Have been taking advantage of this decent groundswell at the moment and sneaking out for a few hours when the wind drops.

Last friday headed out with a mate at sparrows fart, lucky for us with a bit of light we could see how bit it really was with some of the bigger ones breaking on five fathom bank. Didnt take long for the fish to move in on the mulie cubes with us picking up 5 fish relatively quick on driftbaits and not a touch on plastics. Always pays to fish both techniques while on anchor as the week before 4 of the 5 fish came on the plastics. Launched at 630 and pulled anchor just before 9.

This was the 5th fish and released.

With a forecasted 5-10knt window for Monday morning I hatched a plan with a mate to join me and he was keen. Well when the clocked ticked 6.10am and he still hadnt arrived I knew he was still in bed and not just running late as this bloke is extremely punctual and lives 2mins up the road, I left home with the boat on tow on my own. Typical Monday morning, traffic was fooked and i was already running a bit late from waiting, first light already emerging, I was contemplating throwing in the towell halfway to the ramp as it was just looking like one of those days where nothing goes to plan. I pushed on and anchored up in a likely looking spot. After an hour of nothing I was starting to lose faith when one of the rods buckled over in the holder, nice run then some big headshakes then straight into the reef. As i was putting that rod back in the rack I noticed the sounder lit up like a christmas tree with fishing coming up to my burley bomb 3m under the boat so dropped the plastic down, while that was sinking the other drift bait took off so chucked the plastics rod in the holder and flicked the bail arm over and set the hooks on the other rod, well as you can imagine the plastic get smashed so there I am with a rod in my hands and one between my legs, get one in the boat eventually then the next and then the last bait takes off. This one a bit smaller at 70 odd which I released.

The 2 keepers went 86cm and pulled up anchor straight away, back at the ramp by 9 and home for a late breaky.

 Went out for a quick bash on Thursday. Nothing to write home about but did manage to snag my first metro baldie. Thought it might have been just undersize so back it went. I'm still looking for it's dad.

 Went for a run by myself , Murphies law eh smaller 1 went back.

 Had my two youngest babysat by the grandies and took the Mrs and my 7y old out for his first demersal bash of Hillarys.

The highlight of the day was a minke whale that stayed with us all day swimming around and under the boat and my nature loving Mrs was in heaven seeing this magnificent creature up close. As you can see in the pics the conditions were shithouse 

 Went out this morning rough as guts drifted over some ground and landed this 59cm dhu and 53cm  harliquen fish Then released two more dhus around the 60cm mark seen some tuna jumping so out went the metal slices and landed this bonito ? Mac tuna? i think could be wrong though anyway it glassed off completley as we were coming in trolled around some reefs with no luck so came in all in all was a good day out on the water didnt see the whale though but heaps and heaps of seals around 

 Had my two youngest babysat by the grandies and took the Mrs and my 7y old out for his first demersal bash of Hillarys.

The highlight of the day was a minke whale that stayed with us all day swimming around and under the boat and my nature loving Mrs was in heaven seeing this magnificent creature up close. As you can see in the pics the conditions were shithouse 

Went out for a quick arvo sesh this evening from Hillaries.

Unfortunately the demersals were playing an un winnable game of hide and seek, but managed to get my new pb skippy that went 58cm.

ive recently had 7 weeks off due to having a little girl! i was luckly enough to get out a heap of times and catch a few fish. fishwrecked member beau and i fished a few times together over the past few weeks with good results. heres some of the fish from the break.

 Had a good day on the jigs today out from Rocko.

Good mixed bag.

Alot of fish showing on the sounder today. Was still hard work with most fish coming on later around 11.30am. Added to the bag were a couple of tuna off the bottom and a nice cuttlefish.

The big blue went 10kg.

Heres afew pics of the better fish

With the weather cooling down the inshore fishing is definitely starting to heat up. All the following fish are from five fathom and closer in. Here are a few pics since my last post..

I jumped on with Shikari a little while back, great to get out on a charter with only a small crew and learn from the Snapper Whisperer himself. It was a funny old morning with the 2 guys up the front bagging out relatively quick and Al and myself down the back pulling donuts, everyone had a good chuckle about it all.
Webby had 2 on the deck before the sun was even up.

Another day where I got out-fished on my own tub! Marko(hoookt) with a few kings and another donut for myself.

Dad is a bit of a stinky baito and ever since I told him the story of how good live and butterflied wrasse went on the dhuies on a trip north once its all he wants to have on the end of his line. He had a great hookup on ffb recently and my brother and I convinced him there was a dhu on the other end (we both knew what it really was.) Hows the disgusting bend in that Ugly Stick. We never let him borrow any of our rods!

