This would be our first DIY Top Water Trip to Exmouth.

Location Back Of Ningaloo Reef.

Target Species Giant Trevally.

Conditions were perfect in regards to weather glassing of most afternoons which did cause some issues with the fish going off the bite.

Coming up to the new moon and small swell also was not in our favour.

But we persisted for three days, casting stickbaits and poppers into good loooking water at the back of the reef with humback whales prolific in the area they were a very plesent distraction.

With numerous follow ups from various species of fish but no real aggression to strike did lead to some frustration and hesitant moments.

But when the tide corresponded with a large school of fusiliers and we spotted some G's riding the back of the swell it was on.

Second cast into this area created a huge surface boil twitch Boom and On Solid.

We take turns at driving and casting so once connected we go directly to the deep water to fight the fish.

This GT had other plans and even under heavy drag settings made the stella piss until the fish found its fredom rubbing me off on the nearest bommie six meters of water odds in favour of fish.

Change spool and back in action.

Cast to the same fuzie school on again this fish would make it to the boat for the pictures and release(All recorded on the Gopro).

Summery love the place will be back annually plenty to keep the whole family happy and content.

Gear Used.

Rods.

Ripple Fisher GT78PF.

Carpenter CV79/42.

Shimano GT Special.

Reels.

Daiwa 2010 6500H.

Shimano Stella 1800.

Lures That got results  (sitck baits worked over poppers).

Orion.

ASWB.

Nature Boys.

Full Scale.

hi just seeing if any one had any luck trolling round rotto or out the back or is it to early?

 Hi guys, we are heading up to Jurien next weekend and wondering what we might be able to catch? We will be land based. Thanks in advance for your replies.

Puerto Vallarta fishing report Fall 2012

Fall is here and the fishing is heating up in Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

During the months of September through October we have some of the best fishing in the world.

In the month of October 15 the rains stop and the fishing really heats up. The water temp will still be holding around 80 deg for a few more months before it’s starts to go down slightly. During there months we catch in the bay bonita,yellowtail,tuna,mahi mahi and even sailfish. This is because the water temperature reaches about 80 deg. The offshore fishing is some of the best in the world. The huge tuna are here along with sailfish,marlin,wahoo and mahi mahi.

For those who are serious about catching the big one such as marlin and tuna Fall is one of the best times to be fishing the outside of the bay. With the water temperature around 80 deg. There are schools of bonitos everywhere and the marlin and tuna follow them here to Puerto Vallarta. Just out past the Maritas,Corbetena and El Banco are just a few of the places we fish for the big ones. Plan on a 10 to 12 hr day for the marlin and tuna trips. As you can see summer time fishing in Puerto Vallarta can not be beat so come on down and wet and line and have a cold one.

Two up coming tournaments Nov. 2-3 for mahi mahi. And out international tournament for marlin,tuna,sailfish and mahi mahi coming up Nov. 7 - 10 over 2 million on prizes and money

Tight lines

Capt Pete

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 Hey guys, last night saw a 32cm Charlie Court (chinaman cod) caught near Hillarys. Has anyone else caught one of these in metro waters? I know they are in abundance in ex mouth but haven't heard of them down here before.....?

Nice fish and was returned unscathed. Wasn't sure of size limits on that one and didn't have much of a fillet on it.

whats biting at wagoe/kalbarri??

just wondering if anyone knows whats on the bite around those areas? mackies on balloon? mullys ect??

Cheers jim

Daz in action on Saturday - the hit, the tug of war and the result. Great fun in around 40m, though losing 2 x shout slide actors and an FCL Labo wasn't exactly what I had planned.

 Headed down south for the weekend to chase trout. Caught a few and seen a lot of good fish. Got a nice wild rainbow from the rapids which was good fun. Throw in a heap of reddies and once again more close encounters with multiple snakes and it was an eventful weekend. Oh and two people I was fishing with ended up with hooks in them, it was just one of those trips!

