Hi Crew,

Not a specific report as such, but just a whats biting and been happening around the place.  Went out today and had a bit of a troll around for some dollies, plenty of weed and current, but no love unfortunately.   The surface has been pretty quiet of late and there hasn't been a lot of marlin reports around, mainly because we haven't really had the weather to head wide.  The back of the reef on the westside has pretty much been a no-go zone since the new year with very few good days going.  I've heard a few reports from the inside, some good painted crays in the shallows up near the accesses and last week some donkey GT's were in around Trisel.

Theres been plenty of life in the gulf, heaps of meter long queenies up on Bundegi flats with livies being the best.  Theres been quite a few queenies along the beaches as well (as Deepwater showed this week)  When launching from bundegi this morning there were 2kg GT's smashing up oooodles of hardyheads, when we got back 4 hours later they were still there and easy to sight cast to in less than a meter of water.

The marina has been fishing well for jacks (apart from the prick that went spearing in there and cleaned out one of the rock walls) some good fish coming on the right tides.  A work mate has been fishing it hard lately and got spooled on 2kg by a 15kg+ GT last week and local Bluewater reports suggest its not uncommon at the moment.  Another interesting find was the same mate on the weekend had his bait chased into the rocks by a 20kg black jew, not unheard of in Exxy, but definitely uncommon.  Along the shores of the gulf the yellowfin whiting have been thick if you can be bothered filleting lots for little reward, still a very easy feed though.

The tides have started picking up this week which has slowed the diving down a bit.  I went twice last week after work and managed a few small bluies and trout in great vis and plenty about which is promising, hopefully I'll be able to get out the next set of neaps for another look.  A mate said he also managed to get 6 squid the other day, but had to work hard for them so I would guess that the waters still a bit too warm.

I have to say its the quietest I've seen the longtail tuna in ages, they just seem to have disappeared, mind you, I haven't been chasing them regularly.  Heaps and heaps of the small tuna around, but not much chasing them.  Another random catch was a monster sailfish down at Schofield shoals and quite a few spaniards down around the islands.  If your up here and blown out fishing wide, then heading down the bottom if you get good tides is more than likely worth a shot!

Cheers,

Adam

just wondering if anyone has been down there lately was going to go tonight? soak a mulla bait for a few hours

Been a member for a while now n never posted a report so figured this was a good night to start.

Being the last day before I go back for yet another year of uni, i thought id make the most of it and head out for a solo fish. Scouted out my local beaches and trigg point was looking good, but when i went back to fish at 7:30 the gutter i planned on fishing was still full of surfies. Waited around for 15 mins before deciding to head to my regular sharking spot. Having picked up some some of the nicest mulies I've ever seen from Oceanside the week before i thought id let the sharks be for a while and try for some tailor. Within ten seconds of the first mulie hitting the water I had a solid bite, I missed that one and brought in half a mulie. second cast hooked up and brought in a nice 43cm tailor. This went on for about half an hour landing four decent size tailor as well as a few small snook which went back, before the tailor dissapeared. The biggest tailor went 48cm and a some that were lost felt a lot heavier, but i guess the ones that get away are always bigger

So having caught a feed of tailor and knowing how many sharks come by that area i swapped rods and rigged up a tailor head to slide out deep on a non return clip while i cleaned up tomorrows dinner. After 20 mins the fish were cleaned and I was ready to head home, with the tailor head un-touched. Just as I was bringing in the first head ready to pack up my old man came down, which meant another fish head out as bait and another beer, now with my old man as a drinking partner.

With a smaller head out this time i thought my chances were good, sure enough about 15 mins later my rod doubles over and my reel screames!! I run over and grab the rob, striking straight away and setting the hook.... Feeling the solid pull and watching line dissapear from my reel i knew i was on. It took about 5 seconds to realise it was a ray.... and maybe another 15 to realise it as one of the resident "unstopables". While I have enjoyed catching large rays recently and with an on going challengs between a few of the regulars at that spot to land the biggest ray I was still dissapointed it wasnt a shark. I was even more dissapointed when the thing took about 300m of line then dropped behind the reef and busted me off 

All in all a nice night fishing, very different to my usual 6 hour stints with big baits out waiting for a beast of a shark to swim by. Lookin forward to the day one of the guys with gear heavier than mine lands one of these "unstopable" rays though. have had little problem with 45kg rays so excited to see how big these guys are. It'll probably have about 6 of my rigs in its mouth lol...

