hit the ramp early and beat the traffic ,and had a good day with the northerly winds !

Well hello one and all!

I am sure you have all forgotten me by now, or at least tried too!  Been busy this end which is why i have failed to pos over recent months, also the firewall at work now stops me from actually posting on the site, i can only view.  So I have been looking but was unable to post.  I will attempt to be better this year I promise!  Just stuck a few photos of fish I have caught recently hope you dont mind but no sea fish as I have not had the cash to get out on the boat this year, and when I did the charter skipper crashed into a reef and we had to be rescued by the life boat...in the bloody harbour, very embarrasing and not much fun!

Going to try this new, to me anyway, uploading process it looks good.

A new PB barbel caught from the river Wye in wales near a place called Ross-on-Wye, it went 10.4lb and was caught on trout pellet and trout pellet paste.  I also caught another 4 that day all between 7 and 9lb.

This was one of the bigger carp I caught in Spain on the river ebro.  This one weighed 31lb and it was caught on boilies, along with all the other carp we caught.

Also in Spain this one weighed 30lb exactly

and this one weighed 23.4lb, caught from a boat.

This one was 28.8lb also in spain.  And below is a Spanish crayfish!

Finally a 21.15lb mirror carp caught from my local lake, on sweetcorn

Take car one and all.  I will be trying to get on a few boat trips in the next few months so will try and keep you posted.  Weathers really cold here at the moment and most lakes and drains are frozen and hjave been for about 5 weeks now, so its a bit tough at the moment.  Take care and tight lines rog

ps soz about the cricket!!! xxxx

big thanks to Brian, (my boss and owner of Compleat Angler Nedlands) and Darren for a spectacular day out on the water.

Brian invited me out for a days fishing for Dhuies and various demersial species up at Mindarie.

was a awesome day, with 4 dhuies, a baldie, two breaksea's and various other bottom dwelling fish landed

brian put me onto my first ever dhuie and a cracker at that. it went about 9 kilo!!

brian unfortunetally lost a dhuie of collosal proportions which was estimated to weigh atleast 20+ kilo!!!

we kept a 6 kilo and 11 kilo dhuie and I got to release my first dhuie capture!! awesome 

cheers ,

Tom

 hey guys just after some information on the two different coloured baldies in the perth area ,the white/grey and the darker brown orangey baldy,which are female ,which are males ,ive bein cleaning up on baldies this week ,are they breeding this time of the year!as they are every where on the flat coral,also noticed the orange/brown ones dont fight as hard,just  after some opinions and other peoples thoughts!

Happy New Year!  Getting our priorities right, we left the pub at 11 last night so we could be up at 4:30am to head down to Groote Eylandt's South Point for a final fish before Wade and I pack up our belongings and head back to live in WA.  Although we've been living in fishing heaven and I've caught plenty of coral trout, golden snapper, saddletail, tuna, queenies, etc etc, I had one aim of the day - to catch a Mack.  Up here they are considered a pest and people really don't like catching them but for some reason I haven't been able to catch one.  Today was the day!

We steamed down to South Point at 35-40 knots and made it in around an hour.  The sun was just rising as our mate Jez put out the billfish teasers and gear.  Wouldn't you know it, 5 minutes later we see a sailfish fin in the water 100m ahead of us! You bewdy we thought, how easy is this!  We chucked out a garfish to no avail.  Unfortunately the Saily was just cruising around and not too hungry so we didn't get a strike. 

As the adrenalin backed off we found some birds working.  Getting closer we ruled out Tuna working the bait schools.  First pass and there were a few Sharks working the schools(!!!) so we moved away quickly to protect our gear.  We found another school and 'bang', both rods (one with hooks and one without) started peeling.  At the same time the garfish also went out the back so it was game on!  We were mighty disappointed when we pulled up a couple of Queenies.  We concluded the Queenies were working all the schools in the area so decided to move on.

Another 7 miles away is Mack Mountain, where a 27 foot lump rises from 70 foot.  We swapped lures to deep divers and on the first pass I hooked up a Mack!  It was a small Mack, but I still caught one and was over the moon.  I have now achieved my goal!  We tried for another one (bigger!) but saw some weather coming in....

