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100KG Giant Siamese Carp !!! Awesome Fishing Thailand- BKKGUY

Submitted by bkkguy on Wed, 2017-06-14 14:46

 What a day !!! This day is one of those  luckiest day for any fisherman.


3 Giant Siamese Carps landed in Thailand in 1 single day- 1st 80KG then 2nd 100KG and last 50KG at the new BSR2.

Awesome fights and strong fish on a 10000 spinning reel.

I let our youtube video do the talking..  




Some of the highlights photos of the trip.

This is the trophy catch of the day by our SG client Dennis.- 100KG Monster Siamese Carp.






80KG Massive Siamese Carp.







 The 3rd Siamese Carp- Not small neither- 50KG







A baby carp- 15KG



Thanks for watching my youtube.

Hope you guys like my youtube.

Have a day !!!
 

Cockburn squid

Submitted by Troyboy on Tue, 2017-06-13 21:17

 Went for a little solo session down at the sound yesterday, after a quick dash to a known spot put one 3.5 white jig out behind the boat on a drift to bounce around and casted anouther 2.5 also in white and yellow up drift, got 7 in about 2 hours so not a crazy session but fairly happy as the family love them! They're out there, get into them!


Bluewater Metro Fishing Report 09/06/2017

Submitted by Bluewater on Fri, 2017-06-09 16:21

 

 

 
Bluewater Tackle World
Fishing Report Friday 9th June 2017

As we wait to see if metro waters will be affected by the enormous storm off South Africa it might be worth dusting off your land based snapper gear if you haven’t already. Anglers have already been getting into these fish for a few months now with some so large they look prehistoric. They truly are an epic land based target and things could just heat up even more in the coming week.

 A Mindarie customer with a huge landbased pinky 

The Narrows have been holding lots of bait that has been breaching the surface of late and creating lots of nervous water, which means the predators are there too. Good size tailor and even a salmon was taken there the past week. The thought of taming a mulloway, especially with the coming moon phase, will be crossing a lot of people’s minds. This would be a location worth considering, so would any other accessible locations further downstream right down to North Mole.
 
‘Big n chunky’ herring are readily available from shore so long as a bit of berley is involved in the hunt. Once scaled herring are relatively easy to fillet. If you need to rinse your fillets, do not use fresh water. Collect some saltwater from where you caught them, make an ice slurry, and use that instead. Dry the fillets on some paper towels and fry skin on (skin first) till cooked through, which will not take long. Herring are seriously tasty and we are lucky to have them on our doorstep.


Emily with a couple of good herring

Garfish have started to appear in reasonable numbers along with plenty of herring from Mindarie rock walls, Two Rocks and Quinns groin areas. Not only are they more than adequate for human consumption, but XXL tailor and northern speedsters such as Spaniards find them irresistibly delicious. For a feed or bait, they are worth targeting.
 
Recent reports are that a few salmon schools have showed up along beaches in Cockburn Sound and around Freo rock walls during the week. They have been sporadic, but a rewarding target. There are also reports that there are huge schools out wide still. Who knows if next week’s big front will give us all another solid crack at them by pushing some schools in close. If you are reading this Neptune, feel free to make this happen, it would be pretty cool.
 
Demersal fishing has been red hot. Forecasted north easterly winds might put a dampener on the bite but all is not lost, as every time this happens fishermen get lucky and blow everyone away with their catches. You can’t however be one of lucky ones without lines in the water. Otherwise, tackle prep, boat maintenance and a bit of TLC on your rods and reels could go a long way in your next fishy pursuit. It will make you a more efficient angler and will maximise your experience when you do get on the water.
 
Pelagics can be less affected by the drop in barometric pressure that usually accompanies northerly winds. If you have the chance to get out there, there are plenty of tuna around from inshore to out wide. Shark macs still being caught out around Rottnest amongst vast schools of bait and spearfisherman have also reported seeing a number of Spanish macs.
 
Other species which are less affected by the conditions involve the seriola family and the huge numbers of good size skippy just offshore. Anchoring up and berleying behind the reef all along metro has brought big sambos and kingies charging in and creating chaos and some spectacular catches.


