hey there guys and girls

After a long days fishing out near the west end of rotto and trying to chase down these furious an fast fish  for no result on sunday we manager to hook up to a yellow fin tuna and a dolly but we lost both fish :( but hey u get that.

So on tuesday i manage to sweet talk the missus into letting me go out to try and get myself a fish or two. So i headed out to mindarie and got to the ramp at 2pm an was due back at the ramp by 6pm. I waited for my deckie to rock up an then we were on our way. When we got out there boats were scattered all over the place so we found a couple of nice bait schools deep so we trolled around that area an it didnt take long to get a hit but we dropped it bugger............... so we changed lures an i had to borrow one from my deckie (one that he had trolled with in other trips that never got a hit so) i put it on and out it went i think it only took five minutes for the lure to get smashed as all i could do was watch the line dissapear fron my spool. What a rush........

We got back to the ramp with our two fish each at 4.45pm after an awesome afternoon fishing.

 hey guys been lure fishing the canning river for about 5 years now and have just been given a quality camera for my birthday. On a rising tide in late afternoon seems to be the best time to pick up the bigger bream. Recently have been catching some big flatties on both hardbodies and soft plastics. Anyway here are photos, will post more hoping that i remember to bring my camera with me!

hey guys im new to fishing. caught a good sized north western whats the best way to cook it? i cant wait for dinner plz help

One of my good mates here in Pohnpei is unfortunately heading back to Germany on Thursday. We have become fishing buddies over the last 12 months so it was only fitting that we go out for one last session. We quickly found the schools and ended up leaving the dollies in search of something else. We quickly found a few yellowfin schools but unfortunately so had the sharks. I donated few lures before leaving a little frustrated with these efficient killing machines spoiling our fun and turning my day into an expensive one. We found another school about ten minutes later. It was impressive to see the fish boiling on the surface. 10 - 20 yellowfin side by side on the surface chasing bait fish is something I will never forget. We had a double hook up on the first pass and managed to get them both in (minus one tail). The sharks sent that school down so we decided to call it quits and head for home. Yet another great day in paradise. 11 skipjack tuna, 6 yellowfin, 3 dollies and 1 stinky barracuda.

 A mate and i headed out late in the morning on friday to chase some more tailor on richters. Started off slow but eventually my mate hooked up to a nice 45cm fish on the pink plug. The reef seemed pretty empty so we moved to a spot ive never tried before and after finding a promising looking patch of reef my 1-3kg flicky loaded up with a solid fish and my mate hooked up to another fish over 45cms. Finally got my fish in and went a solid 59cms, 2 cms short of my PB, which gave me alot of curry on 8lb.

HI guys 'I,ve finally had enough time to sit down and go through the photos and see what we've got , hope you enjoy looking

One of the Sails we got during the AIBT comp , anglers name is Brian , a true gentleman and allround great bloke and his other half Jan fed us with the best sangas you can imagine

We were just off the money in the AIBT one more fish would have seen a different result , but we knew we were in the hunt , here is Jack hooked up on a Black we called for around 130kgs

Here's Deegsie on the tag pole on my fish we called for around 170kgs , measured 260cm bottom jaw to tail , bugger went deep and made me work on 37kgs for 45 minutes .

Jack swimming a small black for Deegsie

Some Billy's doing what billys do best , going  sick when they feel the pin

Here's the fish that sealed the deal for us 15 minutes to go before lines out and we were a bit happy as anyone who was listening on the radio at the time might have gathered .

We picked up Champion Boat Tag and Release Marlin, Champion Boat Tag and Release Billfish and Champion Tag and Release Skipper for Wirthy , all in all a great result for some hard work , all the guys that fished in both the comps put in the hard yards

and helped get us over the line , The boys from the Bush!!!!