Hey Guys this is my first full report so here go's,

 After a 6:15am start we headed down to the ramp (CPBA).After spotting numerouse crabs in the water under the jetties we headed out and started our trip towards rotto and averaging 28 knts we were there within 30 minutes. Because of the demersal ban we were in the hunt for skippy. After some sounding around in 17 metres which appeared to be holding bait, i dropped the jig down, unfortunately i didnt get a strike so we decided to set anchor on  reef that we knew would hold skippy and hopefully some big sambos   . As soon as we set anchor we saw the tell tale sign of a big whale with a waterfall like blast of air and water, The whale was heading straight for the boat and we were concerned the beast was going to go straight through us lol. However as soon as the big boy noticed the boat he dived down and we never saw him again after that.Dad and I resulted to "ah well back to fishing." First few drops resulted in nothing but then as soon as the burley bucket went over the side the skippy started nailing the our baits left right and centre, after some fun catching skippy on the light gear they completely shut down with the baits coming up untouched (thats skippy for ya')

With the bite not improving we decided to sound around again when the boat stopped, Dad checked the motor and couldent see anything obviouse that was wrong.We were starting to toss up whether to get toed home now when dad makes an annoyed sigh "the kill switch key has come off" sure enough we plugged it back in and the honda 115 started like a beauty and we were back to fishing,THANK GOD.

We new of another spot only not far from the first where we decided to try for some king george because in the past some real kidney slappers have been caught there. As dad was sorting out the burley bucket i decided to drop my line over and lucky i did because not long after the bait hit the bottom i had hooked a nice KGW after a short tussle on the light gear up came a nice 43cm specimen so i was stoked. Dad soon stopped what he was doing and dropped his rod over, as soon as his bait hit the bottom he was on and thinking it was a big skippy by the way it fought we were both suprised to see a stoinker 49cm KGW hit the surface into the esky he went 2 king george in 5 minutes wasnt bad and we thought we had hit a patch but unfortunately it was just the pair.The bite slowed and I still hadnt christened my new combo ( Daiwa emcast sport 6000 matched to an ugly stick platinum 8 - 15kg) So i threw out a whole snelled mulie and within 40 seconds of the bait hitting the water i was on big time with the first run being massive, this fish took me all around the boat and at one point i thought i was going to lose him to the anchor rope. I got the fish up and it was in the net, almost!  Dad had to grab the tail because it wouldnt fit in the net completely and he lifted it into the boat ( gee those things fight hard in the shallows). A new PB sambo and it was extra special because it was the first fish on the new combo. after a few snapps it was time for release, the fish probably didnt need it b ut i swum him for a little while just to be sure he survived but after a few kicks of his tail he swam away strong. This sambo measured pretty well smack bang on the metre mark i didnt want to weigh him as his survival was the number one priority.We decided to wrap it up because we were happy with the days catch and from 17m made it even better. on the way home to top off the day we saw 2 more whales, a mother, and her calf near the shipping channel.

All in all it was a great day and it should get me through school this week until i can get back out on the water.

Cheers,

snapper_seeker

Gday guys,

I went out for a tailor bash with Ben and Chad yesterday, It was quite a slow day from 11ish-3ish we did not get a touch and had a brief fish for flatties with bait.  Bens gf is pregnant and was actually due yesterday so he skivved off for a few hours fishing but had to be back early.  So on the way taking Ben back to his car we finally got a hit and lost the first tailor by the side of the boat.  After we dropped Ben off we were soon headed back to the spot where we had hooked up near the green marker on Pt Walter.  From there on it was about one and a half hours of tailor madness where we caught 6 and dropped a couple before they went off the bite.  One of the tailor just took line off like no tomorrow with Chaddy telling me to tighten up my drag which I did a few times, but I knew that this was no loose drag, it was a stonking tailor.  After a good 5-7 mins fighting the tailor as it took run after run I finally boated the beast and to our surprise it turned out to be 48cms.  A new PB!

Bryan

Went out this morning in search of tailor on fly around some of the wash zones locally.  The wind whipped across the bay and made a short sharp horrible little swell and I left the flyrod in the locker and stayed at the helm while we were close to the rocks and a mate pounded the area with a bibbed minnow for a while.  The wind slowly tried to ease but was way too hard to flycast in and with the tailor not playing the game we changed tactics a bit and headed out towards the cape to try and jig up a YTK or samsonfish.  No joy there either.  So we went back in shallow and hit up the skippy.  Good old faithful tan and yellow over white clouser scored a couple of fish after the wind dissapeared, while my mate was getting desperate and ended up taking a treble hook off a jerkbait and laced it with pilchard pieces from the berley bucket that we were using to crank the trevs up.  Fundamental rule of my boat broken and no shame left he scored a couple of rat fish before we took the boat out and headed for a local brewery for a wood fired pizza and a few brews for a late lunch.  At one stage I had a little trev on and a sambo I estimate around a meter long came in for the kill- all in crystal clear water.  I did try my best to catch it with everything in the flybox but it only wanted the trevs when they were hooked up under the boat.