Hope the photos and everything come out ok 

Cheers,

Adam

Hey All Went out on spinners charters yesterday for the first time, down here in Albany.

My target fish for the day was nannygai, and I got one!!! Yay!

I caught a baby one first, and then about 20 minutes later caught the big one!

On my way to my usual fishing spot today, i stopped in at BCF to buy myself an anchor for the jetski and a rapala x-rap. Also bought myself a popper, a Starlo Pro skipping prawn surface lure, designed for catching bream. After 5mins of casting the rapala with no luck, i decided to throw on the popper to have a look at the action it made on the water. After the first cast i knew i was going to catch a fish on this lure, it blooped perfectly and swam naturally, although i was a bit worried at how small the trebbles were. A minute later a school of around 50 salmon hit the surface 5-10m infront of me, with small bait fish fleeing in all directions. The popper landed right in the middle of all the comotion and after a few twitches 3 or 4 salmon smashed in on the top and i was on. landed the fish after a few minutes and chucked it straight in the bucket. 10mins later the school was back and on my second cast i was hooked onto another. this fish uncharacteristically pulled 15m of line on its first run and swam straight to the bottom, then the fish was gone. the salmon had straightend the hooks on both trebbles!! Going back tomorrow, hopefully will have some more pics to upload :D

This is long overdue due to my laziness and my tendency to procrastinate. LOL! Anyway, went to Busselton jetty last thursday with a three of my mates, two of which were inexperienced, and it was a really good night. When we got there at about 11pm, the water was firing with skippies. So we just dropped our rods and caught a few just sized skippies, with a couple ones close to 30cm. one of the biggest ones was caught by a girl who came with us out of boredom and her 1st time fishing. Could see that she was rather awkward with her rod. However, for a first timer, she caught 2 skippies and a rather large blue manna on hook! which was a really good job I must say. So amongst the skippies, we also caught a couple of yellowtails and these served as liveys. We had 2 big rods out, mine on a bottom rig and my mate's on a balloon ( it was the right wind that night). After quite some time, my bottom rig went off. I immediately hit my big rod and fought for a while, managed to bring it in somewhat close but it decided to spit the yellowtail out and swim off. After looking at the bait, I concluded that it was a mulloway that I lost. I was disappointed cos I striked at it too early, yet stoked as it was my first mulla hook up. So I put another yellowtail livey out but all was quiet until near dawn, the line peeled again. This time, I waited for the second run after it stopped but it didn't run anymore. Reeled it back and my livey was chomped into half. A really clean cut it was. All the time, the balloon was really quiet. And I nearly lost my berkley rod cos my inexperienced friend just left my rod on the floor without loosening the drag and a skippy took it and almost dragged the whole thing into the water. Toward dawn, I saw a mulloway swam out from under the platform we were on and out into the ocean. Then my experienced fisho and I switched to metal slices and I brought in my first garfish on slice, and my friend brought in a small barracuda. Then he complained that his barracuda curse followed him from Singapore to Perth. 

My other mate then caught his first big thing on a big rod. We are proud of him. We de-barbed the ray and released it.

All in all, it was a good night out fishing.

(sorry, will post the photos later) =p 

Headed out in the dinghy today with the expectation of some nice weather, and we weren’t disappointed with a four hour glass off. We headed out to mewstone first to try our luck on the tailor and found they were on the bite, I landed 5 in 10 minutes on SP’s before the bite shut down and we decided to head out in search of some table fish.

After sounding around for a good half hour we decided to stop and fish a nice lump which produced thousands of little flathead which became very frustrating, after a good hour we decided to head in a little onto a large reef I found, as soon as we arrived we saw an abundance of fish life. We stopped and started drifting the reef when a school of bait fish surfaced, this school was at least 50sqm and the fish were breaking the surface which made it look like it was raining. We hooked a few skippy when we noticed a school of Spanish mackerel, this school consisted of around 15 fish most being around the 20kg mark. Shaking i tried tying a line in time however they took off and were not seen again. We then decided to head in a little and try for some squid, we quickly caught 7 and drove home before the breeze came in.

The next few pics are just stills from a pretty crap video but you can see the outline of a few of the mackerel

Hey guys, im heading up to Moore river this weekend and will be there Fri and Sat night. Has any1 heard any reports from around there recently???? Will be mainly beach fishing but dont mind flicking around in the river too and i also have a 4x4 so can head up the beach. Thanx

Hi There,

Went crabbing with my brother in Mandurah in the estuary -  after 1.5hrs in the water dropping 6 nets - we got 13 crabs which were sized - some of them were just size, but others were quite a bit over - it was rough as guts on the water and the wind was blowing quite badly - we probably would have got our limit of 20 had we stayed out for longer.

