Been into a few shallow water sambos and king's of late. Here's a few of the better ones. Mostly have been taken on stickbaits.

Good to get a mate into the action aswel 

 Caught this lot in about 45 min :)

 It's been awhile since my last fishing report but here's a quick one.

Headed down to White Hills to find access "closed" due to errosion. Well a quick assessment and evaluation of my 4WD abilities and down the edge I went and off down southwards.

Found a likely spot to spend a couple of nights and camp was set.

A walk flicking lures but came up with nothing so sit back with a beer and a light feed. Avro-night fish was on the cards.

Managed a few tailor ranging from 350 odd mm to about 500mms.

Sat back for a night cap or two and hit the hay.

Morning sunshine rises with a very charm looking day ahead.

Few herring caught for bait but nothing but pickers smashing baits for the rest of the day.

Ah well relax time few more beers and wait till later.

Well later wind picks up tried to keep baits in the water but not much luck besides one small tailor. Even the sauages were getting blown out of the fry pan.

Good nights sleep, packup camp and see if I can get back out through White Hills, after a walk a challenge was set and up the bank I charged.

Wasn't to hard but a good line was required so no rolling over and a shit situation could of been had.

Crusied up the beach and out through Tims Thicket, beach was soft but very wide.

Home and in the smoker as per pictures, one for the Boss to fry.

 Nice morning behind GI - some fun on the light gear and a swim :)



People love fishing in Puerto Vallarta in February month. February is the month here lovers and for people that love to fish Vallarta.  With the simple fact, we have hundreds of miles of coastline and five of the top places in the world to fish you can obviously see why Anglers want to be in Puerto Vallarta for the month of February. 

Just a few of the reasons is we have excellent weather with the water temperature hanging around the mid-70s the ambient water temperature in the mid-70s as well. This is perfect for beachgoers and the folks that love to fish in perfect weather.  This produces all kinds of good fishing inside the bay and offshore so let's explore fishing options we have for February.

If you're going to be fishing short amount of time here in Puerto Vallarta in February the bay fishing is fantastic. Over the last couple of weeks, we have been catching California Bonita, yellowtail, Mahi Mahi , some sailfish,h and even some striped Marlin inside the bay. Some of the best action has been over on the North Shore is known to produce a lot of fish and it's called Palo Verde . This is a good spot almost every day in the winter fishing. There are a few shallow spots there for bottom fishing and excellent for trolling. Often we were able to catch the fish schooling on the surface and having incredible action. On most days trolling along with some Pitch, baits have been sufficient to catch limits the four to six fishing trips. It's also a great opportunity to use some pitch baits and topwater action along this shoreline on the north side of the bay. . The month of February here in Puerto Vallarta is just about perfect for  Fishing the shorter trips in the bay. 

If you're wanting to come down and go for sailfish and Marlin I recommend 8 hours plus trips for offshore fishing. What can you expect in fishing these waters during the month of February ?? First striped Marlin,  blue and black marlin, dorados, wahoo and some tuna . There are some places that we use called the Corbetens and  El Banco these are 10 and 12 hour trips.  These fishing trips offshore are for going for the Big Tuna, the big marlin, and other pelagic fish. Anglers always ask me what its likes to catch one of these hugs fish.  Well, just imagine holding on to the back bumper of your car for four hrs and not letting go. You will experience this feeling on out fishing trips. We also have some incredible bottom fishing on our  8 Hour trips like the El Morro and some of the reefs out by Punta Mita one of my favorite places to bottom fish is called the Corbetena changing and produces another huge red snapper we catch this time of the year we're still seeing extraordinary warm waters for this time of the month. The water temperature is hovering around 80 degrees in most places. Where you see these big temperature jumps from 70 to 80 this is where you'll see the thermoclines and tuna. We have been seeing excellent action for the pelagic fish. 

The one advantage that we have over a lot of these other companies as we fish every day so we have multiple Captains with crews on the water at all the different fishing spots.  We also use Terrafin it gives us an exact idea of where the blue water fishing places are, water temps, water clarity and the thermocline breaks.

