Hi All

Just thought i would share a few pics from our recent trip to Coral Bay. Didnt take anywhere near as many pics as i should have done.

We got some pretty primo weather for the first 5 days of the trip with next to no wind and no swell but after that it blew up a bit.

We managed to get into some decent fish aswell while where there and avoided the sharks for most of it with only one spot being bad for them.

We trolled up a heap of Macks and probably caught about 25 between 3 of us in the few trips out in the boat aswell as Tuna and Trevally that where also hitting the bait balls.

Cobia seemed to be at most spots that we stopped to have a drop and we caught about 10  with a couple of horses in the mix. At the cleaning tables it looked like everyone was getting there fair share of them aswell.

On the last day we took the boat out we found a couple of nice patchs that we pulled Reds, Cod, Goldband, Spanglies and Robbos from. With the sharks getting there share on the way up. The only time we had a problem with them was this day.

Found a good beach spot aswell that produced Trevally and Quenies every day for some fun on light gear.

Cobia for my brother in law. Went 140cm. I got a bigger one the day before but was in a rush to get my line baqck in so no pic.

Our last day on the water. a Mad dash out early in the morning as the wind was due to pick up at lunch.

The young fella learning what colour is good.

Biggest queenie for the trip off the beach. My old girl caught it on 20lb.

Learnt the hard way about setting the drag properly. Ran it to loose and the first mack that hit it overspooled it and birdsnested and lost the lure. Not before i stupidly tried to thumb the spool.

Highlight of the trip for me was my 160cm cobia on jig on PE3.

Will definately be going back to Coral Bay.

Cheers Jayce

long story ,big white hanging around spence ,we had diff hanging around us ,,1.45mins 3,8 ks later,40lb mono ,with old bastards leader big fish ,fisheries taggers where there gave it to them after we ropped it ..day to remember

 G'day guys. 

Got out with Saltwater Charters yesterday for Craigo's first day off perth in 6 months. Helping out with some of the deckie duties for the day, it was an early start and with a few squalls coming through as we were launching put doubts in my head for the day. Anyway we pushed through and with everyone on board we managed to leave around 5:45 from Hillarys. We didn't find any fish in shallow and put it down to the high swell, so we pushed on to deepr water. 

We hit up the 80m mark for a looksee and before long, rods where doubled over and drags where screaming! Davo managed this nice pink on jig

Scotty called his first hookup for a sambo pretty early on

Then about 15 minutes later he played down his next hookup for a sambo and was quite impressed when this big fella popped up! 

I personally got a couple of hookups but pulled hooks a few too many times. sadface. 

We decided to leave the pinks alone and come in a bit shallower to find a dhubang or 6. A couple of drifts and the Craigo hooks up bigtime up the front on light gear - his daughters pink okuma rod to be exact! This fish took a Zman 7" Pearl Shadz.

As soon as the fish came over the side, I whacked on a McCarthy 7" Bullhead minnow in Baby Elf. First drop with it, didn't even need to give it a lift, wound up the slack and FISH ON! I quickly pulled the hook and was devistated, so I freespooled back to the bottom and BANG! the fish came back and this guy wasn't getting away anytime soon! Nice fight in 55m and up he pops 15m away from the boat. A PB for me, guessed on the boat at 8kg, but I am lead to beleive it is probably well over 10kg. Was a very fat fish. 

Two bonza dhubangs in about 5 minutes, Cheers and high fives going around the boat. 

Vlad saw the commotion and dropped a 7" Zman Shadz down and in the meantime of us cheering at the back, he quietly managed to bring this fella in, a respectable dhuie in anyones books! Perfect eating size!

Joey had been persisting with his Pirate jig all morning in between leaning over the side and emptying his guts, burlying up for us. Shortly after despatching my fish, we hooked up bigtime! One drift, 4 BIG hookups in 10 minutes! Top spot this one!. About 20 minutes later, and being reefed 4 times and managing to turn it's head, it popped up on the surface at least 30 meters away from the boat. A small tangle with another bloke was quickly taken care of and a huge cheer went around as it came closer, gaining in size again and again. Couldn't get the net in the water far enough to net it, so had to get on the marlin board to net him. Got him up with a heave onto the deck and he was even bigger than we thought. 

