Didnt get as much fishing done as I would have liked as I spent most of my time meeting my partners family and friends, but with this being the first of many trips to Canada it leaves plenty for me to look forward to. Only had two days of bad weather while I was there and sure enough they were during my trip further North to Muskoka and Algonquin, this meant my fishing charter was cancelled and my day canooing/fishing in Algonquin park should have been cancelled, but like an idiot I went anyway only to spend the day bailing water from the canoo and trying not to drown us lol.

After hearing about my missfortune some friends told me I should come round and spend a day fishing off their dock. They have a cottage on a private lake with a dock 25m from their back door. Tell ya what, if i had a lake on my back door step i would never make it to work lol. Spent the day chucking soft plasticks off the dock and catching bass after bass, only little guys but im told there are some big ones in there. Also went out on their boat for a little while trolling a diving minow which got smashed by a northern pike, never to be seen again.

Was a great day out and thanks to Canadian hospitality I got at least a bit of fishing done on my trip and what a beautifull place to fish. Bass are an amazing fish, great fun on ultra light gear with some spectacular jumps. Im already dreaming of my next trip back there when i can spend more time north and have a solid go at fishing in Canada.

Had a good morning fishin with brother inlaw. There was heaps of herring and skippy aorund good fun catching.We also got a nice little pinky as well.Had a salmon head out on my shark rod but no luck there also had live herring out all morning but not even touch.Oh well had great moring fishin.

Jason

Took a couple mates out for a fish last weekend and this was our days efforts, we were only fishing flat coral and shallow reef between 6 m and 24 m. All fish were caught on SP's and light spin or bait casters, we ended up catching and releasing 14 Dhus, 6 Pinkys, 2 Baldys, a few BB's and a couple of Sambos we had heaps of double and triple hook ups as well as catching a heap of less desirable species. Great days fishin but just another day off Dongara.

Honsu, Flangies, my brother Andy & I have just returned from another EPIC Jurien Bay trip.

We drove up Sunday night after a big meal & checked in at a reasonable hour just in time for some knot tying & sleep.

We woke to a very chilly overcast morning.

All the bling was onboard & we were excited to use a number of different soft plastics (McCarthy’s) & metal jigs (Shout’s, smiths, seven seas, fanky’s, evergreens, bay rubbers, SW Lab’s & fisherman).

We had outfits ranging from light & stupid (10lb) up to PE5 (50lb+).

Within short travelling time, we were at our first spot & down went the soft plastics & jigs. For some, it was a matter of 1 crank of the handle & the reels started squealing. First drop & Flangies had a good jig munching pinky onboard. Honsu added to the quota with a great Dhu, I added to the quota with McCarthy caught Pinkie & my bro scored a rat sambo on a McCarthy too.

Within the next few minutes, we scored plenty of Pinkies, Sambos & the occasional AJ. A large Mako shark circled the boat looking for an easy feed.

Funnily, Flangies had never caught a Sambo (yes, weird) & his first Sambo would have pushed the foot long mark. Throughout the day Flangies scored plenty of Sambo upgrades.

On another strange note, my brother was using a 200g SW Lab speed jig trying to score another Sambo which resulted in a nice Pinky instead.

More strangely, my jig was raped by a dirty NW blowie. I wasn’t impressed.

The call was made for some Dhuie action. Within a few more minutes of travelling, we were at the primo spot. Again, Honsu scored a nice Dhu (lucky really). I continued to jig away scoring another cracker of a baldie on jig. I also hooked another & dropped it at the boat.

Throughout drifting a nice patch, I scored numerous pup sized Dhu’s & finally landed a more solid specimen of 7kg. Finally, my PB Dhu; All my Dhuies to date have been caught on Jig. Pretty good considering I’ve only had 3 attempts at them.

Flangies & Andy also landed some puppy Dhu’s.

From here, we continued landing Pinky after Pinky. Flangies & Honsu landed some very solid Pinkies (Flangies on McCarthy & Honsu on jig).

In the last few minutes of the trip, a school of solid sambo’s turned up & stretched everyone on board. Andy did well to land a solid Sambo on extremely light gauge hooks & superlight drag & Flangies accounted for his PB Sambo of the day.

Overall, it was a truly epic trip. Multiple hook-ups all day long. The strike rate was phenomenal.

Good blokes were rewarded with good fish. What more could you ask for.

Daz

P.S A BIG thanks to Whitey of Seasport Charters. He is a top bloke & puts you onto quality fish.

Headed out from Mindarie at about 1 to try our luck on the jigs, was feeling pretty rough as had been at a mate's wedding the night before and the 3m+ swell wasn't helping...

