Reports

Where are they biting at the moment

Full Moon Goodoo

Spent a very enjoyable 24 hours on a wheatbelt dam with Maverick and Stevo this weekend.

It was hard graft during the day but as soon as the moon hit the water the place went off. Plenty of murray cod with a few yellowbelly perch thrown in for good measure. We all caught our first ever yellowbelly (new species) and I was lucky enough to score a PB Murray Cod.

All fish were carefully released with barbless hooks being the order of the day.

Landing PB Murray Cod. Got a chewed up thumb for good measure.


PB Close Up


John


mandurah comp

so how did everyone do,my crew did not do too well went out and fished 90 mtrs,caught 2 blackass,2 nannygai,1 queenie,and a hammerhead that was released,i saw a few fishwrecked shirts in the crowd so i hope you s did better than us.
cheers ray ps caught a nice sized flounder, cookin it now


Anyone getting crays

So is anyone getting any crays Pots or Diving? Going diving tommoro see whats out there.


Mid-week fishin 7th nov

Went out to a local beach last night with Scano and Bodie and Bodie outdid us with 2 really nice sized tailor!

Biggest went 45cm!

We first went to Grant street but it was way to windy then tryed Cott groyne with no luck. We then went to a beach nearby where Bodie got the tailor.

I had a live herring out that got chomped clean in half :shock:

 




Longtom strikes it lucky!

Just got off the phone to LONGTOM (fishwrecked member) Who did a night trip up to lucky bay last night. 3 hours of fishing for 5 mulloway at 1metre and above between a few of them. He said they left them biting! They are heading out 2night again for some more fun. Pictures will be posted on his return. he sent me some pics ver mobile and let me tell you they are thumpers! looks like a trip is in order :)


South Mole Tailor

Got this from another site, but thought the fishwrecked crew might be interested!

October 25th:
South Mole

"The Tailor are back in full swing... Started on the bite just after sunset and went for around 40 minutes.. The first run was only small choppers 30cm and under.. Landed about 10, kept 3.. A second run though happened around 8.30pm though with bigger fish.. Ended with 13 in the bucket between 3 of us.. Best was 37cm, average round 33cm.."

Cheers,
Adam


Sambo Jiggers - Just FYI

In the interests of saving a few sambos!

All I can say is dont bother going to the hillarys aggs - they are completely shark infested. It is an exercise in killing big spawning fish there at the moment. And probably will be all season I'd imagine.

Stick to Rotto.


50kg fin reports!!!!!!

Talking to some mates last night who have been out near the shelf of late and they said theres good sighns of yellow fin tuna out there ATM. Most are aorund the 10 to 15kg range but some thumpers of around 50kg+ have been spotted amoungst them!. Medium pushers and laser pro 190dd's have taken most fish at this stage but they head deep after a while so cubing might be the go. Just interesting i thought. Cheers Chris.


Long Point

Went down to Long Point with a mate tonight to see if there were any tailor about. It looked promising when the first fish pulled in was a smallish tailor of about 25cm, but it ended up being the only one caught all night.

We did catch a variety of fish though. After the tailor it was a 27cm sand whiting, which went for the baitcasted mulie on gangs. I thought whiting were usually timid biters...

whiting

Next thing we reeled in was a small tarwhine, again on unweighted mulies. It's the first one I've caught in a while, and they are one of my favourite fish to catch, they can put up quite a struggle for their size.

A couple of herring later we decided to call it a night, checked our larger rods, and both had something on. My mate Brendan ended up getting this fella in on 8lb line with a bit of finessing and walking down the beach. Are these called Eagle Rays? The barb is at the base of the tail, which I can't see being of much use to them...




My beach rod had this fella on there.



Ray shark or Shark ray? Or some other name?

So that was our night, we only kept the whiting. We were there for a few hours and the whole time there were convoys of cobbler swimming by in the shallows near our feet.

Was great to see such a variety at a metro beach :)

Mike


First flathead on 3' grubs

After posting a query on this site about leadhead jigging for flatfish, and getting some great advice from Spess (thanks mate), got the recommended soft plastic grubs, and a Halco Laser Pro 45 and went down to the beach for a bit.


The wind was a light southerly and again the water was clear and shallow. The 3' jigging grubs in smoke glitter were invoking the most curiosity out of these fish and I could clearly see them giving chase then veering off as the jig came out of the water. No huge ones (ranged from about 15 - 25 cm), but its good to watch their behaviour and reactions to the jig.

First fish to strike was about 2 meters out in knee deep water. I saw him hammer in from the right about 3 meters from the lure. I was surprised at how fast it was, I just saw a cloud of sand, a white flash from his belly, and the he was hooked. Took a photo then released him. Estimate about 20ish cm.
Flathead1

Second one was out further, about 6 metres out so I didn't see the strike. He was roughly the same size as the first.
flathead2
First time ever catching flathead on these jigs and even though they were small, was still great fun. Will get a decent one soon! Cheers to Spess and the other guys for gladly sharing their knowledge.

