Been out for a couple of goes in the last week.

Caught a few breams up to 37cm ttt.

Caught my first mulloway ever and on lure!!Stoked. haha. A beast at exactly 50cm.

Have been getting wiped out regularly in the snags.

So much to say I upped the ante to 10lb braid, 12lb fluorocarbon leader over a 10-17lb spin stick and still getting smashed up.

I think the Leeuwin currents might have pushed some Mangrove Jacks into the local river. haha. Seems like that anyway!!

Off to get ready for the next sesh!!!

…got this off Leeman on Sunday, we are almost 99% sure it's a Golden Trevally, weighing in at 18.22Kgs and hopefully a new world record which is currently at 15.42Kgs

 Managed to land this freight train today unfortunately the wheel fell off my trailer in the morning so cut my day short changing wheel bearings but it was a small price to pay

The alarm went off at 4am this morning and i was glad to hear it beeping its nut off, time to go fishing. Being a FIFO worker i usually hate this time of the morning but not today. I go and kick my brother Chris who slept on the couch, made a coffee, loaded up the boat and away we went.

Got to Woodie Point, boat in by 5am still pitch black. Turned the key on to kick the 50hp 2 stroke into action and surprisingly she burst into life first try. Slowly made our way out of the sound which was dead flat, lack of light meant our trip was slow but we where well ahead of time and i couldnt help but think that everything had gone according to plan so far. My brother was chirping his head off as usual, apparently he was as confident as i was that a nice dhui or baldy was gonna land on the deck.

Got to a likely spot i had marked on a chart that iv been pouring over lately, baited up a mullie and dropped it to the sea floor and watched my brother do the same thing. Within minutes my rod buckelled over, reel screaming, me delighted! Getting control of the fish my brother starts with the predictions "Dhui bet ya its F'n big Dhui", what ever it was its gonna be pretty big i tell him. After about 10 minutes, a few lazy slow runs back down to decent depth we see the silver of my first ever Samson fish. Its a funny feeling of slight dissappointment and happiness, hoping for my first dhui or baldy, instead i get my first Sambo. Didnt take me long to be swinging high fives and smiling from ear to ear after catching my first ever Sambo.

Things got quite for about an hour before we moved about 500m to a marked lump and again the first drop was hit by a massive run. This fight was a little different, the fish although smaller went on some extremely powerful runs, my brother shouting out "there's bloody smoke come out ya reel, it gonna catch fire" haha. After a few explosive runs the fish came to the surface easily, quick photo with sambo number 2 and back it went to fight another day.

A few more drift over the lump resulted in nothing so i made the call to go sit on the FFB for a couple of hours before heading home. The FFB was the calmest iv ever seen it and we decided to sit right on the shallow part of the reef which resulted in a big variety of fish landed, big skippy, the usual wrasse, a wierd gold snook looking thing (gold with a couple of horizontal bars  on it's back and a nasty set of chompers), 2x BA's first was 38cm which i kept and the second was smaller but didnt release well, even tried the release weight but a few seconds after retrieving the weight the fish came barrelling back to the surface so i kept him. Back at the ramp by 12:30 very happy, I'm still without a Dhui or Baldy but i can tick the Sambo of the list and Damn they are fun to catch.

hey there guys and girls

sorry we haven't been on here lately to keep you up dated on some of the fish we have been catching on our charters so here is some pics for ya all to have a look at.

after half hour of being circled by this monster, well concidering she was bigger than the 3.5m tinnie  we were on,out at the 3mile off hillaries we decided she might be hungry for a fresh tuna we caught moments before.

we hooked up and lifted anchor and within half our she towed us 3.8miles out to sea on 130lbs tuffline with 15kgdrag set. good bit of fun,and eventually snapped off when the drag was set up2 22kg. good day on the blue tho thanks to capitan damo.

 off mindarie 

 on my whiting ground, cant complain.

 Hey gang my first photo post hope it works. Headed out from 2 rocks sunday morning, got to the boat ramp at 4.45 to beat the crowd [still had to wait] perfect conditions! plenty of action all morning, dhues were all just under size [got one keeper]. landed a couple of pinkies that were just under size to [shattered] Finally got on to some we could bring home. had an awesome day!

After a big saturday night, woke up hung over and lacked motivation to do anything. But having cray pots that needed to be pulled there was no choice.  so loaded up my boat and headed out sunday morning (yesterday) and hit the water at around 10:30 am (very late). We went to a previous spot that had produced very well a couple of weeks before, but was holding no fish we could see on the sounder. We sounded around and decided to go pull the pots.

When the pots were dropped the week before, the boat I was on had the sounder fail half way out. So they were dropped completely blind and we didn't expect to catch anything. So we pulled the first two to find nothing. We then sounded around for a bit and found a nice looking lump. After dropping the pot right on it, The sounder lit up. I couldnt help myself and dropped a jig over the side while the pot was still sinking. After about 20 seconds I hooked on to a size dhu. We fished the lump for a while longer and ended up with another dhu, a big baldy, a swallowtail nannygai and some undersize dhuis, snapper and blackarse that released well.

After having a decent fish we pulled the other 2 pots. Ended with 3 male keepers and 8 females that were thrown back. We saw plenty of bait fish schooling in the sound, had a bit of a troll but no hits.

I'm still fairly new to jigging but am slowly converting. My friends were using bait.

This was the week before going out on a mates boat, lost some decent fish that day but managed a size dhui

Then pulled these a couple of weeks ago of a nice lump on my boat with cruggs1

Then this pic of crabs in the swan on friday night. Ended up with 16

 Caught 30 odd(multiple anglers) in the scarborough to floreat area in under 2 hours.(Offshore)

Most were between 25-30cm, a large fish, possibly a snook was chasing them up and their are bite marks evident on a few.

