Has anybody caught or heard of any mulloway in the river lately? Land based or from a boat or is it too late now?

Hoping to do a long night out over easter.

Cheers 

Brendon

lost pretty well all the Abrolhos pics from the Labour long weekend due to Iphone drama, but heres about the only one I still have!

Less than a week till Easter and still very little talk about Salmon. Will it be a non event this Easter? Any thoughts or reports/sightings please share.

Went for a quick flick at a jetty up past the narrows this morning in hopes of a last chance at a GH, as usual someone had left all their rubbish all over the place. Dead blowie's, macca's wrappers and beer bottles all over and along side the jetty. They even created two new artificial reefs out of shopping trolleys which the little bream and tailor seemed to be already making use of. 

Anywho... just at the start of the jetty was a big pile of scale's that must of been close to the size of a 50c coin. I've got a few mulla's a bit over a metre and their scales were no were near as big as these so must of been quite a decent size.

Hopefully someone who was there is a member and can post a pic cause there definitely wasn't just one person eating all that macca's

So I headed offshore in the new tub, out to the 38m mark off Hillarys today. Ocean was sloppy, and the drift was very quick. The wife managed to pull up a nice black arse, it was very quiet other than that. Intrested to find out how everyone else went?

heard there is heaps of bonito in albany. just rumours?

took the boys out for their first run on the Whaler today. Sloppy southerlies were no match for the new tug, it performed flawlessly.

My youngest got the first fish on the boat, and betweenmany whiting, a few skippy decided to give the boys a bit of curry.

Priceless moments.

Any crabs in mandurah esturay still guys?

So the boss says I have too much annual leave apparently, and that I have to have some days off here and there.....OK then, so I grabbed my brother (retired the lucky bugger) and we scooted out yesterday morning into the mist. Scored these couple - biggest BA I've caught at 50 cm, and our second size Dhuie in as many trips at 63cm. We also had some fun with some small Samsons and YTK at 50 - 60 cm. Great day and fish for dinner!

 Hi guys,

I'm a new member and new to WA and have thus far been utterly impressed by the Standard of fishing in the Perth Metro area having come from Melbourne.  

Took the boat out on Sunday for a troll behind the inshore reefs trolling a couple of Rapala XRAP Mag 10's and managed to snag my first ever Spaniard.

Fish took off on a blistering first run and after a fifteen minute fight had him on board.  

Also saw heaps of fish slashing the surface and a few schools of small Tuna hitting bait on the surface.

Hope to get out soon and get onto another one.  

Does anyone know who won GAMEX got friens on CWIRTHY but unsure on how they went

 Hey guys keen to get out in the sound in search for a coupla pinkys. I've heard there's plenty around. Just wondering we're I should hit. Are places like the d9 or pinnacles or should I go over closer to garden island like sulphar rock or something. 

 It is really. Everything stinks and you catch loads of undesirables. I had the day off but unfortunately none of the few folk who can put up with me were able to come out so I set off solo (which explains the crap photos) from Two Rocks at 7ish heading for a couple of close in spots that have produced in the past. The sea was calm and sounder looking good but nothing doing on the squid so I tried a spot of jigging. It says everything about my technique that I only hooked up with the rod in a rod holder while answering the call of nature. Result 52cm Baldy.

A quick troll along the back of the reef on the way in looked like a good idea. Following a truly impressive strike which I picked as a mackerel in came a 70cm pinkie. Go figure!

 To the fellow fisherpersons who stole my pots( RJ0952) wooden 3/4 ...from Eglington reef this week.

What a low life u are!!

Decided to have a fish north of two rocks.
Block of mulies of i went with the dogs to catch some herring and tailor.
Cought 15 herring not to bad didnt realy try to get to many(mainly for bait)
0 tailor
8 F##k eagle rays
2 port jacksons
1 CAR BONNET.

Not a bad night but not a good night. At least i watched the storm roll on threw.

Decided to have a fish north of two rocks.
Block of mulies of i went with the dogs to catch some herring and tailor.
Cought 15 herring not to bad didnt realy try to get to many(mainly for bait)
0 tailor
8 F##k eagle rays
2 port jacksons
1 CAR BONNET.

Not a bad night but not a good night. At least i watched the storm roll on threw.

 Pulled just over 5kg of fillets off this metre long Mack.

was cruising on mates yacht weekend just gone and decided to drag some plastic.

also landed just size sambo and had two more strikes.

One hooked up and gave me hell for about 10 mins.

Had to start the motor and back up on it. 

Got close to the boat, saw some seriously long flash of silver.

Fish wasnt happy and powered off straightening the hooks.

Then i wasnt happy.  

You can see land in the background. 20m ish of water for all strikes.

South of ??????? 

My australia angler having a good 2 DAYS fishing trip with me in Thailand.

Great Monster Catch !!! Great Communication !!! Great Fishing !!!

Enjoys the supper sonic peeling sound of the spinning reel and photos highlights below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obzMCCooYM

Photos highlights..............

Super Rod Bending.....

DSC09194 by bkkguy,

DSC09195 by bkkguy

60KG Arapaima

DSC09203 by bkkguy

Monster size Redtail Catfish....

