Hi guys I thought I would do a report on one of my fishing seshs

Last Friday me and a couple of mates went to the cott groyn for a fish. That night as soon as I got there my mate hooked a massive shovel nose (about 1.7 meters), reeled it in, later we caught a massive eagle ray, put it back. About half an hour later we caught another eagle ray on for it to snap us off in the reef, Later we got another ray this time a smooth ray.

Sucks we only got rays, we kayaked the baits out about 200 meters from shore hoping to catch gummy sharks and tigers. 

Thanks for reading

Headed out on Saturday with Chrisp and TimVB on my tug for a day of demersal jigging near Rotto. Easterlies were stronger than expected and it was not that comfortable for most of the day.

Got 6 dhuies for the day, only 1 was size to Chrisp but was in such good nick that we released it along with the undersized ones. Tim also lost one to a very large shark after slowly bringing one up to reduce barotrauma.......no barotrauma but a fair bit of other trauma I suspect.... despite trying numerous spots were could not find any large dhu's.

At one spot in the 40's, we were amazed at the water temp, at 23.6 degrees, compared with 18.5 on the 3 mile.....wow, still maccie temp......and that proved to be the point very soon after with a couple of jig snip-offs mide water (me loosing my second Slide Actor to Maccies with a grand total of about 4 cranks of the reel handle.........) and then Chrisp hooking up to a nice maccie on jig for about 30 secods before it bit through his asssit hook and left some big nasty teeth marks in the jig.

There was plenty of bait on the sounder so we toiled away with the PE2 jigging hoping for a maccie hook-up or a stray dhu, then bang, I was on, and on in a big way.......numerous sizzling runs on the Stella 4000 had us calling big dhu, maccie, sambo, then maccie again......ended up a good sambo on PE2, certainly lucky not to get bricked.

Tim then backed it up with another sambo soon after on his PE2 outfit, his Stella complaining as loudly as mine.......

Tough day on the water but still good fun and a few nice fish all released.

Bit of a belated report, but between a new bubs and starting a new job, has taken a bit of time to get around to writing.

After heading out a few weeks prior just before bubs came along, me and the old man ventured out a bit further than we normally did off mandurah and got stuck into some dhu and sambos.

Well, Friday week ago for another shot.  Forecast was about 9knots and 2m of swell, so we went for the 40km trek out from Mandurah.  Back to the same spot on the sounder and nothing.  Second spot nothing. We sounded around for a bit and nothing really came up.  Ended up pulling close tot he mark and just drifting around, at the casual pace of 0-0.5km/h :).  When we came out previously there was a big blow up like some baitfish on the bottom in 2 spots, with large pickups above, presumably the dhus and sambos, and now was barely a flicker.

A sort time into the drift dad pulled up a nice size sgt baker for bait then a good size blackarse.  Then I was on.

82cm and my now PB Dhu.

Kept trying to work the area now with plastics and the bait for anly a small bit of activity.  Had a Nannygai come up, legal, but not really worth keeping, dad picked up a very good size blackarse on the placcy, his first fish on one and then I got a small pinky.  We decided to head a couple hundred metres north and got a small patch on the screen, once we eventually lined up properly instantly dad was on, with another blackarse, and so was I.

Now a 62cm Dhu.  So the BA went back and so did we, all done by 1pm, back at the ramp at 2:30.

Both the Dhu were caught on baker fillets, the rest on squid, and one fish on a placcy.  Was a great day again!

Definatley have some faith in the metro fishing now, was really starting to miss coral bay!!!

Went out with Whitey on Wednesday. Was only myself, whitey and his decky on the jigs the rest were fishing bait. Both was slow as the drift was opposite to the wind but once that stopped the jigs took over. I ended up with a decent amount of fish on jigs so i was stoked. Pb snapper to go with it pulling my olds scales down to 10.2kg i think whitey said it was 87cm. Was awesome to see as usual Whitey taking care of all unwanted fish and released properly watching each one swim off into the depths especially those dhuies...always have a great time out with the king of jurien cheers mate. 

