Hey guys,
Had another awesome session today on some of our local Sooty Grunter. This is the second time I have visited this location and I must say that it is definitely one of the nicest if not THE nicest and picturesque locations I have ever fished.

These fish fight extremely hard in the skinny water and a firm set drag is the only way to coax them from the rocky terrain. We found that as soon as a fish was landed (or lost) from a particular pool, the bite would shut down and we needed to move to the next pool.

Site casting to these fish was insane. More often the not, we would fire in a cast at a fish but then 3 or 4 others would come out of nowhere and fight over it.

Ended up with 7 in total.

Land based game, Boat and kalbarri plus other bits and pieces.

 Went out quading yesterday trying to find some new fishing ground. Found some. On shallow cliffs landed a few golden trevally on twistys and strada poppers. Great snorkelling and had some large squid taking my poppers too. Swam with a dugong and a little manta ray. This is the life

Hi All, Went out a couple of weeks ago and picked up a small Rankin Cod off Rotto in about 26 meters of water. Anyone else pick up a Rankin Local?

Headed out today with a mate from woodmans point, we were on the water around 6ish with the wind looking good. Headed out deep sounding some schools of snapper, the wind kicked up and made fishing tough, a few size snapper were released, hoping for something a bit bigger. With the wind and swell making it difficult to hold bottom, we headed in a bit shallower.

We started off slow, but gained momentum with some nice runs on our drift baits resulting in some nice snapper landed and we reached our bag limit.

Half way in to the session, one of the rods bent over. As I striked, a big splash in the distance as it jumped out of the water. It was called for a shark, it was pulling hard. After a bit of a fight it saw the boat and took off again (like a shark would). Finally after getting it to the surface, we realised it was a cobia and the decky scrambled for the net. The net snapped from the weight and the fish was back in the water! Then the decky grabbed the gaff and pulled it over to land me my first cobia!

The cobia went 112cm and solid around 12kg, possibly more (don't my trust scales)

A nice 58cm king george was also landed somewhere amongst the chaos.

The wind died off during the day after we made it in shallower (typical) so it turned out to be a great day on the water.

 a few more land based pinks

 went out off bunbury few weeks back now to naturalist reef caught all the usaual wrass and crap hooked and landed pb kingy on whole fresh squid head messured 110cm didnt way. Hooked and lost another fish I believe was another kingy double the size hit me on reef after 50-60 meter run smoked my torsa16 also caught 86cm queen snapper and plus double header undersize dhuie haha enjoy

I am still new to the site, but thought I would share some pictures from my first year learning to fish Perth Metro. Lots learnt from this forum!

10 – 15 knots all weekend meant only one thing and obviously it revolved around throwing a line in somewhere. Clearly the mowing can wait until next weekend right? Working at Nashy’s Compleat Angler on Saturday, I continually found myself peering out the glass door and watching the movement of wind through the neighbouring tree tops – or LACK of wind for that matter. Yep it was definitely glorious weather outside which meant I had to grovel to the wife to allow me a leave pass for Sunday to relieve my itchy trigger finger.
 

I rang up my mate Dan who was keen as always, so we packed the light spin tackle and made tracks for one of our local spots.
 

There is a saying that goes a little something like this: Some days are rocks and some days are diamonds. There are various versions of this but at the end of the day, the message is still the same. Some days everything goes right and it is like the sun, moon and earth align and formulate a piscatorial frenzy and fish are so thick that they would even smash a well presented stick! These days are diamonds my friends and the opposite is clearly – rocks.
 

Unfortunately this trip was a rock hard day. This spot has produced great fishing on many occasions but today just wasn’t one of those memorable days and sometimes that just fishing hey. You can clean up one day and the next day you go there with the same lure, same time of day, same tide etc and it just doesn’t happen. But I guess that the reason why we keep going back – it’s the thrill of the unknown and what you many encounter on that “one more cast” or the next visit.

