I took yesterday off to do a few chores at home before my wife and I head off to Egypt.
However, there was a small weather window early in the morning so I decided to go for a quick fish down at Hillarys.
Fortunately,the weather window stayed open and I ended up staying out fishing for 10 hours.
The following is an account of why that happened and why my wife put me in the dog box.
As I said earlier, my plan was to head down to Hillarys for a few hours and then to get back to my chores. So I woke up at about 5 am and after dragging on all my wet weather gear, I headed down to the lighthouse on the north wall to fish just before and after dawn.
The currents were unusually strong and a solid easterly was blowing, so it wasn't ideal conditions, but I did manage to catch two skippy, one fairly small, one very decent.
With the wind starting to really pick up I decided to move to the area between the Restaurant and the Yacht pens to see if anything was happening. An unweighted mulie and a variety of soft plastics only attracted the attention of the blowies. The wind was continuing to blow pretty strong from an easterly direction - and as I had had been there for a few hours, I thought I should head home and do my chores.
Fat chance. With that wind blowing, the conditions were pretty good for fishing off the main wall.
One of the great things about an early morning fish at Hillarys is that there are plenty of places to go for a quick bite to eat. So I dropped into the local Gloria Jeans for a couple of fruit muffins and a cup of coffee to warm me up. I don't think the staff there knew what to make of me as I was covered from head to toe in water proof gear (they had predicted heavy showers all day)and was more than likely giving off an odour of slightly thawing mulies.
Anyway, after that top up, I headed out to one of my favourite spots opposite Boy in a Boat reef.
The weather gods were still smiling, but after about a couple of hours of throwing different baits out I was starting to think I had better go home and do my chores - or maybe I should try some soft plastics.
I was going through my box of sps deciding what would work best when zzzzzzzzzzzz, the line on my 10 foot rod starting peeling off. I jumped up and set the hook and the creature on the other end kept heading west. However, my Stradic did its job and after a pretty solid fight I had a sizeable stingray up to the rock wall. I am not a great fan of stingray flaps, so I cut the line as close to the hook as I could and let it swim off. Well that livened up the day.
I was starting to re-rig that line when my other rod, which was rigged up for throwing unweighted half mulies went off.
I set the hook. Same story. The creature (which I could see quite clearly was a much bigger ray) headed west. I knew I was in trouble as I only had 20 lb leader on and this ray was heading straight for the reef. Ping, goodbye ray.
By this time, there was no way I was heading home to do chores.
I re-rigged my gear, and thought that should be the last of the rays. Unfortunately not. I had managed to grab a rock crab and borrowing (stealing) from Spess' great idea of rigging them up on soft plastic jig heads, I threw one out on my lighter rig and sat back and hoped a pink snapper might come along. Unfortunately not. About an hour later,zzzzzzzzzzzz, my line headed west and there it was - another huge ray heading straight for the reef - Stingrays 2 - Colin 1.
Soon after that I noticed a small school of Buff Bream move into my burley trail. These looked quite sizeable - but after tangling with the rays I thought maybe I should try something a bit smaller. I rigged up with a sp jig head, put on small peeled prawn and tossed it out. A few reasonable bites, but no hook ups.
So I grabbed the smallest jig head I had and tried that out.
Threw out the prawn, watched the big Buff race out from the rocks - bang I was on. I had the drag on my new Sustain fairly tight and managed to hold the fish up for a bit, but with rocks everywhere around him he soon cut me off.
That was fun - so I rigged up again. A couple of casts, then bang, I am on again - but even with my drag tightend down some more it was under the rocks in a pretty short time. Buff Bream 2, Colin 0.
I wasn't catching any edible fish - but this sure beat doing chores.
Sadly that was about it for the fishing action. I managed one more reasonable skippy - which I returned and then decided to head home - to find my wife steaming and asking why I hadn't done my chores. And I thought the stingrays were looking angry.
How can you explain a fun fishing day to a non-fisherperson. I gave up and swore I would do them today. I better hurry then and stop typing or I will really be in the dog house.
All the best, Colin Hay

What are the best ones to use off like jetties?

