Hey guys been reading the fishwrecked forum for a while now so decided to join up I've got a lot of usefull tips and information from the site,thanks so I thought I'd put a pic up of the crabs me and a mate got today.

 My brother is visiting from the UK, his fifth trip here but only his second barra trip and he was taken out fishing the Ord by legendary Kununurra local Dick P.

He only managed a single fish......but what a fish measuring 127 cm ......I wonder how many serious barra fishermen would give their eye teeth to hook into such a stunning fish

UPDATE ON NEW RAMP

From the Council News letter,

Illyarrie Street, Leeman Boat Ramp update.

All that is left to do is some line marking, which is planned for the week of 24  November, nd then the site willbe cleaned and cleared of debris.  Signs are also due to go upshortley.

Visitors and boating enthusiasts alike are welcome to the site which will be "open for business," from Saturday 29th November, 2014.  A offical opening is planned for Friday 12 December 2014 which will allow the two major funding agencies  (Dept of Transport and Regional Development) the chance to see how their money was spent.

Just took these photos today, enjoy southerly was in but not strong. Cleaning fishbay in front of tiolets, plenty of lighting for night time,   Council big wigs where their when I wastak the photos.strong

Hi all,

Looks like the new boat ramp is reading to go, when the opening ceremony is I don't know.  Will upload photos soon.  Looks a bit steep, especially reversing down to launch boat but time will tell.

I think the run has started...

found a new spot on Saturday. I'm goin to call it "the supermarket". ended up throwing well over a dozen fully legal crays back. returned to the ramp at 8.45am. lovin the options the dinghy is giving me. probably used around 12 litres of fuel in total:)

Jumped on board Tim-o's crusher with Geoff78 yesterday chasing some yellow gold after Geoff had great success during the week. Started off really blowy so stayed in fairly close for the first half of the morning trolling and throwing stickbaits at schools of bonito, Pacific Ocean tuna poling style!

With bait sorted for Geoffs upcoming Kalbarri trip and a few of my shark fisho mates, and the wind slowly easing we headed out to Geoffs little pot of gold spot that had turned on for him during the week. Just as we threw the lures out I noticed 20 odd birds swooping the water about another mile further so cranked the lures back in and headed out to investigate. The birds dispersed on arrival but things looked promising so out went the lures again.

Mustve been about 5mins when my rod buckled over and drag screaming, the rod bouncing heavily in the holder, this was no bonnie! After a sizzling first run I started gaining line then spotted the gold nugget under the boat in crystal clear deep blue water, a sight I definitley wont forget in a hurry. Stoked with my very first yellowfin, yahoos and high fives all round.

Out went the lures again with Geoff and Tim on strike with me on bird spotting and fish tailing duties(ha ha). Another little bust up and some free jumping tuna a couple hundred metres away we dragged the lures towards them. The deep diver smacked first then Tims shallower lure was eaten. Unfortunately Tim pulled the hooks and Geoff landing his, similar size to the first fish. Threw the lures back in and a double hook-up but dropping both fish and that was the last we saw of the tuna for the day. Headed down to the Peel today for some more yellowfin action and it didnt dissapoint, with a handful of 30cm+ whiting, biggest going 35cm, and plenty of sub 30cm fish to keep us busy.

Feeling absolutely wrecked after 2 big days in the sun, the boss can expect a call in the morning, I think I need a day to recover! Big thanks to Tim and Geoff, learnt a lot of new things for something I had never really done before, cant wait to do it again wink wink Tim. Gonna be big summer for you mate. Cheers,

Beau

 Hi Guys

Just returned from a trip to the Ranfurly Banks in new Zealand.. Same trip as memeber Chris Fish. Solid trip with a bunch of good guys

Like Chris' post says, the fishing was unreal. ill let the pictures do the talking.

ONE DRIFT  ^^^^^^

 after 24 years in WA i finally escaped and ventured off to the land of the long white cloud with a bunch of keen fishos abourd Enchanter charters for their first trip of the season to Ranfurly banks.

ill just put my photos up as im not sure what the others are doing but bit of a run down on the trip, we had both boats Cova Rose and Enchanter and Aussies on Enchanter and the Kiwis on Cova. We where on a 5 day trip that we got 4 days that where fishable, well basicaly we smashed the Kiwis with all 7 of us boating a fish over 30 on jig and a fish over 20 on surface. biggest fish for the trip went 37kg Kingy, 38kg Puka some nice snapper and my freak dory from 180m on an 800g jig. each day we would of landed 100 fish from 5-30kg between us and had some absolute smokings by monsters. the surface action on the last day was awesome!! something truly amazing about watching packs of 20kg kingys chasing down your lure before eating it and pull againt full drag like its nothing!! ive never fished such heavy drags or caught fish that pound for pound pull as hard as they do!!

