After a failed attempt to head out Deep with JohnF on Thursday (Engines issues on my Fury) i hooked up with a mate who just happens to be a pro cray fisherman for a morning trip out in reasonably close chasing some demersals and hopefully some KG's.

Hit up a spot not too far out whilst the wind was just enough to be annoying from the east. 2 of us jigging whilst old mate crayfisherman was skippering! (holding the boat on top of the ground).

First drop we were just off due to the wind, but 2nd drop i got hit on the way down just off the bottom. Was using a 130g Dhu drop and loaded up heavy on my little PE 1.2 Ocea jigger. After about 10 minutes up popped this big boy, no scales on board but measured 96cm so put it around 14kg or so. not bad consdering is was barely light! My biggest on jig to date

Next drop had us with our 2nd dhu of about 5kg so time to move on as we had our limit of dhus. We moved not very far to the inside of a little bit of coral and dropped down some droppers for KG's. Instant success with me hooking an assumed double header (Could see them coming up on the sounder) to lose one half way up. Up popped a nice 51cm KG! you beauty!!

Moved around a bit more and changed back to jigs. Next spot i got hit, nothing too massive so took it slow and to my surpirse up popped this guy on jig!! went 53cm!

Ended up with 2 big KG's on jig which was a first for me.

Moved on again to the next bit of coral where we changed back to droppers with occy for KG's. Something tells me the Dhu stocks are good on this bit of coral!!

Needless to say we moved on straight away, all 3 of these swam off strong as they were bought up super slow.

Ended the day with 4 KG's (2 on jig) 2 dhu's and plenty of other bi catch of small pinks, rat sambos, and other bits and pieces! back to the ramp by lunch!

Bodie

With the weather looking good and a nice northern current hitting the mid west we decided a day trip was in order. Set off Thursday arvo and woke up to epic conditions Friday morn

Got to our destination on sunrise and started with a big sharkie and small Spaniard on the troll. Next strike thrashed on the surface and then took a 250m run right down to the backing on the little Trinidad 20A. Called it for a Wahoo and 15 mins later after a bit of chasing we sunk the gaff into a 28.5kg number. Pretty lucky with 100lb leader and no wire... Good start!

A couple more Spaniards and a little yellowfin rounded out the trolling then we jumped in for a go with the straight hook.

Vis was pretty average around 12-15m and plenty of noahs including a couple of 10ft tigers but they were being fairly well behaved. Macks were in abundance and we put some nice models up to 23kg in the boat.

Next onto the jigging and some old faithfulls were chokas with Dhus but after 4 way hook ups on two drifts in 55m we moved on to some coraal lumps and found the trout. The www.abrolhostackle.com.au jigs did all the damage on dhus, big trout and even a 6ft grey nurse which hit it on the move and had me guessing all the way up.

Headed for home mid arvo 33 knots all the way and back tot he ramp and in Perth by midnight!

Pretty impressed with my Madfish Fish bag which I keep tucked away on the boat in case of some surprise pelagics - fitted 6 big macks and the XL wahoo and kept them all nicely iced all night. Thumbs up for another WA company www.madfishgear.com

On a bloody cold, wet and wintery day last week, found a heap of bait and some angry red blobs on what looks to be a wreck of some sort in the 40's.

Lost a heap of jigs before we managed to land a few smaller ones.

Ended the day with a half dozen KG's between 45 and 48 cm. Forgot how good those things are to eat, secret is not to overcook the very delicate fillets. In panko crumbs, I think they may be my favourite.

 Good effort for these boys.

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 Got the call Fri lunchtime from a mate who should have been in the goldfields. His gold prospecting partner had heart problems last night and is in the hospital getting monitored. Do i want to go fishing??

Loaded the car and kissed the missus goodbuy.  Launched at Mindarie around 3ish and headed out about 100m, well just the other side of 3 mile. Was planned for a bread and butter fish with a few floaters out the back. 

We got a good sounder reading in the middle of nowhere and decided to pull up in the 10m mark. As soon as we stopped there was a sizable silver shadow moving below us and in our haste to rig up i tangled my rig up so Darren got the first line in the water. Bastard hooked up straight away and landed a 78cm pinkie.

That was a good start so we repositioned the boat and dropped the anchor. Got the bearley going and had a hot session with a heap of skippy landed and a few blistering runs (not landed) over the next few hours.

Ended up with 2 pinkies and a bucket of skippy. Pretty good for an arvo not planned for.

 It has been a long trip !!! An awesome fishing trip for my customer from Switzerland.