I'm posting this report for a friend of mine who had an encounter with a large shark yesterday ( Thursday )

They had hooked a large Bronzie and fought it for a while then it became just a dead weight. They were in amazed to see what was left of it as is came to the surface .

Shortly after a visiter started to circle the boat.

Estimated at over 4 m it stayed around then decided to have a munch on the outboard wich now started to worry the guy's .

The boat owner decided to give it a whack with the gaff and all hell broke loose.

Now with a 3m gaff stuck in its side it went crazy and started to free jump, on the third jump it nearly landed on the transom and the disappeared into the deep and was not spotted again. The owner of the boat knows his sharks and says it was a Great White . I'm no expert but didn't think a GW could jump that high, but ive never seen one with a gaff stuck in its side either .

All i can say is You Guys are Crazy . lol . Cheers Grant .

Catching some decent Tailor-60cm+ northern metro at the moment, bigger than the 40-50 they have been the last couple of months. They seem to only be in small schools but they're around and fun. Use Bull Chops or River to Sea 150mm dumbell poppers, they seem to be doing the trick and an hour before high tide. Remember to change trebles to single hooks and crush the barbs, if you dont you will injure the jaws of the fish, tailor have pretty fine jaw structure.

This post is promised from another fw members comment on another thread so here goes.

Woke up about midday, the norm lately and wandered down stairs to look out the window, complete glass off on the river so figured see if dads keen to head out for some squid. (he was extremely jet lagged only arriving back from NY monday arvo). He seemed reasonably keen so rods and beers loaded, a trip up the deli for ice and snacks and we were on the water by about 1pm.

Arrived out the front of FSC not long after and proceeded with the first drift, after 5 or maybe 10 mins with not 1 squid.  discussions of a move were being made, spoke too soon. Over the next 15 minutes 12 squid and a couple of cuttle fish were landed, the cuttlefish going back. We continued to go back over the same drift and repeatedly produced 2's, 3's and 4's.

A couple of drifts further away and for some reason we couldnt get past the cuttle fish, caught about 10 in 20 minutes was a bit annoying as a big cuttly feels like a monster squid until you dont get those lunges characteristic of a large squid on light tackle. Dad managed to lose his favourite jig which i had another exactly the same in my bag but upon producing it and offering it to him he proclaimed its not the same, mine was browner in colour (it was the same effing jig brand, weight, colour i know because i bought them both).

So after reluctently accepting my offer he put the jig on and again claimed it wasn't the same. He had a point as he was doing pretty well with the previous jig on his 3ft ugly stick and shimano hyperloop super cheapy outfit that he wont let me replace for him. So i tested a whole heap of the new jigs i bought and seems they worked well, so tested 4 out of the 12 new colours i purchased. Really like new the Yo-zuri range, clear bodys and chrome reds to be exact.

On a final note one of the first squid we caught was attacked by something, at the time dad mentioned felt like something was hitting it, kind of took a small run and when what came up afterwards i thought holy crap maybe a macky, then thought about it and figured more like a norwester. Let you guys decide.

Cheers

Righteo

(excuse the phone photo quality)

well , wednesday was a killer, being stuck at work and seeing how good it looked outside.

Just had to get today off after seeing the forecast , but didn't fancy my chances , as I have a long weekend booked already.

Well , the boss was pretty good about it and good job too.

I'd lost my main deckie, as he was heading out on his mates boat, so it was a solo bash. headed out early from two rocks with the intention on getting to my spots around the tide.

It worked out well , and I arrived and began sounding around.   found another little lump a little way off my mark that looked the goods.

I'd bought bait just in case , but it was a new smith mejiyume that was sent down first.  a couple of twitches , and I'm on straight away. love it when that happens on the first drop.  

