yep will be my last night this year in the sound (except for some squid though)....but ended on a pretty good note.

hit Woodies and got on the water by about 2ish and headed straight over to GI to try to pick up some squid.
only one or two here and there. Not enough for a feed but a bit for bait.

Decided to sound around and look for some pinkies. Not too much happening in the sound but after a half hour or so
cruising around found a small lump defenitly holding fish. (Damn forgot to get some pics for the Simrad sounder threads)
Anchored and burlied up.

Just before sundown got a take on the unweighted bait (fantastic first run) then boated this one!

went 87cm. Had another take exactly the same as first about 20 mins later but got dropped (bitten through leader) close to the boat.

Stayed for a while after dark and had some fun with the taylor. Biggest of which went 52cm.

Till next year in the sound !

 With the weather forcast looking pretty awesome yesterday, I decided that it was time to take the boat for its maiden venture off two rocks.

Quick call to a mate from the shop, who was more than happy to join, and a 7am launch was agreed on.

Got to the ramp and the car park was pretty much full, considering the weather it was expected. Boat launched and 30mins later had out first drop on a lump in 34m. *rule on my boat....no bait!!* Wes was first to drop a jig down and 2 jigs off the bottom Smash! good hit and screaming drag...only to be busted off 10 seconds later. I drop my jig down and couple of lifts BANG! also a good hit only to end in the same result. Annoyed but atleast the fish were biting!

Re-rig and down they go again...couple of jigs and on! this time got the fish off the bottom, 5mins later and a samll sambo pops up...nothing special but not complaining.

Couple of drifts go by and on again! this time didnt feel big or put up much of an fight. Up comes a 40cm harlequin, Wes decides he wants it for dinner so spiked and iced it went.

After that it was decided that a change in location was in order so couple of kms south we went to another lump. As we approached, it turns out an old bloke in his tinny was anchored on the lump, BUT!... about 500m south of the lump we noticed birds diving so decided we would check it out. as we got closer we could see small tuna (most probably stripeys) smashing a big school of bait. Wes had a few casts at the school with two solid hits but no hook ups....then the school disappeared. BUT i noticed the sounder was filled with fish! Figured the school had gone deeper....down went the jigs!

I was with first to hook up! Solid head shakes and pulling string! Wes then hooks up and the adrenalin starts pumping! about a minute into the fight wes gets busted off....then my custom 30lb rod snapped below the first guide...so theres me trying to fight a fish with just the reel...2 minutes of stuggling and get busted off. Re-rig, this time with plastics becasue jigs cost a fair bit more...couple of twitches and BANG! both hooked up again! only to end in the same result...re rig again and wes is the first to hook up...this time he get it away from the bottom so i decide ill keep my lure on board and be ready to land the fish.

10mins later up comes a dirty old SAMBO!! Dissapointed not to get a tuna we decided to move again. This time a little deeper!

Headed out to the 40m contour and a small feint show of bait on the sounder...line up the drift and down went the jigs...*jig* *jig* *jig*...BANG! I hook up to something decent....10seconds later.....wes hooks up...only to be smoked by a monster!! Eventually i see colour..DHU!!! up comes a 78cm dhuie! My first on my boat and on jig and a personal best!

Spiked and iced he went!

Line up the drift again and drop the jigs down...as we drift over the spot...BANG! i hook up again...this time a bit more of a fight and 5mins later colour...DHU AGAIN!!!

This time is a 82cm one...Another personal best!!! So stoked!

Spiked and iced!

Both fish landed on 15lb and an 80g Eupro Flash in the red gold.

Couple more drifts of the same spot results in wes landing 2 60cm dhus and dropping another 2 suspected dhus..

after this we decided to call it and head home.

Was and awesom day out and the fish played ball...could have asked for better weather and 30mile to 20litres fuel..got to love the yammy fourstrokes!

To all the people who had 'a quiet day' i feel for you because it seem like the fish we very active on every lump we dropped on.

 Hit the water with my mate Duges from woodies around 4.30am  , decided to head out beyond the islands . Parked up until just past sunrise scored and released a couple of snaps in there mid 40’s  ,  so decided to head out further and try a few marks for nada besides some smaller model dhu’s that released well . Things were looking grim and the esky was empty and it was around 1.30pm , Then whilst just cruising between spots we come across the mother load and within half an hour we had our bag of snaps and it was time for a beer . 

