Reports
ORSSC Masons Bar Beach Fishing Classic Results
Submitted by Mick C on Sun, 2018-04-15 19:04Congratulations to the winners of the ORSSC Masons Bar Beach Fishing Classic following weigh-in today. Difficult conditions over the period with swell and weed, but some excellent fish were presented.
Mulloway - 12.76kg - Chris Webb
Pink Snapper – 7.76kg – Bernard Bouteloup
Salmon – 5.76kg – Dale Wright
Herring – 0.417g – Ken Riches
Whiting – 0.170g - Dylan Hutchinson
Tailor – 3.76kg – Graham Bently
Samson Fish – 19.32kg – Russell Grover
Skipjack – 1.09kg – Kai Grover-Boyce
Bream – 1.83kg – Russell George
Flathead – 0.615kg – Bronwyn Gaston
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Submitted by jack135 on Sat, 2018-04-14 10:01Salmin covs
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Bluewater Tackle Fishing Report 13/4/18
Submitted by Bluewater on Fri, 2018-04-13 15:08Fishing Report
Friday 13/4/18
As we ease off the back of summer, another week has passed in which we still wait for salmon. But do not fear, they will be here! Whispers of salmon behind the 3 mile have been making the rounds like highschool rumours, so it shouldn’t be long before they start to show up on the metro beaches.
There is still plenty of demersal action to be had in the deeper water. The weather has been great providing plenty of opportunity to get amongst it. Some reasonable fish have been landed closer in around the three mile and five fathom bank, however anglers have reported lots of coral spawn and dirty water in the shallows. If you are in a small boat or not willing to travel the distance, you may need to persist through the day in search for your bag limit in the shallower water. Deep, or atleast in the clean water is the place to be if you can get there.

(Above: Joseph Gardner with a cracker dhu from the shallows in Lancelin)
Closer in, squid have been fishing well, but again, finding the clear water is vital. For the landbased fishos, hotspots like South Mole and Woodies have been producing pretty decent numbers lately.
For those who have figured it out, some good catches of snapper have been coming from within the Cockburn Sound but the fishing can be iffy. A strong but fine berley trail on dusk or dawn will definitely put you ahead of the game.
Yet again this week some great fish have been landed off the stones in our South West. More reports of reasonably sized blue grouper have come in and also some seriously big kings. Check out this horse of a yellowtail kingy on stickbait from Jamie Thompson!

Mulloway to a meter have been caught between Quinns and Two Rocks, with the odd chopper tailor in the mix. The northern beaches have been seriously consistent for the past month now, and are well worth a shot if you are in search of a silvery slab. It wont be long until the big green backs beging patrolling the northern beaches, so now is a great time to jump in store and get a few new stickbaits and poppers ready.
Inside the river, the bream have been particuarly active on dusk and dawn in our rivers. Anglers like staff member Pete Berlinski have been having a ball in these low light periods with top water lures and hardbody minnows like this Zipbait Kahmsin Tiny.

