Metropolitan Forecast:

Saturday: S/SW winds 13/18 knots. Seas to 1.0m. Swell to 1.5m.

Sunday: E/NE winds 5/10 knots tending S'ly 10/15 knots in the afternoon.

The weekends reports don't look to special for Saturday, but Sunday looks like an absolute pearler. Not sure on what our plans are, have heard a few reports of dhufish moving into 40m's with a few really good sized ones landed.

Theres also a few reports of rat sambo's down on the 3 mile anywhere between Hale Rd and Swanbourne drain, with the likely bycatch of skippy or salmon. I dropped a thumper of a king george down there last week and also returned a small dhuie. Just never know what you might get down there, hopefully won't be too long before the pinks move in.

Salmon reports are still pretty sketchy, sounds like theres lots still out there if your looking in the right places. Which we obviously weren't last weekend, best of luck if you are targetting them this weekend.

Don't drink too much with the derby on Saturday, Sunday's looking the goods and you will kick yourself if you don't get out there. If you've got some fishing plans, love to hear them, if not, look foward to hearing or seeing the results. :)

Hope you all manage to get out on the weekend and into some fish. Will hopefully get some pictures and footage of the weekends action.

Tight lines crew,
Adam

Ok what features, would you like to see in a lure that you can't already get now in one of your favourite lures?

Can be for soft plastics or hard body plastics, trolling or casting or both etc!

I'm giving serious thought to designing a new lure range!!

Looking for ideas of what anglers want!

Glow in the dark paint? (Charge with camera Flash and troll at night??)
Contrast?
Rattles?
Interchangeable bibs?
Catch scent chamber?
Infrared and ultraviolette LED's inside?
EAL sound emitter?
Jet head?
12 knots speed capability?

Hit me with ideas folks - you just never know, you might see a lure or two come your way incorporating your own idea! ;o)

Cheers!

http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/vending.html

This bizarre game was found in a video arcade in Sapporo and sent in by Tom Krolak. It's based on the popular UFO Catcher games and you have to manoeuvre the yellow claw to try and grab one of the lobsters. It costs 100 yen for one try or 500 yen for six.

Got my copy of May's edition of the FWA mag this arvo and low and behold they published my first article. (Woo-Hoo!)

Hey Flywest, do you want to be my agent? (Hahahaha)

Seriously mate, thanks for the encouragement to actually do it (nowhere near Steve Starling quality though) but I certainly enjoyed the process and the thrill of getting published. Any other budding writers should give it a go, though I do warn you that you won't be giving up your day job.

Aloha,

Just got back from the Engel swan bream classic, what a hard slog it was today! Luckily i wasnt the only one haha we only ended up weighing in 1 fish and we(Team Tackle Shack) still came 7 out of 55 to give you an idea! Alltho it wasnt my fish it was also the 2nd biggest bream caught.

First place went to team WAFM with the biggest fish being 1.31kg from memory caught under the narrows. Unfortunatly the 3 bream i landed today were all just under legal and were not "strechable" heh

Saturday: E/SE winds 8/13 knots tending S/SW 10/15 knots in the afternoon.
Seas 1.0m. Swell 1.0m to 1.5m.
Sunday: S/SE winds 10 knots tending S/SW 10/15 knots in the afternoon.

Anyone got any fishing plans over the weekend? Think we are heading over to Rotto tomorrow to West End for some more salmon action and maybe a bottom bounce.

Looks like a great weekend to get out amongst it, tight lines crew.

Anyone follows my internet rantings would know I am one of the most harsh public critics of Fisheries WA Dept anywhere!

That said, when they do something good or worthy of positive comment - I feel it is only fair to give credit where it's due!

I can think of TWO instances of late where Fisheries have actually done something good!

One of my frequent lamentations has been in the area of Charter fishing statistical returns!

I have just got a hold of the Easter photos. Make sure you check out the fishwrecked and scenery gallery, some really good shots amongst them. I would put them in a forum thread but there are a few too many. There are a few snaps of my queen snapper, first tagged and released samsonfish, the days catch, surf and scenery photos. Hope you enjoy.

