Another weekend with a lot of variety and some more crazy fish. 

Saturday we went to a stupidly remote place 2 fishers and 2 divers, 4x4 into it on some crazy tracks that are all erroded and washed out or overgrown and im fairly sure cars havent been down it for a very long time, we dived the calm side but water was dirty so grabbed 5 big abalone and got out with a flatty as well. Dropped our catch at the car and went to find my brother and mate who went to the rough side that was a lot deeper, found them down a 130m high cliff and went down the ropes they had tied to get down to them, Aron has landed 2 grouper on jigs and smoked by another much bigger one. we mucked around for a bit more before Aron has hooked up on the 20lb setup and a whole crab, few minutes later and up pops his biggest grouper of the day. got it up and then we called it a day and headed back into town.

Sunday we didnt have anything planned other than work on the car and fix it up after the previous days abuse and i woke up late and Aron has already left to go for a fish. with the weather being so nice i went for a dive after lunch with a mate and and ive picked up a nice sized little blue and michael is waving a silver fish at me from a fair way away, swam over and noticed it was a dhuie. was thinking to myself geez that looks a bit small but as ive got close ive seen it and the barstard has got himslef his second albany dhu at 61cm from 6m of water 50m off the rocks. all i could find was a few small dhu's and i spent ages diving the deeper 15-25m water along the back edge to find one and michael has got one in the shallows on top of the reef against the rocks haha.

Got back to the car and checked my phone and got an update from Aron and Ethan and both have picked up sambos off the rocks at a spot close to town and Aron has got his first sambo off the rocks around 10kg on 20lb gear and a live skippy on slide. 

Another weekend over but that gives us time to prepare for the next trip and find some new spots to try out and hopefully find a few more good fish.

3 of these came from 1.9meters off Rockingham!

Plenty of empty shells around
 

 what another insane weekend along the south coast for us. lots of fish, screaming drags, few firsts and an old curse of mine lifted!!!

saturday we went out rock hopping to a remote location we found on google earth, trecked it in using ropes to get to the lower ledges but finaly made it there and groper where the first target, first cast for my brother and Ryan resulted in them both getting a nice grouper each about 5-6kg on unweighted crabs, they both where released and my first cast resulted in an absolute smoking on "groper drag" by a fish i couldnt even turn before it burried my in a reef ledge. mucked around with bait and jigs and picked up a bonito and 4 nice big black arse. packed up and headed to a spot half way back to the car that looked promosing and Aron has hooked a nice fish that is giving him a lot of trouble on 40lb and his 8-12kg rod and poor calatina 5000 is singing away in protest, few minutes later up pops a nice 12kg fish that we gaffed and kept, few more casts and ive picked up a rat then home time and the rest of the walk back out.

sunday last minute a few of us went down to a common ledge and Aron slides a live herring into some deep water before hooking a monster sambo or king that quickly burries him on stupidly tight drag!! That was a BIG fish!!!

now a gummy shark off a beach has been a goal of mine for a good few years now, always either weatched others catch them, lost them at my feet or had something else go horribly wrong and one way or another ive missed out so tonight i gave it a good crack at a beach out of town and i broke the curse!!! 10KG LAND BASED GUMMY!!!!!! over the moon with this fish on my 20lb setup and a strip of herring and first cast of the night!!
 

Headed out of Pt Peron on Thursday arvo planning on a sambo jig but got sidetracked on the way out by numerous tuna schools. Throughout the day we woulda seen around 8 schools of stripeys and sbt, the stripeys pretty good size but from what we saw jumping the southern blues are only about 1-2kg. The bust-ups probably started at about 35m and further. Got a couple tuna and a couple rat sambos, seems the bigger fish have moved on to congregate together elsewhere and the smaller fish have stayed behind but still got a bend in the rod so pretty happy. Rigged up the jig with a skirted assist from Jigging Sport Australia and found I got way more hits than what I usually do jigging without skirted assists, just have to get them off the bottom quick before a dhu or snapper find em. Got some footage so threw together a short clip aswell. Make sure to watch in 720p.

 Decent little shovel at horse beach a few weeks ago, nice little fight and let him live another day :)

Hi FW'ers,

Just letting you all know that might be coming up to Green Head yahooooooooooooo they have fixed the ramp that has sunk so know you have two ramps, looking good for people coming up for Xmas, was their at the beginning of the week and its a go for the ramps. No seaweed and beach looks good, water ok as well

Spent all my life trying to get the perfect boat. Then when I find one bloody grandson wants to take over

I have decided to remove the origional post.

Like most have mentioned it was just a bit of fun and no harm done.

But the fact is any media about sharks (good or bad) in Coral Bay is bad for tourisum as a whole.