Are you getting away these school holidays? Or just getting stuck into the salmon. We have a huge range of gear that has just been topped up, not to mention all of the lures and bait ready to go for whatever you might be doing. If you’re heading away, make Bluewater Tackle your first stop!
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Broome jetty tarpon
Submitted by Meeuwissen on Thu, 2018-04-12 06:24Just got back from my new job with Cone bay Barramundi working 3 on 3 off and couldnt help myself and had to see what was going on at the jetty• The tides wern't very big and i got there just after high tide got some small mullet in the shallows with my thrownet then pinned them through there nose and walked them on the edge off the light with 5 minutes i was hooked onto a nice size tarpon doing plenty of acrobatics then i beached him got a quick snap and released it then my next drop got another one. They are a awesome fish and one day will want to go to America and catch a monster.
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Exmouth Report
Submitted by Simo_ on Wed, 2018-04-11 15:19Just got back from 9 days in Exmouth. Got some great fish, but it was super hot.
Fished tantas, top of gulf, west side of muirons and back of peak.
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Steep Point 23rd_28th April 2018
Submitted by Jenkos on Mon, 2018-04-09 11:44Hi
We are heading to Steep Point ( Blackies West ) on the week of the 23rd April via Boat from Denham this year
This is our 8th Year in a row, such a world class fishing destination, unfortunately one of our boating parties had to pull the pin so we are solo, which is all cool
Just reaching out if anyone on the forum is also going to be around Shelter Bay in a boat that week at this time, say G'day
We are in a Boston Whaler 255 Conquest, Call Sign/Rego| DT406 Elite | New boat this year from the Gemini Rib in years gone past
Some random Pics to get the forth on
It is amazing the variety we have had in the years too, but also the increase in sharks out wide. but more so the relatively new resident bullshark in close in Shelter Bay and the southern side of Dirk H, makes for getting Crays and swimming to the boat a fair bit quicker....
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29.2kg Metro Spanish Mackerel
Submitted by Mick C on Sun, 2018-04-08 15:21Fished the MAAC comp yesterday with the daughter in what were atrocious conditions in my small boat. It actually became dangerous mid to late morning and we had no other choice but to come in early. Nice work weather forecasters!
The catches for the day were generally down on normal, EXCEPT Dave’s massive mackerel. In a combination of skill and luck Dave landed the fish on a snelled mono rig where the top hook had set in the corner of the jaw. Apparently, the first run was very close to spooling him too.
The fish was an absolute beast in real life and the photos don’t really do it justice. Well done Dave for a truly momentous metropolitan capture.
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Hard day on the water until dhuie o clock
Submitted by sunshine on Fri, 2018-04-06 17:24Thank goodness for retirement as today gave a real opportunity to enjoy what has been really scarce good conditions. Launched well before dawn and to the moron who went out with NO lights whatsoever honestly FFS.....you were invisible ! I headed out initially to the high 30's but bites were really scarce apart from a good KGW and some fox fish very little doing. The wind dropped to nothing making drifting impossible so I headed out deeper and simply sounded until I found a good show....actually the screen lit up ......dropped three baits all of which were monstered within seconds.....what to do when you are by yourself, took what I thought was the biggest expecting a good dhuie but pulled up a stonka baldie, second rod going ape so fought that fish to the surface , a good dhuie around 8kg but the final rod was now bent double making it hard to get out of the rod holder, now this was a fish, deep surging runs with strong tail beats.......a male fish over 94cm so the smaller one went back and swam away strongly. Came home at 26 Knots @ a nautical mile to the litre....just love the yammy!
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Easter Weekend fishing
Submitted by gdupagne on Tue, 2018-04-03 10:37Started off good Friday taking the kids out for a squid session in Cockburn sound. fished one of our usual spots alongside G.I with only 1 squid in about 6 drifts. we moved to another spot near the causeway which resulted in 3 good size squid in 2 drifts. this included my eldest son getting his first squid.
Sunday was spent at whitehills with the family and managed to get in a sneaky fish before the sea breeze. 6 good size herring in less than an hour.
Monday was time for me to have fun. Left point Perron ramp around 6.00am headed to the 40's. the easterly was gusting and the chop was pretty rough. first couple of spots nothing and the days was looking bleak. we headed to the 3rd spot of the day and first drop landed a sea sweep. Second drop resulted in the first sized Dhui for the new boat. the mood shifted dramatically on board. Next drift 2 blackarse. esky was looking much better now. 3rd drift resulted in a nice Baldy. happy with the mixed bag and sea breeze immanent we headed home.
