G'day

Just a quick report. 

I hadn't been out fishing in a boat for a little while, me and a mate packed up his tinny and headed out to try find some inshore snapper. Like everyone knows, fishing is never predictable. We set the anchor and only managed an undersized snapper and a couple nice skippy as well as a couple unstoppables on the light gear; most likely sambos. 

My mate then spotted a few birds dive bombing in the distance, not a massive amount of birds but they were definitely interested in something. Headed over there and manged to wrangle one nice sized bonito trolling around the birds. The school quickly disappeared though. Thinking what would be our next move I noticed a small school of fish in a wave, of course my mate didn't beleive me. So we both had a cast, I landed a nice salmon and my mate some how pulled a nice skippy out of a school of salmon. 

Eventually found the birds again, this time it was more sizeable, with a huge school of salmon boiling up the surface pretty hard. I got the 1.5-3kg rod out with my ci4 2500 with 8lb braid and had some fun. Never seen a reel scream so hard, great fun, all my salmon were caught on a Maria stickbait. The school went missing so we moved onto fishing a near by reef for some herring on lures, then called it a day.

The numbers in the school was comparable to 4-6weeks ago, but the size of the fish was generally smaller. Didn't manage any snapper, but still had a great morning on the water... and good to see the salmon are still kicking around. 

 had the oppurtunity to sneak out for a fish from mindarie today, cant believe i almost accepted the weather forcast and not go. started of around 9am in the shallows just messing about with plastics and found some good ground north. well it didnt take long up came a blackass 35cm released and a couple of whitting.

i hadnt planned on going out deep but i was keen once on the water, shot out to a couple of my spots for a placcy bash, good idea i reckon. i released 4 undersize dhuies 1 sized, 3 sized snapper and a sambo that surpassed my 120cm brag mat. kept 2 snapper one at 62cm and the other at 75cm, the 75cm snapper was missing half his tale so it debatable the actual size.

impressive ride home too 

on a sour note my new favourite placcy combo thought it could swim and is now a the bottom of the indian ocean courtesy of the sea anchor rope . broke my knife and didnt raise the outboard leaving ramp  oh well s@#t happens still breathing and drinking beer 

big cheers to the lad that yelled out to me about my outboard before any damage was done

heres a few picks i managed but as iam normally a solo fisher these pics are hard to get good.

 thats the combo in the snapper pic  

 Went out early afternoon today NOR for a couple hours with Matt. Trolled in the wash behind an inshore reef for a total of ~7 hookups but only 3 (tailor) landed going 43, 45 and 49cm. 

Also got a couple hours of footage only to have it somehow become corrupted after over 4 hours of editing 

Other than a treble through my finger nail not much else to report

Cheers

Hutch

Went out on saturday with mates Ryan and Charlie for a jig. the mission for the day was to just take jigs with no bait allowed and target sambos or kingys a few km ofshore. the plan worked sort of, we got both kings and sambos but also ended up with a big bag of demersals and the release weight working overtime to drop fish back down. fished depths from 30-70m and would of been lucky to be 6km from the boat launch spot.

tally for the day all on jigs was 20-30 rat kingys, 5 rat sambos, 1 dhuie, 2 nannys, 1 big queeny, 3 harlequin fish, 10 or so breaksea cod, well over 50 skippy, a few bonito, 1 huge bronzie that we got boatside after having a sambo sharked, heaps of random reef fish and a few absolute smokings thown in to the mix. we all used pe2 setups for the day with myself and ryan running jigging master pe2 overhead setups and charlie on spin. jigs we used where mostly FCL SLZ's, Duel allie flash, current zeek and peggy, damiki backdrops and a few others

 Did anyone brave the hail n rain lastnight at the mole. If so how did ya go?

 did a quick 3 dayer up to shark bay with the boys last weekend came back with a freezer full of fish, the pinkies are rampant up there at the moment.

went out with mack attack on the first day and all caught our bag even though the weather was crap. bagged out on pinkies in 6 - 10 metres of ater placcies were dynamite

also got a few mulloway, and a nice golden trev about 12kg on 15 lb line

spent a night up at bottle bay which is just another magic place on the WA coast line (apart from the bloody sand flies which we are all still suffering from) got out in the tinny and bagged out on pinkies again along with some smallish blackies, flag and mulloway, plenty of good ground around the tip of peron if your heading up that way sudden drop offs 6 - 14 metres, 

weirdest drifting i have ever experienced one drift we wouldnt move at all the next drift in the same spot we would drift at 3 knots go back again and we would drift in the opposite direction all together.

