A couple of the nice  bream and bycatch iv scorred in the past month or 2  cheers guyss more to come ..

 After covering over 100km in the boat yesterday, checks 3 spots with no fish htting the esky (2 fads are missing too) this guy was a pleasant suprise and welcome addition to the esky. Freediving Rotto, in around 4-5m of water. 

After constant nagging from my girlfriend an her mates I finally got them out for a fish. I think I should have been on to this years ago!! No only do they catch fish! They pull the sea anchor an keep my beer full at all times! the view inst to bed either..

One of the girls got a pic in the paper an won a few lures for our next outing

 has any one been fishing at south perth yacht club

Good mate Steve enjoys fishing out in the super deep and does well. We were talking recently and he said " I want to get a big bass groper Ryan " 
No worries I have a few cheeky spots that hold fish ie 30-40kg Bass Groper so lets go when the weathers suitable. Steve mentioned he was going away for work and Friday (31/1/14) was ther only day! 

I said the weather is very average but Steve owns a 53ft (Nebraska Charters) and he said common mate let's do it ....... mmhhhhh ok!!!

We threw ropes early ie 4am and off we went, we pulled a few fish from Steve's spots ie greyband etc but Steve was keen to hunt for a bass! 

By now the wind was up (even more) and I said we'll go to this spot and give it a go ...... searching searching searching and nothing! 

I said I've got another spot near by and its a bass lump with hard limestone and a hidey hole for a biggen! 

A quick steam and we were back to searching ....... the Furuno sounder looked the goods and I said that's gotta produce ...... Steve drops and within a short time of the baits being on the bottom Steve was on! 

After about a 45 plus minute fight (maybe longer) a massive spa bath of bubbles was hitting the surface about 40 meters out from the boat and one very very big bass groper on the surface! 

We gaffed it and it took every bit of help to get it over the gunnel. I said to Steve that's bigger than the State record which was 46kg on my boat by kasey back in 2009! 

We got it to my home and weight it on very accurate scales( ie the one I used with Kasey State record fish) and it read 52.57 but after 3 times it fluctuated by a kilo but close enough! 

Steve went into MAAC club after leaving my house and they weighed it on Certified scales and went 52.50kg and a pending new State record and Australian record as the Australian record is 49kg in NSW 2004! 

Despite the conditions being very average Steve's boat eats up the conditions and very stable. Congrats to Steve on the trophy Bass Groper and happy to help mate. Steve is getting it taxidermy and the fish going to Fisheries Research after that . It was a great day with yourself and Corey (the human fish scale ha ha)

Cheers

 Steve 52.50kg Bass Groper

Corey (the human fish scale ha ha)

 what is a good lure for bream that sinks 

 Hi there everyone,

i have been lurking around FW for a while and much enjoyed reading and seeing what all you fishers get up to...so thanks for a great site.

i finally have something to post from a couple of outings. The blueys are from the Swan a couple of weeks ago and marron from a private dam late last year.

I thought I would share with you all,I have been wanting to catch a bream around the 40+ this year as its been a while.So I hit a spot that holds up a few over the years for me which has paid off,I went Monday and managed a 39cm was pretty happy with that, The next day I hit the same spot managed a 40cm I was thrilled with my effort.Fish were caught on bait light gear and all released for someone else to enjoy the thrill of hooking a monstrous bream.

Thanks for reading.

 no good for fish just got some more bait instead.only got 11 good fun

Hey guys,

Here's a quick snippet from the long weekend. 
All sorts were caught, Dhu Fish, Baldies, Pinkies, Breaksea...

went home with 2 dhus n 2 baldies. Pity we couldn't get another day in due to weather. :(

youtu.be/lYp0BtsdlXQ 

 Went out for a run from point samson running in my new donk spent a little bit of time bottom bouncing got a couple cod and a spango with dinner sorted and just about to wind in the floater out the back and off she went few nervous moment when the line went around the anchor rope but got it all sorted and as you can tell she pretty chuffed with the biggest fish of the day.

