Went out for a quick solo troll this morning after hearing some good reports of macks and even a good size black being caught lately. hit the water about 5.30 just as the sun was coming up. took a while for things to start happening then Bang, had the drag up to tight on my 10kg outfit and got busted off by what i'd say was a mackie hitting it at full noise. Out goes a new lure and reset the drags, after a few laps of the same area got a solid hook up, after around 10 mins i had him in the boat. very lucky to land him after he did a lap round a cray rope. Ended up going 14.4kg on the digi scales. 

After that continued doing laps of the same area, got probly anoth 3 hook ups but dropped them all. The lures all came back looking pretty mauled so it looked like mackies were to blame. At around 8.00 i got a solid hook up but it didnt feel like a mackie, it took around 150m of 24kg braid befor shredding the leader. thought it must have been a sambo but it did have me wondering. Anyways rerigged for a few more laps, around 8.30 i was reeling in a lure to inspect it after dropping another fish when off to my left i see what i thought was a big mackie cruising on the surface towards the lure i was reeling in. Then i seen the big mackie had a bill, he lit up an almost bright blue colour and charged in. after a short 10mins with a few flips and tail walks i had him boatside. it was a bit tricky but i managed to grab him and lift him in the boat to dehook him and get a few quick snaps. After swimming him for a few mins he was giving a few good kicks and biting down pretty firmly and away he went.

(Dont worry the blood on the carpet is from the prevous mack not this guy)

Spent another 30mins cruising round and picked up another mack that was just size he went back and i decided to call it a day. got back to the ramp by 9.30, Beers cracked by 10.

Cheers Kye

still plenty of bluey's around in the river.... and pretty good size too. biggest 180mm

here's silly and my effort from last night

Hi, Im new here but thought i would fill you in. Had a top night last night at pt walter jetty. Caught around 50 tailor, only 4 keepers though but plenty on 25 cm. Went out there at 8 for a quick throw and ended up staying till 2am. Even had to go and get more pillies. Is this normal there or were we lucky? Its my 4th time there and have changed takle/bait/lures ect every time and watched others with their setup and have finally found the right combo.

5/2/11

Went down last night and had another another cracker. 8 herring and 9 tailor between me and my mate. 2 x 37cm tailor which was good also. I think i am ready to give the north mole a go and chase some bigger tailor on the same tackle and setup. I attached some photos.

Well with cyclone Bianca bearing down on us we weren't to sure what was install for us when we turned up at Woodies Saturday morning. As we headed out it looked pretty sh!t with lightening and rain coming over GI. As it hit we decided to stop and do some squidding as we couldn't see where we were going and that rain sure does sting when your moving. Luckily after half an hour it had passed and the weather for the rest of the day was great.

Headed to my usual trolling spot but decided to do a few drifts first over some lumps but came up empty handed. After a few hours decided to go for a troll and got smashed straight away. Ended up with 8 tuna landed, 6 bluefin and 2 stripeys (I think that's what these are?). Then fisherys decided to pay us a visit, they were very nice chaps, did the usual inspection of our catch and then were decent enough to show us on their sounder where a nice patch of demersals were (I need to get me one of those big sounders). Marked the spot and did a few drifts. Ended up getting a bunch of small snapper and being smashed 4 times by what I expect were Sambos. Landed one of the smaller ones...

Then it was time to go back in as the dark grey clouds started to roll in over Rotto. Thought we'd beat it in but we got smashed about 1km out from the ramp. All up a good day. Hadn't taken my brother and his missus out for a while and they ended up with their frist Tuna. The first one went 8kg so in a couple more months they will be stonkers.

Went out yesterday morning 5:30am, just after the thunderstorm came thru.  We first went out to the Five Fathom Bank and drifted over a few times and caught 4 nice skippy, we then went out to 40m mark and caught a 3 nice King George Whiting.  It was nice and quiet out on the water as most boaties werent sure with the approaching cyclone.

