Hi all, hope you had a great Christmas.

Went for a quick fish in Port Kennedy last Thursday evening, was hanging out for a fish after spending 2 weeks in Thailand for a mate's wedding.

Arrived at the beach just after 7pm, still plenty of light and we were just casting some weighted bloodworm. Plenty of nibbles and bites...plenty of these little fish.


There were also heaps of really small school whiting around. Loving the bloodworm. People next to us were getting a few blowies, but we weren't. Must have been the bloodworm.


As the sun was beginning to set, we changed to baitcasting mulies. Ended up with a few tailor, but as people have been saying lately on these forums, the window of opportunity is like 15 minutes.

First one, measured 35cm.


Second, measured 33cm.


My mate kept one of the small butteries for live bait, ended up getting mashed by something, probably a tailor. Ended up landing a couple more undersize tailor within that 15 minute timeframe, then everything went dead quiet.

About 9:30 hooked a small Tarwhine on a bit of mulie, and that was about it for the night.


Ended up with the 2 tailor to take home. Still waiting for the decent runs to start!

went down this mornin to hillarys bout 7ish till bout 1ish
only caught a medium size squid and heaps of blowies
saw a guy catch a tailor
a few squid around, a ray or 2 but thats about all

Just read the fishing report in the local rag. Apparently still quite a few blackies still about, but they're reported to be smaller.

On the subject of mulla's - apparently there's been quite a few caught in the rivers close to town. The local forum has seen a few postes over the last few months of some good sizes caught. Couple of the youngsters did very well on SBs and HBs.

As I've mentioned on a few occasions, weather for boating out wide has not been flash, but those that have been lucky enough have been fishing at around 75m with the usual reports of Blue Morwhong, Reds and Pinks, and the sambos have apparently started to make a show.

Spent a very enjoyable 24 hours on a wheatbelt dam with Maverick and Stevo this weekend.

It was hard graft during the day but as soon as the moon hit the water the place went off. Plenty of murray cod with a few yellowbelly perch thrown in for good measure. We all caught our first ever yellowbelly (new species) and I was lucky enough to score a PB Murray Cod.

All fish were carefully released with barbless hooks being the order of the day.

Landing PB Murray Cod. Got a chewed up thumb for good measure.


PB Close Up


John

so how did everyone do,my crew did not do too well went out and fished 90 mtrs,caught 2 blackass,2 nannygai,1 queenie,and a hammerhead that was released,i saw a few fishwrecked shirts in the crowd so i hope you s did better than us.
cheers ray ps caught a nice sized flounder, cookin it now

So is anyone getting any crays Pots or Diving? Going diving tommoro see whats out there.

Just got off the phone to LONGTOM (fishwrecked member) Who did a night trip up to lucky bay last night. 3 hours of fishing for 5 mulloway at 1metre and above between a few of them. He said they left them biting! They are heading out 2night again for some more fun. Pictures will be posted on his return. he sent me some pics ver mobile and let me tell you they are thumpers! looks like a trip is in order :)

Got this from another site, but thought the fishwrecked crew might be interested!

October 25th:
South Mole

"The Tailor are back in full swing... Started on the bite just after sunset and went for around 40 minutes.. The first run was only small choppers 30cm and under.. Landed about 10, kept 3.. A second run though happened around 8.30pm though with bigger fish.. Ended with 13 in the bucket between 3 of us.. Best was 37cm, average round 33cm.."

Cheers,
Adam

In the interests of saving a few sambos!

All I can say is dont bother going to the hillarys aggs - they are completely shark infested. It is an exercise in killing big spawning fish there at the moment. And probably will be all season I'd imagine.

Stick to Rotto.

Talking to some mates last night who have been out near the shelf of late and they said theres good sighns of yellow fin tuna out there ATM. Most are aorund the 10 to 15kg range but some thumpers of around 50kg+ have been spotted amoungst them!. Medium pushers and laser pro 190dd's have taken most fish at this stage but they head deep after a while so cubing might be the go. Just interesting i thought. Cheers Chris.

Well, the weather is well and truly starting to warm up and we've had a few days recently where the south easterlies haven't blown and the conditions have been quite fishy.