Ahhh, the monsoon! Out of nowhere storm clouds formed all around us and after dodging them for an hour or so we bit the bullet and decided to head back to port.  It was 30 naultical miles of moderate to heavy rain but luckily it wasn't too windy and we made it back in a couple of hours (travelling at between 12-20knots)!  I haven't actually ever been cold living in the tropics but today was a bit chilly!  It was great back at the boat ramp putting my feet in the 30C water and warming up!

(this screen shot taken after we got home - the worst had passed through by then!)

So farewell Groote Eylandt, we have had a fantastic time!

Hi all Fishwreckers,

Wish you all a very safe and prosperus New Year to all, stay safe and hope all your New Year resolutions come true.

Regards

Roberta and old fart

Went fishing yesterday on my first boat trip with a friend ray, at first we caught a few wrass then ray was hooked and the fish seemed huge, he finnally got it up and it was a 44cm baldchin groper, after we had moved spots i hooked a fish it felt pretty big i got it up and it was a 34cm breaksea cod and then we moved towards a island and we went to a spot and we got a few herring and then that was the day for us :D (best day i caught my biggest fish ever)

well, just got back several hours ago from yet again a great experience out with whitey. left home with a mate at around 2am to head up to the marina as the boat was scheduled to leave at 4:30, our main target were demersals with my mate (ben) using mostly bait and me using jigs only. got there in time, there were 8 people in total including whitey and deckie, and we were off to our first spot. as soon as we arrived at the spot i realised everyone but me and whitey were using bait, didnt bother me...first drop me and ben both get a double hookup, after few minutes of toying with the fish, 2 small dhuis came up...perfect way to start off the day.

after the two dhuies, it quitened down a tad, managed a few small sambos but nothing to great so we decided to move on to the next stop. as soon as we arrive we notice there is a school of fish down there, so everyone drops the bait while i jig my way up...we were hoping for a school of dhuis or snapper but they turned out to be sambos, and lots of them, almost everyone on the boat managed a few, few big ones but most were still quite small.

eventually we got sick of the sambos so we drifted couple hundred meters away, second drop both me and ben once again get a solid double hookup, we werent quite sure what they were at the start, we were hoping for anything besides sambos, eventually bens comes in and it turns out to be a nice dhui that went 72cm

5 or so minutes later mine also decided to show up, got greeted by a very nice 77cm pinkie

after these two fish everyone else started hooking up to dhuis, we got the boat limit in no time with one of them being a very nice size which was taken on bait. after all the dhuis it quitened down again with a few sambos around, we decided to try shallower water but we had no success their either so we decided to head back at around 11am...everyone was pretty tired by then anyway as everyone got a good number of fish. all in all it was a great day, cant wait to head back out with him, cant reccommend anyone else besides him..great bloke .

Gudday fellow fishers,

This is my first post, so please excuse any mistakes. Should be a good year for crabbing in the Peel and Harvey Estuaries this year due to the hotter than normal start to summer. The cooked crabs I got only took 2 hours and the old man took home six uncooked ones for Christmas and the crab with the gauge on it I got along with another 19 which was four days later, only took a couple of hours as well, which was also just before Christmas, but it would be copping a hiding at the moment. But the new bag limits that where brought in, I believe will help the industry.

No fillets, but some nice crays .......

Hey fellas it's been a while since my last post, I've been flat out at work so I decided I'd put up this post while I had the chance, these photos are from the last 2 trips out from my home town of Dongara I've been takin a few mates out recently to try put them onto some good fish.

We have had some great weather lately and these are the results......

On the way out to one off my favourite lumps after the ban ended..... Glass Off...

The boys in the other boat fellow fishwrecked member - Fishwhispers....

My mate Steve with a little Dhu on placcy..

A pup Dhu jigged up on a Bass Hard Vibe... my first time trying these lures for Dhu's worked a treat.

Steve with a 3kg Dhu on his Bream gear..... Happy days...

Little pink on the Nuc Chick... Check out those conditions...

The Missus with a healthy Pink caught on placcy...

6 kg Dhu caught on Placcy....

Another Dhu falls victim to the 4 inch paddle tail...

A Baldy on the lime tiger...Probably the hardest fish to catch on placcys.

My mate Mak with a little school Mackerel we picked up casting metal slices at bait balls...

In total over the 2 trips we caught and released 30 plus Dhu's, 10 or so Pinkys, 4 School Macks, a few Baldys and Black Bums.

