Just wondering, I know south mole isn't the best fish spot around but wanted to relax an havea go this weekend, or els go south to the cut an see....

Made a quick dash down to Albany on new years eve to spend a few days with the family and get some fishing done.

The olds already had my boat down there so that made things easier for me.

New years day we took the boat out launching at Hartmens wich is a easy beach launch. Shot straight out to some lumps marked on most good maps. Set up right over a lump in 50m to do a test drift and had a drop in the process. First drop of the day Twitch Twitch BANG i loaded up in a big way on  my PE5 stick after a blistering run i got busted off by a suspected big sambo or YTK.

Being to lazy to re rig i swapped to my PE3 Stick proceeded to Jig up a heap of rat YTK and Sambos while the bait boys smashed some quality Black arse and the unwanted Gurnard Perch and Sargent Bakers.

We fished up until lunchtime and ended up with a decent bag of Black arse, Swallow tail and a pinkie.

I didnt get as many pics as i should have done but here is a couple.

Angry Little Sambo on a Xesta Jig

The Days bag between 4 of us

The Difficult beach launch at Hartmens

Hopefully get back down there soon for some more fun on the sambos and kings and find some decent ones this time.

Cheers Jayce

With yesterdays forecast looking sweet I decided to head up to Tworocks (demersal jigging) and spend the day on the water plus escape the heat!

I took out my good mate Scott (FW - Soupster51) and on the way up Scott was saying I haven't caught a bluespot flathead on jig for ages and I havnt caught a KG or baldy on jig .... ever!

I said I have and you never know today could be your day. Who would of thought before lunch time he would have ticked off all these species on jig and Scott also got into multiple blackarse (1 big one) and 6kg dhufish keeper!

I ended up with multiple dhufish and the one pictured was my biggest ..... geez that fish went hard in 40m and on jig!

I ended up with several sambos on jig also (some solid fish landed), bluespot flathead and a " surprise "!

We bagged out on jig by lunchtime and the esky was looking very healthy I will say!

Whilst we were drifting, we contemplating going in but the wind backed off so why not hang out on the water!

We had seen many birds working and bait fish in the 40's, I said to Scott lets go and have a quick cast probably southern bluefin tuna but I said I cant see any on the surface?

Within seconds the birds & bait had come to my boat and underneath/all around we had a big school of dolphin fish (small fish) hang .... wow in 40m of water (metro)

I grabbed my spin stick with a twisty and first cast dolly ...... the school moved on and another cast at another bait ball got me a southern bluefin tuna!


Plenty of fish were caught on jig, great weather, awesome session and cheers Scott for being apart of it!!

We ended up with (approximately) 12 x dhufish  3 x blackasre 3 x sambos 1 x KG 2 x Blluespot flathead (all on jig) and 1 x dolphinfish 1 x southern bluefin tuna on metal twisty!


If your needing any demersal jigs, gear, advice or info on techniques ... pop in and my staff are happy to help!


Cheers

 a few from New Years day and Sunday. the 3 biggest were just under 180mm

 Managed to nab a half decent pinkie and dhuie out from mindarie on the kayak on sunday. Took a while to gind some ground and eventualy these two fell for the jig in the picture. Finnaly got the dhuie monkey of my back! Ide say ive caught atleast 15 undersize dhuies before this one haha

 Got out early on Saturday on the Swan and eventually got 9 nice sized blue swimmers. smallest was 140mm, biggest 173 mm.  One very  small u/s thrown back. cleaned some raw and prepared them as per al mcglashan's bbq recipe.  marinated them overnight and bbq'd for lunch on Sunday.

f..king sensational!

m

i am going to try other seafood in the marinade such as fish in alfoil :)

 Anyone been out wide this weekend, what was the temperature of the water?

headed out from Oceanreef this morning and managed a quick mixed bag in 30-40m. Lucky as the south westerly came in earlier than expected, the only downside to the day was the winch rope snapping way when winching the boat up the trailer.