One lucky bugger managed to jig up a 6.5kg (gutted) southern bluefin, then we moved on as no-one else had even had a touch. Next spot produced a 49cm Dhu, caught fairly shallow so released without a problem. We tried one more spot which was looking like a dud, then on the last drift I got my first size Dhu - only 54cm/3kg but a start! Was getting towards the end of the day so we headed to a spot in 30m that has been good before. First drift produced a 69cm pinky and a few undersize ones so we decided to stick around for a bit. The next drift and we were on again, and after getting out of a tangle that could have lost the fish a 79cm/5.5kg (gutted) pinky was on board. All up the best day we've had for a while.

Went back to the spot we caught the two Dhuies on Wednesday night and pulled this 80cm one in (22lb on the Boga's).

How big do these things have to get before they acutally put up a fight??

Berlied hard and was hoping at the very least for some sharks but the current was running in the opposite direction to wind so we weren't fishing in our berly trail and didn't get any other takers.

This one was taken on a unweighted slimey mackeral drifted with the current.

The date was set for a trip to Jurien. Weeks of checking the weather forecast every day made the wait even longer, leaving it right down to the night before to make the decision whether we'd actually go or not. The decision was made to head up Thursday night to fish Friday on Seasport Charters with the legendary Whitey. Up we trecked to a dark cold Jurien with great anticipation of the next days fishing, staying the night at a local youth camp in a dorm so we could at least get a few hours rest before the exhausting day of pulling in fish.

The next morning we were on the water by 6:30 ready to fish. Onboard we had Chrisp, Shecky, Daz and his brother Andy, and myself (Goodz).

As to be expected the boys brought all their bling, rods out numbering fisho's 10-1.

Below is a soon to be less healthy looking stella.

We were fishing within about 30 mins from depature, everyone using jigs or plastics to start. First drop was an instant hookup for shecky on a McArthy plastic, giving his Crony Duel rod a good work out. Before he could land his fish myself and Daz were hooked up as well.

Meanwhile shecky landed the first fish of the trip.

Meanwhile chrisp had also hooked up.

The results of those hookup -

More double and triple hook ups next drop.

Up came this PB snapper for myself on a Caprice after hooking up on the drop before even hitting the bottom. Nicely breaking in the new Xzoga jig rod - Thanks Oceanside, especially Shaun for talking me into it :P

Followed by a nice sambo for shecky on his Croney Prodigy Jig rod. (Notice me hooked up instantly again)

Andy got his first Sambo on a Mcarthy plastic, usually preferring to use bait he was slightly swayed to the artificial side during the day.

Shecky gave his rods a good work out on the trip.

Meanwhile Daz and Chrisp landed more sambos.

Shecky usually took his time in getting fish in :P

More sambos for Goodz.

During the trip the decky also caught a few fish, his best being this fat sambo.

After catching plenty of sambos we moved on to look for some demersals and whitey put us right on the money with a multiple hook up on Dhu's on the first drop. Jigs, plastics and live bait all did the damage.

After being busted off on a big dhu first drop I re rigged and was straight on next drop, landing my PB dhuie on plastic at about 10kg.

Meanwhile Daz pulled in this nice baldie on jig, only to find there was no jig left.

Next drop chrisp hooked up to a good fish.

Meanwhile I hooked and landed another nice dhu.

Chrisp was taking his time to land his fish.

Another nice Dhu around 10kg.

We moved on to leave the dhu's alone and found a few more sambos before lunch.

We had a little troll between spots and picked up a couple little tuna.

We found more sambos at the next spot with everyone getting into them.

Shecky decided it would be a good idea to make a hooked sambo angry and paid the price, getting spooled on a borrowed stella (make him pay Sam).

For the last hour we had great fun jigging up sambos of all sizes, having all of us hooked up at a time.

We left them still hungry and ended the day with some fresh tuna on the way in. Masterchef Daz!

It was an epic day with everyone catching plenty of fish and never a dull moment with someone nearly being hooked up at anytime when we were fishing. There were plenty of bust offs on unstoppables, the weather was great, there was plenty of whales saying hello and the boys were all great to fish with. Can't wait to get back out there!

Hope you enjoy this, it took me FOREVER to put together :P

Just got back from Exmouth , was stoked with my catch,

Measured 90cm and weighed 5.5kg

Some easy action from the Jindalee beach this afternoon, the beach has eroded again and there are some gutters that seem to have no bottom. Second cast and I was taken for a short walk and tied to to closest reef with no love at all. The swell was up but the holes were deep enough to hold plenty of fish. Lost three rigs before I went to baitcasting, the limestone reef is invisible and hungry. I will dive there maybe in summer but the beach is so dynamic it is a different place every afternoon. Light NW winds and plenty of swell. Clear water with no herring that I could see but it is bloody deep where I was looking. Little to no seaweed and plenty of bites. We live in Paradise.

Today signified the last day of school holidays and after dealing with the mass exodus from town it was time to head to tantas to do a solo and to make the most of the predicted conditions.

Upon arrival it was near on glass, just a little easterly chop which began to drop the second I hit the water.  The first photo shows half decent conditions, it just got better all day until it was complete glass about 3pm.  Anyway, the plan was to head deeeeeeeep to try for some rubies.