One thing that we found was that the yellow markers were far more visible than other markers in the choppy water (with the worst being the white ones which blended in withe the chop). We also found that there were heaps and heaps of blowies and that they were attacking the bait. In some of the nets I have those black baskets which we put trumpeters in for bait cut in half, and in the others on the bait clips I put chicken wings.

 Was a good time out but would probably go in better weather next time. I also tried for the first time putting the crabs in an ice/water slush and found that the crabs went to 'sleep' and were easier to handle, and were also kept better for the trip home to perth.

Got this report in from my mate AndyLoops:

Where to start! We had a blinder of a day last Friday out of Nelson Bay. Joined a charter on a boat called Calypso with Captn Tim Dean and Muzz (these guys have Champion Boat at the Port Stephens Interclub the last 4 years and one of the most successful running out of Port) we were hopeful as most boats been getting 4 or 5 a day in the week leading up to Friday.

Anyway I didnt even bring a camera as I was flying solo but there was a guy joining the crew who writes for a gamefishing mag in British Columbia.. As a result I was very lucky to be able to produce these two pics! (I was stoked when he sent them to me as the fishwrecked logo is nicely presented - You and I had joked about this over a year ago!)

The first pic is a small black about 60kg - we picked him up first line in the water at 9.05am and had him to the boat quicktime. First Marlin and first black for me so I was stoked! That fish had been a long
time in the making! Anyway, the second photo was my third fish for the day - a better Stripey of about
110kg - unfortunately cant see him as the skipper went a bit nuts on the reverse and straight into a nice bit of eastern australian current generated chop! Muzz got the leader and we let him go. The guy that took the pics reckons that water shot is going to be a full pager in the magazine article!

Anyway - little did we know that first little black greyhound was the start of 2 hours of fishing MADNESS. From 9.15 to 11.30pm we raised 14 fish and had multiple double hookups (3 times double hookups and we only lost 1 of the 6 fish..!) with 11 fish to the boat from 12 strikes. We were exclusively skipping Bonito around bait balls 20-40m on the sounder and pitching the odd Slimie mackeral to a fussy fish.

Some highlights from the day include:

* Pulling a holographic shoal teaser to the back of the boat only to have a lit up striped Marlin swim up to it and whack it with its bill - right in front of me!!!
* Tracing a +100kg striped Marlin at the back of the boat while the fish still really green - I was $hitting myself - this thing was bigger than me and was tail walking in the prop wash!!! I reached out and the leader popped as soon as the glove made contact - went off like a rifle and I was half relieved...!
* Watching a guy nail two big striped Marlin without the use of his legs wheelchair bound.. He went to work with a bent but stick on 80! Champion effort.
* Cant speak highly enough of Calypso. Those guys are the best over here and I learned so much just watching the deckie all morning.

Anyway this is only the start of the season as we have a couple months to go yet. I will be back up there all March.

Mate - I am heading here in April http://www.goldeneaglefiji.com/ for 5 days of liveaboard action on the deep seamounts.... Primarily chasing monster dogtooth tuna but wouldn't mind a Blue haha. Will be packing the
fishwrecked shirts for that one as well :-) Leaving in 6 weeks! Happy Days. :)

Hey folks,

The Surfcasting and Angling Club of WA did a Hill River run over the weekend as I have a mate in the club thought I would head up yesterday to join them for a fish. Friday's report before my arrival was a few herring, patchy tailor and a couple of whiting. I think I heard there was one 2.4kg tailor taken but conditions were pretty average due to the breeze.

With this in mind, I hit up Cervantes jetty for a look when I arrived yesterday arvo. Bagged out on herring within about an hour - they were thick as. Also had a bit of help from a local (John) who helped fill the bucket. Went up to Hill River to meet the guys who were catching some black bream in the river - but again wind was keeping most rods out of the water. Dropped off some herring to keep them happy and decided to make Cervantes my spot for the evening.

Caught a few live herring and put one out on a balloon. After about an hour I had a good run and it was my first ever shark - a white tip reefy. Unfortunately it wrapped around the ladder of the jetty and took off on me, snapping the braid. Mate reckons it would have gone about 1.2 - 1.3m but I didn't get a decent look. It pulled hard though, even on the big gear (120lb braid, OF95 reel and big OzFlex rod!).

