Hey guys, 

been a while since i have wet a line and feel ashamed of myself but i have focused alot of my time and effort on my photography and building my name and my work.

Lisa & I are taking a much needed break to Coral bay very soon. Im driving up and staying at the peoples park ocean biew studio apartment. 

I plan to do some shore based fishing and need to see if anyone can answer my question. 

The one place that took my fancy to have a fish was from the rock wall at the new boat ramp. 

Do any of you know if your allowed to fish from here? I searched the forum and google. Some say you can, some say only after charter boats come in the arvo

all help muchly appreciated 

marc

Hi Deep fishers

This is a pic at 370 Metres. I thought it looked like fish, but nothing caught in this area.

Anybody happy to give their interpretation?

Eric

 Going to the beach today to target tailor but I m wondering if my 40g metal is a bit too large? Or should just stick to the old muelie?

 If your pot ID is pc0861, there is a Facebook post that someone has untangled your lines and the floats are now on the surface.  you should go back and check them!

sounds like a good bloke for doing that!

 Has anyone fished Turtle Dove shoal recently if so what did you catch ? Looks like a great spot but probably gets hammered by boats from Dongara. 

First local freedive yesterday with the new boat.  

The Dhu went 56cm and was my deepest fish shot yet in 23.1metres. Proud of the dive, fish could have been bigger but at that depth I didnt have any reserves left in the tank. Shot him, and git muzzle wrap on my gun, luckily I got a kill shot, and skull dragged him to the surface for some sweet oxygen.  

The Spanish was my first ever caught trolling (thanks to you guys for lure recomendationsm in my top 3 lures thread) - had seen mackies all morning (schools of sharkies and a few Spanish) that were staying out of range. Decide to move spots and try trolling and this mack hit the lure (halco 190) in under 1 minute of being in the water. A 3-4 minute fight followed and my first line caught Spanish came to the surface. I was stoked, this trolling business is too fun and easy! :D

Dive buddy shot the baldie near the bottom in around 20'ish metres also, a stonker!

Day ended on a bad note, dropped my favourite gun in around 30m of murkey water while burleying for some horse size snapper, never to be seen again :(

Hello, just wondering if I can get some tips on stopping large fishies in less that 20m of water?

Yesterday we fed a live sargeant baker down on 30lb braid and saw a whitish shape take it about 10m down. The initial take was a screaming run until the braid was cut by what I assume was the reef. Leader, swivel and everything gone.

Later in the day a 40lb bottom outfit was smoked on the initial run, again with the braid cut cleanly. 3m 60lb leader, swivel eveything gone. No sign that the knot failed with the braid coming back like it was cut with scissors.

These cut-offs didn't even feel like the rods had even loaded up fully.

Any suggestions?

Do I let them run and wait to retrieve line or try and lock up on them and keep them away from the bottom?

Also had large sambos happy to visibly eat cubes in the berley trail and not touch the cubes with hooks in them. Are sambos fussy when the water is really clear?

Cheers,

Mike.

Had a brilliant couple of weeks down South over the break. Got out a couple of times from the new marina in Augusta, the highlight of which was this Dhu which went like a steam train in 9m of water. Called it for a sambo or YTK because it took off on three big runs & kept fighting right up to the surface! Very un-Dhu like.

After New Years at a friends in Margs gorging on fresh crays, Dhu & the biggest marron I've ever seen we hit Hamelin Bay for some free diving & cray wrangling. Ended up with an full esky including a jumbo pulled from 2m of water only 20m from shore!

p.s. Excuse the "flexing" with the jumbo. Photo was a split second after the bugger kicked me in the stomach!

Been Fishing for a few years now in a mates boat and have just bought myself a small fiberglass boat for myself, In that time we haven't had a huge amount of success going for Snapper or Dhufish. We keep hearing stories of people bagging out and besides the odd just size snapper and dhu, we haven't had a huge amount of luck. I realize its asking a lot, but would anyone care to share some gps coordinates to steer us in the right direction (literally. or possibly some tips other that to give up. We are very good Wrasse fishermen.

