Hey Guys

got the chance to get up to jurien on wednesday with a few of the boys off here for a day of jigging. This was the first time i'v been bottom fishing off jurien and geez did we catch some fish. Every body on the boat ended up catching a fish even though the weather was against us. Jig's deffinately outfished the baits with Smith Mejiyumes and Lamble baits killing it.

Quinny's Sambo on PE2

Lamble Bait catches the first fish of the day

This Dhuie pulled the scales down to 18kg

a Small tacker

Nice sambo for Johny on his light gear

Baby Dhuie for me

Quinny hooked up

A cracker Dhuie for Whitey that pulled the scales to 13kg

A nice sambo to end the day

Whiteys Favourite jig

my old man and my brother were taking a boat from NT to perth and on the way they got this albino barra, i am not sure where they got it but here is the pic. enjoy

 Found this off Warnbro Sound - belong to anyone....?

BTW - anyone know if King Wrasse is edible?

Caught this flatty up at wedge off the beach proabbly a year ago(havent been a contributing member on here before now) and its probably my best catch ever. Not the best picture as it was coming towards dusk and from my old phone. TO give a bit more perspective of its size, she was sitting on top of a GQ bonnet

All the excitment of the fish really got the night going:)

it was 67cm. i really do wish i let this one go, but theres no point regreting it now.

 hi guys and gals, just want to share an event i had yesterday, 8 anglers vying out for the grand champion of year 2011 pond fishing GT Killer

here a couple of videos and photos

winner is Dan the Dennis with a total of 17 catch in the period of 2 hours

total landed by the whole team, 50+ pcs of assorted GT/Snapper/Red Drum/Barra/Groupers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JugMnFksFrQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JugMnFksFrQ

Thought I better add a report to the summer festivities.

Made the most of the sunshine this weeked and went wading with lures yesterday morning and again today with my mate. Both days had some solid sessions, with bream, tarwhine, flounder and flathead caught. Still couldn't tempt the whiting to hit my lure, but they were around. Yesterday's session ended up with me losing a brand spankin Jap minnow lure to a monster lizard that raked through my 4lb leader just when I thought I had him. Estimated at over 60 cms.

With that unfinished business in mind we went for a flattie sess this morning with a mate and got there at just the right time, with a strong bite going on as I arrived. My mate already had a few over 40 cms in the bag. Caught my first 50cm swan flatty first cast and put him back for good luck ( Trying some karma tactics that Andy Mac has mentioned). Both of us proceeded to catch a few more straight away. After a while it went completely dead, couldn't even get a blowie hit, so packed up and made for home. Ended up keeping four,  with 3 over 40 , and releasing more than that again. Looking forward to dinner tonight, fresh flattie goes down a treat.

All lure types had success from vibs, jerkbaits, crankbaits and stick baits. The main weapons were the vibes and stick baits.

Pics are of dinner and the 50cm flatty. Camera phone quality

on the good ship Bluefin Savage.

Went out with Glastonomic on his little boat and we took her further than she has ever been, 40m to 70m mark on a very pleasant Saturday morning.

Great day to be out, plastics, jigs and trolling were the order of the day.

At the 30m mark had a nice hit on the baby elf, and up came the Lizard.

Two more hit but half a plastic came back,

We then moved to the 60m mark with the sounder lighting up and the radio blarring Elvis "Were Caught in a Trap", drop jig no, drop jig nope, drop plastic and were on for the biggest fish of the day, half way up, a huge run then dropped him Damn!!!.

Left us pondering what could have been. ( Me thinks a Dhuie that only realised he was on until he started coming up. )

On the way back saw Mr Seal, without a care in the world, no GFC for him, just had a big feed and sleeping it off.

We the trolled for Taylor off Burns Rock on very light gear and it was the most fun I have had in a long time, I have forgotton how great these little tigers are on light gear.

Kept four put a ton back.

Great Day, beats shopping, mowing & gardening.

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today we headed out for a demersal bash and headed over towards rotto incase the wind played up. we dropped a few crazy deep lures in 30m off the sw end of rotto and within 5 mins, 1 of the rods went nuts peeling alot of braid but after a short struggle the line was shredded on a marker chain or cray rope.

we were so pumped but with the weather lookn good we upped lines and shot out to the 60m line hoping to snavel a dhuie or pinky. A few short drifts later on jigs and placs with no results, we saw some birds workn a bit north and decided to throw some small skirts out the back.a few mins later 1 of the rods hooked up and a nice tuna was unfortunitely dropped along side the boat.

undeterred, we set up 4 skirts and pushed on. 15 mins went by so we turned south to cover a bit deeper on way back.

to all of our amazement, every rod went off at the same time and 2 of the 4 tuna were landed. whilst trolling a marked some good lookn ground so we dropped back down and my friend instanly hooked a nice pinky on an octo jig. the school became hard to chase with the wind picking up so we trolled back to rotto with no luck.

all in all a great day and caught some good fish.

Found some new ground today in 22m with some tasty xmas roaches.

Hi Fishwreckers,

Just noticed a advertisement for the above, to be held at Woodman Point Public Boat Ramp on the 19th February, 2012 from 6.00am

Just my thoughts, its taken 5yrs to get the crabs back in the Sound, what are your thoughts on this, not stirring just a honest opinion.

 went jgging with duffman andy and a few more fw blokes.

was happy to land my first sambo. was a good day however bait ruled the day. i had 3 mores hook ups but failed knots etc to say i was stoked is un understatement

sorry had to post it, have written a report in reports haha

i have posted a full fishing report in reports

A few shots of a Black the crew and i tagged on a trip out from Darwin recently,

She went 2700 short measurement......approx 200kg.

