What are the chances of catching the same fish twice?  I lost a soft plastic to an unseen fish and about one hour later, fishing the same channel I caught a cod on a live bait.  When I unhooked him, low and behold inside his mouth is my soft plastic!  It was his lucky day, he was 46cm which is size for an estuary cod, but I wasn't 100% sure it was an estuary cod due the lighter colourings,  so I took that yucky plastic thing out of his mouth and released him.

Other than that got a few under sized pinks and blacks and kept an 800 mm Queensland school mackerel.

Took the boat down for the long weekend down to bunbury to go out with the family. Got a mooring so we didnt have to launch it every weekend. Was good fun weather was great pity we couldnt have got more fish but still happy with what we got here is a few pics. The last time the boat was in the water was last easter now its has a new trailer, fuel tank, anchor winch and a few other things. Gave the new artifical reef a go but there wasnt even a bite on it. At one point there was 8 boats sitting on it. Snapper was 600meters off the beach.

 Not much to report.  Slow day on the water.  Got tailed on the soft plastics numerous times, will cost me a fortune to restock...  got one really good solid hookup one a fish that dictated terms for a couple of minutes and try as I might I couldn't stop getting busted off. :(( then tried trolling without any luck....  empty esky at the end of the day.

 Hello all,

I tagged along with some mates on a trip down to Whitehills on Good Friday, we left Perth around 2:30PM and headed down through Mandurah with four vehicles.  We got to Whitehills around 4 and made our way onto the track, where at the beach entrance someone was being snatched out, so we all did the righty and dropped our tyres down before making our way onto the beach.  There were many groups of people fishing, but after stopping at one or two spots we sent one vehicle ahead to scout out any further opportunities and within a km we had found a good spot.  So we got all the vehicles in an started setting up for a nights fishing. 

At first the swell was pumping and there was alot of weed around and not much being caught besides a solitary whiting and a herring to Benno.  As the night wore on it dropped and was quite pleasant but still not a whole lot of fish.  I was getting close to rolling out my swag and crashing when around 3am Dan got a Mulloway around 70cms.  After seeing this I blissfully went to sleep to wake up in the morning and find the guys had landed 3 mulloway all around 70cms and a 52cm tailor within 45mins before it shut down again.

We got up around 8am to a few fuzzy heads before packing up and heading back around 10am.

Not a bad nights fishing in all.

Bryan

Two spotted mackerel released.  (One on the troll and one on a soft plastic)  and a 55cm rankin cod on a squidgey pro wriggler glow.

Good memories are meant to be kept for future viewing.

We used to take photos and tape recording our catches to keep for future viewing purpose.

Nowadays we have youtube channel. All our great catches are stored and uploaded to youtube and SHARE around.

I have a great year hunting for snakehead fishing in 2013 Thailand.

Here are my 2 parts series of my Giant Snakehead Chase 2013 collections.

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Seems like Abrolhos pics are the flavor atm, haven't posted in a while but thought Id put this one up, was stocked! Went across with Mills

 A better day.  Double hookup on spanish mackerel but dropped one.   Landed the other.  Using a pilchard giant trembler and a deep diving red head rapala magnum.  Nice sized pinkie and a size black snapper.   Threw back what I think was a 38cm robinson sea bream.

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 Hi Guys,

Ijust put this vid together of some of the fishing over the last six months in India. Watching it now i wish we had filmed some more of our catches! :) At least it gives some idea of the country we fish on the west coast. Hope you enjoy,  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxoX2S7aCM

All the best, Scott

www.worldbiker.blogspot.com

 On Tuesday I went down to Preston to finally fish, heading north about 5km along the beach to a likely gutter.
I heard that Bouvards was weeded out so fished the beach halfway from just before midday and was at it until sunset.
I managed to get some live herring and whiting later on for bait.
The highlight was a 4kg plus stray salmon that turned up at 3pm, and it was caught on a mulie.
The salmon went like a train and was a good fight even on 30lb braid given the amount of weed around.
I kept it in the shallows awhile to tire it out but that doesnt work as well for salmon.
So I ended up gritting my teeth and lugging the salmon and a mess of weed out of the water.
A few tailor were caught but only one was size.
I had a couple of decent runs around 4pm but the weed got in the way and I lost them.
The wind and weed picked up at sunset so I called it a day.

