Thanks Outwide . Cracker jig. Done very well. Just duos today with andy.20 to 30 feet. :):)

 quick trip north for work couldn't resist wetting the line. 

 Lol 16 deg I stayed in boat:):)

 Solid fish. 

Quick hit and run before work today ! Eating well now ! 

 Took angelo out today. Left duos at home . We got 24 . Gave ang half. Gave 6 to Outwide of site. Seems waste for Dhue bait. Cracker day. 43 to 44  cm squid .put on Fabre tank . They don't shrink .1.2 kg . 2 nd best I have ever caught.

Uncle contacted me the other day looking for a deckie to head out today for a salmon session out of freo. A mate and I jumped on board and had a good morning out getting on fish straight away and catching quite a few throwing Big Johns Leadhead Jigs and Jigheads and various surface lures at big dark patches drifting through the inshore reefs. Thanks again Uncle for the invite and great day out.

 3 Lic holders . They had good day:):)

launched at 10am after getting hangover under control, first time ive fished mindarie in a long while. went searching new ground and first drop on the money. turned around went home at 25 knots and cracked a beer turned on the tv and laughed at freo trying to play footy ahhahahhhahahaha

I've officially ticked 1 fish off my bucket list and still can't wipe the grin off my face. Was caught proper Kimberly style using a handline with a big ken mullet on the end.

The barra came in at 102cm and was caught during the Easter weekend along with the biggest catfish I've ever seen from the Kimberly (38lbs on the Boga).

Cheers

We shot out yesterday at 6.30, it seemed to be fairly shut down, plastics, bait and jigs on some good ground, a few BIG hits and some worn leaders but no dhuis. We still managed a few keepers, Baldy went 56cm pretty stoked to get a pb half an hour from home and first gummy! Cheers Rob!

With the weather looking windy and the swell up this weekend I decided to take my apprentice out for a quick fish this morning. I went to a new area to see if I could find some new ground on the 588 I recently installed. I'm still learning to use/ read it but am happy with what it found today. Dhus went 12kg and 13kg (12 is my apprentices new pb) 

 managed to get a couple of 8bar cods from the deep, lost a nice 8 bar at the boat 

here's couple of photos 

Besides the deep drop we have been getting a few reds and the usual bottom fish and also managed my first billfish

Hi all,

Had an average trip to the south coast for the annual boys trip. Usually we just catch salmon left right and centre but this year the fish Salmon were very very quiet.

Spent 2 days spinning for 1 salmon and then the wind wound up big time making fishing almost impossible.

Last couple of days I spent by myself as mates could not commit to the full length of time. I tossed up leaving seeing as the fishing was so bad but decided to stick it out.

Spent the last night fishing a lonely windy beach for Gummy sharks to no avail. So I got home and set the alarm for first light to spin for the Salmon one last time.

Awoke to calm conditions and started to flick lures out on the Blackhole monster Cabin and Stradic 8000 when i noticed a bright blue shape in the water right near me! Holy crap i thought thats a blue groper! So after a mad dash to the car getting my hooks (I only bought lures down) and 20 mins gathering rock crabs i finally tempted my first LB Blue grouper to hit an unweighted crab.

I have got big Blues before just not from the stones. It made the whole trip worth while and came in at a respectable 7.5 KG. I have got big Blues before just not from the stones.

Goodie

It was a very lean day on the water out in 50m with the rod n reel, luckily the 20's produced on tank with my pb roachs. Had my dive license for 10 years but never really used it much til this cray season, caught the diving bug now though its a different world down thre. Dived on the same spot about a month apart and it went from crayfish n baby dhu city to a desert, but they hadnt moved far.

Cray on a 15lt tank

Crispy mug shot

Bag

 After 8 years of looking for a metro/sw rubie we finally got one off cape na to last week. First drop for the day! It come in at 11.3kg 

my son has been having a good run latly with some good catches
some of his pics below
this geo bay pinkie was 11 kg @950 long

26kg blue groper caught landbased with a hand line
lucky boy to land him

 Well after 3 days of nothing to keep

my young fella finally got the fish of a lifetime

Thx for some helpful advice from some forum members 

hooked 6 kept 3

great day the kids had an absolute ball

we had put in 3 full days of trolling and Bottom bashing for not much, but our lucked turned

 Ian  and angelo went for fish today. Nice dhue few black ass . Few Crays. Angelo's rankin a cracker . Who said Rockingham sucks.:):):)

