G'day all, finally something to brag about: My first Mulla! Forgive the long ass story but i'm still pretty stoked...

A little background- last year we went up to Dongara at easter, and while walking out the groyne casting metals in the hope of Tailor, came across a bunch of blokes with not one, not two, but 3 nice Mullas. We (me n missus) were originally going to go to Pemberton and get some Redfin over Anzac long weekend, but my old boy had just been down and said it was pretty cold, drizzling most of the time and caught no Reddies (but lots of small trout). So we decided to head a bit north in hope of warmer weather.

Got there about midday Friday,  had a flick around the jetty and my missus got a yellotail, which i kept for bait. High tide was around 7.15 and alamanac said bite time was about 7.50- looked pretty good to me.

Headed down the groyne (with the single yellowtail) at about 4ish and out to the spot, where the same bunch of blokes (im 99% sure) from last year were already fishing. There was 2 or 3 of them at their spot and their mate was 30 odd metres away at the tip of the groyne, so we set up roughly in between. Put the yellowtail on a 2 hook snell and chucked it out, then began flicking small metals hoping for a herring or tailor.

Nothing happened for about an hour, until I landed a small Snook, which i swapped for the yellowtail and chucked out live. The yellowtail had been half eaten by shitpickers by now (eyes and guts all gone). After another hour or so, got a short, fast run, but was dropped. Checked the snook, he had been a bit mangled, one hook had ripped out and with it a chunk of flesh. Oh well, hadn't caught any more livies so hooked him up again and cast out. 

Nothing happened for the next hour or two. To her credit, my missus hadn't whinged all night (lovely weather), but she started to suggest that tonight wasn't the night, maybe we should go home- "just half an hour more, it's nearly bite time" I sad. Settled in, and almost bang on bite time, the rod went off. By the time I picked it up the line had gone slack. Bugger! Started winding in and felt weight, gave it a bit of a tug and it took off again. Yes! Head shakes. Yes again! Adrenalin started pumping, I realised my arms and legs were shaking. I called out to the other blokes and asked if they wouldn't mind manning the gaff as my missus wasn't very confident (I wouldn't be either!).

After about 5 minutes, a slab of silver popped up on the surface. A few more short runs and he was spent, I manouvered him in close and the other bloke gaffed him expertly in the head and hauled ihm up on the rocks. My first big Mulla! F@#$ Yer!

Just had a few weeks off work.

Managed to get out in the boat once down in Dunsborough. Was a really uncomfortable day on the water with a 1.5m swell going strait up and down and about a 15kn north easter. We still managed to do alright and got some decent fish. Thanks to Lamby for the help.

Managed to get the new boat record for a dhu aswell.

My brother in law caught this one. Not bad for his first jigged fish. Using JM Sabre Game with a diawa catalina 4000  with PE3.

Jig was a cheap nasty williamson vortex speed jig in 150gr

Fish went bang on 1m and weighed 16kg

Few other fish from the day. There was a pinky and a couple nannies aswell but not in the pic.

We also headed off down to Albany for the easter break. And over the 4 days fishing managed about 60 salmon all taken on lures. With the 40gr halco twistie in silver and the big white richter plugs being the clear winners.

Hooked up on Shelley Beach.

My 2 year old son watching on in anticipation.

The result. This was in the first 5 mins of fishing on the first day.

Even the missus got in on the action.

All my fish where taken on the Halco Twistie Using a Shimano Snapper Raider 762 with a Shimano Stradic Ci4 with 14lb braid. Just to keep it interesting.

We fished Shelley Beach, Dingos Beach and Bettys Bay all in Albany.

Cheers Jayce

 A few fish from metro waters ya dont need a big flash boat to catch good fish all caught in under 30mt of waterno

 A few fish from metro waters ya dont need a big flash boat to catch good fish all caught in under 30mt of waterno

Hi all,

Couldn't believe how many boats were out yesterday Saturday 26.04.14. Think pretty close to over 40 boats.  Hope they all had a brilliant day out fishing.

Bet everybody will sigh a sigh of relief when the new fixed jetty is up and running.  I hope they put ladders at the end of the jetty, for those that find it hard to climb up on low tide.

With winds being predicted to be a very mild south all day, I thought I would finally be able to tick an important item off my bucket list, help someone with a mental impairment catch a truly special fish.

