With the weather looking good me and a mate decided to head out for a bit of a whiting fish,

the whiting were found around the 23 m mark and we quickly had our feed on ice with a few nice size slimey macks  a welcome addition to the bait freezer for the coming summer.

next we hit the three mile in search of some skippy and hopefully a sambo or two but with the burely pumping a couple hours and one skippy to show for it, we moved on to explore some ground,

settling in a nice channel/drop off to continue on the skippy/sambo hunt, but once again the burley trail produced nothing. Not even the baitfish!

while I was persisting with drifting baits my mate decided to re rig to  fish the bottom, and promptly hooked up and lost two decent  hard fighting  unknowns .

i followed his lead and was rewarded with a PB king George  of 52cm and  a healthy 2 kilo ( great fun on 6 lb gear) ,after the victory dance, we tried for more but received no love so we decided to call it.

on way back in I couldn't resist a quick flick of  some lure around some exposed reefy areas,

After around twenty casts and almost circling the reef I had a follow out from the reef and got hit in the clear water in full view., after a great lil tussle I finally got my sambo!

not huge mind you but I was stoked! Especially to catch it on a smiling jack and to see the strike.

love fishing! 

Went down to local beach Saturday early and was rewarded with eight nice chunky tailor. 7x 320 to 350 and one fat one at 450. Lunch yesterday with cold beers same today. Looks like a great summer of fishing coming up.

Pretty rough today but we were rewarded with 3 quadruple headers on troll, pretty mad having all fours rods going off almost at the same time.....Dropped a few, released a few but got a good haul in quick time. Kingie was solid.

 Got a bag today NOR and majority are still soft or in process of moulting (cray on left). For the potters out there, they  wont be walking too far from their ledges. Not long now!

Plenty of Herring around the bay at the moment.

We had a great couple of hours yesterday trolling 10 & 20gm Halco twisties on our ElCheapo 10 buck combos picking up 15 or 16 and losing just as many.

We found the fish were schooling up along the edge of the drop off in about 3 - 4 metres with plenty of double hook ups.

Good to see fisheries at the ramp even if it slowed things up a bit.

Vid runs for 48 secs.   www.youtube.com/watch

 good fun on the light gear, off the rocks around the hillarys area. Were on the bite for about 20 mins just before high tide.

Hey everyone first report here,

With the weather warming up i decided to try the Mandurah flats today for the first time since last summer. Got down there about 9:30 and although the sun was out and a light easterly blowing the YFW where initially very hard to find! I managed to spot a few schools and although they were happy to follow my surface lures they were very reluctant to hit them. They started to get a little more active about 11 but they were constantly spitting the hooks. Only managed 4 YFW between 9:30 and 2:45. Im not sure what turned them on but from 2:45ish - 3:15 they absolutely fired and my 4 biggest for the day came in 4 casts. Ended up with 9 for the day with the biggest going 32cm and a new PB. I had well over 20 whiting spit the hooks throughout the day!

The only lure they would take all day was a bassday sugarpen in a prawn pattern (MB16) worked really slow. I tried skinny pop jrs in clear and duo pocopoco's in clear with pink head but they werent interested.

Cheers.

 Hi guys. 

Are there any reports of crabs in the mandurah/peel estuary yet

cheers

Ladies and Gentlemen

The Navy today blocked off the entrance to the Jet Ski area at Point Peron. I believe the intent is deny access to the beach by vehicle, but the beach can be used. Jet Skiers will have to launch at the Point Peron boat ramp, then head around to the beach area and the wife and kids walk down from the road. Not sure of the full picture, but I guess it may annoy a few people and ruin a trip if you were unaware

Willy

 Hi all a good friend of mine offered to take me over the other side of gulf to catch afue prawns and we got afue our 9l each of bananas. 

  Jeff

Last week I was out in Southern Oman, fishing with the excellent No Boundaries operation. I was fishing with Tim van Bockxmeer and Josh Racovelli, on a trip we'd had planned for a while.

The reports we'd been seeing in the weeks leading up to the trip were positive, which had us primed for some solid fishing action.

As with most people going to Oman our main target was to get some hooks into some monster sized GTs. I'd told myself before I left that as long as I landed one for the trip, anything else was a bonus.

A couple of days prior to the trip the weather forecast started looking pretty average, due to a tropical cyclone passing through the area, however when we landed - things looked OK for at least the first day.