One thing we did see lots of though were whales.  Probably 30-40 of the buggers while moving around.  Made the missus jealous.

So tailor will have to wait for another day but glad to put the skippy notch on the 7wt.

After last weeks shallow sambo sesh which left me and Tim shaking at the knees, Daz was keen to get in the action so the three of us set off from Hillarys this morning.

After a quick try for a KG in the shallows waiting for the easterlies to die down (fail) we headed off to the same 35 m spot as last week. After 3 drifts, not much action on the sounder and no hits......dam!

Moved about 2 km to my other shallow sambo spot in 38m that me and Chrisp had done well on last year, and bingo, the sounder lit up, although the sambos were sitting close to the bottom. The drag on all 3 Stella 8000PG's were done up nice and tight, no stuffing about this time, gimble belts were mandatory.......drop down, and it was non stop action for the next few hours, with about 14 sambos boated between us and many other lost due to a combination of being bricked, straightned split rings and snapped leaders due to the excessive drag we had to run to stop these critters in the shallow. 

All fish were good size for shallow water, average size was like this one of Tim's.

A few were bigger, Daz landed the biggest.

I only got snaps on my iphone of these two fish, I was too busy catching fish.........Tim has some better shots on his speccy camera he took out, I am sure he will post a few up. 

After we had enough and the arms were sore, we moved back to the first spot in 35m to check it out, and straight away the sounder lit up and it was on again!!!!!!

Tripple hookup had us all squeeling like school girls, but it ended badly for the other two boys, both being bricked...hahaha. Tim lost a total of 4 very expensive jigs, Daz 2, me 1..........the boys did a lot of re rigging.....

Great to finally have a couple of reliable shallow sambo spots. Had another cracking day, the back is feeling it now!

Cheers

John

Went for a troll this morning with the young bloke and had one of my best tailor sessions, double hook ups constantly with fish at 45 to 50 cm, great fun and only 2 min from launch ramp. So good that Brock can grab the rod out of the holder and fight it unassisted, lets me enjoy my fish on, Brock claimed the biggest at bang on 50cm, I think the little bugger boated more than me too. The metro area seems to be full of them atm.

Hi There,

Went fishing this afternoon in the Swan. Launched the tinny at Mosmans and went trolling with Halco twisties 10g (the ones with the red colouring on the sticker), just on dusk they started biting, and got 3 in about an hour and a half - great fun! They were 36, 41 and 38cm.

The weather was great as well.  

FINALLY!

With trying to run two jobs (thankfully I'm now running my own business only) we hadn't had "Dreamweaver" out since July last year! I know, bloody disgraceful!

After our return from Coral Bay (to attend one of our daughters wedding) and two fishing experiences under our belt and with some time to spare, we broke the Dreamweaver boat fishing drought.

With all the signs looking good we rose at a liesurely 05:30 and were in the water, out from the Albany town jetty at around 07:30.

Despite the forcast, the NNW wind gusts made conditions a bit choppy, so we settled for a drift out near the islands.

We were onto bights straight away, but the majority of bring ups were undersized, Breaksea, Squire Snapper and Swallow Tail mainly.

Breaksea Cod, we find are one of the most Baratrauma prone fish, so thank goodness I'd brought our release weight.

I did mange to pull in one half decent pan sized skip:

With most catches undersized, our bait being pecked to death and the wind having moderated considerably, we decided to move further afield to a spot out from Rock Dunder.

It proved worthwhile.

Sandra's first effort was VERY impressive, "I'M SERIOUSLY ON", she yelled as her rod buckled furiously, and the Torium 30 OH screamed in protest.

"TURN IT" I yelled, "I"M TRYING" she yelled back...and "YOU TRY". I grabbed the rod from her hands and locked up the 30 to as much as I could - I might as well had it in free spool!

Sandra "under load":

The braid was heading for Antartica, but, whatever piscatorial beast was on the end of it was coming to the surface, so we'd at least find out what it was.

Moving out from the boat and rising? Hmmm, a large ray or BIG Sambo was my call...

The beast surfaced...a bloody whale! Seriously!

OK, Sandra wins the biggest hook up.

A Cow and calf that hung around the boat, even after Sandra "caught" the Cow:

One hour later, and numerous drifts producing skippy, a black rock fish and an Albatros (Sandra's effort again), the top of my T-Curve 400 shot downwards as one of two Gamakatsu 5/0 Circles had done their work.

