Picked up this lil rankin on a mcarthy in 80m of water off coral bay, good fun on the sol 4000

Hi Crew,

I havent been fishing in over 2 weeks, cuz last time I went a bloody spider bit me and I got a nasty infection.

Last weekend my brother and a good friend of mine arrived from Germany for his first down under holiday! My brother is a keen fisherman also and my aim was it to get him on his first shark. So that he finally could feel how it is when a fish takes line of you.

So we went out last night and I paddle out one big bait and one slide bait and one cast bait ( intended for ray so no steel trace). With all lines set the waiting and beer drinking starts! About an hour or so after dark the first run happens on the slide rod. I set the hooks and pass the rod to my brother. The fish does some nice short runs and my brother holds on to the rod, I think it took him about 2 seconds to be fully loaded with adrenalin. It was a bit of an effort for my brother cuz he is not used to overhead reels but after a few minutes his first shark ( a bronzi and it was approximately 1.3meter) was safely landed on the beach. We took some pics and then I released it.My brother was stoked!

Bout 20 minutes later the cast bait started running, my brother grabs the rod tightens the drag and ping gone. No steel trace on the rig so no chance. And this rod has braid on it so my brother got his first ever line burn when he touched the line

I rigged it up again and this time with steel. Bout another 20min later next run on the cast bait. This time its on for a lil while. After a few seconds the fish hits reef and of again. So out goes bait number 3 on the cast set up. Again another 20 min later next run. This time my friend managed to land the fish, a lil smaller bronzi but still nice, removed the hooks and released it. So now I had my brother on 1 fish and my friend. The next run was mine, this time on the slide. I got the fish on the beach and decided we keep this one for a feed as it was perfect eating size from about 1.1meter.

Then we waited another hour or so for a pick up on the big bait but nothing. 

So we packed up and went home. All in all a awesome night with 3 fish landed and 5 hook ups and I think its a bit better then the trout pond fishing in Germay my brother is used too

Cheers Seb

Hello,

Just wanted to say a quick thankyou to Rob (letsgo74) and Murray (Murray D) for recent trips out on their boats.

With Rob on Wed last week the first and second drop for me were great on mcarthy soft plastics and nitro elevator heads, scoring a wrasse and then a decent sambo.  After that it was hard to catch a break.  We got undersize pinks, scorpion fish and a single blackarse way off the mark at the end of a drift.

Today with Murray and Bert (Glastronomic) conditions were pretty rough early, but the wind died and it was pretty reasonable for a few hours before the seabreeze kicked in.  We started with some bottom bouncing without much luck - the usual hawrassement and other pickers.  We shifted to a different spot for some whiting and proceeded to get some cracking school whiting coming in on light gear in 20+ mts.  After filling an esky for me, as the others werent keen on taking whiting for a feed, the wind had died so we headed out a bit for some more bottom bouncing.  Regular pickers came over the side but eating fish was hard to come by until yours truly got a nice blackarse and Murray got onto a nice whaler shark over a metre.

A few more drifts and the wind shifted so we were about to head in when I got onto a nice 45cm leatherjacket.

Thanks to Murray and Rob again for the invites. 

Bryan

hello all , woke up this morning at 3!!  to go for a early morning tailor fish , nice s/e wind for baitcasting.

got a small feed , not that many big ones , but in a first for me I snavelled 2 tailor on one gang.

I was using 2 chem sharp hooks with a 4/0 stinger on the end.

yes north of yancep as they all say haha.

I publiclly declare this wont happen to me again in my lifetime.

no its not me holding them , its the mad tassie stevie glover.

he,s only 21 years old ,I think, but he spends all his money on beer , hooch and fishing gear.

he wastes the rest.

 hi all,

was down at long point last night having a flick. i was throwing out my lure when i managed to bring in a bat, scared the shit when i realised what i had caught...

sorry about the photo it was off my mates phone.

 Great weekend at Poison Creek WA - 7 Bronzies and various Skate and one Mulloway

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Baby Tiger, at Geraldton.

Was 4mm over legal size.Nailed a whole lund's squid.They dont taste half as good as one from the ocean.Bit muddy.Also caught a nice flounder.mobile camera pics.Gotta get a new camera

Check out this hooter i pulled out of a freshwater creek.See the size of it on the esky lid.Sorry about the pics only have my mobile camera.Bit more then 2 kilo's.Didn't weight it though.