Unfortunately some people are that narrow-minded that seeing this may make them avoid Coral Bay.

I know everyone on here is smarter than that and that is why I origionally just posted a couple of photos for this fourm to enjoy.

But I dont want the media getting any more infomation on the matter so I have decided to remove them.

We have been inundated by phone calls by the media but have just said we know nothimng about it. 

The story in the paper was positive (and very funny) but is still not good for tourisum in Coral Bay.

 Hey all :)

Last Sunday i decided it was about time i went down to my favourite little stretch of flats fishing in the canning river. I got down there at around 1pm and as per usual there was little wind around and the conditions were perfect. I started to have a flick in front of the rowing club beside the canning bridge . Within 20 minutes of fishing i managed to pull a couple of nice sized fish out amoungst the blowies. One of those fish was a 32cm bream which put up an entertaining fight on the 4lb braid. The other fish being a decent sized lizard (Flathead) coming in at 46cm. The z-man grub 2.5inch watermelon causing the damage. A couple of hours had past and my mind was starting to go else were so i decided to move along up to the stretch of beach inbetween the rowing club and the canning bridge were i saw some rather large schools of baitfish being bullied around by something. So i changed lure to a zx30 and had a couple of casts near these schools of baitfish. Within the space of half an hour i manged to land 3 tailor (38cm, 33cm and 36cm) and another little black bream coming in at 28cm. With 20 minutes left before mum was coming to pick me up i kept plugging away at this little stretch of beach and manged to snag another flathead coming in at 34cm.

 First time dragging our boat up to Coral Bay.

Had a great time and in one day went 3-3-2 on baby blacks,.. The one we dropped was a good fish.

same day had a cracking time on YFT.

cant wait to get back to Perth and get into in over chrissy.

syked

 Saw this on the revinue raisers face book page. Any one see it? 

 hey all prob going up to kalbarri on my days off on a few weeks what is the bezt place to stay that i can take wife and kids fishing but when they annoy me i can still go get some monsters. Just looking to go off beaches and rocks this time. Also whats getting caught and any tips???? Thanks guys

had my cray pots out for a few weeks now ,and one in particular has an unusual large amount of algae growing on it ,question will it affect catching and why is this so,its a pro pot not home made / 3/4 any advice would be appreciated

im finding that dhui fish in particular has had a fishhy smell this past year when vacuumed sealed  frozen  & then  cooked , but not in the past years when just wrapped in glad wrap ,anybody had similar experience , or just  overly fussy?.

after work on friday me and the guys loaded up my car and headed out to a little place i call heaven, camped the night and got up early (before sunrise) and started the long treck in with the dive and fishing gear.
mission for the day was to catch and release with the line fishing and shoot enough for a feed so we all could take a few kg of fish home. first 3 casts for me ended in pulled hooks, first foxfish off the rock and first queeny as well and we all had similar results with the baits before we switched to crabs and grouper where the targets. cowan and jayden had the best luck with both getting some rats and pulling hooks to some monsters!!!

after the sun came up a bit couple of us jumped in to try shoot a few fish and explore. got a heap of fish and came back to the line guys having got a heap more and let a lot go and kept a few because of injuries getting them up the rocks.

11:30 and we had over 50kg of fish in our rock pool and that was enough to keep us all happy and we all got a few fish each. total for the morning between 5 of us line fishing and spearing including released fish was 7 blues to 21kg, 8 queenies, 4 fox fish, 2 harlequin, 1 boarfish and lots of other bits and pieces. back in town and all cleaned up by 5 pm.

today we got up late with a hangover and headed out late to a rock ledge close to town to try for some sambos. jimmy got a nice little one on 40lb and a live herring and lost a good one on soft plastic and i hooked a monster on my saltiga 5000 and full lock i couldnt turn it and after a few minutes i had a knot fail and away that went. really frustrating as it was a very big fish!!!

 

Will try make this my last report for a single shark, looks like it's gonna be a good summer for the tigers so don't want to bore everyone with multiple reports.

Tonight makes 3 Tigers in 5 days with a mate landing the 3rd tonight, no photo's of the 3rd one just yet need to get them off him tomorrow. 

This little female was the second landed, poor thing couldn't even pull line against 5kg of drag. For the record I was using 200lb uncoated wire and fished no more than 5kg of drag, the exact same as was done for the near 3m tiger previously caught. 

All caught cockburn sound area.

