[img_assist|fid=20601|thumb=0|alt=salmonfoot|caption=Salmon on 8lb on Manns Tail Dragger]

One of many today caught from shore, as you can see the salmon was still a bit frisky hence flicking my rod back into the water almost(notice the reel is blurry, as it was moving when the photo was taken).

Boy are they good fun :D

Salmon 1

Salmon Skirt

Salmon 2

Salmon Closeup

Salmon 3

Salmon 4

We ended up releasing a small dhufish and a few skippy along with a beautiful king george dropped boatside. The wind was pretty blustery all day, but soon as we saw the birds starting to work, it was time! Landed close to a dozen salmon and had a ball on the light gear. Have got some really good footage I will get up in the coming days.

Well we have just come back from a trip to the abrolhos islands and had a great time except for the wind blowing non-stop 24/7 at 35+ knots. Day one consisted mostly of snapper and day 2 was baldies and more baldies. 10+ landed for the day between pots. Anyway here is a few pics of what was kept for the camps.

P.S Sambo's are like blowfish up there and in shallow water were like torpedo's

[img_assist|fid=20429|thumb=0|alt=Baldies|caption=I was Happy]

The first day of fishing comprised of a teams challenge, Team Penn vs Team Stradic. After landing about 30 salmon trout each on hard bodies and plastics we decided to go breaming. Team stradic landed 2 1kg black bream with many releases. The troll on the way back saw a bay snapper landed on a hardbody trolled at 8knts.

The Easter challenge offshore from Walpole was greated with beautiful conditions. Our first spots didn't produce and a change towards Chatam Island saw me land 2 45cm pink snapper and an 80cm samsonfish which I tagged and released. We got onto lots of 1.5kg skippy on baits and jigs and lots of sgt baker. Another couple of spot changes saw me land 2 3kg queen snapper and a beautiful harlequin. The other boys managed a few oddities, a puffer fish, a huge scorpion cod and several 3kg striped tuna. We also caught another harlequin and big fat breaksea. Taking out Best On Deck for the day gives me 3 hot fishing sessions in a row, NICE!

Well me and mad fisher went out for a fish this morn, after a few engine troubles(my bad, should learn to grease the steering arm!) we eventually got out. Windy as all hell we putted along until about 5 meters from the boat a school of salmon came out of no where. First cast with a snap back on my 8lb bream gear resulted in a hook up, after a 5 minute fight i had the first one boat

[img_assist|fid=20152|thumb=0|alt=Salmon on snapback]

My new car, up from the old 92 camry wagon.......

so Shizza....wat are U upgrading to from your terrano??

[img_assist|fid=19247|thumb=0|alt=subbie fish mobile]

Got myself one of these puppies today, picked it up 2nd hand but near new condition spooled with braid . Couldnt resist a bargain.

So shizz is now the owner of one stella 10k (No honsu, its not a daiwa,but lets not forget Shimano > Daiwa haha)

[img_assist|fid=19122|thumb=0|alt=stellaaa|caption=New toy, stella 10k.]

:D

Now i need to find some fish to match it :p

Here's a few photo's of one of the marlin the boys landed up at Exmouth last week for Gamex. These are just still shots taken from the video camera, unfortunately the footage isn't that crash hot so the stills will have to do for the moment. Hopefully when Gully gets back in a week or so we will have some bonanza stuff. Heres a few pics for the moment.. Anyone guess what size this one would have weighed in as?

[img_assist|fid=18146|thumb=0|alt=Gribbo's Gamex Marlin]

[img_assist|fid=18149|thumb=0|alt=Marlin Closeup - Gamex]

[img_assist|fid=18156|thumb=0|alt=Exmouth Marlin landed during Gamex]

The boys went out a few weeks ago using snapbacks and landed a couple of dhufish. I've only just managed to get the photos, this is the best fish landed for the day, not a bad effort!
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Last night went out with Bundy a bit of a breaming nut....found some
very angry pinkies in 10m of water....ended up with 4
....very happy with the amount of fish out there at the moment,
considering crap tide, crap moon and a glass off night.....

[img_assist|fid=17605|thumb=0|alt=Bundy's Pinkie]

[img_assist|fid=17608|thumb=0|alt=Angry pink snapper]

Spent our long weekend down at Albany for the second time in 10yrs....and also to avoid the crowds at Dunsborough...and also the lack of accomodation there.
Wat a beautiful place to spend the weekend.
Oh fishing was great as well....heaps of places to fish...ended up at Salmon Hole and Cables Beach. All the fish were caught from small schools of fish to 40fish. They're pretty chunky as well....not the usual lean ones from the metro area. We ended up with a lazy dozen or so with 2 kept for the table.
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I've been having a look through some of Andy Mac's photos and there are some absolute gems!

Pink Snapper

Harlequin

Samsonfish

Fat Dhufish

Baldchin

Spanish Mack

Dhuie

Venus Tuskfish

Baldchin

Blackass

Tuskfish

Queen Snapper

We went out from Ocean Reef this morning to some spots on the back of Direction Bank. We found a nice lump which produces a 55cm dhuie first up, which we release as it was in good condition and things were looking promising. Next fish were a couple of baldchin groper and venus tuskfish off a nice coral bombie which had mark smiling. Shortly after something huge was hooked and immediately called for a big dhuie from the runs.. I hooked up onto something at the same time until things started getting tangled and a mess was had, big fish gone.

