G'day fisho's,  

Seeking some advice from those that have been and conquered Ningaloo. I'm travelling across from Mexico (Wodonga, north east Vic) to camp at Point Billie and Nth Lefroy from the start of June 2021 for 6 weeks. I'm pretty sure the trip will be the last family holiday before my 18yr old (who cant be told) moves out of home. Anyway, I'm just trying to make it the most memorable experience he has in the hope he might want to continue fishing with his old man in the future! My other 16yr old young fella is pretty keen also. 

I have read a lot on here from Ranmar (amongst others) in a vain attempt to learn from their experiences so I'm not wasting precious time blundering around. I've got a 4.65 Quintrex Renegade with a Honda 60. I've got most of the gear sorted (nothing flashy - Shimano Sustain in 5000 & 6000, 2 x Sargossas in 10000 and a TLD 25 and Tyrnos 20). Ive been stocking up on poppers, bibbed xraps, stickbaits, soft plastics and trolling skirts. I guess the trip is about ticking a few species off the bucket list with my two young blokes ie Spanish Macks, Mahi, Sailfish, Emperor and Wahoo (if theyre around this time of year). 

Wondering;

1) Braid or mono for the Tyrnos and TLD and is a steel trace a must?

2) What sort or distance behind the reef (or depth) should I be trolling in and what sorts of speed

3) With the skirts, are there any colours, lengths or brands that work better than others (never trolled them). 

4) will half oz jig heads be enough weight for around the reef and are the 5 inch jerk shads a goer or smaller paddle tails?

Not into harvesting fish to take home although I'll be looking for a feed every 3 nights or so.

Any advice that you can give would be hugley appreciated. If anyone is up that way at the same time, beers on me   

 I pulled this old guy up a week or two ago:

It was a fish I'd never seen in the flesh before.  Since then I've done some research, and I think it's a bit rare to catch.

How special would you say that it was?

Caught in 20m off Gracetown.

 Dragged the trailer up from Mandurah on Tuesday to C'von and I've been a busy beaver putting the finishing touches onto my Sharkcat. Got a crane booked for next Friday to finally splash her and see how everything holds up. Some progress pictures.

Just uploading a few pics of the new boat wrap and to share some positive reviews for some businesses that couldnt do more to help.

Had the design done by Allen at Titan Graphics after some great feedback from Jon Jarvis. Titan Graphics | Facebook

The team at AAA Windscreens and Tinting did an awesome job of the install too. Found out after they have an inhouse graphic artist that would have happily looked at a design for me. AAA Windscreens & Tinting | Facebook

So much detail in the graphic it is pretty full on up close.

Enjoy  

Funny .story goes ,went for fish got some nice baldies and kgs . Started preparing beer flour baking soda . Boss decides I would like some salt and pepper squid also . ( like f&:k) was I going to do that . Good old iga to rescue :). Christines dinner turned out mint

Left 4 pots in the water after the white run and have been pulling every 3 to 4 days weather permitting and getting between 5 and 8 per pull which we thought was doable. One got stuck a while back and being old and not a great catcher we decided to abandon it so catch has been from 3.

Been using old bait and fish heads, frames  etc and idea was to leave them till all bait finished which happened last Tuesday. 

Pulling the 2nd pot we agreed it was pretty heavy and hoped for a better than usual catch, but alas, when we got the pot up we saw a wobbegong. Also 3 crays in the pot, so working out how to not lose the crays and also not get bitten we failed to notice that there was not one but 2 wobbys in the pot so there was a head on either side making things very tricky

We turned the pot around so the gate was facing out and manouvered the crays so we could hold on to their feelers from outside the pot, opened the gate  and the carefully tipped the buggers out and managed to keep all 3 crays

Was pretty tricky in a pretty ordinary sea Tuesday afternoon

Proibably pull them out today if weather OK at 4:00PM

 Has anyone had a boat build for them by Maurtech Marine in Port Kennedy and if so would love to hear any feedback about their boat and how it handles.

Cheers

 Well we have booked a house for shark bay,Sept. to Oct.  Previous times up there we have only had a small boat but this time we will have a brand new Maurtech Marine cuddy cab, 5.5m with 115hp and 145lts of fuel to burn!!!

I am not chasing any specific marks or spots for fishing further from Denham, more just general information about depth,distances and what we could expect to put in the esky...would love to hear about anyones adventures up there around that time of year...

Happy fishin..