my best fish of the trip was a 33kg kingy on jig, 15kg puka from 140m and 23kg king on surface. i got about 15-20 fish over 20kg myself and 2 over 30. such hard work and the most physically demanding fishing i have done but one of the best experiences ive had

gear i used was a JM tornado M pe4-8 with a pe6 JM reel spooled with varivas 10x10 jigging pe5 line and 170lb shock leader, swage GT82 with a 5500 Expo spooled with varivas max power casting pe6 and 100lb shock leader with a tailwalk gunz stickbait doing all the damage on the surface fish for me.

 havent been on here for a while and i have a fair few reports to put up soon including a recent trip to NZ chasing Kingys at ranfurly banks

ill start with this sambo because i still cant wipe the smile off my face at what i achieved yesterday arvo back at home in albany!!

was fishing a common rock spot just out of town for sambos or kings and after trying to get a lively to slide out and not being able to i rigged up the light setup while i left the 2 80lb setups out without baits ready to. anyway first cast with the light gear (300m of 20lb braid on a 4000 catalina and majorcraft KG Evo 962HH rod) bait hit the bottom and tap tap BOOM!!! i was on in a big way, huge headshakes had me calling it for a very big sambo before 100m of line dissapeared in a flash, felt the line touch reef so i backed off as this beast pulled the other 200m of line through the reef and out goes the backing knot, with about 20m left it finnaly stopped and i had to gently fight the fish on 6kg mono with the line still rubbing on the reef, 40 minutes and a tense 200m later the line came free of the reef but it was chaffed all along it so i had to go very easy on it, another 10 minutes and this huge silver shine rose from the depths and broke the surface!!! MONSTER SAMBO!!!! as i was fishing on the ledge on my own it took another 20 minutes to cliff gaff it and when i tried to pull it up with the rope gaff i finally understood how big this fish actually was, draggged it up the top and my friend took some photos for me but as i had to rope down a face to the ledge she stayed up the top and watched it all.

this is a fish of a lifetime for me and im still shocked how i managed to pull this off!! not going to put up a weight but its 160cm long and 144cm fork and the biggest sambo ive ever seen in person. still cant wipe the smile off my face!!

 Went for a fish in the Bunbury estuary today with a mate chasing yellowfin on surface lures, started pretty slow but ended up with some nice fish

 33kg blue grouper and a few Abs down south.

Had a bit of fun yesterday with the salmon and some big tailor that are schooling with them. Got bitten off using whole herring 4 times, some brute greenbacks swimming around. Younger brother managed to stay connected to a nice one.

PS. Sorry Browndog, I know I promised a tailor/salmon session but it was a late minute decision to stay in close as the wind was playing silly buggers.

 Hi there folks!

After an amazing trip last year, i just couldn't resist a return trip to Exxy this year. Two of us made the mammoth journey from the UK this time, and once again it was well worth it. Our plan was to fish on lures for queenies, and bonefish (plus whatever else came along) on flies. In addition, we had a day booked with Brett of True Blue Bonefish.

To kick things off, we started with spending the days lure fishing and the nights after sharks. 

x

Only a nurse shark, but it was a first night fish!

Big 'cuda

First lemon shark of the trip

A few days in was our trip with Brett. The weather was wrong for bones, so we fished the gulf for whatever came along! Sadly our fly casting was useless, but becuase Brett is such an amazing guide, we both caught loads of trevally and queenies. A great day with a brilliant guide.

After a great day with Brett, we continued to explore behind the reef, and eventually found some bonefish! We only had spin gear that day, but planned a return 2 days later. 

But it wasn't to be! As you well know, Exmouth had a spot of rain, and for 2 days we had to hide and drink beer! fishing was out of the question. When roads eventually started to open, the national park was closed, so bonefish were out of the question. 

It wasn't just the roads that suffered. Because of the rain, the normally turquoise sea turned this colour!

So a change of plan was in order. We spent the rest of our time driving round trying to find clear water. It was tough, but we did catch a few fish! As it was hard, we tried some bait fishing, and caught a few school macks on balloons, and loads of spanglies on whatever we threw at them! And boy do they taste good! I won't bore you with too many words, but here's a few snaps of what we caught. I've fished a few spots around the world, and Exmouth is easily my favourite. What an amazing place. I'll be back!

