snapper any day of the week, but I wanted a YTK. With renewed determination a fresh bait was loaded and almost immediately - bang into another fish – this time with decent headshakes.  Was this to be my YTK?  Once again when the fish showed its colours it turned out to be another Snapper – this time around the 80cm mark.  Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers.

With the Snapper now in the swim, I tried to get Luke into a specimen, but after about 45 minutes we had to lift the pick to head back in.  The wind was starting to pick up, we had fish to clean and I had tickets to watch the Springboks play the Wallabies at the NIB Stadium.  I could easily have given up the tickets, but the missus would probably not be as forgiving.

A great result for a relatively short session.  Even though I did not bag my YTK, I really enjoyed seeing Luke have a great session.  It seems that I may have a new partner on the boat.

YouTube clip

https://youtu.be/kwT0Bgaitj4

Good customer Frank and his nephew Alan went out for an early morning pinkie bash. They headed out at 5am. Cruised out in between Garden Island and Carnac Island and quickly found a school of pinkies on the sounder.

They decided to drift on them as they seemed to be moving around a fair bit. Dropped the first bait in 10 meters of water, within seconds of the baits going in the water the rods bent over and it was on. Seconds later Franks line went slack as the tax man came calling.

Alan managed to get his pinkie on board, a nice 75cm model. They then went back around for another drift but had to go hunting as the fish had moved. 5 minutes later the baits went back in the water and another two were on the line. This time no tax man, hurray!! Another 80cm model along with an 87cm one. Back at the ramp at 8am.
Well done boys..

So feel free to stop by and ask the team at Oceanside any questions you need answers to.. (Open 7 days a week)

Had a cracking jigging session on the snapper this arvo out wide with Bodie and Ross. Conditions were brilliant, we used 120 g jigs and PE 1.5 and PE2 in deep water. 

It was Ross's first try of jigs, he got a nice red snapper on jig plus several small sambos, he is hooked!

Was a great arvo, it does not get much better in Metro and nice to give the light jigs a good workout.