 Morley Customer Leigh with a nice kingfish

Customer Brody this week caught 8 good crays and 4 solid King George on Monday off Hillarys and other customers have also reported KGs and  big sand whiting that have been thick around the City Beach area with some as big as 40cm in depths of around 15m.


 Morley Customer with a solid KG

 


not a bad result

Submitted by Fish_Hunter on Fri, 2017-06-09 09:00

Sounding around some interesting bottom just inside the FFB and came across what looked to be cave type structure on the sounder we dropped and immediately hooked these two models. Was surprised with the harlequin fish.

 

 


Long Weekend Down South

Submitted by Riles on Wed, 2017-06-07 18:58

A mate and I headed down to Dunsborough for the long weekend for our fishing clubs field day.

We'd both fished from the shore plenty of times in that area but this would be our first time offshore.

Although it was tough going we managed to bag out everyday.

Even though there was a big swell, the lack of wind made for some great days on the water.

 


Quick run out from hillarys

Submitted by Marineboy on Wed, 2017-06-07 16:41

 weather looked too good to not go fishing today so had a quick solo run out from hillarys this morning. 15 mins run to a spot in 30mtrs and the sounder lit up, dropped a bait down and bang a 60cm Dhuie pops up, dhuies continued to come up and over the next 3 hours I caught 12 or 14 (lost count), battled through them until a 40cm black arse popped up and called it a day. Also nailed a big cuttle fish, must be a few around at the moment as I got a horse on a night fish last week. 


Video of 99cm Snapper

Submitted by Fisheagle on Tue, 2017-06-06 20:43

Knocked together the video of a 99cm snapper that my Dad caught behind Garden Island a couple of weeks ago.  (new landing net purchased)

https://youtu.be/x8OFPer3WM0

 


Cracking background Pic

Submitted by Chinbald on Tue, 2017-06-06 20:14

 Mate of mine caught this beautiful Rankin on soft plastic which we just managed to beat a submarine sized Bronzie to the net, at this time the water erupted with tuna and Macs I threw out a laser 190 and had it sitting idle while tacking the pic, if you look in the background you can see a shark eating the stationary lure, just another one donated to the taxman. Pretty cool on the I phone as you can see it as a short vid. All this South of Dorre.


Smiling Weather Gods

Submitted by Chinbald on Tue, 2017-06-06 15:29

 Spent the week leading up to the Long Weekend fishing the Islands off Carnarvon. Weather gods were smiling so we managed to fish the North, Mid and down at St Cricq and Dampier Reef. Caught some great fish including Reds Estuary Cods, Rankins, Spanglies, Baldies, you name it. Got smoked by some huge fish on plastics and also trolling. Highlights where Estuary and Rankin Cods on plastics, double hookup on Mahi Mahi and also getting some good Reds up to 9kg. Sharks were good except down in the 50s south of Dorre where landing a good fish was hard work. Did approx, 270 nm in three trips for 380l fuel

 

 

 

 

 


Relaxing day out

Submitted by Hutch on Mon, 2017-06-05 18:25

Stayed in close in the tinny with Pirate today.

Managed a few squid, ended up with 9 all up after nabbing 5 on the first drift. Slow going after that.

Trolled up a snook and skippy, dropping a fair few more fish.

All in all a great few hours out, thanks for the trip bud 


Coral Bay 2017

Submitted by crano on Sun, 2017-06-04 14:24

 Just finished 6 weeks in coral bay with the best weather you could imagine which we deserved after the crap weather last year.

There was hardly a day you could not get out and lots of awesome days we just went to the beach as you would end up with too much fish if you went too often.

There did not seem to be as many boats this year and there was heaps of good weather days when none of the 3 charter boats went out [Mahi Mahi has 2 boats now]

Everybody was catching heaps of squid and the fishing was great with heaps of reds around and lots of big ones at the cleaning tables, the best we got was a 9 kilo.

I saw some huge fish caught by the deep droppers with a couple of cod I reckon would be 40 to 50 kilos but I am still happy to play in the shallower water close to home.

