quick report

fished two rocks, the demercals made us work hard for them, but still managed a few dhues and a pink all on jigs....headed into the three mile picked up a mackie as well...

got a horse of a sambo on PE2 blake reckons 35kg im saying somewhere between 30-35kg...

Hit up rotto tuesday for a quick mackie run, had a friend out who had never been on a boat before, got to my area. bait everywhere lures out, 20 minutes later bang we are on, right on cue with the tides etc etc.....handed the rot to a mate, the fished started running at us he didnt know what to do , i was yelling real real real (was pulling in the teasers) and managed to loose the fish and the best of it all, had to turn to go home due to him being seas sick!

Oh well.....The two rocks mack was my first since january (where we had a triple hook up), and there here in numbers south of two rocks.that confirmed thanks to my diver friends.... just gotta know where.

 does anyone know when all yhe weed at two rocks marina will clear off? i got some great spots there but this weeds not doing me any favours

 headed up to steep point for the recent long weekend and i have to say what an awesome place i have been wanting to go there for a long time now and even though the fishing wasnt red hot we still had a ball.

day 1:

4 of us were heading up in 2 cars, we spent the morinng packing up the old 60 series ready for the ong journey only to realise by the time we were packed that we had way to much weight and nearly no suspension left. thinking it probably wasnt wise to head up there severely overloaded, we had to convince my mates missus to let us take his gu patroll thankfully she agreed and the task of completely unpacking and repacking the car was set about. midday was the agreed time to meet the other mob at 440 roadhouse to drive up in convoy, as it turns out we needed not worry about hurrying as the other lot ginned around like old women and didnt leave untill 4 pm, being as keen as we were to get there the call was made to meet at the useless loop turn off. so off we went at about 3pm and arrived at the corner around dusk, expecting them to be an hour or so behind us it was time to crack a tinny, 4 hours and a carton of beer later the boys turned up, needless to say we were a bit pissed off they stopped at billabong for a few prics.

the rest of the trip went prety well in convoy up the dirt road and through the dunes the hiulx needed a little nissan power to get over a couple of the hills on the way we arrived at the start of the beach at about 2 30 in the morning and the call was made to roll out the swags and spend the night there. prety good camping spot i have to say plenty of life little sharks, stingrays, turtles, mullet everywhere. we were all itching to get to the point the next morning.

day 2:

woke up to a few sore heads and a perfect day 5 - 6 knots of wind and just warm enough, washed down a couple of panadol with an ice cold dare. packed up and headed into the rangers by 8 am, a quick stop there, and off we chekced out a few spots on the way in found a shallow spot around a rock where we could see big baldies and trevally swimming around, chucked that one in the memory bank for later on, off to the point. we arrived to reports of green water and slow fishing maybe 1 - 2 fish a day didnt sound good but thought we would have to make our own luck anyway. broke out the spinning rods as soon as we arrived and on with a gold twisty to see if i could get one of the little tuna swimming around, i managed to hook into one that was estimated 10kg he took off around the point as i had the drag a little light on and couldnt turn him ping there goes the first lure of the day. couldnt manage to get another hit for the rest of the day.

Day 3:

got up early started spinning before even having a coffee turned out to be another quite slow day no mackies in the morning, threw on a curried chicked 7 inch gulp and played around a bit managed to land a small yellow tail king and a spotty mackeral, not quite the fishing we were anticipating on the way up, but i was still in the lead from the other 3 blokes. fished during the day on a couple of difficult to get to ledges for baldies and snapper, caught plenty of leopard cod, we were starting to wonder where the fish were. late in the afternoon spinning with a pink mack bait i managed to raise the first makies of the trip when a school of small fish cam past only around 5 - 8 kg i got 6 hits in 2 casts and no hookups i was not a happy camper at that point. late in the afternoon i was throwing a goldtwisty around just as the sun was sinking below the horizen and bang i was on, the fight was short lived but i managed to land the first mack of the trip around 5 kg only a baby but i was still happy, persistance pays off.

