How'd we all go today?

 Was a good day on the water once the easterly dropped, we picked up 2 x Dhuies 2 x Breaksea 1 x Pinky and Baldy so worth the effort of dodging the fires to get to our launch point. I did see a lot of big boats being hauled up to Two rocks way so I guess it was busy there?

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 1 jewy and 2 pinkies and a

Sun, 2015-01-11 19:36

 1 jewy and 2 pinkies and a good size flathead. I'm happy. 

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 We found some crabs, we

Sun, 2015-01-11 19:59

 We found some crabs, we found some squid (bonus, close to fremantle)  nothing else read the script.....

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 We done well, wind was shit

Sun, 2015-01-11 20:43

 We done well, wind was shit house early but we persisted. 2 x YFT, 2 x dhuies kept and another 3 returned and 2 x baldies. Back in before the seabreeze. Gonna throw some photos up and small repot up tomorrow.

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sounds like a few good fish caught.

Sun, 2015-01-11 20:59

i don`t fish weekends anymore due to our under equipped boat ramps in perth,i`ll be heading out tomorrow early to see what`s around.

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 Decided to throw a line in

Sun, 2015-01-11 22:20

 Decided to throw a line in the river after yesterdays events...got a nice little eagle ray tonight. But nothing else worth mentioning....nothing at all actually

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We did ok

Mon, 2015-01-12 07:23

3 dhus 1 returned. 1 baldy.

Dolphinfish swimming round the boat but couldn't catch them!  

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what depth were you in when

Mon, 2015-01-12 09:13

what depth were you in when you saw the dollies?

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fads

Mon, 2015-01-12 16:59

At the fads mate

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 We had  a school of Yellow

Mon, 2015-01-12 11:40

 We had  a school of Yellow tail kings hanging out the back of us and couldn't temp them with any bloody thing lol. We had to laugh when they started chopping up a Cuttlefish husk. 

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We had 2 dives off Mindarie

Mon, 2015-01-12 09:17

We had 2 dives off Mindarie behind staggies, not much around, mostly cackers and had to work hard for a few size ones. tried back of staggies for some kingies using stick baits but couldn't get past the tailor, some good size ones amongst them up to 60cm

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 Struggle.. One big flatty.

Mon, 2015-01-12 09:46

 Struggle.. One big flatty. hammer head on a live bait  one barely there dhu that we decided to send home. Got beaten up by the wind chop early have now got some maintenance to do to my screen 

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3 baldies and a pigfish. Just

Mon, 2015-01-12 09:49

3 baldies and a pigfish. Just couldn't find that decent dhu. That easterly was a pain in the morning

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 bout 10 just size and just

Mon, 2015-01-12 11:44

 bout 10 just size and just under dhus, 2 black arse, a few kingies to about a meter sambo bout 10 kg followed up by somthing much bigger it was very dark we thought cobia or spanish mack bout 20+kg not sure any ideas? and about a 200kg shark on an 80lb handline, my hand are in a bad way after that i can hardly hold a frosty ale! this was south of rotto 

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 See any bust-ups out there

Mon, 2015-01-12 13:23

 See any bust-ups out there Cal? The tuna have been on and off lately, seems the bright sunny and calm mornings seem to turn them on

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 seen the odd bird diving

Mon, 2015-01-12 14:00

 seen the odd bird diving mate no big bust ups we had originally planed to have a troll after an early bottom bash but once we found the kingies we were having to much fun on those brutes!  

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They go bloody hard aye!

Mon, 2015-01-12 14:17

They go bloody hard aye!

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Kept 2 dhuies, 2 black arse,

Mon, 2015-01-12 12:11

Kept 2 dhuies, 2 black arse, returned a dhuie, a pinkie, 3 foxfish, a pigfish and a HUGE queen snapper, so a reasonble day out.

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Sea rescue

Mon, 2015-01-12 12:24

 Glad you all had a great day out. I was in the Whitfords Sea rescue tower Sunday morning and it was hestic. I started at 6.45am and did not stop untill Pm shift arrived including 2 rescues. 

Was interesting to note how many were going out deep (20nm+) in the morning whilst the wind was up. Ended up being a beautiful day on the water. Very jealous.

Hope to get out for an evening fish down Quinns Beach this week.

