Went for a little squid while the wind was down a bit, had one a bit bigger come up and have a good go at my jig but decided he didn't want any of it.

 Hi guys

Got out today with Matt (a mate of mine) in the short weather window and although we didn't get anything worth bragging about, we did crack a few firsts.

My first baldie (~25cm)

My first Hammerhead (~1.3m)

40cm pinky on the pen rod, put up a decent fight

My first Emperor, called it for a spangly at first but think it's a Red Throat (had a red throat )

All of these were taken chasing skippy on the 3 mile, think we've found a spot worth fishing at prime times when the ban's over 

Also got to test out my new Lethal 100 on a few rays (piece of cake) since nothing else was biting

Cheers

Hutch

A few days ago I called good mate Scott Everett (FW maggot) and said lets hit the metro salmon as I've been having a great time with them for a while now ...... especially on fly gear!

Scott was keen to learn more about flyfishing and we ended up with several solid fish each on fly (Scotts first) and even when the school was shut down to softplastics/minnows/stickbaits etc the fly got the results!

Location was near Mewstones and Sunday just gone looking the goods ....... weather wise!

Shallow water Metro December Salmon on fly ...... Happy Days!

 I think I might send this squid in for a world record, pulled so much line I was nearly spooled haha.

 Haven't been able to get the cray pots in yet this year, so thought I would go and get a different feed of shellfish today.

Just finished shelling them to put on some T Bones with a creamy sauce for the family.

 G'day all! Last thurs at 3pm a mate and I hooked up my boat near Australind and drive through the night to Exmouth, arriving at the bottom of the gulf at 7:30am fri morning. We headed straight out from the bay of rest for a full day of fishing picking up a few black snapper, cod etc. We headed into Exmouth at about 5pm to filet the fish and set up the swags in the caravan park. With strong southerlies blowing the next 3 days were spent getting up at 5, spending the day diving, trolling, fishing, squidding and prawning down the bottom of the gulf and arriving back in Exmouth around dark to fillet the fish... We got our days limit of prawns in 2 hours with 1 throw net, and 15 squid over the 4 days. I also got a treble in my thumb still attached to a mackerel that I got out with pliers as it was early in the morning and we had a full day of fishing ahead of us.... On the Monday we fished until 3pm, then back to Exmouth to pack up camp and head south - arriving in australind 11am tues morning... It was a fantastic trip!!!! Anyway - here are a few photos... Drew

 Went out fish with a few mates from here in the naki, went south all the way the  to launch. There was always talk about these hapuka in the shallows from the boys and with a weather window we went out to hunt on their favourite grounds. We were fishing depths of 50 -79 m.

Morning was slow and fish were few and far between to be honest, with a couple small blue cod and a big bluey.

We came back to the original mark we fished as it was loaded with fish but we couldnt entice the bite, and first trop i was railed, ilke buckled over on PE4. it was touch and go for a while and i barely mooved the thing for the first 5 minutes , after a bit of i take some , he takes double i had a win by turning its head when the boat adjust the angle of the fish, it started swimming out to sea. After a 10 mins we saw colour and up came a puka..... We all called it for the high 20s, but it maxed out the clubs scales and ended up being 31.48kg on the house scalles. 

awsome fish and stoked to get my first puka!

went for a ride on my racer today around the river up to South perth and back to Leeming, using my polarised sunnies the whole way around. While going over the canning bridge I noticed it was a fairly low tide. Looked at the drop offs next to the channel and counted 4 30-40cm flathead. It was the most that I have ever seen really, and it's the first time that I have ever spotted 1 flathead. I noticed a few fishos around, not fishing there though, and a fly fisherman about half way between the canning and mount henry. He had a couple flatties in the bucket.

so if anyone is going fishing for flatties today I recommend the opposite end of the canning bridge to the raffles.

also last night fishing with a friend under the canning bridge, we caught a couple 23cm bream. And the people next to us casted out, blowie, blowie then blue manna crab. Wouldn't let go of the hook it was just under sized.

lachie

 Took the boys for a relaxing arvo fish at the prawn channel a couple of weeks ago.