It was a good fish and it didn't want to get off bottom , but after a bit of boat manouvering 1 handed , I was directly over the fish again. the little jig force had a pretty decent bend in it , and a few mins later , up came the fish of the day .  15.8kg on the scales at home. 

the next hour saw some decent dhu's over the gunnels up to 70cm ,from different spots ,  but after that , they weren't so keen on the jig .

i relented and switched to fresh sgt baker fillets , which got pretty smashed by pinkie's , queen snapper and more dhu's

Bite seemed to shut down around 11, so didn't bother persisting , with the decent dhu in the esky.

 Headed out yesterday with my next door neighbour on his boat with the view to exploring some new ground north of where we usually fish. We were going to take two boats out to increase the ground coverage but after my eldest daughter pulled the plug I decided to hop on board with Greg and his son and just use the one boat.

We launched from Mindarie and headed to some ground we both fish regularly before taking a northwesterly heading in line with those patches of ground we had. It wasn't long before we had a few new spots to fish, but apart from a few sambo's that made Matt grunt and groan we didn;t land much until the afternoon tide change.

We were lucky enough to find several new lumps in the afternoon all of which had fish on them and we finished with a full bag of 2x dhuies, 3 x pinkies and a big baldie between us. Not to count the other dhuies, pinkies and blackarse we released. 

All in all a great day on the water and to pull every fish from new ground was especially pleasing.

Well it has taken me two weeks to post this but it has taken me 5 months to catch it! I headed out on a friends boat 2 Sundays ago. It is a large 45 footer but it was well and truley needed that day.The forcast wans't great and by not great i mean it was for 20 plus knots and 2.5 mt swell.... We didn't have many options of another day to go out so i made the call to go as the forcast (very unusally) for Perth was for this howling westerly to drop during the day.

So we putted out of the heads and straight to the lee of Carnac to grab some squid.7 in three drifts was good but as skipper and "fisherman" on board i knew we couldn't sit there all day in this awesome boat catching squid.... So out past the reef, line in the water and a slow troll towards stragglers was the plan. Man, to say it was rough was a massive understatement. Lets put it this way, I didnt see one other boat on the water fishing all day(never seen that before).

It was blowing over 20 and a good 2.5 meter swell side on. My brother inlaw was lain out in the cabin for a good hour sick as a dog. So I called it to pull the lines in and head to the lee of Rotto for a try for whitting. This was a waste of an hour other than for those who were a little green to get some colour back and for the rest of us to have a beer. The forecast had been for the wind to drop midmorning but unfortunatly it was after 1 and it was still blowing. Another call and we dicided to head aorund from the lee and try for a mack and brave the wind.

The wind did start to drop and even with the 2.5 meter swell it was fishable once the westerly died down. 10 mins in a fish, lots of whooping from me before it was dropped. We 20 mins later I was on! A quick fight and after who knows how many hours, how many shark mackeral and how many liters of fuel this summer my first metro mack was boat side. Gave the rod to my mate and made the gaff shot my self. Wasn't going to miss that one.

It took a while to stop rocking but at least the day was salvage somewhat.

I wish i had a photo of the weather, this one really doesnt do it justice.

I've been back from my Exmouth and Coral Bay trip for a week and a half so I thought I better upload some pics.

Had an interesting time in Exmouth this year, started off with the comp with Team Red Shirts winning 2 prizes thanks to the great work by deckie Amanda. The second day of the comp was interesting with boat problems stuffing the day up. Thanks to Adam for organising the comp :)

We also did some excellent snorkelling at Oyster Stacks and did Kayaking up Yardie Creek.

The highlight of the trip was scoring my PB Red Emp 10.57kg.

The lowlight was the F##king sharks, I swear its getting worse.

Anyway heres some pics from Exmouth. I will upload some Coral Bay ones later.

Gday,

Haven't posted any reports before but while avoiding doing Uni work I've been looking through some trips and decided to share. I'm not great with a camera so forgive me if my fishy shots aren't that great. Shark Bay 2010!

This was my first trip north with my old man, we've camped around the southwest heaps and decided to try something different. Plus I really wanted to catch more than redfin and eastuary species! We headed up in late June and it was raining on and off pretty much the whole way up. It was about 10pm and we were somewhere past Kalbarri (i think) and looking for a spot to camp for the night. It was looking pretty grim due to the rain and no cover, when we came past some now familiar rain tanks and both went "YES thats perfect!"

