May have been up before unsure.good set of chompers on it. Also spikes. Ugly

Last few days guys I know been getting 850 to 985 long pinks. I personally won’t chase them this year . But makes me wonder about results . And where they get them from. I do understand bringing ban forward. And agree . Extended area wrong .There already in numbers and spraying as you lift tthem. Tagging should be stopped also . Why upset them while doing there natural breeding cycle . Leave them . Not many hand in tags anyway.. plus heaps get lost to sharks. Just my thoughts

 took the opportunity yesterday to take advantage of the sons pupil free day and the good weather. hit two rocks early, and fark it was cold, out wide was okay but bit blowy. few foxfish, sweep and other shit fish before this nice one showed it face in 42m of water. pic says it all.

little bugger outfished me again and his last two fish now showing an 8kg red at coral bay and this 8kg (and first) dhufish! pic doesnt quite do it justice but is was real solid healthy dhu for a first!!

wind died off half way back at lunch time so could open the throttle and get in nice and quick.

Dan doing well atm. Few more gone, up there in 3 weeks with wife . Looking forward to it .

after 6 hrs of freediving down Bremer bay along the cliffs. Mate and I popped out to 60m for a fish, hooked this thing on pe2 and on a 200 gram ocean legacy contact jig. Outfit is a maxel rage 25 and levitate number . This thing smoked me took over 30mins to get up, everyone run was a 30m line dump lol

Caught this beast in 35m on a paternoster rig. Came up like a big Dhuie, floated up 30m from the boat. 

I had Friday off and had missy for the day while the boys were at school. Asked her what she wanted to do e xpecting the usual play centre and she says "go fishing". I've had the kids on my RDO since they were babies 9.5yrs ago and this was the first time I'd been out on the boat on my RDO.

A quick pack and we were in the water by 10:30. Shot over to Little Island to see the seals and sat inside the reef watching a bunch of mad bastards surfing then shot through a gap and out to the whiting patch.

The whiting were like rats and first drop missy is on straight away. A lesson in frustration is watching a 4y old wind a whiting up 23m with a tiny combo! The next few drops I reeled hers up to within 5m and after 6 she was tuckered out and slept in the cuddy cab while I enjoyed the glassy conditions and double headers.

 Hi all heading up to exmouth this w/end for 3 weeks just after some info on charters and or do i bring my deep drop fishing gear P.M me if anyone is there with a boat that would like to catch up . 

Haven’t been on here much but have to share this one...

My brother Aron ticked off possibly the best landbased capture of the century haha.

103cm Dhufish off the rocks on a Mackbait vibed along the bottom from the south coast rocks. Landed on 50lb gear as well. Absolute fish of a lifetime and the biggest I’ve ever heard of on lure from the rocks and one of 4 I’ve seen a picture or head rumors of at that size from land. 

So so happy for him and it couldn’t have been caught by a more deserving guy. 

Went to bit of ground that I haven’t been to since last year. It was brilliant.

 Can anyone recommend a aluminum fabricator ( boat builder ) . Hopfuly someone local,  around cockburn area. Thanks

Went out with walfootrot today . No duos just used exile jigs . Got some thumpers. I can’t wait for water to clear.

 Went out with Dave last week. 2 kg's out wide and bagged out on snapper on sunset. Happy Days

 Hey guys, got out for a fish yesterday. Started off well with a nice little 4kg Dhu on the very first drift. Then things went pretty quiet. ENE was blowing but the current was really moving, we were drifting at around 1.3 knots. Brother in law picked up this stonker KG. Went 56 cm, sorry about the photo, I had already taken the fillet off when I remembered to get a measurement. Weighed around 1.2 kg

Been feeling cold lately. I bought new wet suit wanted to try it out. Aqua lung semi dry, 8mm body 7mm arms ( stretchy). I only just got damp unreal. Stayed hot and very easy to get on. Didn’t feel restricted at all

bunch of brag pics from the tub.

It loves life and  lots lots more fish, glad I splashed the cash 

Unreal fun on light gear. Some great dhue baits. Kept a few for eating. lost some real big ones.

 good sambo, live wrasse 

64kg after shes been bled and sat in an esky for 18 hours.

