well what can we say.

he was very very stoked with this one, took alot of effort to make him release this one.

a few bream caught over winter landbased and from boat

Talk about the early bird...... and just as well . The plan was to meet up with Sherbs at 3.45am, so we could set up with a bit of spare time to get the casting shoulders limbered up before the Tailor woke at first light. Nothing ever goes how you expect.

First bait in the water smashed within seconds. Then the second ..... and third...... After a very busy hour the buckets were looking pretty full, so Sherbs decides to launch out with the lures. Again, first cast smashed. He had a ball, hooking plenty, but unfortunately not landing any.

What a great way to start the day.

As we were wandering off, Uncle Stu turned up & twisted Sherbs arm (yer-right) to stay. Their probably still at it :)

Check this baby out.

G'day all

Just a quick post to say finally, and only for a few hours I might add, the weather here in 'ol blighty actually brightened up and the wind dropped, allowing me to get out for a few hours on a local lake.  I was fishing very light tackle, 4lb main line and 1.14lb hooklink to a size 20 hook with maggot for carp and roach.  I caught 18lb of fish including carp to 4lb and perch(redfin) to about 1.5lb, unfortunately no photos but thought I would let you know that I was still fishing and not been washed away by the floods!!  Next sunday I have a cod and conger trip off the isle of wight, so watch this space...weather permitting!!!

Tight lines and keep posting as the photos of the awesome fish will draw me back quicker!!!

Rog

Congrats to Sheldon aka Kelvin8tor and his missus Bel on the birth of their 1st baby this morning, little girl Ilsa.

All the best to the new bub, missus and the future. Good excuse to get down to Bunny and wet the babies head.

Cheers Fozz

more snapper from melb  today landed 4 and missed about 10 

heres afew pics from weekend trips out... i even got my girlfriend onto her 1st ever snapper she had a ball  she cant wait to get out again 

melbourne snapper have really came on over the weekend  had the old man visit   from over the america  we fished the wend and got 19 fish and dropped  prob twice as much......i got this week  of work so having a ball .... been 3 fish over the 10 kg mark caught this wend 2

Long time user, first time posting here. I have recently relocated to QLD from WA and have found it hard to find a decent place to fish around here. We went on a fishing journey up to Hervey Bay recently to wet a line off the local pier when we caught this flattie off a live tailor. Not used to seeing decent sized flathead that we initially thought it was a baby shovelnose shark when it came to the surface! Definately a PB. He probably weighed around 7kg and was about 90cm long.

Couple of fish from recent steep pt trips

Look at the size of this sucker!! Apparently 100kg++, caught on the Fitzroy...

Spent an afternoon with two friends chasing Bluebone just over a month ago. The largest one was 75cm and smallest was just oversize, and all taken around 3kms from Marina on handline.

a boat got hit by 2 cars meant 2 been drag racing in melbourne last nite heres the link

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/20/2718626.htm

Weekend before last I was lucky enough to be invited onto the boss' boat moored just off Lizard Is in the Great Barrier Reef. We flew to Cairns then got a transfer to the island. We were staying on the mothership and the boss was driving up in his game fishing boat. Unfortunately he didn't get there until the afternoon before we left so we didnt get to go out and chase marlin. Now is BIG marlin season up there.

Not to matter we still got to out on his 'tenders' and chase fish. We managed to pick up some spanish and scaly mackerel, GTs, barracuda, coral trout and other reef fish. What a great trip, the crew on board treated us like kings and we got to eat some of our catch.

The scaly macks were going to be used by the boss to troll dead baits for marlin so hopefully he will get one on the baits I caught for him and give mea big fat bonus Believe me going up there for 4 days was more than bonus enough! What a great trip. Cant wait to get invited again (I hope ).

I guess I should get off my arse and do some work instead of being on this website all day.

I also got to go swimming with a manta ray which was bloody awesome and we got to hand feed some sharks and GTs off the back of the boat. What an amazing show these fish put on. Unfortunately we were moored in a green zone so couldnt drop a lure over the side of the mother ship and get stuck into the GTs. There were some massive ones there. Everytime a GT would score one of the fish frames a nasty big whaler would come out of the depths, chase it around and either get the frame or the GT. We saw quite a few GTs swimming around with chunks missing out of them.

Gus

afew snapper i picked up today and missed afew fish 2

With the fine weather today, there must be a few fishing reports out there?? 

Hi there,Anybody know how to identify fish that i have caught? l'm completely new to the game and i don't want to fall foul of the 101111 regulations with the fisheries.

Also, anyone got a clue what fish this is and whether it is edible?

Cheers 

No dont panic....i'm not back in oz, just back online with the new computer.  I can at last catch up on all the fish and gosssip.  Hopefully got a trip in 2 couple of weeks so watch this space.  Tight lines lads and lasses, im pleased to be back in the game!!

Rog

With the weather looking good for a morning fish before the front we decided to head south of the Cape.

First intentions was to launch out of Canal Rocks but upon arriving at the ramp the swell was breaking over the ramp.....not a good option especially if the swell picked up.

A quick conference and we decided to head further south for Gracetown. With me was Mark (Big Red) and the other boat comprised Stoinka and Garry. Garry had kindly offered a few gps marks so who could resist......