Trolling out to the deep spots I raised one small black but he wasn't hungry, just followed the lure to the boat as I retrieved it. I spent a good hour out wide and couldn't find anything so headed to another deep ledge I had.  I didn't find much at this spot either, just a few stinking catfish, one a double header with a little whaler - then I found a little patch of pinkies and managed 2 along with a nice pearl perch.  Things then shut down and I headed back to the deep spot, first drift and I found an unknown - I thought it may have been a juvenile ruby but I'm not 100% sure.  Any fish ID'ers out there, please let me know.

Anyway, before I could do a second drift I encountered a few engine dramas and had to call the day short.  Hopefully I can get out to the deep stuff again soon to do some more exploring.  Just great to get some good conditions again and at least got a small feed.

once upon a time my wife and i use to go fishing regulary but since the birth of my son we havent gone fishing together. Fortunately i have other deckhands but if the oportunity arose that we could  get a nanny at 5am sat sun, and the weather is ok, and the swell is down then the boys would have to do a reshuffle and give up shot gun.

Such a weekend arose and after a bumpy 1.5hr ride out off mindarie we dropped our rigs. all of us no bites except her...bangbang she hooks up after a ten minute fight she brings up the biggest queen snapper i have seen,all 77cms. first drift.

next few drifts we pull up 2 baldcin 4+5kgs and a 42cm black ass. Not a bad day and we were done by lunch.

every time i go fishing  two things always happen. One the captain (myself) never catches the fish of the day. and two whoever is in the 'fill in' position (the person who just makes the up numbers) always catches the fish of the day.

does anyone else witness this phernomia. its always the case in my boat? the last three times out the fill in has caught queen snapper 77cms Dhu 15kg, dhu 12kg,

Picked up this pinkie this morning from the beach just before high tide amongst a good haul of whiting, herring and gardies

Went 5.6kg

Had a couple of friends keen to go out for a fish so we picked Tuesday as the day to go, and luckly for us the weather gods gave us a break from the howling winds and heavy rain.

Basically I got everything ready as I had told the boys just turn up I will have it all sorted gear lunch everything just got to get in the boat. They turned up and we were off. Unfortunately I couldn't use my normal ramp because of the big winds it was covered in seaweed at least 3 ft plus thick so I opted for Geo Marina boat ramp. Took things pretty cruizey going out as there was a little bump going on, enough to knock you around if you wanted to go harder so I just sat back doing 15-20 knotts.

Pulled up just before the mark to get everything sorted baits rigged etc. Both the boys have fished before but  don't think they have spent heaps of time out there but a quick few instructions and they were ready to go. I decided to just let them fish and I helped with whatever they needed to make it a good day for them. First drop resulted in a just under size pinkie went back in to swim another day. Couple of smalldrifts and went a lttle, quite so I opted to move to the next spot x. First drop for the big fella pictured and this was the result, a nice pinkie. They were all pretty excited as I forgot to mention that the call for that night was fish on the BBQ for us and some friends. So that Pinkie saved face and we now could fish with a little pressure off.

We kept fishing and I made every attempt to keep them on the fish but it was like everything just shut down. We did end up catching for the day, Pinkie as per photo, 1 small pinkie, 2 sampson fish, 1 under size Dhu fish, skippy and 1 very good bust of to an unstopable. The funny part of the day was when 1 of the boys caught the sampson fish as they come up at the same time on the same hook, cant say I've ever had that happen before.

As the conditions continued to get worse we called for home so although the boys didn't get as many as they hoped they still had a good time, and I'm sure soom memeries to go with it. They cooked the Pinkie that night and it was delicious.

Had a crappy day at work yesterday so decided to go out and give the snapper a try.

Left Woodmans Point at 5:30pm and headed out to a spot at the back of Carnac. The weather was perfect, no wind and the swell was minimal. To cut a long story short (4 hours of fishing), we caught two Dhu fish, one at 60cm and the other at 70cm (15lb on the Boga's).

No Snapper but still not bad for an evening of metro fishing.

A close friend of mine Brandon Khoo organised an annual GT Tournament with Nomad Sportfishing Adventures at Elusive Reef.

The week consisted of 12 anglers, Kasey Leong, Martin Excel, Ken Best, David Huang, Sunny Fan, Cai Caiyang, Brandon Khoo, Dominique Draux, Luke Peters, John Campbell, Chris Young (Crusty) and I.

Like always on a Nomad fishing trip everyone flys into Hamilton Island the afternoon before the fishing starts. With only a select few of us already knowing each other we soon met up with the rest of the crew down at the tavern. After a few ales a meal and Crusty finding his long lost son, we soon continued drinking back at the apartment. With half of us on an early flight out to the reef in the morning there was definatly going to be a few sore heads in the morning.