Hey Guys

Well I couldn't resist the window of perfect weather that was 10-3 yesterday and just had to get out on the water for a fish, with all the reports of macks around a lazy few hours of trolling for macks sounded quite nice. The waters sitting around 24.8 degrees and there is plenty of bait around. We definatly noticed a morning bite with the first hour resulting in 4 hookups and one fish landed. trolled for a few more hours with a small sambo taking a lure. Last hour and got our second fish. The fish are deffinatly congregating in the same area so if you hook fish or land one make sure you continue to troll the same ground. Lures that did the damage was a horrible redhead and one or the custom laser pro 190s that i designed for the shop. Anyway heres some pics

Hit the Serpy for a morning bash today and my mate caught this fella?! Seemed a bit strange for this far south, but with the water temps as they are who knows.. Anyone else seen these around down here?

hey guys just sharing my excitement of reaching another goal while fishing for mulloway last night. with the swell up and weed all over the beaches i decided that beach fishing wasnt going to be nice so went to a merto rockwall and tried for another mulla. at 8;30 i finaly heard the reel screaming and my poor little baitrunner 4500 loosing line fast, i lifted it out of the holder and turned the handle to set the drag and lent back, then it took off easily stripping 100m of line off the reel and my glow stick moving the fastest ive ever seen it and then dissapeared as the fish dove down. after about 10mins of climbing back and forth over rocks the fish finaly surfaced and was huge in the torch light, i slowly edged it closer to the rocks and the guy next to me was trying to gaff it i yelled at him not to as it wasnt done and sure enough it took off again. another 10 mins later and this time it was laying on its side and i finaly bent over and gaffed it and brought it up i was amazed at how big it was. not a bad effort for a 6-8kg rod and 30lb line (of course the big fish had to grab my light rod) it was 1.2m long and weighed 20kg and is my second mulloway in 2 weeks and 2 trips chasing them. glad the hard work and research is finaly paying off.

 Had a another great day out, landed this one and droped another two,one things for sure theres heaps out there!hows the lure staight out the packet and now kuput ha ha 

heres the crew happy a the proverbial pig in it with the champion tagg and release skippers trophy for gamex 2011...finished celabrating at 4.30am

bottom pic is the crew from the AIBT comp ....one more fish and we would of made the podium winning boat got 7 fish we finished with 6 ouch,,,,,,GO "PILBRA"PIRATES AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH

Hi crew,

My mate Simon (Demo9pro) caught this estimated 40kg plus Yellow Fin Tuna trolling for Spanyard's 15 mile off the coast of Geraldton last weekend, lucky he was trolling with his Tiagra 50W.

Lure used - 2 m Halco Laser Pro (mulie pattern)

Enjoy the pics..

Cheers

Lloyd

 Was at the marina today watching the ocean and noticed some helium balloons out for mackies a sight i thought id never see off our metro wall ,hopefully the boys nailed one[ a metro makie] this year has been crazy  ,as theres been a few caught in the area.  Any way as i was there some nob jockey jetskier decided to drive right through the balloons and boy did the ratches go off, was a laugh but made me wonder on how fuken useless the skipper on the jet ski was as the ballons stood out like dogs balls and they had notice the ballons earlier! 

finally got a metro macky was totally rapped then got a nice pink as a bonus

Gday all,

Long time reader, first post.

Had a lovely little morning session out snorkelling from the kayak with a few mates.

Got a feed of crabs, Speared 3 occy and managed to nab a nice sea mullet with the spear on the way back in.

Richo

Hey all

just spent the last 2 and a half weeks in exmouth with pretty close to perfect weather and great fishin. Caught heaps and had a great time, i can't be bothered doing a report but heres a few pics

Small G taken from bundegi on a yo-zuri 3d popper

Plenty of these in the gulf at the moment, 5in mcarthy did the damage

Big trout from the gulf

Plenty of these suckers turning up all over the place

Caught heaps of these on lamble baits, also got busted up by quite a few in 20mts

Big trout on lamble

Quinnys first marlin, caught on a richter oscar

my marlin caught on a richter oscar jnr, we also did really well on the polu Kai range of game lures

Quinnys rankin on the new 11in mcarthy jerk

Nice Gt

Big cod taken on a lamble bait king 125g, cod was about 25-30kg

Quinnys first sailfish

sebiles doing the damage again!!

Pirates work AWSOME up north

jobfish

Pirates doing the damage agian

Big gold spot, this fish engulfed the whole lure!