All went quiet after that so started baitcasting. Got snagged, or at least I thought I did - but I actually had a reasonable occy on the end that had taken me back into the reef. Occy was cooked and pickled this arvo (another first for me). Bloody yum. Although it seems to be a fine art cooking them...

Shortly after, another run on the big rod. Another reef shark - this one either a black tip or maybe a spinner - I'm still trying to ID. I do have a pic that I will post later but it is only with my phone as the camera batteries died at the crucial moment! This one was 85cm so I kept it for a feed. Feisty little bugger, but just happy to get it on the jetty given I didn't have a gaff! Enjoyed a fillet for lunch today - very tasty!

Another reef shark probably 30 mins later...this one a bit bigger maybe 1.1 - 1.2m. Fought well, and with help from a local hauled it out of the water again without the use of a gaff. Didn't get a pic unfortunately as I was running on adrenaline and it was returned to the water to swim again.

Baitcasting for tailor after dark I got into the sharks twice more - and lost both times as I was on really light gear.

A few lads joined me from the club after dark as the herring were still jumping at 11pm when we left...and probably still going now.

All told I came home with a bag of herring, reasonable occy and nice shark - a very happy man.

All sharks caught on a live herring ballooning off the NW corner. Apparantly 5ft hammerhead landed on Friday night on the jetty - interesting as the locals there reckon sharks are pretty rare on the service jetty.

Anyway, great day out for me. Lots of firsts and after half a dozen trips up that way it was nice to finally get into something bigger!

Cheers,

Rob

I'm heading out tomorrow afternoon/night to fish the hillarys north wall with a mate and was wondering how it has been fishing lately?

.. then you should go to the south side of the dawesville channel, directly opposite the water from the jolly frog. i went there last night, caught herring every cast using diced coral prawn. also caught 6 tailor a few cms undersize on same bait/rig, 2 squid and a cobbler. fish came on the bite at seven o'clock on an incoming tide with the southerlies blowing striaght over your shoulder.

Hi There,

Went fishing yesterday with Chan,and his Mrs, we started at the South Mole but it was blowing a gale so we sought refuge among the rocks of the North Mole.

We got there at about 6pm and started fishing for light stuff whilst Chan was rigging up his rods for the bigger stuff. We caught a few whiting and then Chan put one out as a live bait. All went quiet for a bit and then it was on again!

Chan had a couple of big bites and runs on the heavier gear, and at 9:30pm we had probably 10 whiting, 4 herring, 1 skippy. I then had to leave, as I got halfway home i got a txt to say that he had caught a 43cm Tailor. I hear that from then until 3.30am the whiting did not stop biting and the tailor were on the bite as well.

 Was a great night out fishing.

Dannyg

Went for a fish down at Long Point with a mate this arvo. Not a great deal happening down there. Fished from the south side of the point and finished with a couple of herring and a sand whiting. The choppers came on the bite around 7pm but it clouded over within a few minutes and went dead straight afterwards. So the tailor are still there - but judging by the bites very small.

Cervantes again on Saturday to fill the fridge with herring... :o)

Anyone tried these areas recently looking to take the brother in law out this weekend, to score a feed of bluey's.

Any help where the crabs are at the moment would be greatly appreciated may even drop you in  a feed if we bag out.

After not catching one size crab at Busselton over Xmas with the brother in law I am hoping to make ammends.

Oy maybe he is just bad luck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good weather poor fish

Took a mate out on Sunday for a crab down at Mandurah.
Been a while since I've been but soon got into the swing of things.
Got our quota of + size blues a threw back a shite load of undersize.

Good to see fisheries doing their job, pulled up along side us and checked
every crab and who has a skippers ticket. All good and have a nice day!!! (-;

Bit of excitement when putting the boat in though!
Came back down to the jetty after parking the car to the sounds of a poor little
kid screaming his box off. The group in front made up of the grandparents and some
lil sprogs were just about to set off when a lure got embedded into the kids foot.
My mate was over already to see what was going on so I went and had a gander.
Poor lad was in stress mode as it was a decent size treble that was set deeply
in the top of his foot.
Grandpa was not impressed so I picked the kid up and carried him back to their
car, all the while he's screaming "I don't want to die, I'm going to die, call mummy grandma".
Reassured him that it happens to the best of us and he'll have a tale to tell to his mates
when he gets back to school! Poor lil bugger!