 Just throwing it out there have not land based fish for sometime in the metro but I can head out tomorrow and I into the early evening 

any thoughts on where best. to wet a line 

I'm south of the river but can travel 

thanks in advance 

coley 

Launched out from point peron on Thursday morn with the intention of heading towards rotto somewhere, however wind and weather dictated terms so ended up anchoring and bellying on the back of the 5fb, between 6 am & 7 am I managed to boat 3 dhu between 44 & 47 cm, lost a thumper to a broken swivel before another small one of 28 cm, lost another thumper boat side spat hooks, took photos of fish caught as well as school ball on the sounder, between 7 am & 8 am caught 5 undersized pinkies before getting a keeper of 68cm, again took a pic of the sounder, I noticed a big difference in the way both schools showed upon the sounder, the dhu showed up as a big ball about 1 or 2 metres from the bottom where the snapper showed coming from the bottom, anyway as soon as the tide changed the bite stopped, I don't normally follow the almanac's but Thursday's was spot on, also I'm f@$&ed if I canwork out how to upload pics to this site, can it be made easier pls?

So while my brother and sister in law headed out wide and slayed them (see the big Trout posted, they got more than that) I took Narelle out from Cairns to try and get her a fish. We had about 2 and a half hours fishing due to kid duties so I took a punt at a spot I have and luckily it paid off. I was hoping for a mackerel or two and we ended up with twelve (school macks). We probably lost over 20 as well and Narelle was in her element and getting stuck in which was awesome to see. A few Bludger Trevally and Mack Tuna added to the fun. As you can see the weather was awful. Good fun but a little jealous now after seeing some other photos sent to me .......

 Went out at gentlemans hours, easterly was fresher than forecast, anchoring was the only option. Didn't go very far north, initially. Busted up on 40lb leader and bait first drop, then nothing. Faffed around slowly working my way north for nothing, bait and jigs, stuff it, head up to Baldface. Immediate action, first a sambo before the anchor rope was straight, then a nice 70 cm trout, then another sambo. Went quiet and wind dropped, pulled the pick and started to prospect, then the southerly came in with a bang, certainly not forecast. Headed straight for home and really bashed the last four miles or so.

Headed out of Hillarys about 5pm this afternoon to see if we could find the pinkies.  Conditions were as good as you can hope for so out to the back of the 3 Mile on hard ground to burley up and wait for the schools to move through, hopefully.

On the first drop Mark hooked a good fish which fought all of the way to the boat, and was initially called for a big skippy.  No, a large metro KG (now that is a desired species).  Over the next half an hour a few more came in and the trip was certainly worthwhile.

The pinkies were absent from our spot, except for an undersized 400mm model (hopes were high when this one was landed but unfortunately no more).  Undersized dhu, a 1m bronzie and a couple of 6kg+ Port Jacksons made up the rest of our catch.

A tasty bag in a few hours so close to the coastline.  I still marvel at what you can catch within 15 minutes of the marina, and whiting that measure around half a metre.

saw this guy cruising past so flipped the lure way in front and swam up to meet him

havent seen any schools of salmon lately but the odd lone one seems to be around..the last couple i got were beaten up but this one was primo. released after pic.

lure is a u make em (very similar to the squidgy wriggler)

Had a hot little solo sesh on friday morning on the Five out from the cut. landed 4 snapper & busted off on a coupple more unstopables.

went down to freo rocks this morning to flip some sp's around, the water was real murky but lovely conditions

lure is a u-make-em

Me an Bodie headed out yesterday, plan was a deep drop given 4 out of the 5 forecasts were looking great.......you guessed it, the 1 out of 5 that said it would be shiiite was spot on.

Ended up bashing about on the 40's with a dirty northerly wind getting rained on and generally wishing we were at work.....by lunchtime we ended with a few size dhuies for dinner and a nice sambo on the light PE 1.2 gear for Bodie which took a bloody age to get in....in fact Bodie did most of the damage, I was a generally bystander......

After seeing a gap in the clouds after lunch and the wind dropping right out, we made a dash for the deep drop in very confused seas. Despite 5 knot winds out wide for several hours before the westerly came in, the remnant slop made it almost impossible to sound in the deeps, so all we could do is a couple of blind drops for a few greeneys and a knifejaw. As the sun was getting low and the westerly had come in, we decided to give up and headed home.

With the sun getting close to setting and still a long way from home, we came across this new spot. Always happy when you find new spots like this steaming home at 23 knots.