after returning in the tinny we leanrt one of the old boys had put out a live whiting on the beach and turned his back only to see the rod skipping  across the surface never to be seen again, that provided plenty of ribbing and laughs. 

the last morning we caught a bucketfull of yellow fin whiting which are the best eating of all if you ask me

cheers to the caretaker for helping us out with a loaf of bread even if it did cost a couple of pinkie fillets haha.

all in all it was just good to getaway with no kids and wives in tow shame it wasnt longer

sorry about te pics too busy fihsing or drinking most of the time

dan

Is anyone still catching pinkys off the local rocks

 Can anyone give my some ideas I've been chasing that 1m plus mullaway for awhile so this weekend it's game on. I'm heading bunbury ways. Can any fello fishos give me a rough plan to finally get a monster

Some nice reds , goldband and a good long nose. Nothing epic but good times anyway

theres only 2  hooks on this rig but the pickers were that hungry they were tangling themselves 

During my last 6 months in the UK, I've become a fairly avid reader of the various UK fishing forums.

During the time I've been reading them, I've heard time and time again stories of the hard fighting (and delicious) silver fish known as the Sea Bass.

Because of that, when a friend Maurice and his brother Stephan who I met through my business Adventure Angler invited me to come and fish for Sea Bass on their boat in Rotterdam, it didn't take me too long to say yes! I've heard that these fish love to hit lures, including surface lures, and I couldn't wait to get out and have a go at them.

On Friday night I flew to Rotterdam where we made some last minute preparations before setting our alarms super early (or was it so early it was still late?!) and went down to the marina. After 30 minutes or so of steaming we were at the spot, and the first casts were made. Because Rotterdam is a built up area, sometimes you are fishing around a lot of man made structure. This was the case with our first spot - fishing under a large concrete platform. It took me a little while to get my eye in to cast under these low platforms but we got there in the end - albeit we did lose one Jackson Pintail along the way, when it exploded after my questionable cast sent it sailing into the concrete :-(

We then went out near some channel markers and switched to soft baits, after which Maurice landed a couple of nice bass in quick succession.

Throughout the day we tried a number of locations and caught fish on a range of different lures including various diving minnows and soft baits. We did put in some casts with the surface sticks also, but on this day they were not behaving on the top water.

After we had finished with the Sea Bass for the day, we started heading back for the dock when Maurice made the call to try for some Snoek Bass (aka Walleye) in the fresh water parts of the river. We saw some nice marks on the sounder, and it didn't take long for Stephan to land a nice one on soft plastic.

On the second day we did much of the same, but an even earlier start. Thankfully though, it was all worth it. Stephen had landed one or two bass first up, but then I got a really nice hit on a soft plastic. The fish put up a solid fight, and I ended up landing the largest bass for the trip - which weighed in at a little over 7 pounds. A good result for my first tour!

After that we thought we'd try a quick jig. Stephan managed to jig two crabs in a row. I have never seen this before, but the jigs were in their mouths - not foul hooked. So was pretty impressive! Then he jigged a Pollock and Maurice and I jigged a junior sized cod each (another first for me), before we decided to return to the bass.

We then fished on and it went quiet for a while, but then towards the end of our day had a great session with most drifts resulting in a hit or two on diving minnows and plenty of nice bass landed included a double header.

All in all it was a really fun trip. Got to meet some new fishing addicts, catch 2 new species, and try out some new gear. Even better, there's been an invite to come and catch the bigger bass that run in September / October - so stay tuned :-)

A range of gear used, including:
Temple Reef Stealth STK 72M
Jigging Master Evolution Titanium 150gr
Yamaga Blanks Blue Sniper 77/3
Stella 5000, Twinpower 5000, Stradic 3000, Ocea Jigger 1500NR