Continuing on it wasn't far to the turnoff and then we got our first glimpse of shark bay. The plan was to head straight up into the national park and camp at Bottle Bay, as the old man had heard it was a good spot. First disaster- the tracks were closed due to the rain. That left us with only the 'bottom half' of the shark bay peninsula to choose from. We ended up following a trakc onto the east side that went along the beach a bit, and set up camp. Its really shallow on this east side, but it just so happened that when we arrived it was high tide.

As soon as we had set up i grabbed my rod, tied on a soft plastic and cast out. I started bouncing it along the bottom and got a shock when it was attacked, first cast! i had a short tussle with whatever it was but it got off. bugger. Second cast same deal. Third cast untouched. I figured whatever it was might have clued onto the lure, so I tied on something different, and again first and second cast got attacked but couldnt set the hooks, very frustrating!

I waded out to a series of small sandbars and continued changing lures and getting the same result, until finally i managed to set the hooks and pulled in my first ever long tom, he must've been about a metre long, i was pretty stoked!

Must be the meanest fish i've ever met. Ill have to try upload the video, as i released him he actually came at me and latched onto my foot! cheeky bastard.

I got no more bites after that so retired to the campfire for the rest of the day. bit more drizzle that night but a beautiful morning greeted us.

We tried wading around casting in the hope of a flathead, but the tide was out and nothing was happening. further up the beach we came across this shack behind the dunes, where we stopped to make bacon sandwiches before venturing on.

The next two days were pretty uneventful as the track to the national park was closed, and we spent the days driving around the bottom half and camping wherever. finally we were alowed access to te national park, and we headed straight up to the beautiful Bottle Bay.

As soon as we'd setup I started chucking a lure around, and in the fading light I hooked into something decent (on 8lb Suffix mono). I pulled in a little mackeral and cast out again, instant hit but got bitten off. Chucked a dodgy old wire trace on and kept casting but got no hits.

Macky got turned into green fish curry, yum.

the next morning i went for a walk up the beach and came to a fishy looking rocky outcrop. When i say fishy i mean there was literally fish fins poking out, circling around in a patch of water about 5 mtrs from shore! I lobbed a cast out well behins them and hooked into what turned out to be a nice tailor. I continued casting, landing another three and losing just as many. I also had a flathead dart out and take the lure almost at my feet, which actually gave me a fright he was that close haha. apologies for the picks but i was by myself and trying to get the lure back out there asap.

Flathead released btw, oh and the fish fins turned out to be fat mullet! The tailor got eaten for lunch and i kept the frames for bait. Later that day, we decided to have a go for flathead again, and started walking the shoreline casting small minnows with no luck. seeing baitfish jump was a pretty regular occurance, but seeing some getting really harassed and having no flathead luck, i switched to a metal and lobbed it out, and again started hooking into tailor.

My old man followed suit but got busted off twice in a row, blaming the line on his rod and saying it had been sitting in the shed for eons. Being the top bloke that I am I let him have a go on my rod, and we each caught and lost a few tailor. I didnt get a picture but they were all similar size to the medium ones from earlier. The old boy had a go at hot-smoking them that night, and they turned out pretty good.

Had another cast around sundown and got another little mack.

Put a tailor frame out on gangs that night and got my first Mulloway!! haha wasnt exactly huge tho, old man's foot there for scale.

Later on I hooked an unstoppable ray (cheapy beach rod combo) and that was all for the night. We left the next morning, and despite the first couple days being somewhat wasted I had an awesome trip. cheers for reading.

testing photo uploads

abc

I have read the forum for quite a while now so thought it time to share some of the results of my most recent trip – first week of May in Coral Bay!

Thursday night departure from Perth at about 6pm. About an hour into the trip, the first (and thankfully the last) casualty of the trip when a trailer blows a tyre just out of lancelin – ½ an hour behind schedule.