Weighed in at 19kg, and 105cm on the brag mat! a definite PB! Hugs and beers for all as we worked on the 4 dhuies on the deck spiking and bleeding haha. 

Huge! We now had a very healthy esky with some of WA's best! Numerous large blackass went in the esky aswell, and all we were missing for the magic 4 was a baldie. 

Next drift and I put down the same plastic and bang, hookup! Called it for a baldie quickly and shortly after I had a 44cm Baldie on the deck and in the esky! 

Richard decided he wanted a crack with a jig, so after getting a crash course in Pirate jigs from Joey, he was down and hooked up! looks to be a verrrry big fish again, but he put too much pressure on and It went POP!. 

By this time it was around 2pm, and the call was made to start the trek back to the marina. Sloppy conditions made it hard but we got there in the end! 

Final count was

6 Dhuies between 5kg and 19kg

6 Snapper between 4kg and 7kg 

3 blackass

1 44cm baldie

1 dirty stinkin' sambo! 

Some quality fish there and a bloody good first day on the water in over 6 months! 2 Weeks to go until the ban starts, so definitely hit up Craig on facebook and get out for some of the best fishing that Perth has to offer! 

 Had a epic 3 weeks in exy for my birthday!!! Got sum amazing fish an an had a can or 2 to keep hydrated 

We went out on the Diversity Blue water Adventures 38' black watch a few times an got in to sum cracking marlin with the biggest going about 300kg

found a few new bits of ruby ground while trolling for marlin. Dropped a supper deep jig with a esca on it. The jig didnt even hit the bottom An it was nailed! I got my PB ruby of 26.5kg then got 5 more about the 20kg mark. 

We had the usual problems with sharks in shallow but still for a couple past

 Hi all,

I am new to this site wasnt sure where a good spot to post my first introduction post, so this will do lol

Was fishing on the river last week as I had a day off work, and what a day it turned out to be! ended up with this big bad boy, I didnt know there was bream this big still in the river, it measured to 41cm :D I was so stoked with it

had a ball .with dans new worker(he lost shit loads) great fun I just went decky, no one else around even better .good old spot never fails calm water once you get there.left them on chew,grand daughter in 1 pick.nothing beats the little angel ,she is a cracker, smile of gold,dan fighting fish in first photo,while I was taking picture,

Hit the river mouth this morning flicking a few lures around hoping for a tailor or two. Started with waxwings, then soft plastics but no luck. Turned to my old fav, a big hard bodied minnow with no paint left and a long forgotten name. Lucky I had just refitted it with owner 4x rings and trebles as second cast it got a few more scars as this big mutha inhaled it. Gave the viper/branzino combo a good workout before boating it, snapping a pic and releasing..... Its waiting near the red marker bouy for the next fisho to come along.

Took cruggs1 and my dad out last night, great conditions on the water. Arrived at 5 schools everywhere, dropped a plastic while setting the anchor hooked one, bit through the leader. When the anchor set, dropped a bait and landed the first. Then the wind changed, fish dispersed and out came the burley. Got our bag and lost a few aswell. Good night out.

Decided to head up to cervantes for the weekend with a few of the boys.

Between 9 of us we picked up 71 tailor, biggest going 500mm & a big shark which was released and swam off strongly.

The weather turned this morning so decided to call it quits.

G'day

Weather was forecast to blow pretty hard yesterday, so we decided to hit the sound. 

Got the the ramp about lunch time, and while we were standing in the carpark the wind was whipping pretty fast. Spoke to one bloke, who was rinsing down his 6m glass boat, who told us 'don't bother boys, it's rough as guts out there and nobody has caught a thing". Lovely we thought, as we had a 4m tinny! We launched anyway, odd thing was we got out in the sound, and it was glorious, hardly any wind, and minimal chop.

