Grandson pulled in a lot of rubbish fish before this beaut took his line follwed by 5 more a little smaller straight after. 4 meters of water on squid.

 Snuck out yesterday arvo to get my parents a feed of whiting and enjoy the weather. It was on to say the least. Scored my bag of whiting and a squid easy. With a lot of slimeys in amongst them I thought I'd try for a pink with fresh bait on the way home. With one fresh bait, i found a bait ball getting harassed, dropped down a chunk of fresh slimey and I was on to a nice little pink. Dropped on the same bait ball and landed a smaller one then off home I went. The squid followed a whiting up and I was able to switch bait him with a jig.

 Shot out for a friday night date night on the water with she who out fishes me. not far from home in 11mt of water , we burlied up hoping for a pink although no such luck this time. Wife pulled in a nice little keeper Dhu, I managed a couple of 450 tailor inbetween playing with a little shark that was doing laps aroung the boat. Wife hooked onto another nice fish which was dropped as drag was cranked and just as i flew across to back it off a bit ....ping!! it was gone ! great night any ways and gode to see her in action !

Sunday morn was a run out to the bank with the bro and sis inlaw where we anchored up and dumped the burley again on the surface and a bottom bomb. with the others starting to get a few touches on the bottom , I threw a weighted pilly out the back on a sneeled circle rig and went to drop the bottom gear down when line stated peeling from the floater. A wee tussel was on and i finally saw PINK!, my allergy was no more.. or was it !. I lead it to the several times repaired net and it was in.. then the net snapped off the handle and the bro inlaw was tryining to pin a pink with the net part against the side of the boat looking in a panic at me silently saying what the fuck do i do now. I then found out that the tail grip was not going to work so we screamed for the gaff and successfully pined it and dragged on board. 

adrenaline was flowing and hands still shaking we go a pic and back to work we went.

managed a couple of small dhus (one sized ) though 51 cm looks to small to keep so weighted him back down to grow some more in hope of upsizing . next was a nice baldie .small blackarse , blue devil, ray ,smaller baldies and a bronzie. no dhu upgrade. 

all in all a great morning/Weekend out and hoping for more to come. 

Additional pic from a few weeks earlier . another cracking morn on the water !

Got a metro mack the other day- went 1.3M 15kg

double hook up and dropped the one with the trebles.. single hooks stayed tight 

water temp 22.5 behind the 3 mile. First metro one in a long time for me and big for metro standards too! 
 

 Thursday evening excursion 

 Went out last weekend and managed a tasty little feed. Baldie went 61cm and pink 73. Both taken on a 5in placcie on a 1oz jighead. Baldie was from 29m and pink from 40m. Nothing beats baldie imo and smaller pinks eaten fresh are great. What is a good size baldie? I regularly get them around this size as well as smaller models but I'm wondering what people consider ripper baldies. 

 Nice sunrise also good day fishing

Midday run back of the low tide today with the old man and got a nice feed in an hour's work using fresh mullet frames from Shore Catch... cheers Mick. Biggest went 165 and smallest 132 and they all feel heavy.

 Headed out a bit deeper to explore some new areas, found a nice lump full of life with a good fish sitting on top, one drop and raised a solid metro dhu.

After a long hiatus I found that tailor may be back at Triggs. So this morning I had a go. Was there only for an hour and a bit because on my first cast I hooked a 65cm 2.3kg. Got a chopper on my next and after that was small fish bites but seem to be like herring. Enough for dinner so I quit. Could hardly fit into wader bag

 After a poor effort on my behalf in Kalbarri, I needed redemption and yesterday's forecast looked promising. Got on the water at 5 to try get some pinks on the anchor but I was too late as my mate had already bagged out and the bite was shut down. With the sw blowing a little I tried a few of my kayak lumps with no success and with the wind dropping slightly I headed out. After an hour of sounding and drifting I came across some good ground and after a bit of drifting the sounder confirmed. I re-set the drift and dropped a 5in daiwa bait junky jerk shad on a 1oz jig head and was rewarded with a good baldie. As I was sorting it out the sounder showed some good showings, so with the baldie in the bag down went the 80g jig and 2nd lift resulted in a 80cm dhu and back to the ramp.

This is a write up following on from my earlier post while planning the trip.

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/south-coast-tinny-fishing

Mid October trip down south with the camper & tinny.