Caught six big kgs and a couple of pinks on soft plastics. There were quite a few pinkies and whiting caught by others as well as some nice flounder.

Couple of pics from the last couple of weeks. Been getting some good size kingies and bagging out on crays in the shallows. Usually diving in my usual spot and seeing how the ledges change with the residents reds, then the moults and softies, whites and just started seeing the kakkas which means time to head out deeper. Would think in a few weeks the whites will be at rotto?? If there not starting to turn up now??

 Started the day just before 6 am at maylands.  pick up dan the deckie at point walter and headed out the harbour and around the corner of south mole.  Dan hooked one squid but dropped it.  started heading to the south of rotto and as we were going past the stragglers saw a bird dive in front of us.  out went the lures but to no avail.  water temp about 20.9, so still not there yet.

passed over a bait ball and thought I would throw a jig at it.  not that far past stragglers and not as far as FFB.  Dan thought he'd check the bottom out and pulled up a nice plump sand whiting.  so in came the jig and out went the whiting gear.  we both pulled in a few and some real good size.  I got a couple of double headers in there as well.  putted down to a wreck in 18m outside stragglers.  There were about 6 pits on it and the sounder lit up with bait as we went over it.  Had a visit from FW member Rick (poser?) who came to say hello.   didn't do any good despite a bit of interest on the jig, no hook ups.  ducked inside to scott ledge.  Dan pulled up a nice 38cm KGW.  still couldn't find the squid.

finished off with a quick troll in the river and all we caught was a sailing dinghy who was overtaking us and didn't realise the lures were out.  I think he got a bigger shock.  anyway didn't lose the lure. bonus.

wonderful day on the water. The weather gods were kind.

 Anyone been to the Perth fads lately? Any fish around?

thinking about heading out there tomorrow.

thanks

 Does anyone know if there are any scalies or any other suitable live baits being caught at E shed or any other land based spots?

and are there any tailor schools out around mosmans/ blackwall? 

Any help much appreciated

cheers

 Hey guy jus a quick report on the crabs in the Mandurah estuary... Headed out at 5 this morning drop netting in 1.5m and managed our 20 in 8 pulls... Lively little buggers and full of meat too!

 Has anyone been getting any blueys in the swan yet.

Are they a reasonable size ?

headed down to woodman point this morning, my 80pound leader kept getting cut off and I was thinking WTF?? so my misses dad had a metal trace, hooked up to a northwest blowie, seems like a few north west blowies down at woodman point this morning them damn "bolt cutters" kept chopping through lines grrrr

 ,another swifty ,cracker boat it will piss

Hi all

Just wondering if anybody has been up to Exmouth in the past few weeks and what the fishing was like.
Weather has been a bit rugged, but lots of options up there.

Thanks

Patriot

HI all , heading up to the river mouth for a fish this week end.
Is there anyone out there with recent fish reports , weed situation.
Is the river mouth crossable to get north

thanks in advance

 With the weather looking good me and a mate decided to head out for a bit of a whiting fish,

the whiting were found around the 23 m mark and we quickly had our feed on ice with a few nice size slimey macks  a welcome addition to the bait freezer for the coming summer.

next we hit the three mile in search of some skippy and hopefully a sambo or two but with the burely pumping a couple hours and one skippy to show for it, we moved on to explore some ground,

settling in a nice channel/drop off to continue on the skippy/sambo hunt, but once again the burley trail produced nothing. Not even the baitfish!

while I was persisting with drifting baits my mate decided to re rig to  fish the bottom, and promptly hooked up and lost two decent  hard fighting  unknowns .

i followed his lead and was rewarded with a PB king George  of 52cm and  a healthy 2 kilo ( great fun on 6 lb gear) ,after the victory dance, we tried for more but received no love so we decided to call it.

on way back in I couldn't resist a quick flick of  some lure around some exposed reefy areas,

After around twenty casts and almost circling the reef I had a follow out from the reef and got hit in the clear water in full view., after a great lil tussle I finally got my sambo!

not huge mind you but I was stoked! Especially to catch it on a smiling jack and to see the strike.

love fishing! 