Cheers

Spent the weekend fishing the rocks around albany. 
saturday the plan was for a sambo or kingy, first spot we went to wansnt flash so we moved and the next spot was much better. got a few small things and a salmon before jimmy has hooked up on the 30lb setup and his little 6000 stradic is singing away. after lots of freespooling and gaining and loosing line and somehow keeping it away from the heavy reef this unknown finaly tired out and we got the first glimpse of it after 40 minutes and its broke the surface!! HUGE SAMBO!!!! we where stoked, got it up on the rocks and what a monster, jimmys first sambo off the rocks and a very big pb to beat. 148cm and 28kg.

sunday we did a bit more exploring at new spots and Aron has picked up his first queeny off the stones along with a lot of other fish we caught on plastics throughout the arvo. another good weekend on the south coast just cant wait for the next now.

We had the annual WAUC cray comp yesterday, I got lucky and found 2 nice sized crays....Freedive looped, first was on the roof inside a crack of a swim through, approx 2-3m from the surface. The other was in about 6m. 

Rotto is a bit thin cray wise right now......for me, you cant beat five fathom bank for crays. I didnt see any whites, crays that is.

Although I did share the water briefly with a large school of dolphins for the first time, that was pretty cool  
 

Got this tiger this morning around 4:30am, approx 20 minutes of very dirty fighting.

Awsome stripes on this little girl!

Swam away strong.

 yabby is yabby , some take real pics.far out pic is pic,

Well being that i couldnt get away for a fish last break i decided i would catch a feed of yabbies.

Got more than i needed but the dams needed a bit of a clean out as they where all big bastards and need some to start breeding again.

Few pics of them and the photos dont really do them justice.

Christened my new live fibre LBG just a few hours after picking it up last night. Not huge but it's a good start to the season struggled to move her on my own without any waves to help, she had some serious weight for her size think she might of been pregaz. 

No measurement or better photo's was a quick fight and quicker release, was lucky to land her by the time I ran in to grab her the 20/0 circle had come loose not sure how that's even possible.

Cheers

 Been busy busy lately and got out for a few shore dives last week to bag a few more nice Crays with lots of soft or moulting Crays from what I seen. Also managed a line fish after work on Monday for a few pesky bait thieves and a big shark lost on the 20lb combo

back to Albany on Saturday and plans for Sunday where to go for a dive at a remote place a huge walk from the car that was a far enough drive as it was. My brother tagged along as I said he would be in with a chance of getting a blue off the rocks fishing.

45 minute walk from the car all downhill with the dive gear we arrived at our spot. Suited up, jumped in and instantly remembered why I love diving south. 20m vis, fish everywhere and deep water so close in. I left a heap of queenys and blues and few other reefys as I was thinking about the walk out, got a pb deepest recorded dive at 24.2m before I lost my spear to a cave from trying to get a big harley. I got out while my mates kept diving and help my brother land his first blue grouper off the rocks. Mates get back with the biggest blue I've seen over 35kg and a 80cm queeny and after packing up started on the 2 hour walk back out. That walk with just my dive gear was one of the hardest things I've done but well worth it and can't wait for the next adventure around the south coast.

 wind up ,no good for cray dive, went to a friends property with good mate , got a great feed some of the biggest yabbs i have ever come across.few laughs and beers great day, 1 st pick first cook batch .home now, great feed garlic yabbs bread and butter washed down with a few tubes.,,,,,

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 Went out to rotto yesterday if a fairly strong offshore breeze. Jumped in the water at west end and chummed up for about an hour trying to entice a possible early mackie and some yellow tail kingfish. Saw one over a meter but was out of range and managed to nail one 60cm. We ended up going into about 8m of water and bagged out on crays in 2 hours free diving.  

 Headed out to rotto to try jig up some sambos yesterday and they were on! took us a while to find the school but when we did they were hungry! Ended up with 25 of them from 5-10kg and then headed in shallower to try for some tailor. We arrived at a lump near Carnac in 2 metres of water (yes only 2 metres) and everything was looking great, second cast resulted in a 45cm tailor which got chased in by an absolute horse of a sambo. I rigged up my mates torium 20 (I knew we were dreaming running 50lb) and out went the big tailor live! within a minute the sambo was chasing our livie all over the place and eventually nailed it on the surface right in from of us. It smoked us but my mate managed to turn its head before it buried is in the reef. I'll let the photo do the talking with this one! also got 16 tailor to 50cm and some snook ect.

 These were a suprise today, in real close, no lie 5 minutes from my local ramp in my little dingy, depths from 2-7m. Freedive. 
 

 A couple of gummys taken a few weeks ago, 99cm and 1m, my mate also got a 130cm so together we got 3 in 2 nights :)

ps.. if you do know the location please don't comment it as it gets unfishable when there is too many people, cheers!

First cray dive of this season.

Hid behind Garden Island on Sunday for a couple of quick dives in the 10’s.

3 divers, 24 crays, too easy.

Fresh baked cray served by 1pm.

Cheers Pete