went out on the boat on sunday fishing at a "secret spot" and there were heaps of buff bream swimming around as usaul and as usaul were not going for our mulies, but then...

hookup!, it fought very hard as they are supposed to and after a good fight came up a 3-4 kilo buff bream

anyone else caught one, they fight pretty hard, like a sportfish that doesnt jump

A few of us (Sherbs, Big Steve, Topper, Uncle Stu, Uncut Trigger and myself), decided to head up to Flat Rocks for an overnighter on Saturday. The idea was to see if we could catch a few mulloway or tailor as the conditions were forecast to be pretty good. I also wanted to test out my new Toyota Hilux Surf 4WD after finally finding a suitable vehicle to fit my budget last week.

The wind was howling from the south east when we arrived and set up camp, but as forecast it dropped right off to make for pretty nice conditions (apart from a bit of weed).

Unfortunately, the fishing didn't match the conditions and the only success was a banjo shark for Big Steve.

Things were a bit gloomy and a few of the guys were thinking of hitting the sack at around 10.30 when I suddenly had a big hook up. We were all hoping it was a decent mulloway when it surged awayt from the beach - but it soon became apparant that it was a ray (and a big one).

After about 40 minutes of toing and froing, and some help from some of the boys in wrestling it out the shore break, the pretty sizeable black ray (estimated by Sherbs at about 40 to 45 kgs) was de-hooked and released back into the sea.

The only other action came at about 11.30 pm when I hooked a size, but pretty skinny tailor. I then lost another tailor and that was about it for the night.

We woke the next morning to great conditions (thankfully most of the weed had moved on).

Unfortunately there were no tailor around, but the lads had a bit of fun pulling in a load and herring and whiting.

I perservered with the bigger gear and lost a few fresh whiting baits (kindly supplied by Sherbs) before I made another big hookup.

Once again we were hopeful it may have been a mulloway, but those hopes were soon dashed when there a big splash and an Eagle Ray took flight with my line attached. This thing made a few jumps (which was pretty spectacular to watch) before heading back down to the bottom and taking me on in a tug-of-war.

Eventually I brought it in to shore only to lose it when it cut me off on the shark rocky ledge I was fishing across.

I hate hooking rays, but I have to say the big one was a great test for my trusty old Moonraker and my Saltist 4500.

In the end we ended up with a heap of herring and whiting before making the trek back home, though I did have a hiccup when I went to take off and found that my battery had flattened. Thankfully a bit of bush mechanic work had my vehicle back on the track.

Sorry about the lack of photos, the only fishing shots we had were off the big ray taken on a mobile and they didn't come out too good.

hi i reecently bought a new rod and reel combo its a shimano aquatip 3-5 kg with a 3000 aerosxt i thinking of buying some new braided line for it i was wondering what pound braid should i put on

Went to go for a fish yesterday morning.    All set up and excited for tha possibility of getting onto something a bit bigger than a herring.  On my way down to my local spot, some donkey with a tinnie on a trailor was doing his best sunday driver effort.   I finally decided to pass him and as I got about half way across his tinnie he starts turning right.   Totally oblivious to tha fact that I am now passing him he starts to put is foot down.   I had to floor it over tha curb across some dudes lawn and avoid a brick wall to get back on tha road.    I blew out one of my front tires and had to pull tha 4x4 over.   Once my mate and I settled down to tha fact that we were just about in a huge crash I got out and started goin through tha process of changin my tire.   I soon realized that my tire iron was missing and only tha jack was in tha truck.   Needless to say after a couple of minutes we realized that this was gonna require a bigger effort than a standard tire change.  It wasnt even 730am so my mates missus came and picked us up while we waited for repco to open.  Luckily he had cold beer in tha fridge!!  I bought a roo jack and we changed tha tire what a drama.    Meanwhile donkey with tha tinnie was probly sittn back catchn fish and enjoyn his day.   He never even stopped!!

Now that I have a roo jack what are peoples suggestions of storing it.    I have seen them on tha back door with tha spare and also on tha roof racks.    I heard that it can cause tha hinges to buckle if its on tha back door.  

Hopefully I can get out again soon.   Always make sure if your towing a boat that your trailor lights are working and save other peoples lives!!!

hi all fishwrecked members

 i love landbased fishing is there any competions coming up that i will be able to enter also is there going to be one of those fishwreched under 13 landbased comps this year? cheers

hi when do u think the salmon will start showing in the  metro marinas ??

and how big will they be wen thye get here???