Sharks were worse than last year with heaps of fish lost to them although it did get a bit better the last couple of weeks. I did have one victory over them when th missus was pulling up a red on the top hook and a shark about 1.7m long grabbed the bottom hook on the way up and we got them to the top and cut the line so got rid of the shark and kept the red.

One day the missus had me 4 nil on the reds when I pulled up a double header and she got one at the same time. We had to throw one back so I threw hers back so I could claim a 4 to 2 result instead of a 5 to 1 result.

Back to the real world now and wait for 2018.

Sorry about the upside down pics but they are up the right way on the puter.


Rule No. 1 - Never fish in a dirty northerly

Submitted by JohnF on Sun, 2017-06-04 08:02

Well, I broke that rule yesterday and paid the price. 110 km and dropped on over 30 spots for  naff all except a case of sea sickness and a big fuel bill  

 

 


Deep Drop Wednesday

Submitted by cray burglar on Fri, 2017-06-02 16:58

 Headed out of Two Rocks for our first try at Deep Drop Wednesday with the favourable weather forecast .

Stopped for a quick jig around the 50m mark with the boys boating a nice mixed bag, with a heap of baitfish showing on the sounder decided to troll some lures with a quick double hook up and both fish dropped we decided to try again boating some nice SBT over the next hour.

By now the wind was almost completely gone so hit the 250m mark for our first attempt at Deep Drop 5 drifts and nothing but Green Eye.

Made the decision to head out deeper Sounded up some fish, set up the drift and straight onto the Hapukas "you beauty" a first for all on board, subsequent drifts resulted In another smaller Hapuka then a solid hookup with the drag fish taking line before bricking us ... on reflection drag may have been a bit light. Headed home at 40 knots which made for a quick trip and great end to the day.

 

 

 


Super Deep Yesterday!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2017-06-02 14:18

With yesterday’s forecast looking good’ish I thought I’d take staff member Ben out to search for some new super deep spots. The water was flat as on the way out which makes a huge difference when you venturing out so far!

Once out in the Super Deep depths I started looking around doing recon work and after a little while my Furuno sounder lite up and I said to Ben they look like Bass and you drop first!

Ben rigged up some Qualy squid that we’re now stocking and it’s a descent size and a durable bait. It didn’t take long for Ben to hook up to something solid which had me calling it for a good bass groper. After a long fight (all manual wind up) his fish surfaced and it was a solid bass groper which gave Ben a good work out haha!

I dropped next and hooked up also and landed a nice bass groper (awesome start). I said your turn next again Ben and whilst he was knackered after his first fish he dropped again and hook up and landed another bass ….. nice!

I dropped again for the last fish of the day and hook a bigger bass and what a fight. They don’t call them Bull Dozer of the sea for no reason and all fish were between 26 -32kg. We headed in at 40 knots which made for a great finish to the day (Happy Days).

Having the right gear and information makes this super deep fishing more productive and enjoyable, My shop specializes in Super Deep fishing so if you’re wanting more info on rods, reels, braid, gimbal belts, super deep jigs, custom super deep rigs, bait, what to look for etc pop in and see my staff Ben & Callum ….. They are always happy to help!

Cheers 







4 of Metros Best

Submitted by JohnF on Thu, 2017-06-01 09:34

 Quick arvo fish yesterday, took my old man out for a run. Just tooled around in close, brilliant conditions and a few nice fish.

 

Thumper 52 and 55 cm KG's and 45 and 50 cm Baldies. I got the big baldie on my 8yr old sons sand whiting rod with 6lb leader and size 2 hook, was quite challenging.


 


Rotto pub run with a few nice KGs on the way home

Submitted by JohnF on Sun, 2017-05-28 19:28

Quick run over to Rotto for lunch at the pub with the family on a magic autumn day. Had a quick 45 minute fish on the way home and the kids nailed 6 fat KG's, best a tad over 50 cm.

 

 


Bluewater Metro Fishing Report 26/05/2017

Submitted by Bluewater on Fri, 2017-05-26 17:14

 

 
Bluewater Tackle World
Fishing Report Friday 26th May 2017
 
As May’s cool but calm weather continues here in Perth this weekend, things are going to get fishy! Are you going to be amongst the lucky ones to get amongst the action? If you are unsure of what ,where and how, here are some options.