With a decent forecast for that first day we had an early start and shot out to the islands to hassle some GTs. I'd just picked up some of the new (and very sexy) Temple Reef Ballista Detonator 168gr poppers to test out on the trip, and had one of these ready to fly on the first cast.

Sadly the fish did not want to play ball (primarily due to the wind direction we were told) and in almost a full day of casting we'd only seen one GT - which made a pass at my Ballista, but didn't find the hooks.

To ensure we didn't have a fishless day we spent the last couple of hours doing some light tackle fishing around the islands, where we picked up a handful of small trevally on casting gear. We then switched to some light jigging to find some dinner.

We were running using quite light combos for those waters (where you never know what will take the jig), in using some Temple Reef Mythos and the lightest Jigging Master fallings. We got a few bits and pieces including some spangled emperor, a longtail tuna and a nice sized grouper.

At the end of day 1 we were saddened to see that the weather forecast had worsened, meaning that we'd be stuck with inshore fishing on day 2. Oman is also famous for having enormous bream. Given that in Oman however a fish of 60cm to the fork is not rare, we were keen to get one!

We were chasing these fish on a mix of poppers and stickbaits using a range of light casting rods including the Yamaga Blanks Blue Sniper 77/3 and the Temple Reef Stealth range of rods. Unfortunately though the approaching cyclone had shut down the bite, and we ended up with only 2 bream for the day amongst us, both taken on poppers. The biggest of these fish was over 60cm to the fork, and around the 5.5kg mark and it nailed Tim's popper right near the boat. After he'd done the hard work of burlying it (and its mate) in with his popper I flicked mine in the water next to his fish and straight away got another. Good result!

Day 3 and the weather had gotten worse again. This meant that we couldn't even launch the boat, so we consoled ourselves with hours of re-rigging, a swim at the local oasis to cool off and plenty of cursing the lack of beer availability in Oman!

On day 4 the weather had improved, but not enough to make it to the islands, meaning a second day of inshore fishing was the order of the day. Thankfully the passing of the cyclone had brought the fish onto the chew, and we had a much better session on the inshore stuff with around 8 bream landed (almost all on popper) and some other trevallies and odds and sods also falling to the lures. One standout capture was Josh catching the first known bonefish ever caught on lure in Oman, which put up a great account of itself. It took a Nature Boys 155gr jig, being worked on a Temple Reef Mytho Plus 62S. Great catch!

With our last day looming and us not having put a single GT on the deck yet, the pressure was well and truly on. We shot out to the islands in less than ideal conditions, ready to cast the water to foam.

Once again I reached for the Detonator 168 popper and we started to cast. Within half an hour of casting, the moment we'd waited for had come, as a massive splash erupted in the water and a GT nailed my lure. I set the hooks, and settled into what I was sure was going to be a brutal fight with what (I hoped) was an Omani monster class GT.

After spending 4 days psyching myself up for this fight the adrenaline was well and truly flowing and I got the fish in fairly quickly. It wasn't until we had it up on the deck that I realised how big it was.

Weighing in at 50kg it was my PB GT and I was stoked to say the least. After being weighed and a few pics the fish was tagged and released, and for me at least the trip was now made. I'd have been happy catching only this one fish for the whole trip, and it's funny how one cast can make or break a trip.

Thankfully though I didn't have to make do with the one! The fish were really firing after the storm and we ended up landing 11 fish for the boat, 6 of which we caught in the course of two triple hookups where mobs of GTs pack attacked our lures. It was truly an incredible experience seeing these huge fish nailing your lure as soon as it hit the water with 1 or 2 other fish already mid-fight on the boat.

I ended up with 4 fish for the day weighing in at 45kg,46kg, 48kg and 50kg all taken on the Detonator 168, which has now earned its place on the No Boundaries lure wall of fame at the lodge where it has now been retired. Other successful lures on the day were Josh's Hammerhead Tobi, his Temple Reef Balista Bull 140 and Tim's SACL Walker. I also caught a nice mahi mahi on a Craftbait GT3, which sadly didn't give much fight on the PE10 gear, but made for some great eats that night!

Towards the end of the day the wind had died off, and the GT bite had died off with it. With all of us having caught our PB GTs that day we were very satisfied, so we grabbed the light gear out to try and jig up something else to go with the Mahi Mahi for dinner. Two great Spangled Emperor hit the deck in short order, with the second being a PB for me at 70cm and putting up a great fight on the light gear.