 Had a pretty good day out today,  

Very eary start and straight out to the fads, drifting past and cast lures at the fads and the dollies were going nuts, taking any lure we cast, caught 4 for the table and released a few more and then left them bitting. Seen a small dolly getting airborne continuously chasing a small school of shit scared baitfish haha. Trolled between the fads and found a distinct water temp change/current line, 21 degrees one side and no fish, 21.5 degrees the other side and a heap of small mixed tuna, we got southern blue fin, stripped tuna and a Mac tuna. All pretty small, 30-50cm's. Left them and trolled into 45m's north of rotto without anything touching the lures (21 degrees the whole way). Slowly cruising up to a spot I've previously mark and see some action on the sounder, mark that spot, tie on a jig, circle back around and have a drop. A few big blobs on the sounder about 5m's off the bottom, I thought sambos. 1st drop and straight into the mouth of a big pinky haha, just lucky to be in the rite place at the rite time I guess. A few more drifts around the area for a few small picker fish. Pulled the pin and headed for home with a quick stop to check my cray pots, only 2 keepers this time, but re baited and dropped back down. 

All in all a great day in the metro, weather was bloody amazing!!

 Had an absoulute cracker day with big john and my dad. Straight out to stragglers and mewstones where we kept picking up the odd fish but no schools

Came back in and started watching the dolphins jet around... We then soon realised they werent alone and had a massive school under them.

First cast resulted in double and triple hook ups for another half hour before a pro boat chopped up the school

awesome day and cant thank john enough

 Put a mate of mine onto a few dhuies last month. He has to take his mum out with him at least a couple of times a year , part of the deal he did with his old man before he passed away. Anyway got to the spot and pulled a couple of fish over the side that weighed in at 13 and 16 kg ,we were pretty happy with that so got on the radio and called old mate over , he sets up his drift and before he has a chance to get his line over the side his old chook ( she would be 70 odd ,but i didnt say that) hooks up on a train. She wont use a good rod and persists with an old egg beater and the most basic of rigs ,the good money was on her getting bricked, but after a good 15 min tussle  a dhuie that eventually weighed in at a solid 18kg pops to the surface. Hi fives and yeahas from over the water ensue and a few expletives from the crew on my boat re old mate getting done over by his mum and the call was made to head home with the fish still on the bite.Happy Days.

First Dhue on Jig, well not quite the first, but the first keeper.

After reading all the hype, and being a bit of a tackle ho, purchased an Azusa Jig rod pe4-6 on special. Matched it with a Sustain 6000 which I purchased some time ago, for no reason ( it was just black, shiny and sexy and needed a home ). Filled the Sustain with 40 lb Fins and about 2 meters of 50 lb Fluoro. Loaded up with a few jigs of different weights, colours and styles and did a bit of reading on the subject. This site has been a wealth of knowledge, thank you.

My first 2 trips out using Jigs produced very little, 2 undersized Dhues, a North West Blowie ( nearly cut through a 60 gm Jig ), a few Sergeant Bakers and a Blackass of about 15 cm. My misfortune on the Jig was matched by my mates soaking baits, so wasn’t that despondent.

Third trip, out from Two Rocks, decided to switch back to bait for the first drop. The ground was glowing with activity a couple of meters above the bottom, as well as fish holding close to the bottom. Before the bait hit the bottom, crunch –then the screaming run. As suspected from the sounder, Sambo of about 10 kgs first on board, not the desired species for the day, but still a lot of fun. Next Drift over the patch, decided to make the switch to Jig. Good call, jig hits the bottom, lift, wind, lift, wind, drop - Bang, onto something solid. Knew within the first couple of short powerful runs, that I wasn’t connected to another Sambo, a completely different fight.
Not a huge fish by the lofty standards set on this site, but would guess around the 12 – 13 kg mark and a whole lotta fun on a Jig.

We were drifting over some shallow reef about 5 meters and this guy came up to check out the boat, after refusing to take anything but unbaited pilchards I grabbed the plastics combo and tied a 4/0 onto the 40lb leader. Chopped a pilly into 4 pieces and threw the baited hook in last, he grabbed it and I was on... Got him boat side after about 2 stressfull minutes watching him dart between rocks, my mate grabbed the net and missed, the fish went straight under a rock which we could clearly see so I free spooled and moved the boat to the open side preying I hadn't lost it..... got him out and the gaff was employed.

83cm Not huge but pretty happy none the less!

Keen to see what some of you guys have landed around Perth, how big do they get on the west coast?

