First time poster long time reader...

Caught this Dhuie out on the second bank at Jurien a few weeks back didnt have any scales on the boat so not sure on the weight but it was 104cm long.

Felt pretty bad as we tried to get it back in the water but from 60m it wasnt in a healthy shape when i got it on board.  Definately the biggest dhue I have ever caught. I was thinking 20-22kg?

hey

went down to jurien bay last weekend for a fish with few lads from work, camped for 2 days.

fished through the night, catchin' tailor, a lil gummy, a lil bronzy, and a lot of runs...........

we ended up casting some tailor out for bait, and got a lot of runs.

After 3 runs we ended up landing this shovel nose after a 35minute fight.

15 minutes later we had another run which when for 25 minutes and got reefed hard.

The shovelnose was about 2m long and estimated 70kg

And was also released :)

18kg from mindarie. 

nothing better than seeing a fish on the sounder before the hook up.  The new boat smudge just gets better and better!

Dont really get the oppurtunity to go out on a boat that often but an old mate of mine who just had a knee reco has got into fishing and has a smallish boat, went between garden and carnac in 8 meters of water to try our luck and landed this Sambo!

From what i've heard seems to me like i've fluked catching a sambo this big in the sound and only being 8 meters of water!

Just wanted to know what everyones opinions were or if they have caught that kind of fish in 8 meters before in the sound?

Hi all, its been a while since I posted anything, mainly due to too much work and not enough play. Anyway, me and a mate got out early yesterday with the intensions of finding some good ground and hopefully get into some nice demersals. with both of us pretty new to fishing off perth we headed out to the 30m contour and sounded for some ground. found a patch that looked promising but after a couple of drifts and only 1 wrass thought we'd push on. the easterly had drop a litttle by now so with the aim to find some ground we decided to chuck a couple of lures out the back and hopefully get 1 of these metro mackies everyone has been chasing. no sooner had we taken off sitting on about 6 knots id just set my lure and flicked the bail arm over to here the best sound in the world. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. a massive first run and Ive called a macky straight away( although Ive never actually caught one before.) I was pretty pumped. my mate grabbed the wheel and we chased it for a bit. Finally some colour and the colour i wanted to see. A nice 110cm mackie which weighed in at 9.5kg was boat side. nice gaf shot by my mate and it was cheers and high fives all round. off we set again and about 10 min later zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz of goes my drag again this time a 4.5kg long tail tuna. on the way back in my mate finally gets a hit and lands a stripe tuna then 5 min later I land another long tail.

All in all a great day on the water with awesome conditions, cant wait to get out there again and back into a bit of the same action. Im hooked on pelagic fishing now.

So i headed down to the sheds thursday to gather some scalies for bait with the misses.. Got there at 4.30 and was on my way home by just after 6....      55 scalies now vac sealed in the freezer......

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Oh yeh i forgot to mention while i was there i stole Leemos Mullaway ...... First cast within 10seconds of the bait hitting the water. Must have hit him on the head.. Fish went 15.6kgs(on certified scales)

Sorry Leemo...... But a big thanks goes out to the boys who gaffed him for me..... Cheers heaps guys.......... The misses didnt want to gaff/stab a giant hook into him...her words ....didnt complain about eating him but...

Cheers  Belly..

Hey guys,

Headed out wide off Two Rocks with my mate Ray. We were committed and heading out from the ramp at 5am under the cover of darkness in the 660 Offshore. 

First stop was our little sambo lump north off the Marina. Set the anchor in 25mtrs when we got there and proceeded to get absolutley destroyed for 2 hours. Between the two of us we landed 20+ sambos, varying from your average 5kg bullet to a thumpin 15kg brawler. After getting that out of our system we ventured deep to our grounds 30 mile NW.

After the big journey we set the drift on my first lump and first drop saw my mate Ray land a nice 10kg Dhui. A few more drifts saw both of us land a couple of big breaksea and some sargeants. Moved to my next lump and while I cracked my first beer and set the drift my mate Ray dropped some freshly skinned Occy down 50mtrs and got smoked by what we straight up called a Dhui, after a short fight another 8kg Dhui was onboard, quick photo and it was released for another day, considering Ray pulled it hard from 50mtrs it had no barotrauma and was in excellent condition.

I managed to get my first drop of this drift and with some nice big chunks of Occy on, and within minutes my saltiga 6000 was hosed and I was on, half way up I felt a massive thump and thought a shark had just bricked me, but continued to fight on and I was amazed to see 2 nice Baldy's surface! high fives and back slaps all round!

