Fishwreckedivites, 

I am heading down to Busso this weekend to dive around the jetty and am hoping to slip in some fishing as well. 

What is running around there this time of year? and do any locals have any advice they would be willing to share, to ensure a succesful trip.

Cheers 

 Pulled four pots on the 3 mile off hillarys for one lousy undersized cray. Anyone getting them in the pots?

 Went out for a quick fish tonight and ended up with six good size Tailor. Ranging from 400mm-460mm.

They were on fire and still biting when I left.

all caught from Quinns Beach. This place has always been great for Tailor and Mullas.

A report for those thinking of jigging the wrecks at the back of Rotto.

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Ended up having a jig at the barges yesterday after all my sambo spots in the 30's and 40's were barren. Interesting as these spots have held big fish this time of year for the past few years, this year just the odd rat and even they were absent yesterday.

So, against all good judgement, we headed to the barges to see if reports the sharks were not there (report by a tackle shop....not the most reliable source given they sell jigs......) were true.

Lots of samsbos, and big ones, but just as many sharks. We dropped a jig at a few of the main ones (North Barge, Outer Barge), sharked within a minute. Left as soon as we were sharked, and went onto  a few other lessor known wrecks that are not on the maps.......sharks on all of them. Almost no chance of landing a fish.

This fishery is now stuffed, a complete waste of time unless you want to catch a shark, but bring big gear. My mate on PE6 fought one for 30 minutes, got a quick look at it before it just cruised away against full 16kg of Stella drag......

I hope charters are not still going out there. It will just result in lots of dead samson fish and a growing population of ever smarter sharks.

 Looks like the boys are in town,got 1 droped 1.good start to the season 

Its been over three weeks since returning from an Epic Trip which had been planned for some time over the last twelve months.
This was to be the first time for Simon and myself targeting Black Marlin on a five day live aboard charter with SeaFever Sports fishing.
the Annual Marlin comp had just been on and as we steamed out from Cairns and we where surrounded by some big name boats like Viking 2 Top Shot and the names go on and the Boats are spectacular to say the least.
It is well worth the visit to go to the Cock and Bull in Cairns as it is the CGF club rooms and the mounted granders and old footage of the Days Gone by are something to Marvel at.
the trip consisted of Popping in the morning and Marlin fishing from brunch till twilight.
The Popping was slow due to the slack tides from the full moon but we persisted and caught an array of GT Red Bass Mackerel also enticed a Sailfish but no cigar.
When you start deploying eight kilo yellow fin tuna as skip baits it really does open your eyes to how big these fish are.
This was as I mentioned our first marlin trip and to see a grander a mere two meters from the rear of the boat is something that cant be explained in text.
Well worth the money and effort to do this trip once in a life time.
I hope you enjoy the pictures.

 Thanks to the fellas who posted some tips on where to have a flick in carnarvon unfortunaly due to bloody work time has run out but I like this town and I'm defiantly going to return with my boat in tow thanks again 

 Went out for a dive with Petevb and bagged out easily on crays only 5mins from the ramp. Viz was good at about 10m, got 1 jumbo and majority were whites. First time I have seen so many feelers under pretty much every ledge.

Potters should be getting some luck soon if they already haven't. The whites are hardening up and have started moving around again.

 Went for a bash with a mate in the murray on the weekend. Few bream around with half a dozen size bream each and 5 all up over 30. No bruisers caught but best for the day went 35cm (photo). The ecogear cx40hs was doing the damage for me, few caught on a jackall chubby dd and atomic hards crank deep as well. Had been a long time since my last bream fish nearly forgot how great it is!

 Went down the beach (secret harbour) yesterday arvo with the light gear to toss a few softies at some whiting. Unfortunately there was plenty of whiting but getting through the clouds of herring made it very difficult. The water was bubbling with herring from 2 foot from the shore to 20 meters out and a km or so down the beach. I have never seen antything like it used up a bag of burkley gulp worms in about half an hour.Good fun on the bream stick tho i wish i could have got a feed of whiting. I thought the herring stocks were suppost to be depleated? 

Enjoyed getting in to a dozen or so swan tailor land based this arvo including a couple of keepers which was nice.

Great way to spend an hour and a bit at the end of the day.. though I wasn't a huge fan of a labrador coming up to me and trying to bite my rod tip while I had a fish on! After landing it, the fish came off just on the sand and the dog grabbed it before I could and ran off with it! After munching on it for 30s or so it took it back to the water and after letting it go, it swam off to live another day! The worst thing was the dog hung around for a good 5 minutes and stopped me casting, just what you want when the tailor are biting haha.

Anyway, I look forward to getting into some more over the summer.

Cheers

Enjoyed some good action on Sambo and various Sharks in Perth Metro waters during Full Moon in November.

