Hi Crew,

Heading to Steep on Sunday for 10 days.....anyone got any current info?

fishing and staying on thr point, so the usual balloon and spin action is planned - wondering how its been lately?

also, any reports on the track in - good / bad etc.

Will hopefully post a report when i get back (fingers crossed pictures too).

cheers,

chris

 A couple of nice fish from a couple of weeks back- both released successfully from 32m. As you can see the conditions were against us!

Any reports around rotto, heading out tomorow and thursday! trolling x-rap 30s and a skirted blue mack

any Albany folks on here that have seen or herd of Salmon schools going past? heading down to cheynes beach next weekend for a work doo and wondering if there will be any early schools around other than the odd resident. thanks in advance

Well after spending 20+ hours trying the e-shed and not having much luck the

past week, i decided to go back to "old faithful" the swan river.. Heading down 

a bit lower towards Guildford area.. Was a good session, pulled in plenty Bream

biggest being around 25cm.. couldnt get any to take a soft plastic.. all caught 

on river prawns from local servo... 

hi guys was wondering any squid around north or south mole?

does anyone have any luck

Thanks

OK Not fishing related but interesting to an old man like me..........This morning was going off whilst searching for  Asteroid 2012 AD14,There was 6 meteors or asteroids or something moving around in this 25 second shot

 Hi guys,

thought I would give a quick report....Eshed is fishing really bad...there are heaps of snags close in and not big runs to report.

after last years mulls way season and odd tuna things have gone very quiet. There are reports of smallish mulloway being caught up to about 12 kg.

personally I have spent hours and hours fishing. This year very unproductive. So decided to try a new spot where a mate had caught a 25kg mulloway. He bought a Kmart rod worth $30 and landed 4 45cm tailor, three flat head and the monstor mulloway.all on gangs and Mulies. In two session I caught to size pinkies at 51 and 55 cm heaps of tailor and flat head....couple of big chunks taken out of tailor being live baited....all in all way better fishing experience than e shed

I generally think ppl under estimate Mullies and I know of many big fish being caught up river at the moment. It seems like they have not pushed down river yet in any great numbers. Give last year was so productive I'm wondering if pulling up 20-30 from Estes last year has actually impacted river stocks...

the good news at Eshed that a lot of the young clowns have moved on. More families down there which is nice to see. I Hear they ate all ballooning for sharks at he moment...lol...

Anyhow I gues one of my point is I'd rather catch some fish hen no fish and frankly catching scales doesn't do it for me....

anyone else heard or more importantly seen any fish being landed. Obviously don't post locations just want to know if its just me.

caught this beastie just behind garden island this arvo..seems he's along way from home haha...also got a couple off pinky and blackass

Managed to hook up with Colt_Striker (Jason) yesterday.  The weather was fine and we were hoping for a good session out in the deep.

Headed out to target some red snapper / bight red fish in 180m, spotted some birds on the way out so did a quick troll around them and picked up a couple of stripeys before continuing on.  When we pulled up at the spot we both dropped our lines down, Jase was on the electric and I went manual.  He lost his bait on the first drop, I got a triple header - 2 x reds and a big breaksea.  With only one more fish available before we bagged out on the demersals I left the job to Jay who picked up a pinkie on his next drop.  So twenty minutes after pulling up there we had our limit.

Time to head to the southern FAD, trolled all the way there for nothing but got excited when we pulled up as there were dollies everywhere.  You could see them bubbling on the surface and swimming under the boat, then to top the excitement off we saw a stickface break the surface twice chasing some pup dollies.  Well the excitement ended pretty quickly, no matter what we and the two other boats out there (Honsu were you out there yesterday?) threw at these fish we couldn't get any interest - surface lures, divers, softies, jigs, bait the works.  After 1.5hrs of trying we gave up in frustration, did a couple of laps towing some skirts but nothing happened.

Stopped off at the 40s on the way back to Mangles Bay but nothing was playing the game there either so we called it a day and headed back to the ramp.

It was a hell day on the water, calm as, some good fish to start with and it's always cool to meet a new FW member.  It just didn't finish as well as it started.  That's fishing.

Few pics below to help show the story...

Missus suggested a picnic dinner on the river for valentines day, took the opportunity to take a rod along and soak a big bait while we were there since I'd seen bull sharks feeding in the same spot many years ago.

Had five big runs from the five mullet fillets I put out with the first run tearing off 30lb line at heavy drag while making a few big jumps, had me thinking I'd finally hooked my first bully (after 80hrs of trying for nothing this month). 

The result... five big eagle rays each around a 1m wingspan.