A good friend of mine, Corky Thatcher, unfortunately obtained ceilingfixertosis in 1995, and ever since has had trouble comprehending everyday items, learning, and lifes general duties, and since the government doesn't recognize this impairment as an actual disability, he's had minimal support, except from his friends and family.

We launched in the dark hours of morning for a sloppy ride 16 miles out in the tinny to an area I know holds good dhu, and after a slow start on a few rat sambos and just undersize pinkies, came across a slight change in ground conditions. I looked at the sounder and said there's a few arches just above the change, when Corky's rod buckled over in defiance...

He recently spent some of his telethon money (thanks channel 7) on a nice pe2 light jigger and his 4000 twin power was singing with what I first thought was another, bigger, sambo, before a bullshit power run straight down had me second guessing it was a decent shark. He stopped it just before it bricked him, and turned him back up slow and steady to the surface for a few more minutes, with a look on his face that could only be likened to that of "the chunk" from the goonies. a few bubbles popping up had me realizing it was no shark. When it finally broke the surface, and no gaff on board, I put both my hands down its gills, and heaved the big dhu over the side.

The look on Corky's face reminded me of simple jack. he was more excited than the rainman, and sean penn in milk combined. gilbert grape had nothing on this guy right now, and he had me thanking my lucky stars I was lucky enough to have such a special friend.

we fished only for another half hour, but with our esky looking pretty damn fine with a donkey dhu, 84cm pinky (mine), red throat emp and another just-legal dhu, we called it quits and steamed back to the ramp.

although some of the photos don't really do it justice, it was a whopper. it came in at a sturdy 18.1kgs, exactly 100cm, weighed at home.

a really special fish, for a really special kid. onya corky.

Dad and I planned to do a bit of a bottom bash on thursday, conditions were nice but the fish didnt seem to be feeding, had a few drifts on a couple of old spots for nil.

Another boat decided to drop in on our drift (10 feet away), they were there when we got there but we kept a good distance and fished a few other spots in the area.

Bit annoyed motored away from them, saw a couple of birds flying around and thought i saw 2 diving so decided to chuck a lure out.

2 minutes in the water and had a hookup, in comes a nice salmon around 5kg, not bad we thought , so out the lure went again.

Another 2 minutes later reel screams, this was no salmon... around 300m gone in around 5 seconds.

Came in then played tug of war under the boat, whatever it was it was big and wasnt coming up in a hurry.

Arms were getting a bit sore so handed rod over to dad for a go, around half an hour of fighting and we finally get a glimpse, BIG TUNA!!

Got it to the surface it went ballistic and took off down under the boat for another half hour.

Finally got it up again and sunk the gaff in solid, tail roped it and heaved it aboard, words cannot describe how we were feeling.. 40+kg of solid yellowfin tuna in the boat.

Bled and gutted and on ice, had a couple more drops (wern't game enough to put the lure back out) for nil and headed back to the ramp.

Pictures dont really do it justice, measured 135-140cm with a massive girth.

Just a quick couple of piks from thismorning on the yaks , great morning out fantastic conditions no wind and tonnes of snapper to boot .
pinks were all inbetween 65 and 68 bagged out in under 15 mins

 You might have seen a few of these pictures in other post but I tought I would group them together , all fish were caught Assassin rods.

All the fish except the bonnies were released.

 Just thought I would share my joy! 

First day out on Cockburn Sound, caught heaps of Skippy, Wrasse, a nice size Fiddler and then a change of spot. 5 undersize snapper and then a nice one. Very stoked.

Hey guys just got back from an epic Abrolhos adventure with Saltwater Charters. Been looking forward to this trip since mid-last year after penciling it in with the skipper Craig.
Wouldnt believe it but one of the guys pulled out a couple days before the trip so Marko(hoookt) decided to join us a day before the big dance. Thanks for helping me out on such short notice mate!
Craig and Omar put us onto some seriously good fishing and really catered to the type of fishing we were into, stickbaiting and jigging. When there were bust-ups Craig would position the boat and drift so we could cast at fish instead of throwing lures out the back and trolling around.
Many firsts caught and PB's smashed and some very unsual fish caught considering the circumstances.
My most memorable moment was on the first day rocking up at a shoal inside the Abrolhos, with birds and bust-ups all over the place. The next couple hours was a blur but we were nailing spaniards, sharkies, yellowfin tuna, yellowtail kings on stickbaits while the jiggers were catching sambos, amberjack, yellowtail kings and snapper. Everyone was buggered by 11am!
Anyway here is a handful from the photos I have...