With Fridays forecast looking sweet for a Super Deep fish a gentleman's hour launch was on the cards. Oceanside Tackle and Marine shop owner Ryan Thipthorp decided to head out again but this time film it. Ryan's currently filming the New Series 15 for Fishing WA and they have been doing a fair bit of travelling up & down the WA coast.

Ryan over the years has filmed different super deep species including the last show on "how to jig for them" using the Super Deep 750 & 1kg jigs. Ryan went back to basics for many of the general public who often tangle with greybanded cod on baits as they first get into Super Deep fishing.
On Friday Ryan also went to the opposite end of the scale and targeted blue-eye Trevalla etc which for many aren't the easiest fish to target or catch. Ryan used his boat for filming this time which allowed him to explain what greyband & blue-eye etc look like (plus ground) on a Furuno commercial sounder. 

This is something he gets asked more for with Super Deep TV shows so its done. That mixed in with gear talk,how to, what to look for, tech talk, super deep rig and the use of the Esca fish attracting light etc will make this a very popular show indeed.

I don't know when it will air but Ryan said maybe early next year (Jan-March 2015). Oceanside Tackle and Marine specialize in Super Deep fishing and have been doing it for many years now so if you want the right info or gear pop in and see us.

We don't just stock the gear, we use it!!!!

* Pics taken by Simon "FW-Coity" Marwick
* (Fishing WA Cameraman & Photographer)

 So decided that yesterday was the day to head out to gemini wreck and see if any decent size sambos had arrived.

Late launch at Mindarie at 9:30 were at the wreck just before 10am

Plenty on the sounder, so down go the jigs.

First jig.....nothing.....second.....nothing....third drop....fish on!!!!

10 meter run straight into the wreck! Damn!!

about 15 more drops....nothing.

Decide to try for demersals under the school of sambos....

Bring out my 15lb custom dermeral rod with a Luvias 3012h and 15lb saltiga surf braid, tie on a eupro flash 80g in the silver

Drop down

two jigs up and smashed! thinking DHU/PINKY...30m run....definitly a sambo! OH F*&K!

35mins later and 500m away from where first hooked up, up comes this monster!

After that decided to check out 3Mile!

find a nice coral patch in about 20-24m and drop down the jigs. after a few wrasse and a scorpion cod, Shaun hooks up to something decent, starts pulling some line, and being metro....3 mile reef...called it for a smalll sambo, 2mins later....

65cm DHU!!!

Was a cracking day out on the water and was good to see there are a few fish around!

 The usual. Lazy friday.

 Went out this arvo with a mate and my son for some pinks.

Got to our spot, anchored and burleyed up hoping for some skippy before the snapper turned up

Ended up with no skippy but a nice pink early.

Long story short we left the snapper biting and my son got his first sized pink at 54cm, later he got his second at 81cm.

Did a trip to one of my favourite spots near Rottnest Island and managed to get a mixed bag before the Bronzies became a menace.
http://youtu.be/1FJlXpxg4iA?list=UUWIj5krFAWitD-_FZNeBC2g

 Any Snapper around D9 yet?

 Left Mindarie before sunrise this morning to try and catch that elusive legal size snapper. Apart from the boat losing all lighting (including the GPS) twice! it was an ok trip out (all of 1.5 miles ha ha) into about 10m of water. Set up the rods, got some berley going and waited for the sun to come up.

I was in anticipation of my newly spooled up combo with the 20lb braid on my old faithful overhead stick. The snapper had other ideas though and decided my lightweight outfit with a small piece of unweighted occy was more to its liking. Took some angling to boat it on a Diawa Laguna 4-12lb rod with a crest 2500 reel and an owner circle hook but I was stoked to say the least! 63cms!

The rest of the day was ok with a few breaksea cod (one on a plastic) a small dhu dropped at the boat and a monster sambo that ate a live wrasse that couldn't be stopped. The wind made it pretty sloppy out there today but I was happy anyway.