Although we were all packed up, there were no questions asked, we both got our PE2 jig gear out and thought we would have some fun. Wrong. After hooking up immediately, we were both dominated. I got the PE3 gear out....dominated and bricked again. Out with the PE4 for me, PE5 for Bodie with drags tightened right up, and it was on. Fish were not huge but man they were fat and went hard in shallow water. Friggen hectic 30 minute session where we had multiple double hook-ups which had to be cut off as the sun had set and it was getting dark with a long way to go home. Got a few pics of Bodie in action whilst releasing my fish.

Fun way to end and otherwise slow and sloppy day.

 First real session in my new tub. Caught most fish inside 30m. When it glassed off headed out and found some hard coral in 45m. That's where the nanny come from. The bigger dhu was snagged on a hooked parrotfish. Big bait big fish!! Got stooged a couple if times. Combo of bait jigs and plastics. Put back quite a few small dhu's

 Took the daughter out  fishing today,Had a few good showers of rain,bit rough this morning.Managed my pb snapper just under 1 mtr 9.5 kg,daughter caught a 73mm snapper,caught 2 more snapper just size but had more than enough for a feed so they went back to fight another day.Didn't catch anything else today except snapper.

Will get some photo's up soon.

 Well, we have bagged out and got to the point today that we had to release all bar the largest fish. 

The trip has been nothing but sensational, great weather, plenty of fish. Lots to see on the water and a freezer full of fillets for home. the tax man has been around but not to the point where you want to scream. Some NW blowies, about half a dozen or so, so we just moved, plenty of good ground around so if you want to pick the GPS co-rods from the pics, help yourselves, nothing special at these spots other than fish were there on the day.

We have had the best weather that I can recall for some time with afternoon temps hitting 29 degrees, perfect for a swim and a bit of a bikini fest on the beach.

Andy, if you have half the weather that I have had you will enjoy yourself tremendously.

last couple of pics. I might put something together when I get home and put up all the pics for,those that want to see them.

 It was a bit breezy today so had a lazy breakfast and a swim before heading out in they arvo for some squid. Not many around but what are around are big and mean !

Chillie squid and chips for tea tonite !

With my surgery for a double knee replacement scheduled for the Tuesday morning, Gail and I decided to take a chance and get out on a rainy Saturday which was to be my last trip for the winter. The recovery time for this type of surgery can be up to three months and I had to make the best of this last trip before the summer.

We launched in the rain from Woodman Point and made our way towards the southern end of Rottnest Island. By the time we reached Seaward Reef on Five Fathom Bank the visibility was less than ten meters due to the heavy rain and Gail was protesting as she could not see land. I assured her that the Raymarine chart plotter does not lie and that other than Seaward Reef itself we did not have any “known” obstacles until we reached our destination. Her obvious question was “what about the other boats” which fitted perfectly into my future justification for a sonar. This rain squall lasted for another 30 minutes – so did the squabble. None-the-less we arrived at our designated destination all intact and dropped the anchor as the clouds parted to allow the sun to beam out its morning greetings to a receptive fisherlady.

On Gail’s first drop she hooked up into the largest Scorpionfish that I have seen to date – caught on a 7/0 hooked, loaded with a block of Herring. Soon after I caught a keeper of a Snapper on a drifting Scalie where no weight was needed due to the lack of a current (see video footage for method). The next fish was a Samson Fish on light gear which gave Gail a good run and tested her ever improving angling skills. I managed to get some underwater footage of the fight on the GoPro.

During the next couple of hours Gail lost three good fish and I managed to land the biggest Cuttlefish that I have ever seen. On our way out we stopped off on a sandy patch in about 16m of water about 2km west of the northern Point of Garden Island and caught a number of Whiting to end off another memorable trip.

Please keep on posting your catches as I will be “living” on Fishwrecked and YouTube during my recovery period. Tight lines and safe angling.

YouTube clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2vdZzUPXGXQ

Went for a drive with one of my sons today looking for new camping spots.

Had a great day in the bush, found a few new spots to take the whole family back to.

Spent some time chasing some pigs around and stopped for a quick fish where my son picked up a reasonable trout at 41cm.

 Well another day in paradise. Headed out on the rising tide and back to favourite ground in 130m. As soon as we stopped and dropped lines fish were on, with Rosie's and solid Goldband coming up. We encouraged a couple of visitors as we had a 4 meter Tiger circling us for a while and after he nicked off we had a few Dollies turn up, not the ones with skirts but the fish !

We managed to invite a 1 meter plus on board and he is joining us for dinner tonight - yum.