couple of recent local karratha barra 99,97

its been a good season for flatties so far...
ive usually caught enough for a decent feed at least 10 times since they have been firing up!
with the biggest one of season being 53cm.
usually go with a buddy and we have caught about 5 big girls 50cm or over this season!!
just curious what size do guys usually put them back? I must admit ive put girls back in the past this size. but love flatties that when I see big girls all I see is big tasty fillets!!! I don't usually bother with flatties 30-36cm and put them back, and take all fish between 40-50cm.
what size limit do u keep? or do u keep all flatties caught?

 with old hendy. came in with 2 nice fish,black ass and red..caught 7 dhues in total, a heap of small ones around.all swam back no probs without using  led

Couldnt find my self a hunting buddy last break as every one was already busy. So decided to leave the young fella at Nannas for the night and take the missus out the bush for a bit of romantic Marroning and a quick hunt on the way home.

We had to work a bit harder than normal to get my 8 marron but still managed it before 10.30 and got a couple of beuties in there aswell.

Went to pick the young bloke up the next day and cooked them up for lunch to say thanks. 8 marron fed 5 of us easily for lunch and they taste great.

Couple of days later we where baby sitting my neice for the day and after seeing the marron a couple of days earlier both the kids (18 months and 2 years old) both walked around saying Nac Nacs all morning so decided to take them out to get some yabbies. Rather than just using traps over night we decided to make it a bit more exciting for them and took a couple of crab drop nets. With in 45 mins we had filled a 40l esky and had another good feed for tea. and gave some to a few people.

Dinner was Yabbies cooked with garlic, chilli, parsley, and some bacon all cooked in a creamy sauce with pasta.

No pics of all the yabbies but just the one of the young bloke starting early in life.

Cheers Jayce

Hi All. Not long joined and havent posted a topic yet but thought would whack a couple of pics up from yesterday arvo. 2 mates and I went to catch a couple of Marron and thought we might as well chuck the rods in considering we were early enough. Still didnt leave home until after 6 but had an hour of fun before got too dark, which resulted in a good feed of redfin. Couple of marron and a few beers and home by 9. Pity doesnt always happen like that.....

 in all my years never seen big boys around this time of year .no pic compleat with the good old coopers clear....great fun nothing beats going for occo in my books., solo run .. another 15 there for tomoz

 1.950 kg. also got nice baldie. got big tiger next to boat (bent hooks) 10 mins later bronzie (snapped line) ,let 3 just sized dhues go, black ass had full gutt cave nannys in its stomach,

Hey FW Crew, just thought I'd share last Saturday's catch. Nice size flounder from about 10m off the beach (Palm Beach) on the gidgee while snorkelling.

Made a nice dinner with chips for me & my two boys. Have seen a few out there lately, just lucky I had the gidgee this time round. Also scored three occy's, which my boss has been pickling. Tried the first batch today and it was tasty as, although perhaps a bit tough.

Enjoy.

BD

Not a bad way to start the day.

Early morning dive Perth metro area just as the sun’s coming up.

Approx 5-7 metres depth, about 5 metres vis and quite a few nice crays around. even these photos dont really do them justice!!

cheers

Brett

Brilliant FW'ers that come up to Leeman.

STARTED THE NEW BOAT RAMPS, will get back to you all if its floating or fixed boat ramp.  From what I've seen of the dirt being shifted looks like good parking as well.

jigged up this dhuie from rotto waters a couple of weeks ago and lost a even bigger one along with my favourite lucky pirate jig :(  but still good way to christen the new saltiga 4000 

 got out to day for a fish targeting herring and came home with this id please im calling it a big herring 

had a 2 stroke 150hp.the make is not important as it has served me well ! had plenty of power. now  looking at re powering the same 6.1m plate ali with  a 150hp yamaha do you think this will be adequate as i also sometimes carry cray pots in and out  deep . should i spend the extra and go for the 200 yamah ,marine dealer is saying 150 is fine ,  any advice would be welcomed

 caught this bad boy on a daiwa pirate jig pink/blue aboard SOUTHERNCROSS CHARTERS.

