better than the other week! Scooped our 20 crabs in 15 minutes, good sizes and all hard.

now time to catch some fresh bait...

Does anyone know if there are any Mackerel in town yet?

 Fished Jurien on Thursday and Saturday. Australia Day was classic weather, but Northerly drift had sea anchor doing laps around the boat and lines heading in all directions, had out a lucky plastic that accounted for 2 Dhus on Thurs and one more on Sat, before I retired it. On retirement the next placky was taken by a small Sargent Baker, which in turn was engulfed by a big Dhu on a couple of occassions, but unfortunately did not find the hook, ended up with a couple of Baldies and Dhus on both days and the Reefrunner got to test her sea capabilities coming in on Sat in a serious Southerly blow from the bank. If your looking for a placky to try then this one was working in otherwise quiet conditions. Dhus went 8 & 9 kg both in great condition and fat. All in the 50's

Spent the last few weeks in Exmouth, First week was abit average weather wise which meant landbased was our only chance to wet a line. Fished the Marina a few times for no jacks which is abit strange and bundegi was quiet on queenies. Out on the boat we caught a few Billies (Blacks and Blues) with 1 being my first Blue around 100kg and lost a few larger models on 15kg. Came accross a few free swimmers also which is a good sight when throwing stickbaits and plastics at them to seem them light up and charge in but no hook ups unfortunately. Struggled on demersals with any good fish being hooked the noahs will swoop. Did manage to get a few though... Pearl Perch, Big Spangoes, Reds, red throats, dollies, chinaman and 8Bar.
Good to finally get out there and have a play on my new Raymarine ES128 also which Im very happy with.

 Water temps here finally look to have cracked the 23 mark, still tons of bait, but now a bit of action amongst it!

Big Longtail schools, but they don't seem interested in taking anything I can throw at them.

Australia day was a pearler with good weather ( praise the Lord!) for a change.

A nice trifecta of Spanish early and then we jumped off a beautiful Marlin somewhere around 200lb ( naturally it grabbed the 6Kg rig, my guesstimate is based on me being an ex Deckie  from the Cairns Marlin fleet)  it went ballistic, busted off, and then danced all over the ocean to toss the lure ....Adrenaline plus!!!

Saturday looks great as well, so we are having another crack in the morning....report to follow.

Land based mob.....I would be planning a WAgoe trip soon.Thats where we saw and landed most of our stuff.;-)

 Stumbled across some solid washed up mulloway the past few weeks around sandy beach reserve as pictured, also several discarded filleted mulloways along the river bank so they're pretty far up river! Most days I walk along the river I see bait fish jumping around so maybe some tailor have cruised up too!

Launched very early doors with uncle this morning for various reasons, firstly to beat the crowds and the heat and ultimately to troll up an early morning mack. No luck on the mack front but there was some good bait balls on the sounder so they hopefully wont be far away if the bait stays and the water warms a bit more. Another good sign was the lack of surface weed behind the three mile.

Heading back to Ocean Reef we came across a good school of SBT's giving some small bait a hammering. Managed to winkle one out on a 1oz leadhead but the rest had lockjaw. Finally cracked the code when we dropped down to 1/2oz leadheads. Good fun on the light gear.

Back home and in the pool by 10.

Happy Australia Day all!

 Gday fishoes 

has anybody got the latest model 150/175 hp Suzuki motors

just wondering if any one has had any issues with them and how they would rate them

am looking at buying 2 end of march

ive heard they are a very god motor so any feedback would be appreciated 

cheers 

DWAYNE 

Did a dawn run down to Mullaloo beach this morning with a few mates. One of the guys had seen someone doing ok on the Herring a few days earlier just out the front of the clubhouse so we set up there and had a play.

I was amazed at the different species we caught in a few hours. Herring, Whiting, Flathead, Silver Bream and a few baby Pink Snapper. (as well as the must have, a blowie)

All bar the herring was released with a couple of whiting going out as bait. Had a few hits on the whiting but no hookups so there must have been a chopper or two cruising past also.

Bluey with a little Silver Bream

Must have been the smallest snapper i have ever seen.

 Well our yearly run upto the Ningaloo area has been and gone. This year was a little different as we normally take the Tinny into Ningaloo Station. We left at 3am Boxing Day & stayed at Carnarvon on the way up and were in Coral Bay at about 10:30am the next day. Got a ripper tailwind up there.

The ripper tail wind wasn't so good when we got there though. New Years day was looking promising, so a few days on the beach with the kids was in order. Got out on New Years day a little rusty but keen. Went out the north passage and trolled out to the 70m area looking for fish on the sounder. Found a few healthy looking shows and dropped on them. The only thing I got past the sharks was a small Cod. The wind picked up, so I shot inside the reef for a Squid. Got the biggest Squid I've ever caught, it actually took off around the front of the boat and had me chasing it around the anchor line. While this was going on my unwaited bait got nailed by a nice Spango, so dinner was sorted.