 Went out today and last two outings my 4208 garmin has been turning itsel on and off sometimes I have to turn it back on manually and sometimes it will turn itself back on then every now it will come up with radar needs repair error code 0 only seems to happen when it is rough if your drifting around for a few hours has no problem anyway if someone can put any light on this would be much appreciated

After a weekend of big sharks, big prizes, big tailor (nearly really big), big sambos and a big jumbo (see: http://www.fishwrecked.com/forum/weekend-captures-including-great-white-sort-capture), the conditions last night and this morning allowed us to get out there again.  Pleased to report a few more tasty big things.

Filled up on cray bait last night with the highlight being a 32cm tube squid.  Unfortunately no size pinkies but getting close now with a couple close to 40cm.

Went out to pull and bait the pots this morning and got these from 2, with a few berried female throw backs.  Double jumbo, with a weight well over 2kg each.  Not many more now and the pots will come in so we can chase the mackies, instead of pulling pots.

With conditions so flat this morning, we spent it sounding for new ground.  A few really good nearshore marks were found, for future early morning and evening sessions, with a near half metre King George coming off one. 

Perth nearshore metro delivers again.  How good is it where you can have a little boat but still catch big desirable things

 Who went out today wished for 8 hours lots on the sounder not much biting hard ended up with 1 x 8 kg dhuie 65cm baldie and two good size black asks put back 5 undersized dhuie

 Hi guys

just wondering if anyone has any contacts good quality ocscy for sale?

cheers Gunner

 Does anyone use an anglers almanac app that they can recommend or am i just better off getting the book type ?

Cheers Paul

New this season.

had my pots out b4 new year and caught a few whites while the run was on ...then was away for a while. I'd like to put them back out again.

Really only know a tiny bit about catching whites but hoping for some info on

What sort of depth am I looking for this time of year, do I put them on reef or just on the sand next to reef? any other info would be much appreciated

I launch out of Woodies

Just letting all know that we had our pots tampered with over the weekend out of Mindarie.

1 lost and 1 retrieved.

They were there saturday, gone sunday , no problems with rope, weights, clearly identifiable.

First time they have been stuffed around with for the season.

This post is just a reminder to all that the low life's are out and about.

Cheers

 I snapped a shaft in my Lewmar Winch last week.

After a testing time trying to repair it, I gave up last night, and rang around Perth for a replacement.

The usual haunts didnt have any in stock, but an online search showed Keoghs Marine in QLD had them in stock, at an amazing price.

I called them at 830am, and by 9.20am, it was on its way to Perth, overnight express for $24.

Service was fast, friendly and economical. 

These guys go to the top of my list for online service.

 I was just looking around and saw the squidgy pro flick baits. They look lots like whitebait/mulies in some of the colours. I was just wondering are they productive for bream in the river? And if I do use them what length and what size jighead should I use?

lachie

 Decent weather yesterdy but wasnt willing to head all the way to busso as it was blowing westerly and we all know how inaccurate the weather man likes to to be. So i put in much closer at bunbury and hit a few marks that i havnt fished for a while. Ended up being quite a productive day with this catch in total and another 3 size dhus released.

I'm going down to my local spot to target some bullshark for the first time.

It's quite far upstream but I know they're likely to be there as people have caught them close by before and there seems to be lots of mullet and boney herring around.

I don't wanna be targeting monsters, I know it's probably going to be a challenge with 10lb mono (got some trace at least) but would boney herring be the best choice of bait? And if you got any tips, please share them, thanks.

 So after deciding to wag work headed out this morning into the mid 20's before going wider. Managed to drop the Pinky of a lifetime about 3m below the surface, this thing was not going to give up with ball tearing runs all the way up. So he gets to play another day,anyway after the dummy spit punched out to mid 40's for a little more action. Oldest pulls up a nice Bronzie about a metre long followed quickly with the good Baldy. About an hour passes with me twiddling my thumbs when my little Demon blood outfit comes to life and line starts peeling off, set the hooks and knew I had something decent. A good arm stretch and up comes uncle Buck

Another drift and all's quite when my mate comes over the radio to tell us to try his drift, so back into the 30's and as soon as the lines are in both the boys are on with their new light gear, ahhh I love watching this stuff anyway up pops two good Dhuies, biggest kept and the other released.