Morning soon came and off to the reef we were. With a forecast of rain and wind to 30kts we were lucky we could actually get out to the reef. After a quick breakfast and a coffee we jumped on the boats and off we were fishing. The first day fishing was full of dramas, Ken managed to drop his Seven Seas rod and Saltiga into the water, which was luckily retrieved the next day. There was also a broken Carpenter rod on one of the guys first cast.

Without writing a paragraph for every days fishing ill just summarise the whole week.

The fishing was hard work and slow at times but after alot of persistence we managed to find the fish, there was plenty of GT's within the 20 - 25kg range and often coming across bigger fish 30kg+. We also encounted alot of other species while chasing GT's, I remember fishing one spot with Kasey and Brandon the Red Bass were everywhere hooking and landing about 5 in 5 casts to myself. There was also numerous Mackerel caught upto 30kg. Also some pretty weird catches for the area, which included a Mahi Mahi and a Yellow Fin Tuna while casting at fusiliers.

One of the highlights of the week was a day where John, Cai and myself set off fishing with Damon, We travelled about 20nm to the SE to start fishing a new area where we had not been. It would have been about mid morning, Damon decided we would motor inside one of the reefs and have a look at the blue holes. What we were about to see was amazing, crystal clear water about 2 - 5mtrs deep scattered bombies and GT's upto 50kg+. We managed to hook a few of these beasts but they are just too smart swimming towards the boat we couldn’t manage to set the hooks properly but the sight we had just seen was well worth it.

On the last night it was awards time.

Ken Best managed the biggest GT of the week which was between 42 - 45kg.

Martin Exel won the prize for the week’s best angler.

Luke Peters won the prize for most improved angler.

Myself for best other capture - 30kg Mackerel.

Kasey for best fish from the mothership, numerous big spanglies and a Nurse shark

There was also numerous novelty awards which were the 'L' Shaped award which went to Cai, and also a MC award which went to John. :D

This ended up being an awesome week the company from all the guys couldn’t have been better, and much thanks to Brandon for his efforts in making this happen.

Kasey you may add anything I have missed. Please stand by for photos. Rob

Weather was finally looking a bit better over the weekend so headed out from Hedland to throw some plastics around. Ran about 15k out in pretty good conditions but the fish just werent playing the game. Threw a few different plastic, metals and Octa style jigs for nothing of real note. Think the score would have been around a dozen little Trout, 20 baby cod and a couple of Rankin. Ground looked pretty good and there was fish showing on the sounder.

Picked up a couple of Brassys on the way home from a school of Tuna busting up bait. Just popped up in front of us so threw what we had rigged at them. Good to see Brad getting his surf rod in on the action. Sure got a few looks when he popped a pylon that had a couple of guys fishing near it. Those things sure shift some water.

hey all, havent realy been bothered to do a post everytime i catch a fish so im going to do it all now in one hit. Please read and hope you enjoy :D

About a month ago a mate and i were fishing at Dawesville cut, catching plenty of herring and hoping for a school of salmon to swim past. We were getting herring every cast on our light gear using 3inch plastics  and our 9ft starlo stix were rigged up with rapala xrap's, waiting for any signs of salmon. My mate yells out "SALMON" but is quick to correct himslef to say "oh nah, buff bream," then his 1-3kg rod buckles over and i hear him yell out "oh no!" The school of "buffalo bream" were actually salmon and he hooked one on the plastic using 8lb line and 15lb leader! Suprisingly the fish didnt snap him off within 10 seconds, and thats when i decided to grab the net, but not actually believing he was going to land this fish. The salmon dragged him up and down the rocks and at times he was standing on the very tip of pointy rocks. I pretty muched laughed the whole time while he would hop from rock to rock, occasionaly thinking to myself that i might have to catch him in the net rather than the fish. He fought the fish for over 10 mins and just as he was pulling the fish towards me on a lump of swell, the fish comes off, 30cms from the net, and the 7ft bream rod whipping me in the head! At first we thought the line had given way, but after inspection we noticed the plastic was still there but the actual hook had snapped! Goatlobster said it would have been his best ever capture, a 4-5kg salmon on a 1-3kg bream rod.

Later on in the week i went back down there, but this time i hooked my salmon on the heavier gear, 9ft starlo with 18lb line with a rapala xrap. The xrap has done well this season, catching me 10 salmon, 9 off the rocks and one on the jetski :) The guy next to me hooked one while i was playing my fish, looked to be on a 35g laser, but lost it a short time after.

A couple weeks ago i went back down there, and caught hardly any herring but i did manage to jag a few mullet! Some were pushing 35cm :D

I went to bali for 10 days and missed out on what might have been the last few days to catch a salmon, ohwell, im sure i'll get some out of season stragglers this year!