If you are going to be on a boat, inshore reefs are alive with activity at the moment. Pink snapper have been relatively easy to find and are responding well to both baits and artificials. Be prepared for a very early morning bite though as it has been too ‘calm’ lately. Clear water can mean they are shy, but they are there! Dropping leader size, light jigheads and well-presented baits are key in a good berley trail. However be prepared for some seriola madness! Big samson fish and yellowtail kings are also around in force and have been gate crashing berley trails. Staff member Muzz found this out in the past week in a fantastic session in-shore. Salmon are also still showing up at their usual haunts, just not in the numbers of previous years.
 

 Staff member Muzz getting amongst the fish this past week including this sambo and pinkie pictured respectively.

Further out there has been a good dhufish bite, with baldchin groper and breaksea cod also being regularly encountered. Be ready and rigged if you are on the water as there is a good deal of tuna around. Southern blues are being encountered from right inshore to the FADs. Often with big numbers of stripies and the odd shark mac swimming with them. There is also a good number of yellowfin around with customers reporting fish up to 15kg and staff member Brad had them come up in a berley trail in the 40s last week. Small skirts such as Richter Jelly Babes, deep divers such as Rapala X-rap 15s and casting lures like CID Iron Candies and Arma metals are worth having in easy reach.

Squid are firing for both boaties and land based fisho’s. Look for the broken weed beds that give squid cover to hide and ambush prey. Good numbers and sizes are around in the Cockburn Sound and off Fremantle. Hillarys’ inshore reefs are also holding large amounts of squid making it very easy to catch not only a feed, but fresh demersal baits too. The Hayabusa jigs have been popular in the 2.5-3.0 sizes which are currently on sale in the May Madness Sale. There is a huge range to suit different conditions and locations, and our staff will be more then capable in helping you make size and colour choices.

Bream are fishing well in the mid and upper reaches of the Swan. Smaller fish are in good numbers and are taking baits with strips of mullet being very productive. The bigger models are responding better to soft plastics and small hard bodies. Being mobile is the key to finding the bigger fish and working several different snags and other structure along the way.

Bony herring seem to be plentiful in the Swan and the start of Canning which may be a good sign for those wanting to tick a mulloway off their bucket list, as plenty of bait usually means the fish aren’t far behind. Some good fish have already come from the Eshed.

Off the beaches yellowfin whiting are fishing well off Scarborough, Cottesloe and the surrounds. Herring are abundant at most local beaches and easily caught provided anglers are berleying up. Locations include Floreat, Scarborough and Cottesloe. Juvenile tailor seem to be caught up in the mix, but the larger fish seem to be coming from beaches further north, particularly around Yanchep Lagoon. The Lagoon has been fishing well for tailor with a good run of fish in the 60-70cm range. Fishing low light periods are key with dawn and dusk being ideal, with fish responding well to poppers and stickbaits but don’t rule out a surprisingly effective technique of slow rolling paddle-tailed soft plastics, which has been the undoing of some of the bigger fish taken recently.

Snapper have been firing from shore in recent weeks. Now is the time if you want to get out and catch your first land based snapper. With fish in the 70-80cm range not uncommon, they have been taken on beaches and rock walls from Preston Beach to Two Rocks.


A good land-based pinkie caught by a Mindarie customer

Bluewater Joondalup hosted an Introduction to Saltwater Fly Fishing this week. Keen anglers had the chance to hear what resident fly expert David Bell had to say and all who attended seemed enthusiastic to go out and give it a go. Some even walked away with a few prizes. If you have ever wanted to give it a go our Joondalup and Myaree stores both stock a good range of fly gear and have staff that can help you out.
 

 


Sound Gummys

Submitted by tcarroll on Thu, 2017-05-25 07:28

Decided to chuck the boat in at Point Peron yesterday afternoon for the first time in about 12 months to hit the sound and see if I could tempt a few snapper.

Could not manage anything of significant size with only a few small fish around the 30cm mark.

Fortunately, did not go home empty handed managing to land a couple of gummy sharks in the hour after sun down.

