Hey folks just got back from another great salmon trip down Augusta way, this was the last fish caught on the trip and the biggest at just over 8kg, she didn't come from a school tho, it took a mulie from a gutter only 30 metres from shore just as the sun was setting. In the 12 years that i've been going there its the second biggest salmon i've caught.

hey all

 1st post on this website been looking at this site for a while now thought i would join up

 just some of the pinkies me and the old man got the last trip out westend of rotto

cheers

I had to be home from cervantes by sunday for dinner at the inlaws, so with the boat still hooked up, i gave juica the call to be at my place monday morning for a cockburn squid.

hit the water by 7.30 and straight to parmelia bank / woodies point, where we got 3 tiddlers in an hour and a half. made the call to go look for new ground, and headed to southern end of garden island, where the northerly drift was blowing us perfectly along the bank, towards the barracks on gi.

thats where the fun began!! about 3 metres of water, and the big winter squid were on!!! scored 14 absolute horses, with tubes to 36cms in about an hour! they were actually peeling line off our 1000 reels like they were spanish mackeral. orange jigs did the damage, but suprisingly, a dark green yozuri also did pretty well, but only when the sun peeked out from behind the clouds.  

back at the ramp by 10.45, boat cleaned by 11.30, beer and fresh squid on the barby by preceisly 12pm. what a way to end the long weekend!!

Hi im trapped at home packing up my house, did anyone get out for a fish today? If so tell us how you went..cheers

A mate and I went out for a quick fish today, weather was a bit uncomfortable so moved in behind the reefs and found a patch of half kg skippy. We caught six or so and they were on the bite. I was fully loaded and at the back of the boat and never saw it but it took a decent fish and snapped me off..

All i saw was the white water of the after math, no idea all happened so fast could'nt see it, was behind the motor, but caught nothing at all after that..

Great fun spoiled by a predator!!!!

hey all

just got back from 3 weeks up in exmouth and had a ball, i had a handful of new mcarthy soft plastics to try on the trip, they turned out to be great lures, we caught coral trout, brassy trevally queenfish, dollies, spangos and heaps more on the new range of lures.

had a ball fishing the gulf with plastics and cant wait to get back up and do it again

heres just a few quick pics of the trip

cheers

luke

Decided to head to the my favorite jetty on the swan river for a quick fish last night... Got there around 9pm and set up my big rig with a big mulie... After an hour my girlfriend rocks up, so I set her up to catch me some live bait on the flick rod. Luckily she got right into it and landed me a couple of big herring and a just size tailor, which i put straight on my big rig....  after another hour of fishing for bait, everything went dead quiet.. the wind died and the tailor stopped jumping... a second later my big rod starts to twitch and bounce around... as my GF was standing between me and my rod , i yell "Mulloway! MOVE!!!!!"...  grab the rod and attempted to set the hooks... too soon.. ended up with a half chewed tailor and an angry girlfirend.... "bugger"... next chance, I rig a couple of big 7/0's and half a herring... 10 seconds later... bang... drag screaming... go to set hooks again.... another miss!!!! starting to feel the frustration now.... Rig up the other half of herring and wait, this time with no drag pressure on my reel.... 45 mins goes by while i stare anxiously at the tip of my rod... eventually my gf catches me another decent tailor... straight on the hooks and in 5 mins my reel starts going off again... this time I wait.. as my reel starts really screaming I slowly tightened the drag & set the hooks... "GOTCHA!!!" ... all hell breaks loose as this monster runs for the moorings.... "shiiit"... I manage to turn its head just in time, as it screams out into open water taking ~150m of line with ease on a heavy drag.... After 10 mins, the fish was tired enough to bring in, and after a couple more short runs, up comes the giant silver silhouette... I was speechless to say the least.. with a quick one handed gaff shot it was on the jetty...  what a sight... my very 1st mulloway!!.. my lucky night :)  1.2m and i'm guessin around 25kg Swan River Mulloway... Not bad for my first :)

To everyone who says I should have released it... NO !!! Its mine now... I've spend way too many full moons for the last 4 years chasing this fish, so i'm keeping it... Everyone should be allowed to keep their first... :)

BTW, she forgave me :) and said "Hmm... Do you think it's big enough?"