On the board with this chunky sambo pulled out of gnarly ground in 4m of water, one of the best fights ive had for sure.

Seems to be an almost resident school of tuna hanging on the back edge of the ffb, ive seen a few splashes and birds hanging in the same area for a month or so now. This one I hooked casting a 14g Yakamito micro jig, was an awesome fight on 6lb and 1000 size reel.

Plenty of nice squid in the sound at the moment, Joel with a 28cm hood specimen. This colour Yamshita is absolutely slaying at the moment.

Had an anchor and burley sesh nice and close in on Monday morning, it looked really promising with nice murky water after the weekends big blow. Only took 15mins after anchoring for my plastic to get woofed down in the burley trail and it was mayhem for the next 3 hours with rods going off every few minutes, pinkies were right up the back of the boat sitting just off a burley pot halfway to the bottom, the plastics getting smashed with the rod just sitting in the holder. The skippy soon moved in and the sambos were not far behind them. We lost way more fish than we saw but with us just out on a catch and release session we didnt even care! Belter of a morning.

Hope you enjoyed the pics fellas.
Beau.

first gummy shark, very happy with it, not huge but put up a good fight, been a dream fish for me for my entire fishing life, very prowed of it... this time how's about you people show some curtesy, and achnoledge just because I'm not a pro, and likely younger than most of u thus not nesseceraly having as much experience, dosent mean I'm lying... this fish was 120cm and just under 6kgs, was actually the 3rd one we hooked within 15 mins first one was a monster but pulled the hooks boat side as I went to grab its tail! :\ but that just makes me even more keen to chase em! They fight insane for there size as well!...remember, don't assume things, then complain when I argume my case... TBH didn't even want to post this, me brothers big salmon wasn't good enough so why would this be right... Just want to see what the genuine people think and if I can offer any tips for those also chasing a gummy. Cheers guys tight lines...../! 

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 picked up this up jigging with  pe 3 yesterday was good fun

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 Went for a all nighter sat night mannaged 2 gummies, one under 60  (released) and the other pushin 80cm (kept)

 First for me a couple of  days ago flounder on jig.

Old boy managed a 20.3kg dhuie on jig.He finally got sick of me catching the bigger dhuies on jig and gave it a go.I think I might of coverted him

 Had s good day off the cape last weekend. Found sum nice new ground in the 340/320m 

 Early mornen produces the good. Some big fish lost to the humble snags also

Bit of a delayed post due to having work when I returned home but finally found some time to upload some pics. Managed to get away for a week's fishing leading up to the Western Australia Day public holiday. The weather co-operated and we managed to get onto some decent fish. The Rankin were very friendly this trip, we took care bringing fish up to assist with releasing them if we wished (a lot went back)

Managed to get my PB Red, weighing in at 10.5kg.

 shot out 3:45 this morn to a 7 mt patch with the Father in law who has never caught anything of size. Got him rigged up and his fist drop nail a nice 65 dhu. A quick pic then back to tying on my plakky and fmd , dropped if down my side and thank you , A nice 63! In the esky she went as well, dropped back down and this little fella was waiting. Great to see good numbers around

 just chasing some info- recomendations  on fishing Charters - day trips ,who to go with at coral bay or out of shark bay, think Apache only do 4 days trips  

 got a couple jigging off bunno today

 We were drifting out from the Kalbarri cliffs on Wednesday, very quiet, one barely-sized RE in the boat, when this drifted past. He was upside down, swimming, trying to go down, so I put him out of his misery. Someone had thrown him back, perhaps, not realising what they had, or he had come off half-way up and floated away? Who knows, but he was very nice baked in foil with lemon juice and butter that night.

 Went for a lazy arvo bash today about 2 mile out not much on the bite landed this 7 kilo sambo and that was it lost omthing decent on the troll coming home all in all good day out beats working got him on a daiwa td soll 2508 and storm gomoku pe 1-3

 Hey all 

with this week ends forecast being good decided to go for a snapper mission on sat .

launched around 10 am and chased some squid for fresh bait .

moved out after a few hours with a few for fresh bait to try some ground and see sound around to find somewhere to anchor and get set for the evening.

ended up on a spot Ive thought pinks would show up at and dropped the pick.

while my brother was out the front trying to get the anchor to hold I dropped in and got a pink straight on!

Next two drops for me was a baldie each drop and my. Ro was on a pinky, fair to say we had a hot bite on and would get better after dark.

but  before dark bruce rocked up proceeded to eat a fiddler ray, menace a pinky ,  chew on my outboard and shut the spot down completely.

so decided to go out again yesterday arvo and see if the pinks were on .

bruce was nowhere to be seen , photos can tell the rest.

first white I have seen and around 4.5m long was a awesome creature.

