Friday morning started off with no plans to head out for a night fish, but that soon changed over a beer with little Johnny!

Long story short little Johnny did some grano work for me on Friday morning (did a awesome job) pretty much once I got my breath back from pushing the barrow and waiting for the conc to set we started to talk fishing. Showed me how to do some of the  rigs he uses and a few other tips and tricks. With all the reasurch I've been doing on snapper I think i was over complicating things, so I threw everything I thought I knew out the window! Deciding to head out for a night fish it was a quick trip to the tackle store to replace with what little johnny hadrecomended. I followed everything little Johnny  told me to a T... and boy did we get some results!

In short my brother landed 4 and I dropped 2

 launched at 6.45pm back at the ramp buy 10pm! Still high fiving at 12am!!!

Cheers little Johnny 

 Headed out yesterday chasing some whiting with the option of heading wide for a deep drop if the wind backed off.

So headed out to 18mts west of Hillarys and sent berley pot over then up came whiting.. got about a dozen which is plenty for me..

A quick check of weather forcast and and decided to head wide hoping the gurus at the bureau were having an accurate day..

not really having any marks out wide (but I have tripped over a couple fish on the couple trips i have made wide) I headed out to where I caught fish before.

since last trip I have upgraded my sounder to a FCV295 with a 2kw transducer (All the gear with no idea.. thats the way i roll )

anyway get out to mark I had and had a couple drops... unfortunately I am still learning with my new sounder and couldn't get the bottom (more study need!!!)

lucky my trusty HDS 10 was working along with its TM260..

fist spot didn't have any luck but the weather had improved with little drift (no sea anchor needed) so I slowly started to search , after 20min the sounder showed some promise so with a few laps of new spot to check and get slow drift pattern set I had my first drop on this new ground. 

Bingo first drop up comes a 70cm greyband !!!!! $#@% $#@% stoked, a few more drifts with a couple of spinny greeneye (plus missing a few good bites) I finally got hooked up and this was a good fight all the way t the surface... 

very supprised not another rec bot in sight out wide.. 

 Went out this morn with mate. Didn't take long some nice pinks. The bigger ones definatly cranking up. Flesh on them atm magic. Top condition.

 Got out yesterday and managed a couple of nice dhuies off of a new spot we found. My mate using bait but myself with the jig. It was a very slow start for us, I hooked and dropped a suspected nice dhuie early on and then we didn't boat a fish until about 10am being a nice baldy. Decided to head out deeper to an old spot but on the way my decky spotted something on the sounder, so we back tracked and found a nice little lump with some fish hanging off of it. We both dropped down and instantly hooked up before we even hit the bottom. My usual go to dhuie jig is a samaki choona, but I picked up a couple of new cheap jigs I'd seen advertised on Facebook and gave them a go. They were only $9ea so wasn't expecting too much but they looked good in the photo so thought I'd give them a go. I was impressed with the finished and the shape when they came in the mail, and then playing with them on the water they had a nice slow flutter action, and needless to say the fish loved them! It's called a flat stinger from neap apparel and tackle. My decky finished off our bag for the day with a small pinky, bait out fished jigs today big time. 

We we also plucked a few rat YTK's off of some cray ropes/floats, another good spotto from the decky. He is finally start to earn his keep haha

 went out last weekend for a snapper session. started at five fathom but was a bit lumpy so came back in. long story short, no bites at all until this happened on about the 4th spot i tried. must have fluked a school as there was nothing happening apart from beer drinking...then a triple hookup. my sister had never caught one so she got the first to go off, and i  gave her a bit of a hand. i had a whiting rod (tiny hooks, small piece of squid, 8lb line stradic 2500) over which was the second one to go off, so the future brother in law picked that one up. then my rod went off so i left the sister to grab that but he got me on a reef just as i picked the rod up. i grabbed the net and got my sisters in and straight after the whiting rod special. quickly dropped the rigged up rod back over and tried to get another rig together to put on my rod but another one got on straight away, so it was my turn to catch one. 

then that all happened again (apart from the whiting rod bit) and we ended up with two each, over about 15 minutes. the biggest 4 were all between about 85 and 88. the other two weren't far behind but i didn't measure them. made up for the previous two trips where i got nothing.  

Well when we found out the missus was pregnant she said to me "if you want a boat you might want to do it now or could be a few years before you get the chance to" needless to say we were at the boat yard the next day placing an order on a tub I had kept my eyes on for the best part of a year but hadnt fully committed to the idea, a 5m side console being pushed along by a 115 Suzi. Huge thanks to the crew at Chivers Marine, especially Luke, cant thank those guys enough for the electronics fit-out. Working away on a gas plant with no mobile phones, Luke would call me after hours while juggling his family duties to discuss different options. Ended up going with a Simrad Evo2 NSS9 with Structure Scan 3D and Furuno 588 with a P66 ducer. When I picked the boat up, Luke had already set up both units with the ideal settings to suit my fishing. The structure scan absolutely blows my mind, its like looking at an underwater photo, it paid for itself on the first outing finding all sorts of bits peices while running in the motor.