Went out to rotto mid morning with Lamby in some very nice conditions today for a bit of a look around and chase some crays. Managed to bag 7 between us. Wasn't too much action about and a fair bit of surge under the water. They tasted very nice on the BBQ with a couple of coldies for dinner tonigh though. Had a very flat and quick trip home about 1pm.

I went out with my work mate up here in Pohnpei as a part of the monthly fishing tournament. I wore my 'fishwrecked' shirt and did it proud. The conditions at times were very ordinary to say the least with current coming from three different directions and up to 30knots of wind. The tournament was a 'Catch 5' tournament with Marlin, Yellow-fin tuna, skip-jack tuna, Mahi Mahi and Wahoo being the target species. In between holding on for dear life we attempted to work our way through the species. It was my plan that once I caught the target I would change lure types and attempt to work through the list. Sometimes it doesn't work out that way and you catch something you already have, but everything is kept here. Nothing goes to waste. We even give the frames away to the local people that live near our house; they are more than happy to eat the guts and boil up the frames. Anyway we ended up with Wahoo, yellow-fin and Mahi Mahi. When we came back in for the weigh in I thought we might be in with a chance due to the weather being so bad. As it turns out only two other boats (out of twelve in the comp) had caught three of the target species, and we were the only ones to catch yellow-fin. It then came down to weight of the heaviest fish from each species for a combined weight of the three. We won the tournament by 1 and a half pounds. You bloody beauty. I celebrated back at home with another beer and some yellowfin sashimi straight off the fish.

After reading that not enough are putting there catches up I thought I would have another go. Here is a couple that my partner and I got on Sunday. The conditions were perfect and in actual fact to good as when it glassed of the bite went off. We only fished for approx 2 1/2 hours and went home with that dhu that measured in at 84cm. Sambo was a bit of fun and he went back in for another day. My partner Tiff had a great run but lost it god knows what it was but it was big. So we hit the ramp at 10.15am and was home by 2pm with a nice dhu in the esky for easter got to be happy with that. Seen heaps of bait around nothing smashing through them but some of the balls were very tightly packed so maybe there was something under them, didn't bother to troll anything by them maybe next time.

Hey All

Last weekend was the time for the annual salmon hunt down dunsbrough way!

Was a very successful weekend with schools the whole time we were there, even left a school sitting there on sunday when we left. We were so tired from running up and down the beach!

As soon as we hit the beach, 7am Saturday morning, there was a massive school sitting right on the beach.This resulted in multiple hook ups and first fish landed by 7:10. The first fish makes the weekend a success, and anything after this is a bonus.

Saturday lunchtime the rain came down so this gave us some time to fuel on on food and catch our breath!

Round 2 later in the afternoon once the rain disappeared resulted in more fish. Again as soon as we rocked up we spotted a school moving down the beach. Back into in and a few more fish landed.

Sunday saw us at the beach the same time again, 7am. Again another school, this time to the other side of the rocks. This school was the biggest I had seen here and they were close to the beach. Swell was up this day though so needed to have your casting shoulder warmed up and firing lures in the right direction. So many people on the beach so the school hit the bottom and was hard work getting them to strike, but it was possible. Cast behind them, let the lure sink to the ground then crank and twitch and put as much action into the lure as possible. As the swell was pumping metal lures was the only way to go. 

We also landed 3 tailor for the weekend which was a first for us!

Pictures to follow!

Picture titles

1. The cast

2. The hookup

3. The result

4. Double

5.Another - gives the spot away but everyone knows it now!

6. Which one is better looking??!!

rigged up this jig differently to my other ones for hapuka and ruby ect...

 the back hook is a 10/0 with split rings and a ball bearing swivel

the front two hooks are attached with 100lb nylon coated wire and set into place with a heavy duty lacky band. the hooks are set outwards and when the fish takes the jig the rubber band will snap and they will fight only against the wire.

 who likes and who dosen't.

i'm not sure whether it will work or not. 

cheers

Mr Dhuie 

went out friday morning from a metro marina for a quick fish in the morning. Managed this spotted mack and a pinkie.

sorry to do this to ya boys but pretty fu*king rapt.... myself and fellow fishwrecked member spooled aka GOOOOOOOLLLLLASHHHHH won our a grade cricket grandie today and we wanna let everyone know!!! friggin underdogs all year and knock the top team off for 91 and get em 2 down... again sorry guys not fishing related but we are over the frrrrrrrricken mooon!

