went out on mills friday night for a night bash and the "name " rivalry was there between matt (mako magic) and matt (hlokk) was a alright night with pinks caught by most to about 7 kg and 1 dhuie and heaps of red snapper. at the end of the night matt(hlokk) won the name rivalry with matt (mako magik)4 to 1 .. a convincing win well done hlokk
brenz

Forecast strong wind warning kept me in port Saturday morning but the arvo window looked to good to miss. Blasted out at about 2.00pm, went for a look with the gun in a couple of places but didn't find anything worth shooting. James bagged four crays and I picked up two. Headed to a spot at about 5.00 pm in 40 odd metres of water and did a few drifts with leadheads baited with mulies. Not the best bait and missed quite a few hits. Cranking the jig back up and was rewarded with a nice mack of about a meter, beauty, fresh strip baits for the jigs. Put the pick down and started pumping the pot. Macks were on the job. James hooked a shark down deep so i started cranking my jig to to the top to get it out the way. 3/4's of the way to the top and it stopped in its tracks, another mack I'm thinking until a nice sail burst through the top. Shark was promptly cut off and we concentrated on the sail. Didn't take to long on the PE 5 Twinpower. Few anxious moments boatside and then I had my first sail on a leadhead. Didn't bother lifting in the boat for a pic and it swam off strongly. Is their anything that wont eat a white 6/0 leadhead?

Do believe its a John Dory!!!! Is it common in Perth waters(haven't seen one before) ?? How big do they normally grow(this fish 51cm)?? Chewability?? If it eats as well as it looks the mother-inlaw ain't getting it!!!!!!!

No pavers, no lawn and bloody freezing.

Caught at Lake Jindabyne winter 07.

lol

Al.

Had an e-mail from Van Staal today to let me know that I had won the monthly photo comp!!!!

Didn't think I had much chance!!! Thought I might have looked too much like an Arib!!!!

Won a 58-325 jigging rod!!!! COOL!!! Had a 225 on layby so Ian Bailey is going to take the 325 for the 225! Matching it to a 150 gold Van Staal reel!!!

THE WINNING PICTURE

First spot was full of dhuies, and first couple of drifts we had 4 with 3 undersize, and one just size.

Another couple of drifts and we lost a couple of big fish which burried us in the coral quickly.

Moved onto the next spot, and although it was flat ground and showed nothing on the sounder steve still managed this one.

Moved around a bit more fishing inside the bank for very little, so decided to move out.

Dave managed this nice breaksea, he was happy as it was his first time fishing since 20 yrs

steve also picked up a red on the same drift

Fishing around the area, didn't produced much apart from a few undersize pinks and another big fish which dropped off about halfway up.

Moved in to 80m, on the way back in and caught a few pinkies, and lost another big fish which seemed to shut the spot down, but it still showed plenty on the sounder.

Cheers
Dean and Steve

Hi,

a couple of first/PBs today out with Ozlobster and Hlokk. Ozlobster was gracious enough to put me onto a nice lump for my first Dhufish.

After that, we went out a little further and I picked up a pink snapper!



Sorry, more details after dinner. Its just come off the BBQ!

Ok, back from the BBQ and a snooze. Got home just in time to show it to my 9month old son, he thought it was pretty interesting, hope it didn't give him nightmares.

We knocked off both on the BBQ last nite, and you know its a good night when 4 of you can argue about whether snapper or dhuy tastes better.

Bit more trip detail follows:
We launched at Pt Peron around 6:30am and it was a quick trip to a spot about 10mile south of rotto's east end. We had a few drifts there, I can't remember the exact order, First John got quite a nice squid, then I got that dhufish (70cm nose to v). I got it on a scale-on herring fillet under a lumo squid. Next I got a shorter one on a cockburn sound squid head on the same lumo squid deaded hook. Hlokk picked up a piece of the bottom, but eventually got it moving, see picture below.

Next we went to a spot about 6mile south of west end, it was a little deeper, and a little warmer out there (21deg C). I got the Pinky (55cm) out there on a herring head, John got a followup one next drift.

Thinking the winter skippy might be a bit more reliable, we anchored off rotto and berleyed up. All that turned up were the birds and the pickers, so eventually we headed back. It was a quick trip back as we had a glass-off in the lee of the  island, and then very smooth all the way through to 5 fathom bank before we saw any chop really.

Everyone got a feed and it was a nice day out. Now back to work, sob.