Next stop – Shell Gero

Cars are fuelled. It’s just after midnight when we pull out only to have the red and blue lights show up in the rear vision mirror – despite the pre-trip checks, it seems that the driving lights on the trailer have failed! The indicators and brake lights are fine and after a few precautionary words from the boys in blue, along with the standard breatho test, we are off on our way again- next long haul to Carnarvon commences.

Carnarvon at 6am, cars and boats are fuelled for the final leg into Coral Bay.

Depart Carnarvon and we are hit with 3 hours of pea-soup – the fog was incredible and a bit daunting at the same time – just waiting for cattle to appear in the 30-40 metres of visibility that we had – again, thankfully, this didn’t happen.

15 kms out the fog lifts and at 9am we pull into coral bay to be met with light offshore winds – the cars and boats couldn’t be unpacked/ packed quick enough and by about 1030, we launch at the ramp.

The first call of the day was “false passage?” and the nods are all around – anything to get us out to the hunting grounds that 5 minutes earlier.

The winds were light and the swell almost non-existent so we head in the direction of false passage (for those not familiar with Coral Bay, there are two main avenues to the deep water – North and South passage – north is in the realm of 3 – 4 km wide and is an all-condition safe navigation – South Passage not so much. It’s about 200 metres wide and breaks on a swell of 2.5 metres or so and a low or outgoing tide. False Passage is a relatively unknown exit of the sheltered waters and called false for a reason – it’s not a real one!)

Anyway, as we line up to head out, swell lines build on the horizon and proceed to close out the false passage! A look between the boats confirms what we both know – that it could have been an early exit to the fishing week on the first outing so we proceed to the South Passage – no dramas.

Throttles are dropped and the salt slaps the ally chariots as we power out wide. This is the first day of the week long trip and expectations are high.

First drift is set..

 and high fives go round as the first notch on the Red scoreboard is made! This is what we have waited the 12 months for!

The following 7 days produced some notable highs and only a couple of “disappointments”. From Red’s in plague proportions, 150Kg+ Marlin swimming up to the boat, witnessing a 14ft tiger shark catch and eat a huge sea turtle, to getting ‘sharked’ a few times and a couple of comical failed net/ gaff attempts (for which those involved were appropriately penalised)!

Each day presented us with some amazing conditions (some days too good in that we could not drift), and some amazing fish.

We didn’t hit any patches of trophy reds but we did manage some nice ones in the 8-9 kg range and a heap not far behind. Heaps of Cobia and Rankins around also which provided for some tasty sashimi and thick fillets respectively. The eskies were then topped up on a daily basis with the usual suspects – Robbo’s, Spanglies, Sweetlips, Goldbands and a few Pearl Perch thrown in for good measure.

An few more shots below display some of the week’s work, an amazing place and another fantastic fishing trip. Bring on 2013….

average conditions??

Part of day 1

Day 2

Day 3

bit of variety. Coronation and Cobia

smiles all round

little goldband

Day 5 I think... Red Alert!!

luckily we managed to keep most of our fish away from these guys - were plenty around though.

goodbye for another year :(

I have read the forum for quite a while now so thought it time to share some of the results of my most recent trip – first week of May in Coral Bay!

Thursday night departure from Perth at about 6pm. About an hour into the trip, the first (and thankfully the last) casualty of the trip when a trailer blows a tyre just out of lancelin – ½ an hour behind schedule.

Next stop – Shell Gero

Cars are fuelled. It’s just after midnight when we pull out only to have the red and blue lights show up in the rear vision mirror – despite the pre-trip checks, it seems that the driving lights on the trailer have failed! The indicators and brake lights are fine and after a few precautionary words from the boys in blue, along with the standard breatho test, we are off on our way again- next long haul to Carnarvon commences.

Carnarvon at 6am, cars and boats are fuelled for the final leg into Coral Bay.

Depart Carnarvon and we are hit with 3 hours of pea-soup – the fog was incredible and a bit daunting at the same time – just waiting for cattle to appear in the 30-40 metres of visibility that we had – again, thankfully, this didn’t happen.

