hey all

after not going out on the boat for over a month yesterdays weather was just to good not to go out. I really wanted to get out and do some jigging for amberjack sambos and big skippy with the new lamble bait range of jigs that we have in.

I left the boat ramp at 6 and caught a few squid and whitting because i needed bait for some deeper water. I headed out to a few spots out in 200mts that are absolutely covered with sambos at the moment. I was trying to get a feed of pinkes but just coulded get past the hordes of sambos that where 30mts thick on the sounder, i did however find them when jigging to be quite fussy with the better quality smith, fisherman, lamble bait jigs seeming to get alot more hookups and hits then the cheaper swlab and searocks.

After having a bit of fun out deeper we decided to come in around 120 to get into a few ambers and skippy, it wasnt long before we boated quite a few of each species. The skippy we found werent the size we were looking for but they where still great fun. The ambers that we got into seemd to be quite fussy like the sambos only taking jigs with the better actions ect. after mucking around for a while we decided to head home when i looked over the side to see a massive sunfish under the boat, i have never seen one before and was amazed at the size of the thing. We mucked around for the next 10-15mins taking photos and just admiring this great creature, it was awesome to see and i dont reckon ill ever see one again

heres just a few cool pics

here is the progress shots taken friday only 3 days left of build to go the off to the painters yipppeee its gettin closer

A few pics of a trip i did last weekend out off Dongara all fish were caught on SP's and bay rubber style jigs and all caught in under 25m.

First pic is off a 12-13kg Dhu I caught on the surface as it chased my placcy up from the bottom in 12m, amazing stuff watching a big Dhu surface and eat ya plastic right in front of ya less than a meter away.

Second pic is 50cm Pinkys on bream gear great fun.

Third pic is 3-4kg Dhu's on bream gear more fun.

Forth and fifth pics are 50cm-65cm honk Skippy on the light stuff it was a great day out.  

Well, it will be my first Father's Day and our nine week old boy Daniel has been saving up his pocket money. The little champ went out and bought me a new tackle box, squid jigs, halco lures and a bunch of much needed terminal tackle to replenish supplies.

What an amazing, beautiful and simply brilliant thing it is to become a Dad. A big shout out to all the Dad's out there - who else will be celebrating their first Father's Day tomorrow?

Now to get the boy fishing...

Well being my last day off, one has to get in there last fishing fix. Left the ramp at 6am, should of been earlier, but someone had a few to many wines..coronas last night. Started of with some bottom fishing and after a few drifts picked up a nice goldie and some big emporer. The bait schools where coming in closer and at last the tuna had showed up.  We chased some schools of tuna around for a while, caught and released a few and one for the esky...bait.

We then went to another spot by the channel and started bottom bouncing again. We hooked a few more fish, but all was very quiet in fishtown today. I hooked up a nice slab of tuna and sent it to the bottom. After no bites for a while, i began to start bring my bait up to the boat, when bang something grabbed my bait and took a big run. I turned to my mate and said "Bloody sharks" but all of a sudden what ever was on my line was coming back to the surface. Alarm bells sounded in my tiny brain....that this well could be a Mackie. After the fish doing 2 laps around my boat..just about taking out my two way antenna... and my mates head. I finally got the fish to the surface..and to my surprise i was alot bigger mackie than i expected.

We got the fish boat side, and after slipping a few discs, we managed to pull it into the boat. We took a few snaps measured him up around the 150cm mark...and released the big boy to fight another day!

Just thought I would post this scanned pic of a big Mackeral I caught over 20 years ago at Quobba just off the island at Point Quobba. It pulled the Salter scales down to 40 kilos. It hit a huge Nilsmaster lure that we were trolling around early in the season and have a good account of itself on heavy mono.

Weather was looking good for Saturday and since we had not been to Two rocks for a while, decided to get up early and head up.

Up at 4am, packed the last of the stuff in the boat, Mick, Nath and Sean rolled up a few minutes later and we were on our way.

Met up with Scano in Joondalup and headed the rest of the way to Two rocks.
Arrived at the ramp around 6.15 to find only 6 or so boats trailers in the car park, so no waiting to launch. Set off by 6.30am

Quick trip out, weather conditions were pretty much perfect and made our way out to the bank in 35-40 minutes.