Hey all decided to head out to FFB off woodies last night with my bro. Had a run on a floated mulie within 10 sec of casting but pretty hairy ground and lost the fish and then rig after rig. Decided to go to d9 but didn't have the correct cords so found a little lump, anchored and burleyed hard. Pretty average ground and only pickers smashing our mulies...Pissing me off so decided to catch a herring and put it on whole on the gangs and floated it out...10min later BANG rod goes off like no tomorrow. Thinking ray at first but had head shakes so not ray. It then breached the surface out back of boat and thought hmmm maybe shark. Anyway after getting the anchor up (very wise idea) and the fish taking me all around and under the boat for 25min we finally saw colour. Was thinking sambo the whole time and after another 15-20min we got it close enough to see it was a friggin huge tuna. Playing it slowly there was just no give and take from either side even having reel on pretty much full lock whilst the tuna was doing circle after circle on its side. Anyway finally got it boatside from the front of the boat and my bro gaffed it beautifully through the head. On board massive high fives and much shouting was to be had. We were just amazed at getting my first tuna on a full moon in 7m of water. We bled it and kept it on ice overnight and weighed it the next morning weighing in at 20.1KG and measuring 120cm. Could hardly lift the fish after the fight lol. Sorry pics aren't the greatest.

 still around. .this one bit smaller than than last 2...14.5 kg

just got back from a week in each of exmouth and coral bay. was essentially a family trip with a few fishing days thrown in. most pics are from gopro footage as we were a bit light on with cameras other than the phone

headed straight out when we got to exmouth and got into some tuna schools on small slices. got  out a bit deeper and got a smallish goldband reasonably quickly, but then got sharked everywhere we went for the rest of the afternoon so headed back. the next day we went out we stayed inside the gulf but pretty quiet sgain, with nothing worth keeping.

so with things not looking goog we tried something different with some shallow trolling and ended up having some fun on little mackies, small cod, a rankin cod (in 5m) some barracuda and a few other bits and pieces. good fun but again not much for the dinner plate.

next time we went out fishing we went to tantas and decided to have our first crack at a billfish. after again getting distracted with tuna, it didn't take long to hook up to the first which went to my mums partner (on his birthday). he fought it for a long time and we eventually landed it despite his lack of fishing experience 

we the started trolling again looking for some ground to have a drop on if the weather got better and again it wasn't too long until my rod went off. was a smaller but far livelier black and was great fun to land.

yes he is upside down, and yes he jumped from in front of my brother who was trying to land him. for reference, it is 4m from where my brother is standing to the back of the boat. big jump...video is here youtu.be/orMg5H-Qhpk

so we were now a bit over an hour in to our billfishing and had landed two blacks. we also had two sick deckies as it was prettty rough, so we decided to troll back towards the reef to have some lunch and calm down a bit. then the other rod went off with a nice dollie for my brother somewhere around the 50m mark.

so that was another first as none of us had ever caught one. the weather didn't let up so we headed back early to the gulf and had a quick troll where we picked up a trout which was cooked whole that night to go with the dollie. we tried one more time out of exmouth but despite good fish shows there was nothing happening.

after that we packed up and went to coral bay. we only headed out once but it was a great day. beautiful conditions and i got to take the wife out as we had a babysitter lined up. another big thanks to my brother for keeping the sharks busy whilst i landed my spanglie

the wife getting onto something that looked and sounded far more exciting than it was...

and finally, the quality coming to the surface without getting devoured by a hungry shark. all ended up with a few reds (this being the best) and a couple of spanglies which were all of good size.

was a great trip for both a bit of fishing as well as for the family. long way to tow a big boat but worth it in the end. and the jeep didn't even break down once.

p.s. cheers to those on this forum that offered advice (i wont name them as i don't want them inundated with pm's but you know who you are).

p.p.s. also saw the usual dolphins, turtles etc but had my first ever sighting of a free jumping malin (3 different times) as well as a dugong

 Left friday, overnight in northampton. Arrived and set up saturday.  More setup sunday, launch the boat and get the mooring setup.  A push bike repair for the ten yr old son and a lost mobile phone of the 11 yr old daughter's friend meant no fishing yesterday. Phone found and handed in thankfully :)

Keep hearing that fish are heard to find this year.  Something about the hot summer has killed off a lot of the seagrass and taken away the natural hiding habitat of the smaller fish so the bigger ones have moved out to deeper water???

Got out for a fish today.  Out early trolling, no luck.  Tried some bottom bouncing at some known spots, and no keepers.  Trolled again, nothing.