If you're looking for a fantastic place to fish in this winter Puerto Vallarta has a lot to offer incredible hotels five-star restaurants, excellent nightlife, beautiful beaches some of the world's best fishing, and the friendliest in people in the world. Hoping to see everyone out there on the water please give us a call if there's any way that we can help you plan your trip are in beautiful Puerto Vallarta. We have a toll-free number for people that might have questions before they come down or help them book their perfect vacation. 

https://www.travelvallarta.com

Captain Pete and crew.

  Last Friday seemed like the day to go so many dhuies got caught.

We went out on Saturday out of Two rocks with another 100 boats!

Small Dhuie 52cm released hoping for a upgrade. 

Released 3 undersize pinkies.

Released a 48cm Baldie by accident should of netted it!

Released 1 black arse

Glad my mate told me to by a release weight lol

Kept

1 queen snapper

2 big black arse 

1 monster Harlequin 

1 big pinkie

How did you go?

This Friday looks good!

 Hey guys, just thought I'd share a few recent fish.

 Hello

 Went to the Northern cluster FADS yesterday, we were the 1st Vessel at them pre sunrise but it was of interest that a HUGE inbound International container ship was anchored easy 30m's up right next to the closest FAD , the ship's crew were fishing the FAD, once we arrived the huge container ship fired up, pulled anchor and steamed off to Freo, rendering the FAD totally spooked due to the noise of Ship. I've never seen anything like it before, has anyone else, just curious.?

I have posted many times in the past about the effectiveness of the Minn Kota, particularly the spot lock feature.  Unfortunately I wore my old one out (must have done a thousand hours +) and have had to use conventional anchors for far too long.  Happily, a mate had a near new Minn that didn’t work on his boat that I could purchase for a reasonable price.

The model is the Riptide Terrova 12v 55lb with a 60” shaft and lift assist.  This model is Minn Kota’s “ocean” version and includes spot lock, iTrack, cruise control and advanced auto pilot.  A much more robust model that the pre-2017 ones, and it has been good to test it properly and try out the upgraded functions in preparation for Autumn.

Headed out recently with Steve and Johno for one of those quick smash and grabs as the wind changes between strong easterly to strong south westerly.  It was a good chance to try the troll track in deeper water by using a controlled drift at a pre-selected speed.  It worked well, and nice to be able to “drift” with a 4oz sinker.

We got fish, with the highlight being Steve’s dhu on the Bottom Meat with a squid mulie combo.  A good quality nearshore fish in excellent condition.

When I had a look at the photo, the plotter trails showed how closely the actual troll track followed the recorded one.  Don’t need much more evidence than this to see how well it works.

Looking forward to the next trip when time and weather allow.

 going to ningaloo reef Feb can,t seem to find any reports beach fishing

 Anyone on here into drone fishing? Been out 10 times this year and finally had a great session after many rays / sharks and those hybrid things in between haha.

We got 5 pinks with only 1 undersize and left them biting. All caught about 400m out. Long wind in but well worth it. Awesome fun!

 Great day out on a mates boat, no sea anchor needed as a constant drift of 0.3 of a knot in the light easterly.  Bagged out with mates 4 yo getting  good breakse, the biggest went 48cm and thick as.  Guess what I am having for dinner 

 Well the pouchers are at it. had my pots out the back of passage rock, pulled them on Saturday and bagged out throwing about 9 back. took amate out Sunday as he no longer has a boat due to health reasons and thought he would like a feed.the pots were blanks, no way you get a bag out one day and zip the next. batars, i loved to catch them at it and ram the pricks.

Re-visited the Cocos Keeling Islands for a second round of bonefish on spin tackle.

Another great trip but it was one that succeeded mainly because of stubborn persistance. The weather did us absolutely no favours with persisent 15-20 knot winds, cloud and at times rain. Tough conditions to actually spot such a well camouflaged flats predator, where you more often than not are looking for their shadow. As such, a fair bit of blind casting also took place.

The earlier visit this year was to test out my prototype 'shrimp' fligs, this second trip the goal was more fish on the shrimp fligs and product test a new 'crab' flig.

I'll let the pics do the talking, if you're interested in chasing your own bonefish on spin tackle, send me a PM. 

Nice when a plan comes together.  Fishing competition day and a howling easterly.  Anchor off an inshore reef and burley really hard with the Shore Catch “good stuff”.  Fished with fresh and live baits in about 6m of water.

Steve and I caught some nice fish in what was an awesome couple of hours in pretty ordinary conditions.