G'day guys just thought I would post a little bit of a 6 month perth metro report.
January- Well I still hadn't owned the boat a year yet after buying it late February 2013, but already having clocked up 110 hours, it was getting well used to say the least. I got out for 5 metro trips in Jan. Spent quite some time teaching my bro n the old man plus some mates the basics on jigging for demersals, as I was sick of messy bait users on every trip! There were a hell of a lot of small 420-490mm dhufish around this time of year but we were struggling to find to many good ones. There were quite a few nice size blackass around too, and as aggressive as always. With the temps soaring on the land there were a few hours put on the clock just sipping coldies and trolling the coast, the bait had not quite pushed inshore at this time of year and hence results were slow, I was noticing a lot of bait starting to stack up further of the coast in over 30m. My best day came in mid January. We left hillarys at 5am, plan was to head to the north of rotto and look for the bait and hopefully jig some predators off it. We motored over an area in the 40s on the way to another mark and bang the sounder lit up with bait and some better fish deeper. We stopped, did a drift, landed a double of 8-9kg sambos, then another drift, another double hookup, one fish buried the angler on the bottom, the other got taken by a large shark. Re tie rigs, sound around find the fish again, do our drop n another double of sambos, I still hadn't hooked up and I'm thinking what the hell is going on!? The other boys were on as soon as we hit the edge of the school each time. In frustration I let my jig hit the bottom and ripped it straight up as quik as I could, I was pretty stoked 10 mins later with a 12 kg yellowfin hitting the deck. My first metro and on jig, christened the new N-S too. It was a great day with another tuna hooked n dropped (by me) and a variety of dhuies and sambos for the day. Ended up with 21 undersized dhuies throughout January and only 2 size!

February- Only managed the 4 trips in Feb. Well much like January the warmer currents were flowing from the north and with it some interesting sightings and catches around perth were being reported. There was bait just everywhere off the coast n all the marks were lighting up every time we visited them, some times frustrating as often it didn't end in fish, just lit up sounder screens and lots and lots of bait. By late Feb the back of the 3 mile from hillarys to staggies was teaming with bait and along with it the birds, all the signs were good, I am quietly praying for my first metro mack.We had a ball catching the watsons leaping bonito on light gear and small divers, and picked up some small yellowtail kings. No mackerel. With one more day out up my sleeve for February, I decided on a hunt around on the first bank in 31-38m, found some nice ground and picked up a 60cm dhu on jig, marked up a lot of new stuff but got no more fish. By now I'm convinced that there is too much bait, it's like the fish had really shut down to the jigs in February, could the amount of bait have been responsible in some way? We trolled in for 8 miles on the way home before the rod went off, good first run, I was sure I had my mack, but after a short fight and a final dive under the boat I got colour, my spaniard had morphed into a sambo! Bugger! Trolled the rest of the way home for no more results. My mate did manage a nice 12kg macky on the jig in February but it happened on a day out with my cousin and his boat. All in all February was very hard work I found on the demersals and perhaps should have spent the time to try something else.

March- With all the bait off the coast I decided to take advantage very early in March and do my first solo mission with the tub to do some bait collecting. The water was quite dirty on this day so I continued south past some of my squid grounds and towards the shipping channel, I found water to 24.8c and with it the bait, sabiki jigs are great and in no time I had my bait freezer full for most of March. Spent the next day trolling the south side of rottnest at sunrise, conditions were unbelievable, glass off. Too good as it turned out, no fish, disappointing because again all the signs looked good with water of 23.8, plenty of bait and a few birds, plus the first light and early start. Gave up trolling by 11 and headed west of rotto too a few marks, had a drift here and there but all was very quiet except for a healthy blackass to my bro on the bait outfit. Next trip out was a squid bash which was slow but steady and resulted in 10 good sized squid with a few tubes going over 300mm. The herring turned up whilst we were squidding so on went a couple of metal slices rigged with singles and we had some fun mostly catch n release but kept a couple each in the live bait tank so we could slow troll them behind the reef, or set some live baits through the afternoon. We tried these options till late arvo early evening but still I couldn't entice my first metro mack! The next and last trip for March was just a short, late arvo squid on the high tide which resulted with 7 nice squid.