And what are the best times to go fishing for squiddies?

Where is the best place to go along the scarborough beach strip?

Are there any no fishing zones (due to people swimming etc)?

G'day guys

Just flicking around on the net and came across this beauty. Would save a lot of messing around with rigging needles and waxed thread. Super quick as well to get the livey back in the water.

 http://www.quickrig.com/Images/baitclip.wmv

Cheers Mick

goin for a paddle on the yak this avo at hillarys if keen give us a call on 0433454156
cheers brenz

Hi everyone

 im goin fishing tonight at the cot groin. Has anyone been there lately and had any success. Will be there round 6pm for a couple of hours. Hoping to get some herring and maybe a tailor or two if we're lucky. We've never been there before so any tips anyone could give us would be greatly appreciated.

cheers

Something to look forward to Pilbara boys

During a visit to the Pilbara region this week, Fisheries Minister Jon Ford said local fisheries volunteers were doing outstanding work in spreading the ‘fish for the future’ message with the help of a new community education trailer.
Mr Ford said the recent inland tour to Pannawonica, Paraburdoo and Tom Price, where fisheries volunteers visited schools and shopping centres, was a good example of how the trailer could be used on an ongoing basis.
“The volunteers and fisheries staff who took part in the tour, said the trailer attracted a lot of interest from people keen to learn more about fishing in a sustainable way,” he said.
“Thanks to Rio Tinto, who sponsored the purchase of the trailer, as well as the Pilbara Regional Recreational Fishing Advisory Committee which helped with the purchase of electronic equipment, this has proved to be a highly successful community initiative.
“The trailer has display technology to show people important messages about fishing in a responsible way, and understanding the importance of the marine environment both now and for the future.”
Next on the program for the Pilbara fisheries volunteers is to take the new trailer to the popular festivals that are coming up across the region in July and August.
The custom-built off-road trailer will be displayed at the Spinifex festival in Port Hedland on July 26, the FeNaCl festival in Karratha on August 2 and 3, and at the Nameless Festival in Tom Price on August 8.
The Minister said the festivals would give the volunteers an excellent opportunity to continue their valuable work of informing people about sustainable fishing practices.
“In order to continue to enjoy the lifestyle, people have come to expect while they are out fishing in Pilbara waters, we also have to let people know that we should fish for the future so generations to come can also enjoy the experience,” he said.
“The various fishing clinics and presentations conducted by the fisheries volunteers help to get that message across.”
The Minister said the Government was investing in quality research to help monitor fish stocks across WA and guide decision-making that would balance the social value of recreational fishing with the need to ensure the State’s fish stocks were managed sustainably.

Gooday all, a week or so ago someone north of the river was chasing work for their 19 old son - but i can't find the post. I have some work if there is still interest.

im heading down to hillaries today for a bit of a flick around using lures. youre welcome to come and fish if you like.

Hi, new boy here and new to diving for prawns so I am hoping one or two of the more experienced boys might fancy pointing me in the right direction on Friday night.

PM me if your interested

Sam 

is any 1 fishing tomorow ????
brenz

Hi guys I'm heading up to Jurien Bay early September for a week taking our 6metre boat but have never fished the area. Does anyone know the area and if so could you give me some info,on where to fish, depths to try etc. I've been told there is a good duel lane boatramp and channel markers, any info would be appreciated thanks.

kev

The boys in "Fishing Australia" were pulling in plenty of decent snapper on "Slammers" that were bright coloured softies that were said to be made from reconstituted fish if I was hearing right!!
Have any of you fellas used them or know anything about them? They look very promising.

I will be visiting Monkey Mia for a few days in late November & would like to do some beach fishing & possibly a day boat fishing.

What species are likely to be caught at this time of year.