Conditions where mint , fish started well with baldies . Dhues where fair distance appart. Pretty slow going. Good fun .

Caught 3 solid salmon on a metro dog beach, there was a school of around 30 hanging around a gutter. Got them on a 10cm Xrap. Most were frindly and interested, but some dogwalkers were annoyed when their dogs would go nuts at the fish, I just told them that I have just as much right to fish in this beach as you do to walk your dog. Caught at noon.

Tight Lines!

Tinny bashing, on the weekend mangaed to bag out before 8.

 Finally got my 1st Giant Herring this morning, out of the Swan River. Great fun on finesse gear!

I just wanted to have a bit of a brag about my bad boy in Coral Bay yesterday. I was having such a shitty day till i brought this bad boy up. Not a bad effort for a girl. Lol

Unreal fun on squid gear. Also 1 half size salmon. Few small salmon schools in close (500 long).

Took ditz out he has never caught sized dhue before. He done very well. 2 double headers. And fair few singles. All from different areas . No fish where dropped ,we got a good feed. Big schools of salmon everywhere out there. One type of bait was killing it. Bugger using occy / squid for a while.nothing huge but good clean flesh .

After last years fairly action packed Exmouth trip which was going to be pretty hard to beat it we ventured back to exy in early April 2019 for another boys trip.

This year, 7 blokes, 2 large boats, 1 tinny and 38 cartons of piss. John F pulled the whaler up for a 3rd year to keep the tradition in tact. In keeping with tradition we kept the exmouth servo in business with our regular $1,500 fuelup days (Exmouth weather everything is 30+ knots!!)

A couple of new Green horns this year, with Troy and Daryl getting the nod with one of the canal homes being our base for the 2 weeks.

Initially we had planned a 12 day trip, however there were a couple of cyclones floating round (conviently named cyclong Bodie and Cyclone John for the trip) there wa sa debate prior to our intended departure of Monday the 1st of April and moved to Saturday the 30th as it looked like the 2nd week was going to be impacted by one of the cyclones. In the end, both went a couple hundred km's north of Exmouth and only got a little rain in the last day or two. NEedless to say we ended up staying to our original depature date of the 13th, much to the wives disgust!!

Broke the trip up on the way up with a stay over just north of Geraldton at diamond cove in one of the Chalets, commonly known now as 'The Dump'. Will be the last time we stay there, as we stayed in one of the road side camp areas on the way back in the swags and had a blast (mainly due to copious amounts of Beer, Wine, Wine in empty beer bottles, Scotch being consumed)

Arrival in Exmouth around 1pm on Sunday the 31st with a gulf glass off. The decision was made to quickly unpack and run out for a few rankin for tea. Last year we found some good rankin ground which is easy to get to, with about 12-14 marks to fish.Tthis year, it still had plenty of rankin!!

Drop 1 i think on the Fury

Drop 1 on the  Whaler

I think we ended up with 8 or 9 rankin in an hour or so and headed back in for the first night. Nothing better than panko crumbed fresh rankin, and thats night 1! oh and copious amounts of beer / wine / scotch drunk to all hours of the night!

The 2nd day out was to head up to the islands and have a play around on jigs, plastics, and maybe a little bait dependant on conditions. The weather was playing ball and the trip over to the Murians was pretty quick. With a bit of bird and bait action decided to put the lures in the water on one of my Mackie spots which has always fished well. Well lets just say it took 5 minutes!!!

Scano got the nod on the first fish, and a pretty good fish first up it was!! We put the call out that it was something like 25kg+

We had our mackie and John was doing just as well, with i think 3 mackies in a few minutes

With conditions good we pushed further north and a little deeper into the 70's picking up some more rankin and a few good fish lost to sharks.

Moved in a little shallower for a bit of shallow water jigging action, and old mate Mate comes up the goods, nice trout on jig, first for the trip!

