Hi fellas, just wondering if anyone's had any luck diving for king prawns down at blackwall reach recently? 

Or anywhere else in the swan.

Cheers

 Hi all, just wondering if there are a few crabs getting caught in the swan at the moment? Thinking about gearing up for a crack this weekend

Well the time had come for the next Abrolhos trip, it’s been a while. Jesse and I had been getting stuff loaded for days before the planned date. When all had arrived and loaded I then realised how much stuff we were taking. Soon Steve and crew rolled up and it was time to hit the road. 5 hours later and we were on the ramp ready to launch.  Lyndon was on the water and fast asleep, ready for an early start. 4:00 am and the alarm goes off. all hands on deck and we are on our way.

Once out the marina and down with the throttle, mmmmmm we weren’t going anywhere fast as the poor boat was grossly over loaded. It was a slow trip across but once there all was forgotten, with memories of past trips and fish everywhere came into our heads. We had permission to use one of the jetties for mooring on which was great as we could offload most of the gear and only put on what was needed each day.

Day 1, started off in the shallows 1-4m casting bull chops around the coral outcrops, we were getting hit by trout near every cast, only small but great fun on the light gear. After a few hours we went out for a bottom bash, sorry that was sending me to sleep so back to the jetty for some lunch. After a quick bite to eat, we went for a ride in the dingy. great fun but hell felt so small after sitting in the other boat. still gets you into some shallow ground you would not normally get into. Jesse and I did a little free diving in a couple of holes with no joy. first day no fish in the bag

Day 2 Up early for a run to wreck point for a trolling sesh .Wasn’t long and the reel was alive with a nice Mac, after a few missed fish we were onto a good solid fish with Jody on the strike. Could this be our first YFT? we will never know as the hooks let go with metres to go...Still a good start to the morning. next Jesse was on and this time we got our first YFT head as the sharks got the rest. this went on for the next hour or so with YFT, sharks and lost fish. We decided to have a go at bottom fishing as its not too often you get outside the main reef without the wind be there .well the dhuies were going off with double headers and single hook-ups for the next hour. A fun morning and a couple of firsts. After lunch we were back in the dingy buzzing around the shallows flicking lures . nothing big but still fun . We did an arvo dive on the dhuie hole but no one was home . George did hook up to a monster shark ,and I bet he is still feeling it 3 days later .

Day 3 We head out for a little more trolling picking up a another nice tuna on light gear, then it was back to the shallows for some free diving, we got a couple of nice trout and a baldie and missed some set shots . had a visit from the grey coats they didn’t seem to be bothered that we were there .The weather forecast had changed so we packed up and headed back to Gero .nice ride back at 24-26knots. not a lot of fish but who cares . The rods will be staying home next time. Long way to go bottom fish ,as we do most weekends . I think free diving and couple of tank dives will be on the next trip . And that is only weeks away.

Hi guys,Just wondering anyone fished the area over the long weekend and had any luck??

I hopefully will get there over the next couple of days!

cheers dan.

Left Hillarys at 5:00 in perfect flat conditions and shot out to the HYC FAD which by the way is about 1km SW of the navionics mark. Just as we got there the  bloody wind started but it was OK for my 18.5 footer. Usually there are dollies jumping around the FAD and we get heaps of them but sunday nothing. Those bloody birds must have been doing breath - hold training over the last year because last year im sure they couldnt dive as deep as they were on sunday to take your mulie. Little bastards are even more ballsy too they come right up to the boat even after youve belted them on the head with your rod tip.  After about 5 drifts of nothing I put a heap of pollard out and my brother casted into the trail and bang he was on. It grabbed the mulie and went straight down deep and hard and took out a shitload of line from  his 3 kg outfit. After about 10 mins up came a nice yellowtail kingfish not a monster it was 72cm it was on his bucket list to catch and Ive never seen one before so that was great. We were pumped after that kept doing drifts but nothing happened after. I noticed the swell had started picking up but the wave distances were still safe. We put out the big pushers and started south over the trench. About an hour into it the swells changed they were closer together and getting steep faces on them I had to keep turning west into them as they were too steep to take on sideways. Was starting to get a little concerned so decided to do a quick radio signal check to VJ6LQ - bloody radio had died on the way out at some point. Every now and then an extra steep swell would appear and the wind would whip the top off so we thought Hmm time to go home. Pretty disappointed because its the only time this summer weve been able to get out there anyway fingers crossed for some better weather over the next month. Water temp was 21 -22 degrees dont recall even seeing 23 degrees, no birds, bust ups and only the occasional flying fish.   

