never got any big dhues all ranged from 450 to 600 long let them go .new ground i found looked the goods .swallow tail,harley,black ass,dhues ,sargent barkers ,and baldies, no dought it will produce a big boy one day.

female baldie went 495mm long male 610 good feed went home.

So I woke up with the sparrows this morning with the goal of pursuing a few feisty little blue salmon on the bream gear. My mate Dan and I found ourselves walking to our chosen location at 5am and had not much more than the light of our head torches guiding the way. Anticipation was high due to the fact we hadn’t fished this location for about 3-4months.

The last few times we fished this spot, admittedly, we did terribly, however, we have caught more than our fair share of awesome fish from here so we thought it was about time we hit it again. The cooler weather has ensured the blue salmon have been out in full force, which were the main targets for the sesh.

If I went through all the fish we caught, I would be here all day typing it out, but this session turned out to be a cracker with 2 bream, 2 grunter, 4 flathead (none of which were under 60cm), 1 trevally and 4 blue salmon being landed.

Cheers

well not quite true , busy morning with the misses off to work and the weather looking good it was an hour drive to the mother inlaws to drop the kids off , arrive back home just as my brother and he's mate get there , hook up the boat and get on the water around 9:30- 10am much later than i'ld hoped . did the usual headed for the decided spot and have a drop on the way if something shows up so half way there a school shows so do a drop but no bites so carry on , arrive around 11-11:30 first drop and it was my brothers mate who hooks up first , up comes a 60cm dhuie . whilst i was down the back of the boat gaffing and bleeding the fish i had my rod up the front with next to no drag and just the ratchet on before i couldn't get the first in the eskie my rod takes some line, knowing there's no drag on i wasn't to concerned and carried on , then another at this stage starting to think i should get up to it , then a blitering run i'm fumbling around trying to get up there as fast as i can by the time i get there it had dropped it so i let out about 2m of line whilst quietly saying every expletive under the sun once the line comes tight i feel alittle weight so give it a pull and it's on . called it for a big one then start back tracking  and saying it ok after the fight slows alittle but once it gets closer bang of like a rocket so it was to and fro for a while by this stage my arms and back are feeling worse for wear and try to give the rod to my brother who blantly told me to suck it up princess evently get a glimpse and a huge white figure starts to get closer and closer any way up comes my PB dhuie are 2 pic's and a try at getting her onto the scales without doing to much damage as we'ld alredy decided she was too big and going back so we dumped the weigh in .release weight with a 24 oz sinker didn't really do much she bsiclly powered her way back down hoping to christ the release weight would let go when required which it did . 2nd drift accounted for a undersized dhuie and that was the last fish in the boat ( plenty showing on the sounder but nothing biting ) around 12:30 the action died sounded around tried a few new spots had a whale (not sure on species) come and sussed us out for 20min or so  then moved in to my pinkie spot and nothing biting there calling it a day around 5pm by this stage it had glassed off and full noise back to the ramp and home for a trip i won't forget and a few cold ones

Wifes first Mulla caught off Denham Shark Bay.

Measured 1.04mts.

Well with the weather being so good we managed a few evenings in out on the blue !

The first day I invited the boss along fishing with us which resulted in an early knock off and so off we went.

I scored my first Dhu and then another and then another ! One was a bit small so he was sent back to the bottom but very pleased with the result !! We were anchored in fairly shallow water so unfortunately the jigs and placcys stayed in the box however we must learn to crawl before we walk and then talk.

The boss enjoyed himself and bagged a good blackarse so hopefully a few more early knock offs are on the cards !

Our next trip we ventured into deeper water and followed a few surface schooling fish. I think they were skippy however we managed 4 juvy snapper and a small dhu (all released. Before the captain hooked into something big that gave him grief for about 20mins. A solid longtail circled up towards the boat and a quick gaff shot secured a few months of fresh tuna steaks !

 fish on chew today many caught and let go ,lost a huge boy also .ended up with nice dhue and baldie .kgs and shark.nothing worse than batterys in camera dying.release led got a work out , 

With the good weather on monday i shot down to mandurah to take the boat for a run. Sunday night we went for a quick night bash and managed to score the first legal dhui for my boat. Nothing special with it only goin 60cm. But none the less the first for my boat and caught in 12m of water not far from the cut..

We hit the water again monday morning and put in alot of kays. We travelled 25km south from the cut and worked a few areas down there and slowly worked our way back up the 30m line untill back in line with the cut then headed for home. I dont have any spots out from mandurah yet so it was just alot of sounding around. We where managing to find fish on the sounder but couldnt get them to take jigs or baits all day finishing the day off with a black ass about 50cm a couple of fox fish about 35cm and some wrass.  Still beats working.