Leatherjacket

Southern Blue

Toona!

Sgt Baker Snapback

Samsonfish

Harlequin

Today we decided to head out from East Fremantle and try a variety of fishing. The day started with chaos at the ramp as the Swanfish Competition wound up as most people wanted to launch. There were also two boats left high and dry at the ramp as they must have tied up and not realised the tide was going to drop.

Anyway, we headed out to the back of Stragglers and worked a little ledge that went from 20 to 11 meters in a short space and had quite a few schooling fish on it. First fish landed was a baby leatherjacket on a snapback, it was smaller than the squidgy itself!

Click to enlarge photos!

[img_assist|fid=14169|thumb=1|alt=Lenny's First Red!!]

[img_assist|fid=14172|thumb=1|alt=Paul GT]

[img_assist|fid=14175|thumb=1|alt=Rohan GT]

[img_assist|fid=14178|thumb=1|alt=Blue Line or Grassy Emperor]

[img_assist|fid=14215|thumb=1|alt=Chaminda's GT]

And one from a recent trip:

[img_assist|fid=14209|thumb=1|alt=Coral Trout-Barrier Reef Trip|caption=Lucky it's on the safety of the Barrier Reef!!!]

KALBARRI ELECTRICAL SERVICES ULTRALIGHT

A big thankyou to Paul Maindok who is Kalbarri Electrical Services for his sponsorship and naming rights this year. The weather was one of the worst yet, not dangerous but very windy! The 2-day Ultralight runs in conjunction with our local comp, sponsored by the club, and also ran over the two days.

The boat section of the local comp was very thin due to the weather with regulars not fishing. No bottom fish were recorded the first day, but good snapper and 3kg tailor by the dynamic brothers Simon and Daniel Tarasek fishing the and based section set them in the lead. Laurie Malton had a good session at Chinamans on the Friday night catching and releasing 5 tailor, keeping the biggest that weighed in at 3.9kg being the biggest for the year to date.

[img_assist|fid=13609|thumb=0|alt=Steven's Shark|caption=18kg Shark]
[img_assist|fid=13615|thumb=0|alt=Laurie's Tailor|caption=3.9kg Tailor]

The river section was a bit under represented and was difficult to fish due to the muddy water flowing out into the ocean from cyclone Clare earlier in the year. Brett Bain did well though with 2 bream brought in live for a total weight of .858kgs.

[img_assist|fid=13612|thumb=1|alt=Rebecca's Tailor|caption=Winning bottom bouncing tailor]
[img_assist|fid=13618|thumb=0|alt=Simon's Morwong]

The second day was even windier with only one fish recorded from the bottom senior section. Rebecca, a bit embarrassed, weighed her little tailor and picked up the bottom section prize. Steven Eley also had a bottom fish and weighed it in under the junior section picking up the prize for his 18.65 dusky whaler. Di Stewart has 4 live bream from the river and took the section from Brett to win. Simon’s thumper land based morwong was notable.

The only 3 game fish were weighed in for the Ultra Light. Steve Wiseman aboard “Top Deck” with Tony Smith aboard showed a small mackerel caught on 6kg line but was not big enough to score. Laurie Malton with his usual family crew of Sue, Rebecca and Jared hid behind Black Rock and soaked baits for mulloway. A lucky break for Laurie saw him hook-up and land a 12.15kg mulloway on 3kg line, which was big enough to claim a National line class record with ANSA. Lots of other fish were hooked but lost by the crew. The second day was the same swinging on anchor with “Top Deck” and “Bulawayo Buoy” out at Black Rock again. “Top Deck” gave up early but it all went off later aboard “Bulawayo Buoy” with numerous hook-ups on heavier gear still resulting from bust offs. Must have been sharks, but Jared Malton had the lucky break after losing one and hooking up almost immediately again to a 5kg mulloway on 4kg gear. This fish is also a pending National Junior 4kg line class record.

Mr Salmo posted up some great pink snapper photos.. Thought I'd put them in the brag board as they are pretty damn awesome. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

After completing my boatsmart course last week it was finaly my time to take the boat out without my normal skipper, Hillaries was my target and the 3 mile i thought would be a good place to start. After 3 hrs without any luck i decided to head out alittle wider. My first drop at new location approx 4mile out i got what i wanted it wasnt huge but for my first time skippering a boat, finding new ground and finaly some fish i thouht was great. Anyway i managed my first (ever) dhuie from this spot and it was size (54cm). I then hooked 2 more im sure where dhuies but tried to pass on the rod so i could film the catch (Had 2 sexy ladies on board). But both were lost during the fight as they are relativly new to fishing). 

Happy Fish Hunting

Shane (looking4mulloway)

Pink Snap

Shikari

Sambo

Sambo Hug

Jigged Sambo

Day's Catch

Had a great day out in the south wester which didn't blow in. Lots of tackle lost and many big bustoffs, a few were landed. Hitting the sambo's after a few beers wasn't the best idea, but still bloody good fun. Oh, and notable mention must go to super dhue, what a classic...