I know there's a few on here who's toys arent just boats and stellas so thought Id start a thread, so post and boast! Pics are about 1000 pixel width, fits my browser ok...
My LX SS when it was on the road...stippin for a new build atm



My current work lapper, last of the real Holdens....

And my two wheel ride, Ok, sometimes one wheel lol

 Just got back for a week out at the monties with montebello island safaris. Was a great trip with some good memories and some great fishing. Managed to also pick up my first sailfish after trolling for about 10mins. We managed to raise 4 more but never got any more hook ups for the day. Was a quick fight and a quick release.

Cheers Joel

First forum post!

Caught this King George Whiting at the back of Garden Island couple of weeks ago in around 20m of water on size 10 Long Shank hook with some peeled prawn! on my Okuma 3000 Trio with 1-3kg Tairyo Spin Stick.

Was chasing the usual feed of good size sand whiting when this thumper slammed the bait. The length came in at 71cm didn't get a weight on him....

Plenty of Sand whiting after him and 2 Reasonable skippy at 50cm a piece.

Let me know your thoughts.

Went for a fish finally last week.here is a pick of a Dhu we had to return caught 5 more all released before we moved on to try for different species.

Got this on  the TLD. 17kg with guts and gills.

Probably not so relevant for you guys over there in WA but thought you might enjoy the photos none-the-less

I could not pass up the opportunity to share some of these awesome photos of the whales breaching and frolicking a short distance from Mackay harbour last weekend. There are 2 main reasons for this and the first one is because I think these pics are amazing and would be of interest to many people considering not everyone gets the chance to see these majestic creatures. Secondly, to make fisho’s and boaties aware that these things are out in large numbers at the moment and to be extremely careful when venturing out to sea, especially during low light periods.
 

Humpback whales make their annual migration from Antarctica to the warmer waters of the Great Barrier Reef marine park between May and September each year. They do this in order to court, mate, give birth or rear their calves.

These pictures exhibit the standard tail extensions, flippering and breaching behaviour.
 

There are a bunch of do’s and don’ts when it comes to boating near whales so if you need to be informed, please check the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authoritys website. Some very basic ones include not being allowed to motor within 100m of a whale (unless it comes up to you when stationary) and only 3 boats are allowed to be in the caution zone which is between 100m-300m from the whale. These images were all taken whilst in the caution zone and look closer due to the utilisation of a large zoom lens on the SLR.
 

Gday im new to the forum

This is my first post nothing special,heres a whiting i caught at burswood a week ago.

I havent seen many fishos catch anything decent for a while in the river its a bit of a concern. Has anyone had much luck lately?

cheers simon

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Gareth Goh

Jose Merino

Just thought i would put up a few pics of squid caught by some of the members over the last month.

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Just posting some photos from a couple outings last week. Only had one day off taking the boat out the whole week the weather was so good. Been teaming up with fellow member hoookt to smash the pinkies at a spot we found a couple weeks ago when I deckied for him. Had a frantic session one evening that saw my brother and I land 9 or 10 snapper in 20mins as the sun set. Plastics were getting smashed literally seconds after hitting the water the pinkies were so high up the burley trail. Couple small dhus we got on plastics as a bycatch for snapper one morning was good fun. Skippy are crazy in the sound at the moment the pinkies would be feeding well. Headed out to 40m in that great weather we had Saturday which saw my brother get his pb dhu and 2 stonker sambos on 30lb while dad and I spent the arvo rigging up after getting smashed every drift using 50lb...

You'll be happy to know I'm back to work now at a shutdown after 7 weeks off but I'll be straight back into fishing mode next week :)

never got any big dhues all ranged from 450 to 600 long let them go .new ground i found looked the goods .swallow tail,harley,black ass,dhues ,sargent barkers ,and baldies, no dought it will produce a big boy one day.

female baldie went 495mm long male 610 good feed went home.

So I woke up with the sparrows this morning with the goal of pursuing a few feisty little blue salmon on the bream gear. My mate Dan and I found ourselves walking to our chosen location at 5am and had not much more than the light of our head torches guiding the way. Anticipation was high due to the fact we hadn’t fished this location for about 3-4months.

The last few times we fished this spot, admittedly, we did terribly, however, we have caught more than our fair share of awesome fish from here so we thought it was about time we hit it again. The cooler weather has ensured the blue salmon have been out in full force, which were the main targets for the sesh.