Over the past two weeks I've had some mates up from Perth that have done quite well. During the week they spent 6 hours fishing over 2 days and had 7 marlin raised and 3 of those landed. I think there was a sailfish that hit but didn't hookup in there too. Of those 3 landed, 1 was 75kg, 1 was 50kg and 1 was 25kg and were all black marlin which were successfully released. Hearing that news, Ant from Bluewater went out the next day and landed a black marlin of 120kg (easily!) out from Tantabiddi. We headed out the day after that in rather rough conditions and managed to get a 13kg wahoo after 20 minutes of trolling. There are some really good warm eddies starting to show up and an eye on the sounder for water temperature is a good idea.

The gulf has had the occasional spanish mackerel show up but not in any real numbers unfortunately. There are lots of school and shark mackerel in close that will take almost anything thrown at them, just remember wire's a necessity or its back to the tackle store! The water visibility has been sensational when the wind hasn't been blowing for a day and has allowed for some good free diving, especially on the neap tides.

The bottom fish has been a mixed bag with some anglers lucking out and a few missing out. The new moon saw the fishing fire up and with the lead up to the new moon it should get even better. If you are up here and manage to get into some fish, take note of the belly size as a lot of fish are reaching spawning maturity, especially Spangled Emperor. If you are up in Exmouth or planning to come up, please contact me so I can provide you with information that will assist fisheries research in determining spawning patterns.

There have been some good bonefish caught down in the National Park lately for the flyfishers and some nice sized golden trevally as well. The gulf side is still firing for good sized yellowfin whiting, which come up beautifully lightly pan fried in butter.

Cheers,
Adam

October 4th & 11th Kids Whiting Comp

Our major sponsor this year

Every October School Holidays, the Kalbarri Offshore and Angling Club, hosts a whiting competition for kids on each Thursday of the holidays. It has grown to become a highlight for regular visitors and continues to grow in size each year. With thanks to our major sponsor this year, Australian National Sportsfishing Association, we were able to give out some great prizes. We had 170 excited kids signing up the first Thursday, all ready to fish the beach from the Chinamans to the first jetty.

The crowd at the weigh-in

Some of the 170 kids and parents on the beach

Rules of the comp allow any fish to be caught, kept in a bucket and brought to the weigh-in live, weighed and then released.

The Volunteer Sea Search and Rescue, Kalbarri Police, Ashley Van Viersen Lui Palamara and Nic Bramwell loaned their 4WD bikes and gave kids a lift to the weigh station saving them the long walk over the sand.

There were 16 prizes each day including 12 rods and reels each day for species, smallest, biggest, most, most unusual etc. Two sections were competed for, under 8s and 9 to 14 years. The quality and diversity of the species caught showed that the river is in good condition. A lot of whiting came to the weigh station on the first Thursday with Angus Coull in the under 8’s catching the biggest. Veronica Zurzolo caught the most bream. In the 9-14 age group Lizzie Hine had the biggest whiting, a 252 gram specimen and a meritorious 352g flounder, while Nick Moritz caught the most bream. Most unusual went to Dillon Conroy for his angelfish.

Each day we finished off with a lunchtime sausage sizzle and prize giving. A big thank you to John Stewart, son Martin, Rylee Eley and Beryl Tolson for doing the sausage sizzle. Kalbarri Surf Shop, Kalbarri Sports and Dive, Rainbow Jungle, The Seahorse Sanctuary, Marina Home & Leisure, Kalbarri Natural Spring Water, The Kalbarri Pharmacy, The Gorges Café, Kalbarri Café, Kalbarri Pizza & Pasta and Kalbarri Boat Hire all donated prizes.

The second Thursday saw another 171 kids line up along the beach waiting for the 9am start. Within minutes the blowies began to arrive, but sprinkled amongst them were good fish such as a 322-gram flounder by Peter Vamelueni, and a surprise 3.3kg nor west blowie that took out the meritorious category, caught by Liam Cavanaugh. 3 year old Lydia Tranenen landed a small estuary cod for the most unusual and Ben Smedley caught the most bream. Desiree Louis won a rod & Reel for her biggest blowie in the 9 and over section.

About 850 fish were caught over the two days in four hours! Species recorded were as follows: blowies, (lots of) whiting, black bream, silver bream, gobbleguts, crabs, estuary cod, trumpeter, flounder, angelfish, wrasse, zebra fish, nor west blowie, buffalo bream, flathead and a sardine type fish, a total of 16 species. Of note, missing this year were yellow-eyed mullet, tailor and mulloway that made up the 10 species last year.

A big thanks to all the helpers and sponsors on the day, without your help this great event for the kids could not happen.