Went down to local beach Saturday early and was rewarded with eight nice chunky tailor. 7x 320 to 350 and one fat one at 450. Lunch yesterday with cold beers same today. Looks like a great summer of fishing coming up.

Pretty rough today but we were rewarded with 3 quadruple headers on troll, pretty mad having all fours rods going off almost at the same time.....Dropped a few, released a few but got a good haul in quick time. Kingie was solid.

 Got a bag today NOR and majority are still soft or in process of moulting (cray on left). For the potters out there, they  wont be walking too far from their ledges. Not long now!

Plenty of Herring around the bay at the moment.

We had a great couple of hours yesterday trolling 10 & 20gm Halco twisties on our ElCheapo 10 buck combos picking up 15 or 16 and losing just as many.

We found the fish were schooling up along the edge of the drop off in about 3 - 4 metres with plenty of double hook ups.

Good to see fisheries at the ramp even if it slowed things up a bit.

Vid runs for 48 secs.   www.youtube.com/watch

 good fun on the light gear, off the rocks around the hillarys area. Were on the bite for about 20 mins just before high tide.

Hey everyone first report here,

With the weather warming up i decided to try the Mandurah flats today for the first time since last summer. Got down there about 9:30 and although the sun was out and a light easterly blowing the YFW where initially very hard to find! I managed to spot a few schools and although they were happy to follow my surface lures they were very reluctant to hit them. They started to get a little more active about 11 but they were constantly spitting the hooks. Only managed 4 YFW between 9:30 and 2:45. Im not sure what turned them on but from 2:45ish - 3:15 they absolutely fired and my 4 biggest for the day came in 4 casts. Ended up with 9 for the day with the biggest going 32cm and a new PB. I had well over 20 whiting spit the hooks throughout the day!

The only lure they would take all day was a bassday sugarpen in a prawn pattern (MB16) worked really slow. I tried skinny pop jrs in clear and duo pocopoco's in clear with pink head but they werent interested.

Cheers.

 Hi guys. 

Are there any reports of crabs in the mandurah/peel estuary yet

cheers

Ladies and Gentlemen

The Navy today blocked off the entrance to the Jet Ski area at Point Peron. I believe the intent is deny access to the beach by vehicle, but the beach can be used. Jet Skiers will have to launch at the Point Peron boat ramp, then head around to the beach area and the wife and kids walk down from the road. Not sure of the full picture, but I guess it may annoy a few people and ruin a trip if you were unaware

Willy

 Hi all a good friend of mine offered to take me over the other side of gulf to catch afue prawns and we got afue our 9l each of bananas. 

  Jeff

Last week I was out in Southern Oman, fishing with the excellent No Boundaries operation. I was fishing with Tim van Bockxmeer and Josh Racovelli, on a trip we'd had planned for a while.

The reports we'd been seeing in the weeks leading up to the trip were positive, which had us primed for some solid fishing action.

As with most people going to Oman our main target was to get some hooks into some monster sized GTs. I'd told myself before I left that as long as I landed one for the trip, anything else was a bonus.

A couple of days prior to the trip the weather forecast started looking pretty average, due to a tropical cyclone passing through the area, however when we landed - things looked OK for at least the first day.

With a decent forecast for that first day we had an early start and shot out to the islands to hassle some GTs. I'd just picked up some of the new (and very sexy) Temple Reef Ballista Detonator 168gr poppers to test out on the trip, and had one of these ready to fly on the first cast.

Sadly the fish did not want to play ball (primarily due to the wind direction we were told) and in almost a full day of casting we'd only seen one GT - which made a pass at my Ballista, but didn't find the hooks.

To ensure we didn't have a fishless day we spent the last couple of hours doing some light tackle fishing around the islands, where we picked up a handful of small trevally on casting gear. We then switched to some light jigging to find some dinner.

