after fishing busso jetty saturday night and lamding my first busso jetty mulloway my mates where kee  to head back and get there own. So off we went sunday nifht back at jetty there at 4 amd walked down to our spot yakkas and slimy mackeral where hard to find caught a couple and out went the handlines and the torsa after two hours of nothing much besides a few horse squid I decided to through out last handline and yakka didnt even swim to the bottom and we where on took good few runs amd about 15minuts to get in few tense moments at the gaff finally got it and lifted on went 15kg two in two nighrs was stoked both where caught about 7 oclock.

Sorry photos are upside down cant change them on my phone!!

Sometimes taking the gamble to try a new location pays off. We all have our favourite honey-holes where we commonly catch good fish, but sometimes we may think to ourselves – Do I go the safe option and fish my regular haunt, knowing that it will most probably produce fish....or.... do we make the call to try a new spot? This new spot might be absolutely terrible or it may produce the mother-load but I guess it’s a case of ...no risk, no reward or you never know, if you never go. There are a million phrases that can be used here but they all have the same underlying message. Sometimes it pays off and sometimes it doesn’t but hey, that’s fishing!
 

Today my mate Dan and I made the call to try a new location and I must say that the 25 knot winds that greeted us upon arrival, did their best to hamper our efforts. We managed to find a sweet looking spot. There was a shallow “run” section of channel which dropped off a ledge into deeper water. If I were a fish, that’s where I would have been anyway, so it made sense to try this location. The outgoing tide was in our favour as the fish were laying on the deeper side of this dropoff and feeding on anything being funnelled to them by the receding tide.

Ended up with 4 flatty and 2 flounder

 My brother Aron just got back from a weekend at a beach out of Albany chasing big sharks on kayaked out baits and sent me this photo.

they lost a monster that ate the whole tuna head he caught last week, landed a small bronzie about 2.5m on a whole bonito and after 3 hours on 50lb gear landed this monster of a ray that ate a whole salmon about 5kg!!!!

with this photo he is sitting right next to the ray not back from it, it was 1.8m across so according to the South African conversion charts somewhere around 190kg!!

 went down busso jetty last night after three attempts of trying to catch a mulloway fibalky got one for this year not a monster by any means put still a top fish 118cm long amd around 14kg taken on live slimy mackeral thanks to mark (fw member) for catching the livey and for gaffing fish for me hear are couple photos!!! Cheers to mates corey tyler and mark for a good night! 

Put my mate on this on Friday. His first Sambo. Caught on 4000 shimano reel and 25lb braid in about 7 metres of water less than 50mts from exposed reef. Was an epic battle in the tinny especially as the anchor ws stuck and we had to tinny dance a fair bit.

 19,1cm long, l.o.l .sounded good on title.got 2 average dhues today.some thumping kgs. and a feed off crays(4) i have never caught a dhue this small.good sign

 went for a quick fish today ,lost a big king at the three mile today gutted !!!!!

My mate caught this on a small dermersal jig South side of Rotto last week. We were hoping it was a very, very large Dhui. You can imagine our surprise and dissapointment when this thing came to the surface. Still a pretty impressive thing to catch whilst jigging for demersals though. Shark was released...

 got 10 crays 2 monsters, had a fish 2 dhues ,not huge 680 and 710 ,whiskery shark. left ramp at 11 back at 3.30 .five fathom bank was huge(swells) not nice .feathering in some spots .once over beautiful.no drift at all,sorry about pic only taken off nokia phone,

I tell you something....If Godzilla was a fish, it would have been Funchy's flathead

Funchy called me last week and asked me if I would mind taking him for a fish as he was going to be in Mackay for work....Please Funchy...as if I need an excuse mate!

Packed the light gear and a spare rod for Funchy and headed down to the flats to work a few plastics before it got dark.

Turned out to be an epic little session with 5 flathead being landed (4 out of the 5 by Funchy) - one of which was a massive 81cm and Funchy's new PB. Gotta be happy with that mate!

Pleasure by the way Funchy, let me know the next time you are up.

Turns out when I play guide, I end up catching less than the visitor...Its the way guiding should be I suppose hey.

Spent a nice long weekend up at wagoe caught a few mackies was great trip and even better weather

 great weather.

 21kg gutted, live scalie woodies point nuff said :)

 lucky day 

 Just found out about these fourms. Thought I would add some pics of fish caught boat and LB. 

In perth if you couldn't tell.

Cheers

 My brother got this today at Albany on a 40g metal. Spinning for bonito and trying out his new avet for casting between using the light gear and hooked this big long tail that took him 2 hours to get in on light gear with only 150m of 15lb sunline!!

fish of a lifetime for my bro, so stoked for him!!

Hey guys,

Had a pretty big day out on Sunday. As the title infers, we fished 3 different tides at 3 different locations within the daylight hours. This was made possible by a 5am low, 11am high and 5pm low tide. I was able to fish 2 of my land-based locations during the low and ended up wetting the Quinnie for the high tide in the middle of the day.

The fishing was a little hard going but ended up with a nice couple of flathead and a baby trevally. The flatty were both a descent size as they spanned 65cm and 55cm respectively. That 65cm specimen is probably the 3rd biggest flathead I have ever caught.