Ok well first cast and salmon put the mullie on salted myself as well cast the line out reeled in the slack and bang it was on and landed
50 lb crank big bait rod and daiwa emcast 6000 reel 50lb braid and 60lb leader on 3 x snelled hooks was a bloody awesome fight                                                                                                                                            and it jumped out of the water a few times right time right place must of cast right on its nose size 5 to 6 kg

Caught at challenger beach

Hi guys,  is there such a thing as 30 - 40cm sand whiting in Perth

PB Ray was a bit of a challenge making sure he stayed away from moorings but was good fun, First fish caught on overhead gear cheers to flangies for the triton so far hasn't missed a beat,  handled it beyond expectations.  It fought a bit harder than the average squid or herring haha. And yes he was released waited for him to cruise off before calling it as a successful release.

If the pictures are a bit too big I'll sort them out soon.

 Just a couple of fish from my last trip to DHI.

Hey Fellas thought I'd throw a couple more of the shots from my mates fish that I snapped,

was in the paper last friday so thought it might be a good start as a first post hahah.

So far we have had a cracking year so far and we are both super keen to try our luck at summertime macks this year fingers crossed!

Here's some of the land based and (mostly) boat based that we've had since January than we have managed to get on camera

Im the pretty on on the LEFT, mates younger brother.

and alot of these after finding the sweet spot and weather combo

 And finally my mates favourite catch of all time, he even manages to microjig em which is just hilarious!

Cheers!

Went out with Heath the other day from Cockburn, just past five fathom bank. Good conditions, caught a few fish. Drifted off a lump, Heath says lets go around again. Hang on a second, Im getting a couple of (small) nibbles. Anyway, start to wind up my line and about 10 seconds later something goes BANG and im on. Something has hit me on the way up I say to Heath, calling it for a sambo. Few big runs, maybe its a big pinkie. Anyway bring it up to the boat, and blow me down its a Dhufish. Got it in, and it had taken the bottom hook rigged for kgs. 2 snelled 1/0 mustad hoodlums, with a tiny strip of skinned occy. Couldn't believe it!

Went 12kg fat as and 90cm. My best dhufish so far... Stoked!

Snapper i got about a month ago...

Snapper i got around a month ago....

A few trout I got from rivers around the South-West this year...

 3 trips this week so far for 3 dhuies. Biggest going 15.7kg caught on an FCL LABO sfs200g

 Took the newly purchased Barra boat over to west end on sat to test her out as I'm migrating to Darwin in dec...... She went great and the fishing wasn't too bad either

 The lads from work have been nagging me to take them out so I decided to get them onto some Amberjacks. Unfortunately they weren't huge but everyone still enjoyed themselves and got a feed.

Caught these guys whilst cubing for Snapper at Garden Island in 12m.

Was fun indeedy.

Inspired by talkin to Mick C tonight, I just spent f#@kin ages typin up a story and my phone went flat, so you aint gettin shit now lol. Short story, I cant catch pinkies coz Im crap, failed on many occasions solo, failed with Rosie a number of times, failed with Mick, albeit I was fishin placcys and jigs, failed with Beau, I got bad JUJU according to Bobo, all of which have 'got me closer' mind you, so took a confident Geoff78 last night to my 'little' spot and it worked, bloody stoked to get the monkey off the back, although it woulda been better if I got my second (gettin greedy now  hah) but we called it a night (I know, someone has named it night already) and Geoff got crook at the end anyhow from something, (Im glad I didnt try any of his scotch and coffee....) thanks for not gettin any chunder on the boat mate. Although, I did delay cleaning up as much as possible with a fresh tailor slab drifty out haha, I am not complaining. Family had a good feed tonight off one side, as good as dhu I reckon. Good to meet another fellow fishwrecker, onya Geoff. Sorry for shit phone pics, forgot me camera and the pics were taken after being spiked so dorsal is down etc...

had a great day ,today just me and luke ,caught fair few dhues, which all went back bar 2,couldnt catch any other fish bar seargent bakers and dhues,great morn happy with 2 fish .come in,,lukes fish needs 4 plus kilo to get in 20 club yet,but slowly getting there,great weather plenty of whales around,,

Went down to harvey, camped at logue brook on the friday night, mate got the rainbow on friday night . Fished harvey dam all day, some good fish about even managed  my first  trout being good sized brown, gonna be a PB for a long time!

Fair to say im pretty stoked!

Me Mate Dions, 37cm Rainbow trout taken at logue brook dam!

53cm golden goodness! Taken out on a goldy coloured vibe!

I was a work and got a very bad pick of ocean,(put me in bad mood straight away).luke headed out from rocko they done well ,andy headed out with peter from Mandurah,they also done well,andy got cracker k,g ,both boats done very well,both all over red rover by 10.30 am,pic off my new shirt (27 years old 2 days ago) add another 20 and close, few other pics from few days ago,hope you enjoy,,just goes to show from my luke today you don't need big boat ,he is doing very well in a 14 footer,