Also had a strike from a second fish which appeared slightly smaller, but missed the hook up.

Quite a few free swimming/Jumping sails were sighted over the 2 day trip but only the big girls were on the chew.

Cheers 

Ken

here are a few pics of the reds we been getn while waitn for the whites to run.

we caught them in wooden pots with orange ruffy head for bait

or are there heaps of big crays around this season?!

hit some good lumps with wazza on saturday afternoon. again, 1 tank each to bag out, and again, some more jumbos in the deep caves.

one of the big ones had a carapace of 198mm. only saw a few whites, but this country doesnt usually hold many, but it wont be long until they are well and truely running i reckon.

Dave (Xtreme Coolers), I threw in a free bit of advertising for ya!!

scotto

Hi

About time i had something to write about on here.

Only had the boat a few months, been stuffing around in the sound mostly, witha few attempts to get out deeper not going to well.

Saturday out with the family near Carnac and pulled in a beaut Flatty 59cm,

I am wrapped haven't seen a flathead that big in ages.

Also got a smaller one, couple of KG's and a feed of squid.

Happy all round

Hi Fisherwreckers,

Just heard up here in Leeman the Professional Crayfisherman have had their Season extended for the next 14months, do any of you know of this, this came from one of the Sea Rescue guys that talks (in depth) to the professionals up here.

Apparently the whisper around town is they would't go out for 3 weeks (last years season) due to low beach price for crays, then towards the end of their season, they approached Fisheries and said that they haven't caught their quota need more time, so Fisheries have extended their season to 14 months. 

If this is true, it sure makes my blood boil, we get 6 crays, 76mm and they get a extended season plus Saturday/Sunday back as well gggrrr

Dunno if this is a suprise to anyone else, but was having a flick in Dawesville Cut yesterday for Skippy, and the result...

Only a lil feller at about 25cmish (didnt measure) so thru him back, couldn't help but take a quick snap, as I've never seen a whiting of any sort caught on sp's b4.

Took a 4" McArthy on a fairly quick/flicky retrieve.

I got this blue crab on a rapala.

He was trying to eat it all the way up the beach.

The smaller crab was stuck underneath him with some weed.

 Spent the weekend fishing the mighty Blackwood River with a few guys from the tournament bream scene. Spent most of the day friday getting a handle on the place, but had it sussed in time for a Social Comp on saturday with a few of the lads. We ended up with a 4 fish bag of 4.48kg, with my big bream bang on 1.5kg and 45cm to the tip. There were plenty of fish caught, my comrade landing 37 fish over the day all over 30cm, most around mid 30's. A beautiful, if somewhat fickle river, but certainly an awesome fishery none the less! All fish released, all on lures.

Finally got out yesterday for a decent go at it.

The kept kingie weighed 18kg,s.

The other kingie was let go and we estimated it to be about 12kg,s.

It was his 1st kingie. He got it on a jig and 20lb braid so a big congratulations mate.

Got a load of southern blues up to about 4kg,s. Another 1st for sunnyboy.

The dhu ate a jig on the drop, wasnt intentional and was let go unharmed.

A good day!!

Been targeting mainly flatties recently, and have been missing the bream. so today me and a mate took the yaks out to try redeem our selves in the bream fishing department since we hadn't targeted them in a while.

Fished lower reaches for a change

We hit up some of my spots in the yaks, and were rewarded well

Ended up fishing for 3 hours, landing 2 skippy, 3 flatties and 17 bream all up

in that, we managed 3 bream over 40cm fork, biggest falling to me at 46cm to the fork!! about 50cm tip :)

Pictures to come soon.

Cheers, tom

PS.. PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR THE LOCATIONS

Hi Guys and Gals,

Off to Leeman, so will give you all boat and beach report of who is catching what, have remembered this time, my password for the laptop, duh dumb blonde me the last time.

Will let you all know in a couple of days what the weed is like, as the last time in October, weed everywhere, ramps were full and low tide, so no beach fishing plus the damn westerlies blowing for most of the time we were there, hanging out for a beach fish, as not taking boat, old farts eyes still up the creek.

went out this arvo after work with me mate waz, to see if these reports of no crays are dinkum.

bagged out on a tank each, and some frikkin hooters amongst them. I actually ran out of room in my catch bag with only 7 crays in there. not a bad problem to have.

only saw a few whites, but plenty shells in the bottom of the caves.

Headed out on the weekend and managed to get our bag fairly easily in the one dive. Stayed shallow after all the hype and as you can see not much of a need to head deep yet anyway. All good crays with the smallest being around 79mm. The two biggest were males.

Tried a few new recipes this time around, other than the boiled jumbo legs, had some tails in a Chilli and Basil stir fry then the next night split some in half and steamed them in a bamboo steamer for 15 mins and searved up with some homemade chilli soy sauce.

A couple of nice fish caught many moons ago.

id like to thank all my mates who showed up and gave it a go, and thanks to any fishwreck members who also gave it a bash....

it was a terrible day on the water as far as the weather was concerned but with 4 ppl still keen on my boat, we gave it a shot.

i thought i was gonna be the only boat out there but at least 6 other boats joined the fun covering a wide variety of depths and ground....

i chose to go to straglers reef and a few others went to mewstone, mainly to get shelter from the strong easterlies.

anyways here are a few pics taken at weigh in with the winning fish on the day mine came in at 54cm :)

a mate on board my boat got a 51cm and another entrant caught 16 fish with his mate up to 48cm long.

i recorded over 30 king george  caught on the day most of them very good size too. thanks again everyone we shall have to try again soon if u reckon u can beat me hehe haha kidding...

gday

the water temp out on the 5 fathom bank yest was at 20.4, just incase your wondering