Enjoy Happy New Year

Big AL estimated that this one weighed about 40 to 45 kg

This sambo was caught on a homemade repco spanner jig

 Anyone who wants to hook up on Sambos give Al a call at Shikari Charters

Took the boat out for a pot check and quick dive today after the wind was playing nicely. Started heading out to find my GPS was on the blink and driving blind. The pot got a miss but the sounder was working so found some ground, dropped down and kept working on the underwater hours.

Then the drama when i got home - after going over the basics myself without success, who the heck is going to look at my boat with next to no notice this time of year.... OH SHIT! Early next week is looking SO good too!!!!

Called ABB and they told me to bring it down and we'll see what we can do. Spoke to the boys at the desk after dragging the boat down and got the cold shoulder of - "sorry mate, really busy! Check with service but not likley as EVERYONE'S boat is urgent"... yeah - great!

Saw Andrew who's in charge of the service Dept and not only did he make time for me there and then without blinking, but got his Garmin tech onto the job. Hour later, the Stabi is sitting at home waiting for 48 hours time when this wind is goneeeeee......

Key message here - VERY IMPRESSED! Well done ABB!

I decided to break out and do an overnighter at Moore River yesterday. Conditions were trying in the evening with a strong SW and lots of surface weed.

I had some luck early with Tailor 52cms, 49cms and 46cms. More were caught but released. as the evening moved on the Tailor became quite small at chopper size. It was way to windy and weedy to put out a set line so called it a day early and socialised a bit before hitting the swag.

This Tailor was quite interesting as its lower jaw and tail had been bitten off. This poor guy was trying to win a lotto ticket for the biggest fish in the group. Weight wise it was but it didn't come up to the measure due to "missing bits" (a bit like me LOL).

The morning saw some balmy conditions albeit still a SW breeze. Quite a smoke haze due to Toodyay fire.I started fishing at 4:30am using baby Mullies and got hammered by quite good size Herring. A few chopper Tailor managed to get a crack but were all released. I kept a few Herring for the smoker and release a large number.

I left the beach at 7am and cruised home to do the chores (that's the bit I hate about fishing). This was some of the result.

Hey folks just wondering wheres the best place to throw lures etc at wash offshore for tailor i was sorta leaning to pipidinny reef any suggestions would be appreciated

cheers

Good Day for it!!

This is what happens when you go jigging with a bunch of mechanics.......

hi fellow fishers im going down to albany for new years for a bit of fishing i havent done much fishing down this part of wa just wondering what species of fish i should be chasing this time of the year shaw based i do most my fishing north of pearth mostly chasing tailor mulloway and shark would like to know what bites and what is biting if any one could help that would be great

Hi guys Ive been reading about the shark problem when sambo fishing on this forum and was a bit concerned about going out today with Shikari Charters. How wrong was I !!! We set off from freo at 6am to Als secret secret spots and within minutes we were hooked up and landing sambos with only one sharking all day. I just wanted to tell all that if you want to do sambo jigging this is the man to see, hands down the best charter Íve ever been on with good company, good crew and a top fella thanks Al.

Will upload photo's soon

Caught 3 of these today next to broome jetty today felt like they hooked up and went back into a hole weird eyes , saw a good shark jump after someones gt or queenie

While playing onshore with my new unit, I hit the pages button and selected the Chart + info button,

Next thing i know i am in Key Biscayne WTF ??? And can't get back to home

Have i bought a dodge or has anyone else had similar problems

Pink,Dhuie ready to eat

My little boy James learning to fish or teaching his dad a thing or too

Had a great day fishing in 40m West of Hillaries today. I decided it was time to bite the bullet and use only soft plastics (7inch mcarthys), while my two mates used squid with a wrasse sweetener.

 First spot and I had hooked up solid to a good Breaksea before they had even baited up (cheating they said).

I then followed up with a Sambo of 15kgs (released). We moved to the next spot a I was the rose between two thorns . All lines went down together (mine much slower) and touch touch whack im into a Jewie of 11kgs.

 Over the next couple of hours the bait boys got 2 jewies 500(released) and 540 (kept) plus a baldie and nice flathead. I kept my best to last , teasing a 12kg jewie into falling for the trap(released).

All fish were measured with the virtually unbreakable Re-Pete Fish Ruler cheers Pete.

About to head out the door for an overnight LB fish north of Guilderton. Anyone headed up please stop by for a chat. You can't miss me with the Disco and the peskie Kelpie.

Just wanted to tell everyone that myself, luckytim and GlennH will be off the forum for a while.  Unfortunately we will be in Fiji at Ono island chasing anything that eats a popper and a jig.  Hope you all have a safe new years and ill be sure to let you all know how we go

Daz and Sam, we will wake em up for you boys

Cheers

Brad

 Hey Guys, has anyone been out to the fads yet and done any good??

Hi Guys,

Went out deep but not much luck so on the way home stoped off for a couple of sambo's .

None to the sharks  :)

title says it all need an offsider for tomorow morn tailor bash .

send txt if keen to 0423622846

brenz

Just seeing if any one is gona chase some sharks tonight?