Now before i continue, let it be known that i was somewhat annoyed that all the deckies of late seem to be catching all the fish....and the skipper is left with didderly squat!!!

Mick was threatened to be thrown over board due to his recent 'luck'....... and now he'd be lucky to get another invaite at all!@#$!@#$@#

This was the 3rd installment of the 'Mono VS Braid competition. Decided to stack the odd's in Mine and scano's Favour and my cousin sean came out which made 3 on team braid and 2 on Mono.

Anyhow setup all the gear, ready for our first drop, then started sounding around. Probably took about 10 minutes to find a bit of ground (all new areas) that looked half decent.
the drift was crap, slight winds one way, current another, boat doing donuts!!

any how first drop resulted in a legal dhu of 57cm. He was sent back on the release weight as he was in good condition. Not a bad start first fish within 30 seconds!!! the dayw as looking good.

Did a couple more drifts through this Area, and Scano managed a cracker of a cuttle fish!!! probably one of the bigger ones Ive ever seen.
Seemed to be a few about, as we could feel them sucking on the baits at times. This oen was dispatched to the Ice box!

Moved a little bit, and Sean managed a nice BB, and then things started to heat up a little.

Scano was on to a heavier fish, and up came another smallish dhu

He was sent back on the release weight too.

Next thing Mick hooks up big time.... Now you need to picture this (also the pictures will tell the story)... i was calling for a sambo the way it did some blistering first runs. Mick was sitting on the bow of the boat, legs over the side, with his Ugg boots on, Fag hanging out his mouth. Fought this thing for about 7 or 8 minutes i guess, and to our amazement a nice 13.5KG dhu hit the surface..... To say team braid were pissed was an understatement!

Cracker of a fish tho.

Ohh I'll Just lean my rod on the rail while i have a rest and a puff!!!...........bet he wouldnt have done that if he knew what was on the end of his line!

And this was the end result!

bastard!!!!!

Anyhow after the high 5's finished and the bragging stopped, we headed back for another drift.. This little ledge we found must have been loaded with dhu's. We must have caught another 4 or 5 dhus from this location, all between 45-55cm! and all were released.... mick doing most of the damage.

Mick also got a nice little BB to go another with his horse of a dhu!

So we moved again, basically trying to get away from the dhu fish as we already had 1 big male in the eksy, and the main reason we went to Two rocks, was to try target some badlies, but just couldnt find any.

So the next spot, again new ground, lasted all of about 5 seconds before Sean was loaded up on a solid fish.... Gave him and his fancy Saltiga a bit of a work out, again called it for a Sambo... and again amazed at what floated up the last few metres!!!

This one came in at 16.5kg's, and another big male!

first time i can remember 2 fish filled 2 eskys!!!!

Well that was plenty for us, i think we may have caught a couple more smaller dhu's which were released on the release weight, and called it a day and headed back in at a smooth 31 knots.

Ended the day with 12 Dhu's boated, all really healthy fish too.
3 BB's kept to go along with it.

As for the Mono Vs Braid competition...well that has ended a bit like the election really.... Both teams claiming Victory with no real standout winner.

Ohh and just to add in how bloody bad my day was.... my catch of the day was 2 bloody rays while bottom bashing 20 miles out!@$%@#%^@#

got this guy last week on a black bread fly on my new 4weight

it was just  a matter of picking through the small ones

hooked one that was a bit bigger but it spat the fly on his second run around the dam

Hi all we got runners up for tag and release Sail fish, which i thought was pretty cool because i didnt have a tagpole, {i wasnt targeting bills so i didnt have one on board silly me }we got a sail on day 1 and released it and lost another 10 mins later,we all so lost 4 mac and caught 1 small trev on 3kg which didnt go line class Day 2 we beached it and i lost about a 4kg mac on 1kg off the beach ,so not to good on day 2,it was a great weekend fishing thanks Alex and Uncle Simmo jeff

who says theres no macs in the middle of winter

got this big fella at lancelin on saturday 21 st of agust 2010 in 19 degree water

he tipped the scales at 25 kg

Went out today with the crew from Saltwater Charters

Ended up with a 56cm Dhuie (First Dhuie ever)
And a 67cm Queen snapper (Also my first queenie ever)

Got new fish species off my checklist and one very happy customer.