Whatever iit was, it wasn't going to go easy as we played "line ownership" during several serious runs. After what I imagined to be about ten minutes, the culprit finally started coming up consistantly.

A further 10-15 minutes and I had the fish to the surface - a good sized Blue Morwong (Southern Queenie) - measure at just under one meter and 7 kilos. That 65 meters of depth had felt like 165 meters:

We were back at the town jetty at our designated 1400 hours, logged off VMR610 (Albany Sea Rescue) and pleased with a good feed, great fun (especially due to Sandra's "unusual catches") and happy that we had finally broken the drought.

  Hello again.

  Thinking of going fishing Thursday 18th avo and into the night, all night if i have to, just wondering if any one has landered any fish lately between floreat and ocean reef i will fish of beach or rocks.

  Take the missus to the airport tomorrow so there is know stopping me.I know they have been catching tailor in the swan something Im yet to get,but a bit far to drive after a couple of beers.

  any suggestions would be great.

  cheers,   amature fisho   Tim

With the Demersal fish Closure upon us, its a great time to clean and service gear, repair boats, research and invest in new gear, etc etc,until the new season begins. The last 7 days leading into the closure were a fishermans worst nightmare, with wind and swell conditions less than favourable, leaving the diehards to fish inshore, more protected areas. Amongst the mixed bags included Herring, skippy, Whiting, Tailor, Pinkies, Mako Sharks, and the odd Dhuie. Crabs and squid were also in good numbers back towards Busso. A couple of boats got out to some deeper ground, with the young fellas on the boat landing a 12kg Dhu, a nice size Sambo and a solid Mako which was released.

Tailor have been prolific and good size, with all wash zones and points around the cape proving to be hotspots. I was lucky enough to get into some great Tailor action, with an endless number of 40+cm fish smashing everything we threw at them!! Downsize your lures, and fish the same areas for herring and silver trevally, with Tarwhine also hitting lures. Squid and crabs have been more productive around Siesta Park, Tobys Inlet area. There have been plenty of female crabs around, but very few carrying eggs, but do be careful when keeping females as they are the future of the fishery.

Landbased fishing has been great, with plenty of action on both sides of the cape. Bigger tailor specimens of around 60cm have been fairly consistent on the west coast, with Yallingup, Smiths and Injidup all worthy of a cast. Still a few Salmon being landed from the beaches, most likely resident fish, which we see hide out around the coast until the season comes around. As the temperatures have dropped slightly since the warm patch through July/August, the Sandwhiting have dropped off a little, however still worth your while flicking fresh prawns, or Gulp Sandworms on the flats in Dunsborough.

Until the Demersal closure ends, why not try your luck at some Jigging and trolling in the area, and test your gear against powerhouse Sambos, and drag burning Kingys. Drop in the shop, or hit us up on Facebook, and we can point you in the right direction, and show you whats working!!

Until next time, happy cleaning, happy dreaming, and good luck fishing!!!

Cheers,

Zac@dunsboroughoutdoorsportz

Shot up on Thursday night and swagged overnight in Jurien for a Friday session onboard Seasport.

The weather was looking pretty good and was the pick of the days of the previous week.  We got off on time and shot straight out for some livebait but the fish weren't schooling so Whitey didn't have us hanging around there too long.  We spent the rest of the day fishing between 25-55m from what I saw. 

I was jigging up on the bow with Whitey and one other bloke, Brendan.  We didn't do too bad - I ended up with three dhus, two of which were legal but were caught after the boat limit had been reached so they went back (which probably worked well for me anyway because I ended up with one of Whitey's fish), the other one was undersize.  Also got a good size baldie.  Brendan got a double header of sambos on his twin assists which gave him some curry, a small amber, a donkey sambo and a few small junk fish.  The fish of the day went to Whitey though with his first dhu hitting the scales at 16kg and his second at 18kg was an absolute cracker and nearly spooled him (light drag due to small hooks).

As far as the baitos went - there were a good mix of fish that came up - a couple of quality dhus, some nice pinkies and then the usual mix of baldies, black bum, skippy and sambos.

Was a good day out all up despite the weather kicking up at the end of the day.

There are a few pics below, they're pretty light on as we were up on the bow which made taking them difficult.

Off to a good start - flat seas and light winds

Unco dhu pose

Whitey's first

The pick of my dhuies.

