A few yellowtails from metro and up the coast from past few months. Nothing huge yet but numbers are great

 took opportunity Saturday to head out, forecast not the best but once out, conditions ideal! Slow early, then this tiger came for a visit, easy 3m+. seemed to then set the fish on the bite and picked up a couple of dhues ~ 10 and 5kg. Called it a day by 11am so good times!

Went out for a quick flick yesterday before the wind came up. Come home with a couple of nice size black butts, kg and this nice specimen went about 13 kegs happy days

 super happy to get out yesterday, seems like ages ago the ban started.my 13 year old is showing interest and was keen enough to set his alarm for 2 am, leaving for 2 rocks at 3.00 am, on the water at 4.00, I love heading out in the dark and watch the day come alive, had a great morning , have started the season well with just under 90 cm Dhu , had great fun chasing the birds on the way home and having multiple hookups on little tuna, it was awesome listening to my son laughing and having so much fun , I hope everyone has a safe and happy Xmas and new year.

The Mrs wanted for fish for xmas but her family are fairly fussy so the plan was to bag some sandies then explore the 30s in the hope of a dhu swimming in close. Getting a skin lesion carved out of the nose today so a day off work for a solo mission yesterday was the go.

Found some nice sounder action and pulled out a 47cm model and gave it another 5 drifts and moved into my fave spot. A few wrasse and not much action then hooked what I called for a small snapper to pull in a nice 37cm darkened anus.

Tonnes of cray pots blocking my drift so I scouted around trying a few areas of interest for zilch so headed back to the first area and drifted a different mark and pulled in a nice 46cm KG a couple of hundred m off the lump in flatter hard ground. Was getting lots of similar hits on the 7/0 hooks so hopefully I've finallly nailed a KG spot.

Beaut day on the water and some 10/10 fillets for xmas lunch!

Had my ass flogged all day by my deckie . ( Peter) Last drift I managed to get a good bite. 50 lb braid light for me. Called it for stingray. On the last spiral prior to hitting surface. My circle came free. Lucky he was screwed. Other fish was a cracker also peters kgs where thumpers also black ass average. Many fish under sized. Many. Over(5 at 5) they all swam away.. cracker morn

 Checked the pots Sat morn and thought we would troll back and see if anything might jump on. FMD if this fella jumped on and the father in law got tick off his first pink on a hard body diver. Damn the Ban   ! couple of pics and he swam away. Now thats everyone bar me still, that has managed a pinky on my boat.  When it happens its going to be a ripper!!

just managed to squash 8 in the catch bag, 30 mins dive this morn.

Mate got exactly the same.

Left them biting ! 

Long time between posts on here, it's good to be back.

So my Father just brought the family a new boat (Barcrusher 670c) after selling the Whitley some 5 years ago. Being good sons my brother and thought it best to take full advantage of the situation, so we decided to run some cray pots for the first time this season.

Pots have been in the water off of Mandurah for 2 weeks now and we have steadlly been increasing our catch rate. Today was our best to date with 18 caught, one tiny red was released and a size white released also for our bag of 16.

Happy Days Crays for Christams!

Hanging out for the Demersal ban to finish so we can get into some decent fish next. 

i got this saturday night around 9pm

38 cm tailor..

it hit hard and almost took my rod in with it i think my drag was sticking cause i h ad it loose .

was caught on mullie...from Narrows .

Same area more and more hardening. And moving out from deep dark ledges. Into snare range.

 since the elections ,emailed council but no response in regards to bent st. ramp being silted up,anyone know why the navigation markers have not been mooved since excavation has been { completed }there must be a rational reason surely!and what was the point of doing one without the other ?  

I’m back! Thought i’d share something cool for you all...

 112cm 22.1kg yesterday morning

Luke finally took his boat out with his mate ryan. 19.88 kg . 1.060 long. Unfortunately it’s stomach had nothing in it . Spewing iam out of action so is Andy . I had the great privilege of cleaning it apparently, and it was my spot funny. Ryan’s pd and on soft plastic ( yuck). Little Luke almost there

I recently coached my cousin's grandkids in the fine art of lure fishing a swirling farm creek for Redfin Perch. Winter rain in the Bridgetown area meant this little creek was discoloured and I wondered if the lures and spinners I'd selected might not even be visible... . Needn't have worried. Just before dusk we enjoyed repeated hits and had ten Redfin on the bank before dark. Most successful patterns were Mepps, Gibbs, Blue Fox, Vibrax and Tiger Tails, with red hints and rainbow trout colouration the most successful colours.* The most popular lure had a tuft of dark red feathers on the treble. At times, there was a frenzy of hits... and yes, we lost a few lures to snags.

Eighty percent of the fish were very healthy females loaded with eggs.  

