Well lads, back from Jurien a bit earlier than expected, after booking Whitey's tug for both Sat and Sunday, but it turned out to be too windy today, so only fished the Saturday. Dissapointed??? Not one bit!

Waiting for the remainder of photos to be sent down from Whitey, and will get Tim VB to post up a full report of the day with photos, but I will provide a quick set of highlights.....

- early morning start, met Whitey and deckie Matt.....top fellas....had a giggle at Whitey's pissy little outfit hanging from the roof of the boat.....more later, but suffice to say I was proven wrong!

- bacon and eggs on the boat on the way out......nice start!

- first spot for a bit lof Sambo action......not one hit......hmmmm, bacon and eggs taste still in the mouth so OK....

- time for some live bait catching.....Whitey and Decky Matt get out some live bait rigs with multiple flashers....cool.....load up on livies......back to interest some Sambos.....

- all of us drop a livey over.....all hooked up....I had three livie drops for three sambos....Stella 10,000SW well and truly christened, after 30 minutes all the other lads were winging about sore arms so time to move to some demersals.

- Next two spots yielded a few small pinkies and baldies.....got my first baldie on and artifical....small octojig on light OH gear. Dropped a nice likely dhu on the Tierra 4000 and McCarthey paddle tail after it made a fnal dash for its hole after 5 minutes of to and fro......leader came back shredded....bugga! Whitey suffered the same fate several times on what can only be described as the lightest jig outft I have ever seen......0.7FE 5 ft rod and piddly 2500 reel running 15 lb line....even more on that later!

- Next move.....sounder looks pretty ordinary, 50-60 m deep with fish on the sounder but nothing too exciting, but a slight whisper that this could be a dhu spot.......out with the McCarthy 10 inch shad much to amusement of the other lads....calls of pink dildo were stll resonating in my ears as I dropped it over the side...

 - Next 30 minutes weree pandamonium......dhuies coming left right and centre all but one on soft plastics. Tally for me was 3 drops for 3 dhu's, 80, 50 and 40 something all on the pink dildo.....let the 50 go as it was obvious from the bend on the other guys rods bigger ones were coming.

- Next up was a 68 cm dhu frm Tim VB about 30 seconds after mine....nice work, high fives all round, then finally Matt L was on to something good, and an 85 cm dhu on a McCarthey paddle tail was hoisted up.....much love on the baot by now.....Whitey was in the corner, and his tiny rod was bent over big time....we all thought maybe  a 500 gram western king wrasse (hahaha).....but 15 minutes later after a FANTASTIC fight and top work by Whitey, up comes a 88 cm 12 kg dhu.......WOW!!!!!!!!

- After a few more pup dhu came up, which were all released carefully (Whitey and Matt are absolutely dedicated to releasing properly...nice to see) we left the dhu spot, we really had pulled more than enough from there anyhow. 

- Next spots, Cliff nailed a nice 70 cm pinky (best for the day) and a few more small baldies, one on a gulp by Geoff, we headed back for one last arm stretch on sambo's.

- 15 minutes of shear Sambo madness followed....at one stae, I think all on board were hooked up o a sambo. GREAT STUFF. After a few minutes of nothng, I succumbed and out came the Smitth Jacknifer 300 g.....all $40 worth.......got shamshed about 30 m frm the bottm and then it was on.....I ooked at my Stella 10000 and thought, no way is this baby getting away....WRONG! With drag set at 25% of the 50 lb rating of the pro braid, after geting about 15 m back on the Sambo, it took off on a sizzling run that made a mockery of the Stella drag......got absolutely toasted on the wreck, leadr shredded ! Quick bimini under duress and new 80 lb leader to antoehr jig, drop, bang, bust off.....repeat....bang, bustoff....hmmmm, seems the first 20 m of braid had been damamged n the wreck as well......me being a slw learner, it took $50 worth of jigs to realise.

- Pete got a double hader of very sizable Sambo on bait....nice net work Matt!!

- Final tally, 5 dhu, 6 baldies, several nice pinkies, too many Sambos to count all released bar one small one,  numerous pinkies released (a fair few in the legal 41 - 50 rane but we released most of em as we had plenty offish), and probably 8 small dhu's released. Well over 50 fish for the day I think Whitey said.

- We had four  guys on bait all day, 2 on artificials all day (except for one brief livie sesion) and Whitey half the day on artificals, the other half driving the boat and takig photos. Bait outfished artificials for pinkies no doubt, baldies were 4 bait, 2 artificals, dhu were almost all soft plastics. McCarthy the standout for sure, deadly on dhu. Fankies, evergreen caprice etc were given a fair go but only two hookups but none landed. Certainly the best fish were landed on artificials except the 70 cm pinkie on bait.

Best charter I have been on, and glad I stayed on artificials all day, thanks to Whitey and Matt's guidance and enthusiasm. Whitey and Matt are a great team. Big thanks to Whitey, 6 blokes with big smiles.

Photos to come

John

I've heard of people catching them, but where are they and how big are they,

Any advice would be appreciated,

Cheers Andrew

does anyone out there know a easier way of doing this other than manually without losing the info from the navman?

 i want to get all my waypoints from the  gold card in my navman trackfish6600, transfered to my navonics platium card in my hds10.

is this possible?

cheers

couple of pics

could the shape of my hull affect the perfomance of the transducer at speed?