What is the easiest and best way to cook up King George Whiting? Any tips?

Cheers.

Went out yesterday in the 25 knot 3 metre conditions and hunted some Dolphinfish which are running hard at the moment. We got a couple early and then bled with nothing for about three hours. We decided to head home about 1200 and trolled the reef on the way. I picked up a very welcome doggie (probably about 8kgs). Then at the end of securing that in the esky we saw a massive dolly school, left the reef and got into them. It was Mahi Madness with double hook-ups and only me to get them in as it was too rough for my mate to leave the wheel. There wasn't even time to reset lures as whatever was left in the water ended up connected to the next fish. An awesome 45 minutes to finish the days fishing. We got another four before heading home, leaving them biting.

Without a doubt my favourite eating fish in the ocean.

Not much is going to survive these choppas. My hardbodies are starting to build up some pretty cool scars.

Rictor Jellybabes. Got to love em!!!!

They weren't big by any stretch but they were there in numbers and going nuts for our lures.

Dogtooth sashimi and crumbed mahi - now that's a quality lunch.

A brief report from a trip that a mate and I did out at the FFB recently.

Was blowing a bloody gale out but decided to give it a whirl anyway as the swell was low. Ended up with 3 decent pinkies, 2 good tailor (one really good), a bronzie and the usual smaller stuff.

Snapper went pretty hard on fairly light gear, but was using the heavier kit for the shark (was trying for his big brother) so wasnt much of a challenge there.

Let 1 pinkie go, and hosted a shark bbq the following day - shark burgers were awesome! You can tell by the pic of the shark that I got a bit carried away with the iki jimi, but the thing was never going to fit in the esky and I wasnt sitting it on the deck next to my foot till I knew it was dead for sure!

Used a tailor head and a herring together for the shark and mulies for the rest

Dan

After seeing Richard Snellin's post about Tailor, thought id head down to my local beach where i normally flick for Tailor with a twisty lure. Within 5mins scored a nice fish which i saw take the lure about 5m out, ended up being a lil salmon. Got a Tailor just on sunset and then lost another just after the sun went down. All good fun and a lil feed

Sha

Decided to head to north mole for a few casts last night.
The weather was perfect just a light breeze and very warm.
I got there a bit late just missing the sunset however my first cast hooked a a lovely Tailor right at my feet which subsequently detatched itself at the rocks, half an hour or so went by before another hookup but when it came it was huge, line peeled off in three or four powerful runs and a couple of minutes later i was carrying my biggest Tailor ever at 49cm up the rocks.
Bites came fairly regularly after that and i soon had another tailor of 40cm in the bucket which was then followed by a horse (by my standards) at 51cm. At this time the southerly started to pick up so i called it a night despite the fish still being on the bite but i was more than happy with my catch!
Richo

Thinkin of headin out to 3 mile early tom, but last time i went their wasnt much action. has anyone had a good run their lately?

Does anyone know of any shore based metro spots where the bonito are biting of late?

a few photo's from our dives over the past few weeks.

Mainly night efforts in the swan for crabs, but have been able to pick up some decent flathead in the prawn net as well.

Went for a quick dive on aus day and looped a cray that was moulting. looked like he had two heads!

No reccord breakers but plenty of good feeds :)

heres the latest track map

My first lady student for toman wild fishing for year 2011 is from Malaysia. Henry and his wife done a 4 DAYS 3 Nights safari trip to the Burma- Thailand border dam with me.

Henry's wife came without any proper casting or luring skills experience. For the very first day, I've tried my best to help and teach her the correct way to cast out her lure , balance on the boat and crank the lure etc. At the end of the fishing trip, she passed with fly color and is fit to wear my Giant Snakehead T- shirt with logo stated " NO LIMIT' when come to wild fishing. Just work hard and have faith in yourself. The big catch will come one day.  ;)

After this safari trip in Thailand, she is hooked to wild toman fishing.