Will definitely start to hit the sound more now coming in to winter to chase snapper. It is an extremely relaxing place to fish on a nice night!

Anybody been doing well on the pinks in the sound yet?


South West Recreational Crabbing Project

Submitted by Guardy on Wed, 2017-05-24 14:27

The WA Fisheries have just published the above report if anyone is interested in downloading it.

www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/research_reports/frr281.pdf

Quite a lengthy report but well worth it if you are a crabber but you will need to navigate thru all the scientific jargon.

 

Cheers

 

 


Ocean reef 17/5

Submitted by Troyboy on Thu, 2017-05-18 14:48

We launched at Ocean reef around 8.30 with plans to get out to fads and beyond, but the wind was not playing the game. An hour of trolling saw two tuna landed and one dropped behind the three mile. We decided to head back in to fish the tide change in close and anchored on a nice lump that has produced the goods before. Rob put out his berley bag. The usual pickers come in thick (wrasse and blackass). After about 15 minutes Rob gets a solid hookup, after a hard fight on PE2 a nice Dhu pops up boat side, cracker fish especially on a plastic in 10m of water, just over 9.5kg.


Boating-from South to North

Submitted by snuffs on Wed, 2017-05-17 12:59

After having the boat racked in freo for the past 10 years, a few weeks ago I decided to move the boat closer to home and into a floating pen in Hillary's marina. Having accumulated my life's fishing spots all out of Freo, I was a little hesitant starting from scratch further North, but also excited by the fresh start in exploring new ground out from Hillary's. Two weeks in, both Hillary's trips have produced very fruitful results. The most notable difference has been the abundance of red throat's I have stumbled upon out from Hillary's in both isolated trips ... as I have never managed to catch one out from freo before.

Anyhow, attached pic (hope it uploads) of last Saturdays quick morning Hillary's run ... using my new Madfish Soft Esky that I was keen to baptise. Must say, it's a hell of a lot lighter to carry than my equivalent plastic esky!

Cheers - J


Another early run

Submitted by brown364 on Sun, 2017-05-14 21:46

 G'day guys, 

Once again we shot off at 415 am sat morn for a 15 min trek nth west of the marina. We parked up in 5 mt of water and stated feeding out the burley to see if we could russell up any action. 

This run I planned on plakkies over the bait and Bully went the bait again.Half an hr from dropping the pick and I was on to a nice little dhuie to go inthe esky so it was a happy start . Bully was having no luck at all with the bait and just before light on the horizon I noticed some of the burley drifting back towards the front of the boat so thought I best to flick down the current and no sooner had the plakkie sunk there was an almighty thud and I was on again. As there was not to much excitement on the end of the line other than a lot of weight and the old pull for the bottom I called it a dhu and for the net. Keeping in mind it was only 5 mt, soon, with the light we had the was a big silver colour in our view! Then it happened, pulled the hook and the excitement died to the makings of the one that got away story. Arrrggg. It would have been a cracker ! Bully managed a couple of pj 's and we decided to pull the pick and drift west for a while.

Managed to pick up another nice dhu on the plakkie then another mighty lump on the line which turned out to be a monster cuttlefish. I got him right up to the boat while Bully had the net ready, well , ready after he was convinced there was no ink left in it. Then it was gone ! One thrust and the hook pulled from his tentacle ,no ink and nothing in the net. I can and will wash ink off the boat though I won't dive in after a fish when it could have been netted. 

Anchored out the back of the three mile and set another trail . Managed to attract a couple of nice blackarse, skippy and leather jacket to finish the morning. 

Autum weather rocks I say! And snapper is something I can only get from a fish shop


Kalbarri

Submitted by Lance55 on Sat, 2017-05-13 18:57

 few nice Spaniards around at the moment, very pleasant addition to yesterday's bag on Baldies. As usual the missus out fished me.


Super Deep Yesterday!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2017-05-13 13:52

With yesterday’s forecast looking good’ish I thought I’d take staff member Callum out to search for some new super deep spots. The easterly was stiffer than forecasted (surprise!) and I was told the FADS were coming in next week so a quick fish there to get a fresh feed would be nice!