Hi Guys, Im going to Wagoe in a couple of weeks, need a good overhead reel, was thinking of bidding on the LATITUDE SDT L15, does anyone know is this is a good reel, its selling on ebay at the moment

hi guys last weekend i was moving spots and my mate had a bike so he took the rods,all the rods were ovaheads and i brought my baitcaster with me to try for smaller stuff and luckily enough my tcurve was on the bottom and im new 2 using graphite rods so idk wat it was but were the tcurve thing was it was like a protection over the rod and the bike scratched it off i was wondering if this can be fixed or if its still ok or do retire the rod

Any of you guys know much about fishin boats from the states? If so what are the good ones and bad ones? lookin around the 20-22 ft mark and not centre console

hey all squidders.

just a couple of questions that might be able to help people looking at buying top of the range squid jigs.

so what is every ones top 5 jigs that get cast first over all ur others?

and if you are to choose one jig in one colour and one size for the rest of ur life which would it be??

ive got a few jigs but havent use them enough but buy the looks my top five would be

1. Sumizoku 3.0 purple.

2. Yo-Zuri Q-Neo 3.0 pink and blue.

3. Yamashita 3.0 orange glow.

4. Yo-Zuri Flash Dancer 3.25 Pink

5 Probly the Ace range.

i havent used mine enough to have a favourite.

so whats urs????

cheers danno

going to quobba on 23rd sept any tips /types of lures i should use while trawling berlies baits etc.

Does anyone know where you can get a helium cannister from to fill my balloons? I want one I can refill all the time?

Looks like the good old dockers are back in ultimate Form couldnt even beatthe pussy cats lol back to the drawing boards boys , and maybe a uniform colour change haha

Got a little excited today when I actually saw a Fishwrecked.com sticker on a ute's rear window! Who was driving along Warton Road this morning around 9am?

Really need to get one of those stickers for mine, would be good to meet someone randomly out at work.

Anyone been fishin these places lately and had any luck? Thinkin about goin back its been a while.

Enjoy one week for BALI

Hey guys, I just got myself a Xzoga Takadum PE4 rating as a present and I was wondering what kinda reel should I use for it. Will just use it for some light jigging (maybe,hopefully sambos ~30kg) and general bottom bashing. Anyone have any good recomendations?

hey all lookin at upgrading to one of these reels

jst wondering what are the differences, are they the same ? is one better etc,,

are they xactly the same jst on two different markets liek the japanese and australian

you help is appreciated cheers

hey guys goin fishin in cockburn sound tm wit cousin on his boat i dont know much but any idea on where to go to catch the snapper?

ay fellas jst a question got my swivels assist hooks and jig here

jst wonderin if the assist hook the length it is sittin on the lure is in the rite place

or is it too far down ie long ?

let me no thanks boys

Anyone seen a longtom this "long". Caught some time back by Jill and had no idea what in hell it was. Didnt jump and felt "snaky" with odd headshakes.

Hi Guys, i am wondering who your favorite fishing personality is to watch /read ( there are some good ones and some not so good ones out there)

Looking at heading up that way for a week or so late March next year, just wondering if anyone knows what the winds and weather is like that time of year?

Do the easterlies and South westerlies still howl?

Cheers

Hi Guys,
Just bought a new boat and was wondering which organisation people are using for insurance. Some other questions are:
Do you get cyclone cover? (Im in Karratha)

What if ya engine dies? (possibly from watery fuel - common up here)

How secure do you need to have the boat to be covered for theft?

Tackle loss? (what if my tiagra goes overboard?)

Towing on the road?

If I hit a rock and my prop / gearbox is damaged, will they cover the whole repair?

Do they have an allowance for the "Pilbara Tax" where a $500 job will cost $900?

I have never had boat insurance before, so would appreciate some advice.
THANKS

Am looking around at live aboard charters in the top end for sometime next year, somewhere between Derby and Darwin.

Has anyone ever been on any up there? any good or bad experiences?

Im assuming the best time of year is the same as karratha weather wise?, altho im guessing the tides and the wet season probably play a bigger part.

Looking at a 6-10 day charter if possible?

Cheers

Well guys, leaving the boat home this weekend and heading up to Jurien to fish the weekend with Whitey together with TimVb and a few lads from work. Got both Sat and Sunday booked. Plan is for a mix of jig, softies and if necessary (read failure of previous) stinking bait......
 
Taking the 50 lb Stella/Seed jigging outfit, 15 lb Tierra 4000 spin for softies and 20 lb Calcutta 400 O/H for octo's/lucanus and heavy softies and light jigs. Got usual selection of Smiths/Williamson jigs for Samberjacks, a bunch of gulp 5 and 7 inch and snapbacks and a 6 and 10 inch mcarthys plastics with jig heas from 0.5 to 4 oz......
Am waiting for a few fankies etc from the web....looks like they wont make it in time.............

Weather is looking great Sat (10 knots), terrible Sunday  (20 knots). Question is.....is 20 knots to much in Whitey's tug......we wont care if it is wet and rough.....just want it fishable...

Responses welcome, and any advice and tackle/jigs and anything else you guys who have been up with Whitey.
 
Cheers
 
John 

Hi fello fishos,

Hi Im Adam and Im new here, Im planning a trip to wagoe over the footy long weekend. Can you please give me some advice on how to rig up a balloon rig, what is the best bait and techniques to use and also the best places at wagoe?

hi all,

just wondering if any one has been fishing round the ascot, basso area and if so have you caught any thing i really looking forward to the bream heading up that way.

so were is it??? and has it been doing damaged or did this finish a long time ago

well as the name suggests what is your all time favourite lure . can be for any type of fishing just your fave.

for open water water mine would have to be yellow belly nilsy

and river cant go past zipbaits khamsin tiny in carmen red

Just wondering as to what conditions you guys with boats would call your "cut off limit"

for example really keen to go fishing but swell too big,wind too strong.

I know the answer to this will be extremely varied because of size of boat

experience etc. Just keen to get peoples ideas and personal thoughts.

thanks