With the ban in place, I've been hitting the middle reaches of the river pretty hard and haven't had much success until this morning. Got a good run right on the coinciding moon rise and tide change and pulled a nice 13kg specimen. Stoked is an understatement! I can't post a pic but if anyone is interested the pic is on Facebook on the Swan River Mulloway page. Happy days :)

Just Finished an epic week of fishing on the GBR popping the reef in the morning and chasing Blacks in the arvo.
We got a PB for the boat as the biggest billy I will let you be the judge.
Check out on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgfDrSQXZEA

Took an rdo Friday and headed inshore to muck around try find some squid, tailor and kings as the forecast was for a short period of light winds then strong southerlies. I couldve murdered the blokes at seabreeze as I would have much rathered to head out wide to jig some sambos, it was pretty much glass the whole time even when we came back in at 1pm.
Stopped on Parmelia Bank for a squiddly jig but only managed 2 in an hour, one of them the biggest ive caught in a while.

Then pushed out to the reefs to try our luck at some tailor. Took a while to find a school and after a couple hookups and a couple fish lost at the boat the school spooked.

Didnt bother looking for them as I could see birds working a patch of reef where Ive caught YTK last summer so we scooted over to have a look. Heaps of kings were busting up bait in about 1m of water over the bombies, had 4 or 5 hits on poppers and stickbaits but none of the hooks stuck. Quick scoot over to our herring reef to get some livies then a slow troll back when this lil sambo decided herring was on the menu.

Next couple hours we frustratingly chased this school of YTK around and a small of school tuna for no fish boated. We lost 4 kingies on livies and 1 on waxwing, dropped the hooks on a tuna on stickbait, and had some absolutley huge unknowns destroy our slow trolled herring behind the boat.

Satruday drove down to Mandurah to see if the whiting numbers had inproved on the flats after a couple warm days last week. Started off slow with cool temperatures and overcast skies in the morning but once it cleared and the sun warmed the flats up the fishing absolutley fired up. Packs and packs of yellowfin chasing down poppers in ankle to shin deep water. 3 way hookups werent uncommon and for a while it was fish every cast. Mate took home a bag of 18 of some of our best fish which weighed in at 3.5kgs. We would have easily released 30- 40 more. Quite a few over 30cms and my biggest for the day a 37cm fish.

Went out for a jig today in the 40s and I manged to convince Dad to come along(he hates catching sambos) by telling him that we would look for some kgw( I did stop at a set of cray pots ine 30s, let him have one drift, oh, no fish ohwell lets go jig sambos).

Got to the spot and had some good showings on the Lowrance. First drift no mucking around Cody grabs my pe6 gear and drops down a big 9inch zman. Jig jig bang he's on. I dropped down a jig on pe3 and almost instant hookup too. First drift we managed a couple sambos and a small pinkie that suprisingly took my jig a long way off the bottom. Meanwhile Dad is persisting with his kgw gear and not a bite. Caught numerous sambos then a boat starts homing in on us from miles out, stops a hundred metres away then starts jigging! My first thought was "Shit, Goodz is gonna kill me, I just let someone ping his spot!" Went back around to start the drift then saw it was fisho-ron's boat Such Is Life with Troy at the helm, shit Troy has taken the boat out while Ron is working away up north I thought! I knew of 3 people that Goodz had given this spot to and Ron was one of them so I let out a sigh of relief. Couple more sambos boated then ANOTHER boat starts homing in on us, stops between me and Troy drops jigs, and hooks up! Turns out its fisho-ron haha so all good there!
Had a blast with these blokes watching em hook-up and boat fish. The sambos shutdown on the jigs after a while and by then I had convinced dad to drop down a mulie on his heavy gear and he started hauling them in! After every fish he said he hated it and wasnt dropping down another line, next drift he'd be the first one with a line in the water!
He got blown away numerous times but managed to boat an absolute pig of a sambo which I think everyone was impressed by! Reckons he hated every minute of it.
Bullshit I reckon!

This is where Dad fell down and couldnt physically get back up with the fish ontop of him, hilarious!

Cheers.
Beau

 On Friday arvo we headed out towards rotto and anchored on a spot of ours hoping for some skippy and sambos. we started burleying and it was pretty quiet but we persisted anyway, a few skippy here and there but not in plague proportions as we'd hoped. I decided to change my floater from a mulie to a squid and after 30 seconds it so in the water the Stradic 4000 screamed! ended up being a sambo of about a metre, Dad soon landed another of about the same size (on squid as well) then I got a 50cn skippy which is a PB for me and then a 45cm flatty on the floater! Dad dropped down his Flicky with a paternoster and got a nice gummy and we were on the beach in Thomson bay before dark! We woke up to a beautiful Saturday morning decided to head out for a jig In 50m, it took us an hour or so to get to the spot as the swell was immense but when we got there the dambos were on!!! 3 in 3 drops and then the school moved on. A bit of sounding around and we located them again. Ended up landing around 10 and loosing 5 or so to pulled hooks and sharks. headed home to some humpbacks breaching.No really big sambos but still A great trip for when the demersal ban is on! :) 

tight lines and enjoy the photos,

snapper_seeker

 Been getting into a few early in the season. I love flatty hunting...