Hope I've down this link right fellas but found this on my FB page, please do the right thing and follow the links to send to our Politicians.

http://stopthetrawler.good.do/permanent-ban/

Thanks

Roberta

So lately I have been getting a real kick out of taking my young nephews fishing. Just took young Jayden for a bread and butter fish on the weekend. Fish were not huge by any means but that didnt matter at all to him. He caught a nice little bream and was stoked, spoke about it all day and cant wait to go again. For me, that is what it is all about - gettin' them "hooked". I got a couple of little tiddlers too on my Megabass Dog-X Jnr.


Cheers!

 Got out today in awesome conditions.....haven't jigged we'll before and keep trying every trip with no real results exempt on gulp baits....picked up a new pink jig and it paid off for me landing this 9kg dhu.....

Bagged out over the day with a smaller dhu and black ass snapper......

I have better pics thank god but my ipad only has this one.....

sunday morning left the boat ramp around 10am with the cold mornings :) travelled for around 1 hr with not much showing on the sounder, fished a mark in the 60ft for a small sambo and a rock cod with little to no drift around 12:30-1 the westerly picked up enough for some drift, so sounded around again found a few schools of pinkies in the  with most the fish 55's as well which gave a few hours of fun and 2 undersize dhies in the mix

RDO today so this morning headed out around 9am and headed to some new ground i marked coming back in a few months ago but the day it was marked it was getting dark so didn't drop a line so been waiting on the weather to get back out there . with a bit of chop took around 1 and a half hours , about half a n/m before some nice activity showed on the sounder 3 drops and only a small nibble so carried on. arrived at the mark and nothing showed up wondered why i'ld gone deeper when i'ld gotten into some fish the day before closer . started travelling into some spots incloser that i knew had produced in the mean time watching the sounder around 1n/m in the ground changed by this time around 11:30 knowing i had to be in  intime to pick the kids up from school and running out of time to ancor and burley in closer decided to give it a drift the second i put it into nuetral the screen light up like a christmas tree , dropped down and as it hit the bottom whack but at some stage in free spool down  the alvey had over spun and had 2 wraps around the handle and drag lever managed to sort it but with the fight was calling it for a sambo so was a nice sight to see a double header dhuie come to the surface one in the eskie(guesstimate 12kg after a small shark around 200mm and a squid regergitated on the boat floor) , one around 3-4kg released .drive back drop another 3-4 kg dhuie release than decided to head in as i was on my own so could only keep the one and don't like the reduced chances of survival to keep fishing .it had glassed off by now so it was full noise back to the ramp so ened up with 2 and a half hours travel and a an hour at the max fish so still need a fix yet had a few good days and the freezer restocked

Since way before I caught my first Mulloway i was hooked on trying to catch these awesome fish. It took me years to catch my first size one then about 10 more years to catch my first big one.

In the past few years ive sussed them out a fair bit and have caught quite a few between 13 and 18kg from quite a few different locations but as any one who targets these fish know the holy grail is a 50lber (well in WA at least).

Well finally I got my fish of a life time, in the last place i expected it. This fish went 23.53kg or 51.87lb and one i will not forget for a long time.

It is also a new club record in my fishing club Ocean Reef Sea Sports Club beating the very long standing old record of about 22.5kg.

For those that were wondering it was caught on a live Yellowtail.

Very proud moment for myself so I thought id share.

Cheers         Belly

Happy!!

Had a slow start to the day on Five Fathom Bank with difficult conditions and a reasonable swell. Moved off to Garden Island and bagged PB Snapper and Port Jackson from the boat. Pinkie stretched the tape to 78cm. All's well that ends well.

Had a slow start to the day on Five Fathom Bank with difficult conditions and a reasonable swell. Moved off to Garden Island and bagged PB Snapper and Port Jackson from the boat. Pinkie stretched the tape to 78cm. All's well that ends well.

 Nice snapper from this afternoon, went 90cm and was caught on 15lb braid and a 4kg rod. She was released and swam off strong :)

 Hey fellas, caught 2 dhues, 1 pinky, a long tailed tuna, stripey tuna, sambos, and lost freight trains.... Awesome day, all fish caught on jigs and soft plastics, big thanks to the skipper chilly! 

Went out for a fish this morning and gentelmens hour. With some new people from FW. David(david.d) and Jarrod(Alwaysfishin) They were both great deckies and highly reccomend them!

Was a sloppy start to the morning. A quick stop for bait resulted in 20 nice whiting and headed deeper to the 50's with the new Dragonfly!The fish where not interested in baits jigs or plastics!

On the tide change we got a few fish in before i had to come in.