'nuff said.

I just brought an aussie angler to fish for mama toman in Thailand. This is his very first time fishing for wild toman aka giant snakehead in Thailand. With proper guidance , he managed to land his dream fish.

Awesome fights !!! Awesome rod bend !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XueBakWNGw

Morning sunrise......

Exotic fishing ground !!! True fishman game !!!

The big catchof the day- 6KG MAMA....

 

 

With the reports of swan tailor firing up again this year Ben and I took the dinghy out into Melville water last Sunday arvo for a troll.  We had a pretty easy going afternoon with about 6 tailor landed between 3pm and sundown.  I think we kept 5 between us for a feed between 36-39cms and released a smaller one.  It was quite pleasant on the water with a few beers and snacks, but we never saw bird action or located a school properly.  The only double hookup was when Ben had a tailor on, I retrieved my lure and cast over his fish and managed to hook one following his and we boated both fish. I was using two rapala xraps in blue and a green and I think Ben was using a selection of Barramundi lures.

We were pretty stoked to open the tailor account for the year and decided we would be back out there ASAP.

So I started a new job this week and was pretty tired so we decided friday afternoon would be a go after I knocked off at 2:30.  I had a beer after work and then my phone rang, it was Ben saying our mate Chaddie was waiting for us at the river already.  I knew it would take me an hour at least to head home, get my gear and head to Bens so I decided to tell Ben to take Chad out in the dinghy by themselves and I would see if I could get down there later.  I got home and had another beer, felt pretty tired and decided I would bail on fishing - Smart decision as you will see!

So Ben calls me at about 7:30pm, im thinking cheeky bastard is going to be bragging about the tonnes of tailor and how nice it was, Ben starts telling me how great it was, they found a school, boated five in the first hour with a few fish lost and double hookups.  Im thinking shit I should have bloody well gone! So I say to Ben, so how many did you end up with? He goes 'Well you see it was all going well until that fifth tailor got to the side of the boat Chaddie grabs the net ready to boat the tailor, but he had his hand right down close to the net opening, took a swipe at the tailor, but it bounced off the rim around the net and went nuts - thoroughly embedding the treble of the lure in his right index finger in the knuckle.'  By this stage im already laughing way out loud, so Ben then tells me how Chad dropped the net overboard, Ben recovered that, got the fish into the boat still attached to Chads hand, cut the lure from the line, removed the fish and settled Chad down, then retrieved the other lure, which was by now rightfully wrapped around the prop.  Im still laughing pretty hard when Ben tells me they are currently in the emergency department waiting room at Fremantle Hospital for a doctor to see Chad and remove the barb.  I think they were there for 3-5 hours or so and had only managed one hours fishing.

I went to see Chaddie yesterday who was looking a little bit sorry for himself, mainly because he thinks he ruined a perfectly good opportunity to fish.  Fortunately he recorded the whole 24 minute hook removal ordeal on his new samsung galaxy s3 for posterity and I was able to watch it on the big screen with a beer. I will see if I can get hold of the footage and get it up onto youtube, the hook was really in there and its amazing watching how rough the doc had to be to remove the hook.
 

I have a photo of the treble hooked in his hand, but it was sent to my phone which is giving me grief atm, the other photo is from last sunday.

The Broken Rod !!! The Mighty MAMA Toman !! By BKKGUY

When someone said Toman aka Giant Snakehead fishes are so strong that they can break your rod.
Well.......literally I really mean it. haha !!! The mightly mama toman!!!

Photos highlights....


Rod broken by mightly mama toman....
















 

Hi all,

I am gonna be making the most of a few hours tomorrow fishing the swan somewhere near burswood. Can anyone recommend any decent spots around there?

Well aren't I so glad I made my way back to Adam's Fishwrecked!

Great to be amongst friends old and new!

Two days ago, I made a few comments and, as a result, Rob H called round this morning (whilst we are both in Coral Bay) to say hello and asked if I wanted to come out for a fish.

Me+Look at Wife+She Says YES=WOOHOO - Thanks Rob!

We headed out around 10:30 with the intention of trolling once we were out past the south passage.

Plenty of "bird sign" but alas, nothing on the bibed HBs, poppers and skirts.

Rob suggested bottom bouncing and we were soon at anchor, confidently clear of the Ningaloo Sanctuary.

BE WARNED! If you go out with Rob and his two secret weapons, you WILL be outshone!