I spent the first few trips in close chasing salmon while running in the motor.

Yestreday took the tub out for its first wide trip to see if we could get an arm stretching on some sambos. Found the fish, went to rig up then realised we forgot the jigs whoops. Luckily still had some plastics and the fish were hungry.

Cheers.

 With the weather looking the goods on Friday, rang around during the week to see who was available for a fish (Poor JohnF!!).

One of the guys from bluewater morley had the day off and had a mate who was keen for a run so made the plan to leave reasonably early from Mindarie.

Plan was to spend the majority of the day chasing KG's and a little bit of jigging.

Wind was up a little bit early on so stopped in at one of my shallower KG spots in 29m and had a look around. With the Fresh local Occy still being frozen, we strapped on the jigs for a bit of a play whilst the wind was up a little.

Well... First drop..jig jig and 2 bent rods. 1st up for Jarrid with a small Dhu about 48cm and i was on big. Did not really know what is was, but on PE 1.2 it was fair to say i was getting smoked.

Ended up calling it for likely a big Sambo and after 20 minutes and a bit of reversing up it popped finally. Not bad for the first drop of the day and on light gear!

Decided to continue out to the 40m coral chasing some KG's. Wind was starting to ease so putted our way out for a look. Didnt start off too well, getting railed a few times on the KG gear really isnt fun, think i busted 4 rigs in the first hour alone. Got a few fish up and plenty of sambo's about with a few small dhus.

Moved around a bit looking for fish and with me being sick of getting toweled up, i pulled out the big gear (And i must say inever bring the stella 8k out Metro unless jigging for sambo's!)

With  the sounder lit up i dropped down a couple mulies in hope of a sambo, and sure enough loaded up big time. Only having 60lb leader i didnt want to go too hard, and this thing had one thing in mind, run and hide! In an instant i was bricked...strange i thought, a sambo bricked me on flat coral!

Next minute Dano loads up big time on his KG gear. PE 1.2 with 40LB leader running snelled 1'O's using a small strip of Occy. Up and down like a a yoyo (definitely not a KG!) and thinking how the hell has this sambo not bricked him or atleast busted him off. Finally started to get some line after 10 minutes and Dano started to go a bit harder as we just thought sambo..

A few minutes later, this thing popped up behind the boat!!! One hell of a big Dhu boy and smashed my boat record. Went 106cm and measured on the digital scales at home at 21.2KG bled! what a cracker of a fish and probably 1 in a thousand chances of getting it up.

Struggled to get a picture that really did this fish justice.

A lot of luck in getting it up, not just keeping it off the bottom, but how did his leader not wear through on 40lb with snelled 1'os. Well ths pic below shows why. Could not had hooked it in a better spot, very little chance of the teeth wearing through the leader. How would you be catching a 20+kg dhu on a small strip of occy the size of your little finger with a dhu having a mouth big enough to fit your head in!

Rest of the day saw a few more fish come onboard finishing with 2 dhu's, 1 KG, 2 pinks. Probably landed 15+ dhu's just couldnt get away from them but all went back without a release weight including a 70cm model.

All fish except kept 1 pinky fell to snelled 1'os and skinned strips of occy. Jigs were slow, only 3 or 4 dhus landed on them

Will be hard to beat this dhu now! first on the boat over 20kg. Just goes to show, small hooks catch KG's and big dhus!

Bodie

 Was a slow start off Mandurah yesterday morning for us but it came good at the end. Came home with a nice feed. 

 Headed out early this morning with the brother and got rewarded nicely.

Probably about time I contributed some pics too as its the pics others put up that keep the forum active and interesting.

Had 3 good fish in the boat within an hour of dropping the anchor.

One of my best outings in my boat to date.

Biggest 910mm, one went 810mm and smallest was 750mm

Couldn't catch a fourth to complete our bag..........next time. Did hook up to a fourth but line brushed under the boat.

Thought I'd get my toes in the shot too.

 Being farmed up gero way, they tried to keep that quiet,  will we know what the cause is.didnt they have one awhile ago.todays west.

deep tomorrow morning?looks good on sea breaze

 Got bored woke up late ,went for quick run. After blows decided to try cockburn . Picked up few boomerangs in certain area. Dropped anchor chucked 4 rods out( bang) all went.  The 2 that swallowed rigs right down I kept. Other 2 went back. Left at 6 back home by 8 prior to wife going to work. Got lucky . She prob thinks why do you spend all day out there sometimes. :):)

Fishing the Mackerel Islands recently and was surprised when we were told you dont have to go out past 50m to catch reds. Using my all rounder combo that usually catches Salmon (4000 Catalina, Smith 68m, PE2) I was hopping the ever faithful ZMan 5inch pearl Jerkshad off the bottom when one of the guys gets a massive hit on bait and misses it, next second I'm on and after I great fight on the light stuff I was pretty bloody stoked when this hit the deck. Old mate couldnt shutup about how I'd caught his fish, yeh yeh whatever, sure enough seconds later it spews up a whole mulie hahahaha. Beautiful fish and measured up at 66cm fork so maybe 6kg.

