Went out for an overnight session with my mate Manie. Took his kids and and my eldest along. Had a cracker evening with Tailor and rays being landed. Hauled out my Big Assasin heavy rod, loaded it up with a 7 oz grapel sinker and half of a tailor, casted the whole lot in and waited.

Man when that drag went it sang. One shout to my daughter, on went the bucket and she grabed the rod. It was fight on. One 5 foot landbased little tiger verses one 5 foot+ bronze whaler. She spent 45 mins walking up and down the beach, eventually landed this baby, with Manie's son tail grabbing it for her. Couple of Pics and safely released to swim and hopefully fight another day.  Hats off to her, she insisted on removing the hook and releasing by herself. You can see the remains of the bait on the trace, it move up the trace with the fight.

Hey guys. Havent posted in a while due to hardly getting out, working hard ya know ;)

Missus got me a voucher for a trip out to the Bremer Canyon Killer Whales last xmas so headed down over the Easter break. What day it was! Headed out to what is known as "The Hotspot" a small area about 5nm x 5nm out at the Bremer Canyon in about a 1000m of water. This is the same area mentioned for those who have seen Dave Riggs doco "The Search for the Ocean's Super Predator." Theres believed to be a hydrocarbon leak in the seafloor releasing an incredible amount of nutrients sparking a huge food chain event from seafloor to surface. Over the 2 seasons of operation im led to believe Naturaliste Charters have had a 100% hit rate on killer whale sightings, with some days up to 100 whales congregating in the area.

As we arrived at The Hotspot the first thing I noticed was the amount of small Striped tuna busting up all around. The skipper announced the whales shouldnt be far away and within a mintue of arriving we had our first sighting! 3 orcas only a couple hundred metres ahead, as we got a bit closer they turned for the boat and swam across the front of the bow, a great site for everyone on board!

We followed this small group for 15 minutes or so before they dived. I asked the skipper how long they can stay underwater for and he replied "20 minutes." Needless to say we stayed in the area for a bit longer but who knows how far they swam underwater. We then putted further into The Hotspot and soon came across another pod.

They also dived shortly after and we never saw them again. Throughout the day we came across about 12 whales, a quiet day by standards. Skip said a bit too calm on the surface, 20 knot winds and 4m swell and the whales really turn it on apparently, riding swells and breaching often, 8 tonne bulls clearing the water easily. Would be one hell of a ride out there on a day like that, 70kms from Bremer Bay!

As you can see from the next photos, we got just about all 4 seasons out there!

Yesterday went out on a mates boat and had a muck around in close. A couple clean bite offs early for me on plastic and jig while drifting for pinks, then the sambos came to play taking plastics and livies right at the boat on some occasions. On the way in had a muck around with the salmon with lots of fish landed on stickbaits and fly.

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 Had a ball today. Got a few dhues. 2 big black ass. Few kgs great day. Little Andy nearly passed out( soft ass) gill raker cut finger wide open . Letting Dhue go. ( funny in my books). Not in his. Great fun fishing with your kids .:):):). Big school we found coughing up little cobbler .

another good day off Mandurah today nice feed of fish. Dhu was 12.3kg n KG was 55cm 

craig from saltwater put the call out on tuesday 3 people pulled out and he needed numbers so i was happy to

oblige hit the road friday and abrohlos didnt dissapoint cranking southerly at times so we just hid behind an island and smacked trout snapper and dhuies to 9kg in 8m of water.. Anyway pictures can tell the story

Lots more fish but to busy to take photos haha

I will keep it very short guys and let the photos talk.

Left Perth 3 am on Saturday and greeted by the best possible weather you can expect.

Straight out to the 50M mark, Fished 5 hours for a great result.

Started slow but ended the day with couple of PB's

This place is a Baldy central and there is no shortage of other good fish.

We kept a few good fish and released a few baldy, big Pig fish, some snapper, Yellow tail king fish x2 and some sambos of course.

The trip is well worth it and cant wait to do it again.

Cheers

 Brendon and Luke went down pemby over the long weekend stayed on friends property that backs onto warren. Heaps of big reddies (35 to 45 cm jobs).4 trout caught . Rather eat reddys taste better. Trout flesh was good ( Orange ).