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Exmouth 2018 done and dusted
Submitted by Deleted on Mon, 2018-04-02 11:11Well thats exmouth for 2018.
Tough time with the southwesterly winds this year and a swell that was breaking across the north chanel on the first day making us turn for home. We lost a couple of days to wind but turned those into beer days
With the winds up making trolling for bills to uncomfortable, deep dropping was the next plan and we did well. Loading our freezers with our limit of ruby and 8 bar fillets made this a great trip none the less. Minimal issues with sharks made life easy.
Still managed to raise a handful of small black marlin and chrisG getting to issue his first tag on a acrobatic little rat marlin was a plus.
Make sure you hit up mick and the boys at shore catch for quality bait, we had ordered some squid for this trip and man they were huge ruby lollies. We tried herring for first time this year and the 8 bar demolished them. Thanks again mick callum and hutch.
If your looking for accommodation close to tantabiddi ramp then i suggest yardie homestead. The new managers have got the place looking great and enjoy a beer. Being 2min from the ramp is huge bonus
Not a great amount of photos and funny how water looks calm in these pics.
Already planning nexts year trip
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Luke and mates down Sth
Submitted by little johnny on Sun, 2018-04-01 22:00Blue 19 kg. Huge harleys. Nice dhues. When it was to windy ,they went for trout. They had a few good days. They left today to Beat tomorrow's traffic..
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2018 Canary Islands
Submitted by KenTse on Sat, 2018-03-31 11:22Being a teacher has its perks. Recently, we had a week of school holidays in March. I found some cheap flights to the Canary Islands and decided to spend 7 days there. We started with 4 days on Fuerteventura followed by 3 days on Tenerife.
I haven't had time to write the blog yet...I just managed to edit the pics and upload them onto the blog. Maybe I can work on the writing on Easter Sunday.
Let's start off with a bang with some panoramic views...
Parque Natural Jandia
Cofete and Pico de la Zarza
Fuerteventura
La Entallada
Parque Natural Corralejo
Punta de Teno
Masca
Masca
Even more Masca
Teide
Teide Caldera
Chinamada
Some extra scenery shots...
Hornos de Cal de La Guirra, Fuerteventura
Antigua, Fuerteventura
View around Mirador de Morra Velosa
Castillo del Toston
La Entallada
Parque Natural Corralejo
Punta de Teno
Teide
Teide
Anaga
Did you expect me to go anywhere without catching some new species? There was a bit of overlap in species with the Mediterranean, so it wouldn't exactly be easy to do well on with a large number of new species in the Canaries. However, with a bit of determination, I did catch 21 new species :)
White Seabream (Diplodus sargus) - Species #772
Guinean puffer (Sphoeroides marmoratus) - Species #773
Canary Damsel (Abudefduf luridus) - Species #774
Golden Grey Mullet (Chelon aurata) - Species #775
Azores chromis (Chromis limbata) - Species #776
Madeira Goby (Mauligobius maderensis) - Species #777
Rock-pool Blenny (Parablennius parvicornis) - Species #778
Bastard grunt (Pomadasys incisus) - Species #779
Axillary Seabream (Pagellus acarne) - Species #780
Common Two-Banded Seabream (Diplodus vulgaris) - Species #781
Salema (Sarpa salpa) - Species #782
Sharpsnout Seabream (Diplodus puntazzo) - Species #783
Black Scorpionfish (Scorpaena porcus) - Species #784
Saddled Seabream (Oblada melanura) - Species #785
Madeira Rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis) - Species #786
Red Porgy (Pagrus pagrus) - Species #787
Pearly Razorfish (Xyrichtys novacula) - Species #788
Emerald wrasse (Symphodus trutta) - Species #789
Molly Miller (Scartella cristata) - Species #790
Rock Goby (Gobius paganellus) - Species #791
Macaronesian Sharpnose-Puffer (Canthigaster capistrata) - Species #792
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And some non-lifers
Annular Seabream (Diplodus annularis)
Comber (Serranus cabrilla)
Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse (Coris julis)
Cardinalfish (Apogon imberbis)
Painted Comber (Serranus scriba)
Flathead Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus)
Ornate Wrasse (Thalassoma pavo)
Planehead Filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus)
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<°)))>( Bluewater Metro Fishing Report 30/3/18 )<(((°>
Submitted by Bluewater on Fri, 2018-03-30 13:34
Fishing Report
Friday 30/03/18
Happy Good Friday all!
If you are heading South for the long weekend, expect you won’t be the only ones! Everyone is getting down to our beautiful south and there is plenty of action to be had wherever you are.
It is no secret that the salmon have just been going off in the southern region. Hamellin Bay seems to be an absolute hotspot. Fishos are getting stuck into tonnes of fish and if you are around the area this weekend, you would have to be very unlucky to not have a shot at one.
Closer to Albany, fish are also in numbers, particularly at the Salmon holes and Cable Beach, with a few also coming through Cheynes beach. Please be mindful on the road along your travels and just remember, double demerits are in place for this holiday.