I told Henry that the biggest catch for this wild fishing trip is not the big fish but be able to poison his wife to love wild fishing. This way, he got excuses and can make many wonderful memories fishing trip with his wife in the future.

"Wonderful memories is made & created by loved ones together"

Henry like many other avid lurers, fancy the wild kind of challenging than ponds fishing.

For this particular trip, Henry landed his first fish for 2011- A 1.22kg sebarau and his wife first toman caught in the wild on lure of course- 2.29kg toman. The magnificent view and beautiful natural, enough to melt any angler's heart.

Without much delay, allow me to share some of the highlights photo shots for the trip.....

For live actions....view the vid clip.

YES....YES.....YES.........shouted Henry's wife when she finally landed her first toman in the wild in 2011.
 
In the vid clip, you can see her casted her luer with great confident. Drop her lure in between narrow gap & casting non stop on the boat and under the hot sun.

Great angler is created and not born. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1c_YoryTH0

Highlights photo shots....

Hi all,

Cam here, been lurkin in these forums for about a year and decided to contribute something. Was a mad fisherman as a youngster and lately getting back into it with my mater

Last few weeks I have been fishing the river, looking for the elusive land based blue manna ( Any tips would be appreciated). A short write up of the spots I have hit up follows.

Garrat Road: 1) Went on the incoming king tide, managed a handful of bream, the biggest goin 29cm. No crabs in a 3-4 hour stretch off the jetty

                    2nd) Went on the low tide for a short lure session last night. Didnt manage a fish but saw a group taking 15-20cm baby bream and tailor and hiding them in bags under the pylons, reported to fisheries who unfortunately didnt have anyone available.  They did follow up the call today however, and had a discussion about what to do when they are off duty.

What does everyone do when they see this? I wanted to confront them but couldnt count on me or them holding their temper.

Applecross Jetty and surrounds:  Had a good session on bream 2 nights ago from 25-29cm with several bigger ones being lost. We were using small rock crabs, snapbacks and river prawns.BLowies were surprisingly not that bad. Still no blue manna crabs in a 3 hour soak (7pm till 10pm) A local told us about large yellowfin whiting in the area, anyone else heard about

Peppermint Grove/ Mosman Bay: Fished further towards chidley from the Freshwater bay YC. Heaps of small tailor around 15-20 cm chasing large bait schools, Only one legal amongst the ones we caught so put them all back. Never caught one that small before, they have no fight in them whatsoever at that size, even on 2kg. Again no crabs, but large masses of blowies around to go with the bait fish.

Anyone have any surefire LB crab spots or tips? We are using spleen, chicken, bony herring, farkin sausages and all.  I just want a couple for tea. hahah

 Went to Yacht club today around 2 p.m with some mates... Heaps of juvenile pinkies... threw them back... had to big runs... line snapped just near jetty... could not lift it up... may be a big ray.... But no tailor

I have no doubt in my mind that Whitey is not a man, but a god at putting you on good fish.

Saturday morning saw an early rise and a nice drive to Jurien Bay. We arrived at around 4am and like clock work Whitey's vessel was waiting and ready for an adventure. We packed the gear and piled in and in no time we were off. We decided to head out to the FADs and after a short trip, a stop for livebait and a quick vomit from myself we arrived.

Second cast saw me onto a first dolphinfish on a 6" pink snapback, the dream became a nightmare and due to having to tight drag the fish was lost. Over my shoulder however, saw 2 hook ups on a stickbait and a livey and after a short battle 2 dolphin fish were landed. We had a couple more passes and once again on live bait we saw another dolphin fish landed. I wasnt 100 percent sure the person knew they were hooked up as the fish was leaping trying to throw the hooks, it wasnt until they picked the slack up they found out they were on.

After our 3 fish were landed they went off the bite and we had a quick troll with the heavier outfits but unfortunately no hook-ups. I was hoping to see a marlin dancing on the water but i can save that till March.