By secret weapons, I do of course mean his two youngens - they ARE fishing machines! No doubt, in no small way, to the wonderful and patient and experienced tuition of their Dad Rob.

Here's some PICS:

Rob under load with a nice GT

Rob's munchkins in the thick of things

Proud dad, proud son - NICE CATCH! - A good Trev!

A blue asure return through the mooring area

A VERY qualified and proficient skipper at the helm on the return.

Bow to the Marina entrance

Rob, GREAT to meet you, a terrific, warm, genuine and friendly bloke - mate, you saved me from going insane, seeing all those boats passing our holiday accommodation - love to catch up again, and, should you ever head down to the sub antarctic of Mount Barker I would love to share more than the one beer I gave you before you had to head off to help others fillet.

Top Bloke, top gesture, top times, top fun and a TOP thank you Rob!

Went for first barra trip the other day, with 40 degree temps we expected that things were going to be pretty decent and with reports of a few barra around we had high hopes.  Everything went according to plan, got there with just enough water to get in, found bait relatively easily and set in for the first session late in the evening.  Things were very slow but we managed to hook 5 over about 8 hours, with 2 going around the anchor rope and 3 that the hooks just didn't stay in.  The cod were just plain ridiculous for the time we were up there, just insane and anything that touched the water would almost be attacked instantly. 

Day 2 we set in for another session and didn't even get a barra run, just cod cod and more cod.  The thing that was extremely disappointing was the water temp, I sat in the water during the hot part of the day and could easily have worn a wetty where as 2 years ago at the exact same time the water was like a hot bath that was unpleasant.  After more bait gathering during the day we went and had a jack session in the arvo, soon as the baits hit the water it was on.  We ended up with around 20 and kept a few of the bigger ones for a feed.  That night we went for barra again and dropped one and landed one little rat, only one real exciting run which I'm pretty confident was a shark.  We ended up with one big shark later on and a solid bluenose thready, but overall it was pretty quiet even though we did have our chances and one of the fish on the first night looked to be pretty solid.  Speaking to a few others that fished creeks south of us, they didn't even get a sniff for 2 days, so that made us feel a little better.

We ended up bailing a day early due to how quiet it was and how many bloody cod and midgies were around, but be interesting to see how things go this weekend with better neaps for baz fishing and a lot of crew heading out.  Even though there was a lack of barra, I learnt heaps and am stoked with how everything played out and the preparation - also not getting stuck on a mud bar like the only other boat out there who are probably still there now (1.5 days later) waiting for the higher high, valuable lesson I'm glad I didn't have to learn the hard way.  Ahh well, I'm on the board for 2012, even though it is a pup.

I've been getting my share of choppers from the Swan for the last few weeks but this morning they were really turned on. From 2am to 6am I landed 36 choppers, 14 of which were legal with the biggest going 39cm. I finally decided it was time to leave when a decent fish inhaled my hardbody & eventually bit through my 20lb leader. The fish came on various hardbodies about 50mm long, smaller & larger lures were completley ignored but colour didn't seem to matter with clear lures being just as effective as blue, brown & green. I only kept these two just legal ones (31cm & 32cm) to use as bait tonight, the rest were released.

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Hi everyone,

Made a trip up to Jurien last weeken with a few mates to sink a few tinnies and have a fish for the weekend. After shooting up on Friday avo after work we hit the water about 7 on Saturday morning. This being our first fishing trip up there we weren't to sure what expect.

Not knowing any better we started south of the marine park that is out from Sandy cape in about 15m of water, hoping to pick up some whiting and skippy and maybe a flatty if we were lucky. This started off well picking up a couple of good sized skippy before the baby wrasse and other assorted 'vermin' set in, and a couple of fish that looked pretty dam tasty. Not knowing what they were we thought it would be best to throw them back (since then we worked out that we picked up a few Black arse :\ ).

Between releasing a few more wrasse a couple of the boys noticed some sambos circling the boat, and with very little incouragement there were some unweighted pillies hanging overboard.... It didn't take long to hear the drag singing!!! Much to our amazement we picked up a nice school mackerel. Now being new to W.A.... it lead to a quick flick through the rule book and only finding a size for "Mackerel: Spanish" in there. Not knowing if this rule was meant to cover all mackies we released our 730 mm schoolie.... well wasn't that a mistake!

We continued drifting the flats for a while longer, not picking up any whiting that I figured we would be sure to catch! Although I did manage to pick up a schoolie of my own that tipped the 800 mark which made up for the lack of finger food.