Next day I did the same thing, out to the 70's this time I managed to get a nice Rankin past the grey coats. His mate on the bottom dropper wasn't so lucky though. Trolled back in as the wind had picked up and managed a nice little Spanish. Woo hoo finally got to test out my new Madfish Bag. Awesome bit of kit!

The 3rd of Jan. was looking to be the best day, I had promised the young fella a run, and so it was, the bay was glass. I trolled just outside the reef where I had picked up the Mackie the day before, no luck this time and with the youngun' on board I decided to go back inside the reef and target some Spanglies. I stopped the boat to rig up a couple of lighter rigs. I had only just finished his rig when a massive Whaler turned up at the back of the boat with about 6 or 7 Cobia hanging with him. So out goes an unwaited Whiting head and I watch a nice Cobia slurp it down and I'm on! A pretty quick fight really & we've got a nice Cobe in the boat. High fives allround, so I say to Scott "you keen to catch one?" he's all for it. So another bait in the water and bang he's on. His is fighting a lot harder than mine did. So Dad takes the rod thinking the shark had grabbed his. No just a better sized one, so I hand him back the rod and help him catch his best fish to date. Woo Hoo!! more high fives. I'm sweating like a pig by this stage so we left mister Sharkie with 2 less hangers on.

We came back inside the reef and picked up 3 more nice Spango's. Another fish added onto Scott's growing list of catches, he's got a bit of a knack. The wind came up again for a few more days. So back to the beaches, it's a hard life. I went out solo again on the 9th and got 3 more good Spanglies. My mum was keen to get onto the Spanglies so the 10th was our last day before leaving for home on the 11th. Mum and Scott joined me for another session on the Spanglies inside the reef. It was a bit quiet at the first spot and the little terns and fish smashing bait only a couple of hundred metres away was getting the better of Scott. He practically begged me for him to have a cast at the commotion. So we idled over to what I thought were small Longtails. I cast out for Scott as he couldn't quite get the distance. Handed him the rod and told him to wind as fast as he could. Got smashed on the first cast in about 4m of water, turned out to be Shark Mackeral, another new species for him. Loved watching him pinned in the back corner grimacing as these little speedsters took off! I let him catch & release 2 then went looking for another spot to try. I think we ended the day with 6 Spango's a Red throat and another nice Squid.

So even though there was a fair bit of wind about up there, we still managed a few nice fish. A few red fish would of topped it off nicely. Great spot, might have to try and talk the missus into going again next year.

Cheers

Chris.

Not much being posted lately so thought I would do my first ever after being a long time reader here.
Not a post about big duhies or sambos sadly but a few fish none the less.
I mostly fish the 3 mile off and around Hillaries targeting Skippy on light gear (and anything else I can get) which is awesome fun and not bad to eat too IMO. Had a few good trips in the last few weeks when the wind has allowed it.
Anyway have just been burlying up in 7-15 m along the reef in a few spots and waiting for them to turn up. Was having a ball with my adult son 2 wks ago catching 40cm skippy when amongst all the excitement a few Kingis turned up. Not sure who was more excited me or the kingis chasing the skippy, me I suspect haha.
I didn’t have any live baits to throw out so just lobbed a half mulie on my 4-8kg gear, hoping for the best and hooked a couple amongst the skippy -who were now getting full of burley and going of the bite. Managed to land one kingi (see attached movie -75cm) and got smashed by its bigger brother.
The movie is the last bit of the fight, unfortunately missed the first long runs, but he played nicely and kept out of the reef. Man they go off!
The trip last week I was lucky enough to have a small school of SBT ( I think) moving into casting range. Ive seen them working on previous trips but can never get close enough to them to have a cast. Well these ones did it for me and my first cast was hit immediately, not big fish (55cm) but on my bream gear was almost out of control. It was turned into very delicate sushi and sashimi over the next few days. The skippy played the game as well and got a feed of them.
Funnily enough ½ dozen 60-80cm kingis were following the tuna around at the boat. Of course they had buggered off by the time I got it in the boat!
Each trip there has been plenty of good sized skippy as well, I thought they were mainly a winter target in close but has been a lot of fun lately. Maybe the cooler water has kept them around, although noticed it was 22.5 last week so warming up a bit. Anyway bloody good fun and made more enjoyable during the week when the ramp is not so ridiculously busy!
Hope you enjoy the vid -if the link works- maybe copy and paste if it doesn't. Sorry the photos are crappy :(
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Cheers

https://youtu.be/ewkO7afvYQQ

We all know summer isn’t the best fishing weather but it’s nice to just get out there or get away. My cousin Jimmy asked if I wanted to come up to his holiday house again in Cervantes and with a twisted arm I hooked up my boat and headed up there!