Marked some fish pretty quickly, and had a few drops, fish just weren't feeding yet. So we booted it and got some squid, and came back to our marks at about 4pm and got the burley going. 

I hit the first Pinky, with this 67cm model falling prey to a lightly weighted herring fillet - 

Not the be outdone, my mate Clayton nailed a slightly smaller pinky, happy days! - 

The sun then set and it went off. We managed 7 fish between us, Clayton pipped me in the end with 4 and I got 3. Kept 4 for a feed and released the other 3. Fish ranged from 60cm - 90cm. The two biggest fish were released as we already had our bag. I also caught a 'short body' Pink snapper. Was a 55cm fish, but had a shortened spine, by the looks of the height and girth of the fish it should have been up around the 75cm mark if it wasn't deformed. Photos stink, iPhones don't like taking pics in the dark.

Clayton with another nice fish, I think this one was up around the high 80's.

and another.

'short body' pink snapper.

Cheers, 

Alex

after last weekends fishing efforts, 6 hrs for 1 butter fish from the rocks, i was a little disalusioned but with the nice weather today, a crap week at work and the gf suggesting a quick arvo fish i figured what could i lose.

had a look on google maps for a spot in the river close to home and grabbed some bait n was down by 430, an glad i did! was slow to start but with consistant smaller bites,no hookups, few hook changes flicking around trying to find the bigger fish till i caught this guy.

didnt measure him but roughly 20ish, on a strip if mulie. short bit of time with nothing more happening and in an effort to use up the bait threw on a whole prawn, barely a minute later and a fairly solid thump and the rod loaded up. a strong but nerve wracking fight later and i carefully landed my new pb.

36cm and fat 2 woulda been 5-6cms across, not big by some others standards but i was pretty stoked. got him on 8lb braid and had the drag up tight so he didnt pull much line but the weight of him made me nervous enough to wind it back once i new id made some gound n got him out of the snags. released him well and baited up again, got another good hit but no hooked then nothing for another 15 before i called it quits.

cheers for reading

Niko

Lots of these little fellas on the last trip to Bougainville, you've gotta love their determination to smash poppers.

Solid GT caught popping the reef at Mono Isle, West Bougainville.
Ripplefisher GT78, Stella 18K, PE8 and WCP 120.

Nice sailfish caught on a stickbait on a sea mount 25nm north west of Bougainville in June 2014.
Gear used was a Temple Reef 711, Stella 10K, PE5, and a Shimano Orca.

great fun. never tried, gave it a go..they piss on light tackle .lost a fair few ,caught some big ones..yak got towed a few times,43cm biggest one,

dan and myself gave it a crack.not huge fish but great flesh(clear) 620mm to 780mm long .

 Been chasing the usual winter fish like others off northen suburbs. These are few pics of ones I got.one Pinky 83cm 7.4kg gummys over metre other pinky and gummys never weighed. 

 Been getting a mate into fishing. Everytime he comes something happens. This time was his lucky night on an old dam reel butterworth rod and old 10kg mono. He landed this 1.25m 18-20kg mulla on his second bait for the night

Hi guys, i am new to the board, se photo of a recent run on tailer, trolling thru the canals at Mandurah

went with boys boss today.water very cold even in semi dry,seen heap of dead occy end off cephs , (occy) went for squid after I got warm

 Hi

i am new to fish wrecked. Here are some fish I have caught recently. They are-

Southern Bluefin Tuna 92cm on a stickbait

Mulloway 54cm on berkley bass minnow

Bream 40cm on Live bait

Barracouta 60cm on 2kg line and a 2" berkley worm

i fish around the warrnambool (Victoria) area mostly land based with lures, doing inshore and estuary fishing.

tim

Been going to Steep Pt for 28 years and still get a tad excited about the next trip. Same spot 28 yrs apart... (both unable to be released). Back there soon!