 I did a solo trip to FFB on Saturday after all three my regular crew were unavailable.  Launched from Woodman Point at 05:30 and witnessed another wonderful sunrise.  The morning started well with a number of fish being boated after which all went quiet.  I looked around and noticed a Tiger Shark circling the boat and realised why the fish had disappeared.  Suddenly my 10-15kg rod loaded with a mullie on a 8/0 Gamakatsu circle hook, 60lb floro trace and 40 lb braid started protesting and the reel began loosing line at a rapid rate.  Once I locked up the drag I realised that there was something substantial on the other end and after a 30 minute fight eventually sighted the Tiger attached to the other end.  A further 30 minutes later and I had the fish at the leader when my rod decided that it had received enough abuse and broke in half.  The bites picked up afterwards again as the shark left my swim to go and sulk elsewhere.  

Funny how the "Jaws" music starts playing in the mind when alone out there with a reasonable man eater in the proximity.

I have already tackled up and will touch one of these creatures of the deep before our government wipes them out.

http://youtu.be/ABzLNQagxDw

Finally got to use all my new deep drop gear....Furuno FCV-295, running the SS264 50khz and 200khz thru-hull transducers.

Had heard many stories of guys putting in days of sounding before getting onto fish, and I was prepared for that. I really wanted either a Grey-band or Ruby, so headed for 250 metres off Jurien last Thursday. First ground that looked promising only had Green eyes, so we shifted a mile or so north and found another ridge that looked OK. Pulled a couple of Pink Snapper, then I was on. That's the fish in the first pic. We had the club scales with us, and the Grey-band pulled them down to 26.53kg. We also picked up a couple of smaller ones, the catch for the day is the second pic.

Next couple of days was spent hunting the usual demersals, and we ended up with the normal fare...Dhufish, Baldchin and Breaksea Cod. Nothing really spectacular.

Sunday we decided to have another crack at the deep stuff. Picked up a few Pinkies, then we were on....both rods went off. Mine was baited with a whole butterflied Blue Mackerel on one hook and a chunk of Sergeant Baker on the other. My mates rod had squid on both hooks. Since my brother hadn't caught a big Grey-Band, I handed the rod to him to land it. After a while, what popped up had us astounded. The one on my rod was 33.58kg, and the other we didn't weigh, but was probably around 20kg. These are the last of the pics below. The big fish took the Sergeant Baker.

I've checked today and the State Record is 28kg, but our Club rules say it must be hooked and landed by the same person, so it can't count for our Club record....the 26.53kg will have to do. Similarly, we won't be putting the fish in for a State record either....I should have thought of that before handing the rod over.

Interestingly, the 33kg fish had lots of worms in the flesh, and the 26kg had some. The smaller fish were all fine, including the one around 20kg. Has anyone else seen these? I also cooked a bit as a trial, thinking if it's like Sambos then it would go mushy, but quite the opposite, it was quite tough...tasty enough, but tough...perhaps I overcooked it.

So I'm thinking we lucked onto a decent spot first try. Still to get my Ruby....next time I'm in Jurien I reckon.

  The Clubs monthly overnight competition was held on Saturday ,North of Perth in near perfect conditions.

Fish were scarce on the night but that seems to be the trend at the moment for some reason or another. Rays and Shovel Nose Sharks made up the bulk of fish caught with two massive Black Rays landed by Shaun and Werner using Assassin made rods and Shimano Overhead reels

Photos of the Rays with weights and measurements will follow , congratulations to the boys on their captures , hope your backs and arms have recovered

Results were         Shaun               1st Place

                                Werner           2nd Place

                                 Dave              3rd  Place

A Club meeting will be held next Monday night 10/ 3 at 6pm at Shaun's work place , can all members please attend .