 Went to a beach to chase some big salmon and tailor and couldn't land a single one so after loosing some lures to big fish we set up the shark rods and slide baited some big baits into a gutter. Took less than 20 mins for the first run with a nice nurse on the sand 30 mins later, out go some more bait and about 30 mind later off goes one rod then another and we had a double hookup of monster sharks. First shark we got to the shore break before breaking the leader. My little brother was having a much harder time with his and eventually landing a monster nurse himself!!

People here in livebait Barra land look at us sideways when we tell them we catch Barra on jigs.

While not the jigs you guys are using for sambo's / demersals, we still jig with results

May not be rampaging samobo's or Dhuies in the blue but nonetheless we are successful.

Choice lure is the FLT trans am, no substitute!!

We pull up on the wood, hit I-pilot and drop down the trans am and get jiggy.

Nicks first cast today was smacked by a 60 Jack, with my second I was bricked by a 95plus Barra.

Not long after Nick gets smashed and after some fancy work on the Kota a 90 Mulla joins us in the Noble

Trans am in action

Only 3m of water but man do they pull

Moved onto another snag and hit I-pilot just downstream of the wood.

Trans am Barra land POC style

You can see the wood in the background

Nicks mate is making some lures so we are happy to try them out. No problem catching Barra

Those Twin Rivers work a treat POC :)

Getting bricked means I'm two trans am less........

And Ricey for a great day out last sunday.  We went out from Woodmans pt to the Fads but were unable to catch any dollies on a mix of live/dead baits, lures, soft plastics etc.  We managed to see plenty of jumping macs and tuna but struggled for hookups, until Ricey got smoked by something while trolling a rapala deep diver.  On the way back in we stopped for a bottom bash in the 45s and this was the result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_YbploSM00&feature=youtu.be

Thanks again fellas!

My daughter-inlaw prize catch at Yeagerups last weekend.

My newest toy i have just added to the collection.

6m penguin hull

140 yamaha 2 stroke.

hds5 sounder and hds5 gps got a few things to do to make it my own but it is a good starting point.

 Got this today in 40m off Two Rocks, on a 130gm CB one quick zero jig. Gear used was a Eupro Giant King pe 1-3 and a shimano stradic 5000....lost a few big fish today as well to jigs. also managed a 70cm dhuie.

Cheers

Dougie

 got the pinky at a recent trip to waego the only fish caught for 5 days no makkys were about either which was strange. the pnky wheighed in at 5.5kg,  while the shark was at work on a 250 lbs handline using a live GT as bait

hey there fellow members

Here is just a few pic from our charters over the long weekend and we hope you
enjoy and look us up and come aboard a Lucky Last Cast fishing charter. We were
also glad that all customers enjoyed the great weather the good fishing as they
all went home with good feeds of fish.

nice little catch and left to fight another day

 19.9kg and 15kg.. and yes he got both, when he got the smaller one up it had my bloody hooks on its mouth from when i lost it lol

 just thought I'd put some photos up of some recent fish, snapper was 1 of 2 caught that night on a whole frozen mullet :p and the shovel nose was taken on a live squid. the fight was about an hour long and was successfully released

cheers jay

Went for a fish Tuesday, managed 2 tailor, one each for my mate and I, 58 & 55cm. Bulk hookups but dropped a lot of fish in the air, they were leaping all over the place. My mate was using bait and had one hit so hard it busted him off. Really enjoying these big tailor hanging around through summer. The herring are a bit of a pest in-between the tailor showing up. I got fish on my Duo pressbait and Shimano ocea pencil, other fish on the floated mulie

Went out just inside the reef chasing snapper on plastics yesterday afternoon. Found our spot, got a burley trail going and chucked placcys, tried a different colour Z-man streakZ XL each to see what they liked but ended up with a double hookup. Caught our dinner so went home. They went 4 & 3.5 kg.

 bait an pickle run

Put together a short vid and photos from some recent Exmouth adventures. Had an awesome time and was lucky enough to score a big Yellowfin Tuna, a monster dolphin fish, some Spanish Macks and a Sailfish!

Any feedback would be much appreciated as im still learning the video editing stuff!! Hope you guys like it, gets me pumped to get back up there soon!! Cheers :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PXEHDDKfg

ps: looks lots better fullscreen in 720p

Had a beaut day out yesterday as a deckie on a mate Kingys Noosa Cat. We left his place at around 0430 and after a bit of a drive, beach launched and headed east 8 miles, into a solid 2M swell and slight breeze. First mark was in 50m and looked promising with a big school on the sounder but we only managed several small nannies which all released well. We dont tend to keep any under 45cm as its just not worth it, much more meat on the larger ones. But I did nail a beaut big cuttlefish followed up with a nice pinky, which was what we really were after!

Then we made the call to check out another mark a little further on in 60m....good move..and we started catching big nannies 55-60cm and we were stoked!!  Triple hookups and Double headers were common and as soon as they started they just went off the bite and were into sambos and big BA. By then the swell and wind had dropped and we struggling to get a drift...pretty rare for Esperance!!

Back to the first spot on the way in to see if we could nail another pink...and first drop we had a double hookup both called for pinks....resulting in a big tangle and Kingy somehow loosing his whole rig when his coastlock opened up....copped some shit over that one!

All in all a bloody great day and I've got us another Espy FW member in Kingy after he reads this!!

 I did have a kill shot for you guys but it may upset too many people.....lets just say we didnt even bag out but our families will have fish for a while.

Cheers Woody and Kingy

Ufew pics from australia day and the weeks around it

finally I am back on the board its been a while 18kg off bunno in 28m

 got another one today out from lano in 25 meters ...went 57 cm