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Compleat Angler Trip Trout
Submitted by BarraSlayer on Sat, 2015-10-31 15:36Pretty 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.
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Daddy Long Legs - New record cray!
Submitted by scotto on Thu, 2015-10-29 08:50after 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!
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Tired of crays already - is the demersal ban over yet?
Submitted by Notorious on Wed, 2015-10-28 20:36 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!
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Good day on the loop today
Submitted by Notorious on Tue, 2015-10-27 13:45Low 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.
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Another upgrade
Submitted by Bunny on Sun, 2015-10-25 19:45Just 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.
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PB Crayfish freediving on the FFB
Submitted by Notorious on Sat, 2015-10-24 18:04Was 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.
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Upgrade to record board
Submitted by Bunny on Fri, 2015-10-23 12:15Did 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.
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Couple Massive Coral Trout! ... my PB's
Submitted by johno on Thu, 2015-10-22 09:34Hi 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
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Shallow swim
Submitted by little johnny on Wed, 2015-10-21 16:17Few big occys couple of Crays . Little Andy got the big occys . Pickled few rest in deep sleep ready for December 16 th
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Bagged out today :)
Submitted by Notorious on Wed, 2015-10-21 14:54 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.
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Taylor in the Swan
Submitted by Maximus on Wed, 2015-10-21 10:54Hi 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?
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Last pink bash 2015
Submitted by little johnny on Wed, 2015-10-14 13:32Went 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
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last Friday demersals with a bonus bag
Submitted by Supafishall on Wed, 2015-10-14 09:15The 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.
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christened the new boat - pinky
Submitted by rigpig on Wed, 2015-10-14 08:32finally 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.
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Quick dirk h.i report
Submitted by jng on Sun, 2015-10-11 14:36Just 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
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last fish before the ban
Submitted by Noxious on Sun, 2015-10-11 07:03Headed 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.
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Tubs first solo run
Submitted by Goodie on Sat, 2015-10-10 10:34Headed 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
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Luke's best today
Submitted by little johnny on Fri, 2015-10-09 23:25Nice 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
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Lunch time fish
Submitted by little johnny on Wed, 2015-10-07 22:05Bumped 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
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huge salmon run in the sound
Submitted by paul3510 on Tue, 2015-10-06 07:40what an experience, all averaged 8-10kg on a feeding frenzie. one had 24 sardines/mulies in its guts.
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Maggot ( many moons ago)
Submitted by little johnny on Mon, 2015-10-05 20:58My little Andy grade 7 could have had legal record 16.3. Been beat since. Good in its day . Big boy
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Outer reef
Submitted by little johnny on Mon, 2015-10-05 18:14Great fun called Andy and brengay up. ( no mully fishing)I had Ian on board. Couple of big. ones. Most average. Great 40 min session.
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Still around in numbers
Submitted by doubleheader_king on Sun, 2015-10-04 10:10Loads of salmon Michael Parker, Cabe and myself have been catching recently. Heaps of good tailor too. Caught on halco c gars, Hamas and live baits. Don't post on here much and will try to do so in the future, I'm currently writing articles for magazines and will be at the mandurah boat show doing fishing talks on stage if your there. Cheers, Max.
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Jack & Jill
Submitted by HondaHoncho on Fri, 2015-10-02 23:38My final BC salmon for a while. Polaroids certainly make a difference. Saw a small school of jacks (immature males) heading up the river and one took an olive sparkly fly almost immediately. Not another take for the next hour.
Decided to continue fishing this same location, as I'd spotted a much larger Coho... and hadn't seen her take the rapids above the pool. Sure enough, she finally took a heavier fly submersed in the flow of the pool.
Didn't see her for fifteen minutes, after which she jumped twice, then went deep again. Five minutes later, having regained some line, I saw her swimming strongly to my left, on the river bed in front of me. The net spooked her... and off she went downstream.
Working the rod on its side (a recently-watched vidclip has convinced me maximum leverage can be applied this way, if the drag is properly set) I finally got her back level with me again, but the net spooked her again... and she disappeared under a log beside the bank, where there's less current. Glad I upgraded to an 8 lb leader! When she finally reappeared, she was on her side, but it took me a couple of attempts to net her, as she was too big for my net. Even then, she jumped out of the net as I scrambled up the bank... .
What a holiday. Fly fishing for rainbows in England one week, for salmon in Canada the next. Probably even better than the fish I've caught during two months' fishing, has been my improved technique... as a result of outstanding (free) advice from helpful experts. An afternoon at the Haig-Brown Festival in Campbell River BC was certainly well-spent, improving my casting with these kind masters of the art... .
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Some mulloway from a trip up north
Submitted by lachieH on Fri, 2015-10-02 22:25Went up north and had an amazing trip landing my first mulloway . I can't wait to go back there some day
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Mandurah
Submitted by coryhenrickson on Thu, 2015-10-01 17:21went out off Mandurah again today with the wife n nephew ended up with enough fillets to see me through the ban queenie went 8.5kg n the dhui 13.5kg
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salmon still
Submitted by duncan61 on Tue, 2015-09-29 19:57Hi all.been logged out for a few weeks but all sorted now.Went out sunday with son with the intention of going to James matthews wreck.Its my first time in the metro area in a tinny.The easterlies blew in gusts and forced me to take shelter at the entrance groyne to the boat ramp at cockburn boat ramp.My son flooped out a mulie on a gang and after a few moments hooked up on a salmon.There were more in the area and after I pulled the anchor I hooked up on a bit of squid on a single hook but it wore through the line.I know its only salmon but a great time .The wind dropped off so I decided to go to this wreck.I am glad I did as it is in 2.3 metres of water and blowfish seem to like it there.I had this same tinny in Carnarvon for 2 years and have boated big mulloway mackeral and snapper of all sorts but I am glad I have it back here might give squiding a go next time.
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GO EAGLES
Submitted by Stoinka on Sat, 2015-09-26 09:41Only one team rules the WEST, bring it home today boys, GO HARD!
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Last nights Snapper fishing
Submitted by Notorious on Thu, 2015-09-24 10:11Been out 4 times so far - no snapper.
Although last night the boat next to me 20 metres away caught 5 in the space of 20 minutes, so its a glimmer of hope that I'm in the right area now.
But I did catch a bunch of fresh bait for tonights session. Heres hoping my luck changes tonight, I'm getting frustrated chasing these things!
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