Ended up with a couple of little cod, a grunter and baby GT. At the end of the day it was just awesome being out amongst this awesome weather we have experienced over the last few days.


Cheers!

Hey guys

went to Singapore last week for honeymoon

got a chance to go to the GT pond. Its a saltwater pond located up the top of Singapore. Houses over 200 GTs imported from Indonesia. The owner told me the size range is from 3-14kg with the biggest he has seen at 20kg.

pond is about 40m long and 30m wide. these fish fight hard. I was using 30lb braid but could have done with stronger line.

You have to bring all your own gear and I suggest if you go bring LOTS of lures. I didn't think I would catch much but was surprised, i got a hit on every second cast and multiple hook ups. lots of bust offs and landed 5.

Was $350 aud for 2 hrs, but worth every cent.

Went out from woodies yesterday with Heath (forum member). Bit overcast, few showers, but did manage this thumper KG, went 59cm (beats current fishwrecked record - but I don,t have 50 posts)

, and a nice 76cm pinkie. Finished the day with a feed of squid and cuttlefish. All in all a good day. Should be a good season for the Pink Snapper by all accounts. Cheers, Richard.

 the end resylt of the steep poibt fishing trip. 94kg  of snapper fillets. all land based.

 Hi all..

So happy today gonna keep it short and sweet,

caught this stonka 16.1kg snapper ((weighed with scales)) today off bunbury, on the stella 5k ....

THIS IS NOW THE WA RECORD DUE TO INCORRECT SCALES, AND WEIGHED IN AT 18.064KG

http://www.aaawa.iinet.net.au/WAFishRecordListScientificNameOrder.pdf

enjoy this pics

Best fishing trip of my life. went away with my farther in law and his mates to steep for there anual trip mind you theyve been going there for the last 30 years and was my first time there. we set up camp friday norning it was pissing down  and started fishing the point at about 1 all the oldies went to there spots and bagged a few baldies an pinkies,here i was went to a spot they advised not to go as i probly wouldnt catch anything only to come back with a days quota.all up bagged 94kg of pinkys baldies a few spanglies 1makkie and a parrot fish. then had to leave two days early because we ran out of our 30kgbox of mulies 6kg of fresh occy and 12 cartons. all in all best 6days fishing ive ever done.

Just wondering what type of shark this is

Awesome second ever deep drop off exmouth today.
Found new ground and landed a little black from 270m with a few Ruby's .Biggest ruby went 11kg and with the grey banded going 30kg

Went for a quick bream session with crugs1 this arvo around riverton.

Plenty of mullet jumping. Heaps of hooks ups that were dropped, ended up with this 40cm bream. Seemed pretty fat, not sure on weight, he was caught on a motoroil grub and released.

The natives getting restless could never be a good thing, but on this particular occasion – firing up the natives was simply awesome! The natives I am referring to in this instance are Yellowbelly and Australian Bass.

I must admit that I have a massive soft spot for bass and every time I head home to Bundaberg, I make a point of heading out to Lake Gregory with my kayak and try to get a amongst a few of these hard fighters. I have just recently spent a week at home in Bundaberg whilst on annual leave and on my last day there, I made it my mission to scope out some unchartered territory where we had never been before. My brother in law “Damo” and I spent the day exploring a small tributary of the upper Burnett River but not before 4WD’ing some likely goat tracks.

The Burnett River looks to be absolutely decimated and stripped bare by the recent and tragic flooding but the isolated tributary we found had a relatively small catchment area and seemed to be in pretty go knick. I didn’t know how this flooding was going to affect the fishing but to our delight, the fish were obliging. 
 

 hey guys fished or should i say battled mindarie rock wall wednesday night with a good mate and was rewarded with a nice pinkie. i was lucky enough to land it getting snagged twice when trying too surge it up for gaffing,had to open the bail arm twice .... big thanks to craig for gaffing, onya mate... ,ps lost one on friday arvo same rock same time....