April- By late march and into April there was a lot of weed washed into the metro area which made trolling very tedious. I managed 6 trips in April, most late April, doing my usual favourites. The squid were a no show due to some big swells stirring the water up and making it very dirty. So next trip I headed to some ground I had off Ocean reef in about 38m, got a few black bums in one hole, but decided to move and search for new areas when my mate jigged up a nor west blowie. The sounder found something that looked promising and 2 drifts later a slow day had all turned around. We bagged out with a nice little dhuie and pinkie to add to the 2 blackass, also picked up a good kg. Home by 2.30. Next trip was another successful one. Launched ocean reef n went to some new ground about 16 mile out, first drift resulted in two small dhus, 58 and 55cm, the rest of the day was spent sounding new areas, we picked up 2 good black bums to finish the bag and a nice big cuttlefish for a bonus. In late April we had some weather and swell stir things up a bit, snapper was the go as soon as the opportunity came. With a high tide in the early morn, light winds but still a fair bit of swell, we headed to our stomping ground and set the burley trail. Was a little slow at first with some big skippy showing up first and a little while later the pinkies, we ended up with some nice fish to 75cm. Also picked up a little gummy for our efforts.

May- Well we had had a few days of clear weather between my last trip out in April and into early May. I was a bit sceptical as to whether or not the snapper would still be in close, but decided to give it a go. By 11 it was clear they were not going to show up. We pulled anchor and as we did we noticed some disturbance on the surface, bait. I had 2 casting rods ready with stick baits rigged. Next minute the surface exploded with salmon, and a couple of casts were fired out for a solid double hookup. Two nice fish hit the deck, around the 5kg mark. After releasing the fish and looking around again for any commotion I fired a blind cast out the back of the boat, the bait and salmon had dived at this point. I let the stick bait slowly sink for about 20 seconds before starting a slowish twitch and retrieve. I got a hook up almost instantly but the fish felt different to the salmon. At first he swam straight to the back of the boat and then he took off on a run that left me with 20m of backing. My mate had fired a cast out too and as I asked him to start the boat and chase my fish he starts ripping the lure in, all of a sudden with a big flash of electric blue his lure is engulfed by another big fish. His fight lasted 3-4 mins before teeth found his leader. Luckily I just managed to get the fish turned on my 20lb outfit (certate 2500 did the job,) and 10 mins later I was the happiest bloke on the planet with a beautiful Spanish mackerel lying on the deck. To land him on such light tackle with no wire after working for one for months made it so much more satisfying. He bottomed my scales out at 20kg, wouldn't have been too much over but it was a solid fish, couldn't have been more stoked. My next day out on was a trip over to rotto trolling and casting the reef systems on the south side and west end. We saw some other guys fishing a similar style but no one could find the salmon, which is why we were there. The day was spent mainly catch n release on herring. Fortunately the derby was on in the arvo so the quokka arms was our next stop seen as the fishing wasn't going to light up. Only managed 2 more trips out in May one was spent with lures hanging out the back whilst marking ground off ocean reef and mindarie. No fish on this day, but plenty of ground being mapped for future trips. The last was a late arvo squidding session, conditions were good with clean water and a big high tide, we managed 12, which I was pleased with because often with a sou westerly wind blowing I have been left disappointed on the squid.

June- This ended up being a quiet month for me due to an injury. I managed 1 trip early on with a day off two rocks. Beautiful conditions but the slowest day I have ever had up there. We boated just 2 undersized dhus, 1 little pinky and a few horrible nor westers. Disappointing after waiting so long to get up there.

Looking forward to the next 6 months now. Tight lines, cheers for reading.

 Itching for a fish all weekend, I ummed and ahhh'd about heading out today to have another go. With the forecast for 15kn+ but seabreeze showing lower numbers, a peek at the beach cams showed not much surf so thought I would give it a crack. It is about 40 mins from my place to the marina so I try to be sure it is workable for making the trip. I arrived about 2:20 and started getting the fishing machine ready as the conditions looked great. As stated before, the boat isn't a glamour at the moment, but it floats and carries my rods!

Once underway the conditions were excellent with a variable NE to NNE wind around 10 knots and dropping so the cruise out was uneventful and I headed for the spot I found last time. I didn't try anything new today as I had limited time to make sure I was back and tied up before dark. With the cloud cover it was already looking pretty dark as it was! Still no sounder fitted yet either. In case you're wondering, yes that is the anchor rope. After once having to traverse to the bow to free a stuck rope, I now feed the rope out through the cabin so I can keep it from bunching up when the winch is pulling it up. I can also help pull it up if it is a bit snagged. The anchor locker is a joke for a boat this size, but that's a project for another day.