Got back from bali and the next day i headed back down to the cut with my girlfriend. I caught heaps of herring and some chopper tailor on a 5g twisty and plastics. Even Claire knew the fishing was hot, and opted to trade the bitchy magazines for my light gear, and caught heaps of herring aswell. She could only cast about 8m but it didnt matter, the fish were everywhere! How could i resist, with only 3 more days of holidays left before i went back to work, i went back down there the very next day. Suprise suprise, i caught heaps more herring on plastics, around 50 in a couple of hours, then something the same size but with a little more gusto hit the placcie. I loosened the drag right up and let the fish take some line, making this fight worth my while. Brought it up to the rocks and realised it was a lone salmon trout swimming with the school of herring. In two days i went through 5 plastics, the herring were demolishing them!

Earlier this week, the weather was magic. Sunshine and the wind was hardly pushing 5knts. Hmm jetski or fishing? Ohh the hard decisions in life! Why not combine them both, Jetskishing!! Called claire up on my way home from work, told her i needed a deckie, and she was all for it! Had the ski in the water by 1pm and a 100m out of kwinana boat ramp i launched the 5g twisty out the back. All Claire had to do was steer, the idle speed of the jetski was perfect trolling speed. After 2mins and no fish i decided to try somewhere i had tried before and caught tiny salmon trout. 5mins later and we were there and out went the twisty. Wouldnt have even been a minute later and i was on, the fish was pulling the 8lb line hard! Got it in and it was a 30cm salmon trout! The fish released well and the twisty was back in the water. 10secs.. 20secs.. 30secs.. BANG!! On again with another salmon trout  and it was going harder than the last one. I was loving this! Sitting facing backwards on the ski, with the reel buzzing pulling in fish! Claire got a couple and together probably caught over 10 salmon trout. Just as we were leaving i noticed some guys from a canoe pull up on the beach and start fishing. I watched in amazement as they pulled in 40cm+ flathead!

 Went back the next day and trolled for a bit and caught 2 more salmon trout then went up on the beach and fished where i had seen the 2 guys earlier. The 3inch gulp was getting "buzzed," with small fish all over it. Tap Tap tap.... I couldnt hook up to any of the fish, but after 10mins i got a solid hit and i was on. Ended up landing 4 of the best condition silver bream ive ever seen, all in consecutive casts, about 20-25cms. Fisrt bream ive ever caught on plastics, STOKED! After that i couldnt get a touch and thought i mightve spooked all the fish. BANG! On again but this fish was pulling alot more line than the bream, and when i got it in was so excited to see a nice big flathead!! My first size flattie, and on plastics!! Claire was cruising on the ski out deep, and i called her in and grabbed the camera! She didnt care much for my capture, she probably wondered why i was so excited to see such an ugly fish.

I had been keeping a close eye on the weather forecasts and knew that wednesday would be my last chance to get back out to the spot before the weather turned ugly. I ventured out by myself, and what is usually a 5min ski ride turned out to be about 15mins. The northerly was up and blowing about 15knts, but the sound was rough as guts. 70m from the boat ramp and i was soaked, i then realised i had to try and dodge the waves rather than fly over them hehe. Got to the spot and out went the plastic behind the ski, trolled for about 3mins and got a couple more salmon trout (hopefully they will still be there in a couple months and are 40cm+, my own personal school of juvi salmon that i can go catch whenever i please). Couldnt help myself, i just had to park the ski up and fish that spot. 1st cast, BANG, ON, nope OFF! 2nd cast, BANG, ON, oh nope OFF!!!! 3rd cast...... BANGGGGG didnt even get ON! Pulled the plastic in and it had been bitten in half just under the hook!!!!!! Noooooooooooooo! im still unsure to what it might have been, the bream have kind of crushing teeth and wouldnt bite it off cleanly, and the flattie i caught had tiny teeth. Times the size of the flattie by about 10, and then maybe youve got a big enough set of teeth, and an 8kilo flathead!!! Put a new plastic on, and cast for about 10mins with only a couple of small hits. Walked up a bit further and straight away pulled in another 20cm bream and a few casts later hooked up onto another solid fish. I was thinking it was an ever bigger flattie than the day before, but turned out to be a big bream!! The fish look like theyre all in such good condition, and all were released. So excited about this new spot, hopefully in summer the tailor will run there :D

If anyone is heading down to mandurah cut for a fish, be sure to PM me. I would love to have a fish with some other members down there :D

On Tuesday a mate and I decided our time would better be spent fishing than at work given the weather on the weekend is not looking flash.

Headed out from Mindarie at about 8:30 to look for a spot we'd heard about. After sounding around for a while we found what we were looking for and the first drift produced a cracking sambo on a jig. There was another boat anchored up nearby doing well on baits so we decided to do the same. Within about 30 minutes we'd boated and successfully released a fish each - my mate's son needed a bit of help but got there in the end. Not much action on bottom species so went home empty handed, but since everyone caught a pb sambo was still a great day! The last one caught was the biggest and we estimate it would have been at least 25kg.