A three day trip to Wagoe Farm over New Moon in November produced some decent Tailor, Soapies, Sharks and great memories.

The OSACWA held their November Field Day between Cervantes and Greenhead 16th/17th November.

The majority of participating anglers focused their efforts between Cervantes and Hill River.
Saturday morning 05:00am was the honour start and straight away those in the Hill River area were onto the tailor, a majority of anglers bagged out for the day before 6:00am.

That was pretty much the only saving grace for the trip. What happened next, sank everybodies hearts. The BLOWFISH swarm awoke from their slumber and absolutely ravaged any mulies that hit the water from 6:00am through to after 7:00pm. Completely killed the fishing. Never experienced anything like it.

Between 7:15 and 7:30 a handful of tailor (~6) were landed, 4 buy one angler (:P me, I missed the morning session), they simply did not turn up in numbers. Nothing large arrived later into the night apart from some drifting weed, the fishing was absolutley dead.

Oh well, hit that sack, in the morning it will be better right?

Sunday: 04:30, mulie hits the water, first cast, tailor snared and beached! Things looking up? Nope, another solitary tailor was beached that morning, a flapper was hooked and the weed turned up. The BLOWFISH swarm was back - shutting down the fishing again.

Those club members that fished north of Jurien, reported that the swarm was also present to the north. No matter where they went in the boundary they could not be avoided.

The largest tailor bagged was 0.85kg and the biggest bag of fish weighed in about 4.5kgs. One club member found some nice whiting and the odd skippy was on show though no word on where these were taken from.

The Fremantle AAC was present in the area too and they also reported bad bags. A bad weekend despite being the pick of the moon phases.

Oh well you can't win them all!

Cheers,

D80

 Hi All

Fished 3 mile north of Moore River last Fri/Sat.  The track was pretty boggy but no one really got stuck.  We were hoping for tailor but got flathead, skippy. herring and silver bream.  Bait was mulies and oxheart.

I did not see any tailor come out.

When we were leaving we drove past the  beach camp of the guys who were fishing about 500m to the South of us.  Yes I saw you gutiing that Snapper! Naughty naughty!

The Club held its latest Lure Only Competition on Sunday between Yanchep and Two Rocks.

Fish had disappeared to say the least with only two Anglers catching any fish.
Dave (Ragbag on here) thought outside the box and caught 20 different reef fish with 5 counting at the weigh in, Jason (The New Bloke ) caught the only Tailor of the day and took second place
(poor form really , Newbies are not allowed catch fish for the first couple of comps, I'm sure I have read that somewhere )

On a day where even bait fisherman were catching nothing , both Dave and Jason thought outside the box, used different tactics and walked away with the prizes and pulled Sherbie down a couple of pegs.

Ragbag 1st place

Jason 2nd Place

Congratulations boy's well done on a very poor days fishing.

With some not too bad weather last Monday I decided to get into some solid KG whiting. Took good mate Craig out and after a very late gentlemens hour launch and cray pots all sorted we had a KG bash!

For several hours we got into quality plump KG's between 47cm to 53cm & bait of choice was local freo pot ocky. We landed a dozen and lost 4 at the boat and thinking that was more than enought we pulled the pin!
 

Craig holding up a few solid KG's!!

Content with the boat whiting I was keen to get back into YFW landbase. Good mate Kurt Blanksby and myself headed down to the Mandurah Estuary yesterday and made the best of the weather!

We fished surface stickbaits like Berkley Scum Dog etc and landed 17 descent yellowfin whiting in about 2 hours ....... lost a few also!!

Kurt holding some plump YFW!! 

Plenty to do & catch whilst the demersal ban is on .... happy days =)

 Heading to carnarvon for four days with work going to try and slip in a couple of cheeky flicks I have never been there before so any help on some spots close to town would be great 

Sorry to report got absolutely nothing. Got there about 6:30am after a slow trip in windy, sloppy shit ocean (wasnt anything like seabreeze predicted). Pulled red head deep divers and bright pink and green jet head skirts. Didnt see any birds or pelagics feeding, trolled for about 3 hours back and forth along those demersal sancuary zone markers from the 18m line gradually out to the 30+ metre line. About 4-5 other boats doing the same. Decided to troll east along the southern side of rotto in 16 - 20m line out of the wind and waves but it was absolutely chockers with weed in there for some reason, by the time we were half way along rotto it was untrollable all lures and the teasers crammed with weed pissed us off so we went back to ocean reef pulled lures around there, weed was bad also then went home. Pretty shitty after all that effort but I guess it is still early in the Mackie season. Water temp was 21 degrees and there were heaps of flying fish around. Did anybody else have any luck out there?      

