Hooked on a trailing life bait right when you least expect them. Thats it for dinner, now bring on Sportsfishing.

 Caught this massive cuttlefish of the rocks near freo

Never tried squidin and was motorvated after attending the 'squid night' at Bluewater Morley. So on the way back from a fish this mornin I stopped to try the free jig I got from the night and first cast I was on (technique mastered) next cast landed me this beauty (33 cm hood), thought it was a cuttlefish it was that big, pulled some line off my 4lb gear. Another goal kicked, stoked, need a pinky on a placcy now (or on fresh squid)

 Never posted a pic on ere b4 so more just trying to work out how to do it.  Caught it of Mossman bay Quite a few being caught (more than few by others) Had a blast but too far to drive from home.

 Some of the tailor we have caught recently .........

Thought i'd better post a pick of my eldest boy's first Tailor. He's 9 years old and caught it on a 7" spin rod at Floreat beach a few weeks ago. Was a lot more excited than picture would suggest. 50 cm. Will post one of mine when i catch one bigger...

caught this sucker 2 days before goin back to work (5 week swing)

should keep me satisfied till i can get back out there, its my biggest one!!!

 Jeez wat a fish to crack the 1m mark on me first size snapper ...

cant half tell how stoked i was ......

Headed out at gentlemans hours on Sunday for a flick of some big plastics in shallow water in my mates boat.

Fishing in shallow water we did pretty well! 

Managed my PB Pinkie (released to swim again another day) in 6m and my mate pulled a nice lil Dhuie from the same spot!  Being a relatively new to chucking big plastics I couldn't beleive what would hit them  - Wrasse, Flatties and a 41cm Tarwine (all proper hookups not foul hooked)!  Also managed some nice lil sambos, skippy, and were busted off a few times by big Snapper and sambos.

It certainly is a great time to be fishing metro waters!

I recently relocated the family from Kalgoorlie to Perth and after ten weeks of FIFO eventually took up my new position in the Perth office. After being spoiled with the white Esperance beaches and the fishing at 10 and 11 mile beach, Point Culver, Poison Creek, Roses etc. I had to explore the new waters of Perth and the surrounds.  After many hours of consultation with Google Earth I finally found a spot that looked promising.

With my first weekend of being home I took the family out to a beach south of Mandurah on the last weekend of June 2012.  We arrived just before high tide and after catching the first Herring, swum it out as a live bait.  About an hour later the Daiwa 50SLH started screaming with my wife following in unison.  I was targeting Whiting in the shallows and shouted for her to grab the rod and hang on.  I anticipated a shark or skate and was keen to see her wrestle with a fish nearly her own weight.  She is a well-seasoned fresh water angler and has put many men to shame back in our league angling days in South Africa.  She has however not caught any noteworthy saltwater fish and I was keen to get her "hooked" on this discipline of angling.  After a fight of about 20 minutes she landed a lovely Samson fish.  I was gutted as I had never caught one of these species and to rub salt in the now "very open wound" a large specimen at the same time.  We took the snaps and did the high-fives (reluctantly) before releasing the fish. 

A little later I swam another Herring on the outgoing tide without much anticipation.  Half an hour later the rod was pulled from the rod holder and on its way to the ocean.  Once again frantic screams from the missus had me sprinting down the beach towards my beloved rod, this time for the added reason of not allowing her access to the rod. When I set the Gamakatsu circle hook I lost all but about 20m of the 35kg line before applying line-breaking pressure to turn the fish.  After a series of runs I managed to land the second (and slightly bigger) Samson fish for the day with a crowd of on-lookers "wowing" me along.  With my chest in full bloom we took the customary pics and to a groaning crowd (who pleaded for the fish) released this prized specimen to fight another day.

I have been told that I would be wasting my time trying to land anything decent from the shores of the Perth Metropolis and surrounds and I hope to continue proving critics wrong.  Australia rocks and so does the fishing.

Just got back from an awesome weekend at kalbarri and just had to put this guy up, was caught balooning and went 32kg and 155cm my mate tim was stoked with this catch and is his biggest mack. we all had an awesome weekend but the effort all 3 of us put in was well rewarded!!

This fish was huge and so thick, we where alll shocked to see it when it washed up on the beach and i couldnt even get my hand around its tail to pull it up the beach!!

this is the link to the video on facebook, has a bit of language in it as we where all very excited hahaha...

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Went for a lazy fish on Sunday at a south metro beach with a mate, he was targeting sharks (and got smoked) and I was as usual targeting Mulloway.  Had a sand whiting I had caught 20 min earlier taken by this monster. 

Pretty bl00dy stoked with this fish, was outta the blue and guess I was just in the right place at the right time. From nose to fork was 1mt.  Good reward for many hours put into beach fishing lately.

Rod Daiwa Ballistic

Reel Shimano Thunnus bait runner spooled with 30 pound Finns braid.

Running sinker down to a 1 mt 60 pound trace and a pair of snelled Gamakatsu's.

Apologies for the pictures had some better ones but they might show where it is.