Moved from that lump as I do not like to fish my spots too hard, and it was producing well. It was about 1pm by this stage and I thought we would try a spot I had marked the night before but I had never fished before we headed back. A little 3 mile journey north saw me sounding a nice contour line, no ground was initially spotted and my mate was calling it a day, then a big jump appeared on the sounded and it was loaded!! Sounded around to get an idea of the scale of the lump and it was decent to say the least.

I decided to start cleaning down the boat, so I set the drift and Ray dropped some thumping baits down. I was busy cleaning the boat up and soughting our tackle out when Ray's Penn International 12T sprung into life, peeling line of like a freight train. I organised the deck for him and prepared for a big fight. I must stress I have caught alot of fish in my time and we called this for everything but what it was, I called it for a big macky because the initial run was easily 100mtrs, then the second burst was 50mtrs! it was hosing him! Ray called it for a big tuna because of the deep circling and bursting runs. For sure this was a pelagic we thought, no doubt about it. After 20 minutes it all went quiet with the odd head shake but very deep and heavy, finally we thought big shark for sure. Then all of a sudden Ray started to make ground, slowly slowly he gained back metres, a big flash of silver came from about 100 mtrs from the boat, then it surfaced...... it was a bloody massive Dhui! It was the biggest Dhui ever to be brought on any of my boats. After some mahem getting it beside the boat and carefully gaffing it in the gob, I ripped it aboard for Ray and I tell you boys it was like lifting a fridge out of the water. We weighed it onboard @ 21kg. As you could imagine it was high fives, back slaps, hugs, many I love you mate comments and a few beers cracked as we marvelled at its size! That was it, the day was over, how could we top that. In the ice box it went and we set course for Two Rocks Marina.

A long way from home and a few coronas left in the ice box, we had a few beers and motored 2hours home. Wasnt too bad on the way back, sitting at a nice 20knots the 660 Offshore performed well.

Great day on the water! I get more pleasure out of taking a mate out fishing on my boat and seeing them get hosed all day and land big fish, than I do catching them myself. Their is no better feeling for a skipper!

(Its actually me holding the Big Dhui up, I did get some photos on his camera holding it up but for some reason we couldnt access them until last night, I will get his photos when I see him next and upload them, he is one happy bloke)

Shaun Clark

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Went out with a few boys for a metro beach fish early this morning. Brother in law landed a beauty of a snapper at around 7am. Memorable day!

Caught this 56cm Tailor on the Busso Jetty a week ago. Caught on 12Lb mono Platapus pre-test, Shimano Jewel 662 Barra, Shimano Sienna 2500FD. He had that cheap reel smoking, it was fun. Cooked up nice in the oven too.

Its been a long time coming but handed over the $$$ today on a 2352 Trophy pro walkaround. Reckon its the perfect all rounder, big enough to get out into the deep stuff, small enough to tow up north, shade and shelter for family days and capable of being an overnighter at rotto. and with the walkthrough to the marlin board it should be awesome as a diving platform too. has a 5.0 mpi mercruiser with 46 hours on the clock, cant wait to get her on the water and into some metro mackies 

Well my last fishing day in Perth before the Fishwrecked Fishing Comp finally arrived. Paul G rings " Mate were on for Monday ( 5th March ), the weather looks fantastic and we will head out to some of my treasured spots."  Nice and early 5.30am start. Yep, Sure, No problems Skip was the reply.  I raced around like a headless chook, jigs, plastics, special bait rig, rods, reels yep all good.  Alarm goes off at 4.00am and I awoke to one of those classic Autumn mornings, not a breath of wind, " You Bloody Beauty " we are going to have a Cracker I thought. Packed the last bits and headed off to meet Paul, Jesse and Kev, right on the money at 5.30am and we set off for the marina at Two Rocks.  Now I know it's a public holiday, but I didn't anticipate the que at the ramp, Paul gave that wry smile, " Mate this is quiet compared to some days".  We soon launched "Re Lisa and we were on our way.

" Re Lisa " is a classic Haines Hunter Boat and Paul has her very finely tuned, jumping and cutting though the water at a very comfortable 30 knots, the morning OOZED Exmouth, flat calm sea. not a breath of wind.

10 minutes into the journey and Jesse like a hawk yells out " Tuna, Birds " get ready, I didn't even have time to pick up my rod and he was already hooked up. Yelling and laughing come on slow coach. Out went the Adagio jig right in the middle of the school who were porpoising around the boat smashing anything that moved. Half and hour of laughing and yahooing, Rods, Jigs, Twisties flying everywhere. Okay let go tag some Dhuies you guys the skipper boomed.  Well I felt like I needed to be blind folded and turned a few times around as we were heading into secret Paul G business " oops country.