(Above: Harlem getting stuck into some salmon at Castle Rock)
Much closer to Perth, mulloway have been on the chew for a few weeks in a row now. Plenty of reports have been coming from the Mandurah region… Particularly around the San Remo area. This may be well worth a shot if you are looking for spots further south of the river.
On the northern side, beaches from Mindarie up are still producing the goods. Check out Joondalup customer Travis and his first ever mulloway, going a healthy 124cm.

Some worthwhile spots we have been hearing reports from include around Alkimos. In the same areas, there have been great runs of chopper tailor in the late arvo and into the evening. Further north past Two Rocks, great numbers of larger tailor are being caught.

(Above: Ryan Halliwell's slab of a tailor landed whilst on a Perth Fishing Safaris tour)
We had some serious land based action this week, with a few anglers knocking over lifetime goals. Multiple pink snapper had been caught not only of the Fremantle Moles but also Mindarie rock wall. And more noticeable, a stack of metro macks were landed land based via ballooning and lure spinning. Hot spots included Coogee, Ocean reef marina & even North Beach Jetty! A regular customer pulled 2 spaniards in off the North Beach jetty this week with the largest model going a modest 16.5kg.

(Above: Beau Suladra with a very tidy land based Spanish Mackerel on lure)
Unfortunately, the weather has not been kind the last week in terms of offshore fishing, so the dolphin fish at the FADs and the bottom fish have had a quick break while anglers turned to inshore fishing the river for some fun. Crabs are reportedly in decent numbers along the brewery stretch and around the narrows, with Matilda Bay also being another good place to start. Although not the largest in size, great numbers of smaller bream are coming from the Narrows. This is definitely worth a shot if you want to head down for some fun amongst the pylons.

(Above: Joel picked some nice fish up along the South Perth foreshore)
Last Sunday Mandurah hosted the WA Bream Classic Kayak competition, producing no shortage of fish and proving the system is back up and thriving since the fish kill last year. Some great bags were weighed in with the largest fish being just 10 grams shy of a kilo. Congratulations to Massimo for taking out 1st place with this beaut bag.

Further out from Freo, the squid have been turning it on, but only in the clearer water. Finding the clean water will be worth your while in search of your bag. Decent sized squid have been the norm as of late. If you are without a boat, land based hotspots that have been producing for our customers lately include the Woodman Point rock wall and Ammo Jetty.

(Above: An image from Chuckie's successful session on the Busselton Jetty)
Much further north, great customer Lee had a ripper trip up to Coral Bay, saying that the fish turned it on every day and they just could not miss. Lee and crew had a ball catching fish on jigs and plastics and mentioned it was just an all-round great trip.