If I went through all the fish we caught, I would be here all day typing it out, but this session turned out to be a cracker with 2 bream, 2 grunter, 4 flathead (none of which were under 60cm), 1 trevally and 4 blue salmon being landed.

Cheers

well not quite true , busy morning with the misses off to work and the weather looking good it was an hour drive to the mother inlaws to drop the kids off , arrive back home just as my brother and he's mate get there , hook up the boat and get on the water around 9:30- 10am much later than i'ld hoped . did the usual headed for the decided spot and have a drop on the way if something shows up so half way there a school shows so do a drop but no bites so carry on , arrive around 11-11:30 first drop and it was my brothers mate who hooks up first , up comes a 60cm dhuie . whilst i was down the back of the boat gaffing and bleeding the fish i had my rod up the front with next to no drag and just the ratchet on before i couldn't get the first in the eskie my rod takes some line, knowing there's no drag on i wasn't to concerned and carried on , then another at this stage starting to think i should get up to it , then a blitering run i'm fumbling around trying to get up there as fast as i can by the time i get there it had dropped it so i let out about 2m of line whilst quietly saying every expletive under the sun once the line comes tight i feel alittle weight so give it a pull and it's on . called it for a big one then start back tracking  and saying it ok after the fight slows alittle but once it gets closer bang of like a rocket so it was to and fro for a while by this stage my arms and back are feeling worse for wear and try to give the rod to my brother who blantly told me to suck it up princess evently get a glimpse and a huge white figure starts to get closer and closer any way up comes my PB dhuie are 2 pic's and a try at getting her onto the scales without doing to much damage as we'ld alredy decided she was too big and going back so we dumped the weigh in .release weight with a 24 oz sinker didn't really do much she bsiclly powered her way back down hoping to christ the release weight would let go when required which it did . 2nd drift accounted for a undersized dhuie and that was the last fish in the boat ( plenty showing on the sounder but nothing biting ) around 12:30 the action died sounded around tried a few new spots had a whale (not sure on species) come and sussed us out for 20min or so  then moved in to my pinkie spot and nothing biting there calling it a day around 5pm by this stage it had glassed off and full noise back to the ramp and home for a trip i won't forget and a few cold ones

Wifes first Mulla caught off Denham Shark Bay.

Measured 1.04mts.

Well with the weather being so good we managed a few evenings in out on the blue !

The first day I invited the boss along fishing with us which resulted in an early knock off and so off we went.

I scored my first Dhu and then another and then another ! One was a bit small so he was sent back to the bottom but very pleased with the result !! We were anchored in fairly shallow water so unfortunately the jigs and placcys stayed in the box however we must learn to crawl before we walk and then talk.

The boss enjoyed himself and bagged a good blackarse so hopefully a few more early knock offs are on the cards !

Our next trip we ventured into deeper water and followed a few surface schooling fish. I think they were skippy however we managed 4 juvy snapper and a small dhu (all released. Before the captain hooked into something big that gave him grief for about 20mins. A solid longtail circled up towards the boat and a quick gaff shot secured a few months of fresh tuna steaks !

 fish on chew today many caught and let go ,lost a huge boy also .ended up with nice dhue and baldie .kgs and shark.nothing worse than batterys in camera dying.release led got a work out , 

With the good weather on monday i shot down to mandurah to take the boat for a run. Sunday night we went for a quick night bash and managed to score the first legal dhui for my boat. Nothing special with it only goin 60cm. But none the less the first for my boat and caught in 12m of water not far from the cut..

We hit the water again monday morning and put in alot of kays. We travelled 25km south from the cut and worked a few areas down there and slowly worked our way back up the 30m line untill back in line with the cut then headed for home. I dont have any spots out from mandurah yet so it was just alot of sounding around. We where managing to find fish on the sounder but couldnt get them to take jigs or baits all day finishing the day off with a black ass about 50cm a couple of fox fish about 35cm and some wrass.  Still beats working.

Hope I've down this link right fellas but found this on my FB page, please do the right thing and follow the links to send to our Politicians.

http://stopthetrawler.good.do/permanent-ban/

Thanks

Roberta

So lately I have been getting a real kick out of taking my young nephews fishing. Just took young Jayden for a bread and butter fish on the weekend. Fish were not huge by any means but that didnt matter at all to him. He caught a nice little bream and was stoked, spoke about it all day and cant wait to go again. For me, that is what it is all about - gettin' them "hooked". I got a couple of little tiddlers too on my Megabass Dog-X Jnr.


Cheers!