 Been absolutely slaying the YFW over the past few days...probably have caught and (mostly) released 70+ fish over three sessions. No real big 'uns, average size maybe 27-28 cm and hitting every lure I've thrown at them, including softies and sinking stickbaits in the deeper channels. Have also got onto maybe a dozen or so tiny salmon so have got fingers crossed that they'll get up to 35-40cm over the next couple of months to really give the light gear a buzz!

Anyway, I got Lisa down there this morning and she got into her first whiting as well...she couldn't believe how shallow (ankle deep) some of the fish were taking lures in, and she was a bit miffed at me for not bringing some sort of container to take them home! I assured her that we'll have another crack ASAP and take a few for a feed then!

We decided to head out from two Rocks, not having been up that way for a couple of years. The plan was to head off from home at 4.30am to beat the rush to get onto the water at this somewhat restricted ramp. Good plan, so good in fact that every other bugger in Perth had the same idea and the queue was around the car park, up the hill and down the road. It was decision making time. Do we head elsewhere or wait to get in. Others were coming in behind us and turning around. The decision was made for us when the line started to move. 75 mins later, we were launched and pushing out of the heads.

I was going to fish some marks that I had found over 20 years ago in a relatively shallow 38m and only about 10nm out. The ground was very inconspicuous, having been found way back by the old method of drifting. The sounder I had in thsoe days was a mono Lowrance LMS200, a pretty good sounder for those days but even that did not show this ground to be anything special, no little rises or drop off just flat, rubbly bottom that looked featureless, without any fish even showing but all those years ago we had found 3 pots on it and decided to give it a go. It has never let us down over all the years and we had always fished it lightly. Over the years I had added points and plotted out the boundaries of this little area, the steady SW was going to provide the best drift angle that would allow us to progressively work the area.

We were fishing a mix of metal jigs and baits to cover a couple of bases. The jig was the first one in and within one or two lifts he was on, baits were not even raedy to go in yet ! So up somes a smallish Dhuwhich we released successfully back home to catch another day. Baits went in and the jigman comes up tight again ! This time up come a Sergeant Baker, I grabbed it straight away and sent it back down as bait. Over the next couple of hours or so we caught more Sgt bakers and other ubdesirables as well as a steady stream of undersize Dhus. Jigs were still taking the honours, easily outfishing bait. 

Then we came up on a really nice piece of ground. Now that I have a sounder that can burn fish scales off at 100m it became really evident what was down there, It was flat and rubbly but it was also very hard. The white line thickened right up and we got lots of scattering under the return echo. Right on cue, a nice baldy hit the baits and went straight into the esky, this was followed by a sized Pinky and then another big Sergeant Baker. More fresh bait and I took the time to put on a couple of nice fat fillets on to a snell of 9/0. Another bait user landed another solid Baldie, and then the jigman came up solid on a good fish, it made his little PE1.5 and 4000 reel work hard and up popped a nice sized Dhu, probably around 4-5 kgs. Just as they were high fiving, I was slammed by a nice fish. My new Venom and Talica played him out easily and we were rewarded when we saw the big flash of colour start to rise out behind the boat. He was manouvered over to the gaff and into the esky. We decided that would do us as we had a good feed and didnt need more so decided to call it a day and get back to beat the rush.

Took a nice leisurely run back to the ramp only to see at least 14 boats in the marina waiting to come out. There was nothing else to do but sit and wait. Just over an hour and we were out and ready to go.

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised at the courtesy and patience demonstrated by all boats at the marina both launching and retrieving. It makes a nice change to see everyone exercising restraint when they were all mad keen to get out and into them. It was also good to see how people noted who they were behind and just jockeyed their boat around before it was their turn to approach the ramp to retrieve. Much better that some of these other impatient pr*cks that you can see at some other popular launch sites.

The days catch which provided us with plenty of nice fillets.

Well its that time of year again ..... summer crabbing which I look forward to every year!

The Swan River crabs are my favourite and normally full of meat & very clean!