This was in the bay area just next to the raffles, no photo's since the missus couldn't figure out how to take the lense cap off and they were going ballistic on the sand while trying to unhook them

Tailor have been fishing well over the past few weeks if you are willing to put in the hours until their feeding time comes on. They have not been running for the majority of the night as they were last year but rather they have been having shorter harder runs that last between 1-2 hours. If you are seriously wanting to catch tailor you may have to put in the hours to find these runs. They have been running quite late over the past week. Bonito are still hanging around with a few being caught at night on tailor rigs and harder runs on hot sunsets when the ocean is very calm. Bonito will take lures if you are fishing for them in the late afternoon or sunset. The best place to fish for these two species is from just before the second shelter onwards. Herring are plentiful at night especially where the dark meets the light from the jetty. There are some quite large herring in the mix that are close to 30cm in size. Herring can be found anywhere after the first bend. Squid have been quite slow but are starting to make a comeback. Several sharks have been landed, hooked and lost over the past month for those who have been willing to put in the long hours. The three species that have been hooked are Gummy, Tiger and Bronzie. There is plenty of fresh bait swimming around under the lights at night time with yellowtail in their thousands for those who want lives or if your mulies run out.

 Caught in 37m at Lancelin. Red Throat and Samson fish! Both successfully released

Headed offshore for the morning yesterday....Hit up a fad which resulted in 11 fish being boated another two lost in battle. Biggest went 6-7 kg, there were still some small fish 2-3 kg fish thrown in but generall size was 4-5 kg... our last fish would of been up there with the best of the day, but was thrown back as we already had kept two.

Got them all on the bream gear was so much fun, with one tussle last longer then 20 mintues , as i was playing him on 12 pound

The two fads we visted  were holding good amounts of dollies, it whether you could interested them or not. We caught ours on skirts/baits/placcies....we had to keep changing everything up as theyh consistently were getting spooked

was wierd heading out, at roughly the 100m mark we just went through this wierd fog....couldnt see anything within 10 m, slowed right down, then all of a sudden back to clear skys!

headed offshore to the 600m mark after about 830 am...and trolled for a lonesome kingfish which i found wierd....maybe a rainbow runner?

hello everyone i m looking for someone can help me to drop few pots for occo  i really want catch few becz i dont have boat but i dont mind to pay for fuel etc

i also want to  catch few crays aswell and few good size fish ,and i dont occo pots where to get please P.M me i m free on saturday and sunday

please help anyone if intertesed i really like fishing but dont have any boat

Thanks Guys

Last week someone asked what they might catch out on the three mile at night, well we went out last night and I have listed everything we caught. I don't know how helpful it is but certainly shows that you can get a good mixed bag of fish not far from home.

So we headed out at about 5pm and the water was nearly glassy as we flew down the coast at 28kns. We anchored up in only 12m of water but a nice lump nearby coming up to 9m. we started with a little burley out the back as we set up the big floating baits out the back of the boat, one bait was a whole bonito we caught the other day. things were a little quiet at first but then the first wrasse started to come in and my friend pulled in a nice skippy. Then without warning the big rod with the whole bonito bait started losing line pretty quickly and we watched as the balloon was pulled under the water and popped. My friend grabbed the rod and waited for the fish to take the bait properly but unfortunately the fish must have taken us near the bottom and the 100lb leader line was scraping across the reef and the fight didn’t last too much longer, the leader wore through.

Also not long after we had that big hook up there was two small boats not that far from us and we could hear them yelling and screaming and I am sure I heard one of them say shark, there was screams of look at that and whooo how big is that, all coming from their boats. So we wondered if the shark we had hooked had headed off over to their boats after we upset it. if anyone knows someone that was fishing last night and they saw a big shark near their boat I would love to hear about it.

Our list of edible size fish

2 Tarwhine

6 skippy one near 1kg

3 tailor one went 49cms

1 king George whiting 53cm

Our list of other fish

eagle ray

striped whirra

sand bass or false barra

A couple of brown wrasse and red wrasse

Under sized pinkie

A small round black ray, smallest I have ever seen

port Jackson

scorpion fish

Snook

Then the bust offs

We both lost a big fish, busted us off on our small gear, most likely stingrays

We had a floating bait go off with a mulie on it, I had it on for a little bit but it spat the hook, would have been a medium sized shark

Then when packing up we found the whole skippy bait we had out had been bitten off leaving us with just a head on the hook

Then of course the big bait went off and we lost it.

I've posted up the adventure of lake trout fishing and getting a truck unstuck out of snow on my blog. You can read about it at the link below.

http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2013/02/screamer-lake-trout-and-suicide-hill.html

Here is my new personal best Lake Trout - 28", 7lbs.

anyone fished at Robs Jetty in coogee recently from a boat? anything there? is it worth a try?