Laurie Malton

hey guys and gals ,
went down to south beach today with loco and a mate to do some beach fishing.. started of  with some poppers but moved on as the wind was really acting up... swithced to mullies fished for about an hour without action... then finally bites on our lines... a couple here and there but no hook ups.. managed to bring in one decent sized flathead which was good. It was released safely to grow into a giant lizard.. had more bites with chuncks removed form the mullies but no hook ups ...was an alright outing broke my fishing drought so it was good..the location was the beach that the dogs swim at down by  freo south beach..

Just wonderimg if anyones doimg any good for mullas around the narrows latley? Thinking of heading down for some soft plastic action, well try to get my first mulla on one anyway!lol. Sometime at night over the weekend is the plan jan so any reports?

Headed out wide with Tim yesterday for a fab day on the water. Was a bit quiet fishwise, they were all home but not very hungry until later in the day. Couple of good bustoffs, Honsu donating jigs to the sea Gods, we ended up with a few good fish for the day.

I would just like to say a big thank you to Tim & Honsu for being such gentlemen. They both were so kind and thoughtfull. as to keep all the Sambos occupied with their extreme jigging action, so I could slip a bait past the pesky critters, to the front door of Mr Dhuie.  

We did see something interesting on the way out tho, Looked definately like a long string of commercial cray pot floats. Is this not a bit early??

Thanks again Tim, for another great day out.

was at hillaries on monday fishing various spots on the south wall; caught nothing but hooked up to a monster skippy of about 1.5kgs off the disabled platform. There was massive amounts of bream caught off the point at the lighthouse and the occaisonal skippy, herring and whiting.

i was fishing at e shed 2 day.....caught a bucket full of yellowtails...as usual....and ntg decent....heaps of bream around the harbour....biggest for me turn out to be 36cm....but bigger 1's are being caught by the peoples there...and also a couple of flounders being caught there.....bait r prawns....4 those who wanna knoe.....

I'm going to let Kasey tell you what happened. Just let me say, perhaps the greatest capture from my boat in 6 years.

Lots of photos and even better, some killer video footage. Kasey is one very happy camper!!!!!

Cheers
Andy Mac

went for a bream bash down the river today was planning to meet rickets there but he diddnt reply so o well i thought bugger ya ill go anyways, so me and the old boy (sherbert) headed down to arrive about 12:00 sherbs with the bait and me flickin plackys i had a couple of solid hit but that was it and sherbs had two 20cm bream and the wind was shockin, straight in our face.





cheers andyrew

Yesterday produced one of the best days I've seen in Exmouth yet. After finishing tidying up our old place we decided a day out on the water was required to chill out and I'd promised Jay that she'd see some whales. Anyway, 5 minutes after leaving the marina we found our first pod. Next thing we know they were swimming under the boat, slapping tails, jumping, singing - the whole works.

After hanging with them for a good 20 minutes it was time to get the lines wet. With a spread of 4 skirts out we were hoping for a lost sailfish to jump on and provide some entertainment, which wasn't forth coming. After a good hour and a half of trolling we gave up and thought we'd try something else.

Seeing as we didn't have any bait I thought we'd try some soft plastics. After the first 7 charlie courts I thought I'd put a strip on some gangs and see if we couldn't float it past a coral trout. No more than 5 minutes later the line started peeling and a spinner shark of 7 foot launches 5 meters from the boat scaring the living beejeebus out of us and busting off on re-entry. We decided to give up on the bait option and stuck with the plastics in 20m of water. Finally we got through the charlie courts and got into something a bit more solid. First fish was a 40cm Bluelined Emperor, second fish a 47cm Spangled Emperor, then an identical spangled came up 10 minutes later. After a couple of heavy bustoffs (we were fishing with 3kg mono) we landed a 57cm Spanglie that took a good 10 minutes to get up and peeled line like there was no tomorrow. We were fishing in 22m of water with only a light lead head jig which worked a treat. We also threw back a dozen more charlies and a heap of variagated emperor and small blue lines. After a hot two hour session we threw out a spread of divers on the way back in with little interest.

All up we saw nearly 50 whales, had a hammerhead hit the side of the boat on the way back in at 25 knots, sea snakes everywhere, dolphins, tuna schools every 500m, a nice swag of fish onboard, some cold beers for the ride back in and absolute glass conditions for the whole time we were out there. Yes, yes it was good day. :)) Unfortunately the camera batteries died after the first bluelined so we didn't get any of the spangleds, which was the only downer of the day.