There's no doubt that the last day made the trip, and I can't wait to get back there. Ed at No Boundaries runs an incredibly professional operation, and the fishing there is really world class.

Cheers for reading,

Dan

Just heard about some guys squiding 200m off the north eastern bay of garden island (where all the boats anchor for the day) and had the navy security move them on at least 500m off the shore because there is now a exclusion zone all around the island due to the raised terrorist threat. Thought he was bullshiting ! Anyone heard about this ? 

 All

went into the mountains and had a hot session on the trout.... went to my favourite system to fish once again, which consistently has tropheys. For the first time fishing this system i had blue sky! i was stoked!

Generally we average 6-7 strikes here a day, but we got 13! unforuntly alot of these hook ups didnt stick.

Fish were large once again, and it was good to see the rainbows starting to work back up the system from spawning

A few 8-9.5 pounders were caught plus my PB rainbow at just a tad over 12 pound.

Some of the fish that were dropped we possible tropheys as well.

Who saids there is no tropheys on the north island? thats two in two sessions and they will only get bigger as the summer goes on!

All fish were released

few photos attached

brett

JohnF's CHOONAH post and his talk of bird action inspired me to post this bit of footage from Friday night just off Waikiki beach.

Couldn't resist mosing over to see what all the fuss was about but whatever it was that was chomping into them wasn't small so this was about as close as I was getting.

Don't blink but or you'll miss it. Only got a short bit of usable stuff as conditions were pretty sloppy.

About 45 secs. of vid.  

www.youtube.com/watch

 Stoked to finally get out for a fish and luckily picked up a good bag of whiting. Due to the wind being up early, we headed out from Hillarys around 9:30. Got out to the spot and there were a couple of boats anchored on spots I'd caught at before. Decided to drift with the sea anchor and had just enough weight to hold bottom. The boys picked up a couple of double headers and after marking a new spot, anchored up and reaped the rewards. Ended up with about 30 sand whiting with some thumpers in amongst the catch, a few yellow tail for bait next time and even a couple of beautiful, just sized pinkies on the whiting circle hooks.  They went back to swim another day.  The water glassed off beautifully as we headed back in around 12 and spent a little time looking at ground for the pots. Hopefully putting them out in the next couple of weeks. My boys love whiting so it was great to get a few meals in the freezer and a great family outing. 

Tuna everywhere in metro waters today. 5 minutes from the boat ramp was the first school, threw a few poppers at em but a bit too quick for us.

Pretty rough conditions this morning, which limited things, but me and Langa found some and less than 60 seconds of getting the lures in the water, double header....this was followed by two triples and another double. We dropped 2 and landed 6 (bag limit in quick time). Only took a photo of the last one landed, as we had the go pro going, but it ran out of batteries.....hmmm.

Had a quick sambo jig, landed a few, this one gave my Trinidad 16a a good workout.

On the way home, saw some free jumpers (one went 6 ft clear of the water!), these were much better size fish but we had our bag limit.

Filleted the fish today, lots of sashimi, a nice trade made for some crays.

Tuna appeared very widespread.

I got another chance to go fishing with my brother and sister in law last night. It was on the wrong side of the moon after the closed season had finished so we didn't have high expectations. Things started slowly too until we found a patch of Nannygai and after that they started coming over the side with good regularity.

Some highlights were the double hook up I got with one fish coming on an Undertaker jig head with Macarthy soft plastic. It was a good fish too so was pretty stoked. Pity the other one was a Slatey bream.

The best bit though had to be the finish. On our way home Mick drifted 4 Wonky holes and we got 5 quality Large Mouth Nannygai (Saddle tail snapper) to over 9 kilos. The drifts involved no more than two per spot and on one Mick was simply happy with the one fish on the first drop. All 5 fish hit within seconds of touchdown making this particular session all of about 15 minutes.

To top it off he decided to check out a favourite headland spot on the way home and see if there was any Fingermark (Golden snapper) about. Within 2 minutes a big Live squid came to the light and was netted and sent back down on my line. Within another 2 minutes I was hooked up. Fingermark number 1 was followed in a similar fashion by Fingermark number 2 a couple of minutes later. Then came number three and number 4 to make it 9 solid fish in the space of about 30 minutes. The biggest Fingermark was 80 cm.