The Swan is just starting to fire IMO but early days ....... can only get better and better from here!

I took my boat out yesterday with good mate Shaun (FW Shabba) coming along for the arvo sesh in the Swan!

The plan was to crab the arvo with a rising tide and crab the deeper water around Mosmans/Black Wall Reach area!

We ended up with 14 crabs and released plenty just undersize which was good to see for the future!
 

There was a few big ones in the catch and no doubt a quality feed =>

Was good to catch up again Shaun ......... cheers

Just got back from a week up at Kalbarri. Only went fishing two times and both times were pretty short due to the wind and a young passenger suffering from sea sickness. The bolt cutters (NW Blowies) were out in full force so didnt'do much bottom bouncing. Caught a number of fish but here are the best two. 

Was stoked to get my first Wahoo. Both caught on small Rapala XRAPS

Went down to the guildford bridge a couple days ago to see if I could catch some bream before the sunset.

Tried lures with no success, switched to bait but was only getting nibbles for an hour. 

Re-baited and casted. Left the rod on the ground for 30 seconds unnatended whilst I was occupied with something else when I heard my drag go, knew I was hooked onto something big.

So I go to grab my rob but in an instant it gets pulled into the water, I quickly looked down in the water to see my rod torpedoing into the depths. Not sure if I was more disppointed that I lost a good rod, or the fish.

Lesson learnt, keep an eye on your rod and make sure it's secure.

So today, I grabbed my other rod and left early in the morning and headed to success hill under the pipe. I attach my new tt switchblade in gold noggin colour to the rod and cast. A couple of flicks and a short wind with a decent pause for the retreive.

First cast, I was hooked onto a bream I could tell it wasn't a monster but it would've been my first bream on a lure as I haven't really tried before. Lost it after about 4 seconds.

So I continue to cast around the shore and after about 20 casts, I'm snagged. Lost a good lure.

Not a very good couple of trips, but at least I'm more motivated to use lures for bream.

I hear that a few people were looking for me this week so here it goes :

The Busselton Jetty Report : ppl looking for me edition.

This has been the quietest summer fishing season since the jetty opened. The best chance to catch a feed at the moment is about halfway out the jetty with some herring getting around there in the late afternoon early evening. The squid madness of a month or two ago has come to an end but there are still some big ones around for those who work for them. Tailor are not playing the game so far this summer and are hit and miss more miss than hit. Not many snook around for this time or year as well. If you just want to have some fun there have been Sampson fish hanging around the pylons throughout the day from the second shelter onwards, use squid head on a 9/0 or greater hook and a heavy handline or if you are mad enough an overhead.

2014 was a relatively quiet year for the jetty overall.

Happy New Year, tight lines.

TheJettyRat.

Went out on Tuesday with everyone else, out into the washing machine!

Anyway after messing around in close decided to venture out a bit further.

Ended up catching the first size dhu for the boat (and my first one in years!). Moved spots again and then ended up catching a pink snapper on a sof plastic! Awesome stuff.

Couple of pictures and a video if you have a spare 3 mins  :)

http://youtu.be/zJTCBn-JO10

Just to add to that video posted, here are some pics of the trips we did the other day. The first day inshore was amazing with Cobia, Mackerel and Large Mouth Nannygai to 50 cm released as we had so many fish. It was non stop action and brilliant fun. The next day saw us go wide and we had a great day on the Stickbaits and poppers with not only the GT but Spanish Macks were flying out of the water trying to smash the stickbaits. We could have bagged out on Spanish if we wanted to. Some Good Reds and other fish were landed to round off a great trip. The final trip was also a good one although the time spent wide trying to chase a Billfish/Wahoo etc was fruitless. We still got some good fish though including some Stonker Blue Spot trout and a big Wrasse at the end. The Dolphins were a good way to end the day. I'll get some more footage sorted and post down the track.

