caught this dhu last weekend, would be my biggest ever. 

My first on rod and reel,Had many landed in my boat over the years but never mine. Seen many diving , refused to shoot .I thought I had big dhue boy. Ended up being a 10.2 kg dhue on top rig. 15.7 kg blue on bottom rig . ( Ian and Ang ) lol yes yes. Absolutely pissed .

Few Fish on the board for the new year and stumbled accross some orcas which was awesome, things you see out on the water aye. Vid of the orcas linked

https://youtu.be/_vgTva7IqOE

 Great day on the water today off of Bunno, 2 dhu, baldly and a nice pinky. This 20kg beast on the last drift of the day was the icing on the cake!

Shows size a bit better.

 Caught Cottesloe. Thoughts?

 A fella from the WA Undersea Club shot one yesterday - a little unusual to be so far south. 

https://www.facebook.com/waundersea/posts/1365317316906090

 Out early this morning with good reward, 2 good  14kg bucks and 3 king George.

All done by 8am

 After a bit of searching for new ground I came across this little spot, there was certainly a few dhus there. It made for a very short trip and smiles all round.

 Plenty of fish recently, Kings, Mulloway, Sharks, Pinkies and all other sorts. Here's a couple pics. 

Between bad weather, weekend family events and working through Xmas I haven't had a chance to chase demersals since the last day before the ban. Been planning a trip out with my brother in law who's just moved back to Perth but the weather's had our measure.

 hey crew got this little one jigging off bunno was spewing it had an old spear wound was a a lot lighter as it was missing a waiter of its meat still a good fight and it went 1m long and 15 kilo :)

Plenty of crabs in the Peel

 10 ltres of fuel shitty winds 3 kings on stickbaits one big bust off ...emp ty boat ramp....good day

Finally got around to joining fishwrecked and uploading some photos from our latest trip to Coral Bay. Was an awesome trip and lots of species ticked off.

 3 mackerel grey , 2 trout and a new species long nose emperor ! All within minutes of arriving ! Never fished out of here with a boat but can easily say that's the hottest 30 minute session I've had.

Now fish the high tide for barra land based

Some photos of the last few months efforts, nothing out of the ordinary but I finally knocked over a few snapper on SP, the mcarthys paddle tails, abrolis tackle paddle tails and zman curley tails doing well. The big cray was from a mates pot in 11m last pull of the season, he was more than happy obviously!

sundays weather was still all over the shop on Saturday, with all weather prediction sites all saying different wind speeds and directions. I took a stab at the one I liked the most, and hooked up the dinghy sunday morning, with a mission to chase Bluefin with a mate.

headed out past GI with a moderate easterly at our backs, over the 5 fathom, and out into the blue water. we were going to troll lures until we found birds, but the birds where right there anyway, so out came the twisties, and first cast we were on! awesome little fighters, regardless of how light or heavy your gear is. I ended up switching to my 1.5kg squid outfit for shits n giggles, and boated the last of our bag.

it was all over red rover, when an orange boat (who was catching SFA) decided he'd had enough of watching us catch fish, and trolled straight through the middle of the school, which resulted in the whole school sounding to the depths, never to be seen again. all good though, we had our fun, and our bag was good, so we cruised back in at a leisurely 20 knots, getting back to woodies at a gentlemanly 9am. home, boat washed, and quality sashimi filleted by 10am, keeps the missus happy.

Was almost out of bait. At the point where I almost had to buy it. Very impressed with size for time of year. Could have got 30 no problem . Others where not big so I left them. My 1 year old grandson apparently isn't going to become fisherman . Lol we will see.

.. as long as its not blowing 25knot everyday. Ive managed to get out a couple times lately between what seems to be days on end of relentless 15knt plus breezes. Surface temp is ticking over and have even found pockets of 25 degree water lately. With the wind dropping a bit later in the week and some warm daytime temperatures im expecting to see a few mackie reports by the end of the weekend, fingers crossed one from yours truly :P

Here's a few photos since my last post.

Went out with a few of the boys Thursday morning for a fish off 5 Fathom, was a struggle to find any sized snapper amongst the little ones but good to see theres are some healthy sized schools out there!
We only came across one dhu just under unfortunately so he went straight back down , had a few welcome bycatches of KGs though.

Trolled our way back in to check the cray pots and found some tuna busting up..completely spooled me on my 3k reel on the first hookup, thankfully had a heavier combo rigged and ready to go straight away and landed some

All in all a decent mixed bag for the day

now to get back out and keep looking for a metro mackie!

Had a day on the shack attack charter boat out of Cervantes last week was abit of a tough day on the fish but the skipper tried to get us onto some fish we left 40 mins earlier than normal and we stayed over an hour longer than normal trying to get another dhu or 2. I did pretty well with my new outfit a finn nor offshore and penn battalion rod not expensive gear but its alot lighter than the penn 6/0 and broom stick rod i used to use. I caught 2 dhues at 75 and 76cm so i was pretty stoked. Only have a photo of 1 though which i got from Facebook. 

Got a good feed. Mate from work never got sized dhue or tuna or jumbo. All done .

 58 cm on a king wrasse fillet

 Caught a bone this morning in close down the end of the cliffs trying for a pinkie. Filthy conditions, wind, swell, forgot the sea anchor. Caught the bone first, then a big dart, a sand snapper and even a spangled. But no pinkies. Oddball collection of fish.

in by 8 30am love them morning didnt bag but good feed 

Squiding near d9. Had 1 only one. Come up and smash herring near us. Seen it for 2 mins. Then left. Didnt have any gear to try catch it.

 Fishing 100 metres deep, west of the muiron islands, hooked up to a beast and felt seriously undergunned with my pe3 jigging rod, got it up after a serious effort and we saw a cod shape, thought it was a greyband or eight at that snuck in close, but it was an absolutely massive rankin, 94cm long, estimated weight 12kg, I was chuffed with this fish, but my back wasn’t! 

 first jumbo for me, suprised how this thing even got into my 3/4 pot

1.85kg's - tasted real good 

size comparison & yes the white is size !

 can never get sick of these goodies