 Ps local snapper comp is on run by 2 oceans tackle in Busso check it out on there Facebook page.

cheers

Flicking  for tailor last night and landed this nice 4kg fish

 Weighed 7.2kg salmon from the weekend, dunno what's going on this year they're rare as land based, brother managed to find this horse tho, awesome fight on the bait caster!

 About 2 weeks ago, we headed up to the Mackerel Islands. Had a few issues on the way up, one being one of three boats almost lost a wheel and lost a hub stud. But a quick replacement, and no issues for the rest of the trip.

Travel was 1 day to canarvon, then 1 day to the islands from Onslow. Upon arriving at Thevenard Island, we were met by some staff who helped us empty the boats.

Planning the 4 days we were there, the weather looked pretty Average and quietened our spirits a bit. 

Day 1 consisted of us waiting until about 11am until the wind died from about 25kts to 15knts, which we headed out. With only half a day, we went straight for Goldband in the 110m marks. Quickly obtained close to our bag on Spanglies, Goldband, Red Emperors and a 21kg Malabar Cod, which spat out about 3 spanglies when it surfaced. The small whalers were reckless and when i pulled up a double header of them, they were followed up by an amazing sight of approx 100kg black marlin which swam next to us during our drift for a good minute or two. Jet black with a small blue fin on top. an amazing sight to see. We headed back in, and stopped on a few places  in 60m and managed some amazing rankin between 5-7kg to top the bag on demersals. Then would you believe it, mackies jumping around the boat 20ft in the air. Dropped a lure and 10kg mackie in the boat quick smart before we were running low on light and headed back in. 

Day 2, this day was a known write off with weather, but one of our boats decided to go adrift and break its mooring. (will detail this later). 

Day 3, this was the day to be. Wind meant to die off about 10am to basically 5knts. We charged out deep to fill up on Goldband and Scarlets. First drop, would you believe it, biggest Rankin and Scarlet i've seen. Both around 7-8kg each. Double headers of goldband, all 3 rods buckled every drop for a good couple of hours. 
From here, we headed in as our mates boat didn't have much in his esky. Stopped in 55m and WOW, the sounder lit up. Came up 10m full of fish. All 3 rods dropped down, all 3 rods buckled with fish on Steriods, all double headers. What came up off this spot was only BIG rankin, reds and big scarlets between 5-8kg, consistently. I don't think i've seen so many Rankin come off one spot. There were two patches within 50m of each other just loaded with big fish. Amazing (wish i had another day here). We gave it 30mins before we headed in with all full bags, as light was running out. 

Day 4. This was a known write off, but we had a phone call from the water police at barrow island. The boat had amazingly washed ashore, in drivable condition. Hull needs a refurb, but otherwise looked great considering it was missing for 2 days. Mate was able to get a lift over to barrow and pick up his boat and drive it back to the islands. Lucky!

Amazing fishing, but unfortunately the weather held us out for most of the 4 days. If you decide to go here, take some serious insect repellant. THe Sand fly's are ferocious. We were destroyed. 2 weeks later we are still itching with welts. 
Also the fuel prices are crazy at $2.30L. 
Staff upon arriving were good, but the last 2 days, the second crew intelligence was non-existent, and less helpful. We were lucky on day 4 when refuelling, as on Day 3 the operator was a bright spark having a cigarette near the fuel tanks/pump. Day 4 when i was trying to fuel up, looked up and fuel spraying meters into the air and was only 1m behind the same dodo operator. (no ciggie luckily). Took me a few yells and pointing to indicate the issue to the bright spark. Fuel filter split its housing. 
 

Didn't take many pics, as it was rush rush with few hours fishing we did have. But enjoy below!
 

Next Coral Bay in July! Hoping to get a good day to get out to the 300s for Rubys!

 Kalbarri turns it on,

 Shortage I don't think so. Hundreds around ATM .enter water a male come out female. Had semi dry on today still bloody cold. About time my 3 boys pulled there weight . Made sure I kept most for bait .4 for cooking this time

I had the day off work on Monday so took the boat up to Two Rocks for a fish.

One of the trailer tyres blew out as we got to the boat ramp so we spent about 30 mins changing the tyre. Rusty lug nuts are a pain in the ass.

The weather was looking a bit dodgy with some rain clouds rolling past so we stayed in close and tried bottom bashing inside the 3 mile reef but nothing was really biting.

After a while we changed tactics and went for a troll along the back of the three mile reef. After about an hour or so of trolling my rod went off with a big run. I had a good long battle and eventually managed to bring in this beast:

My mate also had a big run on one of his rods shortly afterwards however it was on his little rod and whatever it was managed to spool him.