http://www.fishandboattube.com.au/media-gallery/403-wonga

 well me family headed to our beach shack at grey Boxing Day and got there about 9am  plan was to quickly unpack and put the boat in but me dad had other ideas wait for me other and uncle to arrive and unpack  then they wanted a cup off tea while I was itching to head out with perfect conditions I was getting pissed off Finaly me keen uncle got the rest going and we Finaly lanched the 2 boats by 1030 or so and headed north in the shallows to have a crack at some shallow water demersals first spot we were in bout 10m and resulted in nothing so moved on and anchored  burleyed up a lil and next thing I was onto soemthen with a good fight  on me light jigger majorcraft crostage and stradic ci4 3000.  I was calling it straight up for a pinkie. Which resulted in a 460 pinkie being legal we were were I still threw it back hoping for some larger ones to show up but to no avail   After a while and the wind picking up we called it quits for the day but me uncle and cousin stayed out. A few hours longer and Finaly came in with 2 dhuies for the day. 

Saturaay came and knowing the winds were going to drop warly we headed out about 630am and plan was to head out to the 40s  but didn't go according to plan with it a bit sloppy. And me eldest uncle on board dad and I decided to head back to the area we are fishing the day before. Arrived at one particular spot which had some nice shows on te sounder so we threw the anchor    Within 5 mins dad was onto soemthen and was taking a bit off line  but soon got it easily wnough up in the 10m off water  and was a nice 540mm baldie into the eskie he went while I caught a few undesirable fish we kept for bait for me dad and uncle I persisted with the jigs. Next min dad is on again up comes another baldie but undersized  so back in he went. It went quiet so we headed off for a new spot found a nice patch off reef and dropped anchor we barely took the slack out off the anchor rope ask we had dropped already  I was getting tap tap taps. Then bang I'm on then with in seconds dad was on  dad got his to the boat pretty quickly while I was getting the run around the boat a few times with mine and I was thinking ahit hope the 20lb leader I was using holds up  he slowly started to loose the fight and I was beginning to win then I saw colour dad had just netted his dhuie said to him hurry up I'll need the net  I was shouting out dhuie for mine.  Dad was trying to rush but his got tangled in then by now mine was boat side. And was thinking shit this would be close to me pb dhuie off 800mm. Dad was just about got the net free  then next second me fish decided to give bit off kick and next thing I see me line go slack.  So I quickly tried grabbing him by hand but he slipped away next hall u hear was me shouting out Ff@@k  I was nt happy. . But quickly pulled meself together and checked leader the whole 2m was scuffed as and numerous spots were just hanging on  so cut that off and tied a new one on and re rigged by that time we thought we might head a lil bit deeper and so we went to the reef line in about 12-14 m and drifted thur the section seens the swell was low and wind was virtually none  we picked up a few fish such a as black ass flathead. Samba and a skippy  we decided to call it a day  as the by that time the wind had started to pick up . On the Sunday I had to come home  but me dad and uncles stayed till Tuesday getting oht on Sunday and Monday heading to the shallows again and cleaning up both day.  With the biggest waith me dad catching a 750 dhuie. And cousin a 650. In all was a great day rip can't wait to hit the shack again

 next thing 

Went to Rotto on Tuesday landed six Dufish two keepers two nice black ass. Also hooked monster YTK epic battle only to lose fish being to enthousiastic trying to net to early. Then every expletive known to man came oiut of my mouth . I  estimate 1500 TO 1800 long. Only had half a mulie left and thought may as well try again and to my delight instant hook up . Played only a few minutes and then got busted off on reef.   Next time i will try to take more time to wear out the fish before trying to net. Anybody have any idea how much a fish like that would way? Have lost other YTK before but this would have been a fish of a lifetime.

Mate Nic and I managed to get in one last fishing session for the year of 2014. Launching at the wee hours of the morning ensured that we were fishing just after sunrise. The initial drift resulted in no takers mainly due to the brisk wind and we decided to drop anchor close to a likely looking bommie. After burleying we started catching bread and butter species and within two hours we had our quota for the day. A just legal sized Dhufish was followed by two Snapper(one kept), a Baldchin Groper, a Harlequin Fish and a Breaksea Cod (released). Nic also managed to catch a large Port Jackson Shark, two Fiddler Ray and a decent Sambo before the wind became too unbearable.