 Fished 5 FFB on sunday, early start with burley trail and cubes trying to land a couple of snapper for MBFC monthly comp. Caught 1 under size pinky before sun rise, then undersize BB, 2 port jacksons and a wobby, and all released well. Then a Kingy came to the back of the boat and was swimming around the outboard eating the cubed mullies, I floated an un-weighted bait which he nosed a couple of times but would not take, jigged a soft plastic Z-man around with no luck, tried the un-weighted bait again that was rigged for snapper and again no luck, decided to flick the bait back out for snapper, as i started to rig another rod with a lure, the rod I had just flicked out then took off, after a good fight and various runs for the reef a solid 16kg kingy was landed. Sadly all the fish I caught for the day were under size or not on the way in list, including the Kingy. the remaining few hours I spent in the 50's for zip.

Another early start today and burleyed up at anchor in the sound and found this 11kg Pinkie, looks short but did measure 910cm and was fat.

Same shirt, different shorts, I do wash and change.

Headed out from Woodies early Sunday (yawn) after clearing the boat of cobwebs and trying to forget about the footy, first stop found a hot whiting bite, heaps of solid fat sandies to 28cm+ ... keeps me in the good books with the war office.

Hit the back edge of the FFB about 8.30am, little slow to start, not much reaction to a solid burley trail other than wrasse, a skippy and a flathead. Pulled the pick, electing to drift given the lack of wind, and was rewarded with a 62cm Dhu to the deckie on a lightly weighted sandy, and 2 of the biggest KGs I have seen, going 50 and 51cm, a Pb for me by a fair way...still stoked.

what's the bet I cant catch a cold next trip...

I went for a paddle in the Yak at Tinaroo dam last night. My brother Mick went in his as well and we started just on dark and paddled until midnight. Not one strike after the first couple of hours but we weren't too concerned as the wind was dying off and we still hadn't reached the main spot. I could see why Mick wanted to show us this spot as when we got there we spotted a 120cm fish on the surface paddling away slowly without a care in the world. It was a very cool sight and although we spooked that fish Mick soon had a hook up on another. We could see it was a good fish and it ended up measuring 115cm. Nice way to start the tally!

About 10 minutes later he was on again and a fish in the high 90s was landed. We still hadn't got a hit.

After finally getting a strike but losing the fish we headed elsewhere to where Mick snuck off only to see him hook up just when we arrived. The fish was a 110cm specimen and I started to get a bit antsy.

I kid you not, after the happy snaps and release he wouldn't of paddled more than 50 metres and got another hook-up! One of the cool things about this fish was Mick thought it wasn't too big but didn't fully realise what was happening in the dark as his Kayak whizzed straight past us at a fair speed. The fish was really pulling the Yak along and towards some timber. He stopped it in time and was pleasantly surprised as his thrid metre plus fish was landed. This one was around the 105cm mark to make it 4 fish from 5 strikes to our one solitary hit.

From there things picked up thanks to a tip or two from Mick and we managed a few more strikes. On the 5th strike we had a hook-up and a metre plus slice of Chrome went airborne only metres from the Yak. It was a great fight and at one stage came under the Kayak and belted the bottom with a couple of big head and tail slaps to remind us of the power these things can have. I reckon it was around the 107cm mark to round of a very successful trip. Unfortunately there were no more chances for Aron to score a fish as well. A good excuse to come for another crack mate and score a metre specimen!

Final tally was around the dozen hits between us for 5 fish so not a bad conversion rate and all quality fish.

I'm loving the shots of Mick trying to get his lures back. The fishing might have been a bit slow but when they did take they certainly inhaled the lures!!

 Went to port fairy (SW vic) on the weekend, and straight away found some hungry salmon eating our plastics most casts. They were small but fun on 4lb. After playing around with them, we moved up to a jetty at the mouth. After burleying, I sent out some pillie fillets, and was hooking mullet every cast. After i got bored of that, I cast around micro jigs and 6" worm plastics. The mullet, salmon and pike were chasing the lures to the surface and smashing them there. I kept 4 mullet for bait. Oh, and the smallest mullet went 35cm, the biggest very close to 40.

