Went out on a solo mission of Hillarys last Friday. Initially hung in close just behind the 3 mile waiting for the wind to die down, the highlight was a nice 45cm KG from my KG spot. Also got some skippy, tarwhine, sand whiting, a well undersize dhu which swam away strongly and a few undersize pinkies which seem to be around in plague proportions at the moment.

Once the wind died down headed further out for a jig on lumps north of Rotto. Was a slow day out there. I was plagued by Sergent Bakers and Footballer Sweep - given their size I'm surprised how many of them I get on jig. I did manage my PB flatty though - a 58cm Blue Spot which hit a jig on the fall, a new species for me on jig.

I did some experimenting with rigging jigs with a bottom hook, interestingly most of the Sergent Bakers were hooked on the bottom hook. Late in the day I had a big hit on a 160gm Shout ShabShab but didn't hook up. I didn't have the bottom hook rigged on the jig and I reckon it cost me a good fish.

Overall not a bad day out on the water.

 Hi Guys, It's been a while since I posted so I thought I would put up a few images of my latest trip to India. I've been out again on the west coast which is called the Konkan coast. It is probably one of the most interesting stretches of coast on the sub continent because a mixture of terrain. There is everything from decent estuaries, rock fishing and good surfcasting as well as some good fishing up the rivers themselves. 

I bought a little van a couple of years ago which makes exploring much easier compared to a bike or by public transport and this trip we really did see and camp in some beautiful places. The coast we fish is a little way north of Goa and generally there are not too many people In terms of India. There is a fair bit of pressure from commercial fishermanbut this is mainly offshore with boats targetting spaniards, various other species and prawns. Inshore there are still many places that haven't been screwed.  

The main two species I target are Barramundi and mangrove jacks. These are the commonest species in the area and if you know your stuff there can be some world class light tackle fishing from the rocks and estuaries. Some of you guys might remember my previous posted and some of these fish:) There are also Gts, cod, queenfish, spanish mackeral and cobia about and these we usually target from a boat but to be fair until i have a decent boat with electrics I prefer the landbased fishing and casting lures from my kayak which can also be very productive. Generally the fishing is pretty good if you know your stuff but I can imagine if all the commercial boats caught fire it wouldn't be a bad thing. The local fish market shows what can be caught if you know the offshore marks and the fish out there are very similar to the north of australia, with huge golden snappers, black jews, speckled snappers and queenies often coming in, all of good size.

This trip we really tried to get to know a couple of hundred kms of coast well which was great. I did a fair bit of snorkelling during the day (when the fishing isn't great) and often found myself swimming through large shoals of mangrove jack of anything up to 6-7kg and pod of 5-10 barramundi ranging from 4-10kg. Some of you guys would be thinking this is spearfishing heaven but in India its not really a very popular pastime and is really frowned upon by the locals. probably for the best really because it wouldn't take long for the fish to be wiped out going by the areas they live in.

A very memorable trip we did around new year was to take the kayaks and head up one of the large rivers that empty into the arabian sea. We spent six nights in total to reach the top and return and all in all it was a very pleasant way to spend just over a week. we caught a fair few mangrove jacks and early on new years day i had a cracker barramundi; my first in freshwater in India, which put up a super fight. I couldn't have thought of a better way to start the new year!

On this trip I also taught my girlfriend Aurelie to fish and she did pretty well considering it was more or less new to her. First trip for her was to the rocks on near full moon and she managed to hook and nearly land a big mangrove jack around 5kg (hook popped as we were ready to land it) and then she went on to get stuck into the barra. It was great to see as she was a still a little unsure what to do with such big fish. the first barra smashed a bomber and proceded to jump and cartwheel around 25 yards out the hooks feel out. The second she hooked was a solid fish of between 8-9kg which really made her scream when it started jumping and running hard but again it got lucky and threw the hooks. The third one was smaller but not so lucky and we managed to land it! while that was going on I managed to just hook and lose two!

I've written a few posts on my blog about the trip for anyone that would like to read more. one post is in a diary format. www.worldbiker.blogspot.com

Right onto the photos...