On our way back to Woodman Point we noticed some bird activity and decided to investigate. Tuna were smashing baitfish and it took a couple of seconds to tie a Halco Twisty to the end of one of the lines and cast out into the frenzy. First cast and we were on. In the short 15 minute session before the fish disappeared we managed to boat three of these keen fighters.

A great way to finish off 2014 with a good feed to keep us going for a week or two.

Here's to a successful and safe 2015 with heaps of fish and plenty of releases.

YouTube clip - http://youtu.be/6cI5NmiM4SU

Hi All,

First report, like reading others reports so thought I'd throw one up, bit late but... went out off Rocko two Sunday's ago. Wind was howling early, game plan was to fish for an hr then pull the pots in for the season. Rough out deep early.

Launched with a mate at about 5.30 headed out into the 30's for our first attempt since the ban lifted. First drop saw a beautiful 66cm Baldy, second drop saw an undersize Dhu, released well. 15mins more fishing saw a 65cm and a 50.00000001cm Dhu on board. The smaller released well, usually we have a 70cm rule for Dhu but let this one slide for 65cm one, the first for the season. Really nice fish.

Pulled the pots for a good feed

Back at home cleaned and beered before lunch

Cheers,

Ben

 Went out from mandurah yesterday in very ordinary conditions with my  best maye Paul, AKA Decrais. Decided to give a smaller jig a crack on my new outfit as the fish seemed a little shut down. I remember thinking to myself just as my jig hit the bottom this will be interesting if I hook something decent. Sure enough seconds later bang I was hooked up. After about 5 minutes of feeling like I had barely budged whatever I had hooked it decided to make a move taking a heep od line. As the line angle increased I started to get concerned I was gunna get rubbed of as the ground was a little knarly. We decided to start the boat and pursue the fish trying to improve the angle. I got real lucky as there was a point when it felt like it had me in the reef. I backed of the tension for about 5 seconds and fortunately he came out. I started to put as much hurt on the fish as I thought my outfit could handle but the whole time wondering if my line was damaged from the reef. Eventually I managed to get him turned and get him to the boat. Epic battle

 Hit up Henderson this morning wading the reef chasing tailor on stickbaits only managed a herringand 4 razor fish  there was a few boats trolling the area including one old dude in a dingie trolling a red rope handline I would love to know what he was expecting to catch. Packed up had brekkie and headed to the river for flathead in nedlands area managed about 12 including one going 57 which took a few runs on my very light drag setting all flatties bar 2 40cm fish were released

Mate Nic asked if I would take his brother-in-law and nephew visiting from South Africa for a fishing outing on the boat. With a bit of a break in the wind forecast for the next day we hastily finalised arrangements in anticipation for a couple of hours fishing. After hooking the boat I picked them up at 03h30 the next morning and we made the 20km journey to Woodman Point. On arrival at the Cockburn Powerboat Association slipway we realised that there were a number of other keen anglers capitalising on the favourable conditions.

After an uneventful launch we made our way across the Sound and out into the Indian Ocean towards one of my favourite spots. I always get decent fish at this spot and wanted the guys to go home with at least one good fish. As we approached one of the bommies we cut the motor and dropped weighted baits trolling behind the boat as the Easterly wind pushed us along. The sea anchor was deployed to slow the drift and to ensure that the baits remained in the “zone”. I decided to “bottom bounce” with a lighter rig whilst waiting for the other baits to be picked up. Within minutes I managed to land an undersized Baldie after which Chris picked up a small Pinkie. As we were unhooking the Pinkie for release my rod with the Scalie in tow took off and I was into the first decent fish for the day. Seconds later the second rod took off and a full minute had not gone by since the first hook up and a third fish was on – a triple hook up! I was reefed soon after followed by Chris and then Tiaan – what a disappointment, three hook-ups and no fish. All three were decent fish and I was starting to think Sambo or Kingie, as they all gave very decent tugs on the business end of the tackle.