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<°)))>( Bluewater Metro Fishing Report 23/3/18 )<(((°>
Submitted by Bluewater on Mon, 2018-03-26 09:50Bluewater Tackle World
Metro Fishing Report 23/3/18
There have been mahi mahi absolutely everywhere at the fads lately. Staff member Luke says, ‘The fishing was going nuts with multiple 4 and 3 way hookups for most of the day. The fish were not fussy at all and it was crazy to see how many fish would chase down a stickbait and fight each other for the lure!!’. Luke also mentioned that although they were catching fish off the FADs, they found many schools between FADs which were easily spotted from the birds above them. Upon arrival to each scene there were hundreds of dolphin fish smashing bait.
In much closer, dhusfish and baldies have been fishing well all up and down the coast with great reports stretching from Bunbury to Jurien. Mindarie customer Sam Mcnamara caught this epic dhu on a day trip up to Jurien last week.
An insane amount of mulloway have been caught lately. We have seen a surge in the amount of catches both from the river and ocean, but the river is seeming to be producing an unusual amount as of late. Regular Joondalup customer Alex Franklin has been doing extremely well! Now might just be the time if you ever wanted to tick that long life goal. Also off the beaches, tailor in the northern metro region have been firing on dusk too, with anglers having no problems reaching their bag limits and keeping a reasonably sized feed!
(Above: Alex Franklin with a modest 1m+ mulloway from the ocean)
You may have already noticed the salmon have been making there way up for the annual run. We are already seeing the smaller schools of juveniles in the metro area, with anglers like Zac Elisarow reporting schools of 15 tonne around Hamellin Bay making their way up the coast.
(Above: Zac with an example of a fish from one of the southern schools)
Gamex has been fishing amazingly, with anglers reporting the weather being kind and no shortage of billfish. To end day 5 of Gamex, the SKED STATS show 712 – 491 – 253 billfish. @mshaw had a cracker trip the week before knocking over a few billfish and getting out for a deep drop.
(Above: @mshaw with a classic example of an Exmouth billfish!)
For those with pots still out, they might just be worth a check if you havent recently, as Mindarie customer Ryan Scanlan reports that there are plenty of reds around Mindarie at the moment, with some great catches coming from his pots. Check out this beauty cray from Ryan!
Mindarie Staffer Troy Aberin had a ripper trip up to the Shark Bay region, here is his rundown:
The boys and I had a cracker trip, though the flies and sharks were thick, we still managed some good fish off the cliffs along False Entrance & Steep Point. When it came to spinning from the cliffs, the stand out lures were Rapalas, GT Ice Creams, Halco Maxs, Jackson Pintail 40s, and Dr. Hooks School Bullies. At night we got into mulloway and good spangos on bait!
Dan picked up big dart and plenty of tailor on small stick baits such as Duel Adagios, Maria Blues Codes. The Shark Bay flats turned it on with big whiting & bream and even flatties on surface with Bassday Sugar Pens, Daiwa Silver Wolves, Zipbaits Skinny Pop Jrs, and Jackson Ebi Panics doing the damage. Further down the coast Kim White out-fished the boys in Jurien with a solid Dhu pictured below.
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Couple choppers from last night
Submitted by Hutch on Sun, 2018-03-25 17:41Just north of perth
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Crab & pub run
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2018-03-22 17:30has been way to long between trips! Decided to head out for a crab in the Mandurah estuary then a beer at the ravo. Managed our 20 with 3 pulls so still plenty around! Packed the nets up and sacrificed 4 crabs for lunch, crabs were cooked and mostly peeled when we arrived at the ravo pub. Fresh crab sandwiches and had a couple pints to wash them down, was a good day out.
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Any March Walpole Reports?
Submitted by kinga86 on Tue, 2018-03-20 14:18Hey guys,
Heading down to Walpole for a week on Friday and just wondering if anyone has any recent reports? Just saw the KG whiting video so good to know they are on the chew. Any crabs still about?
Will be mostly throwing lures but do like to target Gummies at night on live Herring. Will probably try for Salmon along the local beaches too and at the Nornalup mouth.
Cheers and tight lines
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Exxy pre - Shake Down : Trolled all day out wide Rotto for nada, rewarded in closer
Submitted by JohnF on Thu, 2018-03-15 22:14Did a two dayer over at Rotto Tues/Wed with the sweet weather. Aim was to give the new carbon fibre wanker poles a good work out prior to next months Exxy trip. They worked sweet but there was no activity out at the FADS so we caught nada but drank a lot of beer and burnt a shit pile of fuel.
Topped up at the Rotto pub and at the Gov that night, only to be blasted by a nasty southerly overnight, which added to the hangover next morning on the boat......
We manned up and hit the demersals Wednesday and bagged out on dhuies and baldies, then hit some activity in closer on the way home with a few bustups ending in a tuna on the troll and a few sambos on jig in the same area, not the biggest models but a first for Ross on jig so he was happy.
Tuna was supurb rolled in chillie flakes.
Great few days despite the lack of pelagics. Bring on Exxy.
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Last Night
Submitted by kirky79 on Wed, 2018-03-14 21:54Out last night on the brother in laws boat chasing Pinkies. Beautiful evening on the water.
Got the burley going, but was a bit quiet for the first hour. Decided to give it another 10 minutes before moving spots. Then all hell broke loose. I started with a small one on the soft plastic, calling it for a nice Pinky....nope a small Sambo, then Doug hooked a small Pinky followed up by a XOS Sambo keen to inhale it. By this stage the sounder was lite up like a Christmas tree. I kept flicking the SP around until it was inhaled by this nice one, and gave me a good run around on the 5000 Stradic in 12 metres.
Bloody good fun.
I only keep them for Thai Fish Cakes, but you can't beat them I reckon.
Doug hooked a beauty after this pic was taken, it took him around the boat once and tried it again a second time. It was a ball tearer that made this one look tiny. We got it boatside but it was just about knackered, so gave it a quick swim before I could get a pic and let it swim free. In 12 metres of water there were some bloody big fish that even made his one look average.
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Bluewater Metro Fishing Report 09/03/2018
Submitted by Bluewater on Fri, 2018-03-09 15:51Bluewater Tackle World
Friday 9th of March 2018

