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First time Mulloway fishing

Was at Mosman Bay last week, first time fishing for Mulloway. 3 and a half hours out on the water and about to pack up and leave when I landed this bad boy.

 

16.5 kgs, not bad for a first time!


swan today

managed to fight the easterly's early to get a glass off with a few flatties and a couple of flounder.cheers brg


Rock Ling

Port Melbourne measured 63cm, very similar taste to that of Perth cobblers.


2011 Sea Eagle Chicks & Black Cockies

Hi all,

 

As you know I love Sea Eagles, and Black Cockies, on our last trip in October, 2011, took some photos of the breeding pair of Sea Eagles and here are their two chicks from this year, plus a visit from the Black Cockies, this one looked like it went for swim or fly and fell in the ocean, also love my black cockies and they came for a feed in September when the bottle bush was in bloom, beautiful to watch them suck the nectar out of the flowers. The second chick was sitting next to the nest


Narows Sesh 16/11

Decide to hit up the narrows last night for a bit of a mulloway hunt, block of mulies in hand, get the lines out at about 10 and waited for the tide to roll in. come about midnight and we had given up on baits (blowies were out in numbers) switch over to small metal spinning lures (not exactly sure what they are) and as soon as they hit the water tailor were flapping about everywhere. Ended the night at about 3am with 4 30-32cm tailor to my mate and 2 new PB's for me, 37cm tailor and a 47cm Flatty, also my first catchs on lures.


Recent trip to exxy

Went up to exmouth about 2 weeks ago, got struck with some pretty average weather early on and some slow days but had heaps of fun and caught lots of fish on lures and artificials on light gear. Spent a couple days trying to find the elusive red emporer for no reward but it paid off when we found a nice spot towards the end :). Heres a couple pics of some fish we got into, I'll get some more up later. It was hard to capture everything with only 2 people... when the fishing is hot, its too hot to pause and take a shot ;)

 

 


PB King George

Caught this little puppy behind GI today!


gemini wreck

 hey everyone planning on going to gemini wreck tomoro launching from mindarie, has any one been there lately and wat is the best method of fishing for sambos and ytk at the wreck. not sure if we should anchor and burley up or just try some jigging. any info would be great. cheeeeeeerrrsssssss.


wagoe, kalbarri help?

hey was just wondering if anyone could help us out with fishing round kalbarri and wagoe. me and my mate are goin there just before chrissy for 5 days and looking to land some decent taylor,sharks and maybe even a mulloway or two. so if anyone could point us in the right direction of were to fish and how to get there. if any one else wants to pm me about any times to fish or anything else. if anyone could help us out it would be appreciated.cheers

and will be putting a full report on fw wen i get back and with plenty of photos.(hopefully)


Finally got the boat out on the water

Well after ordering my boat in March, the boat building company going into liquidation... moving house and a couple of weeks ago the birth of my young fella. Its taken a long time to get her on the water for the first time. All went well, started and didnt sink as a put the bungs in. Cant wait to slide her in the water at Hillarys now, and get into some fishing... its been toooo long!

Thinking of naming the boat "Hydrophobic"


putting cray pots in

Gday, just wondering are we allowed to put the pots in on monday the 14th and then pull on tuesday 15th or can we only put the pots in on the 15th and then pull every day etc


Here's a couple of pics from recent trips to Exmouth

 

I think I stuffed that upload good and proper , the Black we estimated around 120kgs , nice solid fish and the sail pics are from the Billfish shootout 2011


went fishing last night monday

went to the bridge just of mill point road

didnt get anything  a few blowies had 2 big lines out  had some touches on them but other than that nothing

it was good to just get out without wife without the kids just me and some friends


Exmouth - Few More Photos

Here is a couple more photos from a quick 4 day trip. These fish were caught out from Tantabiddi.


braving the elements for some reward

 me and leemo were getting annoyed at the lack of fishing oppurtunities due to the weather so we decidied to go and just give it a crack.

started at hillaries and as we arrived it absolutley bucketed down so the day started in the car for a good 5-10 minutes

when it finally stopped we caught some zebras? and some buffies which was good fun on light gear

the rain came down again so we high tailed it back to liams but we werent done yet so the plan was made to try for an early mulla or some crabs. well we didn't get of to a good start with no serive station selling river prawns on stirling hwy from the city to mosman. we started of dropping some fish heads in the pots and liam casting a tailor fillet out. as i was pulling the first pot a boat anchored up about 100 m off the jetty was onto what looked like a sizeable fish on some heavy gear. he battled it for 5-10 mins eventually busting off on one of the moorings. he up anchored and took off hahaha. to wrap it up liam caught a 31 cm tailor on an 7/0 hook and a tailor fillet that was longer than the fish that came up.

we caught about 20-30 crabs but maybe only 4 males a whole lot berrying we realeased a few just sized ones to spawn and kept 2 good sized one for a feed. one was a little bit over 160 accross the shell

 


Albany bream bash

Hey all

went down south last week and fished a number of spots on the way. Spent 2 days in walpole only to leave early because the fishing was completely shut down. I have never fish walpole before when it has been that bad.
The Hay was fishing ok and managed to pull a few ok fish from there, biggest being 34cm fork which wasn't to bad. Albany was quite shut down however we ended up catching a few fish on the sunday using the new bait breath mosya's. Torbay inlet was suprisingly fishing very well despite almost having no water in there because the inlet had been broken. Was still an enjoyable trip down south and had a great time. Any way heres a few pics

Gear used:
Duffrod Breamstix 7'6" flats
Duffrod Breamstix 6'10"
Daiwa certate 2004 6lb TD sensor
Bait Breath rush craw
Bait breath Mosya
Ecogear aqua bream prawns
Nories laydown minnows
Ecogear SX43
Ecogear SX40
Zipbait khamsin JR
Zipbait rigge 46
Ecogear VX40, VX35, ZX35
Pontoon 21 crackjack 48DR


few pics of the new Contender !