Next up I'm on with a double header Dhuie and size Pinky. For the next half an hour the boys have some fun catching and releasing about half a dozen good size Dhuies, that's something we've encountered before. Always get plenty of undersize but these were all in the 5kg range.

Looks like the wind's up for the next week or so so am bloody glad we took the opportunity.

Mine would have to be " not being able to shuck abalone within 200m of the high water mark" WTF? This is surely a metro rule to enable fisheries officers to accurately measure ab fishos catches?

But down here in Esperance we have long ab seasons and we have always shucked where we caught them and recyled the shells to the sea...certainly aren't going to shuck them up in the bush (if camping out) or at home and put the shells in the bin!!

If we can have different seasons, bag limits etc on the south coast why keep this stupid rule?

 After sea-kem teased me by getting a monday off the fishing gods have smilled on me and good mate joe reef, are launching at east freo tomorro bout 4 am at the latest we'll be fishing rotto at sunrise for dermersals and kings, then trolling for kings if they dont coroperate, then trolling for tuna on the way home give us a yell ifyou see us red and white swiftcraft (Sir-Rah) and 2 piss heads full of vb on the back deck smashing the fish!!!! 

Can you get a licence back?

Just read the article about a 74yo getting caught (and fined) for lifting others pots, and having greater than the daily limit crays onboard.

Now can this "sod" get another cray licence or do they confiscate this.

Just wondering as I recon once you get caught you should be banned from doing that again for a while.

 Gday,

Heading to Steepy (off the rocks) in a month or so, has anyone been up lately & have the sharks been an issue ? 

Cheers

 Hi everyone. This morning I got up early and rode to my mates house for 5:45 this morning because we both wanted to get into the flathead madness in the river.

I figured that because so many people were catching flathead in the river on lures, that I had to be able to do it aswell. So I used a 1/20 ounce jighead with a 2.5 inch motor oil zman grubz and my friend has a bunch of old plastics that were random colours and we both headed out to the canning bridge. As soon as I started casting I was getting a few nibbles. At about 6:25 I got my first hookup and brought it in nicely. I was really really excited because it was my first flathead on plastics and even though it didn't fight hard, it was fun.

it was only a baby at 28cm but I was still very happy with it

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About 3 casts later I hooked up on a much nicer fish that fought like a good sized bream, taking out line really quickly. I managed to get it in fairly quickly and it looked about 35ish cm but when I lifted it out of the water it jumped off.

then we moved on to another spot that was alive! We used our polarised sunnies and saw schools of bream with some big ones cruising around and some big whiting aswell. But what I really got excited about was some huge fish, a school of about 12 1m fish. I think it was probably giant herring. They were smashing schools of big whitebait. But I didn't manage to hookup on the bream or the giant herring because the blowies were tearing up the plastics. My friend then got a hookup on a legal flatty at 33cm, kept him for a while but because that was the last fish that we got, we let him go to fight another day.

All in all it was an awesome morning, and I can finally get my family a feed soon. Hopefully I can get out there again this week!

Some of you may have already seen this article from the New York Times. Amongst a host of other destinations we are proud to see Zimbabwe come in at 14th with Bomani Tented Lodge getting a special mention. I hope you enjoy the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/11/travel/52-places-to-go-in-2015.html?_r=0

Hey there,

A mate's dad is maybe taking us out in the next week or two in his boat with the intention of targetting KG's, Skippy etc. I have a basic overhead combo, and was wondering if jigging is any good there as I am a complete stranger to that kind of fishing. If so, how would these be rigged ?

Has anyone fishing there that can tell me what else may lurk around ?

Cheers.  

With reasonable weather conditions forecast for the weekend, hopes were high that we could get a few captures.

