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Brag Rights, Catch and Release or Unusual Captures

X6 Puka mate with 2

 Soon as it was started it was over then long trip in well worth it 


Mackerel Islands Catches!

 Check out this cracker from Monday's charter! 800mm


A video to get you excited

 Kind of a long video but heres a video we took when at the avrohlos with saltwater 60-70cm pinkies getting returned

https://youtu.be/aEbArA50ynE


Bloody perth winter my last couple trips

Hey guys working through the good weather and veing home for the crap i decided it was time for a trip took the old boy away to fiji anyway got home from another swing at work and decided to jump on craigs saltwater charters at the abrohlos what a trip 3 drifts we caught and released over 70 legal sized snapper anyway im bad at stories here are the pics

 

 


Shark Bay Pinkies

 Couple nice snapper at Shark Bay, weather been great and beating the sharks most days


Been a while since my last big pinky !!

Been doing pretty well about 3km out on the reefs behind garden island lately with the usual early start in about 15m deep,burleying up and being patient. This one would be up there with the biggest ive ever caught . Was pretty happy when it hit the bottom of the boat .


A few fish since my last report

Havent posted in a while so thought I'd post a few pics since my last report on here. Working locally now has really limited my outings, working 5 and half days a week and the young fella at 19 months old keeps me pretty busy these days. If the weather is mint on a friday I tow the boat to work and head straight to the ramp on knock off for a quick sunset flick and a brew.

Snapper numbers seem to be picking up inshore last few months. Have been finding great numbers on the sounder but getting them to eat is a different story, have managed to pluck a couple here and there though.

First fish of the season I was trolling a small plastic for some herring for fresh bait to try my hand at some gummies when i sounded over some solid fish in 6m. I harassed this school for a good 45mins before finally getting an eat. 90cm long and the boat anchored nearby was stoked when I offered for them to take it home.

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A successful after-work session, 2 snaps and a size-able skippy :/

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Headed out with fellow member scotte last week and had a great little session tagging and releasing numerous snapper and also keeping a couple fish for a feed.

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Mid 50s keepers.

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Dad requested fillets so off we went. 4 dhus and a pink for the arvo. Has been some mint weather between the storms.

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Mum and dad will get a few meals out of those

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Headed out with fellow member Uncle and Blake from Compleat Angler Rocko to target salmon. Nothing crazy by salmon standards but we boated a few and had some laughs. Timed our run perfect as the season was almost non-existant this year, apart from a few stragglers on the northern beaches, the schools disappeared as quick as they arrived, it was all over within a week or so.

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Have been having some pretty crazy sessions doing some metro popping. Hard work, but the results are awesome. I have never fished for GT's but I imagine this is about as close as it gets, especially out of Perth. The surface explosions are pretty insane, with sambos climbing over each other smashing the popper, eventually hooking up sometimes just a metre or 2 from the boat. Unfortunately ive lost 8 lures since the last fish I landed, these guys play realy dirty in the shallows. Our last successful session saw us land one kingy out of 3 hookups.

Old mate underneath waiting for the next cast.

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A few other bits and bobs..
Im guessing the sounder shot with the solid arches hugging the bottom are big pinks or mulloway.

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This guy went gang-busters in the reefs behind GI

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Spare wheel carrier

 G'day guys. Just thought I'd ask around. Im looking for a signal spare wheel carrier for my 105 series Toyota landcruiser. ( swing arm ). Plenty of dual carriers around but it'll blow the budget. Send me a pm with any info .cheers..


Couple recent photos

 Few fish over the school holidays, still getting snapper in close around Perth although spent most of the holidays up at Exmouth diving for crays and catching whatever we could get past the Sharks. Will upload more photos later! Cheers, Max 


Early Morning Pinks

 Took Carl and Heath out early this morning before Sunrise. Dropped the pick, lines out, burley and it was on...

2 nice snapper onboard thanks to Heath's netting skills.

Lines back in, more burley, and another screaming run. Then all went quiet.

Ended up with 3 Snapper, 66, 85 and 87 cm. All spiked and bled put in ice slurry. flesh was excellent.

Good morning with the boys, home by 0830. 


Good mack from friday

Macky


Christened the new tub

 Cracker of a morning at Two Rocks. Anchored on some ground in 12 mts and dropped a 2 hook paternoster over the side baited with squid, threw a handful of pelets over, lifted the rod and was on, pulled hook let baits settle again, lifted the rod was on again, pulled the hook a second time. Let it settle again and tbis time came up solid. Nice dhu in the esky. Took the dopper rig off and put a plastic in, got the berley trail going and landed 2 smaller dhus which were released.

Pullled anchor and went searching, found some ground in 14 mts and decided to drift and cast placcies around. Five minutes later a nice snapper hit the deck. 
Very happy with a demersal bag out on my first trip chasing them in my new boat.
 

Next Gen

Brother and I have synced our fortnightly Fridays off and decided to take our youngest ones both 3 out today. Headed out from Hillarys after lunch to my whiting patch and managed to get 20 fat sandies in just over an hour in amongst a tonne of tiny flatties and race back for school pickup. My lil nephew was a star landing 3 on his own. Can't wait for dinner tomorrow night!


Bit of fishy action going on

 hey crew here’s a few pics of recent captures. 

17kilo dhu in under 30m on jig

and big pink cracked a meter 


Claytons dhue

Bit off story behind yesterday. I had double header on . One got off . Ian, Steve and young Clayton went out this morn and got it. Honestly glad for young fella to experience a solid fish. Would have made cracker double . No regrets young fella a smile to last a lifetime, that's what it is all about.


