Me, TimvB and Langa headed out with the rest of Perth's boat population from Hilarys at 6 am yesterda to have our first crack at a fishing comp.

Pretty hectic 10 minutes clearing Hillarys and then the washing machine through the gap (sorry to the dude I almost ran over as a waved flung me sideways....).

Stuffed about for over an hour trying for live bait before we even got half way to our destination, that was a resounding fail.......so we headed out with the aim of having a quick crack at a Dhuie and then the main target for us was the Sambo/Amberjack prize and the tuna prize.

Langa got a good dhuie arounf 65cm and we released it, as the aim was to win the comp, not catch to eat. 10 minutes on and a substantial upgrade dhu, but it broke the line right at the hook......damn!

Time marching on, we trolled across to our sambo spot and Langa picked up a stripie, that in restrospect woud have won the tuna prize......more of that....

The sambo spot had a few marks on it, and in the past few times we fished there it has resulted in lots of 20 kg sambos and lots of unstoppables.....first drop, both Langa and Timvb are on, high up in the water column. Langa a nice Sambo, but we knew bigger ones were there so released.

Tim landed and reasonable stripie on jig, certainly nothing huge.......but turned out to win the Tuna comp. GREAT JOB TIM!!!! Tim then landed a few sambos in the 15 kg on his new overhead JM outfit, very nice.

Next drop, I am on big time, shiiiit, this thing went hard. Ended up being a good amber......next drop a sambo for me about the same size, the amber would pull it backwards easily!

Then Langa is on....and not making progress and loosing line against locked up Stella drag. Looking grim, so we motored off and got its head up and 15 minutes later up pops a cracking amber. Langa  not thinking bled it like all fish we keep.......hmmmm, about a kg of blood came out...... that amber ended up being pipped by a sambo 300 grams heavier......bugger.

Anyhow, great day out on team Whaler, first in the tuna division, a close second in the sambo/amber division, a few beers at the MAAC with Baron and the boys made for a great day. 

Shot out near Rotto. Tanks on for a few crays and then time to blood the new spear gun.
Dived through a big school of YTK with the tanks on but they never came back when I had the gun :(.
Anyway managed a good haul of crays and a tasty sized Dhu.

I've got a few days off between filming so I thought a bit of crabbing yesterday was on the cards!

Caught up with me good mate Shaun (Shabba) yesterday on the Swan for a crab hunt!

The plans was an arvo crab sesh and work the lower reaches around Mossy Bay (Swan)!

We ended up with a nice feed indeed including many big blues ..... as we were de-baiting they kept on producing (good problem) ....... but it was near sundown and we'd caught enought for a feed!

Was a great arvo Shabba, good to catchup mate ....... cheers 

 Fished the 40's for little result, water was brilliantly clear and 22c but no bird activity whatsoever, got a great breaksea but had a day where anything large was dropped, they seemed really picky and all hookups were light.

Dropped a large fish, called for a dhuie hooked using a small western king wrasse with the fillets reverse cut to flap in the current, good fight only to end with the hooks letting go.

Very strong current flowing from the North meant that the drift was almost due south despite the easterly, and what the hell was the bright orange jelly like material (you couldn't see it in the water but it deposited itself on the top eye of the rod on every retrieve seemingly collected on the rougher surface of the braid ,, coral spawn perhaps?

 Managed a last minute booking down at Busso for the last week of school holidays.

Bugger all crabs but did get into some nice squid and a coupla whiting.

Hood measured 33cm, the entire thing was almost as big as my 3yr old when he held it up.

Fresh chips from the local and squid rings from the day....nom nom!
 

Hello FW Junkies

Was curious to know if any FW Members are having any luck on the Trawl of late, the Leeuwin Current seems to of heated up of late yet quite a bit of ribbon weed was about last 5 days way south of Rotto?

Yep its been windy too!

We caught a some spaniads & tuna but it was bloody hard work

Would liek to know if any one else is having the same luck

R,

 Heading the steep Friday week - weekend of the 21st Feb for a couple

anyone heard / seen the track condition (in particular after the tyres down sign)? 

Also keen to hear water colour / temp if anyone knows?

and of course - how's the point fishing? 

Heres my sons catch from sunday

Hes turning into a real Rex Hunt lately well done m8 2 more dhues were released

Hi all,

We are heading down Busso at the end of the month for our annual week of fishing and relaxation.

Any reports on how the jetty is for Taylor and Squid?

cheers

Jason

Visited Bremer Bay for the first time this week and was keen to know where the good fishin spots were. Staying at the Bremer Bay Caravan Park which is very good and clean. Met some older gents at the fish cleaning area opposite the caravan park and they mentioned that the Wellstead Estuary has some some good sized bream and some extremely large ones have been caught there in the past. The estuary is currently closed and has been for a few years apparently but does open up to the bay when the water level rises. They were cleaning their catch at the time and they said that the bream weren't biting much at the moment and they "only got half a dozen each". There were three of them and that makes 18 fish. If that was classifed as "not biting much", it sounded like a good invitation to me. They said the estuary was quite shallow and had a lot of rocks. They had a small 3m tinnie and we have a 4.2m Stacer so with the engine up a little, we should be ok. There is a boat launching ramp on Bennet street which looked ok so I pondered whether to take the boat out. Meanwhile, Bill (the bloke staying next to us in a Caravan) said he had been to Bremer 3 years ago and seen people bring in big bream from the jetty so I decided to give the jetty a go the next morning.

