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.

Noticed today when coming in 2 main lines attached to mooring are chaffed real bad 1 almost all the way through . Rapped around anchor hanging down isn’t helping. If you know him may be worth letting him know before strong winds come in . Cheers

Skinned some fresh occy ,left in fridge overnight. Done the job. I never caught a sized dermersal today ,Little andys day today .didnt leave till 10 due to wind ,had fun in close on tailor while we waited .

 Couple lil Sharks all metro bitta fun 

 Went out fishing in the Fitzroy Friday night with a friend who has been doing quite well. We got a few runs but didnt convert into fish.It was well after 1am at this stage and I was starting to fall asleep as my rod got almost yanked out the small tinny we were in, I quickly free spooled while tightening my drag then clipped over the bail arm and bang you could see a nice size Barra skip across the water. I backed off my drag as I was using 50lb fluro and could see it was gut hooked. After a 10 minute fight and one big jump next to the boat we had it in the net. After a quick hug, a few high fives and a 100 photos, we released the 93cm fish back to grow to that magic metre. It was a personal best for me and I was stoked. 

4.30 Friday arvo Michael and I made the late call to go for a night fish out of Mandurah, turns out it was the right call! I got my PB dhuie at 20kgs on an absolutely magical night of fishing.  Caught on super light gear with soft plastics on 20lb line which made it all the more special, thanks to Michael for yet again putting us on the fish!

well I didn’t expect to break a PB On my break weather was frighten terrible. But still sent it with a mate and decided drop on a couple of coral lumps and head in. The pictures are of the same lump on my 588 running low through a b260 and my new gps unit running high through a p66. The dhu went 19.1kilo and landed on 20 pound braid. I was stoked cos it took a lot of luck steering the boat and fighting the fish hahaha

 seems new fishing license now dealt by DOT  asks user name and password dont have , type in DOB &email address says if correct email will be sent but nothing , guess my question is what was wrong with prvious , why do they have to make it so difficult or are they just trying to confuse and make life dificult . anyone !

My oldest boy has gone from hating the boat to being fishing obsessed  and watching Youtube vids all day and wanted to chase a sambo. He was in awe while this one smoked me on my 20lb gear in 40m and Dad's a bit of a legend at the moment... also bagged a ripping Baldie.

Was out crabbing the other night, not having a great deal of luck, so wandered into the shallows trying to find them, but ended up finding heaps of cobbler rolling around in the mud instead. Took the crabbing gear back to the car and grabbed my gidgy. Within 10 minutes, I had 3 big cobbler in my bag. Easily could've got my bag limit of 8 within half an hour, but thought I'd better try out the few that I had for eating/freezing quality first. Ended up with 720 grams of fillets, but could've been more if I was better at filleting them. Had 3 fillets for dinner last night and froze the remaining 3 for a later date. Quite a tasty fish. And good fun catching them as well. Biggest was 560mm, smallest 500mm. Haven't put pictures up here in a long time, so hopefully it works... 

 Just chasing a few tips on fishing N.Z. be traveling with family. I'll take my light rods for just the basics. I've never targeted trout befor, but keen for a crack. Probably fish land based most of the time then a couple of charters. Any recondmendations? Or locations not to miss. Thanks.

 Was magic out off dawesville today headed out wide was well worth it managed a decent dhuie and nice snapper me mate got 2 nice snapper bagged out thought we would troll back in with no luck still can't complain tho 

 Crabs from yesterday and whiting this morning. It’s like cat crack for this fellow.

Few pics from recent, bit of everything lately. Perth landbased macky next on the cards but a few more hours required before that'll happen. Cheers, max. 

Managed to get out wide weekend before last. Really starting to hone in my deep drops and sounder readings. I’ve had success on all ventures but one over the last half a dozen or more trips. No Marks, just tips from some fellas on here. So appreciate the advice fellas, as I’m seeing good results now.

Went out to 200s to some reliable Puka grounds, decided with all the Blue Eye being caught, to give the 300-400s a crack and found a big school, where my 2.5kg sinkers didn’t even hit the bottom before being devoured by a string of blue eye. Beautiful morning out, quick run back at 35knts. Can’t beat it.

biggest was 19.5kg. Loaded with small bait fish and octopus.

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Best I've seen on my boat ( baldie).687mm long.5.3 kg weight.. donkey.craige also got his pb dhue. I got a flogging

 Found some new ground this morning in the 30's out from Cockburn. Carl caught 2 nice KG's (50 and 51cm), and I caught 2 Dhuies (4.5kg and 11.5kg). Also got nice Blackass and a massive Foxfish. Good feed, all done by 10am. Happy Days!

Great feed from this morning.

Young fella off the pro boats , back to grano work mid north. Helping farmers out on days off. Radar cracker dog.

 Some pics of the last few months catches, a couple of photos are from Tas. Squid from cockburn sound and others inshore NOR.

Any ideas what that sounder shot would be? 37m I'm thinking sambo... 

Nice trip south