Anyway a coupla pics of the meaty sweet blues . . .I forgot just how good it was to feast on these suckers...mmmm

Headed out Sunday morning for a fish, left woddys at 8 and hit the back of 5 fathom, the wind was far from perfect with a 10ish knot south wester blowing first thing, we fished the five for an hour or so and landed a nice BB, foxy, a small sambo and skippy.

With the wind not dropping we decided to head in closer in search of more Skippy however they weren’t on the bite and decided to hit Mewstone before heading home. The fish were on the bite in a big way with the first tailor coming in the first cast. We anchored and fished the reef using SP’s and the tailor didn’t disappoint with 15+ landed and many bust offs, and a bloody big sambo that didn’t mind our tailor either. The biggest fish going 64cm and the smallest being 50cm and all were caught on 10lb.

Grandads Tailor

Ollies tailor

With the weather being so good over the weekend, its hard to fit the rest of your life around going out fishing. Today the plan was a fish in the morning and then be at Kings Park for a family bbq at midday. Bit of a rush trip, but you got to do what you can, to get your fishing fix !

Hit the  Hillarys ramp at 6am. Fair few boats out already, but there wasnt any line up at the ramp. Pushed old mate traily into the drink, and then headed out 13 miles to our Kg spot. Took a good 75mins to get out there, with 10kn sw winds, and inconsistant swells coming from all directions. First few drifts were pretty quiet, with Claire getting 1 undersize dhui.

We then had to leave our spot, and put in a few dummy drifts, as for some reason every boat starts to beline straight towards you for some funny reason. Managed to shake the pingers and put in a few more drifts. With a bit of fresh cuttlefish tenticle from the other day on my rig, it was to much to resist for one Mr king george. It went 54cm, and was the fattest bugger i have ever caught.  The clocked turned nine and we were out of there, with the wind pushing us home, the trip back to the ramp only took 50 mins. Great day on the water, Claire was a bit quiet today for some reason!

Hi Guys, new to this forum so this is my first post. Fished off a beach up at Yanchep yersterday afternoon / evening and if you enjoy catching sharks (bronzies) and rays (eagles / blacks) then there are plenty there at the moment. Bronzies were all between 15 and 20kgs. Left them still biting at 8.30pm with all returned live to the water. Slimy mackeral worked the best for bait.

Hi There,

Went to South Mole - South side of the wall - at 5:30pm and stayed there until 8:30pm-  Didn't see any tailor that anyone caught, but there were plenty of other fish around. I was fishing off the bottom with prawns and caught 6 good sized whiting, 3 skippy approx 25-28cm a heap of grunter (good for crab bait) and a few butterfish.

 All in all a pleasant night out fishing.

Dannyg

Howdy there! Late start this morning, got to the ramp at 7am, about 40 trailers in the carpark. Headed straight out to the mid 40s. The ride out there was a bit sloppy, with a 15kn easterly . Arrived at our spot around 8am, and the fish seem to stay on the bite till about 10am, then all went quiet. We managed to catch a feed.

Claire clocked in with nice blackarse and a nice 57cm flathead. I managed to catch another big cuttlefish, on my bottom bashing rig, using squid for bait! I also dropped a bloody big fish at the start of the day, but we wont be mentioning that now will we.

Stopped at the 32m mark out front of scabs on the way home, and picked up a nice feed of whiting, which seem to be very plump at the moment.

Great day on the water...with the weekend still to come!

There aren't any haha!!! Left early this morning we were the only boat out there for an hour. Another boat came along and tried live herring aswell nothing. Nothing on the sounder either. Jigged for a good hour and a half, trying different jigs sizes/colours. Ended up with one 2kg on a 420gr jig and lost one other. Thought id give you guys the heads up for tomorrow. Goodluck to all:)

went to moore river chasing taylor wednesday to windy fished thursday morning hooked 7kg pink snapper of beach very happy

Mandurah

I was there on Australia Day morning, picked up a few skippy, a trumpeter, a couple of tarwhine and a decent sized octopus casting weighted bluebait on gangs off the north wall. I also hooked up on something big, it spooled my 3 kg outfit in no time, not sure wat it was! Has anyone had any luck there since then? I was going to head out during the week

Went crabbing today clse to G.I. Only turned up 8 crabs, but we nailed 12 squid in half an hour, which i thought was good for this time of year, sorry no pics but yall know what crabs and squid look like.