The following day we had a man down, with one "unnamed" person coming down with the sh!ts and having to sit out. The weather on tantas side wasnt looking too great but decided to give it a run in the fury to see if we could find any bills about. Well it was rough as shit and we pretty much copped every wave over the bow in the centre console for about 5 hours, but it was well worth it!! Within the first 15 minutes we were hooked up on the first bill of the trip, a nice little 25-30kg black, which matt handled with grace

We saw quite a few more fish after this, but no real solid hookups for the best part of 4 hours. Having put up with enough of the weather it was time to call it a day, packing up the gear, bringing the riggers in and old mate Matt jumps on the shotty to reel it on (whilst we were stationary) only to say "i got a bite" 5m from the back of the boat...nec minute line goes tearing off one of the tiagra's and a VERY nice sail dances across ths ocean, awesome sight. There would only be one bloke capable of hooking a sail, on a skirt, whilst the boat is stationary, 5m from the back of the boat...old mate tinny ass Matt. We were all happy as a pig in sh!t after this, made the day. I think we thought around the 30kg mark (cant remember them all)

The next few days were spent chasing prawns (uneventful with the neap tides) more jigging in shallow (rankins), another trip upto the Murians and beyond and a trip trip further north to Flat, Long, Table islands.

The closer Rankin jigging ground was going off!

The boys prawning...or more like drinking

Couple of pics leaving the marina

A couple days up around the islands, plenty of good fish!! mixing it up with shallow water stick baits, poppers, plastics etc. We had one epic day watching big mackies jump 4-6m out of the water chasing baitfish in 6m of water, and bagging out on trout in the shallows. Some fish up to the north, with the Whaler taking the honours with the bottom fish.

Nice Luna tail on Plastic in 6m of water

Den's first good trout on plastic, 8m of water

Scano's trout on jig in about 25m of water

Tevs go hard in the shallows

Solid rankin in the shallows on jig!

We spent 3 days in a row chasing bills whilst the weather was good, and had a lot of success. Total was 8 bills landed (6 blacks, 2 sails) and something like 30-35 raised between the 2 boats.

I got a sail and a black for the trip (sail being a first for me)

John and the boys got a couple bills too

Along wiht the bills there were a few bi-catch, although the YFT and wahoo were hard to find, only landing 1 YFT and 1 big wahoo lost

Quite a few reds, goldband about but nothing huge in size and took a bit of work to find, mainly in the deeper water.

These things go hard!!!

We ended up coming home 1 day early as the wind set in from the south east, and only missed 1 day during the whole trip with wind.

Brilliant trip, no injuries (there is usually one person who ends up in hospital!!), no damage to cars, trailers or boats (although Johns anchor did fall off the nose doing 30 odd knots and left a nice chip in the hull.

Everyone had a ripper of a trip, everyone caught fish and plenty of it, with mixing it up on artificals and bait, and throwing in the marlin fishing. The water water very warm up to 30 degrees in some parts, and on the last day we saw multiple sails finning about bait schools, but didnt have any gear onboard for themt hat day.

Return trip we stopped over at a road side carravan area, and polished off the last of whatever booze we had left... iwas a suprise we got through it all!!!

By the time we got to Jurien the following day, we had broken one of the green horns.

Next years plans are already underway and looking to be even bigger than this year with a couple more boats and a few more lads!!!

Little mako from today released as had plenty of fish already didn’t really go off but good to see

Great day out with mate from Perth beautiful conditions and some nice black arse and nannies 

Went out of two rocks yesterday early , left the ramp at 4.50am. The wind was up a bit so we tried a few marks before we headed to the bank, my fishing buddy Eric caught a nice 77cm pinky,I don’t know how everyone else went but considering the good barometric pressure the bite was pretty slow,about lunchtime I hooked a runaway train that ended up being an over 2 metre bronzie, after making my reel scream a few times like never before it tore my rig to pieces right at the boat and swam away, half an hour later I hooked up to a nice 90 cm banger that made our day.super happy as my last few trips have been empty.

 Got to love this time of year, landed this one solo 132cm and 20.5kg at Lancelin. Would like to have released it but after a few issues getting the picture and with a big swell it was very difficult trying to swim it, after 20 mins getting bashed by waves I was not happy it would swim off. Decided best to keep it rather than waste a good fish, all put to good use.