Bit off story behind yesterday. I had double header on . One got off . Ian, Steve and young Clayton went out this morn and got it. Honestly glad for young fella to experience a solid fish. Would have made cracker double . No regrets young fella a smile to last a lifetime, that's what it is all about.

 About bloody time!!! I’ve tried for nearly 6 years to crack a good GT off the rocks and far out it’s been a struggle but this past trip north I managed to pull it off on light gear from a very rocky spot somehow! 

No idea on weight or length but at a guess we’ll over 25kg and length somewhere around 130cm I reckon. Caught on the old metal after I’ve spend thousands on dedicated GT gear. 

Gear used: 

oceans legacy specialist pe3-6 10ft rod, Shimano Twinpower 10000 SW-A, 50lb (pe4) Tasline, 100lb Varivas leader and 85g metals with upgraded hook and split rings. 

 Fillets 

Hey boys and girls

After working my ass off for a couple years in the dessert i thought bugger it time to spoil myself. Ive always wanted to catch a gt but couldnt bring myselfbto booking a place like oman and go straight for a 50kg. Started looking around and settled on fiji. As i was pricing it up it was all priced as groups or twin share. Bugger it i thought ill just pay for the old boy. It took no convincing and we raced around getting gear and him a passport. Anyway enough yapping ill let the pictures do the talking The deckie on lure retrieval If ur planning a holiday look no further than half cast fishing at voli voli good frew good food and awesome fishing

 newbie to fishwrecked, fantastic site with great info, thanks Dougie and Eric for showing me how it’s done out wide, first day out for a while on Thursday, great day out with a great bag of Baldies and Dhuies , this was the fish of the day not quite a PB but a beautiful fish. Love the west.

 I’m not a huge fan of Reds, there are better eating fish out there and you don’t get much fillet off them for their size. But they do look good so they seem to be at the top of the wish list for most customers. They cop a hammering and finding them yet alone a good one is getting harder, so it is nice to be surprised by a good one. While testing some new spots in the 80’s a bit north this one popped to the surface with very little fight. I knew it was good but it had been a while since we had seen a 10kg + red so was not too sure but still very happy. But when we got the scales out it was more shock than anything. It went 15kg on my good tested set of scales (went 16 on the first set). If you told me last week that you got a 15kg red I would prob say they don’t get that big here. Boat record prior to this was 13kg. It was part of a cracker 4 days of fishing with one of our groups. Bagging out every day and the and the next day having a 1 anchor bag out of big Goldband in 40min. Also went 4/3/2 on blacks with the little bit of trolling we did in the 4 days, biggest we put as 300lb.

Arrived with the old man yesterday and got a carton, some supplies and we were in the water by 2:30 with the mandatory pic for my brother who couldn't make it. With the swell pumping the outer reef we had no idea where to start looking so hit some drop offs just north of the lead line and anchored and burleyed up. As you can see in the pic they sell good burley up here.

Lots of undersize snapper and then something went a bit harder and the skippy had arrived and he had an awesome session even pulling out the bream rods for a bit of fun.

Remembering I had beer on board around dusk I took one sip and my floater was taken by something decent, I caught a glimpse of some big before it smoked me and I spent the next 10 minutes trying to pull a ray off the bottom but my PE2 rod was no match for it so I snapped off rather than snap my rod. Forearms are still burning

No snapper action by 6pm so we decided a pub meal was the go and  dropped my homemade oxy pots and headed in.

Hey Peeps. Back from Coral Bay and not loving life anymore, but pretty proud of my babies so thought I’d have a little brag. These are the only photos I didn’t look silly in lol.

It was a bit windy and sharky but we still managed some good fish. The GT was 30kg, unbelievable. Good size sailfish too. cheers

Quick fish this morn . Some good fish in a few locations. Had a ball. Used the lie a lot lawrance this morn. Rather than jrc.

 hey crew had a great weekend on the water and snagged a feed. Here’s a few pics of the capture and a new lump that I found on the way out.

 A mate and I took the tinny north of the river for a couple days. Fished shallow on Saturday and everything we hooked smashed us.

Sunday we had better luck with me landing a 78 cm dhuie and dropping another 10 minutes later. We shifted to another spot and first drop resulted in my first baldy for the area, 52cm.

To round the day off my mate landed a 57cm dhuie.

 glassy conditions made for some good fishing all fish released.

 Quick run out the back of three mile today stubbled across this in the sounder dropped down a jig and a placcy ended up with this and one released after 2 drifts over it.

 Have to have a brag about this one. Lost the last three big size mully's I hooked 2 pulled hooks and one my knot came undone in the surfs edge. Have not stopped kicking myself over the knot mistake.  Hopefully the lucks back @ 147cm and estimated at least 30kg. 

I still haven't nailed a size pinkie beyond the 3 Mile usually getting plagued by 45cm models. Reckon I've lost a couple by them swimming at the boat and shaking the hook though.

Headed out on a solo mission yesterday at lunchtime to explore that lump I marked last fortnight in the 30s and the bite was disappointing slow. Drifted off the lump and was getting a couple of good hits on the drift bait rig while I was setting up my jig and pulled up a small pinky over ground showing not much at all.

Another drift and nailed a 320 Blackarse and next drift not even a bite but  kept the drift going and hit that rubble again and my rod bent over and took off. Head shakes galore and this time I was ready to wind hard when he swam up. After a few good runs I had the gaff into my first offshore pink.