It was an awesome trip for an inshore one and we lost count of the fish tally with a few more in a crate next to the ones shown. We had to keep running away from the Small Mouth nannygai (Crimson snapper) to find the Saddles. It was over 30 fish with the rest thrown in.

Once again my custom Phenix Titan was absolutley brilliant and I'm loving this rod big time. Matched with a Stella 5000 and 50lb braid it is a weapon.

Giant snakehead fishing in the wild is one of the most competitive big game fishing in asia.

Giant snakehead been the native freshwater fish of Thailand, is often fish by many anglers around the world.

For those who are a snakehead hunters like me, will know how addictive this kind of fishing can be.

Allow me to share my recent snakehead fishing trip with you guys.

Toman in heavy terrains... All actions inside the youtube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twhRDeTBlCI

Mama Toman chase......All actions inside the youtube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhQ1jzAFeQ

Highlights photos of the day !!!

Single toman landed in thick terrains weeds.








Sebarau (Jungle Perch )on buzz bait.





Mama toman ..

Hey guy,

I am spending the weekend with the misses and the kid down in busso, I have never gone fishing in busso, my bro told me there is some cracking squid off the jetty at night, but what is beach fishing like? If anyone could give me some tips would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks

 Thinking of doing some jigging for sambos on the Gemini on saturday has anybody caught any there recently or has anybody heard they are there. 

 Hey guys i have recently come back from a 4 month trip from europe and now back in perth. I have been on the site religiously watching and reading everyones posts every second day i have been over there. 

Having sold my tinny before i left i had arranged with my mate that the day after i landed this friday just gone that i wanted to be out on the water as soon as possible. 

With the Dermesal ban on we set out yesterday afternoon for squid, tailor and flathead. 

Ofcourse the forecast was wrong and was pretty blowy out there. 

Fishing was hard work and to windy to drift for squid so anchored the first spot and only caught wrasse and a batfish then went to the 2nd spot and burly up consistently still only managed on flathead before dark. Was good though because we could see it through the glass panel but the blowies we get to the bait before the flatty could have a chance to get near it so i put on a 3 gram jig i bought in barcelona and on the first lift hooked a nice little bluespot that would have gone just over 40cm. After that only managed one herring then everything went very quiet.  

I was very confident that after dark was going to produce but my mate was pretty keen to tuck into shelter. 

Luckily i was right. 

Biggest tailor was 54cm and weighed 1.5kg.

Biggest squid went easily over 1kg and havent measured the tube yet but its the 3rd biggest i have ever caught going by weight. 

Hey guys this is my first post, heading up to Wedge next weekend and I've never been before, any tips on what to target?  Heard Dhufish and Tailor are around?

 Went over to rotto yesterday (friday) just to get familiar with the route and spots around. Followed the first ferry, fairly brisk early easterly and a bit overcast. Didnt look all that promising but then the day just got better.

Sun came out wind dropped off and to our great delight we stumbled into a large spreadout group of whales breaching and frolicking in the morning sunshine. 

What a treat! Sadly our photo skills are pretty ordinary and we kept missing the whale and just got the splashes. Our kids would blame the operators and theyd be right.

Anyway do yourselves a favour and have a bopeep but just remember to be careful and give them room.

50mtrs is close enough to see and when they breach you don't wanna be close.

Respect  them guys, they are wonderful animals.

If you have little kids take them to have a look. Its way better than telly. 

Its my first time to see a whale in the wild and I wish id done it years ago.

Went out and pulled the pots for 14 keepers, from there it was a quick rip around the spots..

First to the Whiting patch where we got 13 before they went quite..

Second to the Squid Patch, we got 3 Crackers with the biggest tube was 29cm after cleaning.  

Then off to catch a few Herring for Lunch and a couple for Beach fishing tonight.. 10 Herring in Total..

 Is anyone geting crays in pots yet 

is it worth setting mine yet or do I wait a wile

cheers 

Got out for a couple of dives during the first week.  No whites (of either variety) seen.

Heaps of kakkas and hairy females around too. Shouldn't be too far away til they run.

Anyone know the story behind a supposed metro blue marlin in last week? Water temps are getting +21.5'C so it is possible.

cheers
JW

 www.youtube.com/watch

another one left the nest.lucky I have 2 boys left in reserve.2 gone, 3 more to go, great day,no more fishing or diving for dan the man .apparently l.o.l