Locally, the Swan River, specifically around the Garret Rd bridge area has been producing some quality sized bream with a few flathead in the mix. To target the bream, try using mussels/river prawns on an unweighted hook thrown around the snags. Be on the ready, because as soon as you hook up, the bream head straight around the pylons. If you’re after a bit more fun, try using hardbodies lures such as the Zipbaits Tiny Khamsin Jr. Further down river the bream have been ravenous and staff member Laith has been cleaning up some afternoons. He had three good sessions this week landing between 12 and 20 fish each trip, all on Z-man 2.5” grubs. The fish seemed to be in feeding mode late in the afternoon, with big schools of bream hugging the shoreline and the larger fish were biting more readily as the light faded. There is plenty of bait in the lower reaches in all shapes and sizes and Laith witnessed scalies busting up on schools of grass shrimp. So, if you are after bigger predators here would be a good place to start.
Good numbers of shark mackerel have been caught lately with most being cast to. They have been swimming along with tuna and yellowtail kings taking advantage of all the bait on inshore reefs. 5 Fathom Bank has also been producing a number of these speedsters. There are still a decent number of Spanish mackerel getting caught with ballyhoo rigs (garfish/sanmar trolled behind the boat) and deep, medium divers trolled along drop-offs in changes of water depths of about 5-10m. There are good numbers in the Sound with anglers who are squidding reporting some big fish clearing the water after fleeing baitfish. Cobia have also begun to make an appearance locally and this is no surprise with the number of turtles that have been reported lately. The good size GT that was speared off Kwinana is also worth a mention, as it points to the fantastic warm water currents bringing down some seriously cool fish from up North.
The majority of the demersals have been coming from the 40’s with some solid dhufish, snapper and breaksea coming over the side. Good baldies have been landed North of Two Rocks right up to Jurien this past week up to the 70cm mark. Reel Force Charters took Sue to celebrate International Womens Day who landed a boat breaking record bass groper of 62kg. Well done Sue and not bad for a 68-year-old.

Customer Mark a solid dhu caught on premium occy

Sue and a massive bass groper on board Reel Force Charters. The fish was landed using the Daiwa Seaborg Megatwin MJ1200
The beaches are firing this week with tailor, small sharks and some very decent mulloway been hitting the sand. Most of the action has been North of Two Rocks but plenty of bread and butter species such as herring are still coming from beaches south of here and in some instances, plenty of chopper tailor too.