We turned up to the FAD and straight away dolphinfish and not bad sizes also. I grabbed my fly rod and within seconds I had them climbing all over my fly and hooked up. I landed my dolly and then Callum spun a Big Johns chartreuse nylon banana jig and again straight away he hooked up and what a great fight also on 10lb spin gear!

Okay we had a fresh feed of dollys (I don’t like freezing them) and left them on the bite. I headed off and started my recon work and after a little while my Furuno sounder lite up and I said to Callum you drop first!

He rigged up some Qualy squid that we’re now stocking and it’s a descent size and durable. Within seconds Callum hooked up to something solid which had me calling it for a good bass groper. After a long wind up (all manual) his fished surfaced and it was a solid bass weighing 26.3kg on digital scales!

I dropped next and hooked up also and landed a nice bass groper. I said your turn next again and Callum dropped and hook up quickly but he said the fight was different and after another long wind up he landed a double headed of Hapuku …. nice!

We had bagged out and the wind had just started to back off so perfect timing to head in and what a great day on the water. All the gear I use including my custom made Super Deep rig we stock and if your needing help with any super deep info my staff are always happy to help, cheers Ryan








Deep drop success

Submitted by kirky79 on Sat, 2017-05-13 10:20

 Hey FWreckers

This was our 4th deep drop trip. Have been learning a bit more each trip, especially the sounder. It was pretty joggly out there yesterday but persevered out to a spot in about 200/220 metres. The sounder showed fish straight away which was a positive. First drop and I was on, nothing huge but a nice deep water Pinky. The next fish felt a lot better with good weight and fight, I was hoping this was the one I've been trying for a Greyband. It wasn't to be, a bloody 4 foot Dusky Whaler. A bit of moving around found some more promising shows and I was on. Again really good weight and fight but I was thinking maybe another shark. But finally the line started to angle up towards the surface and I knew I had my target species. A 12 kg Greyband Cod popped up!! Woohoo!! Stoked! Bro in law Doug was onto a good fish next which we were obviously hoping was going to be another Cod. After a good fight we knew it wasn't a Cod because it didn't float. A good size Amberjack came up spent, so some nice Thai fish cakes coming up. We finished off our bag with another Pinky and a Nannygai. 

It was great to tick the Greyband off the list. Hopefully next time we can get a couple more.

 

fish  

 


Full moon again

Submitted by sunshine on Fri, 2017-05-12 17:48

 Dhuies biting like no tomorrow this morning before dawn and another brilliant baldie to quickly fill the bag 


Bluewater Metro Fishing Report 12/05/2017

Submitted by Bluewater on Thu, 2017-05-11 17:39

 

   Fishing Report
Bluewater Tackle World
Fishing Report Friday 12th May 2017

With this weekend’s weather ramping up to the predicted ferocious storm, the beach fishing can only get better for those willing to brave the conditions! In the past week or two anglers have been reporting great catches from the beach… And not just salmon either! Mulloway have seemed to be in absolute abundance as of late, from both the river and beach. From Jurien to Mandurah, anglers have been getting stuck into good sized fish on both live and dead baits. We have seen a pattern in the last couple of months where anglers were catching a lot in the deeper water offshore where the fish would school together, now it seems they have come into the shallower water accessible to anglers from the beach, making it an always challenging but very rewarding option. We aren’t too sure how long they will stick around in these numbers however, so it is worth having a crack.

Additionally snapper catches from the local beaches and rock walls are continuing with no signs of slowing. Captures have been reported from the stretch of beach Floreat to Trigg and in the Yanchep / Two Rocks area. The key to hooking one of these prized fish is to use fresh bait. Tailor fillets or whole sand whiting caught from the area you intend to fish works best and with this weekend’s storm should do nothing but activate them even more! The increase in swell will stir the beaches and rock walls up, mixing a lot of favourable food for snapper into the water, so for those keen to knock a land based demersal off their bucket list, Sunday night through to Wednesday looks like a promising period to be targeting snapper.

Small schools of 3-4 salmon are scooting through the shore breaks between City Beach and Trigg. Being mobile to keep up with them is essential along with a pair of quality polarized sunglasses to spot them and time your cast. The usual haunts like Mew Stones and Wend End of Rotto are still producing with the odd report from within the sound.