Just got back from a quick week long trip to exmouth.  Wind blew its nuts off for all but one day.  We braved it some days and shore fished in little protected bays the others, and spent an arvo flicking lures around the marina.  Plus we drunk beer and ate at pinnochios and planet burger when we felt like it.

Brought a few spangly fillets home as well as some cod, and released a heap of goldens and a couple of bonefish as well.  Didnt get sharked once, even including a few hours bottom fishing out from south passage.  Saw a few, but landed all our fish.

A roo decided it didnt like a mudguard on my trailer on the trip up so we did some running repairs with a blue chemical drum in carnarvon


And some more

The fish was measured at 89cm , I am not sure of the weight. THE FISH WAS RELEASED AND SWAM AWAY STRONG.

Decided to comitt to a late night fish last night with a mate just off a metro beach south of the sound. Was due for a good session and last nights comittment definately payed off with three decent size gummy sharks, all within 1 and half hours.

Left with them still on the bite, but had enough to feed us and share with a few mates

Been a bit slack & haven't popped up any pics of recent trips out, after a phone call from another member last night to remind me that we "were a bit quiet" I thought I would pull the finger out.

Another reason for some tumbleweeds is I got done for donuts by Seaquest last week, who clearly rubbed his wedding tackle or some sh!t all over my spool because I couldn't get a freakin' hookup on plastics or jigs & had a case of dropsies! Was a hard day with a northerly drift & painful to see good fish lit up on the sounder but they didn't want to play, anyway there are two certanties 1) pics will tell the story 2) Seaquest will keep reminding me of his BOG performance

phuckface with one on McArthy

jammypricknumber2 with a flame snapper "assist" youarseybastard

Here are some other pics that I haven't posted from a trip out

Mamba strikes

Doing my 'Wilson'

Capt. Krug aka Grumpy Nuts with his identity removed for your protection not his

 Headed up to Jurien a couple of weekends back with a mate and his boat.  The conditions were pretty good but we spent most of the time in about 8-15m of water sounding out lumps and throwing plastics and flies on sinking lines.

Having never caught a Dhuie before I was pretty please to land a small one which went back quickly to swim another day.  Feeling chuffed I dropped the same placcy back down again and managed instantly hooked up on an 70cm + jobbie!  Had another drop and just as I was thinking in my head "this would be bullshit if I got a third" the rod comes up tight and up comes another 70cm fish!  Also managed a 20kg Sambo in 8m of lumpy stuff that pulled like a freight train.

Pretty top fishing for just how close/shallow we were!

just throwing up a few pictures of some decent tailor ive got over the last few weeks when ive had the chance to get out for a flick, all where caught on lures and 10lb on a certate 2506 and 2-5kg pflueger rod, dam the go hard on such light gear!!!!

the photo of the location (its north metro) ive edited out a bit of it to hide its location but you still get the idea of how much foam and wash is around there and also how much reef you have to try and stop them from getting to on the light stuff.

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bit of sounder porn an the rewards from it

Went out today with a couple of guys NOR and managed to get a couple of nice Dhuies, mine beaing my PB, in about 12m of water, weighed in at 12kgs gutted. I must say it was wamer in the water than out, but still had fun

I'm still very much on the Perth metro fishing learning curve, and my notable captures so far have been few and far between so thought I may as well share this one, such as it is.

I had planned on heading up to Capricorn for an early morning tailor fish, but ended up hitting the snooze button a few too many times, so by the time I was ready to go it was nearly high tide and I decided to head to my local NOR metro beach (Burns) instead. The last time I caught a tailor there was two years ago, and that was a rat, so my hopes weren't all that high for much more than a pleasant stroll and watching the sun rise.

Tied on a Maria Bull Chop and started walking and casting from the rock groyne heading north. Not much (nothing) happened until just about dead on the high tide and a fair way up the beach when I got smashed a fair way out in some clear water. Quite a few minutes and a lot of 'oh please...oh please..!' later (was only using a 3000 size reel with 12lb line) landed this beauty of a tailor and my PB so far. Fished on for a bit after but was so stoked that I wasn't even really trying anymore so decided to head back in with my prize and knock up some brunch. Went just on 58cm.

Went to my usuall spot, which is only about 1 km off shore, early this morning hopin for a pinkie. Only fished sp's and burleyed up. The skippy were thick and when my mate's got nailed by Uncle Sam just at the back of the boat bringin it up, the next went back with a hook in it. I procedeed to 'lob' the livey out but the bail arm had flicked over and the weight of the 35cm skip took the rod outa my hands. Rugged up with several layers and uggies, I jumped in draggin another rod overboard in the process. I saved both rods, and swam like a hairy as fuck dog back and climbed aboard, laughed then let the skippy out again and soon it was on. Bigger than I would expect to get very close to land but good fun and easily my biggest fish in Perth. Theres gota be better table fish below......next time. Gota clean some reels out now.

Hi all,

I've been having a play on my fav metro beach spot in recent mornings with a certain level of success. I have fished this spot over a number of years with relative success but its very dependent on specific conditions to fish well.