Any help in places / marks to fish , or boats to make contact with will be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks

i was just wondering if any one watches adventure bound on access 31, its a great show and i rate it up there with fishing wa when ryan and steve were on it. well any ways it great presenters in it and they all know what there talking about its based all over australia but mainly over east which is bad but its still a realy good show and they use all daiwa gear which is awsume.

these are some short sections of episodes which is worth a look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydj5xnavRV8 mulloway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYe4AuGBD8 ytk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4VvGEQEEGU kalbarri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_2zfjsnNNs realy big calamari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4PjJj1VTLc&feature=related meter plus barra

ps on 7.30 saturday access 31
hope you enjoy
cheers Ethan

I'm from Melbourne and have never fished the Northwest, I'm thinking of doing a trip in 2009 around May or June I will have to charter, need some ideas on the best places this time of year. Any tips will help. Ray

hey guys..check this video out...a barra caught on a pair of hands..didnt know how he did it. http://youtube.com/watch?v=74ZJry7C-pE&feature=related .

http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/FactSheets/Fisheries%20Fact%20Sheet%209%20-%20BlowFish.pdf quite interesting but dont feel they need to research them to find out that they are in plague prepotions
brenz

Boat sales are slow enough already in the south west that a couple of dealers have added caravans to the inventory - nice work Jon.

Gday guys,

I was driving to work last week and saw something really strange. I was on Nicholson Road, just heading towards Albany Highway, theres a bridge that goes over the top of the Canning River which wines all the way up to who knows where. There were 2 boats sitting in the river just there and pulling out something that looks like potato sacks which had red content seeping through it.

Looks like they were fishing for river sharks but who knows. Just plain wierd I think, but I did see some kid bringing in a small Bream around the Kent Street Wier area too on the same day which had me thinking.

Cheers,

Darda.H

According to sea breeze wensdy looking good, if so I'm gunna have a crack out of Rockingham out wide.

Any locals want to give it a go? my boat or yours?

I've got some shit hot ground to explore out in the 30's n 40's where I've done well the last coupla times.

PM me for phone no.

Al. 

Howdy all

Spent some time today making up some twisted leaders for GT fishing. A after some advice from some of the GT guru's on twisted leader connection method to swivel / split ring at popper end. I used a crimp as shown in attached picture. I know you can whip the end too but does anyone else have any advice /method of attaching the swivel.
Also is this one of the more common ways

Cheers

Brad

we are making a 2 lb challenge and putting alot of trust in the honesty of anglers. ea month a fish will be posted up as a targeted species for you to catch using a maximum 2lb line braid / mono of your choice . we will get every 1 to post up there piks on this thread and at the end of each month we will be suplying a $50 gift voucher to the winner.
this months targeted species will be bream so we look forward to seeing some pix up soon guys .
cheers tackle shack crew

I saw these during a Fishing Trip marathon on Saturday. Does anyone having info on them? Apparantly they have 11 ball bearings and all the other good gear. I think they are about to hit the stores.
All the best, Colin Hay

STRICKTLY SUNDAY MONDAY ONLY (6TH AND 7TH ) 50% OF ALL LURES STORE WIDE (EXCLUDES X RAPS) !!! BE QUICK AS ALL MUST GO
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x rap 20 $18
x rap 15 $17
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can anyone help me with some gps locations for new bouty as just change boat to 18.4 ft quinns rocks,two rocks.mindarie would be greatly welcomed

I'm thinking about buying or getting a new trailer built for my boat, I
reckon the one under it is past restoration and think it would probably
end up costing as much as a replacement.



Should I go for a Tandem trailer?



What sort of money would I be looking at for a tandem with electric winch?



Anyone know who the best people are to deal with? preferaby SOR but if cost and quality is worth it I dont mind travelling.



It will be used for a 20ft Star boat and I'm wondering if it will need
to have trailer brakes, I tow it with a Nissan Pathfinder.



All info/advise will be much appreciated.



Cheers, Allan

gidday all looks like there might be some light winds 2morrow anybody headin out ,gonna go give it a whirl
cheers craig

hey guys just lookin for some rabbit traps of any sort

if any one has any and is willing to sell them can you please let me no

thanks

danobigfish 

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