Now where are those baldies at!

Had a ball , wind was crap. Stayed in close. Kg 58 , 1.395 good size.. solo run . Got snagged free spooled went back around. Got lead off . Pulled jumbo kg up.

 few pics froma  recent trip to the gulf of carpenteria fished hard for a few weeks and then  did the cairns to perth drive home got a heap of photos to go through but here are some enjoy.

Squid are brilliant ATM . I can't catch fish anymore I may as well catch the bait. Few hints in pictures regards feet. All good fun:)

Went 10.5kg - nothing huge but I’m chuffed with a new pb. Managed to get my first ever metro bag out too with another dhu and 2x 45cm break sea. Home in time for the footy.

Managed to get out once in Exy a few weeks back with the weather being horrible.

Found some amazing ground but struggled to get past the sharks. Managed to sneak a couple up !

After investing in some new electronics (FCV295/3kW/50kHz), been last few months giving this deep Drop thing a crack. (What a mugs game). Without any marks to go on, it’s been lots of time invested with sporadic small Greyband, knife jaws and big nannys, some surprisingly big pinks and LOADS of green eyes. I’m Learning to be very snobby around what to drop on and has resulted in much less green eyes captures though.

Last weekend tried off two rocks for first time, didn’t find any ground before wind kicked up, with a very strong N to S current too. Sounded around, and found the smallest spot where fish showing no bigger than a house. Landed it first two drifts, with 2 greyband. Then they went off bite and wind kicked up so called it quits. Nice eating size at around 10kg, with a smaller 4-5kg model.

I've noticed this supposed scatter/descending layer of bait regularly out there, Is there any value in following these depths it sits at for fish?? This is where the GBs were sitting this day. 

Added some sounder porn from weekend :)

 Has anyone had any luck with bullsharks recently? Caught this one over summer. Was targeting mulloway but this was a nice by-catch

 hello crew been a while since posts here is some from the last couple of months been getting onto some alright fish . The pic of the two dhus and four snapper came from the sounder shot. 17 and 15 kilos the dhus went :)

 Chasing a good Dhu off the rocks has been a goal for years now, a few years back they where so hard to find but the past 2 years huge numbers of smaller fish up to 60cm have been caught Landbased down south, the old Pb of 68cm was certainly a good fish but still a juvenile with the baby markings. Getting a proper sized Dhu has always been the goal with a 10kg+ one being the ultimate.

This weekend I set off on another adventure with my mrs and a mate, drove down from Perth Friday night, slept for a few hours before getting up and starting the walk in to the spot. It took much longer that I expected to walk in and it was 8am by the time we started fishing. Straight up burley was set up and herring caught with live baits put out. The Mrs live herring goes off but it’s big headshakes before being reefed. Hmmm that was very odd certainly not the sambo or king I was chasing. Re rigged again and lucky to be 9am by this stage her rod goes off again before pulling hooks on what I was calling for a 5-6kg Dhu. Few minutes later my mate jake looses a Dhu at the ledge on another live herring. My turn and I’ve cast a big bait out behind a shallow bommie and hooked up to a powerful fish that tried to reef me on everything possible. Even on 80lb gear it gave me hell and fought so hard from water that was lucky to be 12m deep at most and littered with Bommies. Over the last bommie after dragging my line all through it and a big silver flash was seen and I knew exactly what that belonged to! A good Dhu popped up 5-6m below us in probably the worst location to gaff with huge surge smashing this fish all over the place. Finally got the cliff gaff down and into the fish we still had no idea how big it was. Lifted this Dhu over the edge and onto the rocks and screams of joy came out! I was pumped this was a bloody good sized fish! Not the 10kg+ model I was after but it certainly wasn’t a juvenile and a fish any boat fisher would be proud to get let alone someone off the rocks! Finished the day off with a good snapper on live herring that we released and the Mrs pulling hooks on something else very big. All up fished for 4 1/2 hours and the total we walked there and back from the car was the same amount of time we fished for. My body is killing me today but I still cant wipe the smile off my face!  8.5kg Landbased Dhu is now the PB and getting ever closer to the 10kg+ one. 

 New pb red

Fish where nice today :). Ended up with a variety of fish . 650 mm biggest of baldies .

here some pics from a quick recent trip we took to Coral Bay, love that place and always do well.
Not your standard set up and you won’t see this too often on the road, tends to snap necks!
Drove all day, parked and slept through the night, boat ramp by 0630 and fish were on from the first drop :)
We both caught deep water mulloways (defiantly was not expected) plenty reds plenty GT's bloody hell these things fight hard few rankin cods no sharks !! all good fish. Very happy and well worth the trip.

 6 kg mangrove jack and a nice lunar tail amongst a mixed bag of pearl perch red emperor from today 

 Getting a 30kg Blue groper has been a huge goal of ours for a long long time. There has been the odd one landed on handlines over 30 over the years but trying to stop a fish this large on a rod and reel setup is just phenomenaly difficult. We have hooked so many fish in the 20kg+ bracket and been destroyed. PE10 140lb tackle has helped us land a few more larger ones on a more regular basis, but that 30kg fish is a case of pulling as hard as you possibly can and praying the line doesn’t break and send you cartwheeling over the rocks. No idea on its actual weight but a 105cm fish went 25kg which was Arons old PB and this fish was 10-15cm longer than the 105cm brag matt he measured it with. Absolute dinosaur of a fish and one that is going to take some effort to beat!!