After waking up without a hangover yesterday I decide to take the tub out at the gentlemans hour of 1pm. The Garden Island boat ramp was that full I had to park the car on the main road!?!

Anyway, pancake condiitons, but the water wasnt as clear as I had hoped. I shot this Dhu yesterday out of a reef system that I now call the castle on the Five Fathom bank, freediving in around 15metres. He went 78cm and just under 8kgs on certified scales. Saw him and approached steadily and slowly acting uninterested. He turned and presented a good side on shot, I drilled him through the cheek and bearhugged the fish for the surface. 

Also line caught a PB squid, 33cm hood and just under 1kg weight on certified scales on Saturday. 

Weather was magic on the weekend. 

 First drop yesterday off Canal Rocks.

I turn around and the little bugger is one up on me within 30 seconds.

I hadn't even unclipped my jig.

Finished with some nice harlquin and this one.

 Well it was definitely the last salmon trip of the year, this time mum and dad said lets go to bunker bay, which is strange because they aren't natural fishermen but absolutely love it. Even when there are salmon around. We only got 1 salmon, from a stray school that hung around for 10 minutes on the reef then left. We got the salmon in and guess what, it's mates came to shore with him, about 5 salmon swimming around our feet and it was amazing.

anyway gutted it and ended up pulling a whole 7 inch plastic with a jig head and everything still on it, just sitting in its stomach. Very discolored (turned from white to yellow it looks like) and yeah it was generally weird.

was a great day, but it's now that time of the year to get out on the dinghy now and get my first pinkies!

P.S. You guys judge the size!

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Cod from yesterday.
Loads of fish on the sounder, even the greeneyes were not hungry, lucky to get this one tho
The pinger was kind enough to send me the pic....

Out from Woodies today at 5:30am, solo mind you...

Into the 80+m for snapper.. Well after the sun came up it was like a carpark out there, complete with pingers and guys just simply driving over your drift line within coo-ee. Morning went like this.

Shark

Shark

Sambo

Dropped Sambo

Shark.

Not cool so ventured into the 40's.

Came upon a likely lump (I have no spots out there)

Bait - Dropped fish

Bait - Sambo with a shark following it up. Fed up, head for home early.

On the way - cruise over a lump. Couldn't be bothered stopping as I was low on bait. Ah well, still early so a u-turn and had a drop.

Dropped fish. Spewing. Went to look at the sounder and thought to myself - if it still looks good, I'll drop a jig. Over the shoulder - It's like Christmas lights all over the 587. Get the jig rod from the launcer and feed the Haoili down

On the drop BANG. Loaded up and I had a shitfight on my hands.

Thought it was the mother of all Sambos... Peeling line from the 8000 Sized Stradic with 65lb on the spool.. But it had weight....

Gain line, lose line. Repeat..

After a battle I see colour - and there's colour a-plenty!!

Up bobs this monster Dhu.. Well beyond a PB...

He goes 109cm on the mat and a touch under 22kg on the bathroom scales!!!!!

Back at Woodman Point by 11:45am..

Horse.. Will try and get a photo up holding the beast tomorrow.. It's just massive!! Deep, long and fat.. Eyes like dinner plates :-)

What a day yesterday (30/5/15)!!!

I took good mate Scott Campbell (FW soupster51) out yesterday on my boat to my super deep grounds and ended up getting bass groper, blue-eye trevalla and greybanded cod!

The highlight!!! - Scott was jigging my super deep Japanese 750g jig and things were quiet. I mentioned to Scott that there's more bait than normal and keep on jigging a bit more then I'll reset the drift.

 Not huge but solid.great condition fish

 2 boats little andys and mine .great weather

 Fishing with my brother last weekend and he caught this nice bream. Using a mustad light gauge circle hook size 6, no sinker and a small bread ball for bait. He was released into the esky. It had a small blue manna crab in it's belly.

