hi all will be spending some time in albany - king river caravan park , over the chrissy break and just wondering on a heads up as to where to try for some land based squid & whiting any advise will be appreciated 

Good days 

Well summer is nearly upon us and that means Yellow is the flavour of the month. Had some great sessions in the Peel and Metro regions this week, with yellowfin and yellowtails coming in thick and fast. Sizes of both species being quite exceptional in my experiences, numerous plump yellowfin including a few more than normal over 35cm and over 10 yellowtails at an average size of a metre and some well over.

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Why let a pupil free day get the the way of my Friday ADO? The kids did brilliantly with a couple of decent but fixable tangles with the middle child taking choccies for fisherman of the day.

35 very plump sandies all up in about 70 mins followed by HJs... for the sake of the kids...

Hard slog to try and catch our bag limit for the day. I caught all the Gurnard on the bottom meat while Moking was catching all the King Gorge on the paternoster rig with squid baits. It felt like there was only one rod over the side catching anything of quality so I had to swap to the paternoster to start catching. Ended up with a solid feed. 

Been up here since Sat with just the kids and steamed out twice staying inside the bay due to a more than decent swell running.

The old man popped up for a visit and we headed out today to some bombies in 10m I sounded out 3 years ago.

First drift and Lachie hooked up and we saw a flash of silver and it went hard disappeared and pulling string. The boy did well keeping tension on the fish and letting it run when it went.

Some very careful gaff work and it was in the boat going 72cm and a touch under 7kg. A new PB by a longshot.

My 8y old landed two Blackarse leaving Dad empty handed... again.

 Karratha fishing at its best. bit of a freezer filler trip for the lads.

I finally got some time to get out on the ski Saturday. But after failing my anchor and burley session then running out to the mid 30s and failing to find a baldie. I opted to pluck a few tuna out of the multiple schools getting worked by birds and head home. I landed 3 with multiple dropped hook ups, at one point I had half a dozen good sized fish barrelling at the ski shoulders out and mouths open. Caught on a raider metal and a big john's bucktail. Swell was up but when the wind dropped I managed to run home at 45knts. Not big slobs but  plentiful out there and tasty as hell.

 Snuck out for a quick 1hr fish whilst away in exxy with the family....

Quickly turned into a absolute battle of a lifetime.

Pe3 and 40lb leader, rigged with a ASWB flutter drop 40g and a prototype indian pacific pe3 rod.

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Had a good day out yesterday. Dhuies were on straight away. 

Bought a brand new jig, When I bought it I thought yep Dhuies going to love this thing. Pulled it out of the packet clipped it on. Set the drift, sounder lit up. Dropped the jig and it was like you see it on YouTube videos, it hit the bottom and whack, the rod loaded up, fight was on. First time this has ever happened to me. I could tell it was a solid fish Was only in 30 odd metres of water, got it to the top, right next to the boat and then all of sudden my line went slack, I'd busted the snap swivel. I could see the fish going towards the back and behind the boat grabbed the gaff slipped over the back to grab it and all I could see was this big Dhuie at least 80cm model swimming away with this brand new jig in his gobb. Needless to say I was spewing. 

In the mean time my deckie was on, she was loosing string. Once she won that battle up came an 88cm Dhuie swung back around hooked up again and it was all over; we were baggedbagged out on Dhuies within an hour of putting the boat in. 

Got a couple of good ones . Small pinks small sambos pain in ass.

 Quick trip to Shark Bay fish take a bit of finding but when you do good fun.

Few good fish from a trip up north.

The big donkey trout went 740 and the black spot tusk 610.

Red caught on rod and real.

 Couple of nice ones from the other night. 81cm and 86cm

 Few rubys from a recent trip. Managed to get the little quinine out to the 300s and get a few on the jigs. 

 G'day everyone, been a long time between posts, don't get out as much as I use to. Anyway here's a few fish pics from the last year or so. 

 Managed a nice metro 71cm baldie today, new boat record for me.

Oldest boy and I pushed out again today and he was finally on the board first drift. Dropped the pick today and burleyed up and we got our bag very quickly through heaps of 45-49 pinkies... some of which are now in a shark's belly. Also nailed my first pinkie on a placcie.

It was a long 10 mile pushing back into the 10kn SE on a 45 degree angle and ended up doing and extra 2 miles to take it front on.

Arrived last night and the weather turned it on after a week of hell according to my cousin who left this morning.

Woke up to beautiful condition and decided a late start was on the cards on account of the Mrs sleeping in till 9.

No idea where to start so I decided to push straight out to the channels and found some ground and my 2nd pulled in a ripper Rankin. After 5 NWers we shoved off to the Barr Flats and caught a heap of Black Snapper keeping the ones 380+ with Missy Moo landing the pick of the bunch. My oldest caught SFA and is putrid so we're pushing out again tomoz for retribution.

 Took Wednesday off to make the most of the perfect weather.

Quietish day, but the fish that we're brought on board we're good! PB baldy (570), 470 black bum, and another bluebone.

As usual, few undersized snapper and dhu's also caught and released.