I am thinking of heading down to city beach or floreat tonight.

How many people use shock leaders for surfcasting?If i had 20lb mainline would i use a 60lb leader for a 12ft rod or would i

need to go smaller , how long would it have to, would it need to wrap around the reel a few times ,does the join become a problem with the rod guides?

Hi all,

Well I managed to pick up a 12ft Rovex Bario surf rod today, extremely pleased with it so far.
But I'm in need of a decent reel for it now. Have tryed a Penn 950ssm reel on it and don't like it at all, no good to cast with.

I'm after something extremely smooth and can hold a good amount of line. Would love a Daiwa Saltiga Surf 6000 but is a bit over my budget. Hoping to spend $300-350 at the most.
Thought maybe a Daiwa Emblem Pro 5500? Just wanting a light, smooth spinning reel.

Most importantly the combo will be used for tailor, salmon, and if I'm lucky enough mulloway haha.

Any help would be muchly appreciated.

To any and all that may be able to shed some light here.

I went for a dive today with a few buddies off Rotto and dropped in on Catherals. Went throguh the checks spoke about the dive, got into the water, dropped down and all good. Ran straight into a very curious puffer fish and and then started to swim off to the amazing swim throughs and drop off that I've been itching to hit for ages. Look back, both buddies are with me. Less than a minute later, get the tap - one buddie missing. Quick search, no bubbles, missing one buddie - WTF?? Look up, see the missing buddie on the surface - no deco stop. Up we go to check out what happened.

Turns out that the tank/Reg had malfunctioned. We dropped down with 240 bar, spend the first two minutes down there and then the air STOPPED. Michelle dashed for the surface using the main reg and the half breath in the 2nd reg. Getting into the boat, her computer is showing 0 bar yet the BC inflated - but got no air through the reg. The pressure of the tank wasn't consistant either. Not the normal high pressure squeal - yet 240 bar at start up?

Any ideas? She is heading back to the hire place to get their opinion but like to see what you guys think first so she doesn't get a bull shit answer. If we were deep into catherdals, this could have gone ugly fast!

Cheers

Jason

hey all.

Does any one know what the Australian record for Silver Bream (tarwine) is??????

sooo, I was fishing at one of my spots in the swan 2day, started of with plastics and got a tailor and 6 bream, nothing huge, moved to another spot and put on a green and yellow 1/12 tt ghost blade, started flicking it arround and mannaged another smallish bream 2 flathead, one went a good 50cm.!!!

next I hooked a huge fish. whent on several lone line burning runs, I was thinking it was a mulloway, but after atleast a good 5 minute battle a fu@!#$g HUGE silver bream surfaced... i was in awe and after finnally getting it up onto the jetty, I measured.it.........

It whent a bloody huge 61 cm!!!!! and weighed a good 3 1/2 - 4 kilo!!!!!

I was then left with the extreamly hard decision of killing and keeping it and have a crack of holdind a Aussie record, or to release the huge beast and be extreamly satisfied.

In the end, I swam him for a litle while, and he/she swam off strongly.

what are your opinions on weather I should have kept it or not and if you have ever heard of a Tarwine getting this big??

cheers,

Tom

Compleat Angler Nedlands

does eney body know what the call sign is for esperance

if anyone gets out wednesday or wants to and needs a decky its my birthday wednesday and any excuse will do for the day off fishin :) Marko

 went out today to the hmas derwent and caught nothing but green eye sharks and leather jackets... what are the leather jackets like to eat? good way to cook them? we caught 5 and all went back in the drink. should we be keeping them?

Cheers

Jacko

Caught my first Baldchin Groper today - approx 4Kg

Anyone got an idea for the best way to cook it?

Went fishing today with the GF for the first time ever, wanted to teach her to fish. To my suprise her first cast was better then anyones first cast it was perfect and the squid jig went a far distance, very very impressed tbh..

Drifted around some broken ground and got some nice squid to start off with. Then nothng for about 30mins, decided to pull out some of my new lures i got for christmas, was a bit sketchy and i never really caught anything other than sambos, squid tuna and that sorta of fish on a lure.

First cast of my 1m diver and I've hooked up i was shocked lol got it to the boat and it's a pike? or something like a gardy not to sure what it is, big big teeth on it tho.

Went for a troll with a few lures to try get my GF a fish, she was on and pulled in another pike a good 50-60cm long. She was stoked :D

Went for a troll around the 4-5m mark and my rod got a massive run, thought it must be better than the pike we have been catching, as a nice boy i let her wind it in, a nice size tailor. Was very proud of her :D

trolled around some more and got some more pike and squid, no more tailor =(

Would love to catch more tailor, where abouts is a nice spot from the beach, or dingy. Try some more of my x-mas lures

All in all 40 degree day, went to glass around 10. Excellent day.

i just booked me in for jurien charter with whitey on Monday 3rd january. Anyone else keen on going could share a lift up? (I am commuting for the day)

good times.

Ricey