 Had a few good days in the tinny last break! Got sum nice dhus, pinkys, baldys and found a lump covered in big ytk's

my mrs was pretty happy with here new pb 11kg buck and 7kg female 

not bad bagging out every day off 9L of fuel 

Tried some new ground the other day and struck gold, bagged out 

4 squid had hoods over 25cm 

$15 nephews rod and reel and a $5 jig done the damage. Orange & Pink were the chosen colours of the day

 Well spent 3 weeks in coral bay at end of April and May was pretty good sun shining and the flies were shocking but still had a great time with the family and friends I got to take my niece up a week before my sister to spend some time with her was awesome.

week 1 

first week was waking up to strong easterly winds and they were not calming down till the arvo so most fishing was mainly fishing the arvo bite. 

was still great for the few hours we got out pretty cool coming through the south passage at night and having no swell what so ever. Had a mate come down from exy and fished with him out of the North grabbing hold of a few goldban and robbos even hooked a marlin of the bottom again but no luck. Had another mate who was holidaying in exy had enough of the wind there headed to coral bay but was met with strong winds but by lunch calm to nothing and headed out few reds and a nice baldie and spangos and 2 cobia. Week one ended with a cyclone building of the coast and by Friday lunch we got told to pack away our camp site. Thanks to people's caravan park for giving us accomodation for the night was good  

week 2

my sister and brother in law had shown up with my 2 nephews and they were keen to go fishing. Got to take them out on a very calm day but the fish did not wanna play only a few small reds and just honey comb and black snapper but they had a ball. Week 2 was same as week one not as many flies tho which was good but still mainly had easterly winds dying off in arvo but still found new ground on a trolling day for bills turned into an awesome days fishing as we covered so much ground. Even it out for a deep drop in 200 meters first time out of coral bay so was a learning curve but got Rosie and goldban was still happy. Our 2nd week up there we also had our 3rd wedding anniversary and we decided to head back to where it happened at the Novotel Exmouth was an awesome day with the wife . We ended up catching up with a mate who lives there and came up with a plan to head back up and fish out of exy in his boat

week 3 

was the same fishing when we can and having a ball with my family I got to take my niece and my sister out one arvo after the wind calmed off and they had s ball catching trevally and spangos on light gear my niece put everyone to shame by catching the most fish but my sister got the biggest spango but also took home the tool of the trip when she snapped a rod it happens. Did another deep drop this time with me nephew he did a great job and got him self a great pinkie and the wife also got her first ruby and first for the boat. After the deep drop we heading in to a spot I marked when trolling and it payed off with reds robbos and sweet lips plus other fish was mentle my nephew hook and wound up his own red emp to have the hook pull on the surface oh well that's fishing he still had a ball. This was ment to be our last day out as we been told it was going to get windy. Woke last day in coral bay so it was pack up day to leave the next morning but woke up to no wind I phoned my dad and told him 10 o'clock we are heading out and glad we did heading out to a spot seen a flare up marked it drifted it and told the old boy to drop and bang soon as it hit the bottom double head reds of course last day to was glass off conditions and we caught our 6 reds plus a rankin was an awesome father and son day and more memories with my dad and we was back at the ramp at 1. So that was the trip was great to spend it with my family and friends and now I have new ground to fish Cheers for reading Hayden

Few of our recent catches from the last two trips out around The territory

ps. The turtle was happy released 

 Just got back from a bloody great two weeks in coral bay. Been twenty years since I had been there as a young whipper snapper never being out on a boat up there. Had the first few days spent out of North passage doing ok with the fish catching some nice spanglies and sweet lips. Not the Reds a lot of others were catching but we were still having fun. Then had a day or two out of South doing ok one day and not too much any other time. We ended up with a red few cm over a nice rankin and a couple of others to make a good day for amatures. Had a few days catching nothing did a lot of sounding and covered a lot of ground but no real joy. Then the last couple of days were spent North again. Second last caught another couple of spanglies and sweet lips and towards the end of the day found an absolutely lovely ledge with nice colour on it. Went back the next day resulting in a few small coral trout lost a thumper cobia at the boat ( came off the bottom really quick got to the boat and had plenty of legs yet) another of the usual spanglies and sweet lips few small sharks and the last drop for cb 2015 resulted in a 70 cm spangle that went like a freight train and was great fun. Would have loved a lot more size fish and reds but beggars can't be choosers and the main thing was we all had a great time and have booked again for next year so 10 months and 28 days to go and I'll be back there. Was able to meet dan1 top bloke unfortunately didn't have a beer as we're always in and out at opposite times but all good. Any ways enough ramble here is a couple of shots off the phone

cheers ross. 