Moking was having work stress in retirement. So what does a good friend do??? He takes him fishing. And this is the result. Now he can go back to retirement work with a smile on his face. Haha

Took an RDO Monday just gone as the forecast of light winds and some rough weather the week before, I figured if I could find some stirred up water I'd be in with a chance for my first snapper for the season. Anchored up on sunrise on some inshore reefs not far out of Woodies and I let out a sigh of relief as the current carried the first handful of cubed mulies in the same direction as the wind. I fished with 3 rods to cover all bases, an unweighted bait for the rod holder, a lightly weighted plastic for another rod holder intended to fall/dance extremely slowly through the water column and a slightly heavier plastic that I would jig back through the burley trail. Didnt take long for the burley to do its thing with a couple of just undersized pinks coming in on the bait rod. I was fairly run off my feet fishing the 3 rods as my game-plan for anchoring and burleying for snapper is to always have your rigs slowly falling through the water column, so once my rigs hit the bottom after a long cast out the back I give the reel quite a few winds and get the rigs at least halfway up then let them slowly drift back down again and repeat until you're under the boat and then start all over again. Throw in chopping burley and jigging back the third rod and all of a sudden fishing isn"t so relaxing any more!

Working up a sweat paid off when the jigging plastic got clunked by a solid fish. With all the reports of 500-600mm sized snapper around I had opted to throw around a smaller 4in plastic and jighead, so I was stoked to land a solid pink on the 15lb outfit that ended up going 890mm.

I was well into the rhythm of cast, jig, cast, chop, throw, wind, jig jig jig, wind, chop, throw, cast, jig, wind when the slow sinking plastic outfit buckled over in the rod holder. This fish went 800mm. It coughed up a heap of my burley cubes and one of my whole fish baits that had flung off on a cast earlier in the morning when I got the fish to the side of the boat, burley is key!

I ended up with 2 sized snapper, missed a few big runs on the slow sinking plastic, and a dozen undersized snapper on the bait rod. Always worth mixing it up having bait and plastic offerings, some days they'll only eat one! I came in closer to try for skippy but couldn't get away from the rat yellowtail kings.

Friday evening I headed out with the brother and got stuck into some mulloway. Mixed it up again with plastics and livebait. Livebait was king claiming 3 fish but it was a blast to nail a few on plastic on a baitcaster outfit aswell. The first fish was on the first cast after anchoring, it smashed a plastic that I was slow hopping back to the boat, took me well by surprise!

Hope you enjoy the read guys, tightlines.

 Hi Guys

Thought I would post up a few pics of our montes trip from April.

Spent a good week over there camped up on the islands. As usual fishing was fairly good, with some excellent days and some fairly average. And as always sharks were ever present.

Shallow water fishing was awesome, and also cleaned up with some squid one day.

Really love the place!! Can't wait to go back.

Got some crackers

Been almost 2 years since I have seen him. Finished his quarantine last night . Squid on menu this morn. Plenty of good ones around .

I took a couple of young blokes from the UK for a fish on Saturday and it is fair to say that they both are very novice fishermen. We spent the first hour in the shallows so they could get in some practice before heading out wider.

Fished a few marks without any joy before moving to another spot and whilst lining up the drift, one of the young blokes pulls out a banana and starts eating it! After delivering a barrage of expletives to him and him nearly choking in his haste to consume the banana, the three of us dropped down. 

Baits hit the bottom and almost instantaneously their rods load-up and they are into what appears to be reasonable fish. The first Dhu comes up and after sorting out tangled lines, the 2nd Dhu hits the surface. 

What is almost as good as catching fish, is seeing others, and in particular, novices catch fish on your boat. 

Was a ripper day.

Shot out Easter Monday got Moking onto a nice Dhuie. Pulled a bit string. Actually he cleaned us up, got most of the catch. 

We bled last time out a couple of weeks ago. No north tide this time and the pickers were out. 

Hey guys, long time no post by me, have been trying to upload reports regularly but seems my phone and its photo resolution is not compatible with the forum and the pictures come out all skew-whiff, so have had to upload to a third party photo sharing website first.

Finally ticked off the metro mack for this season, didnt think it was going to happen after a run of bad luck with 2 fish going full airborne on the strike and missing the hooks and getting snipped off by another while targeting sambos in the shallows. New PB for me at 1.44m

Took dad out a little while ago to chase some fillets. Halfway across the sound I realised I had forgotten the sounder and only had the GPS. All the fish come off the one spot, and after only ever catching 1 baldie off Perth before, we ended up with 3 in one session.

Have been taking advantage of the very little swell off Perth lately and sneaking into some gnarly ground hoping for some tailor out of the whitewash, some sessions better than others but I think if I het them at sunrise or sunset I would be in for a hot session. Havent had any luck on poppers yet, all the fish have been caught on stickbaits or plastics.

Last year I won a $1400 reel through Recfishwests FADs photo comp and was honoured to find out they were going to run the photo on the front cover of their 90 page Annual Report. You can check out the online version here https://recfishwest.org.au/news/recfishwest-2020-annual-general-meeting-reflecting-on-a-year-of-great-gains-despite-big-challenges/

I also feature in the current Western Angler, where I answer some questions about how I got into fishing and some of my favourite styles and share some techniques on how I target YTK.

On Good Friday I took the young fella out for a quick session around the inshore reefs for some fun on herring and we come across a little school of big snook which was a lot of fun on the plastics. We had a good laugh as he got to experience first hand at how smelly and slimey they can be.

I snuck out yesterday arvo for a quick anchor and burley session in the shallows hoping for some big autumn skippy but with the lack of swell recently I might have to wait a bit longer before I see any around the reefs. Had a red hot session just flicking back mulie cubes on the 12lb gear, landing a handful of 50cm kings and a bunch of 40cm pinkies and skippy. As I was packing up so I could be home before dark the big rod went off and after a decent tug of war I boated one of the best kingies Ive caught in a long while, going just under 1.1m and with very fat sides, this fish had been gorging on the abundance of bait out there at the moment!

Still some nice ones around and they're all nice and heavy. Did 5 runs on 7 nets for our 8 with Dad and my eldest boy