Heres a couple of photos of catches from that spot, sorry most are kill shots but its hard to get good photos in the morning light. All fish caught on various baits.

Enjoy!

Just came across this on Facebook, though some might like it.

Words and pic taken from his Facebook page-

The fishing gods smiled on me this afternoon and let me land one of those genuine "fish of a lifetime" we all dream about... I could count on one hand the angling encounters I've had that have made me shake as much as this one did, and doing it on a 9 weight fly rod made it doubly memorable. Casting a nondescript little #1 Clouser towards rocks at the western end of Channel Island in Darwin Harbour, I connected with the biggest queenfish I've ever seen — in flesh or photo. Half a wild hour later, this giant queenie sadly had barely a kick left in it at boat-side, effectively ruling out a release, so I'll be getting a wall mount made. For the statistically minded, this amazing specimen was 130cm long overall, 114cm nose-to-fork and weighed a whisker over 16 kilos... The photos don't show the thickness through its head and shoulders... Those repeated, explosive jumps are forever etched on my cerebral cortex I am still trembling as I type this!

hi lads, thought i would share some of the photos from my quobba trip.

first time up there and man that place sure is an awesome place to fish, went up there with my mate Russ for 5 nights and we managed to hit the westher perfectly sunny days the whole time. all up we hooked unto 8 mackies, only landing 1 with the other 7 being lost to sharks, couldnt believe how bad they were up there. Was absolutely as it was my first mackie ever caught landbased on my first time ballooning was approx 13kg, still cant wipe the smile off my face. The bottom bashing was decent with us catching baldies, spanglies, sand snapper,  redthroat, bluebone and spanish flag.

hope you lads enjoy the photos and cant wait to get back up there

Cheers

Reece

Hi all

Caught these cobbler last nite, they must have been hungry after the storm. The biggest cobbler there is 83cm..Some people say there a pain to clean but i find it very easy

just fillet and skin them... And they are very tastey too.....

Anyway heres a pic.

Cheers Jesse

9th June 4.00pm on mulie paternoster rig

Not far North of Quinns, rhymes with bog peach.

Cheers !

Hi all we entered in the shoot out earlier in the week i thought i might share my story! this was our first comp and we had some tough competition. i think there was over 50 boats entered

Day1: We got up super early and we were out at the ships ready go by 6. Conditions were looking not to bad. we had our livies out all morning with little action till about 10 and we tagged and relised our first black (about 40kg) Then after lunch we moved to a new spot and sent the livies out as the boys were sending out the third rod all hell broke loose all 3 rods went off, triple hook up! I jump out of my seat to grab the third rod which had a black on it. the other 2 boys were tangled together and also around the outrigger. chris's fish got off and they got the lines clear and when chris wound his line in a saily chased it all the way to the boat then smashed it less then a metre from the boat! so we had 2 blacks and a saily hooked up so i was driving the boat as well as trying to hang on to a rod with the other hand and eventually my fish got off and we tagged and relised the black and the saily. 1 hour later we hooked another sail fish which managed to bust us off (10kg line comp). We finished day1 in top spot with 2500points and a 1500 point lead!! only 10 fish caught for the day

Day2: Should of stayed in bed! We were out on the water super early again with a real sore head after alot of celebrating the previous night. conditions were absolutly shocking with big winds and big swells. after about 5 hours we had seen one black and the boat fishing close to us hooked and lost a black and we thought a hot shower and a pub feed was a good idea. so after a long ride in at 10knots in a 26foot boat just as we got close to nelson rocks my engine alarms went off and turned out my kill tank pump and broke off allowing all the water coming over on to the deck to flood my bilge and then my bilge pump failed then my oil tanked tipped upside down and fried the motor, and just to top it off a wire snapped off a circuit breaker and killed all my electrics GREAT! So we managed to get  enough life out of the motor to prevent drifting in to the rocks and got to the saftey of a bay and tied off to a mooring. i managed to use my jumper pack to pump the water out and make a radio call and we got picked up my another boat and taken back to base. Only 4 fish caught for the day we still are holding a 1500point lead

Day 3: Conditions are evan worse and we are unable to tow the boat in with my friends boat so it was pretty tense day sitting round wondering if my boats alright and also wondering if anyone was going to take our lead off us. Im not 100% sure but i think there was only 6 fish tagged maybe more and one boat come very close to taking it out but luck was on our side and we won! Champion Team 2012 The Wolf Pack!

Day4 Conditions probably evan worse again so ill made the call to sea rescue and we left just after lunch and finally got the boat in at 8.30 that night. Thanks alot to West Pilbara Sea Rescue those guys were legends. I have now offered my services as a volunteer for the sea rescue team (if they will have me) probably the least i can do.

Cheers Pricey

Caught this puppy bout 9 mile off broome, ball sinker straight to hook, prawn bait. Grabbed it on the bottom and took off to the surface on some big runs, thought it was a shark, turned it and it went deep, took a little while to get in, hardest fighting fish i have caught to date. Also got some blueys and snapps but they couldnt come close to the power in this thing.