Started out with a pot pull on Saturday morning in moderate easterly winds, that continued to deteriorate.  In fact, it was pretty unpleasant.  Managed to get a few including another jumbo – we seem to be getting these on a fairly regular basis now.

It was certainly not worth staying out with the gusting easterly, and the chop produced by it, so we came in close to troll the nearshore reefs for tailor.  Managed to get a few, including this nice model for the young one.  The highlight, or lowlight, was a massive greenback (estimated 800mm) striking and missing our surface lure on a couple of occasions.  There were some good fish around, given it was mid-morning, and these spots are certainly going to get another go.

Once conditions had calmed off a bit we headed out again to fish a bit deeper.  It was fair to say the bite was fairly slow, although there were lots and lots of fish on the sounder.  My mate has some live baits out on his new Stella 18000 and Saltist PE4 combo got hit, smoked and busted off a couple of times by very big angry fish.  I had a floating pilchard out and this on got taken and I hooked up.  First call when the hook was set was “this one is not too big”, and how wrong I was.  I proceeded to play this thing on my heavy snapper gear (baitrunner 6500B, 50lb braid and snelled 4’0’s) and all of a sudden it headed off.  OMG, this thing was peeling line like you wouldn’t believe and we had no choice but to fire up the boat and follow it.  Over the next hour or more, this fish dragged us more than 3 miles towards shore and let’s just say I was in a world of pain.  We initially picked it as a really big ray and the boys were laughing at my pain whilst taking shots of the “beast” on the sounder when I could get it under the boat.  I certainly didn’t have the right gear for a fish like this.

We slowly started to lift the fish towards the boat after about 90 minutes.  I couldn’t believe it when we finally got the leader back and the fish came into view.  It was a massive shark.  My mate who is a bit of a shark expert, came out with “that’s a white” due to its pointed head, huge pecks and thick tail structure.  No way, this thing was 3+m, a couple of hundred kilos minimum and had a big cobia as its “companion”.  We got a rushed photo, that doesn’t do it justice, before it saw the boat and turned around and just smoked us.  The 50lb like busted in an instant but at least we got to see it.  Really, I don’t even think it knew it was hooked and my 4’0 must have got it right in the corner of the jaw to hold for so long.  There was no way we were going to bring this thing onto the boat and I was happy, although very worn out, that we got to see what it was.

This “capture” was certainly one of the highlights of my fishing career, however what happened later in the night probably ranks higher.  The young one and I fished the MAAC competitions all year and the presentation was last night.  I was stoked to see Luke go up and capture his Junior Champion award after a solid season on his behalf.  It really was a good season and he has come on so much in his ability to fish Perth Metro waters, culminating in the month that he actually won the seniors and juniors in October.  He couldn’t believe that he actually won cash as well as the trophy.

Not to be deterred, we headed out again this morning (although a fair bit later than planned).  The pots had some more good crays so the season goal is almost there.  A couple of hours fishing were intended in the “fog”?  The bite was certainly a bit better than the day before and we boated a few undesirables and upgrades in short order.  A big wrasse went back on the mate’s heavy gear and within a few minutes the line was peeling off.  Awesome, finally a sambo to test the gear and it did really well (landing a 8kg model in short time).  They were thick and the young one landed a nice fish on a live Sgt Baker before deciding to have a jig for them.  Not long after, a really solid hook up resulted in a big fish that ran him around the boat for 20 minutes or more.  This fish brought with it a 2.5+m tiger shark that surfaced just near the boat but the sambo “got through”.

The next one was not so lucky.  After being jigged up, a solid fight was going on.  All of a sudden those “terror” runs by the sambo before the fish was taken by the tiger and the line cut through.  Not surprisingly, the bite shut down after that.

What a great weekend.  It finished with the young one going out to spend his winnings on upgrading the Ugly Stick to capture a Saltist PE 2-4, which is so much better than Maccas, KFC or computer games.  He can’t wait to get out there tomorrow afternoon/night to give it a go.

http://youtu.be/gHSHMZmjZZU