Cheers guys...

Hi all

Here's my first ever jewie, caught today weighing in at 9.1kg!!!

Couldn't find any takers from Team Gates or a couple of fishing buddies so I went by myself....wasn't going to miss a chance to take the new boat for a fish while the weather gods are looking favourably down upon us at present. 

Headed out from the Dawesville ramp at 8am (assisted in the launch by 'she who must be obeyed') and sort of went due west and came upon some small lumps in 40m of water, with the odd red arch on the screen so I marked it and had a drift around. The drift was quite slow and the sea anchor worked a treat...just another thing I'm getting used to.

Had a couple of drifts over the mark and then all of a sudden all hell broke loose!! Not only did he take the bait, he almost caught me off guard and pulled me over. There was a fair bit of 'him taking line' followed by 'me taking it back' but I took my time and went steady, before he finally surfaced. What a wonderful sight it was, too.

I was breaking in my new Penn Slammer 601GBM fitted with a Latitude XS60 loaded with 30lb braid (thanks ebay!!)...maybe not the most fashionable outfit but that's ok.

Finished the day with a 37cm blackass and a couple of nice sized sandies.

Best of luck to everyone else out there wetting a line.

regards
rusty...

PS. Posted this in Image Galleries by mistake 

  G,day all posting a couple of photos of the nice mullaway i got saturday night.Spent the night down singleton beach with my cousin caught plenty of rays, got bitten off by a shark,the cousin dropped a mullaway and plenty of undersized taior still hitting baits at 4 in the morning. 

 Had and cork day a few days back ,with a total of 8 dewys landed ,only kept two for the table ! it was the young blokes first ever fishing trip!

 hey guys i just have to brag 

i launched the boat yesterday at about 11 o'clock and motered to the back of the five in hope of a pinky or a sambo, i found some cray pots in 20m and started to drift thru them first drop my mate hooked up and landed a little 7kg sambo and i droped a nice fish about half way up probly a sambo after a re-bait i was back down and hooked up again but got this fish off the bottom pretty quick and saw a bit of colour but i couldnt id the fish then it woke up and lunged for the bottom i worked it back to the surface and saw this fish had a deep body so my first call was snapper but then i as it broke the surface i seen it was a dhuie with no net on board we grabed it by the mouth and heaved it ova the side i was stoked my first dhuie and finally broke in my boat after that i started to fick plastics for the rest of the day for only rat sambos and small snapper but the weather was magic so i didnt mind

cheers ethan

Had the pleasure of accompanying Ryan Thipthorp on one of his Cockburn Sound Pink Snapper tagging evenings a little while ago, in between his hectic filming schedule. In fact, I was the first to assist him for the tagging program for this year. I met Ryan at the ramp and quickly loaded up his boat - one rod, small tackle bag and a small compact camera - too easy.

With the current closure we were expecting the Sound to be very quiet, which it was and good to see boat anglers complying. The only other boating activity we saw at the 5pm launch time, was a couple of Fisheries Officers with their books out and a boat crew with a very dejected look on their face , so yes guys be careful as they are out in force which is good.

Being the first time out, the order of the evening was to find fish; not just a few fish, but the big schools so that we could maximize the tagging night. We found a few, but they looked to be massed up ready to spawn. Hence, we kept looking to find the right concentration. Eventually the right amount of red on Ryans Furuno sounder was found. The anchor set and the first tester baits put out.

Ryan continued to setup the tagging gear - measure board, canulater, tag's, applicators, paper work, wet towel for covering the snappers eyes and within minutes the first outfit loaded up. A big strong run with head shakes indicated a sizable fish. 'Good fish... this one' I managed to get out whilst adjusting the drag slightly. A few minutes later, a nice pinkie 850mm long slips into the net....hmm nice start. With the tagging stuff done, back into the water for the big boy and he bolts off strongly.