Day 4:

day 4 was probably our best days fishing started spinning in the morning between us we managed to land 3 macks and a cobia biggest was only 8 kg but still plenty of fun. headed around to the high side to try for some baldies and macks we spent half an hour waiting for the toher 2 blokes who were again moving like my nanna decided to meet them there so we got a 15 minute head start on them, arrived at the spot first cas bang! nice snapper winched him up to the rocks we were prety stoked with that second cast another bloody small cod threw him back and rebaited bang on again another nice snap snap hit the rocks both around 3 kg.

having bagged out on the pink fish i kicked back and had a beer to watch the other blokes fish shoulda seen there faces when they arrived to see 2 nice snapper laying on the rocks haha. not long after rory managed to hook the biggest snapper for the trip around 4 kg good fish they arnt easy to dead lift out of the water finaly the other blokes got there lines in and the young feller managed to land a great baldie and a cracker of a dart a few hairy moments were spent gaffing the baldie because he only had lightish braid on. the fish slopwed down a bit so we headed off fr a swim and fish at the beach, one of the kmost beautifull beaches i have ever seen had a quick swim and broke out the prawns 28 big whiting a nice flattie a couple of gardies and plenty of dart made it a prety fun afternoon. rory and i decided to go off and do the tourist thing while the other boys went back to the snapper spot to try again, they managed another 5 snapper and a red throat in the evening.

day 5:

time to go :( not happy, headed up to the snapper spot again managed another snapper and a baldie each in the morning to top the trip off, had to go back to pack up. just as we were about to leave the boys in the camp start yelling and running we look over to see a rod going off shortly after a nice fish of around 17 kg est hit the rocks spewin we had all the gear packed up, off we went one last swim at the beach in shelter bay on the way out and we were off tired sunburnt sore but prety happy we didnt fill the freezers we only kept 3 or 4 fish each but had a ball just being in that part 0f australia.

awesome!!!

 Spun up this mackie on Sunday morning @ North Mole. Saw heaps of folks plugging away on the rocks and many boats around. 

 Skipper Catchalittle mentioned there are some bonitos around and needed a few for bait. So I took out reached for my mint Lucky Craft Blueshot 30. At 33g,  this lure casts like a bullet and built solid throughout.

 This lure comes originally with only a rear treble. Took that off and put on 2 trebles of the same size one on the belly and the other at the tail.

 I cast and retrieved the lure a few times to familiarize myself with the action. At the 3rd cast I let the lure sank and twitched to back to the boat. 

 Twitch - Twitch - Pause.  Twitch - BANG!

 Thought it was a bonito initially cos it didn't put up the searing run typical of mackeral.

 Anyway, when I saw what it was I nearly shit in my pants! Reason being I was using only 10lb Power Pro 8 Slick & 20lb Exceed FC leader with no wire!

 Target was meant to be bonito but didn't expect a Spaniard to crash the party!

 Luckily skipper was calm and managed to gaff the fish to my relief! 

 Needless to say I was stoked! First Spaniard off the mouth of Swan River!

 Subsequent to that I caught a squid on Clone Stickbait and that was all for North Mole.

 Rod used: Bayside Shooter 10-25lb

 Reel : TD Fuego 3000

On a sad note, I probably left my black colour JM jigbait with a handful of jigs in them at the boat ramp @  Leeuwin Barracks. If any kind soul found it, please return it to me cos the bag was given by a mate from Taiwan many years ago. Have had it for 10 years now. It looks quite worn out and I am pretty sure it doesn't fetch much price on the 2nd hand market. It's sentimental value far exceeds its dollar value to me. It comes with many jig pockets with hard plastic bottom at bottom of the pocket so that sharp pointy jigs wouldn't pierce a hole in it.

Hi guys just wondering if there are still any crabs down Mandurah esturay still, thanks for any help in advance?

A mate of mine and I have been talking about having a crack at the super deep fish for a while now, and over the weekend we decided to give it a look.

I've not been out to buy an electric as i didnt know if it would be worth spending the 2k or so required if its not something I'd do more than once.

So the combo of choice was a single speed Tyrinos 30 loaded with 800m of 50lb Braid on a 24 kilo Penn rod.

This time my boat stayed home, and went out on my mates boat which was equipped with a 585-1KW transducer but never been tested in the deeper water, so this was a chance to give it a run. The plan was to start in shallower, see what happens and slowly move out. With the weather forecast being perfect for most of Sunday, time was not really an issue.

We started in the 170ish mark, sounding a around a bit, and did a drop or 2 for only a couple of BIG leather jackets but not much else. Next was to the 200 or so, again a bit more sounding but not a lot showing up. We then moved out to the 270m mark and found a nice drop off of about 20-30m which looked the goods, and probably worth another revisit to do a bit more sounding around, however we had changed out approach a bit, and if we did not pick something up on the 1st drop, then move on. The first drop resulted in one bust off, and 1 Bonito... bit strange at 270m Deep!