Woke up early this morning, checked the weather, called menopaul, and we were off on another awesome fishing adventure on Re-Lisa. Dad wanted to head out for these two main purposes:1. Check out the ground that we found last trip.2. Test the mini super rods.We arrived at two rocks marina at 6:50am in water by 7:05am. There was a 2.5 metre swell running, with the low tide and eastly winds the mouth of the marina had a bit of whitewash hanging around. After we were out of the marina we thought it was dead flat, soon to notice it was choppy. This made the ride to our new ground a little bit bumpy, but the new boat powered through. After arriving on the mark the rod were rigged and baited. Soon after, Menopaul was on. After a good looking fight it turned out being a morwong kind of thing which was released.  Within the minute, my mini super rod was going off, as we were using 4.5kg line we didn't know how much pressure we could put on the line and fish or what to expect. After a 5-10 minute fight a nice 55cm (4kg) dhuie was landed and congratulations followed my effort on 4.5kg line. Shortly after Dad followed with which we believed was a dhuie, but we will never know as he dropped it shortly after hook up. I quickly rebaited and lowered my line, to hear Menopaul's reel. About 2 seconds past after I hit the bottom and I was on also. Menopaul got his fish on-board first, this fish ended up being a double header of dhuies. These fish were estimated at 6kg each. A few minutes past and my fish was in sight, as it neared the boat we realized I also had a double header of dhuies estimated at 6kg and 4kg. Everyone was surprised that they were landed on a mini super rod and on 4.5kg line. Dad was spewing as when the photo was about to be taken the batteries in the camera died. After these fish it suddenly went quiet (It might have been a small dhuie we threw back). After 2 drifts with no bites we moved out a bit further. Out further we sounded out some more ground and started our drift. After a while we had landed and released 3 snapper and 2 dhuies. On the final drift I got snagged and when I got unsnagged a 4kg baldy was awaiting me. After a great days fishing we called it a day at 1:00pm. The day was a success as the new ground was awesome and the mini super rods produced great amounts of fish. 8 dhuies four released 3 snapper all released, 1 baldy kept, two blackass kept.   Jesse and Paul

was reading the upgrade of a ramp in the south. what is the feeling with a up grade of the ramp at two rocks ramp! dont get me wrong i respect the guys that collect the money each morning! they need to be payed ect!and put my hat down to. TWO ROCKS SEA RESCUE !but the facilities arent going to keep up with the general public as i and many others have noticed over the past year or two!as all good fishing areas people will soon be traveling further north wards as i do looking for better areas these areas are going to recieve more traffic like it or not! just after your opinion!

have noticed on the my account area ,a personal files area ,proberly a studid question but how does it work guys cheers , not big on computers still learning!

Went out from Two Rocks around 6oclock a little fog drifting across the water made things look spooky,we anchord on the three mile and got some fresh whithing for bait, before heading out things started of slow but sone picked up with a nice 15kg dhuie on board.I then picked up a shadow this boat followed me for an hour which slowed things down ,some guys have no idea and can't see anything wrong with the way they fish, DICKHEADS. anyways thats all on that back to fishing we tryed a few other spots with not much happening so headed in close, the last spot of the day and things went of,Jesse got a 10kg dhuie Myself 15.5kg -13kg ended up being a great day with
10 dhuies 4 released 15kg 15.5kg 13kg 10kg 2x5kg
2 breaksea
1 kg whiting
1 sambo 25kg released
1 fox fish
And yes i am busting me ass holding them, as Jesse took his time with the pic.

Well myself  craig  aka Fishcrazy  and mike aka Blowfishproheaded out wide today brilliant weather and company and this time it was my chance for the big baldy 60 cm and just over 5 kilo of fun and also craigs killer blackass  , great day with great company

Just a few pics from out Kayaking trip into CS on Sunday morning. Our buddy Matt caught all 3 Pinkies, leaving us to clear all the annoying Herring and other fish away from his baits... He gave me and wifey one of the three for dinner, nice fella he is. Was a beautiful morning, and the new GPS proved it's worth, putting us right on a good patch. I managed to loose a good fish through a bit of over exhubiration (too keen) after attempting to souvenir it's jawbone by yanking it clean ouuta its face.. Lesson learnt, and i better man i be.

Enjoy.

Wifey on route.

Matt hooked up, concentrating hard.

The results.

Proud fisho, worth every second of fishless days for that one moment!

By the way, big thanx to Ryan for some solid advice, and Allan Mac for constant knowledge. 

deckie needed for 2moro give me a call on 0412110428 daz

My Prawns from last night. Really looking forward to having these tonight. Bill, thanks for the squid.

we had a pritty good day on sunday i reackon!!!

hi guys,

went to a snakehead comp last weekend. was lucky to net a 5.2kg snakehead. in malaysia they call it toman while in manila we call it dalag. i used a shakespear contender 6'6" baitcast rod with a prodigy reel. loaded with 10# tufline and 20# floro. i used a squidgy 100mm fish green on a 3/8 jighead with a 2/0 hook.

btw, mods if ot kindly move to the proper forum. thanks

Headed down to the river last night at short notice.  My buddy Brad and myself being the only divers for the night.  In the water at 6pm north of Bicton, our 2nd time at this location.