Well fellow FW'ers that love coming up to fish off the little jetty or land based, RIP to Coolimba.

Just come back from a drive up that way and the road to the jetty is gone, only can get to the small jetty by engaging 4wd. There used to be a T-junction right to the jetty, left to the shacks that were left, no more only can go left to the shacks if you haven't got a 4wd, the small shed (jetty) that was there has one support dangling free, another big storm, think it will be swallowed up by the sea.

Jetty is badly damaged, newer planks (put maybe at the beginning of the cray seasons) on are half hanging into the water.  On the actual jetty where the cray boats come and tie up to, the left hand side of the wooden planks are hanging half into the water.  Massive amounts of seaweed are on the jetty.  Further to the right of the jetty and looking towards the beach, beach looks a lot cleaner than the last time we were there, a lot of seaweed has gone, water is still dirty, maybe take awhile to settle down to clear water.

To the left of the bay has been reclaimed by the sea all sand, right to the point be plenty of beach area once the sand has settled down and hardened, pretty soft when we went through but got through.  Couldn't believe how the first big storm had done so much damage or reclaimed a lot of the beach, dumped heaps of sand, should be a nice clean beach.

Can still see the people camped there at Easter, some where the ocean has reclaimed the land near the jetty, right around to the point at the left hahahah Nature is good.

All the tracks to LA, Point Liouse, entering from the gravel road off of Indian Ocean Drive (near the Tip) were all full of water/seaweed.  Grader was their pushing some of the water/seaweed off the roads, high tide didn't help either. As we drove through the surge was still coming in and dumping water on the tracks.   But was brilliant to watch the storm come in from Point Liouse, sea spray was all over the car, had to hose my baby down when we got home.

 EDITED...........SHOULD HAVE BEEN COOLIMBA ........... NOT ILLEWONG, BLONDE MOMENT or senior moment hahaha

PS.............after the blow the crays are running, friends are getting their limit (big jumbo's in the pots) every day they have gone out after the storm, roughly about  4miles out

Thats its folks, Leeman Report after the storm

 well today was a cracker i nailed 2 pinkies and helped gaffe a 19 kg mullaway wat a day heres the pics fellas.yeeeeeoooowwwww and its metro 

Ticked off a bucket list fish on a rfecent trip to Monkey Mia - always wanted to catch a cobia since i first saw them on TV.  Hooked onto this one in about 10 metres of water with a live bait.  towed the boat around for a while on 24 kg gear, max drag.  jumped clear of the water at one stage which was nerve racking but great to see.

Very happy to land it!

Me and my mate went out to get a feed of crabs not that long ago and while we were waiting for the pots to fill we decided it would be a good idea to have a little drift and a jig. 

We definitely had a few people wondering if we had lost the plot, but it was a good way to waste some time and talk some shit.

Being the middle of the afternoon we had absolutely no expectation of hooking into anything, but you never know and thats the beauty of fishing. 

About 20 minutes in my mate hooked into something and it took off. Needless to say we were stunned.

With the reel screaming away and being surrounded by moorings we decided it would be best to chase this badboy down instead of losing it to a mooring rope. 

I started the motor and began rounding him up. 

By this point we were pretty sure of what was on the end of the line, but neither of us said anything in case of jinxing it.

With Tom up the front of the boat and me driving it took 8 minutes until we saw a beautiful flash of silver.

It was a swan river mulloway!!!

As the boat had just been serviced everything had been taken out of the boat so there was no gaff, net, or knives.

So i took the rod ( technically this makes it a team effort fish ) and tom put his hand in the gills and lifted it in the boat. 

With the mulloway in the boat some serious shouting and high fives went down. 

What an awesome unexpected catch and something that i doubt i will see again.

I hope everyone else has the chance to see something equally unexpected and as wonderful as the midday mulloway.

Pete.