Today was a day to try the soft plastic everyone said I should throw out while bait fishing. I rigged up a 5" Nuclear Chicken on a 5/0 Owner jig head. I think the 5/0 would have been better with the 7" as it seemed a bit big for the 5". Anyway, I rigged an octopus skirt to the top to try and hide the hook a bit as well. So with the anchor set, the berley pot soaking here goes nothing - first drop, nibble nibble and I think I'm a genius (well, your ideas and methods from this site made me a genius)! Up pops a small Dhu but it seemed the method got the result. I was stoked. Measure (I remembered this time), photo and back in the drink to grow up a bit. 

A couple of small pinks on the bait also made for entertainment (I know I should post photos of bigger fish but this was the best I could do today!! ha ha). They all swam away well which is a benefit of fishing the shallow water I guess.

On the way back in the starboard engine suffered some pretty bad cavitation. Hopefully just a product of the dirty hull that is in desperate need of some antifoul. The boat will come out of the water soon for some rebuilt stern drives and transom assemblies and some rework of a few things with the layout. I need a bit more fishing space! Hope you don't mind my blathering with a report about small fish - I just thought it right to report back and hopefully someone else can try what I have learned. Hopefully the beginners luck hasn't run out completely with just a few small fish today.

Hampala is a genus of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family found in South-East Asia.
The common name frequently use is Sebarau or jungle perch.

IGFA World Record for Hampala is 6.5KG, landed in malaysia.



My recent dam fishing trip last week, I managed to land a surprise whoppy 4KG.

The fights just as strong as toman.
Maybe due to its fork tail , it initial run is equally strong.

Sebarau (jungle perch) was known to have crushed angler's treble hooks due to it strong jaws.

Let me continue my catch report.......

It was a bright and sunny thursday, I managed to convince my little girl Catherine to follow us (My wife- Bkklady and myself) for 1 day of scenery fishing trip to teh nearyby dam .

The main target for this wild fishing trip is to target the sebarau or the common name as jungle perch.

Sebarau fishing is seasonal. The best period is from late dec to july.
As from jun to july period, these fishes are waiting to swim upstream to lay their eggs thus the chances of concentration of big fishes in 1 spot are higher.


Here the full actions packed video clip of this wild sebarau fishing trip.

Hope you guys enjoys my youtube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB_j5D_h8ik


Highlight photos of the trip.

My prized 4KG- Hampala Barb Sebarau (Jungle Perch)





My wife- Bkklady catch....





My daughter - Catherine catch....her 1st wild sebarau fishing trip.





 

heres my sons catch from 2 hrs out on the water from rockingham last night

 Hi Guys I haven't posted a report for a while, probably because I've had nothing to report about but I'm here in Chiang Mai on a family holiday and the missus let me go on a day’s fishing so I thought I'd show you all what it was like

Now I know fishing at a well stocked lake isn't really sporting but none the less I had such a great day that I had to post this report for anybody planning to come to Chiang Mai so they know what is available.

So here are the pics, only Mekong catfish caught, overall probably caught 30+ fish, smallest about 5 kg biggest about 40kg. And yes each pic is a different fish.

Enjoy

Biggest one above

Little Fatty

Last one of the day

All,

well i had a pretty epic weekend just gone on the trout

day 1: undisclosed location , for all that you know the most i will say its in the king country.

Headed to my favourite patch of water in a paticular area solo and in pooring rain.....i roughly walk a stretch of 4 kms over a day fishing and proceeded to land 9 rainbows and 3 browns to 6 pound. All on nymph. it seems each pool is starting to stock up with fish for spawning season on this paticualy system. with one pool highlighting 7 fish from it.

Day 2 again undisclosed location and i wont even give a hint.

This is my favourite stretch of water and if i fish the main system it where i got my 2 trohpies 2 years ago (mind you on the same day)....i decided to check out a spawning stream running into this system from higher up in the mountains. As this systems closes for 3 months for that paticualr reason.