I enjoy Cervantes as a nice quick holiday destination and with a lot of family up there over the New Year it was very enjoyable. I took my Baja petrol powered car up also and ran amuck on the oval and up in the dunes!

We had a great time with the ski biscuit, electric helicopter, kites and very relaxing indeed. Fishing was good with a handful of trips out and bagged out on Dhufish and bycatch every trip including baldchin, pinkys and black arse. It was nice to fish half a day (if that) and then head in to clean fish and do other activities!

First trip for the season today, no monsters but a good feed.

Have been going to the same spot for 18years now and always seems to produce. Hopfully get out a few more times this season.

Last  week

If Ya thinking of going to herron point crabbing might pay to give it a miss .Had to be around 40 people there scooping.

Took the boat there but to windy. Plenty of Under size

 Hi All

Thought i would share a few pics from my Christmas Holidays in Albany.

Had some pretty good weather for the week leading up to christmas but turned pretty terrible between chrissy and new years.

1st week down there was just me the missus and 2 little ones and i got pretty lucky and all the young bloke wanted to do was go fishing and catch squid.

Bit windy so took the young bloke to Emu Point to catch some Bream. Pelicans are a bit full on there so ya have to be quick with the fish.

Sitting and waiting and taking in the sights.

Showing his siter the Squids

She had to give it a go aswell. 

Monster pushing 40cm hood. Good fun off the rocks.

Good feed of Blueys from the harbour.

Chilli garlic buter squid and cray fish.

All in all a quality week spent with the family. 

Was really good taking the young bloke fishing and him being keen as mustard to learn and catch some fish. Was happy as larry sitting and fishing then just playing in the sand.

Cheers Jayce

 It had been a while since I wet a line so it was good to get a trip in over the break.

Enjoy the pics.

The Chinamen looks like a new board leader at 89cm.

I'll post some more videos up at a later date. Meanwhile check out this one of mine via FB.

https://www.facebook.com/mark.gwynne.796/videos/10155672030289196/

tried out a new spot and it paid off...  

 Been here for a week now and the fishing has been hard work but   today it payed off. 

Have been here once before and the fishing was a lot better then. 

Just out in the harbour have been getting whiting skippy and herring. 

Today we did a beach launch of little boat harbour and got rewarded for our efforts. Found a a bit of decent ground close to glassy island burleyed hard and this was the result good fun on light gear . 

Days catch ended up with 4 leather jacket 3 queen fish and breaksea cod yellowtail kingfish and a skippy. 

 w

 plenty around now... 8 minutes 10 big crabs

 Went of Two Rocks yesterday for our first go for 2017. Great way to start the year.

Picked up a couple of Baldies early which is my favourite. Then later in the day pulled a nice dhuie at 85cm.

Mate then pulled in his first ever dhuie with a double header happy days. Released one well for another day.

Back to work today.

All the best for 2017 everyone

 Any reports on Tuna or Spanish Mackeral around Rottnest? I've heard of some getting caught recently but just wanted to confirm??

Just saw someone's boat thats been flung off the trailer and landed in a paddock on Duffy street in Woodvale. Might have been stolen? Boat name is Redback has a Johnson outboard. Hopefully its no one from fishwrecked, what a shit way to start the new year. My mrs has reported it to police

hi everyone. Just letting u all know that last night at Yanchep the weed was horrendous. Drove all the way from south of the river to see everyone getting there, having a couple of casts, and packing up and leaving again. Wasn't worth fishing on the beach there. 

Got an invite to go out on mates big boat Monday coming...

any word of water temp or activity out wide?

looking at trench run for olde-spiky-face if weather suits, Anyone tagged one this season yet?

Also, know if anything holding on FADs yet?

cheers

 starting to see some bigger sizes around, bloody cold and windy out here but keen for a feed.. got 9 so far so 11 to go

 Would’ve preferred that to read yesterday’s banger ... got out with duges66 about 9ish from woodies a bit lumpy early but she settled down later . Found myself wearing thongs on the deck early arvo the carpet was getting that hot . Anyways found some good shows of fish but it was hard going tempting them though , ended up with this harlequin , a decent nanny and blackbum , few good size skippy and half a bucket of sandwhiting in the bag . I haven’t kept a Harlequin before so looking forward to giving this one a taste test .

 Had a quick dive off Mandurah on a mates boat Yesterday, struggled to find any nests of whites,  these 2 balds saved the dive. Delicious 

Righto, gave the cray thing a go. Tick.

Surprisingly good fun despite getting up at 4.15 am.

Thanks Bodie, Scano, Den and Carl!