Couple of dhufish...been too long, need to get out there again.

 well to say we did it tough would be and understatement but hell we gave it all we had and some. 

thanks to all the members who gave advice and the few we met up there 

day 1

arrived in coral bay to wind, fullmon and the word the water was cold and filthy which crushed our hopes of trolling up some bills and pelagics, the first arvo was a little sesh to test all the boats, get gear ready and find the channel.

hit the ramp after a few warm up beers and one of the boats is leaking fuel from the carby. firstly tried tightning bolts no luck then two lads went back to camp and started googling found schematics and found one last bolt loose WINNING back in the game

day 2 

hit ramp sun up charged out in sloppy conditions, 2 boats (mihai and richard) (warren and hayden) stayed in close chasing a few bait schools with success 3 cobia boated, massive sharks and blood boiling as bait schools being destroyed and back to ramp early, 3rd boat (chris and I) headed wide with skirts in trail, nailed a yellow fin that was full of worms , after a few hours of no luck came across a massive show on the sounder 70m so decision made call of the trolling. over went the bottom bash gear first drop big rankin and a trevally, second drop hooked up on jig small fish then absolutly monstered by a much much larger fish on my sustain 10000 and 50lb . chris was trialling his new deep drop setup (fish winch) electric reel attachment in the new rod extension holders made by member sea-kem, lands a nice goldband and big red throat.

reset drift and he hit the bottom chris gets a massive hit clicks reel into gear and fish is stripping 17kg of drag of his tiagra 50w both of us thought huge shark, after a few long minutes up pops a 35kg+ cod (my jig destroyer).

we boated the fish but both of us devastated that there was no way of saving this fish (over size) terrible rule so we called it a day

day 3

weather looks bad decision made no boats just beer and 4wd

day 4

exmouth bound. day trip to exy chasing clean water, pelagics, bills and deep drop. we all left the channel to a wall of birds and baitfish (game on) over went the bibs. mehai and richard warren and hayden all hounded the bait most of the day for spanish macks, dollies, wahoo and a sneaky deep drop to wazza for a nice goldband. chris and I headed wide skirts out for one lonely 130cm dolly, called it quits and next was a deep drop in <450m our first real deep drop, sounder read depth but no good other then that. chris goes fish winch i went manual mode with second 50w. time to wind up after 20min drift FARK that never again put the tiagra in low gear and went at it like a working girl on a friday night. next drop was chris's turn on manual and i went leccy reel. result was 1 filthy big green eye and me laughing at chris taking forever on manual mode. 

called it quits headed shallow to float some baits into bait schools for another big dolly (tail slapped me in the forehead) and a cobia. trolled sunset for a small mack and tuna

and 1 of the largest sharks ive seen, monster tiger 

(LONG DAY)

day 5

weathers on in coral bay, give the lads gps mark to spot we found on day 2 and all we heard all day was fish on over radio both mehai and wazzas boats bagging out and leaving chris and i out wide looking silly for undersize reds, trevally and other shit fish and 0 bills 

the day was celebrated with a few beers

magic conditions 

day 6

toughest day yet and last day for some, call of the day over radio BAGED OUT ON BOREDOM (mehai) guess you get the picture of the amount of fish caught today, we did manage a spanish mack and another good rankin but the wind blows up real bad and early so day is done racing back to channel.

day 7

chris and i spent a couple hours trolling along reef on the last day of fishing for 0, no birds working no bait action at all. few beers had the night before made for a very rough tasting can at 8.30am trying to inspire fish to take the lures. GAME OVER 

big thanks to all the lads involved and organising, do it all again next year at exy 

ive probably missed out heaps but this was the second time i wrote this post due to missplacing the first one 

 It's been a while since I went for a paddle. Was pretty quiet too but managed this fish from the two hits.

 For you Benno

 Well headed out Sat morning into the 40's and after several hours of nothing ......I caught all these in the space of 45mins.

There were a few good sets of swell passing through that day and a couple of them made me go ...wow 

Trolled for a while with no tresults but enjoyed a great day out there none the less.

Anyway, managed to get a feed  

 had an awesome few days fishing over the long weekend. Shot up to leeman and nailed a couple og nice amberjack then the weather turned for the worst so came back to my local mandurah and nailed a nice mixed bag of queen snapper, dhufish, baldie and a couple of the biggest black ass ive seen all on dimiki backdrop jigs. Found big schools of nannygai out in the 70,s but the majority were all small