Finally got out to the first bank off Jurien yesterday...we got our quota of baldies and a few of them hit the octa. I did notice that all fish caught this way, including an u/s dhuie and one of those spiky venomous things, were hooked on the outside of the mouth. It appears the fish were hitting the actual head of the jig, and the hooks were swinging around and jagging it from the outside.

 Anyone else notice this when using this type of lure?

Looking for advice on fishing Bremer Bay heading down on Sunday with a 7M boat.

Any advice on depths of water, direction, bait to use, ground,rigs etc

Any info would be great.

Thanks

I have never fished at night before except in the sounds.  Friday night looks pretty promising but was wondering if sharks will be a problem fishing the 5FB behind GI. What can we expect to catch?  Is bait the best option or can you jig or use soft plastics?  Will anything I catch count against our bag limit on Saturday?   Any insight would be appreciated?

Hello Fishwrecked members,

i have a question to ask the people on here. i quite recently bought a Daiwa sealine SL30SH and there is a problem with the line capacity. the reel holds 445m of 0.35 and 265m of 0.45 which means at 0.40mm it can hold 360m the thing is my rod is a 10ft loomis and franklin 2pce 3-4oz medium action O/H rod and the line rating is 8-10kg the line i bought for my Sealine is Sufix Snyergy 11kg but it is 0.40mm thick. which is a kg heavier for the rod recommendation there is a 8.9kg with a 0.35mm diameter which is balanced for the rod. is it better to go 2.9kg heavier and get only 360m or should i go 8.9kg at 0.35mm and get 445m?

basically what i am asking is should i go 11kg @ 0.40mm=360m or 8.9kg @ 0.35mm=445m ??

all help is appreciated.

so im now getting into deep sea fishing and going out with charters, only problem is i dont really like their rods and reels so im now looking to buy one for myself and to take it with me.

i need a few suggestions on what rod and reel i should look at getting, i dont want to spend too much, maybe around 400ish.

i was looking at the shimano backbone elite (i think it was rated up to 24kg?) and the shimano tld 25 priced at $299 for the combo, only problem is ive never used an overhead, so it might take a while before i get the hang of it. does anyone have this combo? and is it any good for deep sea fishing like taking it out on charters etc.

i was also thinking of getting a spinning combo but dont know where to start, i was thinking of an okuma salina 10,000 or 16,000 which I could get for under 200 from overseas and mathcing it up to an ugly stick?

I will be using 40-60 pound braid and a good mono leader and the reel must hols at least 250-300 metres, any suggestions to what rod and reel i should look at will be great!

this is a couple of pics of my new JMC commercial sounder.

the transducer is a 1kw and the wet box i made myself out of a couple of white plastic cutting boards,

proberly install in the next few days and then go out and try it out.

i will post some more pics when its finished and up and working.

cheers

p.s thanks for the transducer gaz!!!! other wise i would still be waiting.

I was quietly confident that Friday would throw up some reasonable conditions given what Seabreeze and the BOM had predicted however when I was confirming with my Mate that she would be a goer I neglected to mention the swell to him. He is good with about half a metre but freaks out with any more, so I reckon the forecast of a two metre swell was good. Ha Ha!

We were on the road and passed through pockets of fog on the way so I thought yep no breeze at this stage. Well that didn’t last for too long cos there was fifteen knots blowin by the time we got to the ramp.

“Maaate everyones pullin their boats out and we are the only ones puttin one in, I reckon you gotta drag ya ass outa bed a bit earlier in the morning.” “Well I guess no ones gunna try and follow us to Toothfish Reef.”  We are underway and making about 25 knots and she’s a bit lumpy. We hadn’t gone more than a couple of miles before we had a pit stop. “Mate I reckon that swells about 2 metres what do you think?” “Crikey Mate, ya expectin a Tsunami or something, why ya putting ya lifejacket on?” LOL. We are underway again and settle in at about 22-24 knots so as to not get too much air time, although that is a bit of a struggle as we get out wide.

Thought we might do a bit of exploring today to see if we could find the extremities of productive ground on Toothfish Reef cos we know that the sheer drop offs of the huge bomboras always do well. I sometimes wonder if those bombies are a hazard to commercial shipping being so close to the surface or whether a ship would just knock them over and just keep going. They might rip open the sides of a ship and sink it but I certainly don’t want that to happen as that will certainly give the location away.

