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.

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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.

 Went out on Friday for a wee fish in the shallows to try and entice a pink or one. Failed again ! Anchored in a patch of 8 mt gnarliness and berlied up hoping for the best. First was Port Jackson followed by a dhubanger , steam train that was stopping for nobody and another 4 Jacksons with the last one being the first one I caught coming back for seconds. Great night and feed to come home with. 

Brined and smoked the wings and frame to snack on with the fambam , bloody awesome!

I am assuming the fish the greenhorn caught was a sand bass? 

Glamour conditions last week had us launching at 4.30 with the plan to target the sunrise mackie bite then top up the eski with some tasties.

Lures out at first light and just as the sun started to rise my mate screams "MACKIE" pointing 100m further west. As we troll over we're greeted with a sight I will probably never forget, up to 50 mackerel free jumping metres into the air, one after another over the size of a football field. We're left scratching our heads as we troll straight through the middle of them all without turning a reel. As I double back into the direction we just came my mate grabs his casting rod and starts flicking a stickbait either side of the boat, frantically swapping sides as fish continue to launch all around us.

Finally he hooks up which leaves me to clear the spread.

As im winding in the last rod the laser pro gets smacked just meters off the prop, yeeha doubles!

I land mine but mate loses his, which starts the trend as we go on to lose 6 fish in a row in an unbelievable hour of power.

Next on the agenda is for some dhuies and baldies so we move to some likely ground in the high 40s. With only undersized dhuies coming over the side for the first few hours and a very strong current from the north that was dragging our rigs away in the direction faster than the boat was drifting (never had that happen before.)

My mate says "let's stick it out until the wind swings SW, then we'll be on."
Finally the wind swings and the bites start increasing, then in 2 drifts hooks fall out of 2 good suspected dhuies halfway to the boat then on the next drift we finally stick one, coming in at 90cm.

We come home with 2 fish after a very frustrating session with lots of bent rods but plenty of fillets to go around.

RDO again and dropped the kids off, punched out a 9k run and headed to the ramp to be met by some kind gentleman who waved me through the zebra crossing... thanks Unc.

Headed out to my whiting spot and loaded up on 20 plump sandies and also bagged 2 slimeys and headed to the 28's for a quick drop dropping them down butterflied.

Saw my drift bait slowly bend over then line started peeling and I thought I'd hooked a big dhu and started to win before it smoked me and after a decent back and forth pulled up a tiger around 1.5m.

Setup again and was onto my last slimey so dropped down the whiting rig and hooked a mid 30s snapper on my 4lb 1-2kg combo which was awesome fun then my drift bait took off again and it was a telltale pinkie battle and pulled in a nice 65cm model.

The weather turned extremely quickly and I raced in only to run out of fuel 2km from the marina... appears it pays to calibrate your new Suzuki Interface as it doesn't store the info from your fuel sensor. Thanks Whitfords Sea Rescue and I'll happily pay my donation Monday.

been loving the new beast, upgraded the barcrusher to a nz built extreme cc. took a while for one to come up second hand in aus but was worth the wait. if you cant tell my son is loving his red neck no front teeth look at the moment!

 My son and i had a nice day out in the 50's off Mandurah last week during the good weather.

 Went out for a quick dash this morning looking for some new ground first drop landed these beasts before a quick jig in close also what are peoples thoughts om the sounder shot in 230m didnt pull anything off it only tried once though

 Headed out on saturday morning with my two young blokes. As i went to leave the ramp i find out the GPS/sounder decided to a hissy fit and not work at all. Luckely i was heading out to similar area with a mate (he was in his boat) he didn't mind me following him out. hit 40m mark and he draw an X on the water an told me ground was good around this area. so with all that info i through out the drift anchor and baited the hooks. I was giving both my boys a turn of the big rod and getting to feel bigger bites then our usual target of whiting. i was playing with the sounder trying to get it to work, next thing i hear "dad, dad, i've got something" turn around, rod up and tip bent right around. with a bit of help from dad and he landed this. First for the boat (since i've owned it) and his first dhu was about 6kg 70cm.

we went in to our favourite whiting hole and got a great feed of whiting. some good size sandies with my littlest nabbing the best for the boat on the day. IUt was a great day out with my kids

My first kid free RDO in 10 years with all 3 in fulltime school now and the weather was a cracker so walked them down and packed the boat hitting Hillarys by 9:30 for a solo run.

Hit my 23m mark with some ox heart and the whiting were like rats but so were the baby flatties. Caught a dozen very quickly but it slowed a bit as they were concentrated in one patch and CBF dropping the pick. One was a beast coming in at 29cm. Once I had a decent feed I shot off to a spot I caught a small Dhu previously for a couple of drifts then moved to my 30s honeyhole and second drift landed me a nice 54cm Dhu.

Drive in and trolled the 3 Mile for a bit for no joy and got the boat home and unpacked just in time to walk back down and grab the kids.

I can get used to this veeeeery quickly.

heres a few photos from some recent trips 

 Well, that has to be the best consecitive 4-5 days of fishing weahter i have seen in my whole fishing career down south in Albany. A collection of pics  across a few days fishing. Great deep dropping weather. Fish where on the chew from the first drop.

Yes- its a lot of fish. Yes its within our bag limits, so pls dont comment if you don't know the rules yourself :) i'm very aware of what we are allowed to take etc. Remeber these where not all taken on the same day.

Great times on the sth coast