Mates and I have been doing coral bay trips annually around May for the last several years and have now decided to cancel and never go again (unless a serious shark cull happens). Reason im posting this is cause its just a damn shame, we use to have an absolute blast every year  until the shark problem got worse and worse. Last couple of trips sharks were all over us and it really does start to put a dampener on your trip (if youve been there done that you know exactly what i mean!). Losing heaps of bottom bouncing tackle, expensive lures and great fish (both demersals and pelagics) really starts to piss you off so we decided we not gonna put ourselves through it anymore. Other reason im posting this is that im kind of hoping more fisho's do it then maybe business owners and others who live in places like coral bay, exmouth, shark bay etc start seeing posts like this and really push for action.. Our trips are always 4 boats and usually 8or more fisho's so thats a small fortune of money that will now not be injected into coral bays economy . I also know of others who are not interested in going to these places regularly anymore as well, just a bloody shame, cheers for reading

Hi all - I'm going to be in Busselton for the weekend of the 20-21, where do you think I should head to first thing in the morning to chase Salmon.

First time too, richter plugs and twistys only? Also what size lures? 

Any and all help would be most appriciated as I would really love to get one!!

 Finally got my ass back to West Oz from TI and picked up my truck and trailer. Duralite have more than delivered the goods with the trailer, all 10.5m and 1399kgs of boat hauling beauty!. Dragging it up to Carnarvon tomorrow to spend the next three weeks finishing and sea trialling the big duck. Happy days me thinks.

 Had an Awesome weekend with some good fish. Spanish mackerel were our highlight south or Rotto. Some good fish weighed in. Great weekend full of laughs and banter. 

 Went for a look around the FADs today with the family to try for some mahi and tuna.

It was a lazy morning after a big night so we didn't hit the FADs until nearly 10:30.  Water temps were up around 24C but water was dirty.   In addition to a couple of light outfits for the small pelagics I decided to throw out a bigger lure on a 15kg outfit on the shotgun position as there were a few wahoo caught the previous weekend.

After bagging a couple of small SBT's for the kids we worked our way north along the FADs.   Water conditions didn't really improve but we persisted anyway.

Watching the gear from the bridge we got a bump on the shotgun then about 30 seconds later the rod went off.  Sarah grabbed the rod and although we had some nice weight we couldn't see the fish.   Following about a 10 minute fight we had the fish boat side and to our immense surprise it was a juvenile broadbill!

A broadbill of any size in the daytime on a surface lure is certainly something I don't think I'll ever see again.

 Just drove through a lot of floating debris at the mouth of Hillarys.  There also looks to be part of a hull on Boy in a boat reef.

Anyone know what may have occurred?

 Went out from Ocean Reef to fish north of Rotto yesterday. As others have mentioned was pretty sloppy on the way out although the drift was pretty good out there. Ended up with a good bag.

W Mayhem at the ramp with the eastern end of cockburn closed off, punched out way out to the forty’s ( forecast was way off) got to a spot with 30 mins of bite time left, I was using a big Johns swing head, first drop a 52 cm dhu, tagged and released, next drop a nice 58cm baldy, only bits and pieces after that, thankfully most boats were in by the time we come in

Hi,

I would love some feedback from anyone who has had direct experience owning and fishing out of a Contender 25' Tournament....

Cheers.

 Myself John F and Daz, put a plan together to have a crack at a Metro marlin on the heavy tackle when the conditions were looking favourable. None of us having ever caught one in Metro waters we didnt rate our chances all that high, but thought we'd give it a good hard crack today out on the regulator

Morning started off shit, getting to the Marina only to have to find some cover from the pissing rain! didnt feel quite right, chasing marlin in winter weather!

Conditions were not the best, and even in the beast it was a slow trip out wide past rotto. Had a quick flick at one of the fads whilst rigging the outriggers did not provide any results other than one free jumping Dolly.

We set the gear, 80 wides to the ready and headed west.

It was quiet early on, water wasnt right so moved around to find the conditions we were after. Come lunch time we were in some warm water that looked fishy. Wouldnt have been 15 minutes and Daz half quietly says 'can you watch the long' (not a normal Daz statement he's usually screaming ON THE LONG) he's seen his fair share of Marlin, just not something you think you would be saying in Perth. Next minute off goes the long, short run and it dropped it, with a bit of teasing it came back and we were on. Fair to say we were all dumb founded that we were actually onto a Metro bill. John was on strike, and onto his first stripey. After a bit of arerial work and putting up show for himself, our first metro bill was boatside!!

