Hey guys

Finally the gods played ball and I managed to try out my new combo that's been sitting there for over 2 months.

After constantly bugging the skipper to get out he was convinced. Plan was to launch from woodies, pull his pots and drop a jig or two before the wind picked up. Now the fun started when the skipper forgot the power extension cable for his cray winch so that meant a workout. I can personally say pulling a pot from 40m when it hadn't been pulled for a while was less than fun. The slime and growth off the rope ended up everywhere but we had a laugh but weren't too keen on pulling the other pot.

Now the skipper is quite well known being Josh from Oceanside. Can't thank him enough for pretty much taking me under his wing to teach me the tricks of the trade, this guy knows what he is doing

Sounded around for a bit with josh explaining what to look for and what was what on the sounder. Found some fish so the new stella and jm titanium combo dropped down a lamble. Dropped straight into a fishs mouth and I was expecting it so I dropped the fish. So back around to start the second drift, dropped down started jigging and bang I have never felt a hit like this or had a dhuie fight this hard.  Josh had a ball laughing at me getting stretched.  This thing popped up. To say I was happy was an understatement.

unfortantly this is the only photo I got of the day due to the excitement of fish on the sounder when we brought other fish onboard. Finished with this 10.2kg dhu another 55cm dhu and a strange catch on jig a nice size flaty.

Great day on the water and it's not often that the apprentice out fishs his trainer haha sorry josh.

cheers boys

 Freediving metro in 22m for these guys. 

Saw a fishy lookin ledge from surface, dove down for a closer look. A school of 10-12 Dhu greet me, some just legal, others under. I spot the red sticking out from the ledge, shoot into top of fish, spear exits stomach. Tough dive that was deep, high degree of shot difficulty as a thin target from directly above, but came off good in the end. But apparently spearfishing is cheating as its too easy according to a lino back at the ramp ha!

Decided with the awesome weather prediction, to venture a bit further north yesterday, and beach launched a few hours drive up. 

Found a likely looking bit if rubble in 35m that had a spattering of fish a few meters above the bottom. Ended up being a school of just undersize pinkies that we're snaffling baits before they even hit the bottom, although a 50cm king George was found amongst them. The drift was almost non existent, and only about 20m away from the initial ground, the sounder showed a few more solid dots, and me and dan dropped at the same time....

BANG farkin BANG! We both load up, and dan comes up first with a 9kg dhu and a baldie! Mine taking a bit longer on the talica 8 and pe3, after about a good 6 or 7 minutes, up pops a double header of 14 and 5kg dhu bangers! Checked my watch, and it's just gone 8:30am!!

We try a few more drops, but all we were gettin was more dhus, so called last drop. Dan loads up big time, but with no solid tail thumps, soon realised this was no sambo or dhu, and a good 20 mins later on pe3 and a Saragossa 10, up glides a 2.5m tiger. She wins her freedom and is cut loose. 

Esky lookin pretty good, we decide to troll the back edge of the reef, and head back home a bit earlier. A strike 10 mins into the troll, in 24m, had me thinkin the day couldn't get any better. A short 5 min fight had the unconfirmed spaniard a few meters under the boat, when it changed colour and morphed into a frikkin sambo. Guuuutttteeeedddddd!! Called it a day not long after that, as the breeze was startin to come in, and retrieval was always going to be tricky with the soft sand and swell building. Had some major dramas pulling the boat up when the winch strap snapped on the trailer. FARK. In no time at all, the waves started crashing over the back of the dinghy, and if it wasn't for the 6 tonne winch on my hilux, I would've lost the boat there and then. It literally filled up 3/4 with water, and probably would've weighed close to 3 tonne. We manage to drag it up the beach with the car winch, drain the water out, and finally had just enough length to tie the strap to the dinghy and winch the trailer under it. All up, a good day!

Was chatting to JohnF and tim-o one morning during the week about the pelagic action offshore out of Perth at the moment, particularly the Mackies. With all the fishing talk and the rest of the day off I called my younger brother and suggested we go for a bit of a drive and just flick some lures around landbased as the wind was up a bit too much for the boat. So I paired up some casting rods with our PE3 jigging reels and off we went.

After about an hour of casting a massive expolsion of whitewater erupted on Codys skipping stickbait, and seconds after the drag was humming and braid disapearing at a rate of knots across the surface! Good first run, then Cody eased him to the back of the reef when he decided to take off again this time slugging it out deeper. Got him to the back of the reef again and there were a few tense moments keeping the fish's head up as he swam over some shallow bombies. Finally get the fish into some safe water and I ran in about waist deep and tailed the fish back onto the beach.

Could not believe what had just happened and still struggling to fathom it right now! The lure fell out as soon as the fish hit the sand, veryy lucky!

My brothers first Metro Mack and it was landbased, and on a stickbait rigged with no wire. We were definitely not expecting to catch anything, I didnt even have an eski and I had to borrow a knife from a bloke up the beach just to spike it.

Will most likely get one of the photos framed and printed, would be great to know which one you guys like the most so I can choose one for POTM nomination too

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Cheers,

Beau.

 cockburn murky as .90 % of occo today 2 to 3 feet of water..couldnt get to other spots  , still got some monsters.

Greetings fellas went to my local spot with a mate, with a strip of Snook caught this beautiful big Mulla approx 1.2m and at a guess 20kg, decided too good to kill so after a good 10min of swimming in the breakers my mate and i got it to swim off. Previous PB was 17kg caught at same spot last April this was noticably bigger and fought extremely well

Being super keen on my egiing, I thought I'd share some recent squid pics.

And just a reminder that Dr Peter Coulson from Murdoch Uni is still after squid donations for the research he is doing on our southern calamari.

See the attached Flyer to find out more.

Cheers

Wazza

 caught these two off cape naturalist fishing with my pop, he didn't want his photo taken but let me hold his fish

they both went 15 kilo on the scales

Good weekend off Mandurah

 After many years an long nights finally got my first metro mulla an was caught within the first 10 minutes of rockin up 

been catching a few fish the kgs are from Albany and few crabs diving. Enjoy..

Was in Perth for the weekend and the brother in law suggested we get out on the water.

Wind was looking average at best but we decided to go for it anyway

Heading out to hide from the Easterly behind Garden Island had lures out the back for the off chance of a mac or a tuna

Both rods went off, one was peeling hard and brother in law's mate grabbed that one, i grabbed the other one which felt pretty weak but lots of thumps

Mate dropped the bigger fish we called for a tuna or mac (good old braid fail!) and i passed the rod i grabbed to the brother in law since it was his boat and all and much to our surprise up pops a pinkie

None of us had seen/heard of them taking a lure trolling before

Didn't catch a single thing for the rest of the day, but the pinkie was worth it!

 keeping it all for bait(according 2 kids) so i had to cook some.what a waste..still plenty around 15 in 1 hour swim.

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