Cheers Duffman

for every1 didnt know its matts bday today 

With the fishing gods finally smiling upon us, I was fortunate enough to be able to get out from Two rocks with Ryan Thipthorp on Sunday and hit up the 40m mark. The call for the day was to fish with artificals only with no bait to be taken out, and after carefull consultation with Ryan (what do you reckon about this colour?  Yeh mate she'll be alright!) we concurred and sent down our McArty soft plastics into the briney deep ( I was using a 7in Bullhead in orange/yellow pattern and Ryan choosing a Chartruse pearl bullhead, jig heads were 1 to 1 1/2 oz).

With a gentleman hours start to the boat ramp we launch around the 10.00am mark and headed out to the first spot. First few drift didn't produce alot with Ryan nailing an undersize Dhui which was released well to fight another day successfully. A quick move saw us droppping on ground wwith Ryan's fateful words " this looks like the type of ground that I usually pick up Dhui's in the 10-15kg range. Softies down, jig jig jig bang Ryan's on ...... result 15kg of prime table fish. Next drift same result but this time it was yours truly who was the lucky angler...10kg Dhu to the account. This pretty much set the tone for the day with numerous moves and a bite that I have never experienced before.

The soft plastics were being absolutly smashed by the Dhuies with them being taken well down in the mouth. All up we probably fished 4 hours with a tally of around 12-15 Dhuies with 2 being kept. Best results were Ryan 7 & 15 kg Dhu on soft plastic, me 5 & 10kg dhu on soft plastic. With the rest  of the fish either just under ranging up to the big bugger Ryan nailed. Biggest problem was we were unable to get away from Dhuies......some problem hey! Thanks must go to Ryan for a fantastic day out (if you really want to gain more knowledge about fishing, you must give Ryan a call about his fishing tuitions, just have to put up with the bugger being smug when he gets it right!!!!!! Nah not really, he is a good guy who can teach you alot about fishing and targeting different species. See the Fishwrecked sponsor list as he will really help you out into getting into the fish).

Oh and buy the way FRESH DHUI FOR TEA TONIGHT AND DAMN IT TASTED GOOD!

Ryan Thipthorp 15kg Dhu on McArthy SP

Ryans Dhufish and all of em actually were inhailing the SP

Myself with a 10kg Dhufish on SP

Boat finally finished except for Canopy but are they ever finished?

Dad..this is a whiting ..not that bait you caught!! Aunty and Uncle enjoyed it though. We also got 4 mullet for next weekend.

Jeff

Squid caught from South Mole with my mum holding it up.

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Feelin kinda lonely, feelin kinda weird, feelin kinda different coz this giant NIPPED MY BEARD!!!!!

LOL

May? Freo Wharf? 4am? light rain? 12 foot ugly stick beach rod with a shakespear 065 Balance outfit with 25 pound mono? 45 minutes of fighting back n forth? skull draggin this giant in? NO PROBLEMS LOL. Only JUST found the pic on my computer. Before i went all out with my popper stopper and Saragosa 18000F I invested in a beach set up from Oceanside which cost me 150 bucks? best money i ever spent!

Note to self..... Dont try it again coz the drag was smashed to pieces after this LOL

not a bad big boy!  not sure on the weight but i can dead lift 120kg's and i needed help to  pick this baby up........ and im 115kg's myself and 6ft3 i think this shovel nose i named "george" was longer then me LOL just wish i had taken a pic of the ray i pulled up the other morning was about 3x times the size of this!

I know its not a glamourous or prized species but aint that somethin!!!

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sat avo was looking great so gave my mate clint a call and it was on. the plan was to finish work at 1230 boat in the water at 230 fish for squid for a couple of hours then nail some snapper. so everything went to plan time wise headed out of the marina found some nice squidding grounds and set the drift . to my shock within about 15 min max we had our quota , hmmmm what to do now i thought i know give the 4lb a flogging on the skippy . so rigged the placcys drifted over a few lumps getting gippy after gippy on placcys til round 5 ish when we decided to hit the lumps for some snapper. got to the spot burleyd up saw the fish on the sounder and 2 casts later had my 2 fish with only 1 license on board we were done so we just kept on the snapper till sundown one after the other from 42 to over legal . was a great avo with great conditions and the 12 ft tinny found the fish again. pik of snapper was the smaller of the 2 kept the bigger of the 2 had blood on the side of the fish not making a very pretty pik

brenz

Went out for a fish on Saturday and caught this brute.