KARN TOWNSSSSSS 2009/2010 PREEEEMIERS BABY......... 

i went fishing a month or so ago, pulled up 2 my favourite bream spot on my favourite secret moon phase for bream to find an old blue heeler trapped up on the river bank i tried to pull him up but couldnt get a good grip i decided to go for a bit of a swim(too bad it wasnt summer)the water was freezing i got up behind him and pushed him up 2 shore.found his owners number took him home to an old couple. apparently he had been missing since 11pm the previous night.by then it was pretty dark so i was summing up to just go back home or go for a fish. being the keen fisherman i am i cant believe i even thought to go back home. back down the river(secret) i  wet my line 5 minutes later looked up at the rod bending almost to the water and massive head shakes, had hooked it self running, straight for the snags, picked up the rod cranked up the drag i was calling it for a soapie and then i seen that beuatiful bronzy purple just turn over in the water i KNEW it was my biggest bream i HAVE to land this fish.got him out of the snag with a bit of help by holding the spool from spinning:):):)grabbed the leader and BANG landed my pb black bream..i was STOKED.40cm and weighed in at 1kilo...rod was back in the water with in seconds bang 2 more nice size bream on the bank..only kept 1 that night happily release the other 2:)awsome session

went for a dive off Mindarie and bagged out on crays for the first time in my short craying career. Size wasnt too bad with all well over size (80mm+). What was unusual I aslo stumbled across a southern cray and after an epic battle i managed to nab him. Almost lost him a couple of times tho and would have been spewing if i did coz no one would've believed me. Anyway what are the southern's like to eat? Do we usually see them this far up?

Anyway here are the pics.

Hi guys ! At last we have signed contracts, and on the 26th of April, we are moving to Groote Eylandt. 4 days on 4 days off, gives you plenty of time for fishing. But being 500kms from the nearest fishing shop is going to be hard to take, but it will keep Claire away from the shops as well.  Have attched a map of area around Groote..mmmm where do i going fishing first, is the question!

Well, we had some great weather over the weekend & I wasn't confident heading down to my local beach for a sesh. From past experiences, no wind nor swell isn’t too productive for choppers, mullas & pup sharks.

After keeping a close eye on seabreeze, I noticed the swell & wind had marginally picked up. The decision was made to give it a crack & Sam was keen to watch, so I knew having her around would bring some good luck.

Arrived around 5:30pm & sent some burley out in hope to get a few hezza's (for bait). Unfortunately, the herring weren't around (it's been a while since they have shown). The finger size whiting were in abundance so I gave up after 30 minutes.

I waited for the sun to disappear & sent out some mulies. Not long later, I was onto the first chopper! Bingo, some fresh mulla bait!

By this stage, the missus was getting cold & asking the ‘what time is it’ question.

I took a healthy slab off the chopper & rigged it up. About 3 minutes after it hit the water, the rod buckled over! After working it to the shoreline & over the reef, I was surprised to see an above average metro greenback! I was quite lucky it didn’t bite through the 60lb leader because the leading snelled hook was down it’s throat.

A few pics later, I sent him back into the water!

I begged the missus for a bit more time & threw another slab out. The reel started singing & I waited a moment before I set the hook. I called it for a mulla due to it’s tail kicks & the distinctive first run with the bait. Unfortunately, I lost it at the reef!

Til next time fellas.

Daz

hey guys if any one out there washes there boat at the wash down facility at mindarie , just wondering what size conection is need to conected the hose to the tap!hope some one can help.saves me a trip down there myself to check!cheers

Exmouth trip May 2009

Me and 2 mates went up for a week last year, neither of my mates had been up there and fished properly (when I say properly I mean, sports fishing for the thrill, not soaking baits for hours to fill the eskies with their old man as kids for instance).