Huge Landbased GT

 About bloody time!!! I’ve tried for nearly 6 years to crack a good GT off the rocks and far out it’s been a struggle but this past trip north I managed to pull it off on light gear from a very rocky spot somehow! 

No idea on weight or length but at a guess we’ll over 25kg and length somewhere around 130cm I reckon. Caught on the old metal after I’ve spend thousands on dedicated GT gear. 

Gear used: 

oceans legacy specialist pe3-6 10ft rod, Shimano Twinpower 10000 SW-A, 50lb (pe4) Tasline, 100lb Varivas leader and 85g metals with upgraded hook and split rings. 


Kill Shot

 Fillets 


Father and son sdventure

Hey boys and girls

After working my ass off for a couple years in the dessert i thought bugger it time to spoil myself. Ive always wanted to catch a gt but couldnt bring myselfbto booking a place like oman and go straight for a 50kg. Started looking around and settled on fiji. As i was pricing it up it was all priced as groups or twin share. Bugger it i thought ill just pay for the old boy. It took no convincing and we raced around getting gear and him a passport. Anyway enough yapping ill let the pictures do the talking The deckie on lure retrieval If ur planning a holiday look no further than half cast fishing at voli voli good frew good food and awesome fishing


Nice day out

 newbie to fishwrecked, fantastic site with great info, thanks Dougie and Eric for showing me how it’s done out wide, first day out for a while on Thursday, great day out with a great bag of Baldies and Dhuies , this was the fish of the day not quite a PB but a beautiful fish. Love the west.


New boat record.

 I’m not a huge fan of Reds, there are better eating fish out there and you don’t get much fillet off them for their size. But they do look good so they seem to be at the top of the wish list for most customers. They cop a hammering and finding them yet alone a good one is getting harder, so it is nice to be surprised by a good one. While testing some new spots in the 80’s a bit north this one popped to the surface with very little fight. I knew it was good but it had been a while since we had seen a 10kg + red so was not too sure but still very happy. But when we got the scales out it was more shock than anything. It went 15kg on my good tested set of scales (went 16 on the first set). If you told me last week that you got a 15kg red I would prob say they don’t get that big here. Boat record prior to this was 13kg. It was part of a cracker 4 days of fishing with one of our groups. Bagging out every day and the and the next day having a 1 anchor bag out of big Goldband in 40min. Also went 4/3/2 on blacks with the little bit of trolling we did in the 4 days, biggest we put as 300lb.


Jurien Skips

Arrived with the old man yesterday and got a carton, some supplies and we were in the water by 2:30 with the mandatory pic for my brother who couldn't make it. With the swell pumping the outer reef we had no idea where to start looking so hit some drop offs just north of the lead line and anchored and burleyed up. As you can see in the pic they sell good burley up here.

Lots of undersize snapper and then something went a bit harder and the skippy had arrived and he had an awesome session even pulling out the bream rods for a bit of fun.

Remembering I had beer on board around dusk I took one sip and my floater was taken by something decent, I caught a glimpse of some big before it smoked me and I spent the next 10 minutes trying to pull a ray off the bottom but my PE2 rod was no match for it so I snapped off rather than snap my rod. Forearms are still burning

No snapper action by 6pm so we decided a pub meal was the go and  dropped my homemade oxy pots and headed in.


Hel’s Coral Bay Catch!

Hey Peeps. Back from Coral Bay and not loving life anymore, but pretty proud of my babies so thought I’d have a little brag. These are the only photos I didn’t look silly in lol.


Coral Bay last week

It was a bit windy and sharky but we still managed some good fish. The GT was 30kg, unbelievable. Good size sailfish too. cheers


Storm pinks

Quick fish this morn . Some good fish in a few locations. Had a ball. Used the lie a lot lawrance this morn. Rather than jrc.


Couple pinks from the weekend

 hey crew had a great weekend on the water and snagged a feed. Here’s a few pics of the capture and a new lump that I found on the way out.


Couple from the weekend

 A mate and I took the tinny north of the river for a couple days. Fished shallow on Saturday and everything we hooked smashed us.

Sunday we had better luck with me landing a 78 cm dhuie and dropping another 10 minutes later. We shifted to another spot and first drop resulted in my first baldy for the area, 52cm.

To round the day off my mate landed a 57cm dhuie.


couple more yesterday

 glassy conditions made for some good fishing all fish released.


A dhu or two

 Quick run out the back of three mile today stubbled across this in the sounder dropped down a jig and a placcy ended up with this and one released after 2 drifts over it.


PB Mully

 Have to have a brag about this one. Lost the last three big size mully's I hooked 2 pulled hooks and one my knot came undone in the surfs edge. Have not stopped kicking myself over the knot mistake.  Hopefully the lucks back @ 147cm and estimated at least 30kg. 


Finally An Offshore Pinky

I still haven't nailed a size pinkie beyond the 3 Mile usually getting plagued by 45cm models. Reckon I've lost a couple by them swimming at the boat and shaking the hook though.

Headed out on a solo mission yesterday at lunchtime to explore that lump I marked last fortnight in the 30s and the bite was disappointing slow. Drifted off the lump and was getting a couple of good hits on the drift bait rig while I was setting up my jig and pulled up a small pinky over ground showing not much at all.

Another drift and nailed a 320 Blackarse and next drift not even a bite but  kept the drift going and hit that rubble again and my rod bent over and took off. Head shakes galore and this time I was ready to wind hard when he swam up. After a few good runs I had the gaff into my first offshore pink.

Now where are those baldies at!