Caught a nice haul of redfin at my secret spot.Tasted great

the picture says it all, it was a mission to get him in on 10p line im glad to see the fish in the river are still thriving

 Headed out on friday for a fish and a dive,my bro and his mate wanted to dive the Lumps.

Well after lunching at Quindalup,and magic conditions we headed straitght to the lumps,we arived and they got straight into a their first dive,well after they got in

i throw my line in but only little pecky fish.

Then they surfaced i was looking for all the fish that they would have speared,but only came up with one Baldy,about 55cm.

with some time in our hands before their second dive, we moved to a near by spot for a fish.

The first drop i got a double header, A little sambo and a Swallow tail.After a few more drift and a couple nice bites.I then and a good take.

With The Stella 8000sw drag screamin and tcurve bending, I pulled up a 1m YTK. 

Well after that it was time to move near Sugarloaf,for their second dive..We got there and they hoped in..I had a bit of a fish catching a nice Leatherjacket,and my dad had a nice strike on a live wrasse,but didnt hook it.

Me and the old man we just saying that my bro's mate would have spear a Blue groper.....

Then they surfaced,they got to the side of the boat,and i grabed their dive bags and guess what my bro's mate had..........A Blue groper (65cm),and a queen snapper they also had a couple crays.

We after they where in the boat i wanted to have a drift there before heading home...

So after drifting for about 15 mins and some good bites,using some cuttle fish and rock crabs..i was on, It felt like a very nice fish,bending the tcurve,but i had my Stellas drag a bit tight and the hooks pulled..........

I was soo pissed,thinking that could have been the blue groper i have allways wanted to catch.....

Well after that they wanted to head home, so we called it a day, with a Yellow Tail Kingfish,Baldy,Swallow tail,Blue groper and a couple crays in the esky...

Was a great day apart from loosing that fish....

Cheer Jesse

got a call last wednesday morning from a mate and after both recieving a hall both from our girlfriends we decided to go out for a night fish.

it was my first time leaving from hillarys and we left at around 6pm. being new to this area i didnt have much idea where to go so i checked the charts and found well known lumps. we ended up anchoring in 13m of water and after a slow start of only catching two eels the persistance paid off. we managed to land numerous dhufish (only one size), an undersize pink snapper, a bronze whaler, nice size tailor and a few pike.

after about 6 hours out on the water we decided to pack it in as we couldnt get past the pike and heading in back to hillarys which i must say is quite a tight little place to get into.

cheers

greatrex

Went for a fish on Friday, landed some whiting and a Dhufish. Then went for a dive, snared 12 crays, a Balchin and a Breaksea Cod. Vis was fantastic and company great!

Picked up these couple nice tailor and a few herring whilst having a fish with my mate this morning, biggest tailor went about 500mm, as you tell from the 2nd photo she was a thumper. Great to get out before having to go back to work tomorrow  

any one know if there are any pots  round north mole aint bin there in a while and thinking bout going for a balloon tonight. any help cheers

some real bad weather when out in the boat new to deep sea fishing in bunbury but we finally found a patch of reef out deep that gave us a lil bit of fun, threw back 6 or so small pinkys and got chewed off by what i think was a shark

got this dhu on 8lb off two rocks in 40m.

Almost got bricked with 3m of line left on the reel.

Fresh yft sashimi....

Here is a few fish and other things i have caught since christmas.

Tailor all caught in about 2 hours with 4lb bream gear

First attempt at jigging with seasport at jurien

catch from the day

Decent Marron

Nights catch

Mandatory asshole shot i had to send to a few mates who where still away onsite

Feed of yabbies from home

 Hey guys, ive noticed the reports are a bit slow today and im tired of refreshing the site waiting for new posts so thought i might upload some photos of some fish ive been getting into this month.

A couple of firsts for me include the black bream on plastics, Ive only just started fishing the river in the last month as its a great way to spend a Sunday arvo, nice and relaxing.

The sandy on plastics also a first. With the weather extremely warm and a couple days off for Aus Day and the friday, my mates and I spent the glassy mornings out on the jetskis having a ball skiing, thats when i noticed the schools of solid yellowfin cruising the shallows. I came back in the arvo with the rod and a pack of plastics, sight casted to a school of yellowfin and one sucked it in and ran with it, pulled the hook out on the strike and it turned around and smashed the plastic again, then i lost it haha was actually suprised at how aggressive they are.