We made our way out deeper, and being beginners to these depths we were a little unsure of what fish actually looked like on the sounder in 400+ but none the less we sounded a lot of ground, and almost decided to head back in until we came across a school of fish. The school did not look real dense on the sounder (as some photos i have seen on FW showed), but showed a lot of fish. It was the best image we had seen on the sounder all day so decided it was worthy of a drop. Upgraded the rigs to 250LB droppers, BIG circle hooks, Baits you would normally only put out for sharks, and 50 oz Sinkers.

Down she goes......and down...and down... probably 4-5 minutes before you reach the bottom.. Now the first thought is holy shit thats a lot of line im going to have to retrieve on theTyrinos....And had not even considered hooking a fish!! well only a few minutes later the Tyrinos and 24 kilo Penn loaded up!

The call was blue eye....because we didnt know what else would be caught in these depths!

15-20 minutes later... up popped the first couple of fish!... too say we were pretty pumped was an understatement... First attempt of the deeper water, resulted in bagging from what i understand the species of fish that lives in the deepest water (Of the super deep fish).

2nd Drift, this time a little straighter on the school of fish, and as soon as the baits hit the bottom, the rods were loaded up again! Doubler Headers too!

The Weapon! Tyrinos Single speed..... Who needs an electric

All fish were between 15-18 kilo i think, so no monsters by any means. We ended with 5 between 3 of us from 2 drifts which was definitely enough.

Jury is still out on targeting deep water fish.... Blue eyes were a little dissappointing, didnt put up a hell of a fight, and whilst tasted pretty good, I'd put Dhu and baldie ahead of them. Using a manual reel, isnt as hard as you would think, and i would definitely do it again without needing an electric. Nothing like a bit of sweat whilst catching a good fish!

Will msot likely try again in shallower looking for grey bands, bass grouper and hapuka.

 Thats the last time you are coming with me to dhu town Zen. How dare you out fish me! And to top it all off, blame me for dropping your daddy of all baldies. Glenn and I are gutted. I hope all you catch in the future are bolt cutters. 11 size stripey eyes is just showing off you prick!

out from pt peron

Hey guys

First post so please be nice :) I've been browsing the forum a lot as of late and am loving the wealth of information so cheers everyone!

Read about the bonito runs at the north mole so presented myself at 6am till about 8 the last 2 mornings and things have been very quiet. Even looking up and down the wall no one seemed to be catching anything the north side. The south side (facing the south mole) I think a few herring etc were caught. No bonito seen the last 2 mornings. Mix of people baitcasting as well as using lures as well.

FYI if no one has seen the last post in the discussions or driven past the light up billboard the north mole is closed for maintenance from the 5th till the 21st of this month.

Cheers,

Jon

 Fishermen - settlers choom.

Today i was 300m offhshore in the scarborough to floreat area at 10m depth where I was pulling in whiting....

A large fish atleast 80cm that resembled a mackeral followed up a whiting and almost took it. The odd whiting had scratches and some had even been biten.

Then about 30 minutes later literally 10-15 metres from the boat a school of medium size fish, perhaps 50cm, were almost jumping out of the water with their tails flicking everywhere. Looked as though they were trying to evade something.  Had sharp tails looked a little like trevally, maybe juvenile giant trevally?

After seeing my whiting being chased i put out a mulie connected to a float, and a live yellow tail on another line. This was before the fish started jumping out, but they didnt go for the mulie which is very surprising, hence my thoughts on them trying to evade something.

But...

- What fish resembles a mackerel and is found in sandy spots?

figuered milsey posted about the trip we had north a couple of days ago, and its my turn to post something. We had some epic experiences spearing as seen in miles post and in the video of our northen trip witch we should be able to post up soon. anyway got out today on a mates boat in an attempt to get him onto his first dolly. spent some time casting all forms of lures around the metro fads, as we all know they can be fussy. so into the water to grab some lunch. spotted a solid wahoo around 1.5-2m length, which unfortunately wouldnt come in to close enough range to get a decent shot off. either way an amazing sight. with that in mind still plucked a nice mahi for the grill.

just as an update we also spent a few days in jurien a couple of weeks ago. Shot a few nice baldies, looped a few nice crays and got into a few dhu's and co on the fishing gear. Got out to the fads up there which was packed with dollys unfortunately had the same problem with them not being fussed on lures so spent abit of time in the water. had a very strong current running which I belive is normal for up there. so here is a few pics from that trip. stay tunned for north video to come!!!! thanks for reading. 