This year 2013  is the year of Snake in the chinese zodiac calendar-
It will be a good year for Giant Snakehead fishing (toman).
The more snakehead you catch , the more fortune its bring you. :)

Massive mama toman fishing trip in Thailand.

Enjoys the youtube clip and photo highlights.

Tackle use:

Rod：Major Craft 12-25Ibs- Beneyro Rod- 7ft-BNC- 。
Reel：DAIWA RYOGA 1016 , DAIWA ZILLION。
Target fish：  Giant Snakehead of Thailand。
Lure use：Rapala CD14 Magium。

Actions packs vid clip through my Bkk Fishing Tour youtube channel....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bd6NanPDbo

Photos highlights for the trip.....

Hey guys, heading up to sandy cape next weekend. i was just wondering if anyone knew what the conditions were like there at the moment and whats going around? i will be fishing off of the beach as i dont have a boat, i do however have a 4wd.

im hoping for some tailor, herring and if the conditions are right i may even get something a bit bigger on a ballon ;).

if anyone could fill me in that would be great!

So I headed down to my local beach last night and found it a lot quiter than it has been, there would've been only about three guys there fishing, rods all set and hoping for the best....the conditions were a tad average and was caught out by a stiffer than expected sea breeze. It was rather decieving as there was bugger all wind in my neck of Wanneroo and thought it'd be a pearler as I headed down. Never mind, only a minor hindrance...at least it's warm enough that when you get wet you won't freeze your arse off into the night and you dry out quickly. The surf was surging up the rocky platforms tonight as I tried out my new Richter plugs but nothing was interested...probably didn't help that I couldn't get them out too far but I suppose that's what happens when your trying to cast lures with 20lb mono (don't laugh!)

I ended up falling back to the old mulies, starting with an old 10ft Daiwa combo with a reel pinched off my old 8ft Penn that was just the right size and threw out chuncks of mulies on snelled hooks. I did get one hook up which I think was just a lost herring but it jumped off. Old mate next to me didn't seem to be having a great deal of success casting his floated mulies...in truth it wasn't the best conditions to be using floats at all. Before long he took off and I decided on snaffling his spot which afforded a bit more protection from the surging waves...or so I thought as I set up and found out that every so often it would just race up the rocks and I'd be standing there knee deep in wash. Luckily my gear sat back on the sand and there was a sort of gutter running between the rock platform and the main part of the beach so it all just poured down behind and raced around back out to sea.

The tailor which I was primarily interested in where decidedly conspicous in their absence. No big hits, no peeling runs, nothing. All I got up till a fraction after sun down was a small flat head. He managed to dislodge himself on the rocks and was carried back into the sea. After dark wasn't much better and after feeling some taps, up comes a legal sized snook. He joins the bait pile but proved to be useless later on. It's looking like a miserable night before I feel some weight on the end of the line and then it's off. Some definative shaking around leads me to think that I may have gotten a tailor after all but as it comes up it's actually a mulla that goes 48cm. He has hooked himself good, with one gang out and the the others lodged in the throat. He bleeds a fair bit and it doesn't look good but some delicate surgery sees the hooks removed and it is taken back to the water where it manages to swim off thankfully. At this point it's just past high tide, around 9.15. It's quiet again and my initial finish time of 10.30 looms and all looks lost.

Then came a hookup which I intially missed, only noticing I had something as I begun to retrieve. I allowed it to run when ever it wanted to, before the old pump and wind brought it back towards the beach. It runs a few more times and I search out any sign of it in my head lamp. It's not keen on making an appearance and whenever it hits the wash it starts pulling frantically again. Finally, after seeing some commotion in th water,  I time it right with the incoming waves and it gets washed over the rocks and onto the beach. Unfortunately, as I suspected, it was an eagle ray. Not big by any stretch but enough to put the hurt on but my gear shows it can equally put the hurt on as well. The silly bugger has fouled himself good and is mighty pissed about it. Hook removal is difficult so it's a snip of the line and he is free. I try and guide it from out the back of the rocks but it won't have a bar of it. Somehow it manages to find its way back to the ocean after flapping around pathetically. I lose sight of it and after searching up a few meters from my gear I see no sign of it anywhere and can only assume it got back to where it wanted to be.