Cheers,
Adam

Here's a teaser. A reminder of catching most of the fish that day. :)

I heard from someone while fishing today one of the team members in an AFC comp was killed recently when his boat hit a log @ 40 knots. Anyone confirm this?

The team was something to do with lowarance from memory.

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despite my other post easter IS still going ahead...

So whats everyone upto? Im hoping to take the boat out sometime alltho as usuall so far the best day i will be hung over :P But still should get out at some point over the long weekend.

Check out some of these photos from the Caranx website... Seems jigging is going off worldwide big time!!!

http://www.caranx.net/ascension_report.htm

Well, it is definately salmon season. Between us we managed to land 4 today, with one snapping off under the boat and a couple more going for a decent runs on the trolling gear without hooking up. Plenty of aerobatics made for an awesome afternoon session along with watching big schools bust the sufrace all over the place.

Other catches were;
50cm baldie, 60cm pinkie, 55cm dhuie, 5 blackass, nannygai, sgt bakers, sweep and salmon. Thanks goes out to Andy Mac for letting me have a spot today.

Does anyone know if the sambos are still out the west end off rotto. Got 2 guys tagging along that have never cought anything bigger than a herring. Im pretty keen to test them out on some sambos.Might be a bit cruel but its somthing they will never forget.Plus Ive had a pretty shitty week so i need a laugh.

Well, I have just got a hold of Gully's Exmouth footage, and to say that is the best ever is almost an understatement. When I'm able to rip it from dvd and put it up I will gaurantee you that you will be saying its the best ever as well!!!

But, in the meantime I have a heap of footage from Scuttlebutt over in Cairns that I will put up, the files are around 50 meg, but I'm working on making a few smaller versions for fast download time.

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Some of the latest gear I have bought for Denmark. Baby Vibes, floats, jigs, rubber squids, hooks, balloons, snapbacks, bream gear, squidgies, metals - anything I've forgotten? Just gotta hope that the weathers good now!!!! Still a week and a half a way, think I'm amped just a bit???

I know its a bit early for a definitive weather report, but I figure a few of you already know what you want to do.

Gribbo and Ryan are headed out of Ocean Reef for some Dhuie hunting on Friday, so hopefully we should get some early reports of the fish biting and what time they are really on the chew.

Think I'm planning to go out Saturday at this stage, unless Sunday turns up the goods, and if the weather man plays nice maybe even both days.

A few of you may have heard about the salmon that washed up on the beach a couple of weekends ago down at peaceful bay. Well the story goes that the pro's netted 70 tonne and 2 tonne of those washed up on the beach enraging locals. Apparently the net rolled in a King wave and there was nothing they could do about it, apart from maybe cleaning the beach of dead salmon!

Just curious if any of the FW members would be keen on hiring a charter for a day and having a fishwrecked fish off, Mano E mano . We can all show of our skills/lack there off. Anyone keen? At a guess leave from hillaries as thats the norm.

Forecasts:
Friday until midnight: E/SE winds 15/20 knots. Seas to 1.5m. Swell to 1.5m.
Swell at Cottesloe: to 0.5m.
Winds on Melville Water: Similar.

Saturday: E/SE winds 18/23 knots. Seas 1.5m to 2.0m. Swell to 1.5m.

Sunday: S/SE winds 15/20 knots tending S'ly 20/30 knots in the afternoon.

Sigh, another weekend of crap after a few magic days this week.. No suprise thou ;(

I over heard a little birdy say that Honsu is the new Oceanside Tackle and Marine staff member. Much congratulations goes out to our pro jigging member, look foward to buying a few combo's from you and getting the inside word on where the fish are biting. :)))))

Well done mate!

Cheers,
Adam

Saturday: S/SE winds 10/15 knots tending S/SW 13/18 knots early afternoon and increasing to 18/23 knots in the late afternoon and evening.

With a very similar report according to seabreeze for Sunday, maybe a tad lighter mid morning.