15 kms out the fog lifts and at 9am we pull into coral bay to be met with light offshore winds – the cars and boats couldn’t be unpacked/ packed quick enough and by about 1030, we launch at the ramp.

The first call of the day was “false passage?” and the nods are all around – anything to get us out to the hunting grounds that 5 minutes earlier.

The winds were light and the swell almost non-existent so we head in the direction of false passage (for those not familiar with Coral Bay, there are two main avenues to the deep water – North and South passage – north is in the realm of 3 – 4 km wide and is an all-condition safe navigation – South Passage not so much. It’s about 200 metres wide and breaks on a swell of 2.5 metres or so and a low or outgoing tide. False Passage is a relatively unknown exit of the sheltered waters and called false for a reason – it’s not a real one!)

Anyway, as we line up to head out, swell lines build on the horizon and proceed to close out the false passage! A look between the boats confirms what we both know – that it could have been an early exit to the fishing week on the first outing so we proceed to the South Passage – no dramas.

Throttles are dropped and the salt slaps the ally chariots as we power out wide. This is the first day of the week long trip and expectations are high.

First drift is set..

 and high fives go round as the first notch on the Red scoreboard is made! This is what we have waited the 12 months for!

The following 7 days produced some notable highs and only a couple of “disappointments”. From Red’s in plague proportions, 150Kg+ Marlin swimming up to the boat, witnessing a 14ft tiger shark catch and eat a huge sea turtle, to getting ‘sharked’ a few times and a couple of comical failed net/ gaff attempts (for which those involved were appropriately penalised)!

Each day presented us with some amazing conditions (some days too good in that we could not drift), and some amazing fish.

We didn’t hit any patches of trophy reds but we did manage some nice ones in the 8-9 kg range and a heap not far behind. Heaps of Cobia and Rankins around also which provided for some tasty sashimi and thick fillets respectively. The eskies were then topped up on a daily basis with the usual suspects – Robbo’s, Spanglies, Sweetlips, Goldbands and a few Pearl Perch thrown in for good measure.

An few more shots below display some of the week’s work, an amazing place and another fantastic fishing trip. Bring on 2013….

average conditions??

Part of day 1

Day 2

Day 3

bit of variety. Coronation and Cobia

smiles all round

little goldband

Day 5 I think... Red Alert!!

luckily we managed to keep most of our fish away from these guys - were plenty around though.

goodbye for another year :(

Hi all,

Went for a fish down Trigg Point yeaterday. There was a massive school of salmon hanging about, an a fella also told me he caught a few at Floreat drain also. I was there for a few hours an only managed to hook a couple an they didnt really seem to interested in my bait (mulie gang rig) . I was just givin a heads up that it seems the salmon have arrived, an also if anyone can give me some hints in bait it would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Been back for a week now and finally got everything back in order so I figured it was time to get a report up on our trip to Coral Bay.  We went up with hunterdive and his family plus a couple of other crew, we scored great weather and spent plenty of time on, in or around the water.

Fishing-wise we got off to a great start but things slowed quickly with a couple of really slow sessions just before we left.  I'll let the pics do the talking with a bit of commentary in between on the highlights.

We spent the first copule of nights at Monkey Mia taking the kids to see the dolphins along with all the other hoards.  Pretty much the whole contingent of dolphins were out on the morning we were there including a couple of the young pups having fun getting airborne.

We had a few good sessions fishing in the early days, this golden tested the mother-in-law

Smashed by tuna on a Seven Seas Hooker, great fun

hunterdive followed suite with a Smith jig and got caned by a fat bludger trev

Back in the shallows there were always a few tasty demersals

Headed out for a cruise on the Coral Breeze and had a few snorkels on the inside reef, saw plenty of action as you do there.

Rafted up the boats one arvo just outside the sanctuary and spent a few hours snorkelling around again.  Managed to burley up a bunch of small fish which the kids had a ball trying to catch in their butterfly nets.  They all managed to get a few which were quickly returned after a few pics.