I don't think I threw anything else but poppers, and after 1 or 2 days my mates were equally as convinced as they were pulling better quality and sized fish. We pretty much fished the expanses inside the reef along the west coast. I had done this type of thing twice before in the 2 years prior with a different posse of mates but they all bailed on me this time round. Suffice to say they were spitting chips becoz this was far and away the best we had done to date.

hopefully i can get this thread to work properly but please excuse me if i stuff it up on my first ever post on this website. decided it was time to contribute something after being a long time reader of this site and seeing everyone elses quality fishing photos.

dirty big squid, the DEC officers we saw later that day at the fillet station said it was the biggest they had seen in a long time...but he got me back

....but hey, I'm top of the food chain and the squid rings as thick as ya thumb for entree and spanglie for mains went down a treat

double hookup to cobia and a golden

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but i got mine in, i think the noah (only one of them) bit off more than he could chew on the cobia

triple hook-up, fish landed all at the same time but no free hands for a good trio photo

another multiple hook-up, happened so often it wasn't funny, its pretty easy with the trevors, but the caramel heads were chasing our poppers in packs when it was over cast, and i havent even put the photo of our pelagics up, double hookup spanish, yellowfin tuna

check out the awesome sized spanish flag (bottom right) we got on our recent exmouth trip out at the murion islands. 

he was a tricky one to catch - we had to get through all those red things first......

nibble nibble nibble....

It's been a while and been nagging Zap to hit the pole so we headed down for the weekend. Left Bunbury Friday morning and returned Monday arvo. No rush.

Was up at first light after a relaxing friday afternoon drinking a few beers and setting up the gear and talking tactics.

Full battle stations and engine running (and thats Zap arming the Humminbird side imaging with new down imaging sounder, no photos as we aren't giving all our secrets away )

And yep what beatuiful glassy conditions. Decided to hit the headlands around Walpole inlet and the first casts resulted in fish......for the next hour or so.

The fish were just crawling all over our lures. Have been given a digital camera so I was eager to shoot some shots to see how she works. Here's some shots.

This is a Maria Fake Bait floating twitch/stickbait. And what a lure it is. Was smacking the bream as we threw them into the rocky headlands and twictched em back just under the surface. Hooked up after a few cranks of the Sol.

Atomic Hardz and this would have to be my favourite colour. Whether it be in the Blackwood or here it just smacks the fish. Fished best again over the rocky headlands in shallow. Another great visual lure and you can see the fish hit it.

Have thrown Ecogear SX heaps and never pulled a fish so tied this one on and said if it doesn't catch a fish then pox to ecogear as they are supposed to be solid lures.......well a fish a cast so happy with the lures. This is the 249 and it throws some flash, and fished best over the gravel/black mud sandy shallow ground.

Went for a quick session up the Frankland and as good as Zap was on the lecci he couldn't keep up on the fish front yep hooked up again (scorpion yabbie colour) and Zap giving me the dirties...ha ha

So after a killer morning session with easliy 80 fish between us it was stumps for lunch. We decided to hit Deep creek in the arvo and enjoy the day. Some pics to show you the sights.

Saw the biggest bream here and it was great just watching him swim around under the tea tree. Threw a lure in but he just smiled and swam away.

Clear blue sky

Saturday finished with easy 100 fish between us. Went back to the mouth of the Frankland for a quick look at the turn of the tide and there was a school of about 100 big skippy and yeh we caught a couple.  Beer o'clock and was beatuiful day on the water.

Sunday was once again glass in the morning. Hit the headlands again and smashed the bream on lures. Zap tied on a Zipbait while I tied on Trout Tune. This is another floating twitchbait and twitch it did and bream threw themselves at it.

This lure worked all day and is now my favourite lure. Yep its expensive and small but nothing like dropping it in front of bream and watching then come out to look and then slam it. Just can't beat the visual action.....

Zap was killing them on the lures as well and once again many fish landed. But happy hour at 7.30am was calling as the bourbon and dry were cold........ha ha

Nothing like breaming with bourbon and dry......

 Decided to hit Snake Island and once again it was bream central.  We we casting into the shallow rocky flats again and just a quick crank and instant hookup!  

However the fish shut down so we tied some SP plastics on and hit the 2-3m line. We were slamming bream on slam 3" SP.

These were all good 28cm fish.

Then moved to the mouth but only herring and a few small pinkies on plastics.

The mouth gets absolutely hammered......

So lunch again and for our final afternoon it was the upper Frankland. I had landed a 34.5cm bream in the lower but the bigger fish were aluding us so we ventured further upstream. We pulled up just downstream of the Nornalup bridge and decided to move up the bank under lecci power casting into the banks. First casts and we were both smashing the bream.......You could see schools of them hanging on the wood.......Was a visual spectacular.