A quick look at our watches showed it was not long after 7 o'clock and we moved onto the ground whitey has become famous for. There was an array of plastics and jigs. A mention goes out to Dasho who has now created an Octa jig which holds bait. The next several hours saw an array of excellent fish coming up. We filled the icebox with the usual Dhuies, Pinkies, Baldies and BB's. I was over the moon with my PB snapper and at 92cm's i cant complain.

Another great day out with Whitey and a huge thankyou to him and his deckie. I highly recommend him as the short drive gets you away from the hustle and bustle and onto some awesome fish, he is a great guy and knows his stuff. Sorry but i only took a couple snaps as i was to busy fishing.

My new PB...

The Deckies dollie...

The Mixed bag...(Photo Dasho)

Woke up on Saturday not planning on going out but checked the weather report and it looked half decent. Decided to call up a mate who has recently caught the fishing bug and take him out for some whiting, herring and squid as this was the type of fishing he'd been doing but from the beach.

Got down to Woodies at about 9:30am (a bit late but hey it was a last minute decission to go out) and started to head to the usual squidding grounds. I've been picking on him a bit for only catching whiting and herring as these are bait in my eyes and figured once he got into something decent he'd feel the same. The seas didn't look to bad so decided we'd go out further to get him onto something a bit bigger than whiting on 5 fathom. He's been going on about how great the herring he catches are for sushi so as we got to Carnac the seas still looked ok so I asked him if he wanted to try his luck with some Tuna.

So off we went to the south side of Rotto where I've had some luck with the Tuna, usually getting into a couple each time I've been out but a bit hit and miss. Got to the spot where I've been trolling (due to their always being bait fish) sent out the lures and within a couple of minutes one of the rods was screaming out line. Told my mate to grab that one as I wanted him to land his first decent fish, grabbed the other rod and I hooked up too. Unfortunately his came off but landed mine and it wasn't a bad size 8kg.

Into the eski it went, lures into the water and we were off again. It didnt' take long and the rods were screaming out line and he finally had his first Tuna, he was stoked. Over the three hours we trolled, we had over 20 hook ups and landed 15 Tuna so it was a brilliant day out. I'm guessing my mate won't have the same thrill with a herring next time he's beach fishing...

 plenty mackies nth end gi early today.

If you haven't used this website before, check it out... www.nearmap.com.au   The difference between Nearmap & Google earth is Google Earth is taken from a satalite and updated every few years. Nearmap image is taken from a low flying aeroplane with a massive high res camera so you can zoom right in on your target. It also stores past pics in a database which is available in the slide bar at top of screen, giving you the option of before and after shots.

I thought I might post this as many people are looking at the damage in QLD from the recent flooding and Nearmap is the one for aerial assessment.

I'm personally in Brisbane checkin the damage and doing my bit to help as my wife and I have been directly affected and lost all but our walls in our property there. Our thoughts go to those who lost much more including life.

Luck & thoughts are with you from the WA Angling community QLD & Carnarvon.

well went out to the deep on fri left hilliarys 630ish to a nice calm sea

first stop was the fads trolled upto and around  drifted in flicked sp at the fad to no avail

next stop was 270m did 3 drops out there didnt feel any bites but didnt see one bait return to surface only one sweep was landed the current down deep was moving pretty fast so lots of line was out i recon i had 500m plus of line out

was a good 5 min retrive thanks again to mako mat for lending me a 2 speed penn rod and harness saved alot of pain

will be out again and prob try 300 plus any one know if and where they do forcasts on the current speeds?

tried again at the fads on way back in stopped at a few lumps 100m but current was rushing

last stop in 50m produced some nice fish my dhu around 9kg? i guess notice the lightness when captured then dark in the esky

only other fish i landed where gunnard the spiky type

and my mate daves brilliant snapper a pb for him  also got a sambo and blackass

i did suffer a bit of spewing late morn them flybrige boats uptop got me going may need a pill next time