Did the kids have fun? You bet. The family had known for years that this little creek sheltered Redfin, but these were apparently the first caught. Pretty excited about their adventure, both boys went out first thing the next morning and caught another good-sized reddie.  Late afternoons may produce more fish... .

* Quite a few of these lures had been successful with Rainbows, Dolly Varden, and Cutthroat in Vancouver Island streams and lakes.  Next time I visit Bridgetown I'll try some wet flies with red hints against these voracious predators!~

 Went out this morning at gentleman's hours with the misses today to check the pots. I was pretty confident of doing well after the storm and we got our 16. 1  of pots had donuts but the bait was demolished I think Mr occy had scared them all out of there. 

Took advantage of the good weather we have had lately and checked the pots and got another 11 today . Can't believe the good numbers we are getting , been getting quite afew occies too. Crayfi h dumplings and grilled crays in progress added .

 Got our first bagout this morning been getting plenty.

Set myself for a couple of days out this weekend and took the family to the whiting patch yesterday and pulled in a bunch of fat sandies. I reckon I caught 13 of the 16 and the kids need to pick their game up .

Left the boat hooked up and set out solo after my fishing mad 9y old pulled out because "we probably won't catch anything". I've been in a dhu drought since last year and have only managed mostly Blackarse and a baldie.

Hit my spot in the 30s and four drifts for not even a bite and I was already accepting defeat but I changed the driftline and pulled up two small dhus and after a few more drifts and the most subtle of bites I sunk the hooks and got that telltale fight and pulled up a nice 60cm model. Next drift I hooked into something a lot more solid and was wishing I had my son with his $15 licence on board but he sliced me off ready for another day.

Luke and few mates went to there trout and Redfin spot. A nice 54cm brown. Even thou he is holding forward. Still good fish and picture

 Got out yesterday after the stormy weather we have had and my first pot had been in a little strife . Still came home with 2 crays . Fixed the pot yesterday and got it back in today and cleaned up in 1 pot got 8 crays.

Havent posted in a while, have had trouble to on the computer with some out of date software, but all up to date now.

Had some great pinky fishing in recent times with some great numbers hitting the deck, even having 25 fish coming aboard in 2 sessions. Average size of about mid 80s and an equal PB of 94cm coming in at 11.6kg.

On the weekend headed out for a sambo jig on a spot that usually holds large numbers of big fish this time of year. Unfortunately was very quiet with only a small patch of fish holding off the lump and not interested in touching any jigs and plastics. I never head out there targeting sambos without grabbing a handful of livies on the way out because believe it or not they can be a tempermental bugger. So off with the plastics and replaced with a live herring pinned through the back on a jighead. We pulled hooks a few times due to the lazy rig, i usually like a snell setup with a large running ball sinker, but finally set the hook into a solid fish. Very average fight, couldnt decide whether it was a dhuie or a small sambo, then up popped this fatty.
New PB of 94cm.

Dont ever think your bait could be too big...

Quick call to fellow member Goodz to see if he was interested in popping in on his way home from work and taking this fish home, as long as he brought the head back the next day for my Dads soup!

We had one more drift and finally picked up what we came for, snaffling quite a large live skippy.

Cheers,
Beau.

 Good pinkie in the storm 

Conditions are dreadful down here but my son is dead keen so I took him for a flick off the Old Dunno ramp rocks with 1m waves breaking across the bay. I wouldn't even attempt to head out to the weed banks at the moment.

He felt a nibble then the bream rod bent over and after a few tense moments with the breaking waves he landed this beauty. Another species off his bucket list.

May have been up before unsure.good set of chompers on it. Also spikes. Ugly

Last few days guys I know been getting 850 to 985 long pinks. I personally won’t chase them this year . But makes me wonder about results . And where they get them from. I do understand bringing ban forward. And agree . Extended area wrong .There already in numbers and spraying as you lift tthem. Tagging should be stopped also . Why upset them while doing there natural breeding cycle . Leave them . Not many hand in tags anyway.. plus heaps get lost to sharks. Just my thoughts

 took the opportunity yesterday to take advantage of the sons pupil free day and the good weather. hit two rocks early, and fark it was cold, out wide was okay but bit blowy. few foxfish, sweep and other shit fish before this nice one showed it face in 42m of water. pic says it all.

little bugger outfished me again and his last two fish now showing an 8kg red at coral bay and this 8kg (and first) dhufish! pic doesnt quite do it justice but is was real solid healthy dhu for a first!!

wind died off half way back at lunch time so could open the throttle and get in nice and quick.

Dan doing well atm. Few more gone, up there in 3 weeks with wife . Looking forward to it .

after 6 hrs of freediving down Bremer bay along the cliffs. Mate and I popped out to 60m for a fish, hooked this thing on pe2 and on a 200 gram ocean legacy contact jig. Outfit is a maxel rage 25 and levitate number . This thing smoked me took over 30mins to get up, everyone run was a 30m line dump lol