Had a beaut day yesterday with an early sesh on the back edge of the bank, with the burley doing its thing not long after anchoring.

First decent hookup felt like it got sharked snapping the mainline but then the pinkies came to the party with a couple around 70cms hitting the deck. Lots of sambos following hooked fish in and chasing the plastics to the boat. 60cm dhuie was also dispatched to the eski.

I had the pleasure of releasing my PB snapper of 89cms, great feeling and my day was made!

Lots of fish following the burley trail to the back of the boat, sambos and snapper.

With the quota reached early in the morning the pressure was off and the next chapter was to go have some fun jigging some sambos out wider. Good numbers of fish have moved in and the size not bad with me landing my PB of 1.3m est. around 30kg. Finally got to put a decent bend in my new rod a JM Fallings PE1.5-4, what an absolute beast of a rod.

Boated at least 15 fish then flew back to the ramp in that arvo glass off. Great day out with the fish biting hard in some great weather with good company with a tasty bag to take home!

Beau.

 took the new suzuki for a solo run out of mindarie today and had my arms stretched by this little bloke, cobia went 1.40m at 20.4kg on soft plastic, dhuie was 56cm. was a great way to brake in the new combo gomoku kaiten stradic fj 4000 15lb ygk braid and rediculously impressed with the new suzi more then halved the fuel bill 

Awesome day off bunbury yesterday found two schools of dhuies one at 19nm and one at 9nm on the way home, took a pigeon pair home 13 kilo gutted and released another eight

 My brother and i just spent another couple of weeks at steep point and had one of our best trips yet with so many fish caught using so many methods. was booked for 13 days but after reaching our possesion limit of fish on day 8 we decided to call it quits and come home with both of us satisfied with what we had acheived.

had a bit of an incedent on the drive up as we pulled into overlander at 11:30pm after drivnig from Albany we had a wheel come off the car and shear all the wheel studs somehow so after 2 hours on the side of the road we patched the car up good enough to drive it and hobbled back to geraldton at 70km/h. got back to gero at 5am and got an hours sleep in the car till the shops opened then got some parts and fixed it in the carpark and a new rim and we where on our way again with the patrol looking a little battered but not effected.

straight away when we got there the sharks where a huge problem and so many lures and decent fish fell victim to the toothy critters. hooked lots of spanish but just bad luck with pulled hooks or sharked so we only mannaged 2 landed but Aron's was a good fish around 14kg. funny story behind that spanish because i was diving the cliffs infront of him when he hooked up so he fought the fish in and i had to chase it around and grab it in the water and fight the sharks off while he got the cliff gaff so he could get it up.

another new thing we did this trip was a lot of shore jigging with great success, just about everything can be caught on a jig and we caught most of the common species up there on them at some stage. we also had a new 28ft long gaff to test out with a large net attachment on it to be able to net fish from the main cliffs and making lighter gear and catch and release a possiblity off the cliffs. 

some of the more memorable fish and moments of the trip include. little sailfish going mental before pulling hooks on balloon, pinkys landbased on jigs, big mulloway after dark off the cliffs, the number of pinkys after dark and the size of them, Aron's spanish on ballon, my first GT at around 4-5kg on plastic from the cliffs, shark macks on 1-2kg rods and super light gear and the rest im sure the pictures can explain well enough.

bit of a tally of what we caught, 1 mulloway, 20 big tailor, 30+ pinkys, 2 spangos, 7 baldies, 2 spanish, 20 gold spot trevs, 20 golden trevs, 30+ shark macks, heaps of various reef fish and sharks on top of all the other odd bits and pieces.

another awesome trip and i cant wait to get back there again.

not the biggest 14 kilo. but I was happy .got it on my new rod

had a great day ,20,6 and a 14 kg buck.nice pink and black bum.my luke went out with mate ,baldie 2 dhues flatty and black bum ,,slow start around lunch fired big time,,congrats to peter on his pb,,,

 Last few trips north with the straight hook.