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Yesterday Rotto Dive for Crays

Not fishing in the sense of rod and reel, but im a bit stoked about the contents of the catch bag at rotto, in 3m of water!

Managed to get 5 males after finding countless BIG girls around, and around 50 little males.

Biggest was 145cm weighing 2.1kg, with 2nd being 135mm and 1.7kg.

 

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monster KG

 caught this thumping whiting off dunsborough today on pe1-2 was an amzing fight pulled heaps drag took half a squid bait. smashed previouse pb of 41

hope you enjoy.


Dhuey Fever

 My usual fish gaffer (Stigman01) went out today and pulled in 6 Dhueys, 4 size, let 4 go (using his drop weight) and kept these bad boys! he emailed me this pic while im couped up at work.. Nice catch mate ;) Dhuey Envy


Brock's new PB tailor

Headed out at 6 this morn from Hillarys to troll the 3 mile for macks and after a few hours and several lure changes, me young bloke was a bit bored so we had a few drifts in the 20s and got a good feed of whiting and one size flatty (brock's first in the blue stuff) using placcies on patternoter rigs before headin in. We stopped at our little tailor spot on the way in and the water was crystal so out went the usual lure on Brock's rod and sure enough it was hit at the usual spot on the reef. 430mm chopper but the kid wanted another so next troll we hooked up again. Few tense moments coz the slight seabreeze was pushing us back to the reef and me tryin to video with my fone, move the boat when needed and net the fish at the same time, but thankfully made it in the net. I love fishing with my best mate, what a trooper. Sorry bout the language, I ensure you he knows that only grown ups can say words like that lol. Told him after that he had it easy coz it had part of it's tail missing haha


Pics of today's catch

 Hey, here is the pics of todays catch of our charter.

Boated out by 11am!

It was an awesome day out on the water. Couldn't have asked for anything better.

Tight lines everyone

Don't forget if u want to book $20 is being donated to Curt for his brain surgery.

 


queen snap

From a few weeks back off rotto fishing the around some cray pots!

Went 84cm


Second Metro Tiger

Took a couple of hours to get this girl in lastnight, quick release again and she swam away without any help

So much respect for Chris fish and the other guys landing larger models on surf rods I was in a world of hurt by the end of it even with a boat rod

 

 

 


A few shovel nose

 Went fishing last night off the beach in jurien hoping for a big mullaway, had no luck as such with the mulla but still had a bit of fun with these few. The smaller one was good fun on my new bait runner


australia day

With the weather finally looking favourable we decided to head north with the wife Sal, son Nathaniel and daughter Jo. Left home at 6.00 for the two hour trip, got to Lancelin at about 8.00 to be geeted at the beach by a tractor bogged. feeling very confident now of a beach launch we went where there were plenty of other 4 wheel drives. fortunately everything went well for us.

headed out through the reef with the wind still howling, so decided to sit around and catch some bait till the wind dropped, about an hour later with the wind dropping headed out for the 30-40 metre mark.  on the way the sounder was showing a great amount of structure and fish, so thought we would give it a go.  first drop and nathaniel is on, landing a nice baldie, it went quiet so we moved on the sounder lit up again so round we go and second drop next it was Jo's turn with the fish putting up a reasonable fight. we knew it was something decent, she soon had colour revealing her first ever dhuie,74cm and 7.2 kg.

next was my turn, after a short fight another dhuie 75cm, 7.3kg [phew I just beat her] then Nathaniel brings up another baldie, at last Sal is on and up comes a small blackarse, with her complaining that she can only get small the small ones she drops her bait over again and yes she's on this time it is more serious, she soon has colour a nice dhuie about 90cm 11.2 kg. now she's smiling, but what a day throwing good size dhuies back because you already have your limit is hard, but thats the rules.

Decided at this stage to ring the brother in law who had knocked back the offer to come out wth us, while on the phone my line decided to take off so threw the phone to Nathaniel to keep talking while I reeled in a nice baldie, then it was his turn, I think at this stage my brother in law hung up to go cut his wrists or something, well nathaniel brought up another two dhuies in quick succession, then a small blackarse. by this time the esky was looking rather healthy, two dhuies, four baldies, two blackarse, we were done, had our limit of demersals, so with the wind picking up it was a slow wet trip back home but you couldnt wipe the smiles from our faces with our best ever nearly local trip ever.


Metro Tailor

 Hi all this is my first post on the forum, long time reader though.

Caught this half decent Tailor last Saturday night at about 8:30pm rock fishing NOR. 4/0 x3 gang and a small weight with 40lb mono leader. Weighed in at 700g and 44cm, not too shabby for the middle of summer and metro fishing. Lost another two that felt around the same size. Good little session with a pike and a few port jacksons caught too to keep me busy.