Another nice GT

finally put a few carnarvon pics up... highlights of the last year or so

hope this link will work

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=703599388&aid=55610

cheers

Hey crew,

Time to report my latest adventure off the coast of Dongara Sunday 27th March, with the weather lookin good an afternoon 3.30pm high tide and the inshore grounds being very shut down of late with all the hot/dirty water around I decided to head out and jig a few plastics on a nice little coral patch I have out in the 45-50's.

Half way out I spotted a couple of pro cray pots all bunched together so I decided to pull up for a look see, there was a couple of good fish showing on the HDS and first drop this solid Baldy nailed my placcy 5m off the bottom.

After catching the Baldy it went quiet around the pots so I continued on to my coral spot, the HDS was showing good coral with a few fish holding close to the bottom and first drift produced this Red Throat Emp.

Followed by my mate Fishncrazy jigging up one of the biggest Red Throats I've seen at 62cm.

Then it was MRSTWITCHEMUP's turn having her big Squidgy fish soft plastic whoofed by this 8kg male Dhu..

Next up for me was this 58cm Red Throat Emp which again hit the plastic hard up off the bottom.

Next drift and bang Fishncrazy is on then a second later bang "I'm on" ... Yeeww Double hookup to a pair of soild fish..

 The results of the doulble hookup 5kg and 9kg Dhu Bangers..

By this stage the sounder was alive with fish on the flat coral and as soon as my plastic hit the bottom one jig up and I was connected to this 8.5kg Dhu..

And then to round out an awesome days plastic fishing, Fishncrazy had his placcy crunched by this 9.5kg Dhu.. 

By this time the Southerly was well and truly in and it was time to head home we left the schools of Dhu's and Red Throats biting.

So there it is another succesfull plastics session off Dongara in total we boated 6 x Dhus between 4 - 9.5kg, 5 x Red Throat Emperor and the Baldy. We kept 2 x 8kg Dhus 2 x Red Throats and the Baldy and released the rest in perfect health to be caught another day.

Now it's time to start getting ready for the Exmouth Comp just hope the fishing mojo follows team Twitchy up there, cheers for the read everyone.

Lloyd

Awesome day out. Awesome weather. Good blokes and an awesome outcome. When I'm not so pissed I'll post the photos of the dolphins.

hi guys had a nice day on tha blue just wondering what type of tuna this is.

that i caught a northwest blowie off woodmans point?

I wasnt happy, thought i had a decent fish, but it did put up an okay fight!

A mate and i headed out from woody point ramp at 4:30am saturday morning to fish some ground i found last time i was out fishing. got to the spot and started to burley up and with in 5min of the line being in the water i was hooked up to something large and i called it for a pinky, And yes i was rite up came a 4kg pinky then over the next 2 and a half hours we were pulling in fish of equal size to the first snapper. by the time they went off the bite we counted 11 caught and 9 released pink snapper.... and a few break sea cod and a undersize dhu.

Was a excellent metro mornings fishing if i do say so myself

Hope all you guys that got out yesterday had some luck aswel....

Went looking for some action at the JB FADS but couldn't find 2 of them. Finally found the southern most FAD but no luck with the Dollies, they were jumping though. Caught a Blue Marlin between the apparent location of the other two FADS. 30 minute fight and then released with no issues. Anyone else fishing tomorrow at JB? I am chasing Spaniards if anyone has any info on how they are currently going.

 ... Well kind of, i seem to be finding some decent fish, keeping lures on the end of my line is another story!

Headed today late arvo for less than an hour for a quick bash on the tailor. Got the tip off from a mate that a few goodens had been caught in the general area, so my brother Cody and I launched the ski armed with our light gear and plugs! Scored lucky with finding the school, 1st cast and mustve hit them on the head, one crank of the new stradic ci4 and the water exploded around the richter plug, hooked up immediately but got done on the reef, found out after the session that 15lb leader isnt quite enough for these bruisers, i continued to lose 3 plugs in less than an hour!!