Spot with super potential. i could see a good shoal of fish from my view point and also some turtles swimming about

New year morning barramundi. a good fish and my first Indian freshwater barramundi

deserted coast north of where we live. Big Gts and sharks patrol here! And apparently tigers. After camping a few nights the police turned up and declared that it was unsafe to camp there due to the tigers and snakes and foxes!! oh and crazy locals! Hmmm I can see that if something happened it would be mean much work for them..In Indian camping is a bit of an alien concept in many areas so we olbliged and moved to a new spot. To argue would have been futile!

before the police chased us off we watched around 25 local guys hunting this fellow in  a small forested valley set just back from the beach. the hunt went on for quite a few hours! We watched from the valley top until we decided they were hunting their shadow and so went to the van to cook and make coffee. 15 minutes later an indian came flying out of the bushes with his ancient bamboo spear and made a run for it. Seconds later a shot rang out fiftteen yards away and the wild boar was dead. 

Aurelie's pb Barramundi. Not bad on 4kg line :)

Noel and Graham came to visit with a friend from further down the coast and managed to land this lovely malabar rock cod. happy days!

My friend Ashok with a brace of good Indian Barramundi. The moon was up and a pod moved in and it was a bite a cast but for some reason only on ashoks rod!!

One more decent barra for Ashok

a decent beach with no people. Nice place to spend some hours :)

One of the better trevally from the trip. this was at the start when a friend from uk joined. after this I didn't do too much popping.

Double hook up on Gts from the rocks. James had never caught a gt before so the sight of a hungry pack chasing our poppers down was something special. we kept a couple and cooked them in the coals later on.

Rapan net; The locals often put a large 'u' shaped net off the beach for sardines and usually they get a good haul of up to a ton. But surprisinly there are not too many pelagics chasing the sards. However they did get a 65kg cobia in this net a few months ago and i saw a 35kg gt pulled out a couple of weeks back

Nice little GT on the popper.

And one more

James first Indian barra. He caught this on a very hard night when we thought there was no chance of a fish! not bad for a first attempt.

I managed to get a couple of barra on the fly. It's something new for me and also for the indian coast as i believe no one or very few people have fly fished the konkan coast. there is some good potential and i look forward to getting a big barra on the fly

A good estuary barra for aurelie towards the end of the trip.

And a super hard fighting mangrove jack for Aurelie on a night when the fish were climbing up our rods :)

Camping with friends after fishing

Good brace of fish. On nearly every cast either a jack of barra tried to eat my lure and they were even taking soft plastics on the drop. good fun until the tide came up and i had to make a break for higher ground

we spent aurelie's birthday camped on this beautiful beach and didn't see another soul. we did however see fresh leopard footprints but lived to tell the tail! a few days after this we met the main Forest Department boss who oversees the wildlife in the district. he told us the leopards that live here are classed as 'Civilised' and don't eat people. I knew before i met him they don't usually eat people but now i'm fully at ease!

Nice jack on lure off the beach

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Aurelie and her pb mangrove jack. 

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 Kayaking up the river at new years; early morning

One more solid mangrove jack on the lure from the estuary

Lunch stop before fishing :)

One of my last barra of the trip. It was great fight on 4kg line with strong current. I'll remember that fish for a while :)

One of our neighbours :)

Ok that's it for now. Hope you guys enjoy the photos. i might put a few more up later if I have time. I had a quick look through the forum and it seems some great fish are getting caught on the west of oz. I miss it a lot and might have to come visit again soon if i get the chance. Tightlines everyone, Scott

www.worldbiker.blogspot.com

caught this bronzie at cervantes yesterday, around 2pm on a mulie

also got spooled by a shark aswell. emblem pro got a workout!

Good mate, Manie Bekker and I decided to do a short session hunting Mulloway in Cockburn Sound on Friday night. We do not normally chase Mulloway in a Waxing Crescent with an outgoing tide, but we were desperate to get a bait in the water.

We launched from Woodman Point just as the sun was setting and after a short 5.5km trip found a bommie in 10m indicating good fish holding close to it. We dropped the anchor up wind from the bommie and within minutes of burleying were catching an assortment of baitfish. We filled the live well with Herring, Snoek, Butterfish, Trumpeter, Bream and even a Chopper Tailor.

Manie attached a Herring to two 4/0 hooks on a 60lb trace with the other end driven by a Penn 850 filled with 40 lb braid. At around 8 PM we hooked a Snoek which managed to pick up Manie's live bait line. While I was trying to untangle the lines Manie's 40lb braid suddenly started pulling through my fingers. We quickly cut off the Snoek trace and Manie set the hook into the fleeing fish. He immediately donated about 30m of line from the Penn as the fish dashed for it's freedom. Another 10 minutes later and a couple of short bursts, we managed to pick up the fish's number plate - a decent Mulloway of over a meter. After carefully slipping the landing net under the fish and bringing it aboard we started celebrating. Manie's Mulloway measured a magical 120 cm and a mass of 17.6 kg, beating my previous best Cockburn Sound Mulloway of 113cm.