We get a couple more on baits, so time for the McArthy's Softplastics. I slip a fresh 5" Jerk Minnow in Chartuesse/Pearl http://mcarthybaits.com.au/jerk-minnow# onto a half ounce jighead. Second cast, big hit, I'm on, and then drop, damn! Twitch, twitch, bang on again..woohoo and this one feels bigger. A few minutes of gaining and loosing line and finally, my first pinkie from Cockburn Sound and also my first pinkie on an SP comes into view. It is a stonker of a pinkie and with some good weight to it. Ryan gently nets her and by the time she is resting on the deck I'm ready for a quick lift and photo. With the pic taken, onto the measurer and she comes out to 950mm to the fork...Hmm thats about 1050mm overall and easliy over 10kg of healthy female. I place her gently over the side with Fisheries Research all done & tags in with a strong grip on her tail...whack, flicking water over me, she powers off strongly...ohh what a good feeling that was!

I caught 2 more on the McArthy with both fish around the 900mm to fork mark...hmm this was going to be a good night I thought. Getting ready for another cast out to the school about 30m away, there was a bit of commotion on the water surface. Large splashes, but just out of sight in the darkness. Shark or dolphins had just hit the school! Damn.....it went all quiet. Time to head home.

Many thanks to Ryan for allowing me to contribute to a very good cause. Ryan and one other person have Fisheries Exemptions (no fish kept) to do Fisheries Research in the Sound which is critical for the survival of these very unique spawning fish that spawn for half of the coastline so we need to protect them. I'm posting this up to remind people that whilst the fishing ban maybe lifted soon the "Cockburn Sound Snapper Ban" is still in place until end of January. It was a very educational evening and one that I hope to help with again in the future, thanks Ryan.

Cheers Pete

Started at about 5 in the arvo at RFBYC jetty hoping to hook up some bream with my new bought baby vibe. first cast and got a small tailor. decided to stay and try for mulloway, but there wasn't anymore actions after that small tailor. no squid, no tailor. therefore, no bait for mulloway. so met up with a friend at the narrows. it was rather quiet but started to get some small tailors (in the 20+cm range). and then i got one that took some line. landed it and measured up. it was a 40cm tailor! my PB.

then after that the fish went pretty thin. i lost all my metals cos my line snapped. think i need to get some new braids already. So i put on my Rapala minnow. first cast and i caught my first bream on a lure, and also my first bream from the narrows. I wasn't expecting that at all. the bream went 33cm, 3cm shy of my PB

my friend caught a 32cm tailor towards the end of out session. we also brought up a big blue manna using both our rods like a chopstick. it was just sitting near the shore on the bottom and my friend wanted to get that but didn't have a scoop. no picture of the crab though.

one weird thing happened when i first got to the narrows though. this guy beside me caught a small eagle ray on his twisty!

do these things get??

One in the middle had a 40cm hood. Kept stripping line off all the way to the boat :D

decided against hittin the same lumps as yesterday, and went a few extra miles south to some lumps we havent been to in at least 2 years.

good to see the numbers still around, and we had no dramas gettin our bag on half a tank each, including these 2 bad boys! missed a couple that were even bigger too, but will leave them and that lump alone for a while. plenty of them out there ATM. heaps of berried too.

sorry, mobile phone photo = shit quality.

not a bad jumbo on the first tank today for me mate matty. he had all but his ankles and fins poking out of this big boys cave.

ended up getting our bag of 12 with 200 bar still left in our 2nd tanks, and plenty still on the ledges!! hit that spot again tommorrow.

FYI, for size comparison, all crays in that photo are legal

Haven't been down the club in over a week, went down for fish and chips today (2.12.10).  The new entrance is on the road (turn right before Blue Shed) heading to the groyne, you will see it on the left hand side driving towards the rock groyne.  The pad key works.  But for $50 (with returnable pad key it will cost $40) you can have the mobile key and don't have to get out the car.  Enjoy, felt funny exiting out of the gate, as it opens automatically and exiting out of another gate since 1982 hahah.

Hi guys here is a nice Squid I nailed last weekend on the new Shimano Egixile Squid Jigs, great fun.

800mm Bara Caught up at Broome couple weeks back in Dampier creek. I also pulled a 500mm one on the same day and couple ohter boats pulled some.

My fisho partner and I had a good day at Rotto West end at the end of the salmon season this year. YT Kings were in plague proportions and great fun on light spin gear. There was still a few salmon around, nice fat 6kg buggers were also good fun. Gav took this Baldie for dinner, it came in at 5.5kg by memory and nearly dropped the jaw off the fisheries officer that met us at the ramp!