Might not be a very good weekend on the water the way things are shaping up!

how do u resize??

lol

EVERYBODY LOOK AT MY FISH

my bad

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Saturday: E/NE winds 10/15 knots shifting NE/NW 5/10 knots around noon before shifting S/SW 13/18 knots in the afternoon. Seas to 1.5m. Swell to 1.5m.

Sunday: E/NE winds 13/18 knots tending S'ly 13/18 knots mid-afternoon.

Hope if you get out on the water over the weekend you have some luck. Think we are planning to go wide on Sunday, will have some reports and photos on Monday hopefully.

Do we need such an organisation here?

http://www.thefra.org/

OK - we have Recfishwest - but IMHO at least, they occsionally appear to be just a bunch of apologists for Fisheries dept WA a lot of the time!!

When was the last time Recfishwest sued the Minister for Fisheres or Fisheries Dep't CEO for failing in their legislated duty to preserve fishstocks for fututre generations?

Isn't it about time we had an organisation with real balls LIKE FRA??

A political party like Fishing Party isn't going to waste $ on law suits - they probably want to spend it on getting elected for the parliamentary pension benefits!

Isn't it about time we had an organisation that goes in hard and takes no prisoners? What about one with a website to post photo's to shame the pro's & WAFIC on their deplorable record?

I say it's well past time IMHO!

Cheers!

I know it is the calm before the fishing storm (the fact that a lot of you are about to go on awesome fishing trips), just wondering if anyones got any more photos out there to look at. Has been a bit quiet lately with the lack of fishing being done, just wondering if anyone's got any that are worth a look that we haven't seen before.

Ok heard this one yesterday while waiting to pick up the young feller from the tackle shop.

One of his work colleagues from the tackle shop likes to dive for crays and spear the odd fish.

Lets just say the guys name is 'Courtney'...and he works at scrotally trialed! ;o)

Anyway - he arrives at his choice cray lump to find a couple old guys already anchored there, berleying to fish...

Asks if it'd be Ok to dive the lump? - and is advised - we're burleying already & we'd prefer if you don't scare away our fish - whatabout dive somewhere else? or come back after we've gone?

So - he anchores 50 meters away and dives anyway!

About 10 mins later the dudes in the boat - see bubbles commin up all round the boat - you guessed it the blokes are under their boat getting their crays!

Anyway - while down there he sees a really realy big southern blue groper and, almost outta air - he shoots it with his spear gun.

All is looking good except when he pulls on the spear it comes out - and the big blue sorta struggles away injured! Too late - outta air - gotta go up..

So - he goes back to boat minus big blue groper - cussing and swearing!

Tells everyone at "Scrotally Trialled" how he lost this big Blue groper!

What he doesn't know - is the guys in the boat fishing, are regular customers of "scrotally trialled!" ;o)

After fishing is over without a lot to show for it since everythings been scared away - the two old guys are pulling the anchor - and see something a bit 'red looking' under the water a little distance away!

Once the anchors up they motor over for a looksee, to find a huge blue groper with it's swim bladder extended swimming in circles!

So they gaff it and take it home to eat!

It has a hole in it where the spear pulled out!

So - they go in to the tackle shop to tell everyone of their great "catch" while "Courney's" on his day off!

So - when he gets back to work (which likely mighta been today!) EVERYONE in town almost (except him) knows about his Big Blue Groper and who got to eat it! ;o)

Well, Gribbo has bought the first fly rod amongst the group and I assume that means there will be a big fly buy up at the tackle store once the word spreads of how good it is.

Can anyone give me any information about fly fishing, tips, techniques or anything that will help us get into it a bit more.

From all reports it sounds like crabfest was a bit of a fizzer this year, apparently the crabs have done some sort of disappearing act from what I've heard!!!! Bit strange, wonder whats happened to them all.......

Has anyone fished lucky bay?

stopped past there once and caught a 55cm pinkie off the reef then had to leave due to getting back for bloody work,should of taken a sickie