Alex and a mate had an awesome night on some mulloway
Solo Mish, Fat slob
Submitted by Jackalchub on Tue, 2018-03-06 12:47Big white grub got nailed in the rod holder while i was battling a pink. Tough going out there until i found some hungry ones
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Monday Run
Submitted by snuffs on Tue, 2018-03-06 11:06Went for a brief mid morning fish yesterday. Appears to be a few baldies around. Back by lunch. Pic below.
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Father and son trip
Submitted by PJim on Mon, 2018-03-05 15:56So after not fishing with my two older boys who live in Gero for about 2 years i arranged to meet them at a location between Perth and geraldton for the long weekend. We all arrived frisay night and had a few drinks then up early today. ESE was cranking so we didn't launch the tinny till about 7 and stayed in close till it dropped below 15 kts. Ended up a ball burster of a day. We kept some large skippy, big fox fish, 2 pinkies, a blackarse and an 80 cm dhuie. We released a few sambos and a couple undersize dhus too.
All from a 13 ft tinny
Love spending time with my boys, now to do it all again tomorrow
Abe's 53 cm skippy
My 82cm dhu
Foxfish and pinky
Father son trip installment number 2. I was awake by 4 this morning, wind was light easterly so woke the lads and headed off at about 5am. On the first spot 10 minutes later on his first drop and middle son is into his first dhu, 65 cm in 6 mts water. He then followed it up with a 52cm that we released.
Both boys were using occy and getting plenty of bites while i was casting an abrolhos tackle plastic on a big johns jig head ine the direction we were drifting and working back to boat. I had a brief battle with a sambo but that was the only hit until i came up tight on an 87cm dhuie
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Guilderton Gods
Submitted by Michael Yoni on Sun, 2018-03-04 21:20Helped my brother out a couple of weekends ago on his holiday home, little did I know when I got there on Friday night he had also brought the boat. So after a few drinks that night to plan what needed repairing it what quickly came about that we should go and do a quick fish straight out. Left around 9am on Saturday morning to some ground he had marked on his GPS and he caught a rather large (90cm) Dhu. We decided to go back as we wanted to do some work on the home ( - otherwise it would result in more fishing, more drinking and less working). Sunday we decided to do a bit more work around the home rather than take the boat out again first thing, but after a bit of hinting (by me) he decided that we should go back to the same ground and try again. We (I) then got this beauty, measured 110cm, did not get a weight. Did get numerous bites but nothing that stuck. Also surprisingly flattish ground.
We worked out that it was 3.5 hours fishing (line in water) in total for both days. The remainder of the weekend was painting three rooms, redecking the back verandah, and installing some shade netting around the verandah.... and some, well lots, of drinking.
Just want to personally thank my brother, he is not on here, for a great weekend. Happy to help out again next time he goes up. To top it off I did not bring any fishing gear! so it was on borrowed equipment (does that still class as my catch)
Cheers
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Boat Towing Guide
Submitted by JohnF on Fri, 2018-03-02 08:14Good simple guide I found online for towing oversize boats in WA.
https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/Documents/Brochure_OB_Online_version.RCN-D17%5E23737090.PDF
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Few mackeral caught after work
Submitted by Meeuwissen on Fri, 2018-03-02 08:12Just come back from work and put in a bit of time targeting Spanish mackeral after work hours. The pearl farm is located 50km north of Broome and the mothership acts as a FAD holding lots of baitfish and close to the sailfish grounds.
We catch the storm garfish during our lunch break with a thrownet and a bit of bread then after work rig them up with gangs and wire or two treble stingers with a pink skirt unweighted, the later it gets the deeper the mackeral seem to sit.
The bait that seems to get smashed the quickest was live barracuda the mackeral froth them .
As we move into the dry season we should start seeing larger sizes.
The biggest caught was 134cm on the fork going to me then 127cm came in 2nd also caught by me then Anthony came in at 3rd at 122cm great way to gave a bit if banter and something to look forward to after work with the mackeral competion.
21 mackeral were caught 14 of them by me.
Everyone walked away with fresh fish and the chefs on board did a great job in cooking the mackeral many different ways with some meals being 11/10 look forward to next trip already defiantly greatful to have a job where I can do what I love .
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KG sesh!
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2018-02-27 15:37With Sundays forecast just gone looking good (despite maybe some rain) I thought it’s time to target offshore KG’s and re-stock the freezer as I was all out of KG fillets!
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It doesnt get too much luckier than this....
Submitted by Rugbynut on Mon, 2018-02-26 18:08I hadn’t been out for a few months due to weather and work. Decided to hit my favourite spot off scarbs on the 3 mile, targeting a feed of skippy. Normally if there are bait fish around and you keep your eyes open there is a chance of tuna and YTK’s. Last year this time was great for everything and with the reports id read I was hopeful of a good feed. Well the easterlies were stronger than expected, creating quite sloppy conditions. The skippy never really turned up but managed 4 good ones up to 40cm and lost a few. Had some ytk’s scooting about the boat but they weren’t interested in what I had and buggered of pretty quickly!. Anyways after 3 hrs or so I decided to chug back to the marina and keep my eyes open for any surface activity. This often is very productive.