On another note, people on the boat near us were picking fish up by the gills and taking a fair while to get them back into the water. A couple they'd released hadn't swum off and weren't looking real flash. They did the right thing though by pulling up anchor and going over to the fish to make sure they survived. It's great to see such powerful fish swim away to fight another day.

I decided to give the jetty there a try about 10 people were there catching herring and tailor

i took the 2 kids down left the youngest home with wife

i didnt catch anything had though i put a big rod  out and got a 45 cm shark son was happy when he reeled that in

A guy was fishing asnd got lots of herring and he gave them all to me 11 herring some people are nice thats for sure

not sure what i do wrong but i wasnt catching anything at all

will put some pics soon

i also droped my phone from jetty into water

Hi crew,

Quick post from a arvo session today. Swells been down for last few days so been hanging to get wet. usual dive buddy rob has gone on holidays to thailand so a few problems to contend but it all worked out. Knocked off this morning 0700 after my last 12hr shift straight home to bed - up at 1130 and the weather looked choice. what to do... ring SPOOLED! haha the man got outta lunch with the ladies and joined me for a session. quick gather of gear and into it. Spooled bought some gear incase water was a tad cold which it was - 17.3 degree (no worries for the riffe suit tho) and the water was sooooooo clear..

first stop seen spooled into a nice little sambo on plastic. promised so much but not alot delivered tho - one hail mary at a decent parroty and totally fu*ked a shot on a good baldie. Mean time Spooled was defending his ground against a large seal that decided his Coldies looked tempting - bored of that it tried to join a paddle boarder catching a few waves! according to the big fella the poor guy was literally attempting to swat the seal away from joining him on his board! hahaha

moved out deeper and found a miiiiiiiiint looking piece of ground - dropped from 6m down to 14m and couldnt believe i didnt see anything. had a good look around for 45mins joined by 2 thumper sambos in the 20kg plus class which was nice but alas no dhus baldies or trout to be seen..

Time was wearing on and another couple of quick stops proved fruitless til we decided to try once more in the first spot of the day before calling it quits in the hope of another shot at the baldie or possible dhu.

Vis had taken a turn for the worst and a very good parroty lived to tell the tale after i couldnt take the safety off on one dive. Parrotys have been a nemisis of mine for awhile and it was beginning to take that familiar show. Saw another good parrot and swarms of large buffies but the vis was crap and decided to head home.

Then i saw the head of a realllly good parrot crusing in oblivious to me 9m above.... quick breath up , slow quiet drop and game set match...

measured 80cms and spooled and i both call it for 9kgs... a very solid fish and the nemisis no more!

Quick call to my sister on Sunday secured her better half as deckie bitch for a gentleman's hours start on Monday. Plan was to scout some new ground around some promising marks from a while ago, told Ben no bait its jigs and plastics.

Bit of wind in the morning had a quickish drift so on went a Shab in pilch for the first marks of the day in 30m which produced a little baldie for me.

Was fairly slow going in the morning but it was really starting to glass off so we headed out further to some marks that have lots little lumps and ledges dotted around. I picked a nice lizard that went 65cm on the lucanus that was sitting out the back, think I practically dropped the jig right on his head! Ben had snuck some squid aboard and was jack of the jigs so he sent down some tentacles and pulled a ripper 60cm KG on deck. He had a smile that wouldn't be wiped with a hammer, should of confiscated the fish for such sneakiness.

Really glassed off at the end of the day, perfect conditions and got what I came for in new marks. Lots of smallish pinks and a dhuie came on and was sent back down on the weight. The action started to heat up as the sun was dipping and we lost a few unseens on the light gear but managed a decent baldie myself with Ben bringing up a lovely looking queenie.

Can't wait to get out there on a southerly drift

Just got back from Broome this arvo after a few days out of the winter weather of Perth.

Hang on... wait...

Unseasonal rain? Yeah just our luck! 3 out of 5 days rained. Monday absolutely pi**ed down all day and night, flooding the town and forcing the closure of half the restaurants. Took a trip out to Willie Creek and jesus that road gets hairy in bad weather.

As far as the fishing goes, I hammered the crap out of the town beaches, entrance pt, willie and crab creeks with all sorts of lures, on both tide turns, for one bloody catfish... on squid... on my girlfriend's rod. On the last cast at willie creek hooked a big salmon but it threw the hooks. Maybe the weather shut things down... but I think maybe I was just trying too hard.

Oh well at least 2 days were beautiful weather.

Well, I haven't been fishing since the Exmouth comp and with a skin full of wine on Friday night over at Greg's place (the next door neighbour's, who was heading off in the morning to Shark Bay to fish for a week....bastard! )  I asked my new neighbour Mark from across the road, who was joining us for a drink, if he would like to go fishing on Sunday.

Mark has NEVER been fishing in his life, let alone on a boat, so it promised to be an interesting day.

I organised a 7-00am start at my place (1 degree celcius was forecast) I had the boat packed and ready to go, so off we trecked to the ramp. We arrived at Mindarie and I proceeded to give Mark the drill on what to do to launch. All good and we had the boat heading out in no time.