 shot out of two rocks sunday, there was a small que at the ramp but all moved reasonable well. 

had fishwrecked member wickky as decky for the day.

first drop was on some bait hoping for some snapper, really good hookup "plenty" of weight lost fish. (few expletives)

drifted over the same ground for 2 dhus at 550 released and another couple smaller models between us, all released well (schooled up dhus) wickky managed a nice flatty kept.

moved out a little further and north to some ground ive fished before, then the plague of baldies hit ended up with the 4 smallest 520mm left them bitting couple fish each and wikcky landed a cuttlefish ahahaaah. release weight had a work out

headed for land but came across another bait ball in the 30's one more fish ay landed a nice pinky released and another bloody cuttlefish to wickky.

all fish were on jigs and placcy's, caught plenty of baldies on jig but seeing them on placcy is a little supprising.

fisheries were also at the ramp, looked like one pissed of skipper having fish not so happy pics takin.

wish fisheries would use a little smarts and move boats on trailers away from access areas before checking catches, they were creating a log jam, also checking boats on the jetty waiting to be retrieved 

only a couple pics managed.

cheers lads

putting in the hard yards on the light stuff

Solo mish today, got him boatside as soon as I could after he made my reel scream for a bit, quick gaff shot and the assist cord snipped once he hit the deck, lucky luck

Exmouth deep drop last week.

Hit east freo for a bream sesh this morning.
Managed my pb black bream, a cracking 45cm awsome fight.I was using
my 3-4kg ugly stick with 8lb fins braid ran on my daiwa luguna reel.

 There in the complete comp.1real big boy41cm .first time Luke's taken his Viking out for months.knife and finger injury.lol they got 19 good effort

 Caught this beat of a dhuie a month ago.

heading up to exmouth in a few weeks ,
anybody be able to give me some tips on how to catch mud crabs.
i will be stopping at places along the way and we will have the
dinghy.

Will i be able to catch them in crab nets?
if so what would be a recomended bait? ,
would realy apreciate any tips on crabbing and fishing,as this ground of area
is new to me as ive only fished perth.

thanks

 Ended up with 5 Tuskfish or bluebone. They go hard in shallow water and got my biggest one so far 58cm and weighed 4.1 kg. 

All on crabs that i caught the day before with the dog. 

 Evicted Jack yum bbq heating up

Saturday last week we were fishing our usual spot near Dyers Island burleying up and hoping for a decent fish to turn up . Well to my shock and amazment this 5 Metre white pointer turned up and hung arround for more than half an hour. We were only in about 30 foot of water and you could easily see how big it was . Have done a bit of diving arround the area in my younger days glad i wasnt in the water.

I was wondering how many of you guys have come accross one while burleying and fishing?

Shot in around 8m of water freediving at Lano
 

10kgs - gutted and gilled on certified scales. 

 thanks reece for saving my jigs ,you didnt have 2 ,under counter legend,duo cant beat them,even in very very strong winds,thanks once again legend,,no one stocking them why? great jigs none in stock in wa why?mad mad mad ,20 plus knots they still kill the pig in any depth,,,safety bay once again, learnt a fair bit about colours at certain times of day also,,,,you have great guy looking after your shop ryan,

 Went out for another charter on Sunday, got a good feed of golden snapper then got the Jew all in all a good day.

Pulled this beauty from 280 meters.

When the fish was spiked the blood ran through the eye, is this common?

Never seen this on other species.

Cheers

 Last week great weather conditions