Unfortunately the fish was hooked well within its gut and we were unable to release it as it had lost a lot of blood.

At about 10 PM the Southerly started picking up and after I lost a decent fish we decided to call it a night. We look forward to our next session on this wonderful fishery.

See YouTube clip at http://youtu.be/arCLpDtnQ1w

 For a change of pace I decided to take the boat out today with a mate and get stuck into the mega schools of salmon that are holding up off Bunkers. 

With up to 40 other boats in the area it bordered on the ridiculous at times but with at least 4 different schools it wasn't hard to find enough room to land a few.

Our rough tally for the morning was well over 30 with numerous other fish lost due to using stupidly light gear (4lb) 

I finally lashed out and bought a Kayak. The main purpose is for the family with the wife and two young girls but since it came with rod holders I thought I better take it for a fish he he he.

The trip was windy and rainy and you'd call it pretty miserable but I still managed to Christen the new Yak with a nice little Barra around 65cm. It's a start.

The best thing about this Kayak is I got two inbuilt rod holders, two adjustable ones, two of those Deluxe seats that can go for $100 each plus two detachable paddles all for $694 delivered. Can't argue with that.

Not a lot to report, walked from Jindalee beach to Lancelin over the weekend, stayed pretty much on the beach the whole way. Good walk but not a lot of fish seen. weed conditions were varying from heavy to none and some good gutters between Seabird and Ledge. Saw heaps of campers/fishos on the way, anyone remember the two blokes on foot ?

Michael and I, along with my buddy Matt and his family, spent the weekend on a lake up north searching for the elusive Burbot (Lota lota). We were given some very good information, but it seems the timing was still a little off, or our location was a little off, or conditions was a little off.

Michael and I camped overnight on the ice. Even with the heater on full (3000 BTU), it was still a bit cold in the wee hours of the morning. Burbot fishing is best after dark so we were trying to maximize our opportunities, plus we were too thrifty to spend extra money on the hotel room :lol:

I was lucky enough to lost one and caught one. Otherwise, burbot fishing was slow to dead. The whitefish were also largely absent aside from one that came unbuttoned at the hole for Michael, and one that Matt landed.

There is a lot of narrative, as well as a couple of burbot cleaning tips on my blog. Otherwise here are some pictures.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2014/03/zero-dark-burbot.html

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Here are some more fishing pictures from my icefishing season. It started off very slow but progressively got better.

I'll be brief here. For the full story, you can read about it on my blog.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2014/02/slow-start-to-season-but-heating-up-now.html

Compared this slow icefishing season with my trip to Florida, it was day and night. I caught some fish, but couldn't get out often enough...and when I do get out fishing, it always seems to be the slow day...

I did run into a massive school of Cisco one day. I love the chrome side and iridescent purple back. They remind me of Ladyfish a lot. Just as aggressive and they form big schools as well.



I made a new friend who was from France and he had never experienced icefishing. So we went out one Saturday and he caught his first fish icefishing. It is not the biggest pike in the world, but at least we got a rod bent.





In February, my luck finally turned and I got into a couple of great days. Most of the Lake Trout were small...but the action was fast and furious and the trout tasted great.



Most of them were around this size.



Some had brilliant reddish fins!

Hi guys,

Went out for a snapper sesh with good mate Dean (Dirt) on Friday night, we anchored up on one of our spots out between Garden and Carnac Islands, would like to say we killed it with the pinks but wasn't to be! Just a bloody big Wobby (released) and a big Tailor.

But the surprise catch by Dean was a Spangled Emperor that measured 42cm after a few photos we released it, we were a bit gob smacked that we brought a Spanglie to the boat in the Sound, will have to get him to post the pics.

How things are changing!

Paul

Mate - Nic and I were chasing Tuna that were smashing bait fish at Stragglers Reef. I tossed a Halco Twisty into the school of Tuna and set the hook on a positive take. After a short fight and anticipation of my first Tuna, I was surprised to find a 66cm Pinkie with the treble firmly hooked in it's mouth. I did not expect to find a Pinkie hunting amongst the Tuna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1Nq6jKaUo

Wild snakehead fishing is my hobby.