Yes this report is half a year old but it's good to know the grounds off Perth aren't as devestated as some will believe. We caught YT Kings, Dhuie's, Black butts, Salmon & Skippy of the more desired species that day, most taken on lures hard & soft.

Can't wait for the next spell of good wind!

Well its our first day off on our four day break, so its fishing time!

Very  quickly launched the boat at 0700, when we saw a 3m croc sink under the water 20m out from the boat ramp. Headed out under the shiploading wharf where we were greeted by another bigger croc, gliding thru the water.

Our destination was the Walker River 40 miles away from Groote Eylandt over on the main land. Pushing into the current and a slight north easter, we first stopped at a rock bar, where some big barra had been taken recently. Armed with my new bait caster, we began peppering out lures around the front of the rock bar. On my 3rd cast i was on, quick run and then the mighty jump of the barra got me all excited. It was a good size around the 80 mark, so i had to get this bloody fish in. It headed back for the rocks, i managed to turn him...but then the line went slack, i had lost him. With some encouragement from my mate, telling me "every ten you hook, you might land 2" i was starting to feel a little better. But i couldnt help but wonder, if i had just blown my chance for this trip. After another hour we had only landed a few small ones in the 60s, so it was time to get out of there.

We headed straight for the walker river then, and hoping we could find some more action.

 First stop was a run off about 3 mile up the river. We anchored up and began tossing lures. My mate landed a couple of fish in the high 60s, but after 30 mins the water went quiet. But before we took off, we had to retreive a couple of lures off some mangrove roots, that Wade had accidently left there. We then heade further up the river. There was buffalo everywhere, and heaps of wildlife. We made it up to the rock bar, where once again, we anchored and started fishing. It was very dead there, with no teltale barra "boofs" in the water. The sun and humidity by this time where getting quite extreme, so it was time for a beer and some trawling. We headed back to the mouth of the river, and began to trawl our lures along the side of the sand bar as it turns into mangroves. It wasnt long until i had a hit, and landed my first fish at 70cm. The place had began to fire, and in the next hour be hooked about 10 fish, with my biggest coming in at 72cm.

The sun was starting to fall so it was time to anchor up for the night. We enjoyed an evening of beer, chops and Dire straits on the boom box. While in the background the flash of storms, gave us something to admire. We hooked up our 12 volt fans to keep us a little cooler, and hit the swags for a great nights sleep, bobbing around in the ocean.

We awoke to calm conditions and as the sun was rising we began to get the lures out the back of the boat once again. Since my pink and yellow halco scorpion, did the damage yesterday, i decided to dust him off once more.

We hooked 4 good fish in three passes, but all still around the 70 cm mark. We then decided to start heading back home, to beat the wind, as if the nor easter kicks in, she gets very messy in these parts. We stopped at one of my mates prize goldie spots on the way home at the top of Bikerton Island. Fishing in only 5m of water, hooking up to 70 cm goldies, sure is fun.

We then headed further south, and was slowly making our way home, while taking in some of the veiws of the sandy islands. This one Woody Island caught my eye i think i could just live there for a while.

Home by 10 am as the wind just started to pick up. I had a great first time fishing for Barra, now i know why people get hooked!

Well folks, making the trek from Groote, over to the Walker River on the mainland tommorow. Hoping to get into my first Barra action, has anyone on here by any chance fished the Walker before??