Lost two others. One decided to head for the horizon and the fight ended when it found some reef. The other one nearly sent my Stella outfit overboard. My missus yelled that I had a fish on and by the time I looked up the rod holder had exploded into pieces. I dived across the boat and grabbed the rod butt just as it was about to go over and just held on for dear life. Luckily the line was being dragged across the outboard so it snapped. I don't know how long I could have held on as I was lying across my eski and burley bucket, it was quite an awkward position to fight a fish. 

So only one fish out of three runs but still some excitement for the day.

This fish had a tag in it. What is the procedure when catching a fish with a tag? Does the number on it need to be given to anyone?

PS. I didn't catch this on the rod in the pic.

We went out on whitey's boat he run's the seasport tackle shop in jurien bay.He landed us on to these beauties.A great day with great service rewarded us with these dhufish and snapper along with various other sizes and species.Including sum yellowtail kingfish and tuna that were caught trolling on the way back.Previous trips have provided us with metre+ mulloway and sharks and big baldchin groper and breaksea cod.even sambo's 17 kg+ for a great fight.He sure know's what he's doing.We Strongly reccomend u go out on this charter.Seasport tackle jurien.these photo's were taken round june/july.

P.S O'brien charters exmouth r crap.

Me an 3 mates including Cuzza 44 went fishing in the upper reaches of the Swan this morning from 7- til 10am

Good little session on prawn

8 bream caught all up
SIZES: 2 around 25cm
            6 between 27-29cm

No big ones but good fun.

Cheers - Duffman

NB: Picture 2 - the brilliance of circle hooks

Well based upon the discussion last week I decided to put my skills to the test with some down south fisho's that had little idea about the Exmouth area.  We cancelled the first fishing session due to it being blown out and went the l/b option instead, within 20 minutes we had an octopus landed and a small golden trevally just after.  We called it quits after that as it was high tide and I wanted the octopus live to become our new research project at work.  For John it was his first fish of the trip after being out in the boat 3 times. (They had hooked fish but always seemed to lose them)

Saturday morning was blown out so we decided to head out around 1.30pm, just to give the guys a bit of a heads up on what to fish for where and how.  Heading to the spot I saw one of the biggest tuna/bird schools I've seen in Exmouth and decided we'd do one quick troll around to see what we could find.  I kid you not it took less than 30 seconds to have a solid hookup that wasn't stopping and ending up toweling John up and left him fishless again.  Now in the chaos of winding in lines and clearing the spread I noticed the technique John was using was one that ultimately cost him the fish.  Do you think its better to tell people these things or just let them go on how they normally do it without potentially embarrassing them?  The fish was probably a very solid spaniard.

At the spot I showed the guys what to do and what to expect, luckily for me first drop resulted in a nice 65cm trout that got smashed by a big cod on the way up and was luckily spat out.  There were a couple of other small fish hooked but they got codded and it was time to move.  Heading out deep we tried a few spots for not much luck, lots on the sounder which resulted in a couple of pan snapper and NW blowies!  The drift really was too fast out there though so after half an hour we changed plans and put out the trolling gear.

Within 20 minutes of the marlin gear being out a decent black jumped out of the water like a dolphin and hit the shotgun lure twice.  I turned to give him some clear water and a look at the others and he came and hit the short corner and then the left middle all fired up and zipping drag all over the shot.  It turned out not to be as he took one last whack and buzzed off without a hookup. :(  We gave it another hour but that was it for the arvo and we got in just before the tide would make tantas difficult to retrieve and before the other handful of boats out there braving it.

So for 4 hours fishing the guys learnt how to shallow water trout/spangly fish, what to look for out deep ground wise and what rigs to use and the basics of billfishing.   We also lost/got unlucky with 2 fish that would have made the trip, but thats fishing.  These guys aren't muppets either, I've attached a pic of what they get down in their neck of the woods, but when it comes to the north, well its almost a different country.  I'm looking to go out next weekend again to see what they've learnt, but from all accounts, they would have been very happy customers. ;)

Cheers,

Adam

Well what can I say! We woke this morning to a gentle eastly blowing at 5am. Claire went to work, and I headed back to bed. It was hard to go back to sleep knowing the fishing conditions were great on the water. Well, I finally got up and 10am and there was still a gentle eastly blowing. So I rang Claire and asked her if she was keen for a quick fish after work..."Of Course" she said.