Shauns Ray caught at night measured 162 cm and weighed in at 141 kg

Werner's Ray  was caught early morning , it measured 163 cm and weighed in at 143 kg

 With two rocks still closed we went looking for some new ground out of mindarie on Saturday. Found a nice little lump in 38m and dropped a couple descent fish amongst a few undersized dhus, a nice baldy, coupe blackarse and heaps of rat sambos until my mate Pez land this big fat dhu. Went 1050mm and 18.3kg when weighed back home after it threw up its stomach including a whole occy and being bled. It was so fat and the biggest dhu I've seen in the flesh and we were all sure we finally had a 20 club member....but no. Need to get some scales on the boat I think. Didn't land anything else after this one 

Hey all

GF wants to go to the beach with sis and brother inlaw and i remembered a spot near the penguin island sandbar last year where we had a little fun on herring and i even caught my first KG, just round the southern bend towards the launch ramp. was wondering if anybodys been fishing the area down there lately and if so is anything about? heading down tomoro arvo most likely altho looks less windy in the morning (willy weather). happy just to get into some more herring or whiting would be great.

cheers

Niko

 Tradewind and I headed out early to see if we could get him a good dhuie, we initially went exploring an area not tried before having passed over a huge fish aggregation in 43 metres, first drop yielded a flathead, hmmm, interesting, then things went horribly wrong as we passed over that aggregation, three rods with total bite offs, rerig and try again, same result.......... It was a massive aggregation all right but of N W blowies, grrrrrrr.

Whip the sea anchor in and head North for a mile, hmmm, more fish, first drop, double headers of dhuies but all were just under size, all returned well with and without release weight.  Drift again, good black bum, more undersized dhuies, and sothe day went on, no current whatever and fish feeding well, I got a 66 cm dhuie, good K G W on skinned occy and Tradewind got a horse of a baldie.

We thought he had finally cracked onto a good dhuie on the final drift as the wind dropped off to nothing but up came a bloody ray and another baldie to get him to the limit

Great day on the water, back at between 23 and 27 knots on glossing off conditions

Thanks mate for the company !

 has any one been fishing in the fremantle sailing club and if u have what have u cuaght and what on

 havent put anythin gup in a while and havent been taking many photos or even fishin a lot compared to normal but still nailing some great fish on spear and line.
anyway here is a few recent pics from our efforts and some screenshots from a heap of footage ive collected lately. 

 I have been away from Perth for three weeks but before I left i could count at least 15 small boats crabbing between the Canning Bridge and in front of Barrack Street Jetties. I haven't seen any over the last couple of days?? What's going on? Have the crabs all left or been fished out?

Is Mandurah or Cockburn doing any better?

 Hi lads,

Just thinking about heading north up to Gladtsone and wondering is anyone has had a crack fishing there ... whats the story? is the fishing any good?

If anyone could share some reports on what to expext and catch it would be much apreciated.

Cheers

 I have finally got around to editing all my footage from my trip to the 3 kings nz last May. Highlights were the monster bass we encountered, the 500+ pound swordie we hooked after letting the bait about 5 mins earlier and the xl kings on the best top water session you could ask for. Can't reccomended lance and the boys from enchanter enought. They are the best in the biz 

for best pic watch in 1080

http://youtu.be/Cg6wkpdXGDc

hope that link works. Enjoy

 went up to cervantes this weekend for an overnighter. fished all afternoon and night, not even a tailor.

that next morning was herring galore, there were hundreds hanging around our burley trail.

managed to get a feed then headed back to perth. overall wasnt a bad trip just needed more chop and swell in the water.

heres a couple of photos.

cheers.

Was just wondering if anybody been out to the FADs or trolled the trench lately. I havent been able to get out there and there hasnt been much said about them lately. Thought I heard a couple of FADs lost or have dragged away. Has anybody at least raised a marlin/tuna or hooked any?

Had a ball the other day with TimVB and Langa with three multiple hook-ups in one short sharp metro maccie session, which resulted in one triple hook-up with one bite off and two landed, and then two more double hook-ups, all landed. Six maccies in quick time, we left them biting. Pretty mad stuff on the deck with trebles flying around and some pretty sharp teeth snapping at our toes!!

A few maccie fillets to tide us all over for a while.

 Got a crab lure yesterday, took it out for a session this morning. 

1 full day of fun and excitment fishing trip with BKKGUY in Thailand.

Our fellow forumer ' anypuddle' will not forget this day.

The day he landed his 1st ever barramundi and his dream snakehead of his life.