Few pics of the Contender 25t - some of you may have seen her on show at Mandurah

1st run on the weekend was awesome ! - ate up the slop from that howling easterly on saturday, and absolutely flew when wind dropped off in arvo !!

1. on show in sydney

2. all wrapped ready for 4000Km tow west

3. Camped on the banks of the murray near Mildura

4. compulsory sunset pic :)

5. first river crossing

6. Hittin' the Nullarbor (4 x rolls of gaffer tape used ;) )

7. Nullarbor campout

8. Nullarbour Light show !

9. showing off to some big Galah !

10. welcome to WA !!

11. showing off her wrap !

12. Contender.....I'd like you to meet Rotto...Rotto....this is contender !! :)

13. Lines to die for !!


Big Barra

Had this photo sent to me. Not sure about details but apparently was caught last week in Queensland somewhere.


Crayfish - a decade ago.

Sorting out photo's on the 'puter, and came across these old photo's of some crayfish we caught.

They are sitting atop 3 eskies and with some feet in the background you can judge the size.

The 'baby' at the bottom was still well over legal size.

The biggest I could only just grip over the carapace.

I still remember the garlic buter sauce we ate them with!!! 


My first and only pike. A 13lb'er.

In April this year, we visited rellies over in the UK. My missus's cousin is a keen fisho, and took me to a gravel pit to try for a pike or 2.

After an hour, we had seen a few small pike cruise slowly past in the shallows amongst the overhanging branches, but no touches.

Half an hour later, I had the only taker for the day....... this 13 lb'er ! Its great to get a double figure fish on the first of a species.

The pressure is now on for me to return the favour to cuz, so when he visits next year, so we've booked in for the Exxy comp to show him some WA fishies!  :-)

 

 


CARNARVON JETTY BURNT AGAIN!!!

CARNARVON JETTY HAS BEEN BURNT AGAIN. TOTAL FUKWITS WE HAVE IN THIS WORLD.DOSNT LOOK AS BAD AS LAST TIME BUT WILL STILL COST A BIT TO REPAIR AND WILL MOST PROBABLY BE CLOSED FOR A WHILE.


Odd

caught this at point walter, thought it was worth a photo


ROADMASTER TRAILERS!!!!

HEY GUYS JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW HOW GOOD THE SERVICE I RECEIVED FROM ROADMASTER TRAILERS IN BAYSWATER WAS.LIVING UP HERE IN THE PILBARA ITS HARD TO GET THE SERVICE AND A GOOD PRICE ON STUFF BUT NOT A WORRY FOR ROADMASTER,ORDERED MY AXLE MONDAY EVENING AND ITS ALL DONE AND ON ITS WAY UP HERE,SO ALL I NEED TO DO IS FIT IT AND ILE BE ON MY WAY TO THE COAST TO HOOK INTO SOME BARRA ACTION,THANKS TO ANITA AT ROADMASTER TRAILERS!!!!


PE3 - Shallow Water Saltiga+Stella Sambos with Sammy

Last minute desicion to head out for a jig last night paid dividends,

Headed out with fellow fishwrecked member Sammy

And certainly found the sambos in the 40's

Double hook ups not rare.
Certainly Christened my new Saltiga 4000 with Pe3 got smoked several times by some big fillys.
Sammy also broke in his new Stella 20000.
Approx 10 sambos each i had a few less due to being smoked

After Sammy landed his horse and i was busted off he suggested i try his rod as he was rooted.
Dropped down and snagged the bottom immediately, pissed off finally  got it off, and began winding it in with speed to check the damage to the assist.
And got smashed and landed the last sambo of the day, observe photo with sambo and assist still has coral hanging off it!

Sounder Photo was seconds before a hook up

Great Weather and Good Fish
Thanks Again sammy

Cheers Guys


Todays session at the 3 mile reef

hey every one went for a quick fish at the 3 mile today launched from hillarys. anchored and burlied up in 9 meters using mulies. caught a couple small pinkies heaps of port jackson sharks they were like blowies and a couple of skippy. i got the king george on a hole mulie.all the fish were released as im not a fish eater, and also just wondering wat the other fish is some type of cod or something. if any body knows that would be great. cheeers.

 

 

 


whos going out

 wed is looking good for a whiting fish and hopefully try find some sambos out of mindarie just gotta find where they hang out!


Bright silver Chum

 

Caught this little gem yesterday morning just before my river became unfishable due to high water local hydro let alot of water spill from the dam and river rose 5X normal

the fish in the river Should Not be this fresh this time of the month man am i ever glad they are late this year 

other pic is a high water pic :P

the little bush  just up from the bottom of the stairs in that pic is a good 5 feet or more under water  and where i fish there is prolly another 15 feet under water :(


Swan Breaming

Went out last week in the pouring rain,
But we were well rewarded with over 30 fish.


70lb samson fish

gday fellas,

went out for a fish at Two peoples bay near Albany with Dad and caught this sambo est 70lb

its the biggest one ive caught to date.

cheers

Cameron


snapper

sundays snapper fishing in portphillp