Snakehead fishing is addictive and challenging sport especially to catch them in the wild.

During my pastime when I'm not at works (my works also related about fishing), I will drive to one of
my favorite snakehead spot to enjoy a  day of snakehead fishing by myself.

Just a simple catch report to showcase my recent giant snakehead (mama toman) catches.

Enjoys the exciting youtube clip.

Thanks to GoPro, it really helped me to capture most of the fishing actions during the trip.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7AiBLps5ak

Angler: IGFA World Record Snakehead 2013 Holder - Bkkguy John
Reel: Daiwa Ryoga 1016H
Rod: Major Craft 12-25Ibs- 7 foot rod.
Main line: Surfix 832- 8X braided- PE5
Lure: Rapala CD 14 Magnum
Hooks: Decoy hooks- SY21(1/O)
Fishing ground: Wild fishing spot Thailand.
Target fish: Giant snakehead (Toman)

 
Photos highlights of my snakehead catch....

Awesome !!!! Awesome !!! simply Awesome !!!

A beautiful mama toman.....

Hi all,

First time posting after being on the site a while.

Location: Applecross Jetty

Bait/Lures: River prawn and 2.5cm Zman grub

Gear: El cheapo Kmart specials

Rig: running sinker down to small red octopus hook

Target species: Bream, Flathead, Whiting

Arrived at Applecross Jetty to bleak and cold wintery day. Broke up and threw an old loaf of bread around to start the interest going. Soon had my first fish a trumpeter, nothing special but a start. A couple more trumpeter followed along with a few blowies and a Tarwine. I had the big rod with me so snuck a hook through the back of one of the trumpeter and lobbed it out. No real interest on the live bait although it twitched around a bit. Nothing much else happened so I decided to call it a morning. Packed up and headed back towards the car. I had some soft Zman grubs so decided to give it a go. Punched a couple of casts in shallow hoping for a flathead. Three or four casts in rolling a slow retrieve along the bottom something smashed the soft plastic, I thought it was a flathead but to my surprise a nice bream fought all the way in. I measured it and it came in at size and with it being a nice clean fish decided to keep it.

Sometimes one fish makes the day but I think the day makes the day. Rarely do I get the chance to wet a line so just getting out is reward in itself.

cheers and thanks for reading

 Managed to get a few Crays yesterday and today down at Cowaramup Bay. 4 yesterday and 4 today, sizes are pretty good too.

Can gauge the size of them off the first one, which was about 5mm over size.

 Hi guys,

Just asking if anyone is having success with any squid and the smaller fair, just looking for a bit of fun and maybe a feed.

I'm also landbased,

Andrew

Headed out for a day trip with Freedive Fiji on Saturday after hearing about the report of massive YFT being caught over the last few weeks on the coral coast. Within the first hour of trolling we were onto a beast, the first run was just incredible. We were extremely lucky to land it as it was foul hooked behind the head. It took 3 of us an hour each to boat, we were basically pulling the fish in sideways being foul hooked, so lucky the hook held. It was a massive team effort to land it. I was the last on the rod for those typical tuna circles at the boat, few tense moments. I definately didnt want to be the one to mess it up after such a brutal battle. Was stoked to be involved in the capture.

The day wasnt to end there, once we located this massive bait ball it was on for the rest of the afternoon. We ended up with the days tally going 1 YFT around 70kg, 3 YFT around 15-20kg, 2 YFT 5kg mark, 9 solid mahi mahi. Including a mahi on stickbait. Not bad going given we battled one fish for 3hrs.

If anyone is over in Fiji anytime in the near future and looking for an extra number on a trip hit us up with a pm. Im here until Jan next year. Pretty keen to get out for a Kadavu/Ono trip real soon.

G'day guys,

Headed south on the weekend with good intent to chase some salmon however the wind was up all weekend so decided to hit the rivers for some trout. I started Saturday arvo heading to my favourite brook to chase some big trout. the river is super tight with really big fish that spook easy. ended up with a couple of redfin, a rainbow and a nice brown taken on a SP. also lost a good size brown after it took to the air and spat my squidgy pro critter. the fish were really turned on with multiple trout chasing my lure and spooking a few while walking the river.
sunday me and my brother hit some other rivers with the trout being really aggressive. in 2 separate rivers we caught 3-4 trout each in a couple of hours. I also lost 3 trout and 1 monster redfin that was taking drag before busting me off under the log I was standing on. all of my trout were caught on soft plastics and my redfin were on small hard bodies. all my brothers fish were on hard bodies. all in all we had an awesome weekend on the fresh water with many trout spotted and many trout hooked with a few large guys landed and some big browns spooked. I cant wait to go back!