Starting from Friday night after steaming out of Gero port in the late arvo, the aim was to catch a couple dhuies or snapper for dinner...

We tagged and released quite a few that didnt make it to the bbq plate.

Surprise mack.

Rolling out of the swags in the morning and nailing a couple honkey heads before steaming off towards the islands.

Crazy stickbaiting on the shoals..

Catch of the session went to Filthy Phil with this insane King on surface!

Plenty of seriola to keep the jiggers happy.

My brother did well micro jigging with the noodle stick and 15lb gear..

This seriola turned into something grey with sharp teeth..

One for the pool room..

Now back to filling the freezer..

Bully scored this pair on a snell rig while we were up the front casting for trout in 1ft of water!

Another one for Cody on the 15lb gear

My PB dhu

Drifting in 3-4m of water casting stickbaits over coral. I got smashed by this trout that burried me, eventually pulling it out, the mackie trace saving me. While I was at the back dealing with the fish the other 3 casters hooked up simultaneously. Crazy pinkies on stickbaits!

Marko rolled out of bed and fell on this baldie!

Not long after, Ben rigged up his new stickbait for the days antics, cast it out to see how it swam, as it darted off the 2ft coral shoal behind the boat, BOOOM! The boat still tied up on the mooring!

Night anitcs at anchor.
Smashed by stupidly large sharks. Ran out of balloons to float baits out and a few eyebrows were raised, especially by the crew, when one of the boys whipped out a roll of condoms. Still did the job. Lubey lips though. The Saltwater game chair got a good work out. Was a messy night on deck and a few sorry heads in the morning!

I ended up having a go towards the end of the night, using a Saltiga 5000 on pe6 jig rod, floating out a portion of mackie frame on a giant hook and single strand wire, floated out under a Ansell size Regular condom. While I was rolling out my sleeping bag the drag took off so I ran over and set the hook about 15 times next thing I know the shark is swimming towards us before a 74 cm dhuie pops up on the end of the line haha! What a way to crack your PB dhu! Still chasing up photos of that one!

Kill shots!

Day 1

Some random photos..

Saying Hi to the boys on BlueJuice Charters

Seriously cant thank Craig and Omar from Saltwater Charters enough for a truly insane experience. All the boys are frothing to do it again next year and some of us are even talking about booking 2 trips for the season. I wouldnt go up there with anyone else to be honest!
Realy hoping the server doesnt explode uploading this because its taken me an hour and a half and I wont be doing it again!

Cheers,
Beau.

 Caught this baby today. Some websites say they grow to 30cm. This Butterfly Gurnard is 42cm. Lovely fish. 

knocked the fillets off and cooked the head / wings for afternoon tea today in the bbq.

50 minutes in foil with dried chilli flakes and lemon pepper.

i'ld hooked up the boat the night before , Finished night shift Monday morning picked up my brother who's down for easter and launched within half an hour of knocking off an hour later first drop

did a few drifts for one run but dropped it ,headed out a few Nm to another spot with a few drops on shows on the way out for nothing

not long after the drift came to a stop and found was only getting bites when the bigger sets of swell were coming through so started manually bouncing our baits for  2 shovel nose , a knife jaw (thanks Milsey) and at last a dhuie , things went quiet and getting towards high tide decided to head in to the first spot we hit to ancor and burley as it wasn't happening , not long after pulled up an under size dhuie , then dropped one that felt like a better model on the way up .

things went quiet again so decided to float down a mulie and my brother did the same , after the second rebait he's goes off , i look up and my brothers oblivious to the fact the lines not on the spool ( alvey side cast ) after a bit of shouting from me he gets it back on , he then says oh by the way i'll need the gaff as i've only used the 50lb low stretch of my overhead as leader and a gang , at this stage i'm thinking we'll be lucky to see colour and questioning my brothers intelligence but after a 10-15 minute fight this pinky pops to the surface and see the top hook almost straight but the fish was almost floating on it's side knackered and suffering a bit of barotrauma so was easy to gaff luckily

he's next drop with the floating mulie accounted for a rat sambo and not long after the breeze had picked right up so decided to call it a day .

one stoked brother with he's PB pinky

Hope all you FW'ers are havinga great Easter, fishing etc.