I let the pictures and video say it all.....

Enjoys the exciting  video guys !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfEiHxc08lM

The big barra !!!

The popular BKKGUY signature toman posture..

The damage done by the snakehead. 

Got the weather gods onside so Monday we went out wide from Cape Jervis SA heading south past The Pages. Had a bit of a look around the Threshold Bank but no schools visible so continued south to Saunders Bank. Once there saw a few birds diving and small bustups so lures out.

About 15min or so later hooked up and reeled in a nice bluefin around 15kg. 15 min later another hookup on a dropoff. got colour and noted it was a kingie so a nice by catch. Bit more trolling but nothing happening so headed a bit further south following the 50m line.

Skipper was tired so handed the wheel to me so he could grab some kip. 5 min later I told him to get off his arse as tuna were busting up all over the place directly ahead. trolled around them a few times but no takers.

Noted the baitfish were all around an inch long so tied on a slim profile lure onto my 30lb outfit and cast this to the edge of the school. Third cast landed around a foot from the bust up. reeled fast them saw a tuna breakaway and chase down the lure grabbing it off the surface. about 15 minutes later boated a decent tuna of around 25kilos or so.

Still busting up so started to throw out pieces of pilchard and next thing there all around the boat. Pilchard with a hook in goes over and we're on again. dropped a couple and then managed to get another tuna around 25kg or so on board. By this time we are both stuffed and the cooler is chockas so decided to head in to clean the fish and head back home. Great weather and all in all a good day and the freezer is full. Will put up some go-pro footage once I get the chance to edit it. Cheers

 heres a few pics of some of the bream ive caught in the past year from the swan, canning & moore river.

 Any tailor around metro beaches at sunset lately might go have a crack 

 With the weather looking like playing the game last Friday, decided to give it a crack in the 40's out from Mandurah. Last full moon out there I got onto a few small to just legal pinkies but no Dhus. Well a month has changed it quite a bit. Within 20 minutes the bro in law and I had a double hook up on a pidgeon pair of Dhueys. Doug hooked his first and while I was getting the net organised and untangled. My Stradic that was off the front of the boat bobbing a Daiwa Pirate jig got nailed. The dhu's went 5.5 & 6 kg each. 

Now we just have to get a couple of snapper and we'll be done I told him. I went over to where I got the snapper last time but only managed to get a nice Harly and a couple of smaller Dhus that went back well. Also got a couple of nice Skippy which had us thinking we had the snapper we were looking for.

Doug then hooked a nice fish but took his time getting it to the surface as it was pretty clear it was another Dhu and wanting it to swim off strongly. Then he felt a strong tug on the line and up came this.

Doug has fished out from Mandurah for years and has never lost a fish let alone a Dhu to sharks, and it wasn't to be the only one for the day. I hooked a Sambo on the drop a while later at a different spot. That put up a spirited fight for a few minutes until it turned into a freight train and took off under the boat, I finally got the head back from another hungry shark. Hope the Metro area isn't going the same way as up north!

Anyway it was a great day out on the water and a few fillets in the freezer. We ended up keeping 2 Dhu, 1 Harly, 2 Skippy, 2 Sambo's (thai fish cakes yumm) & managed a small Southern Bluefin that went 5kg! Sorry not great or many photos, too busy having fun.

Cheers for reading

Chris

Pinkies..

 few crays over xmas and interesting find cleaning out the boat. .

 Gday all,

I saw Ryans post and am so stoked with tonights efforts thought I would post.  

Not much free time atm, but managed to sneak out tonight on my lonesome for a crab in the river.  Hit the water about 4:30 from pt walter, headed to mossies and dropped down in the deep 18-22 mts.  First crab about 5:30 not heaps, but as the sun set seemed to pick up.  Had four gooduns on board and moved the pots 50-60 mts closer in among the moorings and struck gold.  Hit my 10 by 7:50, home by 8:30.

Tuna head FTW!

First one:

10!:

Go the swan 2014!

Finally got out for a fish on Aus day with a couple of mates who don't really fish much. Let them do most of the work getting the tiger in, then couple of guys fishing down the beach helped land it luckily, it would have been a mission by myself. Cheers guys if your on here. Hooks came out well and it swam away strong. Was a great night, always good getting away with friends, then a fish is just a bonus.