after doing an all nighter saturday for a bucks party packed the car sunday for a early morning run to wagoe beach monday.

picked up marky and dicko and where on the road later then hoped but racing. arrived at chalets around 12 checked in and on the beach around 2pm lines in the water and tailor where on .

spent a few hours in the afternoon thunder lightning and rain fishing a gutter that had a bit too much current so moved 500m north and found the little mulla hole.

the rest gets a bit hazzy from here as the rum and beers were flowing, something along the lines of skull skull skull, fish on fish on fish on, love you man nah i love you man and repeat. 

roughly 12 tailor and 4 mulloway landed biggest mulla over 90cm dropped a few others

night finished around 2am set alarms for 4am back on the beach to fish the reef this time ended up being a nice gap in the reef were another half dozen tailor landed a very large unstoppable toothy, a free jumping mack and a dolphin show.

wind started to blow fierce and predicted to get worse so back to camp for a crack later on, had one more go at original spot later that arvo reslut was one more mulla (tiddler) and my first and called it quits as the wind was winning. didnt get another fish in wind was crazy so we set of home wednesday night.

didnt get many pics but enough

cant wait to head back 

cheers dicko and marky 

BLOODY WINDY

 Nice tub of whites, got to love this time of the year

Just before the ban kicked in and i had to go back to work, i came home to a nice crispy stella 10k that the mrs bought for me as an early bday present. Eager as a kid at christmas i went out for a fish even though the easterly was howling. It was beautiful up until the FFB but not real nice after it. Arrived at the spot after having nailed a good couple of fish there the day before, and set the drift back 500m from the spot to sort the rod out. Decided big baits, big fish. 24oz sinker on and no sooner the sinker hit the bottom the line was at a 45 degree angle as the drift was a bit quick. Pulled up and changed to the 32oz sinker to try hold bottom for a little longer which seemed to work well. first drift was no bites and nothing showing on the sounder. I thought there has to be something here. Went back about 1km and tried 50m south of the mark and about 30 seconds after the sinker was on the bottom, the terez buckled. The drag wasn't set right at all and the reel screamed as soon as it hit which got me thinking snag due to the speed of the drift but then i saw head shakes, YESSSSSS first fish on the stella. got it to the top and a smile from ear to ear appeard on my face. Lifted the beast on board and screamed and shouted to myself as you do. Spiked, in the kill tank, bait thrown overboard and the rod packed away im headed in. I didn't have any scales so i stopped into complete angler and camping on dixon road and asked them to weigh it for me and got a touch under 16kg.

Love short days and the spur of the moment solo runs.

A day to remember  

Well its time for the beaches to fire up for sharks. So had my first session last night. Was fairly quiet but nabbed this nice eating size bronzey.... well i thought it was at the time but a day later it may be a long nose grey shark?

Any shark id experts out there? 

 None in pots.swimming way to go:):) .wasnt going to dive this year. Missus telling me off. Get that:):)

 Had a good time this week picking a a few nice sized Flathead along the river. Most of the time I usually spook the real big ones as I'm wading along in the shallows 

but yesterday I picked up my second PB Flatty at 57cm. Best was 61cm couple of years ago. Must have been really hungry.. check out the mouth on it!

As always they are all realeased to make more Flatties

 Had a good time this week picking a a few nice sized Flathead along the river. Most of the time I usually spook the real big ones as I'm wading along in the shallows 

but yesterday I picked up my second PB Flatty at 57cm. Best was 61cm couple of years ago. Must have been really hungry.. check out the mouth on it!

As always they are all realeased to make more Flatties

 Cant get down to catch any crays yet so we went and caught a feed of yabbies instead.

A good feed for the whole family.

Cheers Jayce

 Hey all

Couple pics of my PB yellowfin whiting and my first ever Mahi-Mahi caught a few weeks ago while on honeymoon in Fiji. The YFW was caught off the beach south of Mandurah last weekend. Iv never taken a huge amount of notice to what is a large YFW, how does this rate? It was just over 33cm.

Cheers!