The Indian Ocen Drive (IOD) has been so busy for the last 5days, sounds like the Freeway hahahah Jurien Bay was a mad house when I went shopping.

Got up this morning at 6.00am and you guessed it, the traffic hasn't stopped since I got up.

Be careful driving people as their was a bad accident (think it was Wednesday morning) on IOD a caravan and car roll over.  Wondered why thePolice carwas speeding down IOD with lights blazing and siren on.

Into the pan.  Got this fella tonight hood was around 22-24cm,  was a nice way to start squidding again after awhile and tasted bloody lovelyyyy

 Been bottom bouncing in 35-40m with my 6lb bream/whiting outfit lately 2500 stradic 6lb nano braid on a 1-3kg shimano ifish bream 702 rod incredible fun this the best dhuy so far at 64cm 

Have also nailed 55cm skippy, 62cm kg , 50cm sambo and a 49cm breaksea and a huge norwester that snapped the hook at the boat 

 There still out there, 45 cm tarwhine 

 Another perfect weather day, made the most of it, just a shame the brother in law cant count haha 24 crays recounted as 22, ohh well...

Taken about a month ago, the poles are in, the car park will be gravel but don't know if it will be floating jetties or fixed.

Not very good photos as was in car but its coming along fine.

 Headed out yesterday to jig some lumps that I found out around the 40-50m mark when the missus said "theres a stick following the boat". Out went a Soft Oscar in black/purple and within minutes this sail jump on.

 Magic weather with good vis, had 4 dives and bagged out, damn queenie the only downside, got off the straight hook whilst trying to pull it from a cave. Let loads of big females go, cray numbers are looking real good for the future. See if this weather holds out and back into it tomorrow.

dans fish went 19.5 kilo. .i got great video of it. big baldie ,black ass every drop.found school of pinks in very close to point peron (on surface) i kept 1 for my oldies,great mid morn run,

Went out on Tuesday, was a great day on the water with plenty of fish caught and to top it off got my PB Dhu. He took a pink McCarthy soft plastic on an elevator jig head. Not quite in the league of some of the big Dhus that have been posted on here lately but sure brought a smile to my face when he surfaced next to the boat.

I don't normally fish plastics but since I couldn't get any interest in jigs (bait was winning the day big time) I sent down the pink McCarthy bullhead minnow on an elevator jig head and things turned around immediately. The placcy got hit first drop, up comes a 58cm dhu, swam away strongly after release. Second drop and this time the placcy got smashed hard after a couple of twitches, this time it was a Sambo just over 90cm. Third drop and the plastic gets smashed again! Turned out to be third time lucky as after a good fight up came this Dhu. Happy Days!

Well I've heard and read all the hype about soft plastics so I thought I'd better give it a go. Did some research and checked you tube so figured I could manage it. Headed out on Wednesday morning to the West side of 5 fathom. Put on a 6.5" Gulp Nemesis White Glow on a 1/2 oz lead head and cast it out. Would you believe it, first cast and I'm on to my PB Snapper. What a great start. Ended up being the only I landed as I lost 3 others. 1 snapped off and the other 2 were due to my poor knots. ( I need to practice). Still, a great morning. I'm now hooked on plastics. I was fished scaleys and squid but neither of these were touched.

 Had a great day on Saturday bagged out on a couple of 15kg Dhuies ajnd home to watch the Eagles win.

 Went out friday with Craig in search of a dhuey or two....

Came back with a full bag, 2 Dhus, 1 Baldy and 1 Breaksea and mixture of Skippy and King George 45-55cm. 

Highlight of the day, was this horse of a Dhu that weighed in at 16.5kg (guts spat) and just over 1m long. We also dropped another on same drop because too busy trying to video this capture. 

.......so for your viewing pleasure at the cost of losing another big buck, see link below:

http://youtu.be/gV1uwQTUQJI

 Went for a quick squid run with John and Dan, looks like it will be a good season.

cooked a couple up rest for Dhu bait.

cant wait for the calamari classic.

 Went out to the fads yesterday landed my first dollie and had a awesome day about  9 fish hooked in half and hour all on the troll. Keen to head out again next weekend  and give it ago with some ridiculously light gear 

 Spaniard was caught 1st of feb but didn't want to post because the jetty is crowded enough when the Macy's are around.