We arrived at the first spot and we had two dhuies on board. Paul quickly measuring, tagging, recording and releasing the two in strong condition.  We moved to the next and had two more on board, Paul and Jesse went through the same process, It was fantastic to see how all this comes together and help sustain our fish population.  We moved again, once again double dhuies, I caught my first and she had a Tag in her. Paul wiped the seaweed off the tag, noted the number, re measure, recorded and released her.  " That is one I caught a couple of years ago" Paul said. 'That was one of my tag numbers .'  Made me feel proud that we had come a long way from the days that we kept everything.

Our first keeper was a very solid 14kg Dhuie that had me going for a tighter drag, next drop was our second keeper a dhuie of around 11kg, I could not wipe the smile off my face.

Paul landed a Dhuie of around 11kg but we released it for another day, he and Kev were the Baldie masters of the day catching six and keeping two.

On the way back we came across a school of little mack tuna, they were that thick that I ended up catching one by the tail, as I went to release it, it kicked, and put one of those very sharp hooks through my finger.

Yeoooow !!!! Yep "Iam HOOKED on RE LISA"

Great Day, Great Company, Great Fishing

Bring on Exy where the Gun " Jody " re joins the team

Overall

12 Dhuies

6 Baldies

1 Bronzie,

5 or 6 Tuna

 One of 3 caught on Sunday. All had the same spotted pattern on the back

Weather looked too good to miss out yesterday so i took the opportunity to take my wife and siter and brother in law out for their first fish in the ocean.

Got the girls up at 3:30am to load the boat and give them the real fishing experience. on the water just as the sun came up and was magnificent. The further we went out the calmer it became.

We had some pots out deep and pulled them for a nice little bounty, great start to the day.

Was slow going early with only pickers then my brother in law got a just sized baldie but was just about dead when it got to the boat so kept him for the oven. Then i pulled up a really nice black ass on a mulie.

The girls were not very happy until my wife pulled up a nice Dhu. First fish and a keeper. She got it on a McCarthy 7"bull head. Couldnt wipe the smile off her face.

30 min later and another move and the sister in law pulls up a nice pinkie!! She was very happy with herself, not because of the fish but because she didnt spew while winding it in. She was crook from 6:30 until 1 pm when we finally gave in and took her home.

Great day out on the water, conditions were fantastic and brought home a nice feed. THANK GOD FOR THE PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!!!!!

Problem is now the girls may want to come out all the time....

Not a huge brag but thought maybe some of you guys might be interested!

Caught my very first Whiting on a popper this afternoon after a couple of sessions trying, not a very big specimens but whiting on an artificials all the same. Cuaght another one aswell to prove it was not a fluke and had lots of follows.

Headed out again with a good mate of mine Basil on his new trophy for a morning flick for tailor in hope that it would be going off like the other day. Well we weren't dissapointed and ended up catching 25-30 fish with some cracker fish in amongst them. I got the chance to test out the new Exist 2508 size that I matched to a '6'10" Black Label rod, I was really really impressed by the reel which was more then capable of landing the tailor we were catching. One highlight was when Basil was fighting a tailor back to the boat a 20-25kg sambo came up and the tailor got TAKEN, it lasted all of 3seconds before his line busted, it was really cool to see. The fish were going crazy and taking anything this morning. Anyway here is a few pics of the bigger fish

Ross's big one

First decent one for the Exist

The sebile got TAKEN!!

Weather was looking good so we put the boat in at Wyndham and did the long haul out into the Gulf.

It was all worth it when my son hooked into what appeared to be a freight train. He did really well to land it after several long runs including a couple that had him scurrying to the other side of the boat. Other catches included a number of finger mark and any number of sharks.

It was great to see him haul it up totally unassisted.

Bit of a worry,

My son holds the record for the best Jew 125cm

My daughter holds the record for the best Coral Trout 63cm

My wife holds the record for the best Mack 130cm.

My turn will come!

First time with the jigs today.

We ended up with 2 dhus, 2 pinkys and a BA

Had a great night, went to a spot we had some luck on during the day and someone elso was there, so just anchored up the ways a bit and baited up with the fresh squid we caught earlier today and pulled in quite a few small and just undersize Snapper, non size but hey thats life.

As usual a few rays and one bite off, then my wife had a nice run and we called it for another Ray, she struggled and hauled a nice Gummy to the surface, I had the net in hand and she got the head in then the Gummy just started spinning and got nicely tangled in the net, and aboard he came.

A few pics (attached) and off with the head n guts and tail and into the slurry.

Sorry to the wife in advance, she looks like a stunned deer in headlights with the flash going off in her face after staring out in the dark, but she was wrapped with her catch, though initially shite scared of the thing coming aboard.

Great night out, nice weather, cant wait to do it again,

Couple of macs from today!!