Well, the Boston Whaler 235 and Fury 26 are gone, and me and Bodie put the combined funds toward a new Contender 25T with twin 200 hp Mercs on the back. First run on Sunday in some pretty stiff easterlies, boat was great, if not a bit manic. This thing is seriously fast, you gotta hang on, no creatures comforts on this boat, its just a pure fishig machine. 

Went out in convoy with the boys on the Regulator as we dont have any electronics on it yet (bloody covid delays...), still got a nice feed of whiting and had a a good run home where the boys on the Reg got a few shots of the new tug underway.

 Hi Everyone !!!

 Hi Everyone !!!

Band because he had a hand bag . Percy penguin banned because he didn’t where pants . New super man comic Clark comes out the closet . WTF is wrong with the world . Next thing you know . They will tell you home and away isn’t real. Thank god I watched dr who/goodies/banana splits and skippy . Paul hogan ,Maybe Clark Kent got anti vax injection. ???

Launched out from two rocks and headed northwest to about 30 meters. There were Tuna busting up everywhere, every 150-200 meters or so a different bust up. I’m convinced of you stuffed your cast up that badly you’d only be closer to another school. Casted a little stickbait and was having a great time watching a bunch of stripeys push each other other of the way to swipe at the lure. Hooked one and had a 10 minute fight all around the boat, deep, shallow & circles. Gave the little 2500 stradic a work out and came out at exactly 5kg on the lie detector.

After that it was just 1-2kg southern blue one after the other until we got bored. We could have caught them all day and any other day I would have chased them but the mission was to nail a 20kg dhuie each and we weren’t going to settle for anything less. The next stop was an old mark from about 5 years back called double dhu.. we didn’t sound any fish at all and looked pretty barren but we were already out there so may as well give it a drift.

I dropped a 10” eel soft plastic - the plastic hit the bottom and I felt a telltale thud before I even clicked the bail arm. Yep I’m on!! Hell of a fight for about 15 seconds then busted off.. I knew straight away it’s because I had 40lb leader on and wound up to surface with my leader still tied on. I instantly grabbed my backup rod with a strip of tuna on a size 10 ball sinker and dropped while my mate hooked up big time - obviously the fish I just lost so half points to him.
While he was fighting the fish my line got caught in his leader knot and caused havoc; his fish was coming up and we could see colour and we didn’t want to lose it so in a mad rush he said fuck it I’m cutting my line and going to hold the leader - only he held the wrong end and watched his leader just fall into the ocean with a prized dhuie. Luckily the fish was beat and it floated to the surface. So while he’s figuring out how to net the fish my rod buckled over and it was on too! I free spooled so he could reposition the boat the net his fish, flicked the bail arm back over and it was on, a short tussle and a donkey of a dhue came to surface. High 5’s profanities and a beer later it was time to head back. One of the best days on the water and the final tally was a small pinky, a decent baldie 9kg dhuie and a 14kg dhuie. Not quit the double 20kg we were aiming for but I can grow the sizes every time I tell the story

Hit the water very early this morning hoping to again tangle with some snapper before the season closes.  Anchored up at 0430 in the same general area I found fish the other day.   Lost the first fish when it ran around the anchor rope and broke me off (more of that later).   Another good run saw me bettering my WA pb snapper with the one pictured going exactly 7kg.   Got another shortly thereafter so had bagged out by 0630.

Pulling the anchor was interesting, seems the lost fish had attracted the attention of a shark and as the winch spooled back in the rope only one of the three ply rope remained ......hmmmm, it's a bloody heavy anchor that I am using as a spare almost two sizes larger than usual.   After several squashed fingers I managed to get the chain aboard, cut the rope and fed the chain to the winch and successfully received 20 metres of chain and the anchor.

Got a splicing job to do during the upcoming wet weather 

 Hit the water at 5 this morning and stopped inside FFB in 17 metres, berley up with old mulies and bagged out just as the sun peeked over Garden Island.  Flat as conditions and full moon.......my favourite time to fish 

 Snuck out on Sunday and managed a nice one in amongst the smaller models. Was good to see dolphins back at the Causeway after the freshwater flush.

 Went out this morning off Busso and picked up three pinks, son caught all three.