Anyway to cut it short we caught around 5 fish, a couple double hook-ups made things interesting, many lost, Cody got bitten by a tailor for the first time, check out the photo of his hand haha, lost 4 richter plugs between us, average size of the fish about 50cms and 1.5kgs, a few bigger chucked in for good measure! 

Loving the stradic ci4 too!! 

Not too happy with how the photos turned out as it was quite rough out there and was more focussed and dodging the reef!

Cheers

Beau

As the title says Alex caught a wahoo today weighing in at 13kg caught on 10kg line for a junior state record.  Beating the previous record of 12.4kg.   As the day went, it was very long and really hard to find the billies.  Lures out and after the first wahoo which was about 10 and a half kgs on 37kg line so a no go for us. 2 hours later with the big gear out  a wahoo bit every lure and finished on the 10 and hooked up. Alex was quick to jump and grab the rod and a 10 minute fight to subdue the monster. 

Was a great day with 2 Wahoo and raising 2 bills.

Well done my little man ...same again tomorrow!!

  Jeff

Got a phone call and a pic of a 13kg wahoo on the scales at Gamex.

Young Alex has got himself a potential junior state record with a 13kg wahoo on 10kg line. Deepwater [Jeff] and [Shallow water] Alex have been out there with only sharks tagged so far but this one will hopefully get them on the board.

Hi All - had a great day at Disaster Rock off Broome with the McArthy's SP's. A couple of pics below. Many other BIG fish hooked but couldn't get them off the bottom! McArthy's certainly work up North...

So i bought a brand new Shimano Straddic Ci4 4000f yesterday for $60 off its original price at sale and was super eager to get out for a fish today after what happened last week, where i was 90% sure i had come across a school of the elusive Giant Herring. I took advantage of the midday glass off and launched the ski at Kwinana beach.

I headed to the drop off I fished last week and out went the 4inch placcy.

After a few jerks on the 2nd cast, i got a nice hit, a solid fat herring that got away without getting a mugshot. The plastic hit the water on the next cast and after one jerk i saw a fairly large tail swirl a meter away then BANG i was on, then launching out the water was a huuuuuge gardie! Nope, not a gardie, a pesky longtom! My first ever Longtom.

How's the fangs on this thing!! Not sure how i didnt get busted off too. She mustve gone about 60-65cms.

The release..

I scoot back to the sandbar and cut the engine, drifting towards the drop off with the gentle Easterly wind. I then spot the school I saw last week, crusing the drop off about 20m ahead of me. Out goes the placcy and after a few winds a couple fish break from the school to hunt it down. The rod gets heavy for a few seconds before the fish spits it, pulling the plastic down the shaft of the hook, or what i call pulling its pants down. So now my heart is racing, as the fish seem to be in a feeding mood, nothing like i saw last week. Hook on to one the next cast and the drag starts screaming, then 20m out, a goooood fish breaks the surface launching 1.5-2m in the air! I couldnt believe it, i thought salmon put on quite a show but these were just unreal.

After about 3-4mins i finally get the fish on the ski! So happy, my first Giant Herring, around 60cms long.

Using my new reel for the first time and catching a GH for the first time..

The release..

What a rush! By the time i got the fish in i was a fair while away from the spot so i raced back around and got stuck into another GH first cast!

I ended up with 4 landed, about 6 lost, and alot of hits from lontoms! At one stage there was a school of about 30 longtoms swimming around! Resulting in alot of plastics looking like this!

I'd have to put todays session up there with catching the snapper and huge tailor from the ski, what an amazing experience! Hopefully relive it some time soon!

Cheers,

Beau

Went for a fish with the boyfriend on the weekend and decided to pull an all nighter. Not much action happening, caught a whiting and a few big herring. We were thinking about heading home then i got this baby. a 41. then a 43 next cast

edit - my now ex boyfriend that should be**, what a loser. got a face on him like a half sucked cock. i hope he sees this =P

hey guys im planing a live aboard charter for around 5 days ,not to fussed on where as long as its value for money,and dont mined traveling !hopefull theres a few guys that can recommend a charter that they have been on recently on had a good trip cheers!!!!!!!!!!