All jigged up on ths daiwa pirate

 It's smiles all around. The lad got into his first Mack. Should not have taken so many years to do, but the sea isn't kind to him most times. A big thank to Tangles and Groveepants for their help at Kalbari. The son was using the Penn 320GTi that my wife used to catch our first Marlin. Wasn't planned that way, just how it turned out. The other rod out got a bite off moments before the GTi loaded up. As little kids I told them time and again ... Fingers and toes away from the nose.... And he still remembers :) .

So we are dining high on the hog tonight, IMO, and will have a go again tomorow morning :) ......  42deg C here today, so it's pool time and a few coldies. Thanks again for the helps gents.

I have just had 5 weeks off over christmas with the plan of doing everything fishing related, so here is a brief brag about my 5 weeks off!!

1st week was all about the crays and getting some for christmas dinner. This has been the first season that I have gone for crays so I was a little worried that I wouldnt get any. As soon as I got home from work the cray pots went in on the monday putting them on lumps I normally fish in the 20 metre mark. First pull was 2 days later on the wednesday... first 3 pots got 6 crays and all were tar spot females... Pretty depressed we headed over to the last pot which I had set near a lump that was 5 metres tall and only about 5 metres wide.... BAM!! 17 sized crays in 1 pot, had to return 1 so we didnt go over the limit. I then pulled all the other pots in and set around this lump. Every day after that we were in undated with crays and over a week and a half we got a total of 65 crays. I decided to pull the cray pots in after I had 2 stolen and the other 2 pulled and moved!!

The second week saw the start of the demersal season and with the weather looking brilliant on the monday I re-set my remaining 2 cray pots on the saturday so that we could pull them on the monday on the way out to get some fish. Monday morning came and we headed out to the cray pots..... And guess what.... 1 had been stolen but luckily there was still 1 on the spot. Pulled the pot and almost busted a pooper valve doing it which resulted in 18 sized crays!! Extremely stoked we re-set the pot and headed out wide in search of a dhu..... Wasnt an extremely productive day on the water but ended up getting 1 dhu, 3 baldies, 1 small sambo, 2 stonker king george, 1 black ass, a wobby gong and a strip tuna (cray bait) Sank alot of corona so we were pretty happy by the end of the day!!

So the first 2 weeks were going great, however the wind wasnt too kind over the christmas and new year period so I didnt get out on the boat. I did however get to go for a cruise up to Kalbarri to spend New Years there. The party at the pub was awesome and they played great older music that you could sing and dance too...... The only bad thing was that on the drive up there the w@nker boys in blue decided to give me a yellow sticker for a LED light bar and fishing rod holders on my bull bar.... I offered to take them off on the side of the road but they were complete dicks about it!! took them off and got the car over the pits in early January.... Complete waste of time and money.... Would have thought there were other crimes they can spend their time with!!

Anyhoo early January saw the opening of marron season, so with the yellow sticker now removed I headed to Bunbury to pick up my mates and head to our reliable marron spot. Openning day saw 32 marron caught (4 of us bagged out) all were over trophy size even tho we werent fishing in trophy waters! the next night we headed to Harvey Dam to join every other man and his dog out there... In 2 hours we caught 4 so we decided to go back to our spot. We were there for just over an hour and a half and we had another 12 to bag out (Only 2 of us this time)

So with the end of my holidays in sight and the depression starting to kick in before I went back to work I was thinking of 1 more fishing activity that I could do...... Sitting around sinking gods gift to man (Red cans!!! Export) my mate says "Prawns would be good right now" so off we trotted to a spot I know where we could get a feed of prawns all year round.... Was a fair bit of hard work but we were able to get a bucket pull.... Being wayyyy to drunk we decided to cook the prawns the following day!!

So all in all the holiday was pretty good with alot of fishing getting done and alot of seafood getting eaten.... See below

Cheers fellas!!

 Just went and picked up my new reels, can't wait to get out to use them. Just have to put line on and ready to go.

Quick pic of one of the crabs caught late last week.  the wee one wouldn't hold the crab without marigolds on her hands (it was dead at this point ) All crabs were well over size and full of sweet flesh !!