DENMARK

Parrys Beach camp was a great little spot, pretty bushy & each site is in a little nook so no 2 sites are the same which was nice. Can be a little tight with a camper, car and tinny but we managed to jag one of the larger spots which was good.

Fishing Day 1: The weather was good enough to venture out in the little 375 seajay, but I quickly realised what people meant by the swell washing back off the rocks and creating an very unpredictable slop. Luckily the swell wasn’t too big and I adapted to the situation fairly quick. I headed to Stanley island approx. 5km away to a random pin drop I put into navionics as somewhere to head for & scout around. I got lucky & found some ground which was showing fish within 100m of my random pindrop. Dropped down a whole scaley with hits straight away resulting in a Sargent baker, so I knew I was in a decent area/ground. Rebaited a few times and managed to jag a cracking Blackass – PB for me anyway, from memory it was around 560mm. Weather turned quick so headed back in after about an hour’s fishing… Stoked to get a decent fish for my first time out there & not having any spots.

Fishing Day 2: The next morning I got up, ran down to the beach to find the conditions much the same. Back to camp to chuck some bait in and hook up the tinny, on the water I headed for the same area as that’s about all I had going for me. Once at the spot, the wind was already picking up & the rain drizzled on and off every 5 minutes. I picked up another Blackass a bit smaller than the day before but still well size. The weather eased a bit & my drift slowed so I tried a 100g slow pitch jig, after not having any luck I ripped it up to move spots & half way up a big hit and off the jig went straight back down with the drag screaming! A solid fight for around 10 minutes resulted in another PB for me with the sambo at around 12-1300mm. The wind and rain then came back pretty strong so it was time to rip the little tinny back to safety.

That arvo I had a chat to a couple of older fellas who spent their day filling their esky with Dhuis, Blackass, Pinkies & Nannies! They were kind enough to point in the general direction where they had their success, so I’ll definitely be trying to get back down there again so seeing if I can bag a few more species next time.

BREMER BAY

We moved onto Bremer Bay where I had been given a couple of marks to check out. The conditions were doable but no quite as good as I was hoping. Up at sparrows to head to Little/fishing boat harbour for a beach launch and head across Dillon bay towards Cape Knob. My sister was adamant that she wanted to come; so after insisting the tinny wasn’t a very comfortable experience, we set off to cover the 14km trek to the spot. This took us the best part of 45mins to an hour but the coast was so impressive to look at it didn’t seem so bad (easy writing this 3 months later HA!). Sounded over the mark & found a near on solid red block indicating a big school of something, quickly baited up one rod and told her to drop in over till in hit the bottom while I try and hold the spot. Forgetting she hadn’t been fishing for probably 20 years; I was back and forth trying to sort out the boat, check the rod/reel was setup right & before I knew it she was on! Having a laugh at the technique of probably not fishing since she was in school, she managed to get this big red gem to the surface… a cracking Nanni that went 580mm. Spirits were high so around we went again but the drift was pretty quick so I found it hard to hold a spot & keep the bait on the bottom. She managed to get the small swallowtail aswell, but we found it hard to hook anything else. We went through bait as quick as we could get it to the bottom, just couldn’t seem to hook much else. I had a decent hook up but lost the bottom hook of the snell with no idea what had done me over. As usual the wind & weather started to push in, so we went around for one last drop before making our way back. I managed to pick up the queenie @ 680mm just in the nick of time. A decent so-wester pushed up all the way home to wrap up a very good tinny trip, especially for my first attempt on the south coast.

Cheers!

 With Tuesdays forecast it would've been a sin to stay home, so out of bed at 3:30am it was to try get on the road and on the water before a line formed at the ramp. 4:50 at the ramp and a 20min wait it was. Once on the water with the great conditions i ran out to the 40s on the ski and it was sensational, although the fishing was slow I still managed my bag and a few tuna for entree. The tuna were quiet but I found one big school that was up for only 10mins till they dropped and I ended up drifting over them and jigging a few up, all on a big john's jig, they love those things and they cast a mile. I opted for a few drifts for whiting on my way in which only resulted in loosing a few hours waiting to load the ski back at the ramp.

Went out yesterday from Rockinham. Bagged out in 3 drifts, dhuies 73cm and 83cm. 