Tim

 Some good shots of my brother trying to get his prized lure back from the depths of a couple of fish. Full report to follow.

 Had another good day out from busso. Weather wasn't as nice as predicted.

Got out Sunday and landed a couple of nice pinks and a little dhu (600mm) to take home. Plenty of pink reports down this way and they are still hanging around in good numbers.

Frames donated to fisheries.

 had 3 good nights for 13 fish from 750-920mm in the sound. released most. Shark turned up on Friday night

Most fishing reports have been saying plenty of Squid in Cockburn Sound, week in week out.

I was out friday along G I and the southern flats , for a total of 6.

And Sunday i was at the North end of G I, working my way back south for a total of 4.

Both were nice days on the water however, and between the 2 days plenty for a nice feed :)

Any one else having any luck?

Is the water just a bit to dirty still?

Spent the weekend down south with a few of the boys, with the plan to do a little 4WDing, some drinking and hopefully get out for a fish if the weather allowed.

We stayed at Hamelin bay caravan park, but really didn't think it would be possible to launch the boat there this time of year, and we were right with the water being so low would have pretty much had to put the trailer and car onto the sand. So it was to Augusta to launch and try out from there.

I've not fished Augusta from a boat before so was all new to me. Saturday looked good on the weather front, except a 3.5m swell but none the less we gave it a run. First idea was to try head out about 11 mile to some ground I could see on the GPS. out we went at about 18 knots and the further we got the bigger the swell got. Once we got out there had a bit of a sound around and a drop or two. The ground was covered in bait but nothing more.

It didn't take long for a couple of the boys to start to feel average and with the depth changing by 7.5m from top to bottom of the swell, decision was made to head back in closer.

Turned out to be an awesome decision, with about 4 hours of just hot fishing in only 10m of water!

It was back to basics fishing, small bean sinker and an 8'o hook with a pinned Mulie or Californian squid and just drift baiting in the current. Pictures below show you don't need to make fishing complicated.

First drop and here s the result.

Yellow tail king fish!! probably 6-8 kilo. The main reason we were fishing single 8'o and bean sinker was for this purpose, I thought the ground we were fishing looked very YTK type ground. The rod you can see in the back ground that Scano is on, ended up being a double header of YTK's about the same size.

After this is was literally fish every drop and the variety and size was a big surprise. we ended up with 7 or 8 YTK's from 6-10 kilo and countless lost, 1 legal Dhu (in 10m of water!) a nice Harlequin, 2 big 55-60cm flatties, 4 Pinky's, and a number of Sambo's in the range of 7-12 kilo. Countless unstoppable's as well. Many fish busted us up in the reefs, bloody funny to watch!

And then there was this on the last drop of the day. This one hurt, probably 20 minute fight in 10 meters of water.

Palming the spool on the Saltiga

Biggest sambo to date I've caught, guess on size?

Ended up being a cracker of a weekend away with the boys, the fish just a bonus.

Bodie

 Went out Saturday morning in our local fishing comp Picked a few underside Dhuies up and a few kgs . Also got my first recapture of a tagged Dhuie was only 38 cm yet to find out the old details yet had a fair bit of growth on the tag so might have been a while since it was tagged have to check my records when my bro gets back from exmouth

 Headed out from Two Rocks with Abledog ,Mj and Erikl. We head out to the 8mile mark for our fisst drop  not alot was happening .on to the next spot 10 mile and a few fish were home Mj droping a large fish we think maybe Sambo,And Abledog got a nice swollowtail.Picked a a few small dhuies and some shit fish .Next couple of spots we a little quiet with only a few smal dhuies ,then Erik got his PB baldie He was having a great day on the fish.Come lunch time and we anchored up and cooked up a great fish lunch with potato and macaroni salad .After lunch we tryed a few other places with the small dhuies still following us .The last spot of the day gave us another 5 dhuies The days total.19 dhuies  nothing over 5kg2 baldies 1 swollowtail 1 sambo three BB and a heap of shit fish

 Today went for a long kayak. Firstly stopped at some snaggy looking country in about 1.5 meters of water. Caught some monster yellowtail grunter some went 35cm! Caught 3 of em. Then went on to some hidden away even snaggeir country in the canning river and caught a nice 29cm bream and also had constant bites. At this point we had dismounted the kayak.