I’ve got some interesting structure showing on the sounder so we give that a bit of a go and it’s not long before me Mate is latched on to something interesting. It puts up a bit of a struggle before he has landed a small Sambo. A quick pic and back it goes. I managed to pull in a medium size Blackarse and sent him back too. Next me Mate hauls in two Dhuveniles on the next drift and we figured we have located the nursery for Toothfish Reef so we move on.

We move to the East of the reef and start a drift on some good looking ground when all of a sudden my line takes off. There is no having to set the hooks on this one and I pick it for something other than a Dhuie. It gives the impression of a Snapper and I am hoping for a big Red or a Pink but turns out to be Blue, a Queen Snapper. Next my Mate is on and he calls it for a whopper (as he usually does) and lands another Queeny, definitely smaller than mine. Snigger snigger.

We move back for another drift on the same spot and I’m just getting nibbles so I try a few strikes but nothing, although something has a go as the sinker drops back down so I strike again, and again something has a go. This happens four times before I haul in a nice KG, nothing huge but I’m rapt as I’ve wanted one for ages.

Right, we will have our bag limit of Prize Fish when we catch two Duies so off we steam to right bang centre of Toothfish Reef. I think to meself don’t let this bastard get the jump on ya so I make sure that my hooks are baited before we get to the spot. The action here is gunna be hot. I take note of the drift direction and go directly up wind and just over the X spot. The sea anchor goes over and we count one, two, three. Both baits are in the water at the same time and dropping rapidly then me Mate yells those horrible words to me. “I’m on”. I reckon he’s dropped his sinker straight onto the head of this fish who has been sleeping and has taken a gulp of water in surprise and sucked in his bait. He’s calling it for a whopper again but I can see that it is only a moderate size fish by the bend in his rod but that doesn’t stop him playing it up. I ask “So what are you calling it as” He goes “A bloody big Dhuie, I can tell by the head shakes”. I said “Bull$@#t Dhuies don’t shake their heads”. And he goes “the big ones do but you wouldn’t know about that.”  To add insult to injury I’ve got to leave my line unattended to net and land his Dhuie. It turned out to only be 4.5 kg.

So back over the X spot and the scores are nil-one. The rules are clarified; anything that is a bit iffy size wise has to be brought up slow. The sea breeze has started to kick in and the tension and excitement are at fever pitch. He screams “I’m on”. My heart sinks as I’m surely done for now. My ExMate is giving it to me big time. “I’m the Dhuie King”. What a relief it was to see an “Iffy” but me Mate wasn’t letting up. “I’ll release him just so you can have a chance to catch a Dhuie”. Sure. He wasn’t game to put him next to the measuring stick cos he knew he was under. Phew! I’m still in with a chance.

Back over X again and me Mate is all mouth cos he is one up in the Dhuie stakes. I paid careful attention to the way I presented my bait on the hook and I imagined how a squid would swim as I pierced the chemically sharpened hooks through it so as to present it naturally. I can feel the telltale signs of a Dhuie sucking on my bait and I was itching to set the hook but I held back long enough to give me Mate a running commentary on what was happening. I could feel the slurping and sucking of that Dhuie through the braid and I had plenty of line out with a long scope so I could hold bottom because we had a drift of 1.4 kts and I already had 16 Ozs of lead on and wasn’t prepared to go up to 20 Ozs. The thought running through my mind as I was looking at our lines in the water was that because I had played out so much line and that my line was further from the boat than my Mates was that when we drifted over a fish that he would get to it first. But anyway I was feeding out line just enough to keep the bait stationary, yet not too much that I couldn’t feel the slurping action. The swell was well and truly every bit of the forecast two metres and the rise and fall of the sea just meant that I had to be perfectly in tune with what was happening down below on the end of my line. Those times after every fishing trip when I had wiped down and cleaned my reel and maintained it so that the drag always remained as smooth as the day I bought it flashed through my mind. I had a heightened sensory alertness. I had my rod held high as we rose to the top of the swell and as we dropped down the swell and downwind I lowered the tip of the rod and then the Dhuie made its move, it started swimming off. I pushed the lever drag to the strike position and also thumbed the reel and then I struck. My rod doubled over, this fish was not budging an inch, in fact it immediately started taking line and in a voice that could of been mistaken on the coast as thunder I roared those immortal words that sound so sweet when coming from my lips “Iiiiiiimm Oooonnn” Now, instead of being an upside down smiley face I have sucked in the glorious West Australian fresh sea air because I have to savour the moment.