 After years of trying I finally caught my first mulla at a spot I have been fishing for a lifetime.  Sunday morning we started fishing at 6am and left at 9am 5 tailor 30 whiting and a somewhat malnaurished mulla. It went 1140mm and just pushed 10kg it was very skinny. It only fought for about 5 mins with only one short run before turning belly up in the breakers still my best catch yet. I was using a snelled whiting and it was caught at 7:50am, just thought I'd add some details rather than just "Northern beaches".

Headed up to cervantes on saturday arvo for a couple of days since the weather looked good
got up there around 5.30 headed down to the beach thought we would try to catch some fresh bait for the next day
out in the boat. for some reason no tailor or herring around so got out the cast net
and caught heaps of little mullet 10-15cm. so i decide to chuck out little dead mullet on the
drop off (if anyones been to cervantes they would no where im talken about) 10 mins
and rod was going nuts 20min battle on 2000 stradic 8lb line one of the best fights ive ever
had. finally got him to shore first big mullaway. You little ripper
Went 15kg

 Got upto West Moore Island for a couple of days fishing with the old man on Anzac day weekend. Left Perth airport at 8am to Port Hedland and was at the remote island fishing by 1pm!

Managed to get stuck into some fun little GTs inbetween tying dads leader knots. We were just using the tinnies supplied by the island so only stayed within a couple of k's of the island, fishing the points and channels on the rising tides. Also got stuck into the catch and release pool at low tide with 4lb bream gear - heaps of fun getting mini gts, blue bone, bream, whiting flattys all on little poppers/stick baits - also hooked a giant herring twice but spent more time in the air than in the water and spat the hooks both times. 

Theres meant to be good bottom fishing for reef species in close however we could only get small blue bones and cod around 30cms, and ended up spending most of the time chucking surface lures for the GTs that seemed to be plaguing the island. We were mainly using pretty light gear (PE1.5) as most of the GTs were 2-4kg but these guys still weant super hard for their size. Hooked a couple of unstoppables on my PE5 outfit but got busted off, ended up landing a pretty good size brassy on a laser pro with the bib removed (credit to dav-oh for getting me onto this, even the big ones still have great action and cast really well) . The Mackies hadnt fired up yet, and we saw plenty of big queenies but they werent on the chew. Had some tuna busting up one day and got a decent longtail on pe1.5.

Thanks to Fred, Action, Noel and Oni for looking after us, the island was really well run, great food, always had our beers on ice and noel even serviced one of my reels ! Will definately be going back!

Well there are many things I like about returning home to Bundaberg for holidays. Visiting family - yes, visiting friends - yes, but one of the things I look forward to the most is putting my kayak in at Lake Gregory and chasing a few bass.

Ended up going for a flick yesterday afternoon with the old man and concentrated our efforts in flicking weedless plastics around the edges of the thick weedbeds. Glorious day but the action was a little slow however. At the end of the day it was just nice to be out and about and NOT at work!!

I ended up landing a little catfish and a nice little 42cm bass.


Cheers

 hit up the mildura wreck for the first time after some local knowledge i gained whilst at the potshot yest. got there right on sunrise to experience one of the most awesome queenfish sesh ive ever had. would of landed at least 15 fish with some wicked airbourne action. they werent big fish (around the 50 to 60 mark) but great fun. the halco hammer did most of the damage. 

Had the chance to shoot up north a couple times earlier this year - monkey mia area. Always love fishing for pinkies on plakys with light spin gear - even the misses froths on it! The last couple years theres been plenty of bait around also - stick baiting for longtails and monster brassys. Tailor on the chew also - after realising my stickabaits were gettting low I ripped the bib off a few laserpros. These things are dynamite when casting into schools of pelagics or chasing the choppers with plenty of pauses. Especially the chrome varieties. Work them similar to my sinking stickbaits - on the up side, they can be worked across very shallow reefs without heading too deep into snag territory.  Much lighter on the hip pocket when your running out of Marias and Duos!