As you can see it had a bit of a face lift and nip and tuck. It had 8 layers of paint on it that I counted that got scraped off. The alloy underneath it is in really good condition. I am absolutely stoked with the outcome.

Mark

 Not mamoth but still my first for this season, freediivng on the five fathom bank, in around 10m of water.

 hanging around rocko area.smoked half of them fried the rest.nice when there fresh.always something to fish for in ban.

Got one last fish in before the ban, it payed off not going to work that day!

 2nd last day before the band, Produced well just made 13kg and 115cm in lenth.
Caught it on my little abu garcia ambassadeur 6500 combo. 

Was up in coral bay from 5/10-11/10 blowing its guts out only managed to go out through north passage on one morning at 6:30. Pulled 2 of the old faithful Halco red deep divers looking for mackies in the 20 -30m line along with a 6inch green /yellow jethead with tuna in mind. Trolled for about 2 hours saw bust-ups and birds feeding out far so decided to head out. On the way there hooked two fish at once  both on deep divers in 48m line. Wife got hers to the boat just before getting sharked and i managed to gaff it. Mates ran around the  prop just before being eaten by the same shark and snapped off the leader his looked about the same size. Length of wifes was 103 cm I called it for about 10kg mate thought closer to 12kg. Ive never seen a  YFT or a bigeye in the flesh yet which is it? - i presumed YFT but the two long fins in front of the tail dont look long enough (? cause its not full grown yet) - it did kind of have a pretty big eye in proportion to its head. 

Saved this pic off facebook to share...

Apparently weighed 70kg and the story was it was caught in Seth Efrica ;-) (edited)

STOINKER!!!!

Would have been a real mission to pull that up in through the breakers and the shallow bank!!!!

 Few squid caught today in the sound

 joint haul freedive looping betweem myself and 3 other guys, 20 crays. 

All caught around Rotto on day 1 of season

I also saw 3 spangled Emps yesterday too!? strange. 

been reading up on crayfish rules , came across { no bovine material other than gelatine or tallow} understand no skin due to hair , but no part of bovine meat- bones ? mis print surely !   no mention of other animals be it feral or domesticated presume they are ok , called perth as well as fremantle fisheries supervisor due to call me back.

 few pics  from today .no doubt old bastard.(peter) had another deep sea sweep on. no lies i have never seen anyone catch so many shit fish . lol .great day many fish caught and swam away easy. we only had to use  realease lead once. come in with 2 solid dhues and 2 big black bums , great last day

 Hey fellas this is my first post on FW, thought id contribute a little after years of just reading.

Went for a bash friday night just gone after checking out seabreeze earlier in the day and noticing new moon and the drop in the wind come night time. Went to the local tackle store to pick up some mulies and was told not to bother with all the weed that was around from the horrible conditions earlier in the week. Never the less we decided to give it a crack.

Plenty of weed still around but we found a decent hole that seemed to be at least half weed free so we set up for the long haul. Not long after dark my irish mate landed his first ever fish (literally) a 50cm tailor, he was stoked to say the least especially after telling me whilst bringing it in that it was just a clump of weed which i thought was strange as weed doesnt normally have head shakes. Not long after another lad pulled one in that went just short of 50cm which brought us to two good tailor which was a start for the mulla baits as irish wasnt going to part with his.

Things went a bit quiet for an hour then me bro in law was on. Screaming and calling it for a mulla  he brought it in to find it was a healthy 60cm tailor and a fat one at that plus a PB to add a plus. With an hour or so till high tide we changed from ganged to snelled hooks and some fresh tailor for bait and started chumming up every 10 min or so with the left over mulies. Half an hour from high tide my brother in law was on again and this time his call of mulla was spot on. After a reasonably short battle (for mulla) he had landed his first ever mulloway (or first decent mulla). Would have gone close to a meter and maybe 8-10 or so kgs (just a guess) but as it took so long to retreive the hooks from its gob we had just enough time to get a few crappy pics with the phone then released it with out weighing or measuring. Nothing like sending a big fish back home to get bigger. Not much action after that until an hour later when i landed a small (50-60cm) soapy mulla which i guess was better than nothing.

That capped off what i thought was a great nights metro fishing even with the occasional 20kg weed clump to contend with! Just goes to show that its worth putting in the effort sometimes even when conditions are shthous.

Thats about it guys, posted the photos of the 60cm tailor and the bigger mulla tho theyre not the best pics

 Ok well ive finaly been through all the cameras and got all the photos together and its time to throw up the photos of our trip. 