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Yep, it's that time of the year!

I had a nice hit around dusk but the hooks couldn't find something to set into.

Another 30min later, Richard's friend hooked a nice one...gave a good fight...but the hooked fell out.

Then it was Richard's turn...2 fish on 6 casts...cookie cutter males.





Not to be outdone, I redeemed myself another 20min later...chunky female.



We fished for another 30min and decided to call it a night at 9:30pm.

By the condition of the fish, this is just the first wave. Hopefully the peak will last 2-3 weeks. :D

dont know if this should be in the report section but here i go. had a few hours to kill out at hillaries so decided to have a go at a lure only fishing trip (LB), to date aside from a few herring on a 5g halco twisty and a bony herring of a jetty on a laserpro45 is all ive managed on lures but i was keen to give it a go.  got to the rockwall near spinnakers and the lighthouse around 330pm and wandered along having a quick chat to some fishers already there. few small fish caught along the rockwall nearer the beach and i witnessed a guy bring up a well sized tarwhine from the fishing platform, everyone was using prawns from what i saw.

had my 2-4kg spin rod and a selection of smaller hardbodies, some soft plastics and a squid jig. i flicked out a mcarthur pearl minnow plastic for a while trying different retrieves and varied depth as much as could around the rockwalls on the outside and in for a while with no hits. kept it up for 30mins with no bites i got out the squid jig as it was calm on the inside so i flicked that around trying to recreate and practice the technique i saw on youtube, still no luck moving up and down the wallk and then onto the outside wall again. i swapped again and threw the laserpro45 around on the outside varying retrieves and pauses along the wall untill the platform. nothin...

so all in all a fairly unsuccessfull trip, practiced working lures a bit so not a complete waste and it was a relaxing way to spend the arvo, figured id at least post a report and mabye some of the more experienced guys could tell me if i did anything wrong or mabye the fish just werent on the bite or in the area.

cheers for reading

Niko

 Get your 4 year old to hold them up for the photo's

Had a nice day out yesterday off Mandurah. No Dhus but got a nice Queen snapper, Pinkie and a ripper KG. Also got busted off around a cray pot by a suspected Sambo on a jig. Dropped another good fish on the jigs too.

Chris.

 Going up to Shark Bay Useless Loop around the Salt works to attend a ship this weekend.

Anyone fished around this area or know how hard it will be to get from there to steep point?

Ill have a rental 4WD

Only taking a 6-8kg setup to throw lures for tailor or what ever is lurking. 

 Heading down to house sit for my cousin this weekend. Anyone know if the tailor are about or anything else worth targetting from the beach?

 Here's some recent fish taken on shallow 7m reefs off my local breakwater. I've been dropping Lures and baits over these reefs and got a mixed bag. The wrasse have really taken to bream lures up to 3" and are a good fight on light gear.

Check this out

Link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Ppmu53dRc

Cheers

Stevo

Just a quick note on our trip out Friday evening, deckie got to the ramp around 7.00 and the boat was ready to go. Nice flat trip out, and pulled up on some interesting ground on the sounder. Not much happening other than the normal pests, so moved 50m over on to a nice lump. Sounder was lighting up nicely, but again we were getting hammered by the pests. I decided to have a quick leak over the side, and at that exact moment off goes my reel. Quick stop mid stream, hasty exchange of rods, and reeled in the best pinkie of the night, but only around 40cm. Healthy looking fish, hopefully I can meet him again next year. The only keeper for the night was a nice tailor that took half a scalie off the bottom.

Decky caught about 20 snook, he couldn't get past the buggers. Last drop of the night had my heavy gear nicely loaded up, but couldn't manage to stop it. It didn't feel like a ray normally does, but in reality it most likely was. Had pictures of sharks & big sambos running through my head. Still, good to put a bend in the rod, and good to know my knots held up. Eventually the braid snapped which was dissapointing, supposed to be 40lb but I wasn't really trying to put any hurt on it.

Wind started to come up a bit around 10, so headed back to the ramp not long after.

Sorry no pics of massive snappers or dhuies, maybe one day.

Cheers,

BD.