Gractown looked calm as we desended onto the ramp. A quick launch and a quick trip through the reef and we were out in the big blue. Pointed North and headed up the coast......

The conditions were sweet with a rolling swell but not much wind. First time for Mark in my boat so plenty of pressure to put him onto some quality fish. Not long after he abandoned his jig for bait he landed a nice little Dhuie so pretty happy.

Stoinka landed one not long before us so things looked promising.

Well plenty of fish on the sounder but not much action regardless of jig, soft plastic, or bait. However Mark did land a nice Queenie which fell to snapback on a paternosta rig.......

At one stage a couple of whales came over for a look and hung around for a while.....awesome stuff.  

Back to the Ramp midday and a sweet day on the water.

Cheers Stonika and Garry for the hospitality.   

hi im matt nd i am the deckie on the seasport and tackle charter boat in jurien bay.

a few of you guys may know my skipper craige white,

me and whitey have been getting a little bored bottom bouncing and we got right in to jigging and the sambos are going troppo. me an dwhitey had a plan to jig a sidchrome spanner, just as a bit of a novlety thing. well it turned out to be a bit more successful than first thought. the un conventional jig turned out to produce a few sambos but just the one major wieghing in at about 20kg

so there you go no need for the flashy colours a simple dull spanner dose the job

matt

seasport and tackle

Went to exmouth for a week in september this year. Just got back
we were chasing some decent fish. hopefully some red emporer, some blue bone, spangeld emporer and good fish like them.
after a weeks fishing up there and not any real decent fish and a hell of alot of miles we thought of a new catch frase for exmouth for anglers going up there with no waypoints just looking for some good fish.

"EXMOUTH! ALOT OF MILES FOR F*#^ ALL "

may not be that for all fishermen
but as much as i love it up there
and want to give it another try.
that was out moto for 2009

hope its better next time :)

cleaning out and found these pictures from a recent trip to steep point and denham thought you might like a look

The last one was the best fun and it was around denham the point past big lagoon

Had one of the most epic fishings sessions of my life over the long weekend. Shot up to Shark Bay with a couple of mates on Thursday night and fished Friday to Sunday before getting back Monday night.

The fishing overall was good, all of it was done launching from Monkey Mia - plenty of pinks and a few blacks and baldies, but we had to cover a lot of ground to find them. The stand out were the mulloway though.

Friday night we hit a spot south of Monkey and after burleying up for 1/2 hour the mullas came on. Over the next two hours between two boats we got onto fifteen of them, all were around the size in the pics. It was insane. We kept a couple and released the rest. The water we were in was quite shallow, less than 6m, so we figured the release wouldn't have an impact on their health

Water was like this for two of the three days.

The pinkies were hungry, got a load on plastics too.

But this is where all the action was - sorry about the quality of a couple of the pics, bit of blood there in a couple

It was well worth the 1,700km round trip

alright peeps

My report and photos have gone off to the big cheese for editing...hope they're ok so watch this space.  Once the magazine is out i will post some of the other pictures i have for you to laugh at...take care, new computer should be here within the the week so I will be back in the game.

tight lines rog

hey guys chasing an unbias oppinion on commodore and falcon wagons the vx and ba as the nissan just shit itself need a new car and sick of 4wd for the moment
cheers brenz

Went to the AGM last night and it  was stated that there are..... 60 Vacancies .... for full membership, so if people are interested in joing the Cockburn Power Boats Club, the office hours are Tuesday through to 1.00pm on Saturday (side gate is open in these hours,) or ring the Club Manager Hazel on 94185868, you can download the admission forms on the club web site, cockburnpowerboats.com and follow the links on the left hand side under home (under downloads).  The Committee meets every month on the second Tuesday and if you are quick you can have your forms in and be passed at next months meeting. 

Sunday the Bar is open between 2.00pm through to 7.00pm, so if you need two signatures from full members to nominate, you'll get your signatures, and have a beer/wine/soft drink, while getting to know future members.

Our bosun Tony is a very helpful fellow, and will direct you in the right direction.  He must be good as he's just bought a good second hand boat and its a Seeker (just like ours ha ha )

The new floating jetties should be operational by the end of September, can't wait to use them.

Good luck

Roberta

hahaha sorry guys but forgot to take my camera this arvo when i got a phone call about 430ish...... somebody got bogged out at southgates right on top of the dunes in the pissssssin rain and wind whilst running there dog... had it planned to post pic until half way there and realised id packed beers but no camera.... the person in question was fairly stuck but old cruiser had no trouble! they where also happy i forgot the cam! his missus missed her gym class as a result.... and im sorry but i promised SPOOLED i wounldnt tell yas who it was..... so dont worry SPOOLED your secret safe mate... coulda been anyone.... HAHAHAHA

Our Club secretary put this up to read, Labor's response to the new fishing rules Hansard, its good reading

Pages 45 - 73 ......... You'll have to scroll through a bit but on your pdf you should have the number of pages  ......  Ripper starts off the Motion to disallow, good reading

http://www.fishingtaxgrab.com/hansard/Hansard_12August2009.pdf