 With an awesome arvo forecast but dinner plans in place I had a small window to get the ski out and smack a few whiting. Ended with a nice bag of whiting a Skippy and one dumb monster flatly. I say dumb as I didn't actually hook it, she grabbed the whiting on the bottom and me thinking it was a squid I bought it up slowly, bout half way up I felt her drop the whiting but latch back on. I got the net ready and to my surprise a monster flatly came up with the sinker down her throat, once on the surface she spat the sinker and I fed the whiting back she latched on and pretty much swam into the net. 63cm of green flattie thrashing around in the ski footwell wasn't fun but quick moves with the knife sorted her out. Weather was sensational was good to get out in some great conditions for a change.

 hi all will be spending some time in albany - king river caravan park , over the chrissy break and just wondering on a heads up as to where to try for some land based squid & whiting any advise will be appreciated 

Good days 

Well summer is nearly upon us and that means Yellow is the flavour of the month. Had some great sessions in the Peel and Metro regions this week, with yellowfin and yellowtails coming in thick and fast. Sizes of both species being quite exceptional in my experiences, numerous plump yellowfin including a few more than normal over 35cm and over 10 yellowtails at an average size of a metre and some well over.

Dont let the ban hold you back!

Enjoy some pics and videos.

Why let a pupil free day get the the way of my Friday ADO? The kids did brilliantly with a couple of decent but fixable tangles with the middle child taking choccies for fisherman of the day.

35 very plump sandies all up in about 70 mins followed by HJs... for the sake of the kids...

Hard slog to try and catch our bag limit for the day. I caught all the Gurnard on the bottom meat while Moking was catching all the King Gorge on the paternoster rig with squid baits. It felt like there was only one rod over the side catching anything of quality so I had to swap to the paternoster to start catching. Ended up with a solid feed. 

Been up here since Sat with just the kids and steamed out twice staying inside the bay due to a more than decent swell running.

The old man popped up for a visit and we headed out today to some bombies in 10m I sounded out 3 years ago.

First drift and Lachie hooked up and we saw a flash of silver and it went hard disappeared and pulling string. The boy did well keeping tension on the fish and letting it run when it went.

Some very careful gaff work and it was in the boat going 72cm and a touch under 7kg. A new PB by a longshot.

My 8y old landed two Blackarse leaving Dad empty handed... again.

 Karratha fishing at its best. bit of a freezer filler trip for the lads.

I finally got some time to get out on the ski Saturday. But after failing my anchor and burley session then running out to the mid 30s and failing to find a baldie. I opted to pluck a few tuna out of the multiple schools getting worked by birds and head home. I landed 3 with multiple dropped hook ups, at one point I had half a dozen good sized fish barrelling at the ski shoulders out and mouths open. Caught on a raider metal and a big john's bucktail. Swell was up but when the wind dropped I managed to run home at 45knts. Not big slobs but  plentiful out there and tasty as hell.

 Snuck out for a quick 1hr fish whilst away in exxy with the family....

Quickly turned into a absolute battle of a lifetime.

Pe3 and 40lb leader, rigged with a ASWB flutter drop 40g and a prototype indian pacific pe3 rod.

Head over to my insta if you want to see the vid @joelborgers

Had a good day out yesterday. Dhuies were on straight away. 

Bought a brand new jig, When I bought it I thought yep Dhuies going to love this thing. Pulled it out of the packet clipped it on. Set the drift, sounder lit up. Dropped the jig and it was like you see it on YouTube videos, it hit the bottom and whack, the rod loaded up, fight was on. First time this has ever happened to me. I could tell it was a solid fish Was only in 30 odd metres of water, got it to the top, right next to the boat and then all of sudden my line went slack, I'd busted the snap swivel. I could see the fish going towards the back and behind the boat grabbed the gaff slipped over the back to grab it and all I could see was this big Dhuie at least 80cm model swimming away with this brand new jig in his gobb. Needless to say I was spewing. 

In the mean time my deckie was on, she was loosing string. Once she won that battle up came an 88cm Dhuie swung back around hooked up again and it was all over; we were baggedbagged out on Dhuies within an hour of putting the boat in. 

Got a couple of good ones . Small pinks small sambos pain in ass.

 Quick trip to Shark Bay fish take a bit of finding but when you do good fun.

Few good fish from a trip up north.

The big donkey trout went 740 and the black spot tusk 610.

Red caught on rod and real.

 Couple of nice ones from the other night. 81cm and 86cm