 I have been doing well on the dhus lately in softies in shallow water. Z man violet sparkle has been doing the damage in 9 inch.

Lots of small ones about but inbetween got a nice 12kg fish and put the old man onto some smaller models 

 A few big Salmon caught at Albany recently.  Any reports around Dunsborough yet?

Hey Guys,

Just thought i'd do an update from a recent trip we did to the Abrolhos Islands on board the Blue Water Adventure Charters vessel "Glenalan"

Was good to do a bit of sightseeing also visiting the area where the Batavia story took place and was also great to put the Lad from Darwin on a few nice Dhuies!! Photos Courtesy of Dorian.

 Trip up north landed with a bang! Landing 4 mulloway 1m+, 3 school macks going 90cm and 2 wobbegongs which were released.

 well done BIG Q nice 18kg dhu on the jig

and mine a little 15kg

 Took the boy out for a quick spear yesterday....a good day out. 

just been down to Cheynes for a couple of nights first time Iv had the boat down there. Spent a few hours out yesterday for a good feed of fish and surprisingly some big cuttle fish off of squid bait. mates sambo was around the 15-20kg and the only one landed had about 5 or 6 bust offs on 80lb set ups so there was a few bigger ones around 

 G'day 

Went out yesterday to see if we could get another Metro Mackie, it wasn't to be. Lots of stringy annoying weed in close. 

We ended up with these SBT's, not big fish but enough to turn a reel. Looking forward to the next few months targetting some YFT.

 We'll today a first dhu fish and Jew fish in the same day mulloway on jig first about 14kegs 

 Dusted off some fishing gear the other night  , and headed off to catch up with a long term friend, talk bullshit, out 'crude' each other, and do a bit of line wetting as well. By sun-up, i'd seemingly lost the bet. She had out cruded me, and (sigh) outfished me, and i complied with the pre arranged bet, to refer to her only as 'Queen'... 

What she didn't know was i'd used the out going current to position my whole herring to be sitting in nice & close to a pylon supporting the bridge, thinking that when the tide slowed/stopped, i'd have a fair to middling chance of hooking something reasonable enough to overthrow the queen, and claim the crown for myself. 

Do you guys think what i landed trumped my friend? Landbased, no gaff or net, all smiles... 8kg's for those interested :-D

 First post as we rarely get a chance to get out and dont have great success.

Tried trolling for the first time, Hillarys up to Jindalee way and back again with no luck so ready to pack it in and then when close to Hillarys, mate got this one so high fives all round! Awesome to get reward for the time. Went 120cm.

Midday too.

 Went out from Hillarys pulled the pots 5 Crays. It was abit windy so I tried one of my spots in close and bang my mate hooks up 5 seconds late hook up!

my mates was 5kg

mine was 9kg

 Thanks OceanSide Tackle and Pflueger. I won an awesome Pflueger tackle bag and Pflueger Salt Spin 80 reel in the Sunday anniversary raffle. Thanks for all the help and advice over the past couple of trips to the shop to help me catch some fish as well. Miles away from my house but worth the drive

 Just got a call from shop to say that I'd won the Sunday (anniversary weekend) raffle. Apparently it is all of Ryan's GPS co-ordinates.

Great. Just email them to me Ryan.

Nice to see decent people sometimes win the raffles

Thanks mate, I'll chat tomorrow.

 Few pinkys last Friday off Dawesville 

 Got 1 over 4 kg( pickle job with Occo). Went with ang great weather this morn. Got 1 white. Few coral Crays rest reds.

Jigged this monster up the other day on a PE3 NS Blackhole Explorer rod, matched up to a 5000 Shimano Sustain reel, spooled up with PE3 Toray Super Strong PE Connected and 40lb Toray Jigging FC leader, the jig that done the damage was a 125g Lamble Bait Haoli king jig.

Epic day!

Got lucky today - all around 2.2-2.4kg mark. Freedivng the FFB in 10-13m. 

Didn't measure it but confident it cracked 30 kilos. Caught jigging.

 See how long it takes to ID this one caught recently.

I reckon it will be pretty quick actually.

 A glorious day in Augusta using soft plastics when I got a zinger of a run. After a decent fight I pulled this one up by the ass! 

The setup was a Shimano raider with 20lb line and 25lb leader. 

It was my first blue groper by the way!