Word from PGFC is that an estimated 120kg Black Marlin was tagged out at the trench today.

aswell as numerous hookups on blues and striped marlin in the past week.

please bring on some good weather!!!!!!

hit up the canning today, armed with river prawns. i rocked up just as the water became slack, so i was hoping for a good little session. already rigged up on the train so i could get straight into the action. first drop down i nailed a small bream, 23cm. went quiet for a bit until the water became slack. perfect cast onto a pylon, waited no more than 3 seconds and had line screaming from the reel. forgot to tighten my drag, so i lost him to the pylon. landed another 7 bream, undersized in about the same amount of casts. then went quiet until i had another solid hookup. at this stage, the current had picked up quite a lot. managed to land him, 35cm. very healthy fish. next cast got absolutely smashed by a big bream and shortly after he bricked me. unstoppable haha. some asian bloke using mussels managed to pick up a beautiful 42cm blackie after a long tussel on ultralight gear. put my bream to shame! finished up around 2:30ish when i ran out of bait and headed home. id put photos up, but i cant get them off my phone!

Just thought I would share this.

Neels

Makes you realise how many houses etc are effected.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm

After only fishing bait most of last year this year i have started using lures and caught my first bream on a MF40 that went 31cm.

So i revisited the same spot and gave it another crack.
In the first 30 mins i hooked up on a mf40 and within seconds it bust be off on a pylons. And felt like a decent bream (35+)

With morale low i kept fishing and hooked up again on my mf40 and landed my first Flathead from the Swan River. This fish went 31cms. and with no one around only got a release shot and some other average shots.

I kept fishing and thought i'd change to a snapback grub( inspired by Aussie_Breamer) this was in avacado colour. I hooked up with it 3rd cast and land a nice flathead that went 42cms and was stoked.

It would have been a cracka day if only the first fish didnt get away but it was still good for a quick 2 hr session.

Cheers duffman.

Gear used was a sienna with 6lb braid and 8lb flouro

Headed out at 4am this morning, hit the first spot and on the first drop everyone loaded up on pinkies as expected. By sunrise (around 5.30am) we had 8 snapper, with the smallest going 6kg and 5 over 9kg. We then set out 2 tiagra 50s and did some trolling around West End, but with no luck. From this, we headed deep and worked 400gm jigs. Unfortunately it was quite windy, and didn't work in our favour with the Sambos. Hooked up to a monster and got bust off, while my mate got spooled on lock up with a torsa 30. Seeing as we didnt have any luck with the Sambos we went after some tuna. Saw a few on the surface and some around while jigging. Didnt have any luck getting tuna either, so worked some jigs in 30m water, picking up a few small sambos and dhueys, oh an wrasse half the size of the jig aha. Got back by 1.30, with an esky full of pinkies.

Anything under 65-70cm we released to fight another day

The picture of the reels in the picture probably equated to about 1/6 of the reels on board aha. Stellas, Van Staal, Tiagras, Torsas, Saltigas - Galore!

Managed to get out in the river last night for a quick session before the sun went down.

Got 7 in an hour and a half. Few big buggers too which is awesome to see.

Will look to head out again this week to see how early morning goes.

Had a weekend up in moore river and went just south of the rock groyne of the bach at 4:30am on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Saturday was very weedy but managed to get into some good fish.

Got some tailor there and a few big herring. One of the tailor being 51cm. Also got my first eagle ray which was good fun but put him back.

First tailor Ive caught from beach fishing. All fish were off the bite by about 7am.

Took my 4 1/2 year old son down to mindarie yesterday for a fish. Caught and released 5 baby pinkies,also caught some whiting and a flying fish,James had just as much fun watching them swim away as he did catching them. Perfect way to spend a sunday arvo. Also  dolly pics from last tuesday fishing with Whitey on his charter out of jurien.