 Got out today in awesome conditions.....haven't jigged we'll before and keep trying every trip with no real results exempt on gulp baits....picked up a new pink jig and it paid off for me landing this 9kg dhu.....

Bagged out over the day with a smaller dhu and black ass snapper......

I have better pics thank god but my ipad only has this one.....

sunday morning left the boat ramp around 10am with the cold mornings :) travelled for around 1 hr with not much showing on the sounder, fished a mark in the 60ft for a small sambo and a rock cod with little to no drift around 12:30-1 the westerly picked up enough for some drift, so sounded around again found a few schools of pinkies in the  with most the fish 55's as well which gave a few hours of fun and 2 undersize dhies in the mix

RDO today so this morning headed out around 9am and headed to some new ground i marked coming back in a few months ago but the day it was marked it was getting dark so didn't drop a line so been waiting on the weather to get back out there . with a bit of chop took around 1 and a half hours , about half a n/m before some nice activity showed on the sounder 3 drops and only a small nibble so carried on. arrived at the mark and nothing showed up wondered why i'ld gone deeper when i'ld gotten into some fish the day before closer . started travelling into some spots incloser that i knew had produced in the mean time watching the sounder around 1n/m in the ground changed by this time around 11:30 knowing i had to be in  intime to pick the kids up from school and running out of time to ancor and burley in closer decided to give it a drift the second i put it into nuetral the screen light up like a christmas tree , dropped down and as it hit the bottom whack but at some stage in free spool down  the alvey had over spun and had 2 wraps around the handle and drag lever managed to sort it but with the fight was calling it for a sambo so was a nice sight to see a double header dhuie come to the surface one in the eskie(guesstimate 12kg after a small shark around 200mm and a squid regergitated on the boat floor) , one around 3-4kg released .drive back drop another 3-4 kg dhuie release than decided to head in as i was on my own so could only keep the one and don't like the reduced chances of survival to keep fishing .it had glassed off by now so it was full noise back to the ramp so ened up with 2 and a half hours travel and a an hour at the max fish so still need a fix yet had a few good days and the freezer restocked

Since way before I caught my first Mulloway i was hooked on trying to catch these awesome fish. It took me years to catch my first size one then about 10 more years to catch my first big one.

In the past few years ive sussed them out a fair bit and have caught quite a few between 13 and 18kg from quite a few different locations but as any one who targets these fish know the holy grail is a 50lber (well in WA at least).

Well finally I got my fish of a life time, in the last place i expected it. This fish went 23.53kg or 51.87lb and one i will not forget for a long time.

It is also a new club record in my fishing club Ocean Reef Sea Sports Club beating the very long standing old record of about 22.5kg.

For those that were wondering it was caught on a live Yellowtail.

Very proud moment for myself so I thought id share.

Cheers         Belly

Happy!!

Had a slow start to the day on Five Fathom Bank with difficult conditions and a reasonable swell. Moved off to Garden Island and bagged PB Snapper and Port Jackson from the boat. Pinkie stretched the tape to 78cm. All's well that ends well.

Had a slow start to the day on Five Fathom Bank with difficult conditions and a reasonable swell. Moved off to Garden Island and bagged PB Snapper and Port Jackson from the boat. Pinkie stretched the tape to 78cm. All's well that ends well.

 Nice snapper from this afternoon, went 90cm and was caught on 15lb braid and a 4kg rod. She was released and swam off strong :)

 Hey fellas, caught 2 dhues, 1 pinky, a long tailed tuna, stripey tuna, sambos, and lost freight trains.... Awesome day, all fish caught on jigs and soft plastics, big thanks to the skipper chilly! 

Went out for a fish this morning and gentelmens hour. With some new people from FW. David(david.d) and Jarrod(Alwaysfishin) They were both great deckies and highly reccomend them!

Was a sloppy start to the morning. A quick stop for bait resulted in 20 nice whiting and headed deeper to the 50's with the new Dragonfly!The fish where not interested in baits jigs or plastics!

On the tide change we got a few fish in before i had to come in.

Was good to get some fish to try Extreme Coolers Evapac machine. Its brilliant!

The Raymarine Dragonfly performed very well in 50m!

Shark ID anyone ? Yes it was released!

 A solid red bass taken on a Weezel popper on a remote island off the coast of Bougainville.

 hey boys we went out again today on mac attack fishing charters day started slow but then got onto some nice ground got some nice cod and baldies and few sweet lips then on way home went to the snapper patch and all.cleaded up was good day off mixed bags sorry about piks arnt that great today and yes all snapper are size :)