My brother Aron, mates Michael and Rene and myself spent 2 weeks at steep point and this trip the focus was on looking outside the box both fishing and diving and try and figure the place out properly. i think we well and truly achieved this compared to the guys around us just bait fishing the cliffs and ballooling and spinning.

first few days we had a massive front come through with strong westerly winds and huge swells still managed to dive and fish the shallows for a few fish. few days past and the wind changed dirrection and out went a balloon. picked up a little macky ballooing on the 20lb setup for my brother and his first spanish. 

swell finaly dropped off and it was on we did a lot of exploring and traveled around the point diving and fishing all over the place for a lot of different species. figured out the shark macks on the light 4-15lb gear and bottom bashed with the same combos using both bait and lures off the cliffs, figured out the shallows after dark for pinkys and emperors and dived the shallows with the boat when the winds allowed. between 4 of us we ended up filling 2 engels with about 50kg of fillets of 5 star fish from rankin cod to baldchin and had a ball along the way.

will take to long to go through all the details so ill write up some of the better moments and let the photos exlain the rest.

my brothers horse sharkey on 15lb that would of gone close to 7kg off the cliffs, my 67cm pinky on 12lb, nice pinky on soft plastic and 12lb, Arons pinky on 4lb and plastic, shark macks on 4lb off the cliffs, my first cobia on plastic from between 2 manta rays, Michaels spango diving in 4m of water, huge tailor on lures, my first coral trout from deep in a cave in 4m of water and thats just a handfull of the better ones.

enjoy.

 Well a fewmates and i organised a charter with whitey up at jurien bay for thursday morning so said to me mates head to our shack at grey wednesday arvo spend night there instead off waking up early and going from perth  so headed off a4  in the morning from our shack for the 45min driive to jurien hoped on. I was armed with me new jig combo off a shimano twinpower 5000 and a tcurve vertical series rod and a bag full of jigs. First was to catch some live bait for the bait boys then off to the first drift  2nd drop off the jig resulted in me first lfish  on jigs pulled a bit off string then saw colour and was nice 73cm pinkie mates also brought in a few pinkies and dhuies then that spot went quiet so on to the next lump down went jig again first drop resulted in another pinkie off 65cm  then things wemt quiet for me but the bait boys were still bringing fish in plenty off pinks ranging from low 40s to the biggest of the day off 84cm. Things were still quiet for me ron the jigs seeing the other boys catvhing fish on bait i was about to make the change then i finaly struck was a very short battle  with one quick very short run and up came me first ever dhuie and on jig to of about 63 cm so was wrapped then wed had pretty much bagged out and had 5 out off 6 dhuies onboard were allowed   So whitey made the choice to head out to the 90s to search for a big dhuie for us but to no a avail  so went trolling for a few hour but turned up nothing so headed back in. In all was awesome day out with whitey and richo already planning the next charter with them heres a few pics 

thanks chris 

 nice solid fish,bit slow got a couple with mate.ruff as hell after lunch

 First land based gummy, caught on a whole blue mac :)

I'm going to miss Land based snapper fishing now that Summers coming in :(

Finally cracked the KGs.
Found a nice little whole out of Mindarie and the whiting were on.but all we needed to do is get past
hords of rat sambos and amberjack (1-5kg). so finally caught a very nice feed of whiting thought I try
have a play on my 2000 with 30g jig had a absolute ball every drop got smashed. and in between the sambos and amberjacks caught 5 bonito. absolute cracker of a day

I am a first time poster, long time reader.

A few weeks ago, I was telling a story to a few people about the time I had caught a flying fish with my bare hands on Rottnest Island. Most of them thought it was a tall tale, so I went on to google, thinking that I would find people with similar stories, so that I could show people that it wasn't so unusual. I couldn't find a single one, so I signed up to the forum for the sole purpose of telling this story to see if anyone out there has ever had a similar experience.

Basically, around December 2010, I was on a 21ft centre console travelling from Thompson Bay back to where our friend's boat was moored in Geordie. I can remember thinking we were probably speeding, but I'm not sure exactly how fast we were travelling. To our amazement, we started seeing flying fish leaping out of the water all around us. They all seemed to be going basically the same speed as the boat. At one point, two or three of them seemed to be right alongside our faces. They seemed to be floating there for an eternity - so I just reached out and grabbed one. Has anyone had anything similar happen? or was this just a freaky/comical incident?

 outside ban area ,before people get on ban wagon. good feed ,all good size .let a few go

Sailfish caught at Steep Point land based last week. Measured 2.4 metres - I won't talk about the weight due to the usual public floggings. It took a massive screaming run with 10 or 12 jumps, then a couple of shorter runs. It was kept due to damage sustained during the fight (the fish not me) Certainly didn't go to waste with Sushimi and curry at the point a good start! A full report will follow including a similar sized sail landed by a mate...  

Its been a while since i have been out on the water due to the upgrade of my GPS thanks to Rhyss from Taylor marine. Hit the water at 4:30pm and arrived at the spot at 5pm. Joe and myself caught 4 snapper in 15mins, Awesome bit of action. 3 pinkys were around 10kg and the other 6kg.

Yea I know its no whopper but thought it would be nice to remember that moment when you catch a fish ,irrelevant of how big or small and still enjoyed it. self casted and retrieved softy.......I couldn't be any prouder and she is still smiling -__-
Rusty

Hi FW'ers,

Just found this link on my FB page, looks like the Liberals may allow the super trawler.

The link is for Senator Richard Colbeck, please send your  concerns off to him, bombard his email address with NO to the Super trawler, I have, will you.

www.richardcolbeck.c