Hey All

Had an AWSOME session on the tailor yesterday with Cahal and Dylan. We would have caught at least 35-40 between us with the biggest fish going 65cm. Double and triple hookups were the norm and we even got hookups on film!! The fish were going absolutely NUTS and I have never seen them like it before. We had a number of times when we caught 2 fish on one lure which was pretty cool. All the fish we caught were in between 11:30-2:30. Anyway heres a few pics

Standout lures were

Hammerhead Tobi 44

Zipbait slide swim minnow 120

Maria bullchop

R2S rover

 hey guys chasing a boat mechanic i live north off the river if anyone can recommend anyone would be much appreciated 

cheers ben!

Went out on Saturday with 2 mates chasing billfish. Had a great day, ended up catching 2 each (5 Sails and 1 Marlin). We trolled about 6 miles west of Bare Rock but the action was non existant until we came across a 'Bait Ball' (Hadnt heard of one of these before - pretty cool on the sounder) which resulted in a triple hook up, all of which were landed. Ended up losing a few more before we hooked the Marlin which took about 2 hours (and 3 miles!) to subdue. Luckily the Bait Ball hadn't moved and we were soon on again - the action was non stop!

Only had the Phone, so sorry for the poor quality of the pic.

It was great fun, but its Red emperor time again I think!

Here's a few pictures from yesterdays trip out to the FAD's

Report to follow from my brother Cbkinetic

Full report here

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/sunday-fads-2622012

Departed 03:30 Saturday morning from Kalgoorlie to Point Culver for a quick fishing trip.  Total distance 1050km, total travelling time 16hrs, total angling time 12 hours, last 79km from main road to Point Culver - 3.5hrs.  Only true anglers and crazy people would do this!

I've been spending time sussing out a few new spots down Bicton way and ended up having a pretty good session yesterday arvo. Caught stack of grunter on a Berkley Scum Dog which, while they were only grunter, were still a hell of a lot of fun - great surface strikes and they generally put up a pretty good account of themselves. Some of the larger fish were getting close to 30cm.

Anyway after a while I dropped a diver to fish some of the deeper water and after a few casts had a solid flatty hookup which I knew was going to beat my 46cm PB, you could just feel the weight at the other end of the line.  After a few great runs and plenty of panic that I was going to lose it I finally dragged it over to the sand and measured him up at 52cm, and he was fat as too. Sweet!

I went back to the sandbars after that and scored a couple of small bream around 25-28cm to finish it all off.

hello people

Well decided yesterday arvo around 3pm that I should really take the boat out today for a spin and make sure everything is working fine before I go to exmouth next tuesday. I wasn't too fussed if we caught nothing I just really wanted to make sure everything was working fine(which it wasn't). Anyway we lazly put the boat in the water and started cruising out when I said to the other guys we might as well do something different and try catch a tailor. Well we flicked a few stickbaits around the edges of the reef and I was quite supprised when duffy hooked into a really nice fish, almost boatside and it spat the lure, eeehhhh no fuss we will go back round I said. Another cast in the same spot and Duffy the hack hooks up again landing this fish. The one he lost would have been bigger but it was still good to get one in the boat. We flicked a few more lures around landing about 5 in total and loosing some more. If we had of stayed longer I imagine we would have caught more. Anyway we decided to head over to rotto and have a quick troll around some reef I caught fish at last year. I litterally didn't even get the fourth rod in the water before my 8mt "Plebhead" took off, I was spewing because I hate redheads with a passion but because it was overcast it was a contrasting colour that stood out. The fish wasn't massive, maybe 10kg but I was really suprised at how hard to fought, normally I don't like catching macks because I reckon they hardly fight but it really suprised me. A change of spots to west end and again only a short troll before the 8mt"plebhead" went off again. Duffy was on the rod and brought a nice looking mack boatside, I thought it was just another tiddler untill I had a good glance and realised it was a really good fish, I got straight to the gaff and gaffed it in the head to make sure it wasn't going nowhere, a bit of thrashing around and we had a bent gaff and 22kg mackie on board. Duffy was pretty stoked to land is first mack and it was a good size at that, we trolled for another 45mins after that and then had a major electronics failure so decided to head back in, ended up finding the earth to the electronics had come free which was a releaf. being back by 12:30 was nice also. Anyway herés a few pics.

The Hack

Andrews baby

another for the hack

nice tiddler

The Plebhead HUNTED hard for this fish

Nice teeth hey?

A tailors tooth lodged in my lure

Well, today marks 5 years since moving to Exmouth.  What can I say, 5 of the best years of my life and would encourage anyone else that has to opportunity to do so, to make the most of it.

Here's a few pics of my memories, out of the many hundreds I have.  Good times.

Cheers,

Adam