Also got 4 hits that did not hook up, a small sharkie mac (which we suspect were the non hookups) , two small YFT on jig which will make great sashimi, plus about 12 stripies, mostly on PE2 jig in one hot little session when we hit a big school. fun!

Last weekend went down to quinns beach to catch bait off of the most northerly rock groin there at about 5:30pm. Last summer i got heaps of herring and whiting by throwing out pollard to start then two baitchasers with a bit of prawn on each behind a full berley cage and more often than not get double headers but this time nothing only a couple of little whiting and heaps of blowies. As the sun set i switched to mulies as last year got plenty of tailor there and by then a few guys had come down also using mulies - nothing - just one small pike we were even using little light sticks.

Yesterday went off the end of Mindarie marina wall at 5:00pm to get out of this bloody wind. Threw heaps of pollard in with berley cage baitchasers etc - nothing all afternoon. Decided to let the rig just sink to the bottom and got lots of little pink snapper about 15cm long returned them all of course so i guess thats a good sign for the future. No herring and got 1 little yellowtail. About 7 of us then fishing with mulies as the sun set and nothing. Where are the herring and tailor? 

went up for the weekend to my usual spot at cervantes

ended up with a ray, 16 tailor and 3 herring

overall was a good trip, plenty of cold beers & a good feed of tailor and herring off our northern coastline!

Fly fishing for arapaima.....that is what every fly fisherman dream....

It not easy to catch them in the wild due to over fishing or netting at Amazon river.

Thailand has become a second best choice for anglers when come to arapaima fishing paradise.

Though it is still a fishing pond and not wild but to catch his beauty fish in pond is not that easy as what it look.

There are many fishing pond resorts in Thailand which offer fishing arapaima using baits which can be easy.

To catch the arapaima on lure itelf is already a challenge... to catch & land it on fly rod that's every fly fisherman's dream.

Afterall, arapaima is one of the biggest freshwater fish in the world.

Here is one of those  many memorable fishing trips I guided last week.

Enjoy the exciting and actions pack youtube clip I done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os-EUX2-aIA

Highlights photos of the day !!!

Redtail Catfish on fly rod...

Super bending from fly rod .....

Holding bay for arapaima before release again.

 Dose anyone have a luck with Albany salmon yet

We thinking to go this weekend to salmon hole.

 Just finish the comp didn't have the best run of luck with break downs and other stuff but ended up with 16 raised 12 hooked and 5 tagged but the good news is a total of 303 fish taged and 1200 raised so bring on Gamex joyfully have a better run of luck

Finally did my first trip to the Montes. Weather was insane with glass offs everyday. We stayed around the middle of the group and did most of our fishing out from the western channel. The first two days were a bit quiet with the neap tides but got really good when the tide started to move. We headed out to Tryall Rocks on the second day and did not even raise a scale! Was good to go out that way for a look though and we had a dive on the inside of the rocks witch was fantastic.

The main target was GTs and we had found a few smaller ones on the backs of the reef so the aim was to hit those areas a bit harder when the tides started to move a bit. For the last two days we got plenty good GTs and a bit of by-catch with queenies, other trevs, coral trout, spangos, and macks. The bottom fishing was a waste of time with every good fish sharked.

Some of the GTs were massive and we couldn't stop them on pe10, either they ran us through the reef or the Owner trebles straightened out. Next year its on again cant wait.