Some photos and we sent him on his way, pretty green so didnt take much encouragement to swim off. We were all a little in shock that we had actually caught our first Perth metro Marlin on pretty much the first time out on the heavy tackle in Metro waters.

Spread was reset and the plan was to stay in the water we had located, was still very fishy. Must of been about an hour or so, it was my turn on strike and needed to have a leak over the side. Took the harness off and was having a tinkle when nec minute off goes one of the 80 wide on the long rigger! Whilst im mid stream and on strike, with no harness or gimble.. off to a good start, with Daz yelling "its a blue and its a good one" Sort myself out whilst the boys clear the spread and clipped onto the 80 for the stand up fight. The fish had dumped 3/4 of the 80w (37kg), John quickly clicked the 300 yammys in reverse and we were backing down on a reasable fish. It dogged it out for a bit fairly deep and was probably a 30 or so minute fight with planing the fish up.

Up comes the leader and Daz is to work, looks over the side and looks back at me and says 'its a big fish'... then up pops a cracker blue! estimated at 450lb

Needless to say we were all in shock. We've all caught bills before including blues, but just not in Perth.

Fish released really well, and we went about chasing another. we barely set the spread to have another stripe come up and look at the rigger, only to shy away. Was a fairly action packed 3 hours or so with 3 fish coming up.

Ended the day 3-3-2 Which is bloody awesome in just about any game fishing location along our coast!! Metro Marlin Madness

Enjoy

 Howdy All,

The 2020 trip to Monkey Mia is back on again in 2021 after being postponed due to covid. It has now grown legs and we are going a hell of a lot further and venturing as far as Cape Leveque over a 5 week period

We have been Perth to Exmouth with plenty of places between. Flown into Karratha and Broome though have not seen anything between.

What must i see? Where must i go? How can I catch a bloody spaniard? 

We're taking the 3.3m inflatable with a 9.8hp so will have some boat fishing capabilities. 

Cheers in advance

 Hi all just want a few thoughts on friday as the weather looks amazing but the almanac is 12% and poor was thinking of trying the fads for the first time but reluctant to take a day off and burn 300L if the fishing going to be shit ? I know its fishing and thats the risk you take just after thoughts.

Thanks 

hey guys looking at heading out wide of Jurien chasing beakies  Friday Saturday and was wondering what channel/s people use to log on/off and for  general chatter up that way

cheers

paul

Hi Fishwrecked Team,

looking for any advice and options for fishing and camping up the buccaneer. We are doing a trip in May in a 6m CC and plan to camp on the coast where we can/boat if we have too. Have done a trip up that way befor but only as far as Koolan Island, weather turned us around.

Doing all the normal google and you tube research at the moment but other than some cracker 1980's malcom douglas stuff its hard to find info on.

Wolcott inlet, secure bay, doubtfull bay ect whats everyones opinions on best fishing/camping.

thanks fot any tips, a bit of intel can make or break trips like these.

 It’s ok to cull during a game fishing comp. in new 

 Just wondering if anyone on the forum owns or did own one or if you have been on one etc, what your thoughts are on the boat. Looking at dads friends boat who may be keen to move it on. Has a 200 yammy 4 stroke extremely low hours also so no issue being underpowered.

With the comp being cancelled this weekend due to crap wind,decided to go for crab. Made some wicked cakes 75% crab 25% potatoes. And grated cheese . Pepper/salt big hit ,

 With the season heading into Autumn, I am hoping to start getting a few squid again. Wondering if they are about about in reasonable numbers in the sound. Long tripo for me, so not wanting to go unless there is a erasonable chance of gertting a few. Cheers

 Caught this flounder North of Ocean Reef just outside the 3 mile. Was a first for me and wondering if it bwas a reasonable size. Went 45cm on ther brag mat and weight about 875 grams. Not as good eating as I thought it would be. Filleting was easier than I expected. Cheers

 I took my dad out for a fish today ended up being a pretty good day, left pt kenedy ramp at 10 am was a bit sloppy going out, so i stopped  at our whiting spot, caught our 30 then headed out as the weather eased off a bit, so we were still in the bite time for today ended up with a nice feed for him to take home, he is 80 and in early stages of Alzheimer's disease

So now i have to cherish these moment's we have together now, will try again tomorrow before he heads back to Northam.