Had a pretty cool start to one of the days.  We got out to 60-70m line and started fishing, hunterdive noticed a bunch of baitfish under the boat so he dropped a Smith jig down and got spanked by a sailfish.  We were fishing in our boat about 250m away and heard the hooting start just to look over and see the saily going gangbusters on the surface.  It took them about 15 minutes to bring it to the side of the boat and pull it up for a few pics.  We got over there when it was back in the water having a swim.  I'm sure hunter will put some pics up when he gets back but the jig is smashed, literally... there's about 1cm of jig and the rest was broken off when the fish whacked it.

Anyway during that mayhem I picked up a robbo on a Duel jig and then a cobia on a floater.

A bit later we were heading to another spot and we spotted some mayhem on the surface so we shot over to check it out and this small school of baitfish was getting obliterated by a bunch of sharks.  When we pulled up alongside it the baitfish came under the boat and so did everything else... cobia, remora, 1-4m sharks, tuna, the works.  It was a pretty cool experience, we even had a couple of sharks get airborne about 10m from the boat.  Crazy stuff.

Few other fishing pics to finish off the trip.  We all had a pretty good time.

"Nothing beats fishing in the wild" quote BKKGUY
How true the above statement hold. For any true angler, the real test in out there in the wild.
The uncertainty and the surprise catches at time, make wild fishing trip one of the best ever fishing adventure of all time.
For those who love sightseeing for beautiful scenery and the challenge of wild  fishing , this is one of those guided and planned wild fishing trip you may not want to miss..... ;)

Enjoys my vid clips and photo highlights in the wild....

Wild sebarau (Jungle perch)......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAn95yoL57U

Wild toman on sights casting.... (Snakehead)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry7YsTrMBrw

Some of the photos highlights.....

 Hooked one whilst bottom bouncing  in 40+ metres SW of  Garen Island yesterday .  Lost it boatside when it bit through the mono 

Still got a great baldie, blackbum and two stonker KGW so not complaining 

 Hey everyone, im a keen fisherman still green at ameruer fishing a bot but loce to take tw missus

Sumwhere were gunna go catch some decent

Edible fish ?

Just got back from an evening up at guilderton. Me and a mate drove up, fished for a few hours, and I drove home. My mate is still on the beach in a swag haha.

The weed according to him is shocking along the beaches and its a struggle not to lose gear, and the river itself was pretty quiet which is what we fished. Ah well, combination of loads of weed and a falling tide
probably didnt do us any favours.
Very dissapointing :(

Anybody else been up that way lately?

Hey guys, Wondering if anyone has been down to the cut latley; What's the fishing been like

A report from my latest jetty shanannigans. Storms have stired up the water so the mulloway fishermen are out in force. I have been tailor fishing over the past few days and have landed a few decent ones despite the mirky water. Large squid are starting to show up in reasonable numbers. A few Pinkies have been landed up and down the jetty some have been very large, I caught a juvinile 38cm while fishing for Skippy. There is plenty of yellowtail near the surface for use as bait. Herring are there as always.

Hey guys, just got back from an enjoyable week with friends in Exmouth.

Our original intention was to drag up a mates dingy but after a few mechanical issues in the lead up we decided against that and hired a boat

for 2 days from Exmouth Boat hire who looked after us

After a few days of hanging out with our better halves, Snorkelling and wasting time (drinking) we got into some fishing.

After launching from Tanta's (new ramp is great) and sneaking out the reef we pretty much had no idea where to go so just had a troll

and looked for some ground for a bottom bash.

Trolling was slow so no highlights there but we did manage these.

After a precession of small Emporers Dane (Daneox) nailed a neat Coronation.

Then had a hell of a time landing his fish of the trip this Chinaman.

Personally my highlight was catching my 2 PB Coral Trout in consecutive drifts.

CT 1 @64cm

Then my new PB CT @70cm!

Bagged us out and couldn't be happier!