Got to the Jetty (which is located on Bennet street just down the road from the general store - there is a small parking area there and then a very short walk to the jetty). Nice jetty, just wide enough for one person with rod holders conveniently located on the rail. Got started at 6am with my rods with paternoster rig, small sniker and 1/0 suicide hooks using the coral bay prawns. Nothing happened for first hour. Not even one bite got me thinking that there were no fish in that Estuary (or at least not many or not here). Decided to change from Prawns to strips of herring. Caught some small herring the day before to use for bait. Scaled these and cut into small strips (5mm wide by 25 mm long) and threaded onto the hooks. Cast out as far as my small rod would cast directlyin front of the end of the jetty. Wait 5 min, 10min then small tap, tap, dont strike - you know the drill with bream - tap, tap, small pull then strike softly and feel the weight. Could tell was a good sized bream but strangely did not fight all that much, not like the bream I have been used to at say Lights Beach - Denmark or Sydney for instance. Just a few short runs and then came to the jetty and lifted up easily - 35cm and nice and fat. Over the next 2 hours caught 6 ranging between 32-35cm (along with one suicidal crab caught on the hook). Filleted these and had them for lunch the next day with the family. Delicious. Next day, repeated the routine and got 6 of the same size. Caught 6 more and released them. I experimented a little with the hook size and strike time to try and avoid the bream swallowing the hook. Increased the hook size to 2/0 and strike a little earlier so the fish are hooked in the mouth.

The bream here are large and patient. Generally, you have to wait around 5-10min between fish for the next bite. This is just like bream in an estuary and you have to be patient but know they are there and checking out the bait. Don't move the bait around and leave a little slack on the line. When the first tap,tap comes, don't strike and be patient. I had to leave after 3 days but am convinced there are some very large bream in there of the 40-50cm range.

P.S I also put out 2 crab pots and got 10 crabs all up - all females released (where are all the males?)

 caught these a few weeks back in the yarda gully in northampton

biggest went in at 115mm

 hey fellas, new to the fw website, just want to kno wats been happening at lancelin recently, are there any tailor or mulloway running?

any info would b much appreciated and wil upload photos sunday. 

cheers.

Headed out for a look tuesday as i wasnt going to let the good weather get away. The red arrows seem to few and far between at the moment. Lets hope march is a glass off! Anyways first drop paid out with decent GB. Second drift we picked up a 14kg trevalla which fought hard all the way from 300m to the surface.  There after we dropped a couple of fish and the action went to ground. Nothing from there on untill late in the arvo where we boated a snapper and a small GB. Had Manta ray circle the boat for a while but wasnt holding any cobes. Late in the arvo the pelagics seemed to turn on as we spotted numerous birds working bait on the way home. Spun one small yft and dropped one which felt much better. The little yft gave and impressive battle as at a guess a 3 meter whaler was hot on its tail all the way to the boat. All up a good day.

Just a quick report from the trip down to Walpole over the weekend. We mainly fished the inlets due to a fairly large swell.

The whole system is alive with all sorts. We used plastics and jigs for the whole weekend.

we caught Whiting, Flathead,Bream, Flounder and more Herring than you could poke a stick at and a few Salmon.

The mouth was fairly easy to get out of and we could make it about 500m out around the first couple of points before the swell started to roll through. The first couple where sheltered from the headland. We where catching some undersize pinkies out there aswell.

Crabs where around aswell but not in huge numbers.

Sorry no photos. Some of the flatties where big fish 50-60cm.

Cheers Jayce

 Not very interesting, but... Had a go for whiting this morning at mandurah, went near the mouth of the Serpentine. Arrived at 6.30, in the middle of the bite time of 5.30 - 7.30. Tide was low (bottom of the tide was at about 5am). Used r2s bubblepop and berkley popdogs, all variety of retrieves. Fished the flats and the river channel, nothing except a few blowies. Heaps of mullet jumping, also heaps of small female crabs, was like walking through a minefield in places, got nipped a few times as well (might have squealed like a girl). Never saw a whiting.

So on this day, early morning + low tide = no good in my books, bite time didn't have any effect. 

The latest monthly competition was held over the weekend , fishing Saturday through to Sunday morning north of Perth . Sea conditions were pretty good with not much weed in the water but the wind was constant all day and most of the night.
Club members were spread out over a wide area with some finding good fishing and the others having plenty of time to contemplate life.
Greg Uren has a stellar night and produced the goods , he was the eventual winner and has the highest tally of points awarded for a single competition. Shaun Visser caught a beaut Mulloway which was released after a quick photo.