Then the bridge pylons loomed within casting distance. There was just masses of baitfish hanging under the bridge! In went my old faithfull Luckycraft 48DD gold, cast hard up against the pylons...crank, smack and a nice 29cm bream landed. The next five casts landed five 28-29-30cm bream. Zap watched in bewilderment  but by the time he cottoned on the fish shut down

Anyways I suggested he tie on a slam SP and drop it deep......and his first cast resulted in him getting bricked......ha ha as I can still see his face...pure pain and tears welling as it was the fish of the trip.....ha ha, got to be quick old man...ha ha. But he landed a few

We caught a few more up river but the light was fading.............

So all up we would have easily landed over 200 fish. Importantly we fished areas no others appeared to fish but we changed lures very regularly and moved when they subsequently shut down. But at the end of the day we just enjoyed ourselves.......if you catch a fish its a bonus.

And yeh Barneyboy if you have read this far there's one more thing. Here's a picture of my ugly mut showing you I'm enjoying myself just to piss you off.

Went out from Two Rocks yesterday on a mates boat this time.  Finally got onto some OK fish.  Poor old Northsea can't buy a fish lately.  Don't worry.  You'll get one one day!  It was the roughest water I have ever travelled back into.  It took just over 2 and a half hours to get back in.  The boat is a 575 Stacer with a 115 Johno on the back but it wasn't quite used at it's full potential heading home yesterday.  It was pretty hairy stuff.  Luckily the skipper was switched on.  He did a good job getting us back in one piece.  Needless to say, we were the only idiots still out there by the time we got in at 4pm.

I pulled up the nice Baldy and the Pinky.  I also released two undersized Dhuies.  The skipper caught the Dhuie and Big Black Arse.

hey guys after finally convincing our boss to take us out for our well overdue end of year xmas work doo,we manged to get out thursday and take advantage of the good weather,we caught these drifting over a nice lump a few k off the back of rotto in about 40m of water the queenie went 7kg and 90cm,(first fish ive caught on a boat in oz)and the mulloway all over 7kg definatly worth the wait i reckon..

My biggest red caught in the 50s Coral Bay last year

PB Cobia taken Kalbarri 07 trolling went 22kg on the dodgy scales I had

took honsu out on friday which is when we got the ytk and the last sambo honsu is holding .. all fish were jigged on pe2 -3 . i was really amazed i managed to get the ytk as they are usually a very dirty fighter. Happy days :)

Kicked off swanfish about 1030 after collecting bait was a bit of a slow start with only one dozen small bream fishing around the ascot area cruised up to east Perth area got three bream biggest around 35cm put it in the live tank to get it weighed for catch and release then decided to head back to ascot fished a few snags pulled on a few smaller bream no upgrades so pulled the anchor and moved to the next snag just in time to beat last years biggest bream winner to his favourite snag. Had a couple of good runs but no hook ups then bang I was on to a decent bream it wrappede round a snag and with a bit of manouvering with the boat pulled in a 39cm bream put it in the live tank with the other and cast out again bang onto another good bream this one came in much easier but measured 41cm. So out with the 35cm and in the tank went the biggerfish. It went quiet after that so fished half hour then decided to weigh the fish in as catch and release. The 41cm went 1.2 kg and the 39cm went 900grm so far they are biggest weighed but still 12 hours to go. Having a bit of a rest now then hitting the whiting spots tonight. Maybe try for bream early morning there's always biggerfish. Will post photos when I get to the computer tomorrow.

Hey All,

Have been hitting a north metro beach pretty regularly lately with fellow fishwrecked member Daz, and his bro.Most session's have been productive with solid herring tailor and bronzies keeping us entertained.

We headed down again last night and i finally scored my first mulla.It took a big tailor fillet on snelled 9/0 circle hooks.

Daz's Bro who is still trying to get his first tailor went one better later in the night with a mulla of his own on the mulie.

I has been good to find some quality land based fish in the metro area.

Cheers

chris

To all those that didnt come fishing with me last night it was probably a good thing. There was no Tailor bite, we only got 2. But I did get this...........

122cm and 17kg.