Took Lachs and the old man out for a run yesterday. Good fun punching through the gap in a 2m swell.

Decided a whiting run to put some fish in the esky first was the go and loaded up on 39 nice sandies with Lachie smashing me again.

Headed to some new ground and after some decent hits Lachie was on and spent 15 shoulder punishing minutes fighting.... a rock haha. A fee tears and back into it and he pulls up a small dhu with a cuttlefish on it only to discover the cuttlefish had chewed the dhu's brain!!! Chucked him back and saw old mate reappear to claim his lunch.

Headed to old faithful and Lachie dropped a nice Blackarse at the boat and the old man caught a dhu agonisingly short of 50cm. No demersals but a briliant day with 3 generations in the one tub.

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Been a while since i was last on here.

Couple of pics from our trip last year - only a couple of months away from our next - hope the weather is as good.

Biggest went 1.250 . Got some crackers . Strong winds . Same same white duos

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Can’t beat it . Craps on any fishing . Love it , got some thumpers today ,wasn’t hard work . Everyone on white duo’s. Didn’t even take my good rods just took one of them tiny silstar rods . Brilliant

Took granddaughters out this morn . They done very well . Oldest granddaughter got a cracker over a kilo. Took them over to sandy beach to see the seals. Showed them the big sea eagle nest. Wasn’t just about squid . Could have killed them heaps around . Just really about having nice time .next gen squid hunters gold

 Went out chasing snapper a couple of weeks ago and ended up landing this decent sized yellowfin on pe2. Took a floater just after sunset and had another run about 10 mins prior. Took off like a freight train have no idea how we turned its head.

Took mate out . His pb on dhue . Got a great feed. Dhues/baldies/kgs and black ass.i thought big moon would be crap .it wasn’t

 I couldn't help myself when I looked at the weather over the next few evenings yesterday so made a plan to head out to the same spot that I caught my dhue on Friday. Everything was going the same as Friday other than the wind direction got my burley trail going and enjoyed how dead calm it was kept my slow trickle of mulie cubes going then at almost the same time as Friday one of my rods takes off, I grab it and enjoy a good little tussle all the way up and net it with my repaired bet. I could see it was close but measured it and it was 55cm. Another good feed for the freezer. 

Just got back from a trip to the Warren River chasing redfin. Some of the best freshwater fishing I've had with 12 fish over 40cm and my personal best at 45cm in 2x 3 hour sessions. 

 Got sick of coming home from work and sitting around decided to dabble Into the boating community. 5m raider custom centre console found it a tad underpowered but will suit me for the time being been out a few times for a couple bags of whiting squid a day crabs just building up the confidence to get off shore 

 Trip to a favorite creek for a couple of nights last weekend with good results and perfect conditions. 86cm barra released and kept a 78cm and 68cm . Also released a couple of 70cm threadies. All on lures.

Fishing from saltwater piers, I will be using between 60-80 pound braid, depending on the feel. I just ordered the BG8000 and now I'm on the hunt for a matching rod. I will be looking to fish for some of the bigger end of species near Florida, but I understand the 8000 does have some limits. I know the rod needs to be at least 8 feet in length, but I'm having trouble finding a good pairing rod. I'd like to not go custom for a rod, but if it's the best deal, I definitely understand. Thanks for all the help in advance!

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 Moking shows his versatility swapping big Squid for monster Mulloway 

Took my two boys out today with my 7yr old finally asking to come so we hatched a plan to send a berley trail to South Africa and had a chicken carcass and my 'fog of war' frozen burley log.

The oldest boy nailed a snook to christen his new Assassin and as the burley trail went out the mayhem began and poor dad didn't get a look in as the two boys were pulling them in thick and fast.

I was cranking a small diver when I could get a cast and dropped 8 out of 8 before switching to assist hooks and finally getting on the board.

We counted our fish and had enough for a feed and some bait and I wanted to give the Little Island squid a crack and the rod buckled first drift and I went to free the jig from the weed until it started pulling string.

Cruised back satisfied to very happy 7 week old pup who got stuck into one and I reckon he might be doing my RDO runs with me when he's bigger.

Got some nice fish . Wind in morn was bad , some big wind waves. Good thing was . Got 2 different dermersals prior to dhues . Let the poor Harley go , let few back ass go and few pinks .wasn't easy going , but worth while

 Missed the incoming tide as work got in the way so fished the outgoing tide. Theadies didn't play the game but caught a couple of solid bluenose salmon so broke out the smoker and results were delicious.