Results were Greg Uren 1st Place
Vincent Stacey 2nd Place
Shaun Visser 3rd Place

Next competition will be a lure competition in a couple of weeks , check your emails for details.

 After 10 straight 14 hour days at work, it was great to get on the water with my brother for a quick fish on Wednesday this week. Out from Ocean Reef, with only 3 other trailers in the carpark, we managed these couple of keepers, 1 at 65cm and 1 at 45cm, and a nice bonus of a dozen or so fat sand whiting. The early easterly was fresh, and the southerly too...but about an hour and a half in between was sensational!

11 of us (dad's and son's) headed to the shack at Wedge a few weeks ago and the kids had an absolute ball. Not many photos taken but here are two magical ones.

We decided to head down a little over a km from South Rocks for some tailor (and possibly mulla - no luck) which only the one was caught. Was entertaining watching an 8 year old try to reel in a tailor with a 12 foot rod. Naturally I had cast out the bait - he did the rest.

Looking at heading back up in a few weeks.

Gday Guys,
I am considering a trip up to Jurien in 1-2 weeks time for a few days.
Anyone have any reports on the FADS?
Are they still deployed? Any fish around?

Thanks

 weres a good spot for bream useing hardbodies

Went for a quick flick and got a 37cm, it went pretty hard I thought for sure I was in for another forty... Can't complain though happy with a 37.

 

Finnaly I was able to get out and chase some fish on Staurday 25th Jan. It has been a good few months since i have been able to get out wide and chase some freezer fillets.

Took a mate out along with my neighbour (James) and his mate (Craig). They had never fished on a boat before off Perth. On the water at 7 and fishing a sambo spot by 7:30. Got onto around 20 sambos for the best part of 3 hours. Good fun watching James and Craig get stretched by sambos. Their biggest fish prior to this was a whiting.

Not massive but good fun size. Brett below with a nice sambo

Then decided to chase some dhuies and Pinkies and had some success.

Craig with a nice Pinkie

Then James got his first ever Dhuie. 9kg and a pretty good way to open the bank. pretty happy boy.

As soon as his hit the boat Brett hooked up on a dirty Gulp!!! another 9kg Dhuie.  check out the colour of this one. Albino me thinks???? anyone else ever seen one this white? is it that it dies as it is coming up and it changes colour? was still pretty fiesty at the boat though.

After the obligatory photos and beers we went back around for another drift back over. Hoping for a nother pinkie to get our fourth fish for the esky.

Brett again on a dirty gulp goes bang...... anothe dhuie. didnt weigh it as didnt want to hurt it but was much bigger than the others so i gave it a 13kg. Few photos then realeased with the weight back to fight another day.

 headed back when i almost ran over a cray rope. stopped to untangle when the sounder looked nice. dropped down to pick up a blackbum to top off the day.

Sadly the skipper got f all. Tied lots of knots and took lots of photos. but had fun watching others enjoys a day that i usually take for granted.

Thanks for reading.

 Missus joined me for a fish on Five Fathom Bank.  Started the day with a Sambo of 105cm followed by a number of species.  We got to see a Tiger Shark of about 7ft which circled the boat a number of times. She managed to out-fish me once again.

 A Good day out off Bunbury The Dhu was 700mm

Got an opportunity to take my old man boat fishing on Saturday. He's now 78 and just recovered from a bout of cancer, so these opportunities are to be treasured. Makes up for all the times he took me growing up and he's responsible for turning me into the fishing tragic I am now. Just listening to his endless stories of fishing in the old "days" is priceless, and he managed a few nice fish too, including this Baldie. I hope my kids read this :-)

Hi i was just wanting to know a few good good land fishing spots in the Swan River and what type of baits, lures & soft plastics you have had success with?

I caught 4 undersized Bream under Canning bridge the other night just using river prawns!

cheers..

Anyone get much offshore yesterday?

Struggled all day and burnt a lot of fuel, just for one undersize dhu

Hello to all, love the site, been reading the forums for a while and finally have something to post, albeit not that exciting. went with a mate down to the ammo jetty for the first time tonight, both being fairly new at fishing were just hoping to get something to take home. arrived around 5pm and out by 8, i can honestly say ive been to nightclubs with less ppl but we got an ok spot near the end and every1 stayed out of eachothers way (mostly). started off alright an after a few minutes wed both landed some butterfish and undersize tarwhine and that was basicly the whole session, baby tarwhine almost to a fish a cast at points. even managed a juvy pink snapper, wouldve been 12cm. everyone around us was mostly using baitchaser rigs for tailor bait but other than that nothing sized was caught. is this normal for that jetty or this time of year? or mabye we were doing something wrong? mostly just using running sinker and dropper rigs with coral prawns and squid on light rods with 8lb leaders. it wasnt a bad session in the end so just trying to learn more about new spots so any help would be appreciated. cheers

 Just a quick Mack caught with in 10 minutes of leaving the boat ramp trolling from the river mouth in the 20's