I am now very concerned for me Mates welfare because I think he’s got a sudden case of tonsillitis and is unable to speak. I however remain very humble. “Maaate.” But before I could say anything more a heap more line is being peeled off my reel and I realise that I truly have a nice fish. I savour the time it takes to battle this leviathan of the deep. Even though I know I have a nice fish hooked and I trust the gear I am connected with I take my time for two reasons- 1. To be able to return him to the depths if I choose and 2. Let my mate savour my moment. Ha Ha. Turns out to be a 10.5 kg Dhuie.

Me Mate reckons it was a bit rough on the way back home but honestly I didn’t feel a thing, I was floating on air. Ha Ha!

On a serious note I would like to report a case of attempted fraud.

Maaate, when you pick my fish up and ask to have photos taken I think the whole world needs to know the truth. Good try anyway.

Another great days fishing on Toothfish Reef.

I dont have many crew because the crew i have got are the best you can get,i share ALL my marks with him and we get along great together

what im asking is if a new crew member comes out with you and tells you he has a GPS with him what what do you all do with that ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

you go to your spots and you dont tell then not to put them in there gps [becase they are yours},but if you find a new spot is your crew intittled to the news??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM I HAVE but i want to here what other skippers do and think

jeff

ps: i have a hand held and i take it ever where i go but i ASK before i even turn it on

hi i was wondering what lure should i get for salmon wen they reach the metros in perth  thanks

Had to resize pics....rough out there but caught;  6-7 undersize pinkies (49-49.5 cm)  hard to release knowing how good they taste,  51 cm pinkie, 47 cm Moses Perch, black ass and a 37 cm monster skippy, and 0 wrasse!

That Moses Perch was fat as and good on the tooth!

cheers, Ben

Been thinking of going to trigg beach or similar just to do a bit of beach fishing for tailor or even some whiting with my son.. 

Are they ok to start with or are there better places.. ??

Iceland

hey guys just a couple of questions on braid thinking of changing a few landbased setups over.First can you tie braid strait to a wire trace or do you need some mono leader in there for strech and second is braid stronger than mono so if i use 10kg mono normaly could i use say 7.5kg braid and what is a good casting braid.cheers

hi i nneed help on lure choosing please can u help me i want somwel lures that will work in fresh and salt not to much money i was thinking like a river to sea popper or a bucshy stiffy popper for the marinas and stuff like that and one lure for salmon lure for the marinas wen they come  i was thinking a 20g gold halco twisty aswell any advice wen using lures i havent cauight anything on them before thanks.....

With the recent dreadging and consequent stirring up of heavy metals and other nastys, is anyone concerned about eating the king prawns from the swan river?

just thought ild share this link

http://www.fishingec.com/?p=5581

what a awsome fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im in need of some probably commonsensical advise. ive yet to catch my first salmon off the beach ever. yesterday i hooked 6 salmon in 2 hrs, spotted the school (hamerlin/contos) cast the 55grm twisty and hooked up . played the fish all the way to the shore only to have one last jump and shake my lure free. 6 in a row. you could say i was a little disappointed. i fought the fish well but it was like the exact same way the fight ended each time. ive got today left and am hungry to strike this one off my checklist. ive got a new 8000 shimano saragosa. with that diawa 30lb pro braid 120$ a roll. a 10ft surf rod. please help??80lb leader 1mtr long penn 10x. all twistys are new with sharp trbles 

im just wondering if any one has had any luck on bonito around the metro or am i too late or early in the season what about of the rocks in dunsbough

Enjoy

I'm heading down to Duns for a couple of weeks and would love to take a kayak with me or get one while I'm down there. Does anyone know of any places here or down Busselton way that hire them out?

Or anyone live down Busso way that would be happy to do a loaner for a week in exchange for a carton or something similar?

ok so i've booked a little holiday down in pemberton for the long weekend at the end of the month, just curious about the good spots, i've heard big brook dam is one of the better places, but i'll be staying close to lefroy brook, is it worth throwing some lures around in there? on the map it looks like it flows off of the warren, so i'm thinking some trout would swim up it

any other spots would be appreciated, cheers.

wondering if there's any places in perth or WA where you can catch some murray cod, or even some other fish like golden/silver perch

Hi Guys,

Im looking at going for a Fish at Trigg Point, Watermans or Yanchep Lagoon on sunday,

Does Anyone have any reports for these areas in the recents days?

Thanks

Can anybody give me some recommendations on a good rod to fish Wagoe.