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Decided when the wind dropped to

Mon, 2015-01-12 14:25

go for a quick crab for some Crab cocktails for a BBQ.

Got our target of 10 blues, miscounted and kept 11. Popped the flats from the boat inbetween the 2 strings for YFW but apart from a few follows no joy there. I think the boat cant go shallow enough, but spotted some thumpers with the fantastic visibility. Scoopers where out in force on the Pinny side flats, and from the cries and hoots obviously doing well. Back in by 11 just as the SW srarted to puff gently.

Its so easy when you can sit on the Veranda, see the Ramp and Estuary, decide looks good and out on the water 20minutes later.

Few Ales, crab cocktails and some nice steak finished a great day.

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 Now ya talkin! 

Mon, 2015-01-12 14:29

 Now ya talkin! 

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 2 Dives in the 40's, not too

Mon, 2015-01-12 14:31

 2 Dives in the 40's, not too many crays around, but had 4-5 Dhu's swim around us.

Viz was amazing, temps around 22 on the bottom.

Dragged a few bibs and skirts on the way home, but only nailed a Sambo (on a skirt!!) just behind 3 mile.

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Hit the FADs

Mon, 2015-01-12 14:39

I decided the forecast looked too good not to try hit the FADs. We cruised out there at around 25knts and only saw another 3 boats in the area. The water out there was full of rat sized Longtail Tuna. We trolled around and caught 5 in half an hour, saw some Dollies, but they didn't compete with the tuna.

Gave a quick bottom bash a shot and got a 1.1m whiskery shark (the ones that look just like a gummy).

Nice day in all

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After a late (and hungover) start...

Mon, 2015-01-12 15:52

On jig:
3 black arse (returned)
nice baldy (dinner)
totally smoked by three sambos
50cm flatty (kept)
and a tail hooked bight redfish! (returned)

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Haha do you work mate? Your

Mon, 2015-01-12 16:23

Haha do you work mate? Your racking up the hours on the water lately by the look of it.

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Ha.

Mon, 2015-01-12 16:30

Gotta work to pay for it!

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Tough day

Mon, 2015-01-12 16:27

 After we were finally bothered to get up and out early we hit the water at 5am this morning only to realise someone had forgotten the bait 

Had to improvise and trolled up a tailor fairly quickly which we deduced was enough to start off with and headed out to 3 mile. On our way out we noticed smoke billowing from the cabin which turned out to be the cable for the radio antenna somehow short curcuiting and melting the plastic covering.

Finally got out, found a spot, deployed baits and waited. After not long we had lost more than a few good fish and it went dead so we decided to move spots and try for some whiting. 

Turned the key, motor didn't even attempt to start. Engaged the second battery which did absolutely FA. What are the chances, both batteries dead? 

Finally managed to pull-start the motor and move around a bit to charge batteries.

In the end we had to resort to pull-starting the motor for the rest of the morning until the very end where the batteries held enough charge. This is the first time that either of the batteries has been run flat and may have had something to do with the short circuit?

Finished up with a few whiting and snook, a couple skippy and some garfish. Very little to show for a lot of effort but that's fishing.

Also managed a couple touch-and-go blackarse which went back and two (very) undersized baldies

At least the conditions were nice and there's always next time I guess

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At least you kept going

Mon, 2015-01-12 16:50

 And sorted it out, a few nice fish would have been good, one of those days hey

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 We dived the 34m ,and too

Mon, 2015-01-12 16:59

 We dived the 34m ,and too found it slow ,heaps of berred crays not to many males .Three small dhu's swimming around and a school of sambos. Viz was amazing could see the bottom as soon as we hit the water .

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did 2 dives, 10-15m only a

Mon, 2015-01-12 18:46

did 2 dives, 10-15m only a few crays too, plenty of tarred and berried ones. Missed a monster, but was spooked very easily.

Saw 2 dhu's one nice one in 12m of water.

then a little jigging in 35m, managed 2 nice BB's to 50cm and dropped a nice fish before coming in

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Pretty choppy early.

Mon, 2015-01-12 18:54

 Could only head out for a couple hrs before the wind improved. Got a 55 cm dhu and an baby in 30m. Couple wrasse and thats it. New to offshore fishing and realising its a bloody big ocean so Ill need to do some work to find some spots!