Unfortunatly not much else other than 1 size Red Emp and a heap of the usual Red Throats and other NW Snappers.

Cheers guys and now I can't wait to return in July!

 Hi Guys, 

Reluctantly, a few weeks ago I left Australia and headed back to the UK after an amazing year cycling and fishing WA and the Northern Territory. Just Over a year ago I posted here on fishwrecked so this post is to say thanks to the guys and girls that helped me along the way aswell as to give an overall report for everyone particularly if you missed my earlier reports:)

A big thanks goes to Ben (Goodz) for welcoming me in Perth when I arrived last april. Ben kindly took me out on his boat and gave me my first taste of vertical jigging. We landed a couple of small sambos and olater some smaller species on bait. Come the second trip I landed a good pink snapper on soft plastic. We were both ecstatic prticularly as it was one fish i was very keen to catch while in Australia. Thanks mate for the fishing and some great advice:)

Ben and a small sambo

A great pink snapper that snaffled my soft plastic off Perth

Thanks to Bryan (sarcasmo) for taking we out on his boat while I was also in perth. We had a great time and caught a range of species and got stuck into some good squid over some weedbeds. That was an interesting experience..some of the most dangerous fishing i've encountered...particularly if you have your best t-shirt on:) Thanks mate:)

Bryan and some of our squid.

After Perth a friend from India joined me for  couple of weeks and from reserh on here we decided to go and chase some salmon down south. Fishing was hard going but the scenery was fantastic, particularly the forest around walpole...something i had always wanted to see. When we di finally get into the salmon it was faat and furious to say the least. Some of my friend Abbey's bet fishing to date:)

We landed 16 big salmon in around an hour and lost countless others

Abbey and a decent salmon

After our trip down south I climbed onto my Bicycle in Perth and started cycling North to Darwin

Don't worry i did go the right way;)

Launched on Saturday from hillarys at around 6am.Trawled for macks fo 2 hours and managed zero except for one lost strike as the pull was on the inside rap,  on a tight turn around a bait ball.Wind moderated for about 20 minutes and so we headed out for some bottom bashing.wind changed direction several times to make it interesting getting a decent bearing on a drift.Scratched up some skippy and a black-bum and then managed this sambo.Gave a good account of itself on the lighter gear and managed to make us forget the weather for minute.

any reports outa the river?

Hey guys

me and my 3 mates battled the weather this morning going to rotto for some metro macks.

Left Hillarys marina at 6.20am and were south west of rotto by 7.  Put the gear in the water and within 10 mins and we were hooked up. Sammy85 pulled in a nice stripey tuna. It was absolutely bucketing down. we couldnt see rotto and we were 700m off shore.

The gear went back in the water and 20 mins later we were on again. I grabbed my new tyrnos reel which hadnt seen a fish yet. this fih was giving it some runs. within a couple of mins we had it up. and there it was, 2 saturday mornings in a row - metro mack.

we then decided to have a bottom bash. Sammy85 hooked a possible sambo and got busted, Matt was fighting the skippy. i hooked by best king george. was the biggest i have seen. few more skippy and a norwester.

Was a quick 30kn ride home thru the chop

Turned out to be ok weather. jut one major shower. was a good day on the water

JC85

 Well it’s a very sad day, my mate and i braved the rain and hit Woodies at 6:00 today. Steamed out in the dark and had lines in at 7 and i was set on sticking to lures and my mate bait. The fish were very quiet and i was struggling to get a fish on lures when My mate hooks the first solid fish of the day that turned out to be a nice Pink, Did a few more drifts for another nice Pink of the same size and a BB. We decided to move and second drift my mate hooked up solid and a confident call was made for a dhu, few minutes later a nice 15kg buck popped up and we decided to get the eeeff out of the relentless rain and head home. So for the first time in a long time the dark side won out today.

 

 Just got home from Augusta empty handed after a couple of days at what are normally salmon hot spots, was talking to a couple of pro's at the pub and they reckon they have only been getting them from the south coast, how true are the reports of salmon as far up as Perth? Hmm maybe not.