 Action starting up real well. Fair few around atm.

 Check out long island from the air, What an amazing place 

 caught this monster last night wilst trying for some tailor biggest snook i have ever seen.

 Sometimes Lady Luck plays the game and you manage to sneak a good one past the toothy tax man. 

 Guys found nice school of pinks last night. Fished different location away from Andy . Good feed.

 Had a great day out on the water today with my old man, he lives over east these days so fishing trips are very few and far between, so was awesome to get him out and onto some good fish today! 

Started off trolling a few skirts out to our 1st spot for the day, managed to pick up a small SBT which is destined for sashimi tomorrow night and species 1 ticked off the list for the day. Soon after that we arrived to a spot I've done well on before but Havnt fished for quite a while, and it was a good call to head there. 1st drop and the old man pulled up a solid dhuie, he was very lucky to land it on a mangled up 6/0 gama bent way out of shape! 2nd drop and he hooks up solid again but drops the fish half way up. 3rd drop and I'm on straight away with a 100g samaki choona tempting another good dhuie, good fight on the 30lb and once in the boat it coughs up the old mans squid, same fish he dropped on the last drift! 

So with our limit of dhuies we moved off the spot and onto some broken ground in search of some Baldies, a couole long drifts and some by catch returned we finished the bag with a nice baldy and a sweet lip. Cruised back in at 25knots, couldn't of asked for a better day!  

 My PB microjig snapper, 84cm on a 40gm Slow Blatt jig and PE 1.2 gear...FFB off Mandurah this morning! A special apology goes out to Eric(Uluabuster on here) who normally microjigs with me but couldn't go because I promised my kids a trip!

Went out of Two rocks about a week ago solo, Got on the water early with high hopes, tried Bait and jigs, anchored burley on a few spots that have produced before but not much luck accept a nw blowie on the jig, the pickers didn't even seem to be picking.

Naturally about an hour before I had to head in things glassed off the sounder started to light up and fish started to bite, a slightly undersize blackspot rock cod I believe it was first up, never seen one down here before didn't get a photo so no proof, can anyone confirm that's what it could have been? I thought they were usually a bit further North. Then a small reef shark which took one hook off the paternoster, one hook one last drop and bingo finally something half decent.

Rougly 46cm not huge but still happy as first time I've caught one.

 Couple of pic's of Marlin that i shot the other day. Shot it with a 1.4 edge fitted with a Aussie reel. 

Towed me around a bit but was lucky the water wasn't to deep.

It went 73.1kg and tasted better than i thought it would.

My daughters Mackie in a local comp in Wickham it went 24.08kg and she took out largest mackeral junior division . Young lady did a great job hauling it in and still cant stop smiling . Cheers Carry

looking at fishing at two rocks for the first time within the next few weeks or when this crap weather clears up ,just after some basic info in regards to ramp - getting out to the safe water marks /reefs to steer clear of ,and finally what depths so as to chase some demersal , any info would be appreciated , messaging me would be good cheers

 Good way to start 16.6 kg Dhue boy his first double figure Dhue . Ended up with great feed ,8 kg Dhue , queenie, kg, black ass. Finished by 11 am.

Thumper golden trevally caught on a 9 weight fly rod out from Carnarvon yesterday.

Haven't done a deep drop for a while, so plan was to hit the water at 6am.

Man what a day on the water. One of the best days I have seen on metro waters.

Anyway straight to our deep drop spot in 410 meters and fish on the sounder.

First 2 drops 2 good blue eye. Mate and I decided we leave them alone and come back if we don't catch any other species.

So moved into our 320 meter spot and did 2 drops. First drop for a GB and second drop resulted in a slightly bigger fish and a greeneye.

Left the fish biting and back at the boat ramp just after lunch.

Cheers

First spot baldie kgs and big black ass. Thought going to be good day. Next spot kgs black ass cuttle fish. Cut long story short in between spots ( got place called big) pulled up .my exact words where don't know why  the f--k iam stopping here only got 4 big fish from here( few good reads on sounder). Told Peter to drop. I followed . Peters rod buckled to busy watching his fish come up ( could tell it was big fish) wasn't watching mine. Lifting his in looked around mine had the tell tail signs of big fish on( how long it was on for unsure) gone by the time I got to it. Didn't matter so much only needed 1 fish . Cracker at that. 19.6 kg on the dot.

 G'day guys,

This was from Exmouth back in March.  Caught plenty of the usual mackies, spangos, trevally, sharks but these were a couple of the best for the trip.

Queenfish was caught on sunset from the beach and went well over a metre.  Malabar Cod was caught out in the Gulf.  Both fish were released.

Cheers, Pondy

 Clearly not too impressed by her capture. Another catch she's got.on me. Pretty rare fish??