As the afternoon dragged on we decided to kill two birds by doing a bit of trawling and searching for some lumpy bottom that we could fish on Sunday. The silver wobbler hooked up almost straight away, but the 5600 abu felt a bit small after a few minutes of solid runs, before a bust off. Well that won't be the last time that happens.......

Sunday wasn't so glassy.... we only hit the water for a short time (but long enough for me to loose a rod overboard). Either way we checked out the reefs infront of Jurien and thought about what next time could bring.

Being the new kid in town a few lessons were learnt, but good stories don't come from that time everything worked out perfectly.

P.S. I've been following the site for some time and it seems like a great online community, I hope I can keep contributing in the future.

The warm weather is here and the good summer fishing is just around the corner. Large snook are here in good numbers which means the big greenback tailor are not far away. Plenty of choppers can be caught on the first half of the jetty on days the SW winds are blowing. Most of the action can be found closer to shore at the moment especially in the evening. Good sized crabs are about in numbers with most people bagging out with the blue swimmers. Just remember the size limit is 127 mm with a bag of 10 per person. Squid numbers have dropped off in the past few weeks but the ones that have been caught have been monsters. Out towards the end of the jetty the herring numbers have been very good, a feed can be caught in very little time especially between 5pm and 7pm. Large Sampson fish can be found towards the end in the morning chasing the mulie schools hanging around the pylons, one bloke landed 4 in one morning session.

Tight lines everyone and good luck.

With the weather looking good for Saturday we left home early for a days fishing at Jurien. After a few trips up there lately we ventured out to find some new ground and hopefully fish. On the way out we stopped off at a old spot and the rest was history.

Got on our spot at around 8am and had our fisrt dhu (12kg-95cm) in the boat minutes after. Boonmack landed this nice fish on a squid bait.

Then another mate Russell landed a nice 6kg fish. 68cm. We decided as it was early, to relaese this one hoping for another big one. Dropped him down on the release weight only to see him float back up to the surface 2min later. Circled around and picked him up and then he had made his decicision for us DINNER. Bagged out within half an hour.

Went back over the mark and found more fish on the sounder. Dropped over again and wham Boonmack strikes again on a bait. 11kg and 85cm.

With all of us getting slightly pissed with Boonmack we decided to try a little harder. Moments later i hooked up to a nice size Baldie. Dinner.

We went back over the spot again and all four of us hooked up at the same time. Great fun watching four blokes fight fish. Then bang one of the boys got bitten off. Sorry i didnt mention the was heaps of NW blowies around as well. Lucky for the rest of us we didnt have blowies. Three way of Dhuies.

These fish went left to right. Boonmack 69cm, Me 73cm, Russell 74cm. All released back to the school they came from with no problems. Makes you feel good releasing quality fish.

Time for another drift. Around again. Finnally i got slammed by something big. Made my Saragosa 4000 scream with anger. I use a Shimano saltwater series 5-10kg with a gosea 4000 and 20lb diawa sensor braid for my plastics fishing. This fish gave me a good run. 11kg and 88cm. Made me work hard. 

I have had great success latley since Brenz from the fishing shop showed me the new Berkley Ripple Shad. This was the first time i had used the black colour but it obviously works, thanks Brenz. This is the third 10kg fish i have caught by just having the rod in the rod holder while i was getting drinks from the esky. I guess the paddle tails like no real action given to them.

The Dhu was again released nicely. By this stage Weisy was getting very angry as he hadnt landed a Dhu. His PB is a 55cm and watching big fish come over hand and fist was driving him insane. He had caught some nice NW blowies but this doesnt count. Next drift around it was his turn.

A nice fish at around 6kg and 65cm. A new PB and a smile to go with it. Released well again. He was then lucky enough to drop back down and caught another fish almost identical.

After the 14th dhu was caught we decided that we wanted to try get some pinkies or baldies as we only had the one baldie and 2 dhu in the esky.Only one Dhu was undersized. So we didnt the unthinkable and left a hot dhu bite. Sadly we went closer into shore and only managed to get one sized black ass for the rest of the day. The wind decided to pickup at this stage so we called it early and we back in the car by 1pm.

Unfortlunately for weisy two PB's in one day is good fishing however today this got him the hat of shame.

A great days fishing was topped of with a couple of beers for the trip home.

Got my fix now for a couple of months and some fish to see me through the ban.

Thanks for reading.