Andy 

Got some nice Spanish mackerel and yellow fin tuna at the islands on the weekend,
heaps of birds working and plenty of bait

 Pretty stoked with this 102cm beast caught on the Compleat Angler Trip on Fiji (#volivoli). It went to an 11inch macarthy mamba with 4oz nitro jig head with size 10 stainless game hook in 50m.

after a few major FUBAR's to get out diving over the last 2 weeks, I managed to get out yesterday arvo for my first dive of the season. its just like riding a bike! we decided to find a new lump first, and if we come up short, visit a regular lump. I think we found another honey hole.... 1 tank each, and 3 of us came up with over 30 crays. none needing measuring. threw back the remainder, and kept our bag. I got this monster too, which I've submitted as a new FW record, as his extra long legs put him at 88cms overall! weighed a smidge over 4kgs too. get in ma belly!

 New day, new crew today, explored some new ground around Garden Island. Freediving in 4-8m, 3 licence holders in total on board. 

Not around in huge numbers today, perhaps the fullmoon as something to do with it? Got our boat limit of 24 by 12:30 

Chasing fish tomorrow out wide, no more crays! 

Low wind and swell saw me return to some of my inshore, shallower spots this morning.  These were freedive looped in 5-7m ground. We had great conditions and nice viz today!

No jumbos and no whites as yet. 

Just landed this 123cm Barra. Will put some better pics up later on. Got a 95 earlier and a few more lost so not a bad trip so far.  Tinaroo dam paddling.

Was real rough out there today and the wind didnt drop as forecasted, so the white caps were coming through. Visability was a hazy 8m and the overcast skies did noting for good viz - the boat ramp car park at Garden Island was almost empty. 

This was the hardest I have ever worked for a Cray in my 6 years of freediving! I spotted him in 9m on the FFB in a small cave, I tried to loop him but he retreated. My dive buddy and I then dove on him at least 8 times each trying to pull him out with loops and our hands as he had no where to escape. After a lot of trying and frustration, I promised my dive buddy ONE MORE dive. So I removed my snorkel so I could go right inside the tiny crevice and not be restricted by the snorkel or have it jag on the cave. I asked my second dive buddy to spot me and follow me down 30 seconds after I dive so when I'm inside the crevice to make sure I didn't get stuck so he could pull me out if need be. I asked the first dive buddy to watch from surface in case I push too hard on my return to the surface and blackout. 

So I go down into the hole, I cant see anything and go by feel. I reach deep into the hole, and I feel one leg, I fin and push myself in harder I feel another leg. Fining real hard and feeling my way in deeper, yet being restricted by the size of the hole I managed to get a hold of the carapace and then in a swift tug of war I tear him out of his hidey hole. 

Stoked I make my way for the surface for some sweet oxygen. Greeted at the surface by both my dive buddies WAHOOO'ing on the five and throwing mutliple high fives. Stoked! my heaviest so far and the team work we put in it was great to get my prize. 

Incidentally, he was a soft shell too - never had a soft shell jumbo before.

New PB cray, 2.84kgs on certified scales. 

Legal cray in picture for comparison. 

 Did a solo search this morning so mostly travelled around with not much fishing.

Got a nice Cod followed by a fairly big one which I'll measure soon. It's an upgrade on the FW board. Bloody hard to take selfies with fish I can tell you.

Hi All

I don't post many pictures these days but thought I had to share some massive trout that I got last week, yes these are my PB Trout to date.. :) the largest went 97cm and the other is 92cm, overall very happy all taken on jigs in a hot jigging session.. all released very well to swim for another day so they can get alot bigger for someone else to catch :)

Totally stoked when these came aboard didnt release they grow so big..:) been told they grow as big as 25kg in some parts of the world!! dam this would be some fish to land I am guessing!.. these fish caused a good fight in very reefy conditions.. both taken with a Temple Reef R9/Stella 8k/PE6 ... my 97cm scaled about 18kg.. a very fat fish for sure!!

For those of interest, these are from Seringapatam Reef north of Scotts Reef, totally awesome place to jig, pop and stickbait!, it was a GT mayhem week ..105 for the week!

Cheers

 Few big occys couple of Crays . Little Andy got the big occys . Pickled few rest in deep sleep ready for December 16 th

 After a slow start to the season with avg forecasts, and poor viz inshore I went out off Rockingham today. First spot inshore was quite surgey and I didnt see any crays and viz was horrible. I decided to move onto my FFB honey hole. Sure enough, there were plenty of crays. Was hard work freedive looping in 12metres but got my bag with no issues. 

a 10kg blue groper was inside my jumbo hole and stayed there for 2 hours, saw a 25kg Sambo, a small Dhu and a few pink snapper. Too bad its demersal closure! 