Fishwreckers I wanted to share some of the trophies I managed to land in a 2 week holiday in feb ths year,
I fished out of Bangkok for a week and then went a couple of hours south to Hua Hin for 10 days, the fishing exceeded my expectations which for me is rare these days. Though I must say it was a weird experience being in Bangkok with my Wife and young boys (doh).
Had a day at Bungsamran lake for Mekong giant catfish, f%^&k me I stayed right till the end (6pm) fishing on pure adrenaline beer and Thai redbull caught 25 plus catfish totalling over a Ton for the day, I seriously could hardly walk leaving the lake , the only comparison I could suggest would be like catching 30 kg sambos and fighting them horizontally all day, Please experience this lake once in your life.
Other days were spent with bkky guy (John) who rocks! he turns up on time, nice car, put me onto 40 barra to 8 or 9 kg on poppers and various other lures then "popped" into a lake on the way home were I finally got a bloody snakehead, these things are vicious and after landing quite few and being completely smashed a few times John made me leave because I had almost finished his lure box...John takes his time taking quality photos of your catches which makes a big difference to other guides (he also sorted out a esky full of cold beer too -of course!)
Had a day at Hua hin fishing lodge (snore) sorta fun I suppose.
Jurassic park, wow well set up beautifull fishing gear bite alarms and all the pommy shit, stunning location, got some good big Siamese and indian carp on hair rigs, plus a few big redtail catfish and other little randoms - good day.
Had 2 days at Greenfields, well first day was good few big Siamese carp (pull like bastards) alligator gar surprise catch), big pacu (plague proportions solid fight) 12kg barra foul hooked in the cheek on a piece of bread! even the owner got a photo of that one said they hadn't been caught in ages. 2nd day greenfields, - firt 30 min f$%^k me 70kg Arapaima on a whole sea mackerel. wicked fight and experience. lots of other carp, pacu,random catfish things and big redtail catfish (also fight like dirty bastards) then just on dark -massive run huge splashes and unstoppable run, bit of patience - slowly slowly the guides are yelling, 90kg Arapaima!. Must be my biggest fish except sharks.
Anyway Thailand rocks I wish I was chasing more fish and less tail on previous trips!,
Tried a few other fishing lakes that were very average, if your going feel free to PM me for any advice I can offer.
Had a few weeks in the Philippines shooting fish - wicked sport hunting/fishing oh yeah.
Roll on next year im going back.

The giant mammoth freshwater stingray, also known as the freshwater whip ray, is found in several rivers in Southeast Asia and northern Australia.

Ever since the River Monster discovery show by Jeremy John Wade, many anglers around the word have been flocking to thailand to attempt to fish this river monster of Thailand.

Due to overwhelming demand from many anglers, we have included giant freshwater stingray in our fishing trip.

Here the awesome giant stingray catch we landed recently.

2 monster stingray- 80KG & 150KG Giant Freshwater stingray Big catch in 1 Single Day !!!

There is no way , any single angler can tame or fights this monster by himself.

In any stingray trip, at least 2 or 3 anglers is needed so we can bring this monster ray to the surface.

Enjoys the 2 parts series 'actions pack' youtube channel.

Giant Freshwater Stingray 80KG  Bkk Fishing Tour Thailand Part 1/2.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ05HiL5LA0

Giant Freshwater Stingray 150KG  Bkk Fishing Tour Thailand Part 2/2

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

The highlight photos of the day !!!!

The agony fights........

The monster 150KG catch of the day !!!

 managed a good coupe of tailor spinnin round the reefs today me and joereef landed bout 7 missed hook ups and lost about10 and kept 3 for mulla slab(the ones that couldnt go back due to swallowing the lure) the pick of the lures were halco scorpian in pink and yellow and bull chop stick seen in the pic 45-55cm

Spent the weekend dinghy-fishing the stretch of water between the river mouth to a few kilometres upriver.  We trolled a range of lures which have scored tailor and small salmon in the past, without success.  Seaweed, washed in through The Cut, didn't help trolling much... and we fouled the prop several times in drifting weed almost a metre thick in a few places.

We were most impressed with the clarity of the water... and large schools of baitfish.  At night, the water was alive.  We released five or six dozen small yellowfin whiting and a dozen or so tiny bream. Lots of action for very little result.  We didn't really see a single impressive fish caught all weekend.  Maybe they're just too well-fed!~

Ended up with one very large herring* and three KGs, all on bait. 

* Caught well upriver. Reminiscent of the kind / size of herring we used to catch off Grant Street fifty years ago. It took a whole prawn... .

Hi Guys

After a few years of reading the forum i thought it was about time i posted something. I am heading over to Rotto for my first landbased fishing trip with the better half in early May. I was wondering if any of you have had any sucsess and if you would have any tips?  Would be much appreciated?

Regards

Greg

hey guys me and my girl are going to kalbarri and just trying to get some advice on how the beach fishing has been thanks guys

Hey Fisho's how are you all? I heard a rumour that a few Spaniards were caught off the four mile down in Busselton at the weekend? Can anyone confirm this is true? and what method was used, trolling or live baits?