Hey guys, ive noticed the reports are a bit slow today and im tired of refreshing the site waiting for new posts so thought i might upload some photos of some fish ive been getting into this month.

A couple of firsts for me include the black bream on plastics, Ive only just started fishing the river in the last month as its a great way to spend a Sunday arvo, nice and relaxing.

The sandy on plastics also a first. With the weather extremely warm and a couple days off for Aus Day and the friday, my mates and I spent the glassy mornings out on the jetskis having a ball skiing, thats when i noticed the schools of solid yellowfin cruising the shallows. I came back in the arvo with the rod and a pack of plastics, sight casted to a school of yellowfin and one sucked it in and ran with it, pulled the hook out on the strike and it turned around and smashed the plastic again, then i lost it haha was actually suprised at how aggressive they are.

Big skippy in the bucket went 45cms, most of them caught on 4in plastics.

The big tailor went 58cms, the smallest we caught that session was 43cm, casting stickbaits into washy reefs from the ski, not a bad size for metro. The stickbaits we used are supposed to be bream lures, Starlo Pro bream stix or something, we just change the trebbles to larger ones and they work a treat, as the photos show.

The big skippy and tailor haul was from a session I had with flangies and leemo which turned out to be one of the hottest metro landbased sessions we've ever had.

Cheers guys

Hey People

Went out with Joe M and Drumstick to hit up some ground off two rocks. Was great conditions all day with the fish being relatively hungry. Drumstick caught hooked up on the first drift landing a nice dhuie that pulled the scales to 11kg. We just used jigs all day and landed 14 Dhuies, 5 snapper, 2 baldies, 2 flathead, 2 blackass, tuna, YTK and sambos.

Anyway here's some pics

Drumsticks Dhuie

My Big Bladie

Drumstick with a great flatty

One of Joes Favourite eating fish....The Sambo

Hunting HARD!!

So...

After a couple of hours of trailling some lures out the back for a Mackie without success...

We pulled up at a random location (with no sounder) and dropped a couple of smaller rods to fossick up some wrasse....

They were most obliging, as wrasse in this location usually are, and quickly hooked a couple onto our larger gear to try our luck...

Only about 15 minutes in, and something took drag...  Before vanishing into the great blue yonder... Its sudden departure, also leaving my somewhat ill tempered mate , with a nasty tangle in his line...

Fortunatley it did not take long to sort out... and there was no need to raise the wee wrasse from the depths...  And just as well... Cause bang something struck again about 5 minutes later...

What followed immediatley after that was a mad scramble to raise both the smaller lines and my own rig...  As well a good 40-50m of anchor rope...

The whole time the spool is running, and getting awfull shallow in what was left on the reel with the action.

The motor kicked straight into gear, as it should, as so began the chase to recover some line.... None too soon, as the report from the arm wrestle going on was that a little bit of the spool's center was just visible...

30 minutes later and after much maneouvering to keep the action on the one side, up goes the exclamtion from the bow... I see silver...

Promptly followed by a loud expletive and "look at the size of that thing"

Sneaking a peek over the side, and so I saw that my mate had hooked a damn good size amber or sambo...

Not exactly prepared to take aboard something of that calibre, down went the net, and a quick calculation was made that I would need to lean out the side why he tried lifting it...

The 1st attempt to left it didnt go so well, and the fish went back in and very nearly the rod too, as well as nearly being snapped in half as it bent over the side of the boat...

The 2nd attempt went better, and on the deck it went...

Couple of happy snaps later and straight back into the release process... Took a good 20-25 mins to get it moving, and finally away it went back down into the deep, nice n strong...

Measured up at 1.52m nose to tail tip, (had a tape measure and no scales onboard, but estimates would be upwards of 25kg+ considering how heavy it was to lift, maybe heavier, who knows what adrenline does....

Fish broke the pair of snells on the leader and on inspection just the one hook had held... Thankyou Owner....

Anyway here is a pic of one happy camper...

went for a flick today downstream today

bit quiet and very hot
got a few small bream on breamprawn and zipbait rigge

but more importantly 3rd cast hooked this lovely flathead on a Zipbait Khamsin JNR SR Rattler

went 53cms and a new pb, nervous moments on 4lb leader but he busted me off once he was on the bank

better photos to come with me holding it on my mates camera

Cheers

To be onboard this nice boat, And the skipper is not to bad as well

And a PLUS is he knows were the fish are too

sherbie

Took the young bloke barra fising end result Tom 2 Dad and Nicko nil.