One last go with the jigs for me, bait and trusty handline for the wife.  It was after three in the afternoon when we started our last drift.  And then, bam! In ten minutes we had two pink snapper in the esky, released another couple just undersize, one black snapper in the esky (all caught by the missus on the trusty handline)  and then I contributed with a 60cm estuary cod.  And they went off the bite as quick as they came on.  I reckon it coincided with the slack water, but i'm no expert...

No photos, sorry but it all happened so quick....

Maybe photos tomorrow.

 Got a 5 kg salmon behind 5 fathom bank yesterday evening a very good sign for this metro season

I took advantage of the good conditions on Saturday for my first trip out to the FADs.

We got up at 4am, in the water by 5:30 and at the Fremantle Sail Club FAD around 7 am. We couldn't find the thing at first, it wasn't where our plotter was telling us, but luckly there was another boat out there which we followed to it. I was surprised how fast the current moves out there. Without any wind, our boat was drifting at about 2 knots.

We could see the dollies swimming under the boat on the first pass and had a few follows on our soft plastics, but no bites initially. On the second pass my mate dropped a mullie over the side and managed to hook up to one.

On the pass after that I managed to hook onto one with my soft plastic.

There were lots of similar sized dollies in the water following the boat, but they weren't that interested in anything we threw at them. Lots of follows but no bites.

At about 9am they shut down completely and disappeared.

My friend also decided to drop a bait down 250 meters to the bottom to see what was there. After about 10 minutes of manually winding in, he pulled in this kifejaw.

After that we headed over to the club marine FAD, but there didn't seem to be any fish around that one.

We spent the rest of the day bottom bashing around rottnest without much luck. The weather was fantastic, no wind until about 3pm.

Caught one of these guys fishing for herring off woodman point. after about half an hour searching through the species id guide i belive its a senator wrasse, is this and unsusual capture for the area or they pretty common around? was only a little guy bout 25cm so he went back ok after this quick photo. otherwise ok trip, managed to land 3 herring between 21 and 26cm and hooked a few more but all managed to throw the hooks doing spins and jumps, which i was never able to witness presviously having only caught them off the beach. a bit more respect for the humble herring after today, bit more of a challenge off the rocks than i expected, despite the massive amount of them in the water around the berley had a hard time landing them. so at the very least it was a great learning experience with different rigs and styles and some herring fillets that im having a go at pickling.

Niko

 Managed a days fishing in perfect weather conditions yesterday. We skipped the usual whiting safety net and headed out to try and get a few table fish. I hit a few favourite lumps along the way and also found a few new ones with fish on them, so I was a happy camper.

First fish on deck was a tagged Dhuie I had caught in September last year. I will have to review my data to find out a bit more about it, but essentially it had only grown around 0.5cm in that time.

Close up of tag with weed algae build up.

Close up with weed / aglae cleared off.

We managed a few good Blackarse including this one by Tim.

We hit another lump and I recaptured anothr fish. This time a Breaksea cod. (note the tag is missing about 1cm off the end so what nipped that off I have no idea???

Apart from an assortment of Baldies, Pinkies, and 7 dhuies of which I tagged a few more, I managed one half decent Dhuie of around 70cm. All in all a great day on the water but it was difficult to get a consistent bite going and the bigger fish (whilst cklearly showing on the sounder) just weren't interested.

hey all, anything getting caught during the day around woodman point or the asi atm? was planing on heading down tomoro but prior commitments mean cant stay late, latest bout 4pm. was just hoping for some herring or skippy would be nice, light gear, burley etc.

cheers

Niko

 Shallow dive NOR this morning.

Light winds, great vis, not a lot of swell and heaps of crays around. Can't ask for much more...

cheers

brett

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/04/12/14/08/fisherman-finds-vibrator-in-cod-s-stomach

what can one say!

 bit of new ground..fished solo released a few good fish today

 Hey Guys and Gals i just thought id throw up a few pics from my recent Europe trip for those that are interested. Some people think im crazy going to Europe and all i wanted to do is fish, but thats me i love it. I do it for work and i do it for fun cant get enough!! So every chance i got while i was there i tryed to have a fish, didnt do a whole lot but as much as i could.   

-First pics are ice fishing in Lapland (most northern part of Finland). Great fun we caught a mixture of Redfin, Roach and another type but i forgot the name.

-Next is a charter i took from Brighton in the UK. The water was really dirty and fishing was hard but managed 9 Pollock between 10 people and i was lucky enough to get one. Also a Submarine we saw while out on the sea.