The old goolies retracted rapidly as usual with entry (hmm still got a leak in the suit) but I planned ahead with some 38 degree liquid release to counter the cold surface water entry.

Actually, once on the bottom the temperature was not that bad.

Anyway, nice sandy bottom out in the middle ground and plenty of prawns about.  Crab numbers are still very good with plenty of sonkers about.  With a bit of navigation confusion we both lost a bit of hunting time aswell but both ended up with close to 2kg of prawns.

Last nights effort from myself;

The platter;

Don’t know how big scallops get, but this is the best that I have seen – 125mm.

Cheers Pete

Caught at Point Samson, WA, trolling Laser Pro's about mid tide at Delambre Reef. The Mackerel were everywhere that morning and we kept 3 around this side boated another three and dropped 3 out the back. Decided to pull the lures in after that and leave them there for another day. Cheers Rob Dickson

Was very slow early on, especially in closer. Failed to pick up anything good inside direction bank.

Moved out a bit deeper, and it was still slow going with a few pinks being caught.

We moved spots and started catching a few Leatherjackets, we lost about 5.

Still kept catching a few pinkies aswell as a few red snapper, Biggest was 3.2kg.

Fished to 5pm and came home with a feed

Cheers
Dean & Steve

Left Woodies at 630 am and ventured in Mike's (aka Blowfish pro) cruisecraft  for my day of expert guiding  , had my laptop checking out some new charts. Things were pretty quiet except for the sand whiting  , back into the laptop for some marks saw Mike land an undersize dhufish which after some technical dificulty was released , Finding some coral lumps we had drifted over a few times and had some small hits so the desion was made to drop anchor and burley, well the result speaks for itself  , mikes 63cm of beautiful bald chin groper . Thanks for the opportunity mike

sorry about the blood

went out from two rocks today, very slow day to say the least wind changed about 3 times and it was quite choppy saw the fishwrecked crew out how did you guys go, must of been not my day!

any 1 keen for a paddle tomorow thinking squid bash in cockburn?
brenz

Check out my mate's Penguin. he's spent a mint on it!
it's the full bomb hey. i reckon i will get one, it rides so good in 30kt souwesters on the way back from Rotto. dinkum.

Anybody know when Kasey is getting back, I want to pinch his Chilli crab recipe.

BTW...I put this in the 'Brag Board' section just in-case he can post a pic of his leg ...LOL, sorry KC.

Very unlucky

I got an email from Soupster recently – he is doing it hard protecting us all on his way to a secret destination for naval exercises. “I combined with the Navigator and we hit the CO for a fish over Laywood Shoal (about a day west of Darwin). We trolled at seven knots, stopping as required. Sometimes we didn't even get back up to seven knots before stopping again due to another fish being caught. It was an awesome couple of hours. The CO was over the moon with how happy it made the crew, so I have no doubt that it will happen again.” 

The fishing ship; 

Soupster’s Spaniard

An unknown;

The motley lot;

The catch;

Keep it up Soupster.  I sleep much better knowing you are out there protecting us.

Cheers Pete

I am going to get the idea out there
I want to do a GT / Jigging trip somewhere a little different. I have been to chrissy island before but I didn’t get the same opportunity to have a fish as I would if I went there on a fishing trip (does that make sense)

Anyway, anyone who knows and likes GT fishing will know that this place goes off. I am going to start planning a trip over there for sometime next year and I am pretty sure Jay Burgess will want to come too. Going to extend the offer for maybe 1 or 2 others if they might be interested.

Like wise I am also interested in other peoples thoughts on a similar location for GT fishing and jigging for quality fish, looked at all the nomad charters and I think they will cost a mint however I am not ruling them out as of yet.

Your thoughts please

just got back from an awsome fishing trip in shark bay, we left perth last sat morn, we were on the boat (charter) by 5pm. we put all our fishing gear & booze on the boat, quick shower, then we all went 2 the pub 4 a few beers. sun morn we set of through steep point passage, we put some lures out the back, caught a few macs & tuna, then  the wind come in about 30knots with 3m swell,  so no more fishing 4 the day, we went and anchored up 4 the rest of the day in a bay. monday was a blow out 2, so mid day we  went up on the inside of the reef 2 turtle bay. then the weather gods looked after us 4 the rest of the 3 days, i caught some awsome fish, got my pb on a red emp, it was 11.2kg and went 840 it was a thumper, aso caught cods, tuna, macs, trevallys,snapper,sharks,bauldys,sweetlip,goldbands spanglies etc. all in all it was an awsome trip with the lads, we had a ball. it was a great boat & the crew could not do enough 4 you, we went with aquajack. i will put some pics of my best catches, i also have on video the big red i caught, i will try & post that up 2.

cheers.................