Headed out the other day testing the Madeye 7" Flick Sticks. Smile says it all

Caught in 20m.

Woke up late yesterday and headed down at midday to a section of flats that had been producing lately, didnt like my chances at midday tho

Ended up been a good little session fish for just over and hour and landed 8 bream on Hardbodies
Crackjacks and zipbaits doin the damage
2 fish hooked up right at my feet, mostly rats about 4 legal
and the biggest going 30cms to the fork (32cm tip), smashed my crackjack on a fast retrieve saw him come out of the depths and smash it on the flat

Not bad excitement for the river

Cheers

 

Hey all

Well yesterday was the first of many Jigging Tutorial days to come, with weather so good you could not even wish for a day as calm. The fishing on the other hand was very hard and made all who came along work hard for the fish they caught, which was probably a good thing to make the jiggers work harder. The first few hours were quite with a few small sambos coming over the side and a handful of small snapper. It wasn't till later in the day when we moved out to deeper water when the fish began to come on the bite. We were also lucky enough to have a prize kindly donated by Tackle HQ for whoever caught the biggest dhuie for the day, that prize went to Paul Gordon who managed to land two dhuies in a very short time frame. Congrats Paul and hope you like the rod. There was plenty of pinkies out wide along with a few baldchin that were all more than willing to eat some nice flashy jigs. There was quite a few times with multiple sambo hookups which was very entertaing watching everybody run around the boat.

We hope all had a great day with trying conditions but we still managed to catch our limit thanks to Whiteys great skippering and valuable knowledge. If you want to come along to one of our Tackle HQ Jigging tutorial days give us a call or drop me an email and we can get you hooked on jigging!

A big thanks to whitey for taking us out and to everyone who came along!

The weapon of choice

early morning sambo

Paul's nice Dhuie

Great baldie on a smith mejiyume

another dhuie for Paul

 Hooked Up!!!!

Paul's BIG sambo on light tackle

Pinkie on Lamble bait

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Chris's nice pinkie, this fish put up a great fight

The lamble bait did some hunting and up came this nice snapper

Great coloured baldie on a CB ONE Quick Zero 100g

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The lucky prize winner

 We set out in calm conditions in the 4.2m tinnie with the hope of trolling lures at the back of the 3 mile but encountered a fair bit of weed so tried a couple of spots in 30 meters and managed 2 Dhufish, biggest 12.5kg and a 3kg Baldy.

Hi Crew,

I went beachfishing with the members cuthbad and ragbag last Friday night.

We arrived at our spot just before sunset. Me and Adam started right away getting some nice big baits out with the yak. So that we could set them before dark. We did this and after that we started with our sliding gear. The night was rather quite with not a lot of pick ups.

I think the first one of us to pick anything up was ragbag with a nice big run on his sliding gear. After a good fight and having the fish very close to shore it cut through the leader That was devastating!!! For the next few hours we where just thinking what was it????

After the moon got out the rays starting to get on the bite. And I'm not quite sure but I think ragbag was on next with a small shovelnose ray. (released)

Then Adams big yak bait got picked up. And he was on a nice black ray. The fight took the best part of 20 min and then the fish was landed. We took some pics and measurements and realeased the fish.

That was pretty much it for the rest of the night.

I decided to leave my big bait out and tie the rod to the car. I was sleeping and at about 6 in the morning I thought I could hear my bell on the rodtip. I got up had a look, nothing. Then 2 minutes later again. And I got up and nothing. I thought I was dreaming... And another 2 minutes later my drag started running. I nearly fell through my tent and to my rod. I picked it up and tightened the drag. Then I thought it dropped. But it was not and started running shortly after.

I called it for a ray and thought that my big bait ( it was at least a 4kg fishhead) must have been picked to shreds and it was not much left so a ray could take it. The fight wasnt very hard or long. After about 15 min the fish was in the shore break and we could see that it was a tiger. And the fight wasnt as great, cuz the fish was wrapped in my leader. After she rolled out of the line the fish got a second live in it and started a few short runs along the beach.