Two 55's and a 85 which is his biggest by 1cm.

 Gday fishos a mate and i went out off Mindarie marina last saturday, headed out to drift the 30 - 40m line NW of Mindarie. Lots of fish on the sounder, very first drop, pinkys in the 45cm - 48cm range,. Kept catching them and losing bait to them pretty much non-stop, even double headers all undersize, biggest 49 and even 49.5cm but not 50cm+ bugger!. Kept moving north and same thing constant undersize pinkys and couple of tiny dhuies. Had quite a few small pods of whales around us so decided to go out to  80 -90m line found some reef, double headers of little pinkys fark!! mate got a nice size breaksea cod, we ended up comng home coz ran out of bait from catching and feeding baby pinkys, we both went through 2kg of squid each.

Went out tuesday during this week with a workmate (both chucked sickies) off Two rocks,  N - NW in 35 - 45m line, again non-stop undersize pinkys, kept moving north, again undersize pinkys, double headers all just under 50cm. Heaps and heaps of small tuna also feeding in that area, quite a few dolphins as well but surprised we didnt see one whale all day out there. Went out to 88m, heaps of little pinkys, finally got a double header with one pinky that was 52cm (YAY!) so kept it. moved further north more small pinkys, got a 63cm dhuie in amongst the little pinks then ran out of bait - again 2kg of squid each of us fed to little pinks. It kind of got boring and frustrating catching them non-stop as well. I guess the up-side of it is that in a few years from now we should theoretically be bagging out on big pinks easily, have any of you guys on here been having the same experience out there as well? cheers dave

Quick report on yesterdays fishing off Port Hedland. Things are starting to heat up tempreatures starting to creep up , with 39 degrees predicted next week!

Headed out to 40-60km mark lucky to still find a few Mackie cruising around, Mackie bag full in few passes over the top of the bait once we found it. Reds are still making an appearance in close even with the water temps starting to creep into the mid 20's.

Fishing with the Serious rigs the last few trips and they have doing been some real damage, especially with the reds. I think this is due to whiting shaped head. Look them up at seriousrigs.com.au or on instagram.

After last weekends successful inshore run, spent some time on Navionics looking for new ground to try next time.

Found what looked to be a nice ledge and decided to try it out Sunday morning.

Hit the spot and sounded around for 30 mins marking some good shows on the sounder before anchoring just off the back edge in 11m.

Threw a bait out while getting the burley ready and got hit on the drop but didnt set the hooks.

Next bait hit the target and scored a small but sized pink at 540mm, off to a good start.

Went quite for a while, big squid on a snelled rig dropped boatside and a port jackson.

Pretty much right on sunset the snell rig went off, pulled some string and after a good fight, up came another pink at 610mm (metro PB).

Before i could get the hooks out i had the other rod go off, another pink, this one just under.

This continued for the next 30 minutes with about 7 pinkies boated total, mostly undersized admittedly.

Went quite again before the Sambos moved in, hooked 4 including the silver 1 pictured below, not sure if this is just a Sambo with slight colour differenct or something else (as per my other post).

Overall had my bag and back at the ramp by 7:30am, awesome day out and keen to get out again.

Came back from Qld to Wa cause my best mate got married in Exmouth had a credit still standing with exmouth boat hire went out for a fish waited for the wind to back off it didnt, had been told the sharks were bad. Plenty of small dollies about but they were spooked. Hooked a yellowfin on a nomad deep diver big bull dollies were chasing it, chucked in whole mulies left the yellowfin in the water and it was on. I free lined a mulie on 16lb got sharked but Joe managed one on 40lb pound he went hard on it and I drove to stay ontop of it and sunk the gaff into and into the esky it went. 

Fish tacos for dinner. 

 I have had a win.I did some work near Roselea reserve in Stirling and later went for a walk around the lake.I saw a few carp swimming around so I have been fishing there 4 times now.On Sunday a few people claimed there were no fishing signs so I went to recfishwest and asked if the shire can do that.The answer is no.Today I went to Stirling shire and asked where they were at with this and the end result is the shire can not stop anyone Carping as it is a manmade lake with invasive fish but its being abused and water birds are being killed and a pelican lost a foot to fishing line so it is discouraged however if the angler is resonsible and does not leave dead fish and a pile of rubbish its all good