I picked Claire up at work at 1610, we hooked the boat up and left the boat ramp at 1630. We then travelled to our spot which took us 20 mins. We had hooks baited and went for our first drift over this tiny lump I had found last trip. Claire was on straight away, a good fish and made her work hard to get him up. It turned out to be a golden trev around 60cm. Just as it got to the surface it jumped and so did a shark, and just about landed in the Traily! Claire asked me what we should do if one landed in the boat?? I said.... just get up the front of the boat!

Anyway she baited up and sent her bait to the bottom. Bang she was on again and landed a nice Golden Snapper around 55cm. She was happy, as it was the first one she has caught.

After Claire's arms stopped shaking, we headed for another drift. This time it was Wade's turn!

After some great rod work by myself I to had a nice Goldy on board as well.....cant have the Mrs showing me up can i Russ!

We were more than happy with what we had caught in 10 mins of fishing and decided to have one more drift on another spot 200m away, where we usually catch Saddle Tail. This time we both hooked up, and we had fun trying not to let our braid rub thru on each other. We then boated another 2 Golden Snapper...we couldnt get away from the buggers!

I took a look at my watch and it was 1710. I said to Claire " I think its time to head home" as we had a caught our share of fish for the day, and we didnt want to rape our new mark.....GOLDYSPOT01.  It was the best 20 min  fishing session I have ever had...and after a high five with the Mrs we headed home. Got back to the ramp at 1730, then waited for ET's fishing guides to drive their boat on the trailer. After about 10 attempts..they finally got it...I had to hold back from clapping I tell ya!

We had another great day on the water (well 1 hour really), and the boat is still hooked up to the 4wd in the back yard...as I'm thinking why not go fishing tommorw morning!

Went out for a fish last Sunday the wind and current weren't the best but I still decided to twitch a plastic around some shallow reefy/coral rising up from 16 m - 9 m, last drift of the day I nailed this 15 - 16 kg Male Dhu on a 6 inch plastic right on the front edge of the lump. The gear i was using was a Stella 3000 fd running PE 1.5 with an 3 - 6 kg Ian Miller T Curve. Smoked me on the first run I called it for a Sambo the way it peeled off time and time again, after 2 or 3 mins I had it turned and started the old up and down slug fest reveiling it's true identity great fight on the light string and stoked with my biggest Dhu to date especially on a plastic and light spin.   

this is what i caught in theHawkesbury River this was a while ago now but is still the biggest i have caught can you name the person im fishing with ...

Icaught this 104 cm snapper on the 3 mile off Scarborough yesterday, it took some stopping in 10 m of water on my stella 4000 and 20lb saltiga braid, we released 4 other pinks around 5/6 kg and caught a heap of 1.5/2.5 kg skippy on plastics and 6 lb braid it was a top day!!!

Hillarys Thursday morning caught on 8lb mainline and on prawn
Got busted of by another fish equal too or greater than this
also got some undersize skippy and  a small flathead

Well after not having a fish for 24 hours, it was time to get out and wet a line. With nothing out for tea, i was seeking some fresh fish.

With a light eastly blowing and high tide around lunch time, it was looking great for fishing. Loaded up the old navara, and headed down to the resort, where ET used to run his fishing charters out of. There is a nice beach along the front of the resort, and rocks out about 30 m all along the beach. But the only thing about fishing there, one must watch for the snapping handbags, as a big boy was seen there a few weeks back.

First started working the beach up and down with a 40g twistie, but for about 30 casts only hooked a small queenie. I then changed to a bright green medium sized ritcher plug and worked my way back up the beach for no hits at all. I was starting to think maybe toasted cheese sandwiches for tea. I had a dig around in my tackle box and found some small ritcher plugs, that i got Mako to send up to me a couple of weeks back. Tied on one of the plugs, and began to cast. The wind by now had started to pick up, but this was good as i was able to cast out a bit further. The red and white plug flew threw the air, and plunged into the water about 50ms out. A quick flick of the bail arm, rod tip in the water, i began my slow retrieve. Bang, i was on.....shit not another queenie.  There was no silver spash in the water, and once i turned the fish around and got it to shore i could soon see it was a nice coral trout. Measured him up at 49cms, this is perfect eating size for my tea!