A few minutes later and with the help of ragbag and cuthbad the fish was landed ,measured, dehooked and released.The size was 2.1 meter and about 80kg.

What a great start for a Saturday!

I think Adam is posting later some more Info for the ray.

Thanks Seb

A FEW PICS FROM A RECENT PILBARA ADVENTURE !!!

Thought i'd get this outta the archives and tell ya why i was hooked so early. Growing up in Newman my father took the family to the coast almost every school holidays mainly for fishing trips to places like Coral Bay, Exmouth, Broome, Onslow, 80 mile beach, Shark Bay list goes on... Plenty of big fish and wasnt long before the old boy was putting me onto the bigger tackle chasing bigger fish.I was 8 years old and ended up landing this Golden Trevally on the beach not far from Coral Bay. It took me about 20min to get in with my father refusing to help me. I know its said alot about memories lasting a life time about catching the 'fish of a lifetime' but i can remember this one like it was yesterday afternoon. I have caught bigger and better than this but to me its my "fish of a lifetime'.

 If anyone else has any childhood memories or would like to share their pics of their fish of a "lifetime" pls do i love hearing about it!

Went out with my skipper and personal mate luke (fishon570) yesterday.

The day started out shit with me losing my rod out of the rodholder (demondblood pe 2-4) which resulted in us sharing a rod for the whole day.

Then when we arrived at out spot, the fishing was slow with me catching a very small dhu (released) and luke catching a wrass. We fished  the first spot for over 2 hours, and spirits on boad were a bit low as the fish didnt want to play. But being the awesome skipper lukey boy was, he was determined to put us on some fish.

So after a 30 minute drive, we got to our 2nd spot. As i was throwing out the drift anchor, luke was already onto his 1st drop. Before the jig reached the bottom, it got smashed by an est 20kg sambo. After landing his sambo, i dropped straight back down resulting in a similar size sambo. we continued to jigg for sambos for over an hour, Landed about 5 sambos, and lost many more. The next fish i hooked had me guessing, i was jigging at high speeds but the fish felt nothing like a sambo. My suspicions were correct when a nice baldy popped his head up. After the baldy, we focused more on demersal jigging, which resulted in lukey boy catching another larger baldy.

After lukes baldy, things went quiet so we decided to drift over the sambos again. This time i was on big again. Our thoughts were another sambo, but the sheer weight of the fish and smaller runs had us guessing and hoping it was a large dhu. after a long fight the fish started surfacing 10m from the boat, which got us all very excited. then a 16kg dhu popped up. Spirits were high as a kite and hi-5's going around.

good days fishing.

Look at these gnashers....

Has a black marking on the ridge of its back?? 

gonna be lazy species?

jack of some sort

 Guys, no pics but listen up.

I dropped my rod in the ocean, (abu garcia with 7000i )on a hook up, basically wasnt paying attention whilst positioning myself, anywsay away it went into the abyss straight to the bottom at 50metres.

Absolutely gutted I was, especially as nothing was hitting the jigs, bait, rigs we were sending down on a what looked like activiity at the bottom.

As I was slipping into depression 10 mins later,  my deck mate dropped his line and had felt a knock, and started to haul in...whinging and groaning the fish had no life, and pondering what it was, he hauled in a abu garcia rod with 7000i reel....

For me it was catch of the day....happy days....once again..and a carton of beer to the deckie...

The little Red was still on too...... just added...

Well me and duffy decided to head out off two rocks today in search of some demersal fish that would be willing to eat our jigs. The weather was awesome today and we were able to sit on 30knts the whole way out to the spots. Although Fishing was quite first off in the morning Duffy managed to land a nice size baldy which put up a great fight on his new saltiga 4000. We pursisted throughout the morning picking the odd fish up here and there, I began to think we weren't going to have a very productive day. I decided to push north and hit a ledge up that I had had good success on early last year. It produced the goods with plenty of fish coming over the side, the ground was full of lumps and the fish were hanging on the edge's of the lumps.