Chloe Baker with a Solid Salmon!

Excellent squid fishing to be had at Parmelia Banks in the Cockburn Sound. It only takes a few drifts to easily pick up your bag number and the sizes are in the upper range with 30cm hoods quite common.


Great catch! Austin Spencer with a Swan River Sambo - it would have been tricky amongst those bridge pylons!

The river also seems to be fishing exceedingly well for the regular inhabitants such as bream and flathead, with a lot of fish coming from throughout the whole system. Bull sharks and samson fish have been reported in the river recently, with a small bull unfortunately washing up in the Belmont Ski Zone. Tailor are being caught in Mosman’s Bay to East Fremantle. This same stretch should soon be the scene for the annual king prawn run.

 

Exmouth on the Fly!

Bluewater Tackle World Manager Rohan Smith with a Queenfish on Fly

Rohan Smith just returned from the annual "Boneheads" fly fishing only trip to Exmouth, hosted by the Saltwater Flyrodders of WA in conjunction with fly fishing guru Peter Morse. The event is intended to promote fly fishing and explore the range of species, large and small that can be caught on fly, and to refine methods. Over the years the group has caught everything from bream, tuna, milkfish, bonefish, spaniards, cobia, permit, marlin, sailfish and many more. In fact, the species count is now sitting on 193 different species caught on fly over the years and we will be trying to crack the 200 next year. There is always a great mix of experienced anglers and those newer to the sport. There is a limited number of spots offered each year with past attendee's given first option, thereafter being opened to newcomers, first in, first served. 
 
This year the dominant species was large queenfish, while fishing was not on fire by any means, perseverance found good fish but they were in a fussy mood most of the time so finding them didn't guarantee a hook-up. Chis Hedges who had travelled down from Karratha for the event, and I teamed up for the second half of the week and covered a lot of territory exploring the gulf with mixed results. The highlight fish for me was a 99cm queenfish sight cast crossing a shallow bank. Other crews fished for everything from Billfish to Blue Bastards with "team" Gavin Day and Terry Clarke having a consistent week with lots of queenfish close to the metre mark, chunky size golden trevally and some good size giant herring making up the bulk of their catch. Gavin Day won the fish of the week prize with an awesome 1.14 metre giant herring. Tony Ong and Steve Bradbury spent most of their week searching out more difficult species such as permit and blue bastards They had plenty of shots at both species and both ended the week with a couple of very nice blue bastards up to 85cm each.

For those interested in fly fishing or are wanting to learn Bluewater Tackle World Joondalup is hosting an Introduction to Saltwater Fly Fishing on the Thursday 25th of May at 6:30pm. The event is FREE and will have door prizes and discounted fly fishing tackle! 

 

Check the event on our Facebook page

www.facebook.com/events/1904382339847597/






 


Steep Point May 2017 - photos

Submitted by randall df223 on Wed, 2017-05-10 13:08

 Some photos from last week at shelter bay


First dhu was visual

Submitted by Rugbynut on Tue, 2017-05-09 16:26

I was fishing one of my usual spots in shallow water of scarbs a few weeks back doing well on good size
skippy and getting a few small snapper, when I could get past the skippy. Had one snapper to just under
40 so was hopeful there were bigger legal models around, even though it was late morning.
Was only in about 8m and drifting my baits down when I saw a good size fish come rocketing
in past my bait, turn and circle back and nail it. No hesitation, it clearly wasn’t a skippy
due to its bulk and I saw a bit of pink/purple flash in the sun light and thought “you beauty” might be a size pinky.
You can imagine my surprise when after a brief tug of war a just size dhu popped up. Stoked is an understatement.
I was amazed at how fast it was and also how aggressive it was. Was totally cool to watch it take right in front of me.


Few Flatties

Submitted by Mick C on Mon, 2017-05-08 21:26

Couldn’t believe that the youngest son, Luke (17), actually wanted to go fishing tonight.  It has probably been 2 years since this happened so I had to say yes.

We did ok inshore.  No sized pinkies, but some nice flatties.  At least we got a few fish to keep his interest up, in a quick dash.