-Next is stream fishing in Bath UK. Found this little stream at the back of the caravan park we stayed in so i riged up my 2ft ugly stick thati had in my backpack and caught quite a few Chub and a couple of Brown Trout on live worms.

-Next I went fishing with my misses uncle in Newcastle UK. It was the second day of the rainbow trout season and water was still a bit cold but i landed a nice Blue Trout which i was even happier with because it was a new species for me.

-Next is Pike fishing in Headford Ireland. We fished hard with lures but all the fish for the day came from dead baits. Caught 4 for the day and I was lucky enough to get one over the magic 1m mark.

-Lastly we stopped in Singapore on the way home and i hooked up with a few locals and we went Peacock Bass fishing. Great fun treking threw the jungle and throwing lures for these beautiful fish. Tryed for snakeheads but no luck.

-Also in Singapore prawn fishing and Patin fishing. Prawn fishing was more of a drinking session although we did manage a couple of KGs of prawns which was real good. Patin fishing is like a game, you fish with a tiny fiberglass rod and a shortish lengh 4lb line tied to the tip. It costs $5 per rod and if the line snaps you have to buy a new rod to keep fishing. Its extremely difficult but eventually got 2 fish from 5 rods.

Hope you all enjoy the photos..

Cheers Belly

after not going fishing for many months.  I'll be there at Easter.   Can anyone local tell me if there is anything special at the Jetty?  I've beeing going there for years so will just take gear for tailor, bread and butter fish and squid unless there happens to be a mass bonito or tuna outbreak or something going on (I wish).

Probably take a beach rod as well and might have a go at some salmon if they're there.

Thanks

Cam

 G'day all,

Headed out today with the brother in law (The Baiter). Been a while since we got out for a bash, as last trip out the motor got a bit warm for my liking. Anyway after a few k spent getting everything sorted we headed out to the 40m mark off Mandurah. 

Got myself a nice Demon Blood 64CJ off a fellow FW member on B-S/S/T. and put it with my Stradic 6000fj as a beginners jig set up. Decided today was the day to try the metals all day. Well not quite all day.... but gave it a good crack.

Was pretty slow for us out there this morning. Got started in 39m and ended up with a NW Blowie for the baiter and a very sick looking Pirate Jig for me. I swapped over to this (Can't remember what it was called. Got it frow Oceanside)  

We then headed a bit further out, to around 42m. I kept working the jig from the back of the boat with little success and Doug nailing a lovely BB. I changed tack and made my way to the bow. Was watching a Fishing WA show the other week and Ryan was saying about working the jigs as vertical as possible. The result was almost instant, I cast updrift let it hit the bottom, a few inexprerienced jigs later and I'm on!! Only a little fella, but pretty happy to get a Dhu on a real steel jig and not a Pirate Jig p.s(Nothing wrong with Pirate Jigs I just wanted to get one on the other types)  probably around 40-48 cm didn't bother measuring as it was early days. Kept working the jig most of the morning for a nice Nannygai. Doug got another smaller BB. Just after lunch time and another move I hooked a nice fish on the jig but after a short tussle I dropped it. Bummer it felt like a nice Dhu.

It went quiet on the jigs after that and Doug had lost a really good fish on the bait. So I let myself get lured over to the bait. I rigged up a snelled Herring on a drift bait, and sent it down. As it was getting close to the bottom it got nailed. I don't know if it was a big Dhu or a Sambo but after a few great runs everything went limp. and worse of all up came the pig tails. Back to the knot books (anyone know a good snell knot)

Back around for another drift and this time Dougs rod loads up with another good fish, this time everything stays connected and up pops this beauty!

When we got home this buck went just under 10 kg's. 

So all in all a great day on the water. The Jigs got enough hits on a quiet day to keep me more than interested. But baits still won.

Any jig guru's keen to give me a tutorial around Mandurah feel free to pm. Still finding spots.

Cheers

Chris 

Heading to Cervantes this weekend for a beach bash with a mate hopefully to bag a couple of beauts!
keep you guys posted

 Where are they biting land based? What times are working?

An interesting report with an unexpected catch on outmatched gear...



...wonderful fish picture...



...and of course an adventure...



You can visit the blog to get all the juicy details.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2014/04/last-minute-redemption.html

Went 18kg been a good year for them

 Before anyone starts. The entire shark feed 5 families, off with the head, fins, guts, tail and soaked in sea water for 3-4 hours. The fillets were awesome

Jaws have been kept as a reminder. 

around 1.7m long, approx 15kgs. 

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