Was good to get some fish to try Extreme Coolers Evapac machine. Its brilliant!

The Raymarine Dragonfly performed very well in 50m!

Shark ID anyone ? Yes it was released!

 A solid red bass taken on a Weezel popper on a remote island off the coast of Bougainville.

 hey boys we went out again today on mac attack fishing charters day started slow but then got onto some nice ground got some nice cod and baldies and few sweet lips then on way home went to the snapper patch and all.cleaded up was good day off mixed bags sorry about piks arnt that great today and yes all snapper are size :)

 hey guys thort id threw a quick pick up from yesterday was a great day out had a private charter on mack attack chaters started off little slow untill we found a massive school off pinks only shame was most were over the 70cm mark but we did well then headed to wards turtle bay threw the lures out and got smashed  buy a cobia and few mackies then pulles in closer and had a plag with some nice sized golden trevaly but we are headin back out today to chace some rankin cod and some baldies so will let u no how we go

My proudest land based moments of 2013!

Here s a few fish from the last few months ..... all cught up and down the 3 mile reefs between ocean reef and swanbourne ...... Cheers

First land base fish ever caught about 5 minutes into fishing on squid at preston beach, I love WA

 just over 39kg, my biggest was 4.1kg still cant beat my dan at 4.8. .only got 14 miss counted,semi dry suit ,hot water bottle inside.billy hunt not silly c--t. l.o.l warm as toast.

 headed down to walpole last week for 6 days hoping to get out wide with the bar crusher and see how she handles the southern seas.  Weather was not looking promising but we were crossing our fingers and hoping for the best. Woke up monday eminutes singleknot winds. Glad to see winds where low and barely moving the trees the call was mad the boat wad packed before you know it we where doing our 30knots across the nornalup inlet. Reached the mouth and it looked nice we ventured out to the grounds and before long we had a double hook up my torsa was getting stretched by a nice fish and my mate corey FW member had his talica smoking on hoping for a good for first fish on the reel. I boat a respectable  queenie and my mate his first sambo we where all stoked. The day went on we caught a heap more sambos and amberjack all around 8-10kg a few more good fish some horse harliquin 60+cm two nice gummy sharks skippy kingies and the sort. The day was sucessful and there wgere smiles all around.

Day two came we awoke a bit earlier winds where down and again we headed out. We went to our secret nannygia spot which didnt disappoint before long I had 8 nannies in the boat was safe to say my old man fw member and mate corey where  behind the 8 ball and I was kicking some but. Again we had another good day more sambos harliquin black ass and the rest. Highlight for me was hitting a ledge 40m up to 30m dad and mate both busted off on the reef me being only one in water had a big bite sunk the hooks in good and came up solid the fight was on the runs where hard and fast instantly calling for a sambo or big king. After an intense 10minutes a few screaming runs my torsa subdued the beast revealing it to the surface a monster yellowtail king a new pb for me 138cm a tad over 20kg photos qhere taken and fish was released.  Endind a good day out 

 day three was a short day late start wind came up ealry stayed in close still landed a heap of sambos queenies black ass small pinks. We called it quits headed around to the mouth to clean the boat a bit i lobbed a a mulie out and within 5 minutes I hooked up big massive first run epic fight on 6-8 kg rod landed a huge sambo 128cm roughly 15-16kg photos and released.

Ended the holiday with a few days landbased inlet fishing heap of bream herring salmon and tailor where caught was a good 6 day trip.

Enjoy the read and the pics sorryits a bit long. JordanI 

Well there are very few instances where a reef trip has letme down. It is usually THE place to go and THE place where the fishing is redhot... However, this was definitely not the case this time around.

The sea was rough, extremely choppy and the winds were absolutely howling. It was a classic case of wind against tide all day andanchoring on the mark was virtually impossible. Drifting was terribly difficult also.

It was a really hard days fishing in very sloppy conditions. All we ended up with was 4 or 5 Hussar/Stripeys and 1 large Grass Sweetlip.

A quick few pics of a couple of fish I managed to snag while staying on camp Island with work.

Tried trawling for mackies but no luck. Caught all these off the main pontoon. Wish I had more time to fish properly and not work!

 Howdy guys my name is Adon and I'm from Adelaide.  thought i would put up my first post and particually for the kingfish lovers out there. I have fished for them here in Adelaide now for along time and would like to share some of mine and mates sucess.Hope this wets your appetite and hope you enjoy some of these pics...We all love to look at pics.Thanks Adon

 some big boys around comin to the end of the cycle,occy eating occy ,massive amounts of empty moorings full of egg sacks,2 big ones both weighed 3,9 kilo on the dot .both my jewels dropped all good now