We were running using quite light combos for those waters (where you never know what will take the jig), in using some Temple Reef Mythos and the lightest Jigging Master fallings. We got a few bits and pieces including some spangled emperor, a longtail tuna and a nice sized grouper.

At the end of day 1 we were saddened to see that the weather forecast had worsened, meaning that we'd be stuck with inshore fishing on day 2. Oman is also famous for having enormous bream. Given that in Oman however a fish of 60cm to the fork is not rare, we were keen to get one!

We were chasing these fish on a mix of poppers and stickbaits using a range of light casting rods including the Yamaga Blanks Blue Sniper 77/3 and the Temple Reef Stealth range of rods. Unfortunately though the approaching cyclone had shut down the bite, and we ended up with only 2 bream for the day amongst us, both taken on poppers. The biggest of these fish was over 60cm to the fork, and around the 5.5kg mark and it nailed Tim's popper right near the boat. After he'd done the hard work of burlying it (and its mate) in with his popper I flicked mine in the water next to his fish and straight away got another. Good result!

Day 3 and the weather had gotten worse again. This meant that we couldn't even launch the boat, so we consoled ourselves with hours of re-rigging, a swim at the local oasis to cool off and plenty of cursing the lack of beer availability in Oman!

On day 4 the weather had improved, but not enough to make it to the islands, meaning a second day of inshore fishing was the order of the day. Thankfully the passing of the cyclone had brought the fish onto the chew, and we had a much better session on the inshore stuff with around 8 bream landed (almost all on popper) and some other trevallies and odds and sods also falling to the lures. One standout capture was Josh catching the first known bonefish ever caught on lure in Oman, which put up a great account of itself. It took a Nature Boys 155gr jig, being worked on a Temple Reef Mytho Plus 62S. Great catch!

With our last day looming and us not having put a single GT on the deck yet, the pressure was well and truly on. We shot out to the islands in less than ideal conditions, ready to cast the water to foam.

Once again I reached for the Detonator 168 popper and we started to cast. Within half an hour of casting, the moment we'd waited for had come, as a massive splash erupted in the water and a GT nailed my lure. I set the hooks, and settled into what I was sure was going to be a brutal fight with what (I hoped) was an Omani monster class GT.

After spending 4 days psyching myself up for this fight the adrenaline was well and truly flowing and I got the fish in fairly quickly. It wasn't until we had it up on the deck that I realised how big it was.

Weighing in at 50kg it was my PB GT and I was stoked to say the least. After being weighed and a few pics the fish was tagged and released, and for me at least the trip was now made. I'd have been happy catching only this one fish for the whole trip, and it's funny how one cast can make or break a trip.

Thankfully though I didn't have to make do with the one! The fish were really firing after the storm and we ended up landing 11 fish for the boat, 6 of which we caught in the course of two triple hookups where mobs of GTs pack attacked our lures. It was truly an incredible experience seeing these huge fish nailing your lure as soon as it hit the water with 1 or 2 other fish already mid-fight on the boat.

I ended up with 4 fish for the day weighing in at 45kg,46kg, 48kg and 50kg all taken on the Detonator 168, which has now earned its place on the No Boundaries lure wall of fame at the lodge where it has now been retired. Other successful lures on the day were Josh's Hammerhead Tobi, his Temple Reef Balista Bull 140 and Tim's SACL Walker. I also caught a nice mahi mahi on a Craftbait GT3, which sadly didn't give much fight on the PE10 gear, but made for some great eats that night!

Towards the end of the day the wind had died off, and the GT bite had died off with it. With all of us having caught our PB GTs that day we were very satisfied, so we grabbed the light gear out to try and jig up something else to go with the Mahi Mahi for dinner. Two great Spangled Emperor hit the deck in short order, with the second being a PB for me at 70cm and putting up a great fight on the light gear.

There's no doubt that the last day made the trip, and I can't wait to get back there. Ed at No Boundaries runs an incredibly professional operation, and the fishing there is really world class.

Cheers for reading,

Dan