 

 

 


Australia Day weekend pics out the Busselton Jetty!

 couple photos of sharks lads caught off the end of jetty over the ADW,plus TJR,KJR,scottnot n fishies catch on sundy n lastnite!

sunday nite myself,TJR n fishies catch!

scottnot n fishies catch lastnite!

wat i ended up with lastnite!i love fishing!!finished up round 12am,lol


About time!

 Finally, a good day on the water! My mate and I both getting our PB Pinkies!! They came in at 73cm/5.5kg, and 86cm/7.5kg.  ......ps, this is my first post, hope it works ok!


shark id

Ok so best australia day ever up north in leeman , pulled in my first shark landbased with 80pound braid,

but can any one tell me what type of shark it is


carnarvon

just a few pics from my first trip to carnarvon , got to tick a few fish of my list , one after noon the jetty came a live with 1000s of queenfish ,we had a ball catching about 50 keeping 5 ,got ha heap of macks,cod, tarpon,trevally,flathead,bream,queenfish,javelin,jacks,ect but the 1 day we took the light gear only we lost 5 mulloway in 10 mins haha i will catch 1 one day , heaps of sea snakes pulled the crab pot an nealy got bitten bye one , we got 3 big sharks of the jetty mine was the biggest at est 100kg 2m bronzie ,all put back an on the windy days we just went mud crabing , seen a few manta rays with fish under neath we all casted at them but no hook ups, to many storys to tell cant wate to go back ........

 


New PB - Canning River Flatty

Far from a glamour shot but I upped my PB this morning from 53cm to 54.5cm.

Great fish that put up a wicked little fight in the shallows, got him on a gold Cultiva Mira Shad.

Contrary to the reports I'm reading I am finding it quite hard to get onto flatties this season, but the ones I have got have all been great sizes.


Blues buddy's and a killer hangover.

 After consuming way to much alcahol on aussie day I stayed committed  to going for a dive with my mate today. He didn't drink at all but I was feeling not so good and just the 4x4 in to the spot had me feeling I'll haha. I suited up slowly as josh was done in a flash and jumped in. I was about to get in when he yells out and holds up a very nice grouper!! Barstard that fish should of been mine!!!

I got in swam 100m up the rocks, left a few queenys and small grouper and started feeling real bad, screw this I'm getting my grouper and I'm out hahaha, shot one of about 4 swimming around a rock. Seen a few flatties right where we got in and I got 4 in a few minutes. That's it I'm out nice spew on the rocks and felt better after that.

In the short time we where in the water we got 5 flathead, 2 king George, 6kg grouper and a 14-15kg one.

 


A few pics from metro January 2013

 Lifes good, been getting a swag of crays however struggling to bag out - finding females and undersize in plague proportions, its definitely been a fun month off :-)


1st time jigger

 Took a mate out jigging for the 1st time on Sat and the result for him was GOLD ! I think it was his 2nd drop too....fish went 78cm

Gear used was

Rod - Eupro Giant king pe 0.8 - 2

Reel - Supposed to be a Daiwa Caldia 4000, but it was playing up, so used my Sustain 10000fg, with pe 3 saltiga boat braid(a tad on the big side I know)

Jig - Eupro 120gm

cheers


First time for everything - Take 2

After last year finally managing the first legal Pinkie, Australia Day yielded our first legal Dhufish after eons of trying. Left from Ocean Reef at 6ish, pleasantly  suprised by the few numbers in the car park. Trolled around and up and down for ~2.5 hours in the hope of first metro Mack, but with no luck. Decided to head out a little to a spot we had some sambo fun on a couple of years ago, and marked an interesting tiny peak on the way out. Hit that spot on the way back in. First drop and up popped a double of 2 little Dhuies, 1 at 48cm, and the other about half that...they went swimming back down with no problems...a couple of drifts later and my wife was on to something good. She has a back injury unfortunately for her, so it was up to me to lift, and she wound. The result was this 82 cm model, in very good nick due to the slow retrieve....so we decided to send it back on a release weight to be sure, and it swam down. I'm calling it half each!


Metro Macks - TICK

Another 'Code' cracked lol

 

 

 


Busselton Jetty Fishing

Here are a few pics from the last couple of nights. Will add more pics as we get them. Just showing you guys a bit of the life on the jetty.

 

The Jetty trolley is a must.

Kaotik Jetty Rat in his rat hole. Wind break tarp set up.

A few fish.

We leave the jetty as we found it. Remember to always take your rubbish.

Scottnot with a freshly caught tailor.

Nice one Scottnot. 50 cm Bonito.

Small haul caught between 7 and 9 pm.

TheJettyRats haul after ariving late after work.

A squid caught off the end by some kids from perth. Good catch lads.

Come prepared or don't come at all LoLz. Me and my trolley.

3am at the cleaning table. Always leave it clean for the next fisho.