 Hi Guys and girls

I was wondering if anyone knew if there were any mulloway preferably around Kwinana/ Henderson? Ive tried the Eshed and spent about 60hrs there and about 50hrs elsewhere in the river over the last few months and only watched others pull them in. I wouldnt mind trying the ocean but not sure where to go. I live in Armadale so anywhere bewteen Rocko and Cott dont want to travel to much further.

Even a shark would be good but smaller rather then larger as I would like to eat it and My gear is a 10kg setup but with heavy leaders Using scalys for bait.

Im goin fishing tomorrow evening (Sunday 3/3/13) and Im land based.

Any advice would be much appretiated.

Thanks

Brendon  

 Anyone fishing land based lately around Busso? 

Heading there for 4 days from Thursday and after some updates

appreciate any info

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After enjoying an awesome arvo feed of KG whiting (for the first time) and defrosting some stored abs, managed to turn the frames (as crab bait) into some nice blueys and two nice flatties on a lime-green vibe in between drops around Nedlands-Point Walter, probably the two funnest days fishing I have had for a while. Gotta love summer...

Hey guys, loooooooooooooooooong time reader, first time poster, just wanted to share my elation with a couple of sweet KG's I caught recently on a mate's newly bought tinny out from Hillaries after being landbased for ages. After a perfect arvo trolling the three mile for not much more than a bit of weed and quite a few ice-cold cans, managed to hook into these two beauties on the way back in, less than a km out and in less than 6m, almost had a beast NW blowie take the big guy, stoked to get a couple of Kings after catchnreleasn a heaps of just undersize kgs in Augusta the day before. Stoked 

 For the past few months I had been planning a Marlin trip for any part of February but after a few things came up we were narrowed down to the second half and as per usual the weather gods had other ideas and the long range forecast was for southerly’s and lots of them. Given we were to be tenting and in a fairly remote location we made the call to pull the pin which was devastating. My brother and I were still keen to head north even if it was only for a few days. Finally a window opened up last week and we hit the road on Monday. Leaving the big boat and the heavy gear this was going to be predominantly a diving trip, the mid to low 40’s each day reinforced this idea.

The first day was an eye opener as it was both our first time up north during summer and the heat made things a little interesting, the 29’ water wasn’t all that refreshing either. Luckily the fishing was as hot as the barometer. Our first dive both of us bumped our pb baldies on straight hook and also filled the fridge for the trip. The fishing was equally as good on bent hook with many spangos, trevs, long tom ect falling victim to our offerings.

The remainder of the trip was just as good and we were blessed with glassy mornings and a nice 8kn sea breeze in the arvo. We crammed a lot into the four days we had up there and I lost count of how many dives we did but we saw some amazing things including a monster GT to 40kg, many many many sharks, some small some not so, some nice crays and millions of crabs that chewed through everything from cans, ipod cables, feet and even our tent which also added another element to sleeping. Another highlight for me was watching my brother fight a monster for half an hour getting towed all over the place and dragging us off shore only to see a bloody big turtle surface, made for a pretty funny WTF moment. I won’t bore you all with the thousands of pics we took so here are a few of the better ones. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the vid that should be done in the coming weeks.

Regards Miles

Hi Guys and Girls,

Havent posted in a bit, but just thought I'd pop up a few photos of the last couple of times out.

Was finally nice to get a couple of days great weather and a few fish.

Enjoy!

My biggest Spanglie so far, measured at 800mm

Cheers Sammy J

is there any good lan based fishing around bunbury or eaton???

 Fished two rocks on nothing but jigs....few firsts for the tub .........5 dhues (3 size), a baldie , black bum and a juvi pink

hit the fads up the next day for some dollies then the derwent for a amberack, then inshore for na

 Just moved up to Tapping from Hillarys so thought ide give Burns Beach a go. Slow start and got busted off by 2 big uns, rays i think then landed a tailor just before tea time. 

Made it out to the 40m mark southwest of rottnest last thursday, ending up being a good day, got to woodmans ramp just on daybreak and headed out between carnac and garden island, Kept 1 dhuie which was 65cm, 1 queenie at 55cm, 1 50cm KG  and a couple of breaksea cod. the day just got better the later it went after a couple of small showers in the morning it fines up and the wind dropped until we had very little drift at all. Released three dhuies that were just size using release weight.

 Plenty of herring (decent size), Skippy.  No squid or garfish sighted.

Caught my first spotted mackerel.  Just over 52cm.

Cousin caught a 35cm skippy.