We noticed a trend today with the jigs, we got alot more hits when using the Pirate assist hooks which made a big difference today

anyway here's a few pics of the day

we caught 10 dhuies and 4 baldies all on jigs today

gear used:

Saltiga 62s

Saltiga 4000 (PE3 braid)

Fisherman anderman

Lamble Bait flashing haloi

Smith Mejiyume

these jig HUNTED hard today!!

All fish that we released went back fine except one baldie which we necked anyway

Duffy's first baldie

Smith Hunting

Lamble bait hunting hard!!!

Duffy's biggest dhuie

Baldies love pirate assist

After what has felt like a life time of bad weather we finally got a good day on Sunday, First decent day since September and my last trip post http://fishwrecked.com/forum/my-first-sail-fish-war-and-peace (have been fishing since September but with mixed results and nothing worth posting).

Headed out past the Dampier Archipelago with my 4 year old Son and Picked up 5 Mackies with the biggest being 22kg and about 150cm, Lost count of the Gold spotted Trev's with most over 10kg and the biggest 15kg, a little Red, 1/3 of a Trout (Dam Grey coats) heaps of smaller spanglies and other reefs and then lost a couple heavier Trout and Reds to the grey coats, plus got a couple of grey coats to the boat. All fish released well with the exception of one Mackie which came home for dinner. Ended up calling it a day because I was to buggered with my arms and hands cramping, It's a tuff life in the Pilbara but some of us need to do it.

With this cyclone on the way I hope we get some nice days over the weekend, last time I fished after a cyclone the fishing was red hot.

Biggest Mackie for the Day

:-( Nice Coral Trout Head (Damm Grey Coats)

Biggest Gold Spotted Trev

Smallest Mackie caught for the day, kept for dinner the next night

ps2 + transit bag + 2x memory cards + wires + controllers + 3 ps2 games.

Landed around guilford area on 4lb.

got this tailor on a whole ballooned mullet ment for sharks

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old bugger with a hand line!!!! big mack and nice dolly - both on a 60lb hand line

and a toe fish - treble cut off then removed at exxy hostiptal.

and this time my turn to hurt myself....treble thru my palm.

Must of been a day for doubles today. I started with a rankin/cobia combo, followed it with a goldspot/gt from another spot and Bec finished off with these corkers. Using the bait on the board up was the only reason we stopped on the spot.

first tiger shark off woodies, 15 minute fight, round 2metres, combo saltist 30 big game 9ft lbg livefibre and 15kg big game :)

 went fishing for an over early morning Thursday, all nighter Friday with Steve and his bro on the BEACH north of Mindarie and had a great morning/day/night irrespective of the wind and weed,. I caught a huge 400mm sand whiting, a huge tailor, a nice Break sea cod and friend Steve, got a small pinkie and some nice herring and tailor and 3 masive stingrays and lots of dropped mulloway runs and bite offs. we all  got heaps of herring and large gardies, got bitten off by sharks and dropped by large mulloway's. a great day/night with plenty of fish to take home....... now the bad news, an old rotten bit of bait got into my keep bucket and spoiled the whole lot. had to throw it all away when I got home hardest was the whiting        :-( live and learn.

what is the longest WA Sand Whiting by the way, I have a pic and will post in the gallery soon, with the fish on the measuring board and also with me holding it. I have not heard of one that big

got this fella on a ballooned mullet

Had a good week down south last week.

Managed to get a couple of days out deep, same spot I fished January 2011. In my boat (5.5metres centre console-90hp Yamaha two stroke) I only head out there when the weather is good, low swell and light winds. We came across heaps of Sambo's a few Blackarse, Harlequin and Nannygai/Red Snapper.

Highlight of the fishing was this Yellowtail King caught on a mulie which gave me a good workout for 20 minutes before landing, a few hectic moments when it tangled with the sea anchor but eventually got it in for a few photo's and it released well.  

Went for a flick this morning despite it being low tide, headed down maylands way
was a good hours fishing, caught a 25cm bream on a zipbait rigge, and then 5 minutes later a specimen closer to 30cm
had a change of lure to a Smith Jade, that luke ryan from Tackle hq talked me into buying, wasnt keen on the lure but will be buying a few more after i nailed this healthy 35 cm bream that did a nice aerial in the shallows when it hit, 3rd cast.

Cheers Duffman