DSC09199 by bkkguy

DSC09187 by bkkguy

DSC09205 by bkkguy

 Fished burns beach yesterday arvo with a mate,we were trying gold and silver twistys,roosters and some other popper with no luck.we were picking up small herring but that was it,didn't keep any we were just chasing tailor

on my way back up spoke to a fisho on his way down and he said that it was the exact same Saturday evening,he was going to use unweighted muile last night to see if that made a difference,just wondering was anybody else there over the weekend and did they get any results,conditions were clean,no weed and no wind and just a light breeze!

all in all an enjoyable evening but no keepers!

I decided to make the best of the good weather over the weekend to do some trolling and hopefully find some of the metro macks people have been talking about.

We headed out Saturday evening from Mindarie and trolled around for 3 hours with only 1 hookup. The fish wasn't fighting and didn't feel that big so I just wound it straight up to the boat. Looked over the side of the boat to see what it was and saw a 20+ kg Yellow Fin Tuna staring back at me. Unfortunately as soon as it saw the net coming for it's head it went beserk and took off again bending my crosslock snap in the process and stealing my favourite lure. Spewing! We kept trolling right until it was dark without any luck, then headed back to the boat ramp.

We had some drinks on Saturday night so our 5am Sunday start got pushed back a bit. We eventually hit the water at about 7am and trolled around for an hour before one of the lures went off. We were a bit more on the ball and this time the fish had no chance of escape.

I'm not 100% sure but we think it's a Big Eye Tuna.

We kept on trolling for another hour or so and eventually found some birds working the surface. There was tuna jumping out of the water all over the place, but we still had a hard time temping any of them. Eventually after another hour of chasing the birds and tuna schools around we got a double hookup. We put one of the rods into the rod holder in order to get the first fish into the boat and by the time we got back to the rod the second fish was gone.

The second Big Eye Tuna:

We kept on trolling through the tuna schools for about another hour before getting the next double hookup. This time neither of us were willing to put down our rods to help the other out so we ended up using the net in one hand and the rod in the other to get the fish in.

They turned out to be a Striped Tuna and a mackie:

At this stage my hangover had combined forces with sea sickness and I was starting to turn green, we were also running low on petrol and running out of space in the esky so we turned around and headed back to the ramp.

The weather was fantastic, the water was flat as a pancake and the tuna were everywhere we looked. We finally found a metro mack. A great day out trolling.

I made a quick video showing the birds circling and the tuna jumping out the water. You probably want to turn the sound down though unless you like 2 strokes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3p6yMCKmA

 Took Mrs clownfish and her mate out today. Thought I would be flat out all day rigging, baiting, cleaning, driving, dehooking etc but the girls had their shit together. between them they managed 4 dhu's, 1 baldy, 2 BB, 1 sweep, 1 foxfish, 15 redthroat and a sarge that got absolutely munted by something BIG on the way up. Well done to the fairer sex.

BTW I think red throat has become the next NW blowie. Heaps of them around. Some of my spots are riddled with them.

 Thought I'd start a topic for Canning River reports as thats where I do the bulk of my fishing

Had a fish on the grassy bank below the Castledare railway yesterday but only got about 5 undersize bream on river prawns from right in the middle of the river. Didn't get any touches at all fishing around the snags which I thought was odd. Same thing happened last week fishing about 200m downstream. About to take the kids down to Kent St weir now to feed the ducks and flick a few lures around and see what happens!

Has anyone had any decent amout of joy with the tailor in the past two weeks ? They have gone off the chew big time on the jetty ( except for the beginning of the jetty choppers but they don't count )

 Or north towards Perth?

cheers

There is not much to report this time unfortunatly with fishing for anything besides herring becoming very quiet over the past two weeks. Tailor numbers have dropped to almost shut down levels over the past week, if you are targeting them your best bet at the moment is to go out in the morning towards the end of the jetty. The odd bonito can still be landed in the late arvo/eavening but they have been mostly running first thing in the morning. Squid numbers are still slowly picking up with some large specimens being landed over the past week. If you are targeting squid the first half of the night is the way to go. The good news is that if you after a feed of herring they are around in their thousands after dark and they are a good size too with some being around 30cm. 

That is all for now, I will report back when it picks up again so keep an eye on this report for updates. Tight lines everyone and good luck if you are hitting the jetty.  

How would you like to be this bloke
http://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/other-s...hark_1_1966993

 Can someone please tell me where the fish are biting (landbased fishing on beach only) in Perth, WA. 

 took my youngest brother fishing tonight at floreat beach for tailor. He has never been fishing so obviously never caught a fish in his life.

After baiting him up, casting out for him he pulled in a 40 plus cm tailor- should have seen the smile on his face!!!

Pretty sure he is hooked now- very happy to see him enjoy fishing as much as do

For the land based boys - had a an arvo run out in the tub with the boys today for some Exxy bait collection & got hammered by sharks in plague proportions whilst getting into them, not far from shore. 

CBF taking an esky pic but we kept two trunks for flake & will go back for bait another time when we are not getting flogged, do us a favour & get stuck into them please

 I used the Monday holiday to get away for a few hours by myself and wade around in the river. Started at Chidley at 6am heading downstream. Had a great time, landed 3 flatties, 2 bream and a flounder all on Zman grubz in violet sparkle. Also got stung by a jelly fish around my ankle and chased by a cranky blue crab. All good fun!

sorry no pics, I haven't got the solo shots sorted yet?