Not long after, there is another hook up and an equally tenacious fight with plenty of line peeled. Alas its another eagle ray, smaller than the other who gets to go free but I must admit it's good fun fighting them. Just for shits and giggles, I grab the 10ft Daiwa again and grab a herring that I must've half filleted previously and set it out before resuming fishing. Nothing is happening out there but after about fifteen minutes and one retrieval in between, the bigger rod starts to bend slightly. It's not the waves doing it this time and pulling back on it there is definately something there. It doesn't seem to be in any hurry intitially so I set it back in the holder momentarily to pick up the Eupro I had quickly thrown onto the sand and clean it up. As i grab the other rod and see what's going, the thing other end takes off and is seriously putting some flex into the 10 footer. There is no pumping and winding here, it just would not turn around. No amount of pulling back can dislodge it and mindful of the 12lb mono parting, I let it have it's head whilst adjusting the drag. I needn't have worried. Whatever it was, it's bitten through the leader and gone. That gets rerigged quickly and another herring sent out but nothing was interested this time. Yet not long after (and yes, this tale does end soon!) I feel some solid hits and slight pulling of the line. The baits gone so I reload and almost as soon as it's settled on the bottom there is a solid hookup and a dogged fight ensures. This time its not a dam ray, Neptune be praised, as there is plenty of shaking and thumping and all manner of shenanigans. Gotta be a mulloway this time and it feels a good size. It fights dirty and and several times as it gets right before my feet it digs in and goes hell for leather. My headlamps spies a flash of silver thrashing about in the wash. Could it be? As it's comes up, it certainly is...my biggest mulloway yet! A grab of the tape measure puts it at 64 cm, so its a decent upgrade on the one earlier and last weeks one. Mindful of the fact that the smaller ones can sometimes taste soapy (never tried one before, just going reading) I still decide that it's a candidate for the esky and destined for the brother in laws bbq tonight. The session draws to a close after another much smaller mulloway is hooked and sent back and its clear that he has told all his mates of what happened,  that it's time to call it a nght.

Apologies for the quality of the picture, was using an i phone and trying not to get my feet in it and its my wifes so its got some stupid cover on it that makes it hard to hold the damn thing...and also the length of the post!

Hello guys ,Going to mandurah for crabs, where about is good  to drop some net and as well catch some prawns.will be good if catch any fish during crabbing.

i dont have boat,just need land base place ,so far i know near Hall park,but was not sure if that is right place to go.

Please share if anyone have any info.

Thanks

 Pulled in a stonka of an Eagle Ray of Ocean Reef Marina tonight. Was fishing for Tailor/Mullas when my 40lb braid with 60lb leader started hurtling off my spool at an alarming rate. Locked up the drag full and this thing keapt pulling like a cut bull. Ran out about 100m of line, which I then proceeded to slowly, ever so slowly, get back. Got it back in about 20m out from the rock and bang, off she went again back into the distance for a second big run. 40 minutes of back braking pumping and winding, loosing line, and pumping and winding again I got her in to the side of the marina wall... where I then thought WTF am I going to do with it? Ended up getting as close to the hook as I can and just snipping the line and she went off tired, but in good health. Would have gone over 1m in diameter easily, around 2m long in length and pushing 50kg (was FAT).

Not exactley what I was after but good test for the new graphite beach combo anyway. Pulled in another small Eagle Ray (6-7kg) not long after, then called it quits as my back was burning like a mofo 

Not a bad way to spend a Friday night.

Went out last weekend, and finally got my first Dhu for the season. I'd been out a few times since the opening and caught SFA, so pretty happy to finally have one hit the deck.

PB for me too.

Hey all

Just wondering how the el nino weather patern is going this season? are the salmon on their way up the coast or are they still way down on the south coast?

Heading down to fish anywhere along caves road that the salmon might be. Anyone had any luck between the capes or too early in the season?

Cheers,

Dave

 Anyone know what the weed is looking like a Burn Beach of Club Capricron? Thinking of heading down tonight but don't want to commit to the drive if it's all weeded out :S

 Hey,

what's getting caught from this jetty?? Been going in the  early morning  like 5am on a out hoing tide and I'm getting sweet f'all so I'm wanting to try the night this weekend anything getting taken there???? If not tempted to take a trip  the busselton jetty and fish there and come home after a few hours!!! 

Spent the weekend in the mid west freediving. Plenty of fish around in the 15-22m mark.

We got a couple of dhue's in the bag and then took the opportunity to do a little catch and release spearo style - shooting with the camera instead of the gun :)

Alway interesting  to  look at the sort of country the dhu's hang out in and how they move around lumps/caves.

Spot the dhu...

Hanging with the crays

This guy wasnt quite so lucky

Hi all, i am heading to kalbarri on friday for a couple of days landbased....anyone have a report on how the fishing is at the moment.

ta.

Hey all, just a quick report on moore river. Did an all nighter saturday night with my son and a couple of mates. Perfect night from sunset to sunrise. Slight southerly until about 10pm then a gentle easterly until we left at about 8am. Weed is all gone and the surf was perfect, just a bit choppy but low swell. Nailed the usual suspects... shovelnose, rays etc and three nice tailor. No mulla yet !!  thought that was going to be the night for one... ah well it was better than sittin on the coutch at home  :)