A second drift over this bommie resulted in a couple of undersized Dhufish and Breaksea Cod with no further large visitors taking our baits. The wind had dropped by a couple of knots and we decided to drop the anchor near the bommie and entice these elusive fish with a burley trail. Not long after we anchored I picked up a large fish on an unweighted mullie fishing a light 20lb rig. I was on a hiding to none as this fish also took little time to reef me. This left me with no choice - out came the “big guns” – the T-Curve Jig 200 rod with the Daiwa SGT35H reel loaded with 40lb braid as the light tackle was an insult to these keen fighting fish. At the business end two 7/0 Gamakatsu hooks snelled onto 60lb floro held the scalie in place.

Nic had been dropping a constant stream of mullie blocks behind the boat and we saw the Yelowtail Kingfish dart up from the dark blue depths and engulf the free offerings. The baited rig was tossed a short distance behind the boat and allowed to drift amongst the free offerings. Nic had the first pick up but failed to set the hook. When my turn came I restrained the urge to strike and allowed the Kingie to swim off with my bait before setting the hook. Bang! I was into a steam train with rocket propulsion and spent the first couple of seconds hanging on in awe before I came to my wits and steadily set the drag to prevent this fish running me into the reef as all its previous mates had done. After a couple of anxious moments I eventually turned the Kingies’ head from its intended destination and slowly brought it up to the surface amidst a lot of protesting from this formidable fighter. As it slipped into the net there were high-fives all around as we eventually managed to boat one of these tackle busters.

Chris managed to lose another Kingie to the reef below before I handed him the T-Curve which had a dissenting Kingie at the other end. After a tense battle which lasted a number of nervous minutes Chris boated his largest fish ever and was he a happy camper. Young Tiaan caught a feisty Bronzie to conclude his first day out on our wonderful WA waters.

By mid-day the regular December Fremantle Doctor was starting to show its presence and we decided to make our way back to the slipway before the sea became too sloppy.

I have been privileged to land a number of decent Sambos and am willing to give the title of heavyweight fighting champion to the Yellowtail Kingfish after this weekend’s bout.

YouTube clip - http://youtu.be/RP2MLsTLSDU?list=UUWIj5krFAWitD-_FZNeBC2g

Hey guys,
since buying my boat earlier this year, one of my main goals has been to catch a sambo.

I opened my account pretty early in the Cockburn sound while just trying some small lumps ide noticed on the way in,
as you can see, its a very small juvenile and only really took the photo as it was quite comical at the time.

the next stepping stone was a by catch while spinning for tailor on the reefs out from Hilarys, hitting the old faithful Smiling Jack. also not very big at all but I was bloody chuffed (had spent a lot of time over the reefs with live baits in the berley trail for nil) finally I had one, and on a hard body also.

the next size up came the day after boxing day, being down Busso way it would of been rude of me to not take the boat down, we headed out into the clear waters of the bay and soon found a little rise, my sounder was reading fish hanging around the lump so we quickly anchored up and set to burleying up, first drop my deckie loaded up onto a good fish straight away but got bricked, my hopes rose. I lobbed out a soft plastic and set to prepping the boat/berley when my brand new tcurve/stradic combo took off. after a solid battle and few rings around the boat I got it to the boat and was pumped to finally grab the tail of a good size (well for me) sambo. caught and released 4 more of simular size which all were fun on 20lb, happy to christen my new combo too!

So now, Im ready for the next level up, just gotta keep trying I guess and hopefully with a bit of luck it wont be too far away - to be continued...

thanks for the read,
would be interested on peoples thoughts on the weight of the last fish as we didn't weight or measure any of them that day.