The weather was mint, and with a slight chop we headed to my whiting grounds as I had promised Mark's missus that I would definaitly get Mark onto some fish. (A Dhuie I couldn't guarantee, but I could at least guarantee a feed).

I rigged up the rods and showed mark how to bait his hooks and gave a quick lesson on what to do, how to strike, when to strike and how to pump and wind etc. This after all was the kindergarten of fishing, where gumby could catch a fish, but it was an important learning curve before gettinga  fish of a lifetime on and possibly losing it.

True to form Mark grasped the strike, and retreive aspects very quickly and before you know it first drop and he had officially caught his first ever fish.

Happy as Larry for the photo, then I let him know the boat rule of first fish over the side has to go back, no matter what it is, just so we can appease the fish gods. With the smile now wiped from his face he released the fish and rebaited. Back down and before you know it he was pulling them in one and two after the other. We stayed for about an hour and fine tuned his technique before heading off to find bigger fare.

First spot and first drop with the larger gear and Mark was on again. A good fight and a lovely little Queenie was landed before release. Surely this was a good sign and with it being early in the day we had plenty of options to try for something bigger and better.

Despite not having his "sea legs" and having to fish from sitting on the esky, Mark was proving to be a very quick learner. A few drifts later and he was on again. This time a different fight but it had him actually standing up and bracing hmself against the side of the boat whilst he fought the fish. It was so funny to see how he was taking a wind of the reel then grabbing the hand rail to steady himself before turning the reel again. Still not confident on his feet in a bit of choppy sea. Anyway true to form he didnt give up and landed this beauty of a Harlequin.

Mark is a chef by trade and as he chatted about the fish and how he would prepare it etc it had my mouth watering just thinking about it.

Mark was still unsure on his feet and in fact when he went to the other side of the boat at one stage to have a pee, on letting go of the grab rail to zip up his fly, he lost balance and went head over heels backwards smashing into the back of my legs. Hillarious at the time but lucky it didn't end up in tears.

We moved around a bit from lump to lump but didn't stray too far from a patch I have in the 40's. With a few nice fish landed by myself including a couple of sargeant bakers which I immediately filletted for bait, we headed to one of my unamed (just a number) spots. "OK Mark this is one when we can name the spot after you if you get a good fish, so be on your game". Down he drops and "WHAM!" he nearly gets pulled over the side. "Whoah!!" he cried as he settled in to the fight. sure enough the fight subsided a bit and I called if for a dhuie. "Go slow from here" I said, and Mark took the advice onboard, slowing his retrieve and letting the fish have its head if it dove down a bit.

Within a minute or two the tell tale silver shape materialised from the depths and good old Mark had his first ever Dhuie on his first ever fishing trip. What a champ.

Whilst it wasn't a big mama, it was a respectable 60cm and destined for the dinner table as it rounded out our bag limit for the day.

We had fun with some other fish and ended the day at the whiting patch to make sure we had a good feed between us.

We ended up bagging out on cat 1 and released, several pinkies, dhuies and a queenie. About 30 plump sandies and a big flattie topped it off. Mark scrubbed and polished the boat and helped with the filleting. All in all a top day on the water with a great bloke, who thoroughly enjoyed his first day ever fishing.

The pressure is now on for me to get him a 10kg plus Dhuie after he saw a few pics I have in the house.

G'Day all I know this is a long shot but some where between getting off the boat., loading it on the trailer & cleaning it down in the bays at point peron my Wallet seems to have fallen out of my pocket. Not much cash in it just the cards are a pain in the ass. Free day out on th eboat if someone returns it.

cheers Jason

no borders!! the contents not fishing, but does it matter??

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With the forecast at 20+ knots yesterday morning Jeffo (Deepwater) was rather suprised that I'd given him a bell saying it was a goer.  We decided to set the leave time for around 12pm as there were a few other small errands we had to do as the boat had just had a near on complete refit.

Anyway, to the fishing, we got out to the spot around 1.30 to a decent 6-10knot northerly which we knew was going to drop as the afternoon wore on.  The weather didn't really worry us that much as we were just happy to be giving the boat a good run and having the confidence in the old girl to get us out there and back in safely.  Having said that, when we got to our new spot and saw the sounder all lit up, we knew it was about to be a goood fishing trip.  First 2 drops resulted in 3 goldband and 1 pearl perch, the next 5 drops resulted in 5 goldband and our baglimit.  (1 less goldie in the bag photo as it was eaten last night)

Deciding to move from the deepwater we put out a spread of Richters and trolled into our shallower ground and with the conditions becoming near on glassy, we were feeling rather confident.  After an hour or so Jeff mentioned that we were about 50m from this new spot he had found and that if there was ever going to be a time where we would get a strike, this was it.  As happens on a good fishing day, bang, on, wahoo jumps across the spread and good bye lure.  Taking that as an omen, we pulled in the lures, dropped to the bottom and were smashed by spanglies.  By this time the current was starting to rip and we were moving through some awesome ground, we would get one opportunity to strike before the bait was gone.  On the 4th drift I was monstered by something and ended up devo, but luckily Jeffro turned it around by bringing up a decent red.  After that we did a few more drifts and ended up releasing a few spango's for fun.  We then headed back to the ramp in amongst the whales and manta rays and managed to beat the queue of ramp boggers, which I was most happy about as I was already running late for dinner engagements.