Pretty good day by my standards!

 Hey all,

First post here. Great site! 

Fished a beach between cervantes and Jurien saturday night. Staretd around 4pm and aside from feeding the local nibblers we had a pretty lean afternoon / evening. One small tarwhine, a 300mm soapie, dart, two small flathead, an eagle ray and a big *&^??@! north west blowfish. All went back in. 

The howling southwesterly slowed down around 9. 

Weed floating everywhere, and we were fishing a pretty clean section of beach. It got a little better when the wind died down but still made the night a little friustrating - as it always does. I swear I magnetically attract the stuff. 

FA tailor at all, which was a first for a session in that area. 

Seen a huge school of 'herring' swim past us about four times - our baits obviously offended them as the didnt even stop to try our treats. You know it is going to be slow session when even the herring arent interested. 

Using locally (Pert) caught tailor, scaly and trumpeter as bait, along with a slab of table cuttlefish (thought i'd try them out for the mulla) and the ubiquitous mulies. 

Hardly anyone around too. 

Still enjoyed oursleves!!! The night sky in between moonset and sunrise was epic. 

cheers

 Hey guys 

So went fishing last night and finally caught my first mulloway after months of trying 

I know he's small but in happy as thanx for everyone's advise as all I've been doing lately 

is asking questions and not delivering any fish..

Just got back from 5 days landbased fishing in Kalbarri which I have to say was a whole lot better than when I was there this time last year, didn't catch what I was targetting but got some pretty good bycatch in the process.

First night fished the sand bar on the river and hooked a monster shovelnose, stuffed around for about 40 minutes trying to get it shallow enough to land but everytime I got it into the drop off next to the beach it would take off before I could get a hold of it. I'd had enough so grabbed the line to hold it in close while I tried to get a hand on it but it was to much pressure and the line snapped.

Second and third night were spent fishing the jetty where the missus caught the usual huge amounts of small silver bream and finger marks plus a few small estuary cod, only notable catches on the second night were two size Javelins by the missus and a small shovelnose by me. On the third night the jetty was going off! Baby mulla's were smashing bait fish right along the jetty while giant herring were leaping all over the place with small tailor following suit. To say I regretted not bringing my bream rod along would be a massive understatment! This was also the biggest and only tailor caught the whole trip after hours of throwing poppers and waxwings at a few different spots.

Fourth night hit Red Bluff beach where my second cast with a half eaten mullet fillet must have landed right on this little mulla's head as he hit it before I could put the rod back in the holder. Third cast resulted in a little gold spot with it going quiet after that and no more bites except for the pickers.

Last night so went to the jetty again so the missus could have some fun on some smaller stuff, again the usual countless undersize silver bream and finger marks with the occasional cod. Had an AUSTRALIAN couple near us who were filling their bucket with undersize cod, until what appeared to be some locals had some words with them after which they reluctantly released the next few caught until the locals left. Later that night hit Red Bluff beach again but was having trouble getting baits out behind the waves, after a couple of hours of no bites even after sliding out a half mullet well beyond the waves we made the move back to the sand bar. Few slightly larger finger marks from here and the one and only big run was from this nice little cod, not much of a fight but was nice to get one a bit bigger than all the little ones around.

Apologies for the shit fish photo's the missus hadn't used my camera before

Cheers,

Brett

Ps. For anyone going up for the classic, there was cops set up on the main road in front of the pub during the middle of the day doing random breath tests which I never seen there before

Ventured out to the Perth Game Fishing Clubs FAD yesterday, with the intention of doing a bit of bottom bouncing on the way back in. Tigh was in flying form forgetting to put the bait on the boat before leaving, so we stopped at a spot and picked up a couple of livies, then went for my first trip out to a FAD. Strong easterly in the early morning slowed our progress out, but started dying as we finally got there, and the Dollys were everywhere. Very, Very finicky and after throwing a handful of different lures at them Tigh hooked up on a soft plastic to the biggest of the day, on 20lb gear, which was a great sight of aerial display and after 20mins we got him on board (The guy in the blue shirt + biggets of the fish). Tigh continued his stella form by then dropping the fish overboard while cleaning it and sending down to the bottom. :( . So after another hour or so of throwing everything we had at them including the same plastic colour and many others, I decided to rig up one of our livies and throw him over. 30 seconds later the reel was screeming and I had 10mins of fun before bringing him boat side. Grants turn was next so rigged up another livey and 15 seconds later he was on. All in all a good first attempt out wide.