You may be interested in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2PtwaX5ez8

 Went for a cruise this morning took the young fella out had a ball cruised the southern eustury flats didn't see any crabs and flicked some zman grubs around but only blowies 

Me and Tim went head to head on a few donkey samson fish to test the limits of our PE3 outfits........

Me with a Hearty Rise Jigforce PE1.5-3 with Simano OceaJigger with carbontex upgrade drag running PE3 Daiwa boat braid. Nice bend.

Tim with the absolutely awesome Jigging Master Fallings PE1.5-4 with Stella 6000PG running PE3 Daiwa boat braid. Check out the bend with high stick Harry. That is one serious rod!

The result. A draw.

Few ales last night with Seaquest & Nizzy, quick check of the wind forecast had it sweet from mid morning so plans were made.
Needed to drop some pots in for the old boy to check whilst he is out getting a feed of whiting & the lads were keen to give me a hand with that, some bait collection & a spot of jigging for some early season kings after all was done.

Late start & three hazy heads after switching up to spirits after the beers, then unfortunately the plan of a lazy arvo out there was curtailed by the home boss who needed me back in early. So a very quick jig after getting the main jobs done.

The boys loaded up, Seaquest nailed a hefty AJ. Should of popped it on the mat with some pics for the leader board in hindsight but in the mayhem got a quick release

Nizzy & his Usain Bolter

Me with another

Few smaller models then we had to belt in, should start to be teeming with them shortly

We had a cracker of a day today. Forecast for Perth waters was average, but it turned out to be a brilliant day on the water, no swell and little wind. We do not see another boat all day.......wierd!!

Anyhow , plan was to try for a YFT and then have a crack at the kingies, and it tuned out pretty much as planned.

First up, nice little  tuna for sashimi.

We then had a go at at the Kingies. We hooked plenty, but these brutes play dirty. I got comprehensively fried on PE3, so changed to PE5........got blitzed twice more, absolutely awesome power, PE5 was just not enough. Both Matt and Tim landed one each and lost several more, Tims a good fish on PE3......great effort in the depth we were fishing. A few kingies hooked were serious fish, no chance of stopping them on PE5.

Then we had a crack jigging sambos, and man, did we hit a patch. Me and Tim landed a couple of donkeys on PE3, pretty happy wtih these on light gear.

Things got serious and some much bigger fish were hooked on PE5, but fully locked up Stellas were no match for these fish. We did not land any of these monsters, can only guess the size, but much bigger than the above.....in desparation, Matt locked up his Talica on PE5 to stop being bricked, and it proved too much for the rod......

Cracking day with a nice run home and the odd distraction to boot. 

Got up at 4:00 am , head out from mindaries.

Fish a round the reef , nothign at all.

Where all the fish gone?

Snakehead fishing is now getting popular among anglers around the world. The long chase and the mind game for snakehead fishing in the wild , are the reasons why most competitive avid anglers around the world are targeting this magnificent fish of asia.

Chris has been planning this snakehead trip for a long time.
What's best was that he chose to put in a 1 day slot for wild snakehead fishing during his long honeymoon vacation trip to Thailand. I'm happy to fish with him and his wife for this fishing trip.

1 DAY for any wild fishing trip is definitely not enough time. Moreover, Chris and his wife Jen are new to snakehead fishing.
This is the giant snakehead we are talking about, the top of the chain for the family snakehead. the ferious and the strongest freshwater fish in asia.

I need to do a quick snakehead crush course for them in the 1st hour. haha !!!

Luckily for me, Chris who is a pro bass angler back home is fast to learn the rope. Very soon he was fishing all by himself, chasing after the mama toman... :)

All asia competitive anglers love the giant snakehead and all Japanese snakehead anglers chase after them religiously in asia water.....

Giant snakehead aka toman (asia name) is the most competitive game fish every anglers would love to fish when they stopover to Thailand.

Enjoys all the actions in this 5 mins youtube clip...

*Explosive and actions pack captured by my GoPro cam.*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy45Pbb6CyM

Photos highlighs

The attractive and the beautiful nature scenery......that's the beauty of fishing in the wild than those ponds fishing.

What a beauty !!!
A huge 14 Ibs mama toman weigthed on my boga grip.

Well Done Chris, my America angler.

The distinct camo color pattern.
Only can be found in the wild environment..

 what is biting at the moment and where?

 Flathead are going off in the swan river, caught a couple of these buggers casting a few lures early morning. Cant wait to get back there to find some of the bigger ones. 

 any one know any good spots for mulloway and where are they at the moment?

cheers

>Seeing as you guys are all hard core fisho's .. maybe you will find this of interest. We really know so little about our ocean and this is right on our doorstep. Thought I should share.
Cheers
Dave Riggs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2PtwaX5ez8