I got all the way back seeing nothing so was a bit dejected but decided to clean the boat up a bit before going in. Anyway, I had 2 rods rigged up with Mullies so decided to hurl them over and just drift with the sea breeze while cleaning. I wasn’t far from a bit of reef but would quickly blow away so had heaps of room.
So in 7-8m of very unexciting looking country, minor reef and sea grass mainly I started scrubbing away. 1 min later my bigger set up goes ballistic. I grab the rod and lean into what is clearly a good fish. Sambo I thought and gut stuck into it. Several screeching runs which was fantastic.
Not caring too much about losing it I started getting stuck into it and bringing it back to the boat when it suddenly occurred to me the other rod was out and if there’s one bloody sambo there are probably a few, so I glanced out the back of the boat to where my unweighted bait was almost dragging on the surface in the strong sou’wester. A couple of large dark shapes were whistling around but couldn’t really see them clearly. Good large fish tho. Shit I thought, as the that setup was only 4-8kg rod and 15lb braid and wouldn’t deal well with one of those cranky buggers in the rod holder…and of course the rod went off, big long run.
Heres the funny bit, I almost had the first fish to the boat such that I could see it near the bottom. Just a good dark fish, bit of flash. Sweet I thought. Its knackered ill chuck it in a rod holder and save my light rod from certain disaster. So I did this and stared playing the 2nd fish. It seemed much stronger but was hard to tell on the lighter gear. So 5 MINs later, I look down at the first fish as I was just getting control of the 2nd one and it rolled. I thought gee, that’s odd looking what the hell is it. So reached over and did a few winds on the reel. You can imagine my surprise as a 4kg (70cm) pinky slowly appeared out of the depths. Holy shit… mayhem. Grabbed the net, got it in the boat while still playing the 2nd fish. Couldn’t believe I had let it flop around for 5 mins while playing the other fish.
At this stage I was still reasonably sure the 2nd was a sambo after thinking that’s what I saw whistling around out the back, pec fins stuck out in my mind in the snap shot I saw but now wasn’t so sure!
After all of a sudden being a bit more gentle and nursed the 2nd fish to the boat and was again stoked to see a second much larger snapper (6.5kg 80cm) finally come to the boat after some scorching long runs. No head shakes….none. just long runs and aggressive fighting. Netted that and sat there and looked about drifting over open sand in 6-7m by now.
It was 12 noon on the dot, on the 38 degree day we had Thursday week ago. How’s that for bloody tinny. Some days it just all happens hey?
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Mackies around
Submitted by Madmerv on Mon, 2018-02-26 05:51Unfortunatly not my experience but pulled into Mindarie marina yesterday arvo and the guys pulling in behind us got a couple of nice Macks from behind 3 mile.
I asked if they were chasing signs like birds or bait balls and they said they were just trawling along.
Just a heads up for those that like to burn a bit of fuel and have some fun.
Bluewater Metro Fishing Report 23/02/2018
Submitted by Bluewater on Fri, 2018-02-23 14:34
Bluewater Tackle World
Friday 23rd of February 2018
What can’t you catch in metro waters at the moment? Jazz Charters hooked a marlin in 50m off the back of Rotto yesterday if you haven’t already heard, on the humble mulie no less. This event lends itself to the idea that any fish or at least a pelagic could be anywhere at any time, after all we all remember the broadbill swordfish showed up in the Sound only a couple of months ago. Are we crazy to be going anywhere on the boat without lures in the water?
This wasn’t the only marlin seen in metro waters this week either. The Bluewater Tackle World Marlin Cup was on last weekend and Perth Game Fishing Club had the following report on the tournament.
“While there were a few Marlin raised and hooked over the weekend only 1 fish stayed connected long enough to get a tag in.
Congrats to Dave on Azura for his first metro marlin. He has seen and caught Marlin everywhere he has gone but a metro fish had eluded him until now.
There were also some very welcome by catches on the heavy gear with Mahi to around 8.5kg and YFT to around 20kg being caught.
Most anglers ended up very wide looking for activity with most good water being found way to the North or way out West in 1600m or so.
Thanks again to all our sponsors who supported the event and especially our major sponsor Bluewater Tackle World who support us at the club throughout the year.”
Staff member Brad (Top) and customer Paul (Below) with two lit up dollies from the Bluewater Tackle World Marlin Cup
Demersal fishing has been going off! With the glamour conditions from yesterday plenty of reports have been flooding in. From dhufish and baldies to nannygai and queen snapper, as well as Northen species such as red throat and spangled emperor. There really is a bounty out there.
Good customer Ben and crew had a ripper day landing these two dhuies in the 50m mark
A massive queen snapper for Joondalup customer Marc
On the pelagic front again customer Brodie found the macs in Jurien and stickbaited some kings off the surface that were feeding on the same bait. Locally there have been scores of yellowtail kings on the reefs that have been obliterating the bait in big pack attacks. On the edges of these reefs macs, both sharkies and spaniards, have been seen flying out of the water after any bait that scatters into deeper water.
Customer Brodie landed 5 macs and some solid kings in Jurien
Tailor and small sharks are still prevalent on most of the beaches but further North we have seen some big mulloway landed as well. Another notable beach capture was a respectable breaksea cod that was then safely released after a few quick snaps.
Mindarie customer with a 1.2m long mulloway caught on long life mulies
Mindarie customer Richard caught and released this breaksea cod of the beach this week
Staff member Troy always managed to nab a feed of calamari
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