Ended up having a great time on the light spin gear and plastics.

Check out this horse.

Hey guys,
Had another awesome session today on some of our local Sooty Grunter. This is the second time I have visited this location and I must say that it is definitely one of the nicest if not THE nicest and picturesque locations I have ever fished.

These fish fight extremely hard in the skinny water and a firm set drag is the only way to coax them from the rocky terrain. We found that as soon as a fish was landed (or lost) from a particular pool, the bite would shut down and we needed to move to the next pool.

Site casting to these fish was insane. More often the not, we would fire in a cast at a fish but then 3 or 4 others would come out of nowhere and fight over it.

Ended up with 7 in total.

Land based game, Boat and kalbarri plus other bits and pieces.

 Went out quading yesterday trying to find some new fishing ground. Found some. On shallow cliffs landed a few golden trevally on twistys and strada poppers. Great snorkelling and had some large squid taking my poppers too. Swam with a dugong and a little manta ray. This is the life

Hi All, Went out a couple of weeks ago and picked up a small Rankin Cod off Rotto in about 26 meters of water. Anyone else pick up a Rankin Local?

Headed out today with a mate from woodmans point, we were on the water around 6ish with the wind looking good. Headed out deep sounding some schools of snapper, the wind kicked up and made fishing tough, a few size snapper were released, hoping for something a bit bigger. With the wind and swell making it difficult to hold bottom, we headed in a bit shallower.

We started off slow, but gained momentum with some nice runs on our drift baits resulting in some nice snapper landed and we reached our bag limit.

Half way in to the session, one of the rods bent over. As I striked, a big splash in the distance as it jumped out of the water. It was called for a shark, it was pulling hard. After a bit of a fight it saw the boat and took off again (like a shark would). Finally after getting it to the surface, we realised it was a cobia and the decky scrambled for the net. The net snapped from the weight and the fish was back in the water! Then the decky grabbed the gaff and pulled it over to land me my first cobia!

The cobia went 112cm and solid around 12kg, possibly more (don't my trust scales)

A nice 58cm king george was also landed somewhere amongst the chaos.

The wind died off during the day after we made it in shallower (typical) so it turned out to be a great day on the water.

 a few more land based pinks

 went out off bunbury few weeks back now to naturalist reef caught all the usaual wrass and crap hooked and landed pb kingy on whole fresh squid head messured 110cm didnt way. Hooked and lost another fish I believe was another kingy double the size hit me on reef after 50-60 meter run smoked my torsa16 also caught 86cm queen snapper and plus double header undersize dhuie haha enjoy

I am still new to the site, but thought I would share some pictures from my first year learning to fish Perth Metro. Lots learnt from this forum!

10 – 15 knots all weekend meant only one thing and obviously it revolved around throwing a line in somewhere. Clearly the mowing can wait until next weekend right? Working at Nashy’s Compleat Angler on Saturday, I continually found myself peering out the glass door and watching the movement of wind through the neighbouring tree tops – or LACK of wind for that matter. Yep it was definitely glorious weather outside which meant I had to grovel to the wife to allow me a leave pass for Sunday to relieve my itchy trigger finger.
 

I rang up my mate Dan who was keen as always, so we packed the light spin tackle and made tracks for one of our local spots.
 

There is a saying that goes a little something like this: Some days are rocks and some days are diamonds. There are various versions of this but at the end of the day, the message is still the same. Some days everything goes right and it is like the sun, moon and earth align and formulate a piscatorial frenzy and fish are so thick that they would even smash a well presented stick! These days are diamonds my friends and the opposite is clearly – rocks.
 

Unfortunately this trip was a rock hard day. This spot has produced great fishing on many occasions but today just wasn’t one of those memorable days and sometimes that just fishing hey. You can clean up one day and the next day you go there with the same lure, same time of day, same tide etc and it just doesn’t happen. But I guess that the reason why we keep going back – it’s the thrill of the unknown and what you many encounter on that “one more cast” or the next visit.

Ended up with a couple of little cod, a grunter and baby GT. At the end of the day it was just awesome being out amongst this awesome weather we have experienced over the last few days.


Cheers!

Hey guys

went to Singapore last week for honeymoon

got a chance to go to the GT pond. Its a saltwater pond located up the top of Singapore. Houses over 200 GTs imported from Indonesia. The owner told me the size range is from 3-14kg with the biggest he has seen at 20kg.

pond is about 40m long and 30m wide. these fish fight hard. I was using 30lb braid but could have done with stronger line.

You have to bring all your own gear and I suggest if you go bring LOTS of lures. I didn't think I would catch much but was surprised, i got a hit on every second cast and multiple hook ups. lots of bust offs and landed 5.

Was $350 aud for 2 hrs, but worth every cent.

Went out from woodies yesterday with Heath (forum member). Bit overcast, few showers, but did manage this thumper KG, went 59cm (beats current fishwrecked record - but I don,t have 50 posts)

, and a nice 76cm pinkie. Finished the day with a feed of squid and cuttlefish. All in all a good day. Should be a good season for the Pink Snapper by all accounts. Cheers, Richard.