Big skippy in the bucket went 45cms, most of them caught on 4in plastics.

The big tailor went 58cms, the smallest we caught that session was 43cm, casting stickbaits into washy reefs from the ski, not a bad size for metro. The stickbaits we used are supposed to be bream lures, Starlo Pro bream stix or something, we just change the trebbles to larger ones and they work a treat, as the photos show.

The big skippy and tailor haul was from a session I had with flangies and leemo which turned out to be one of the hottest metro landbased sessions we've ever had.

Cheers guys

Hey People

Went out with Joe M and Drumstick to hit up some ground off two rocks. Was great conditions all day with the fish being relatively hungry. Drumstick caught hooked up on the first drift landing a nice dhuie that pulled the scales to 11kg. We just used jigs all day and landed 14 Dhuies, 5 snapper, 2 baldies, 2 flathead, 2 blackass, tuna, YTK and sambos.

Anyway here's some pics

Drumsticks Dhuie

My Big Bladie

Drumstick with a great flatty

One of Joes Favourite eating fish....The Sambo

Hunting HARD!!

So...

After a couple of hours of trailling some lures out the back for a Mackie without success...

We pulled up at a random location (with no sounder) and dropped a couple of smaller rods to fossick up some wrasse....

They were most obliging, as wrasse in this location usually are, and quickly hooked a couple onto our larger gear to try our luck...

Only about 15 minutes in, and something took drag...  Before vanishing into the great blue yonder... Its sudden departure, also leaving my somewhat ill tempered mate , with a nasty tangle in his line...

Fortunatley it did not take long to sort out... and there was no need to raise the wee wrasse from the depths...  And just as well... Cause bang something struck again about 5 minutes later...

What followed immediatley after that was a mad scramble to raise both the smaller lines and my own rig...  As well a good 40-50m of anchor rope...

The whole time the spool is running, and getting awfull shallow in what was left on the reel with the action.

The motor kicked straight into gear, as it should, as so began the chase to recover some line.... None too soon, as the report from the arm wrestle going on was that a little bit of the spool's center was just visible...

30 minutes later and after much maneouvering to keep the action on the one side, up goes the exclamtion from the bow... I see silver...

Promptly followed by a loud expletive and "look at the size of that thing"

Sneaking a peek over the side, and so I saw that my mate had hooked a damn good size amber or sambo...

Not exactly prepared to take aboard something of that calibre, down went the net, and a quick calculation was made that I would need to lean out the side why he tried lifting it...

The 1st attempt to left it didnt go so well, and the fish went back in and very nearly the rod too, as well as nearly being snapped in half as it bent over the side of the boat...

The 2nd attempt went better, and on the deck it went...

Couple of happy snaps later and straight back into the release process... Took a good 20-25 mins to get it moving, and finally away it went back down into the deep, nice n strong...

Measured up at 1.52m nose to tail tip, (had a tape measure and no scales onboard, but estimates would be upwards of 25kg+ considering how heavy it was to lift, maybe heavier, who knows what adrenline does....

Fish broke the pair of snells on the leader and on inspection just the one hook had held... Thankyou Owner....

Anyway here is a pic of one happy camper...

went for a flick today downstream today

bit quiet and very hot
got a few small bream on breamprawn and zipbait rigge

but more importantly 3rd cast hooked this lovely flathead on a Zipbait Khamsin JNR SR Rattler

went 53cms and a new pb, nervous moments on 4lb leader but he busted me off once he was on the bank

better photos to come with me holding it on my mates camera

Cheers

To be onboard this nice boat, And the skipper is not to bad as well

And a PLUS is he knows were the fish are too

sherbie

Took the young bloke barra fising end result Tom 2 Dad and Nicko nil.

Headed out the other day testing the Madeye 7" Flick Sticks. Smile says it all

Caught in 20m.

Woke up late yesterday and headed down at midday to a section of flats that had been producing lately, didnt like my chances at midday tho

Ended up been a good little session fish for just over and hour and landed 8 bream on Hardbodies
Crackjacks and zipbaits doin the damage
2 fish hooked up right at my feet, mostly rats about 4 legal
and the biggest going 30cms to the fork (32cm tip), smashed my crackjack on a fast retrieve saw him come out of the depths and smash it on the flat

Not bad excitement for the river

Cheers