and unfortantely mother nature played its part today with some awsome experieinces albiet only 4 fish landed.... here we go. fish generally wont get smaller then 7 pound in this area and its a very very secret area. and while heading up stream i had ladned a couple 7 pound fish in very poor condition due to breeding then all of a sudden standing at the back fo this pool, these 2 MONSTER BROWNS (im talking 12 +) just cruised up, one actuelly went so close to my legs (so much for senting)  i could of stepped on it. i watched them cruise deep into a pool and started throwing numerious flys at them nothing.....then they both moove up into about 7 inches water doing there thing...they did not want a bar of any fly till i foul hooked one, and it took me straight to a log. concentrations levels were at a all time low. Then on the same stretch of water a 10+ pound rainbow comes out and just chills there, like its feeding but it wasnt. again i threw numerous nymphs on these guys and nothing. ended up getting a different brown of about 7 pound.

i mooved up the stretch the same sets of shallows less then 7 inches deeps to come across another breeding pair of browns. One would of gone about 8 and the other 11. at one stage the fins of the larger male were out of the water as it did its thing on the eggs.....again throwing numerous nymphs to try and piss it off enough that it would take one and nothing. 10 mins later standing in that same positions the pair deceided to start mooving towards me, and litrally within seconds i had the female , one US size 12 boot away from and the male another....i was gobsmacked i could of picked the girl up by the tail! then all of a sudden one of the browns from the lower stretch of the shallow decided to pop on up get in between the pair and they started "argueing".......in the end the 12+ pround grabbed the other male by the tail and took him down stream to leave the girl up there by her self. at this stage she was so spooked by what had just happened she darted off under some grass....when the large brown did this his entire head plus the tail end of the other brown was hanging out of the water like he just got some pray for roguhly 5-7 m down into the deeper sections. i was gobsmacked as to what i had just seen, for all this time i thought they were eels doing it to the trout where in fact its trout doing it to trout. If any of you have dealt with spawning season here you pull some pretty poorly condtioned trout from all this spawning!!

over the day we couned 5 trohpies and numerous 8-10 pound fish. but today it was for me and mother nature had them doing what they do best and put on a pretty amazing show. Mind you this river never gets any more wider then 3-4 m wide and involves an hour of quad biking and a further hour of hiking down gorges to get there..

BRING ON OCTOBER 1!

photos to come pitty i didnt have my GOPRO!

View from the office window this morning. Birds working the water in front of Elizabeth Quay. Looks like maybe tailor and dolphins chasing the bait up. Sorry about the dodgy phone pic quality.

5 anglers !!! 3 DAYS of solid fun fishing together !!! 3 DAYS of great fishing trip !!!

A good fishing trip come with great planning from us.

When a group of teachers from SG decided to have their 1st fishing experience in Thailand, they know who to get for their fishing service.

Other always say a picture tell a thousand words....I would say a video show all actions & millions words !!!

I have took a great efforts and trouble to take all the nice photos and video clips for their 3 DAYS fishing vacation with us.

They have caught their biggest fish of their life,  great memorable photos and video clips to bring back home to show all their friends and family.

Enjoys the 3 parts series youtube clips of this wonderful trip.

Giant Siamese carp & Mekong Catfish fishing- DAY 1

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

Arapaima & Predators fishing-  DAY 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huyTt-hPgJA

Barramudi Lure fishing- DAY 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKbVMnE6dh0

Hightlight photos for the trip....

Giant Siamese Carp..... What a beauty !!!

Giant Mekong Catfish...

 

Giant Arapaima- A beautiful fish indeed !!!

Redtail Catifsh...

Barramundi fun fishing !!!

This was our recent trip to Gnaraloo was our first time up there and stayed at the homestead, we had a few good days fishing but struggled finding the spots some days although still getting a feed.

Camping spot for the night

Hit the track early morn into the homestead

Great fun on light gear until this happens,we had a ball one arvo catching tuna casting poppers stickbaits plastics with tuna busting up on the baitballs

Cheers to Dave and Andy(seakem)good meeting ya mate.Thanks for all the info on everything and hopefully be back at the bay next year.

 Hi everyone,

first report-

My self and a friend managed to get into north mole last night (done nothing illegal to get in either before anyone jumps in, ie: DID NOT use bolt cutters, angle grinder, ram down gate, remove any tempory fences or anything like that!!, lets just say we found a loop hole in there system) - drove in the whole way parked next to the red light house.

When we got there seems like we werent the only ones that wanted to chase the snapper, there was one other car already there with 2 other blokes just starting to rig up, got chatting to them and asked how they got in and they said they had removed the temp fencing and put it back behind them. i thought they were even keener than us!!

before we arrived at north mole at about 8pm we had already put in a couple hrs from the rock wall in front of the servo which got nothing but a couple herring for bait and another couple of hrs at south mole which produced nothing either!