 


First try in the Yak

Well today i decided that im becoming a yakker, so down to my local i went. i brought all the neccesitys and by midday i was on the water!! I wasn't to confident in catching anything, but i went on anyway, mainly just to see how the yak would go and to get used to it. It felt awesome being so close to the water, slipping under little jettys and things, it was great!!
 
I had travelled a fair way and was contemplating on heading back. The heat of the sun pounded onto my head, frying up all my leg hairs, while the salt on my skin shriveled up into little circles on my burning body. I was determined to give it a bit more time though and I stumbled across an awesome looking spot and flicked my little Crank right down the side of the pontoon. I cranked it down and little taps instantly. I kept pulling it away from the fish to see if he would liven up and try to smash it. It worked, as my rod belted over and i steadied the yak. After a short tussle i could see him below me, a typical canal Bream of about 30 :) Slid the new net under him and i snapped a few pics. I was stoked with my first fish on the Yak!!
 
 
 
I kept on hoping for another one. Back to the same spot and not long after another fish, a little bit smaller than the last. Its great fun trying to control fish in tight structure ... unless it busts you off!! I guided him into the net and took some more pics!
 
 
 
After that i packed it in, and took the long paddle home, which destroyed me -.- But i was happy with its first trial and looking forward to the next session :) The Yak is a Malibu Mini-X BTW 
 
Cheers, Callum


Carnarvon on Lures

 Hey guys, recently went up to carnarvon to stay with my brother for a bit and had some sick fishing action!!! Heres some pics of the fish we encoutered... Also went up to Coral bay for a day, did some diving and fishing. Got some Shark macks, spangos and lost some nice fish to cods (including my jigs :/) as well as getting bitten off by big spaniards

 

Heres a little video showing some of highlights of the trip as well :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7uPgLexQdU

 

Pics

 

 
 
 
Cheers, Callum


first metro lb mackie...!

 first spaniard landed at woodies jetty 23/1/13 chyeaaaaah brotharrr..!


wahoo

Caught this hoo in exmouth on saturday. any weight guesstimations?


Another Busso Jetty Greenback

Lastnights biggest tailor 62cm.


Greenback off the Busso Jetty

 Caught this lastnight, been catching the bigger ones on a regular basis over the past few weeks. We have also been bagging out on 35-45 cm.This was taken on a phone camera so the quality isn't the best unfortunatly.

 

My mate caught the pinky at the bottom a few nights earler, it also went 60 cm, tasted good too :P.

 

 

 

 


Metro Tailor

We took off from the boat ramp at about 5:15pm and started the cruise out to an old but trusty spot on a metro reef. We were anchored at the spot within 20 minutes and me and dad both casted out our ganged mulies right at the edge of the reef and almost instantly a double hook up was obtained. after catching numerouse tailor on the mulies i decided to try the poppers so out goes the halco, TWITCH,TWITCH, BANG!! after a small fight on light tackle i boated my first tailor on popper. After that i caught a few more tailor on popper before i got busted off. next i tried soft plastics and  first cast ON AGAIN!!so next decided to change to a diving lure ( my favourite bonito lure ) and almost instantly BANG on again, the tailor were in a frenzy. i wanted a bit more of a challenge and we had our limit of tailor in the esky so i decided to stop using trebles so catch and release would be more succesful. I put on a skirt ( pink jelly babe ) with a sinker attached further up the line so i could cast it and soon later i was catching tailor on skirts!! another first accomplished. we ended up keeping our limit and catching and releasing at least 50 others. one thing i found interesting is that the tailor were not eating slices which is strange especially when they are in a frenzy like that. I am going to use most the tailor for shark bait and try and transform one into a tiger shark, the rest will be fried up for lunch tomorrow.

 

sorry about the picture quality, only had the iphone

 

cheers,

snapper_seeker


First metro tiger

First and hopefully not last metro tiger, sent out a balloon lastnight and had my line rubbed through even with a 3m leader. Quick trip home to make another trace and had my bait 350-400m out an hour later.

Had a run about an hour later but couldn't tell whether or not it was just the wind pulling the balloon or if I was on. Decided to reel in to check the bait when with about 100m of line still out I finally knew I was on! 40 minutes of her taking a 100m's and me getting it back only for her to go on run after run and she was finally at the beach.

Stuck the rod in the rod tube and ran down into the surf to grab her and get her onto the beach, few quick photo's before walking her into the surf where she swam away strong. Length was roughly 2m nose to tip.

*If the other guys who were down there and those that know could not mention the location that'd great, really dont want it getting crowded when ever there's an easterly.

Thanks

Brett

 

 

 

 

 


PB Pinky

Got this last Monday off Lancelin in 30m, hit hard and boy did it go hard. It went 8.4kg on the scales.
Also managed a couple of nice Baldies and a 6kg Duie which gave the family a good feed.