Deciding to fillet the fish this morning we went down to the tables to see a few envious faces, but the funniest part is young Alex and his ability to know where the fish are.  Hassling dad out about having to fish at the filleting tables and the 'dad, the boat ramp is soooo much better', so dad gave in and said you can have a few casts at the ramp.  Well, as it would be, 2nd cast Alex gets smashed up nearly at his feet and landed this solid little marina fish and turned around later saying, told ya dad, I 'donged' it.  Classic!

Cheers,

Adam

just wondering if any of you guys have fished the moore river recently? where are the bream? what sort of lures/plastics have been successful?

cheers

Yeah it was bloody cold Saturday morning.  First to launch at Mindarie and a first time for me for a long time at this ramp.  Myself and two mates launched at 5am and anchored out early for a few snapper.

6 pinkies were caught by Craig (all 35-40cm), I lost four rigs (what a start to the day), Jimmy got a ray and that was it for our pre sunrise session. 

A cold start for the day, but it was great to be on the water.

Sunrise;

Jimmy loaded up;

Out on the coral and a little warmer later in the day, we caught 3 small dhuies and a few breaksea (all released). 

Craig got a nice breaksea which was quickly dispatched.  This was Craigs first fish for many years.

Sounding around I found some nice coral ground and set the drift.  The result, one happy fisho with a 69cm Baldie.

Jimmy bagged a 55cm Dhuie and Craig got another 2kg plus breaksea.

A small shark also made it to the esky and that was us for the day.

Just got back from dinner - Jimmy made up a killer Burmese Shark curry and I deep fried a black bum, oh and some pan fired dhuie aswell....ohh full as!

Cheers Pete

Don't know if this is normal but did anyone else see the whale playing around on 5 fathom today. It was in 10-15m of water and was mainly lying on its back messing around. It also jumped right out of the water, quite impressive. We were bottom bouncing and could hear this strange noise. The other two I was fishing with said it sounded like a whale and I laughed it off and said "as if", and sure enough, it was. We got pretty close, probably about 20m away, it didn't care one bit. I have some video footage, took it on my phone, don't know how good it is, will have a look and if it's watchable I'll post something up.

The fishing wasn't the best, very slow, we caught a 54cm Dhui and 44cm Breaksea in 12m of water.

After taking an invite to fish with Steve231 and pal John aka Dhudog, we met up @ his place and headed out for a fish. The morning was crazy cold, I had to stop at the servo to wash the ice off my windscreen, because windscreen wiper nozzles just couldn't put out enough water at t once, and it was refreezing!

We loaded up Steve's Trophy Pro, the launch was fine, but about half way to our destination, the GPS antenna just stopped working. Ever seen that warning on your plotter saying "GPS module not responding"? I have, its pretty unsettling. After a quick chat about what to do, we transferred points from the gps/sounder to my iphone, took a bearing and kept going.

Now, the problem with the iphone was that GPS chews battery life and I didn't have a car charger with me! Steve and John hatched a good plan, we found the lump to fish as best we could on the iphone, then pinpointed it with the sounder, and then dropped a marker buoy on the spot, running our drifts against that.

The fishing was a little slow on bait to start with, and even slower on jig. The drift in the morning was a little fast, so I had resorted to octa, but later in the arvo the drift slowed right down and it was back to jigs.

There were some crazy catches including;

• A Steve cops a bite off, only for John to catch a shark 5min later and we get the hook back.
• Two sharks tail hooked
• A Shark on jig (thankfully it chewed through the kevlar assist while we were wondering how to get rid of it and not lose the jig.)
• A nice baldy by Steve
• Really big blackarse by John
• A few skippy, nanny and a swallowtail.
• Zomg so so many sgt bakers on jig!
• One lonely Tuna out of a bust up. Still a little unsure what it was, the meat seems pinker than SBT, not really very yellow fins, could be bigeye ... I didn't check for tail notch though.

Saving the best to last though, was we all hooked and landed a dhufish each. Even more amazing was that all hookups were within 2min, so we just released the freshest. I've put up a pic of mine which was a PB and on jig too!

The marker buoy really saved the day, on the iphone alone the battery would be completely flat and we would be back at home mowing the lawn or some other weekend chores! Steve and John may have a few more pics!

PS: Andy Mac, thats one horizon we're not going to fix in photoshop!