Temporary Notice to Mariners Navigational Hazard

Found this on the CPBA web site, our Club Manager put it up for Club Members

Closure of Waters and Relocation of Wave Monitoring Buoy
Sepia Depression, West of Garden Island
Acting pursuant to Section 66 of the Western Australian Marine Act 1982, I hereby advise
that all waters delineated by the following coordinate boundaries are closed to navigation by
all vessels until 20 November 2012:
As plotted on chart AUS 117, Datum WGS 1984, printed 3 September 2004:
Lat 32° 14.979 ′S Long 115° 39.076′E
Lat 32° 15.056 ′S Long 115° 39.165 ′E
Lat 32° 15.132 ′S Long 115° 39.074 ′E
Lat 32° 15.054 ′S Long 115° 38.985 ′E
Sub sea infrastructure will be installed at this site in early 2011 comprising a wave energy
converter (CETO III unit) and associated subsurface moorings.
The perimeter of the closure area will be marked by 4 lit cardinal marker buoys,
approximately 3m in height (approximate deployment date is 14th November 2010)
Only vessels which are authorised by the Department of Transport are permitted to access
the closed water area.
Relocation of existing wave monitoring buoy:
A wave monitoring buoy already deployed in the vicinity of the close water area will be
relocated to a position inside the closed area.
Previous position: Lat 32° 14.950 ′S Long 115° 39.000 ′ E
New position: Lat 32° 15.091 ′S Long 115° 39.031 ′ E
This buoy is 1.1 meters in diameter, yellow in colour and fitted with a flashing yellow light
with a flashing sequence of FL (5) Y.20s
No vessel is to moor to, or interfere with this buoy at any time.
Mariners are advised to keep clear of the above closure area at all times and to
navigate with caution when transiting in the vicinity of the closed waters

Yesterday was the annual Budwiser sponsored fishing tournament here in Pohnpei. This tournament was a Catch Five tournament with Marlin, Yellowfin/Dogtooth, Wahoo, Mahi and Skipjack Tuna being the target species.

The day was wet, so wet that it was the first time I have been cold since being here. The rain hardly stopped all day and the wind picked up to about 30 knots at one point. Not a whole lot of fun at different stages. We targeted wahoo first and ran the barrier reef with a successful hook up within half an hour. Unfortunately the wahoo wrapped itself around the motor and the one opportunity for a gaff shot (by yours truly) was missed. Gutted...... I was praying at this stage that that wasn't the only wahoo we would see all day.

We then decided to head to one of the off-shore atolls as we had been successful there about a month ago. After the hour or so transit we put the lures out and within five mnutes we had a three way hook-up. All fish (a barracuda, a rainbow runner and a dog-tooth) were landed this time. So that was one of the five on ice. We then continued to troll the reef targetting wahoo again. About 20 minute later we hit them with a three way hook-up. My earlier prayers were answered and we got two wahoo inboard. You beauty, I was off the hook.

Now that we had the two fish you target on the reef it was time to change the plan and chase skipjack, mahi and marlin. We drove around the atoll with no sign of any schools and no 'blind strikes'. By this time the rain was coming down that hard that visability was down to 50m. Time to troll back to the main land so that we made home in time for the weigh-in. We trolled all the way and finally found a school of mahi. As soon as we hit the school the two mahi lures were hit instantly. We cleared the spread and brought the first one in, a solid mahi that we were all happy with, that made three. The second fish was going a lot harder and it put a great fight, pulling 8-kilos of drag with ease. Good fish I thought. We finally saw it, a top-sized bull mahi. After a 15 minute fight we landed what is now my PB Mahi at just over 21 pounds.

We had to punch into it then to make it back and came across a flock of birds just outside the pass we were going to enter. Out went the skipjack lures, for an instant hook-up. A three pound skipjack joined us on board, but size wasn't the issue, that was number four of the five species. We then gunned it for the weigh-in, making it with 10 minutes to spare. As it turned out we were the only boat out of 12 in the tournament with four species with about five boats getting three. So that three pound skipjack turned out to be a $600 fish as we won the tournament. We also got another $100 for the biggest Mahi. So with the cold winds and rough seas forgotten we took our two free cartons of budwiser and when home to clean the boat and the fish.

Not a bad days fishing at all. Sorry about the quality of the photos; it pretty much rained all day and there wasn't a chance to get any good pics on the water.

My daughter is 36yrs old and normally when eating our caught fish, all the demersals, plus whiting, etc.  Since we haven't been fishing for over 12months due to old farts eyes.  She's been buying all types of imported fish.  Now she can't  as she's starting to get the raspie, itchy throat, neck starts to go red, hands and arms also become very itchy.  Yet when they order  shark at the fish & chips shop she is ok.  Some of you fellas are scietnists on here what the hell is causing her allergy.  She's not eating anymore imported fish, as the reactions are getting worse.  I've told her to go to the doctors and get a allergy test.  Is it the preservatives in the fish or where they are grown in poo farms in Asian?  As she works in Coles Deli section and all the fish (as you all know are imported) is fresh (well out of the freezer) and cooked that night when she knocks off work.

She's ok with all shell fish and squid.

Any information will be appreciated.

Thanks

Roberta