As soon as the tide peaked the bite slowed and we moved back into 90 to chase some Reds. We landed in the Red kindergarten and started bringing up baby reds, all of which were returned but we managed to winkle out a couple of fish around the 3 - 4 kg mark to make up our emporer limit. That with the Goldband and a nice snub nosed cod all helped to fill up the fish box. 

In just before Mahi Mahi who unloaded a boatload of Rubies and 8 Bar. Weather looking a but suss tomorrow so a lay day has been declared so the old boy can take a break. I'm fairly knackered, pulling fish up from 130m is bloody hard work especially when you have don it for 6 days in a row !

I'll post some more pics when my boy emails them through to me so they are all on his phone.

cheers

 Hi all

Looking at putting in the boat for a much needed run tommorow Lunch time untill early evening - is there anything on the bite ?

 Bugger it, typed out a half page and it bombed, not doing it again.

Here is a précis, went fishing, nice weather, bit windier, glassed off in the arvo, fish box of Goldband, Rosie's and Robbos. Do it again tomorrow.

cheers

 Well it had to happen, perfect weather, no wind and the fish were biting. Headed out at 8.00am and started looking in 90m, landed a couple of Robbos and a Rankin with a small Red. Weather was too good so up and off to 130m chasing Goldband.

Went to my secret spot which is probably 10,000 other peoples secret spot and down went the lines. An hour later and it was bagged out time. Scored a nice Red, scarlet sea perch and a swag of Goldband and Rosie's.

Return trip sitting on 26 knots all the way and off the ramp with still a lot of boats still out making the best of the light winds and sunny weather.

Most fish were taken on fresh fish and squid. The Robbos definitely preferred squid but the others were all on fresh fish. Only lost a couple of fish to the taxman and they must have been big buggers because they took the whole rig!

Another nice day tomorrow so we will try and do it all again. Couple of pics below.

cheers

 day 3 was a bit of a loss, lots of Km's for very little return. Only put a few fish in the box with a solid baldie the best of a bad bunch. The northerly was pumping again, turning NW. and the fish went down, lots on the sounder but no takers. Better forecast tomorrow with the wind shifting so hopefully will fish better and I'll have something to say tomorrow.

cheers

My sister and I visited four provinces in Atlantic Canada between Jun 7 to 17. We spent most of our time exploring national parks. Although the primary focus of this trip wasn't about fishing, you won't catch me traveling without my gear!

I made a challenging but achievable goal to catch a new species from each province. In the end, I caught 7 new species and accomplished my goal!

Shorthorn Sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius) - Species #464 (Newfoundland)



Rock Gunnel (Pholis gunnellus) - Species #465 (Newfoundland)



Winter Flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) - Species #466 (Prince Edward Island)



Blackspotted Stickleback (Gasterosteus wheatlandi) - Species #467 (Prince Edward Island)



Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) - Species #468 (Prince Edward Island)



Atlantic Tomcod (Microgadus tomcod) - Species #469 (New Brunswick)



Longhorn Sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus) - Species #470 (Nova Scotia)



There were so much spectacular scenery that there isn't enough room to share here. I'll share my favourite panoramic view with you, but I so encourage you to visit my blog posts to see the rest.

























Here are the links to my blog posts.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-1.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-2.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-3.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-4.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-5.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-6.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-7.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-8.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-9.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-10.html

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2015/06/2015-atlantic-canada-day-11.html

Left two rocks marina around midday and went straight out to a few spots in the 30's and 40's that have produced well in the past but only size fish landed was by the mrs - a 52cm pinkie. Plenty of whales around so ended up doing a bit of whale watching as the mrs had never seen one before. I saw  2 large whales breach in the distance about 2km away so went flat out to get to them. About half way there another whale that we hadnt seen surfaced just in front and to the right of us while we were stil going flat out, was a close call. I kind of assumed whales hear you coming and tend to stay down,  has anybody ever had a close call like that . Weve had them surface at the back of the boat right next to the drift anchor in the past but they went straight down and under the boat still shat myself though.

 Hey guys, me and some mates will be up in Exmouth from August 5th for around 3 weeks,

will be launching from tantabidi boat ramp a lot of the time,

chasing a report on its conditions at the moment?

i know there has been a bit of weather up there of late, 

cheers for the help

pegz

 Well day 2 and still 20 plus knots backing off in the afternoon around 4.00pm

Cruised out around 10.30 and managed a couple of small Rankins. Wind turned North and the bite went off. Not much over the next couple of hours but when the wind dropped we managed a couple of fish. A nice Red, a pearly, a nice sized Cobia (released) and a NW snapper. went down well as a green curry fish !

Looking for the wind to drop tomorrow to get amongst them.