So we fished (the 4 of us) from the wall which faces south mole from approx 8pm till about 10am (thats when the 2 other blokes left), for a total of zero snapper!! between us we had every fresh bait, bought bait, home made burley, bought burley every thing under the sun and we didnt even a bite let alone land a snapper, i think the count was 3 tahwine, 2 whiting and 3 herring by sun up and 4 salmon by the time the 2 blokes left.

after they had left one other guy rocked up and we fished on till about 12 then port authority rocked up and threatend to call police cause someone had cut the chain/lock, so the bloke that had just rocked up was quick smart outta there! 

spoke to the port authority guy and he couldnt tell us when it would be opened again but he said reason it was closed was the mess from the storm on the road at the entrance was a hazard - you can see why, theres more limestone on the road than road, massive chunks of kerb all over the road etc, it was pretty hektic we had to zig zag quite a fair way in to avoid the mess! and also he said that water had leaked into some powerbox and someone could get electricuted  and that was a reason also for closing the mole!!

thanks

Heading upto Denham next week with a few mates and was wondering if anyone can give me an indication of how it's currently fishing. Any very recent reports would be greatly appreciated. Will be taking my 18 foot boat.

After the weather wrecked my fishing plans for the last 6 charter trips I'd booked, Saturday was finally our day to get on the water for my first fishing trip in the UK.

We were fishing with Steve on Deep Blue, however unfortunately the weather was still not totally playing ball, meaning the wreck jigging we'd planned was off. It was however an opportunity for me to catch my first Plaice, and pit the Temple Reef Mytho against a new species.

I'd brought my partner who is something of a fishing novice - however to the despair of others on the boat (me included!), the first fish she landed ended up being by far the biggest fish of the day. A plaice estimated at 4.5 - 5lb.

I ended up with fifteen or so plaice for the day plus some bycatch, but nothing was going to match her fish!

All in all it was a fun day - met some new people, caught some (very tasty) dinner and got to test out the gear against something new. Will definitely be back. Can't wait to get back out there and drop some jigs down to some hungry cod very very soon.

Rods used were the Temple Reef Mytho LJ-510B and the Jigging Master Evolution Titanium 150gr.

Dan

Celebrated my 25th anniversary up there with the boys this year! weather was suspect at times but the fish were on the chew when out. In short;

- fished Friday, did well
- fished Saturday, did well!
- fished Sunday, did well!
- didn't fish Monday (should have), sore heads Tuesday!
- fished Tuesday, did well
- didn't fish Wednesday, Thursday (got cabin fever!!), 30-35knot easterlies
- was keen to hit the gold bands etc but didn't even get to our spots deeper than ~ 75m so had to "settle" for reds
- the place never disappoints.... weather permitting!

Highlights;

- averaged 12 reds per day and plenty under size so stocks look good (biggest ~ 6kg)
- good mixed bags each day
- limited shark intervention
- Merv the groper at the ramp is fit and healthy

Lowlights

- weather patchy
- catching another Queensland groper in ~ 75m water (est 60kg) and not being able to revive.
- Anyone have any ideas other than tieing to the anchor??
- anyone have any ideas after no amount of sinker would get him back and snapping a rod trying!

cheers

Crikies now the Port closes it at a whim. Why dont they close it off full time.

What a fucking joke. Safety bullshit has got out of hand

None of the other marinas are closed. What have the Ports done. Bunch of pussies

Hey fellas

Anyone been out getting squid around garden island / causeway / rock wall? 

Is there any around

Thanks 

Great arvo out wide with Langa and TimVB on Saturday.

Given how good the conditions were forecast to be, the plan was to leave at lunchtime for a late arvo session out wide with the idea of staying out into the evening and fish a few spots after dark on the way home, something we had always talked about doing but never got around to.

Not everything went to plan, as we bagged out by sunset so could not fish on the way home in some of the best conditions I have been out in. We had to content ourselves with a few coldies on the way home instead, that dhuie jig in the dark n 50m will have to wait.

After a bit of a look around out wide, we found plenty of fish on the sounder, and the first few drops resulted in nannies, with this triple header on 2 hooks a bit different. The nannies dont seem too phased by baro and swim down OK by themselves, but not sure how good they are after coming up from the deep.

