pretty happy fisherman atm 

 My brother Aron has been hoping to tick off mako shark from his list of landbased captures for a fair while now and yesterday he had an insane day. He landed a 3.2m tiger shark then later that day a monster mako off the rocks. 

 This is what he said about it. 

“Smashing goals I thought was out of reach! Ended up selling the majority of my shark gear but kept 2 wire traces, well I put them to good use today! First two shark baits I’ve put out this year and managed my pb shark and also my first tiger shark around 3.2m, after getting the hook out and releasing that beast watching it swim off strong I didn’t think the day could get any better, after throwing in all the burley and fish scraps ready to go home we saw a mako cruise in so I quickly raced back tied up again and sent out another bait and within 5 minutes the mako was on it! after an epic battle that lasted over an hour we finally washed it up onto the rocks! most insane day off the rocks I’ve ever had with the others landing some awesome fish to.”

he landed the sharks on a Purglass B Extreme South African sliding rod, Avet LX Raptor spooled with 50lb Tasline backing to 24kg stern mono top shot. Massive achievement to get from the rocks!!

 After a couple of frothies friday night with the wife, bro inlaw and  his girl, we were feeling sat morn wasnt going to suit for a run out at early hrs and a sleep in was in order.

Well when i awoke at 6:30 I was up and dragging them down the driveway promising the goods. Even my wife who hasnt been out for a loooong time (1.5 yr) due to recovery from lifes challenges and that she swims every sat morn said , Screw it, I'm coming. Well just as well she did!

On the water by 7:30 for a big steam to a 16mt mark i found during the cray run of 2017. We were anchored and throwing out the berley in no time and Caz was quick to bait up and send it down so she could out do the rest of us while i sorted gear and bait for the guest. It must have been the second drop when Caz loaded up with the first keeper of the morning at around the 670 mark. She was happier than a little pig in shit with herself, though no time to gloat as a line out was a line not catching!

Ten minutes of silence past with not much activity until I heard expletives flow from her mouth again and the new rod I grabbed for her a year ago was buckling over again with alolt more go in it this time. To our surprise a smaller 580 model appeared on the surface and her smile kept grew and the banter started as we were not even getting a touch on ours. 

We sat out for another hr or so and picked up some skippy for the bro inlaw before calling it a day and heading in (not to mention some muppet forgot the esky) to avoid the heat of the day and clean the catch.

I would give up every catch from a fishing trip to see that chuffed look of happiness on her face! Not the look in the Pic as that was pain from teeth in fingers, well composed though!

Enjoy Peeps!

Leon 

 after a shit start to the morning the weather backed off and got out into a few. This one went 18.1kg biggest on jig to date. Still trying to jig up a dhu bigger than what I have speared. The search continues.

 Great day out on the water today a few hours north of Perth. Tried hard for a Mackie but it wasn’t to be. Got a nice constellation prize of a few nice SBT, wire traces didn’t scare them off at all. 

Got a few good fish off the bottom too with a bag out of 2 baldies and 2 dhuies. My decky outfished me 10-1 today, but at least I caught the biggest fish haha. 

Also just finished running in my new motor after my suzuki died on me end of last year. Stoked with the new Yamaha, does 50km/hr at WOT with the boat as loaded as it ever will be, and gave me an average of 2.6km/L for the day. 

Cheers Paul

 Very fun day in  Roebuck bay my wife got her first Threadfin salmon today on her new Shimano spheros.

Staying in the old's Florida Beach house whilst they're camping down the road. Go figure...

Launched at Dawesville and drove down 7 mile to the campsite and hit the deep water and there was only heaps of big females so we head into the 0.5s and it was blue heaven.

 Tired a different location instead of the gay bay last weekend. The little 5m savage clocked 120km but worth it got a good mixed bag and found some not bad ground. 

Agree with Robpado in a seperate post " a few nice snapper around at the moment"

Went out this morning specifically targetting SBT as it seems I have lost my SBT mojo at the moment.

Dropped the second lure in this morning, doing a couple of knots, just getting started and bingo.....850mm pinky!

A PB pinky for me and it followed a 13kg PB dhubanger and a 45cm PB KG from a couple of weeks ago! 

Our fishery is in great shape....although, I rate myself as a bit of an SBT guru I still dont know where the SBT are for 2018! Can't find them out wide and too much weed in close for my limited patience  

    finding some good snapper around at the moment along with a heaps of YTK that are always good to get the reels screaming....... 

 Had to put in the hard work yesterday, well when you are retired not so much hard work as being patient, but landed our limit, 1 Dhu, couple of Black arse and a nice Baldy that we dined on last night, throw  in a KG and sambo for some exercise and it was a nice day on the water. Good to see fisheries at the ramp (point peron) doing their checks, amazing to see people still getting caught out when checked.

Double header .( dhue boys).3 drops . 3 baldies. 2 dhues. Tried for kgs no go. Dhue s and dhues. Fair few around 550 to 600. All swam away. Took old wallfootrot out . Got good feed between both of us.

Some absolute stonkers around. Got some just under 3 kilo with heads off. Shared between boys( after I skinned them). Even seen heaps of there eggs unusual for this time of year.

 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!