No whites, or jumbos. 

Hi Guys,

My first decent Taylor thought it was worth sharing, cought in the Swan at 1:30am earlier this week.

I thought it would be a bit early for Taylor this size up the river, anyone else hooking Taylor in the River?

 Went out before first light so I could anchor up prior to day break. Took angelo out. Had 3 spits straight away. Lost 2 to sharks. Got 4 . My very last fish was cracker my biggest this season. Great morn run

 The weather couldn't of been better so told the mates to be at mine by 3.45am.

By the time we got to the ramp and heading out was 4.45, so we where racing the sun to get 35 km out in 40 min with a 1.8m westerly swell coming straight at us and boat getting airborne so had to pull the old boy back lol. 

Anyway long story cut short we missed the sun rise but all in all had a bloody good day. We had all our demersals by 8am and headed a bit further out to chase some birds and ended up with a bloody good feed of yellow fin. Back at the ramp by 1pm to wait for a hour to get the boat on the trailer but all was worth it. 

finally got my first decent fish on the new boat. One day before the ban and I caught a nice snapper. I do have to thank a mate and definitely his friend who I have been following around from time to time, he has been pretty patient with me turning up at his "spots". cheers, i'm stoked to have caught one.

 Just got back from a family getaway to Denham only had 1 solid days of fishing with out the missus and kid I wasn't expecting much as its my first time up there so the plan was to hit up the northern end of dirk. Got our bag limit of blackies, coral trout and cod. Will definitely get up there again for a boys trip lovely place with a lot of potential here are couple of pics 

Headed out to 60m yesterday with a couple mates for a fish before the demersal ban. Admittedly I have been in a form slump with fishing so this was my last chance to redeem for some time. Ended up bagging out on demersals by lunch time on Queen Snapper, Dhu fish, Black Ass and Baldy plus a couple thumper king George as a bonus. The Baldy went 53cm so was a nice fish and my first decent baldy. We have caught a lot of Baldy's off our boat but always the other boys who get them so I was happy to get my first decent one. The strange thing is I am always the one who catches the dhu fish including the one pictured - normally don't keep them at this size ~55cm but this one had one hook in its eye and the other in it's stomach so decided to keep it. I released 6-8 more in the 45-55cm range, couldn't find a big one, I caught every single dhu landed, very strange how fishing works sometimes.

I also got a meter plus sambo that gave a good account of itself. 

Checked at the ramp by fisheries which is always good. The girl doing the checks could have done with a smile and a better attitude but that's ok when everything is the way it should be.

Headed out about 6 kms from bunno for a night fish on my own for pinks.

Perfect weather to test things out with the new motor and tub and things started well. As i anchored a school of Southern bluefin tuna appeared out of nowhere. So in a panic i chucked a stickbait on the only road which had a swivel ready to go my 2500 stradic and 2-4 raider and hooked up into a sold fish which gave the gear a work out.

Good start but things failed to happen on the pinks, sunset came and went and a cloud of skippy lived under the boat. But besides the tonnes of PJ's and banjos nothing happened till I got a screaming run at about 8.30.

Fantastic I thought! Finally a pink but unfortunately after a 10 minuted battle up pops a 10 odd Kg sambo :(

Thats it really headed in about 9.45 and managed to retrieve etc on my own with out any problems. Not the worst day out just gotta get the pink things before the ban!

Tub looks good getting an idea of how it handles and fuel consumption. The new 40 Yamaha seems to get around 2 to 2.5 Km per Lt. Keen to try it out down Walpole way if weather permits.

Goodie

 Nice Dhue. Just under 10 kg. he also got big baldie another Dhue 580. Night before boys got smashed.got home from work at 6 had to clean boys fish. Few lollies also( kgs) it hurts me to watch them try fillet:):). Also got few nice tailor

 Bumped into Ryan had chin wag went home. Gave boys heads up.  Great day. Someone I know even caught a turtle lol(Boyzy ).great sesh. My boys done better at sundown run. Spewing back at work for 4 days

 what an experience, all averaged 8-10kg on a feeding frenzie. one had 24 sardines/mulies in its guts.