After fighting through the nannies, I got a good hookup and bloody good fight, but when it was still fighting at 50m to go we knew it was an Amberjack. Released quite happily.

FISH ON for Tim. Good bend on the broomstick suggested a good fish.

15 kg GB, happy days.

Tim on again…….this time a great double header.

At this point, Matt is starting to get edgy. After numerous deep drop trips and, he had not yet opened his account apart from numerous greeneyes……this all changed with a god sized Radiant Cod to Langa, one of THE best eating fish in the sea.

I followed with a pinkie from the depths. Pretty amazed how deep this species goes. Interestingly, the flesh on these deep dwellers is much fattier and oilier than pink snapper from shallow water. Having it for dinner tonite so will be interesting to see how it stacks up.

Just on dark, hooked up and fought a sizeable fish to within 30 m of the surface according to the electric before it pulled the hook, pretty disappointed and on inspection at home, the circle hook had straightened. Matt suggested we keep an eye out but after a minute I had given up hope, but another minute or two this beast popped up next to the boat……….went 30.2 kg and 1150 mm.

A bountiful spread last night, had radiant cod, some of the 15 kg grey band and some sand whiting I caught with my young tacker on Sunday. Radiant and grey band are very different on the plate, radiant very moist and tender, grey band firm but still moist at this 15 kg size. Both were absolutely wonderful, some of the best fish I have had.

Great day out, thanks fellas.

 Out fishing yesterday arvo with a mate and a horrible slimey cuttlefish took his free floating mullie on a snelled rig. Not exactly a tasty pink snapper we were chasing but delicious all the same (his words). 

Caught a few in the Swan yesterday on soft plastic worms. Missed a lot of strikes.

They were yummy.

 Hi, my name is Mike. I have been a lurker on these forums for a while and after getting myself a boat I have been trying to emulate the success that a lot you on these forums share with us. I fished all my life and never had an offshore capable boat so didn't have a lot of experience offshore and since moving from the east coast in 2001, never did much fishing in WA. The boat I bought is a bit sad and needs some love so have only been fishing close to shore out from the Marina in Mindarie while we get used to each other.

I have 5yo twins that like to fish but they aren't much for the 'wibbly wobbly' ocean so a lot of the time we fish from the back of the boat at the marina. Still beats watching TV! They have been out of the marina twice and last about an hour before they decide they are 'tired' which is code for 'I'm gonna barf'! Once back at the marina we can be there until the bait runs out.

I've taken the boat out myself a couple of times and the only time I caught anything decent was the day I got the keys and landed a solitary King George whiting. Other than that we can catch all the flathead, sand whiting, wrasse and blowfish to last a lifetime. The dream of something bigger was there.

Watching the forecast this week showed today would have favourable winds so I was granted a visa and headed out about 8am. I've been paying attention to the common themes on forum responses and decided I would try using octopus for bait today. One lot on the bottom and one unweighted. I berleyed as normal with the pellets from Big W (Ha!) soaked in tuna oil.

I don't have a sounder as yet so I work on the belief that the older Lowrance Global Map 7200c that came with the boat has accurate maps! I tried a few drifts between the inner and outer reefs and only managed an undersize snapper and a few bites that didn't hook up. I marked the spot where the snapper was and decided to anchor up near there in 10 metres of water (the map said there was a rise to 6 metres near there as well).

With the berley going and the octopus soaking I was ready to settle in and watch the world drift by. The rod on the bottom got a hit and a cod popped up. While I was celebrating catching something I'd seen on the internet, the floater had a small bend so I grabbed it and my very first Dhu fish surfaced after a nice battle. I was finally able to use the $3 lip grips I bought off ebay! The fish was between 70 and 80 centimetres.

I fished for a while longer and caught a few of the biggest skippy I have caught as well as another couple of undersize snapper. I was getting ready to pack it in about 11:30am and the floater bent again with a smaller Dhu fish this time. Not sure he would have been legal size anyway. I was only fishing with 4KG mono and 20KG leaders so all in all I was very happy. All fish were released - never thought I would need some ice and an esky!

So to all of you who post your pictures and methods, my heartfelt thanks. Sometimes you might wonder if your advice is falling on deaf ears but rest assured there are some of us out there who are reading and taking it in - it's made the difference for me today.