Finally got Narelle Gwynne out in the boat today and she went well!
She nailed a Spaniard as soon as we went over the spot which we then anchored on for the the rest of the day. Not too many keepers but dozens upon dozens of Bludger Trevally and a few Big Eye trevally thrown in. We did get one keeper Nannygai among dozens of under size ones, a nice school mack and a solid Cobia. A good inshore trip out from Cairns for just one spot.

 me and castalot (fw member) headed up to dongara for a weekend trip on the beach.

found some good water that held fish. picked up halfadozen tailor good feed of whiting and a few dart. 

sharks were hard to avoid at night with plenty bust offs. 

tailor went 67cm

 Yesterday in anticipation of making the best of the good forecasted weather, we decided to head to the FADS to see for ourselves if the water up temperature was warm enough for Dollies. The water temperature at the back of Garden Island was between 19.7 and 20.2 degrees in about 25-35m of water. As we headed west to the Furuno, PGFC and the new Recfishwest fads (could not find the surface fad at 32 00 938S 115 13 886 E) the water temp decreased into the upper 17 degrees. This was was not a good start to long travel from Rocko. 

Prior to departing BOM surface temperature indicated the water would be between 20-22 degrees, this was not the case.

We done the usual trawling with "Jub Jubs" and live baits, but nothing. After a good effort we decide to bottom bounce closer to Rocko as the weather was gonna turn as the day progressed. We were fortunate enough to pick up a 4.5kg Baladie and the biggest KGW I've ever seen. 

There were a few other boats looking for Dollies but we never saw anyone go away?... The good news is there are alot of Tuna around.

anyone else have any luck with Palagics????

ALL THE BEST TO EVERYONE FOR 2015.

Team Couta Crazy

Hi All, so it's been a while since my last post, finally got a chance to wet a line this morning my partner, we started out going to Bluewater for some advice on tackle and bait, was greeted by a nice and influential saesman on what to buy, and not what to buy.. Lures all the way as bait will only get you blowies, so I got both just in case.. after spending ages blooping this whiting lure, I got nothing, my partner was on the bait and had two whiting, so another trip back to the tackle store to pick up some more bait saw another five fish caught, all up seven fish, I got two my (as usual) lucky partner got five.

Anyway looking forward to a yummy dinner tonight!

 headed out off oceanreef today, hundreds of boats out and plenty of boat ramp caos. Was still a good day with a mixed bag. First queeny I've caught also.

I managed to get out for a short solo morning session yesterday before the wind picked up. After launching at 05h00 from Woodman Point I made my away across a sloppy ocean to one of my favourite spots. I decided to cut the Yammie about 500m upwind from "the spot" and use the Easterly to deliver me over the zone. The first bait out was a mullie on a double snelled 4/0 Gamakatsu on a 20lb rig. I was busy baiting the second rig when I noticed an inquiry on the rod tip and set the hooks into a feisty fish. After a 5 minute tussle I had the fish at the boat, but it was not going to give up that easily. After a number of exhilarating runs I eventually boated my first Tuna. Not a big fish by any means, but enough to earn respect for this new species. Anything bigger than this will require slightly heavier tackle.

The second rig had a scalie at the business end attached to double snelled 7/0 Gamakatsu hooks. No more than 15 minutes after the first fish I was into a heavy-weight contender trying to reef me. The speed of the drift came to my rescue as I managed to lift the fish from its reefy home and bring it to the net. My first decent demersal after the ban - a Dhufish of 81cm - elation! This time the rig was the heavier Shimano T-curve Jig 200 with 40lb braid - the correct gear for this bout. A good way to initiate the new rod after my brother managed to snap the other one a couple of weeks ago.

By 11h00 the wind had changed direction and the prevailing brisk South Wester told me that it was time to go home. Apart from the Tuna and Dhuie I managed to boat a small Bronzie, my first Sea Sweep and a couple of other nuisance fish. A bumpy ride of about an hour saw me safely back at Cockburn Powerboat Associations slipway. A quick rinse down and I was on my way home to prepare fresh Dhufish fillets for lunch.

Another day in paradise!

YouTube clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNxr6E3kU8Q&list=UUWIj5krFAWitD-_FZNeBC2g