2 loads through the smoker and happy days.

I wrote the story below as a bit of a reminder to myself of how special this fish is to me and what it’s taken to achieve. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I could of beaten my old best from the middle of Perth after only 17 hours of effort put into fishing for a ghost of the river. Of all the far off remote places I’ve been all over WA it’s pretty special to have got it from within 30 minutes of my house.

Long story warning.

This fish has been a long time coming for me, 11 years ago after 2 years of effort I landed my first big mulloway then 2 weeks after that I landed my biggest that stood for a long time at 20kg. I fished for them hard for 3 more years catching heaps but never over the 20kg. I lost one about 25kg after seeing it at my feet before cutting me off on some rock, I pretty much gave up from that point for a few years. I’ve fished on and off for them since and other than the river fish in Albany on lures, I’ve never had much success.

With the restrictions in place that I can’t leave the Perth area I’ve been going crazy trying to find things to target in Perth. Snapper and mulloway where my main goals, Mitchell convinced me to come try for a swan river mulloway which I had only ever done at E Shed with a fish about 17kg being released years ago. First 2 nights with Mitch and nothing but 2 decent tailor landed. 3rd night I managed a small mulloway at 75cm. Total of 12 hours put in for one fish at that point! That’s pretty good odds I thought.

4th night chasing them I decided to go chase snapper on the northern beaches and after driving around trying to find clean water that wasn’t full of weed I gave up and decided to race back to the swan,drovefrom yanchep to the river to fish a bite time. Met Mitch and cast out my baits, pretty much on the bite time to the minute my rod went off and 15 minutes later I got to see the fish for the first time, I thought maybe 17-18kg when I got to first look at it. Took another 5 minutes before I had it in knee deep water that I jumped in and went to hold it and I got to see the true size of the fish! Well and truly smashed my old PB.

Got a length measurement on it at 142cm. We had scales but I didn’t want to hang the fish to weigh it as I thought it would kill it so I decided against getting a weight and we let it go back into the darkness that it came from.

New goal is to get a fish over 1m on a hard body lure from the swan, so far I’m 20 hours in of casting for one big bump.

I’m still buzzing while writing this and can’t thank those who helped enough. Hoping one day I get to see that fish again when it’s 1.7m long.

Haven't been on the water since March 7 and after I kicked my son off the PS4 today and hearing him say there's nothing else to do decided we'd hit the river with the large swells in the ocean.

The pics speak for themselves and the kids drove for a good 20 mins while the Mrs and I kicked back with a brewski.

I got some 4” sluggos as a gift and i really love their action, but when i looked into rigging and stuff i found that for my area the preferred size is 6, 7.5, or 9. I don’t use plastics often, so i couldn’t tell you what size my fish normally bite on.

I tend to use 2/0 hooks and up for bait, and 4/0 for Bucktail jigs, and i fish inshore saltwater, usually pretty strong current. I originally was just gonna get a 6” of each Black and White and use a worm hook, but I’ve fallen into a hole of all the different possibilities. pnrstatus.vip/

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 Quick trip to our usual crab spot yesterday.

 Tide fuller than we like to start with and first couple of pull empty.

Next run of pots put 3 in esky so happy with that then last run  a double header of big boys in one pot.

Happy days and a feed of chilli crab washed down with Corona tonight.

Brendan got few nice critters . Squid a cracker . Mully not on the bad size also .some good feeds on way.

Took advantage of a good looking forecast recently and blew work in hopes of finally catching my first Dolly. Well and truly ticked that box with one of the best fishing sessions i have ever had, only downside is now I want to upgrade the boat so I can get out there in any conditions!

 Was meant to be a relaxing family day wife did a great job on the net. One of those fights I'll remember for a long time

 Massive jumps wicked runs and had me around the anchor twice but we got it into the boat

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Got some nice fish . Hate to say it but baldies pain in ass. Pretty relaxed day enjoyed it

 Great captures on yesterdays charter with a early morning bag out on mahi mahi and a few great demersals thrown in also weather was amazing.

 Found some great fish 

They were hard to find in my usual honey holes and the flats were completely barron. Day one camping we worked hard for six working depths moving shallower and day two we went deeper for no joy amd then deeper again and bang. Most are just size but very heavy.

 Heading out deep today off Point Peron thought 1st up we might have a crack at KG's so rigged up for them, well we got this lot and left them biting didn't bother going out deep chasing Dhue's was already a good day and back early.