We have just returned from a very relaxing 10 day family holiday staying at Rest Point Walpole. After a hot trip down there (43 degrees in Donnybrook when we thought about stopping to let the tin lids have a play on the great playground there) we unpacked and set up the tent before preparing the boat in anticipation of a nice weather the next day. Woke to a light south easterly wind, not ideal but as it was the first day we decided to head out through the mouth for a look. Once out it wasn’t too bad so headed out towards Goose Island and drifted a couple of lumps we picked up on the sounder without luck. We ended up doing quite a few miles plotting a few more likely spots but not picking up anything of note apart from a 6kg queen snapper and a blackass which were consumed that night.

It then rained and blew for the next 24 hrs, time to spend with the kids. We decided to go chasing a feed of marron, drove to our spot and hiked into the river through the bush. It was a spot I have been going to for many years, and upon arriving you could see there had been fishers there recently.   It was hard work but we managed a bag of ten marron between the two of us, not monsters but some nice size ones. Fresh warm marron with a little vinegar and pepper, oh so nice.

 We woke the next day at 7am to very light winds so it was decided to head outside for another fish. Out of the mouth we were greeted with 1 1/2m swell and no seas. We headed towards Rams head, stopping about 2/3 the way on a lump I had plotted last Easter but not fished. As I was setting the drift I lost my sounder gps combo, while trying to sort this out Dan landed a fox fish. It turned out to be a power problem, easily sorted. Started another drift and Dan was on again, this time a nice Nanigi, then next drop a 7kg duie, I still hadn’t had a touch. After this drift I decided to leave the spot, after all I will be back down there at easter time. Found another lump a few hundred meters away and picked up more fox fish, breaksea and a couple of queenies, all this before 830. Things then went very quiet, fished and explored for new ground for the next 5 hrs with only a double header of large leatheries, just size pinky and another nanigi to show for our time.  It was a great day out on the water and a few feed for the two families made the wives happy.

Saturday was a day for the girls to go to denmark for day out, so what do two blokes and for girls (2 4yrs old and 2 2yrs) do, go out fishing in the inlet of course. Did a spot of spinning for herring, lots of strikes but when you have 4yr old in control you loose way more than you land, stopping for a chat and a look over the side doesn’t help. Anyway they all had great fun and managed to land a herring each without any assistance at all. The delight in their eyes when they got the small herring into the boat was worth a million dollars. The herring were cooked up for pre dinner nibbles for the kids.

The next few days were spent doing family things (too windy for outside fishing) like treetop walks, boat trips up the Frankland River and the likes. We stayed on in Walpole for an extra couple of days after Dan and family left with the hope of the wind dropping again, no luck there. I decided to go marroning again but this time with the wife and kids, no bush bashing this time. Drove into a spot that I used to go to many years ago, there was a full on camp set up there, tent, lights, cooker the works. There was however no one around and no vehicle about. I started off wandering down the river a way to set my nets but then thought hell I here to marron with the family so carried my nets back to the river crossing and set them all around here, the furtherest net 30 meters from the car. The kids could come with me to all but two of the nets and when you are talking a 4 and 2 year old you know what I mean when I say it was easy going. So in the 2 hours before we had to head back to the caravan park for lunch and an afternoon nap I had 9 marron in the bag. 

  Woke the next day to be greeted by light wind and blue skies but alas it was pack up day and time to head home. A great break from the mundane life of work, the kids had a ball spotting kangaroos and rabbits around the camp along with the resident stingrays which they saw every day and generally running amuck. Now I am just dreading Monday when it’s back to the grindstone of work and I start counting down to Easter when we are back down there again. 

finally got to head ova to the back of garden island tonight after charming a naval cop into taking me with him and it was everything i had hoped for. nice deep gutter surrounded by reef with an opening at the end, beauty. one of the deepest beaches i have ever fished it was all quiet until the sun went down then it was ON!!!

for me new mate with chopper tailor nothing for me bar a small breaksea. at about 9 i had the first decent run and it turned out to be the biggest portjackson i have ever seen about 5ft long then next cast zzzzzzzzz"ping" something busted me on the reef that happened another 2 times until i landed a small wobbiegong straight in the bucket with him i cant say no to fresh wobby so i had my fish so i let my mate fish on his own (while i cleaned my fish) and he managed a little soapy mulloway that put a cap on the night.

then came the downside of the night. a big wave rushed up the beach and swept everything around.  we didnt lose anything but we got pretty dam wet (the ocean wanted its wobby back haha) and i think my slammer took its last slam. will have to get it checked out but all up it was a good night and the good news is i have been asked back.  he probably knows that he would get cheap bait from me haha 

 no pics sorry didn't take my camera