Mike


Exmouth Fishing Report

Well, the weather is well and truly starting to warm up and we've had a few days recently where the south easterlies haven't blown and the conditions have been quite fishy.

Over the past two weeks I've had some mates up from Perth that have done quite well. During the week they spent 6 hours fishing over 2 days and had 7 marlin raised and 3 of those landed. I think there was a sailfish that hit but didn't hookup in there too. Of those 3 landed, 1 was 75kg, 1 was 50kg and 1 was 25kg and were all black marlin which were successfully released. Hearing that news, Ant from Bluewater went out the next day and landed a black marlin of 120kg (easily!) out from Tantabiddi. We headed out the day after that in rather rough conditions and managed to get a 13kg wahoo after 20 minutes of trolling. There are some really good warm eddies starting to show up and an eye on the sounder for water temperature is a good idea.

The gulf has had the occasional spanish mackerel show up but not in any real numbers unfortunately. There are lots of school and shark mackerel in close that will take almost anything thrown at them, just remember wire's a necessity or its back to the tackle store! The water visibility has been sensational when the wind hasn't been blowing for a day and has allowed for some good free diving, especially on the neap tides.

The bottom fish has been a mixed bag with some anglers lucking out and a few missing out. The new moon saw the fishing fire up and with the lead up to the new moon it should get even better. If you are up here and manage to get into some fish, take note of the belly size as a lot of fish are reaching spawning maturity, especially Spangled Emperor. If you are up in Exmouth or planning to come up, please contact me so I can provide you with information that will assist fisheries research in determining spawning patterns.

There have been some good bonefish caught down in the National Park lately for the flyfishers and some nice sized golden trevally as well. The gulf side is still firing for good sized yellowfin whiting, which come up beautifully lightly pan fried in butter.

Cheers,
Adam


Kalbarri Offshore FC - October 4th & 11th Kids Whiting Comp Report


October 4th & 11th Kids Whiting Comp

Our major sponsor this year

Every October School Holidays, the Kalbarri Offshore and Angling Club, hosts a whiting competition for kids on each Thursday of the holidays. It has grown to become a highlight for regular visitors and continues to grow in size each year. With thanks to our major sponsor this year, Australian National Sportsfishing Association, we were able to give out some great prizes. We had 170 excited kids signing up the first Thursday, all ready to fish the beach from the Chinamans to the first jetty.


The crowd at the weigh-in






Some of the 170 kids and parents on the beach










Rules of the comp allow any fish to be caught, kept in a bucket and brought to the weigh-in live, weighed and then released.

The Volunteer Sea Search and Rescue, Kalbarri Police, Ashley Van Viersen Lui Palamara and Nic Bramwell loaned their 4WD bikes and gave kids a lift to the weigh station saving them the long walk over the sand.

There were 16 prizes each day including 12 rods and reels each day for species, smallest, biggest, most, most unusual etc. Two sections were competed for, under 8s and 9 to 14 years. The quality and diversity of the species caught showed that the river is in good condition. A lot of whiting came to the weigh station on the first Thursday with Angus Coull in the under 8’s catching the biggest. Veronica Zurzolo caught the most bream. In the 9-14 age group Lizzie Hine had the biggest whiting, a 252 gram specimen and a meritorious 352g flounder, while Nick Moritz caught the most bream. Most unusual went to Dillon Conroy for his angelfish.


Each day we finished off with a lunchtime sausage sizzle and prize giving. A big thank you to John Stewart, son Martin, Rylee Eley and Beryl Tolson for doing the sausage sizzle. Kalbarri Surf Shop, Kalbarri Sports and Dive, Rainbow Jungle, The Seahorse Sanctuary, Marina Home & Leisure, Kalbarri Natural Spring Water, The Kalbarri Pharmacy, The Gorges Café, Kalbarri Café, Kalbarri Pizza & Pasta and Kalbarri Boat Hire all donated prizes.

The second Thursday saw another 171 kids line up along the beach waiting for the 9am start. Within minutes the blowies began to arrive, but sprinkled amongst them were good fish such as a 322-gram flounder by Peter Vamelueni, and a surprise 3.3kg nor west blowie that took out the meritorious category, caught by Liam Cavanaugh. 3 year old Lydia Tranenen landed a small estuary cod for the most unusual and Ben Smedley caught the most bream. Desiree Louis won a rod & Reel for her biggest blowie in the 9 and over section.







About 850 fish were caught over the two days in four hours! Species recorded were as follows: blowies, (lots of) whiting, black bream, silver bream, gobbleguts, crabs, estuary cod, trumpeter, flounder, angelfish, wrasse, zebra fish, nor west blowie, buffalo bream, flathead and a sardine type fish, a total of 16 species. Of note, missing this year were yellow-eyed mullet, tailor and mulloway that made up the 10 species last year.

A big thanks to all the helpers and sponsors on the day, without your help this great event for the kids could not happen.

Laurie Malton


fishing today

hey guys and gals ,
went down to south beach today with loco and a mate to do some beach fishing.. started of  with some poppers but moved on as the wind was really acting up... swithced to mullies fished for about an hour without action... then finally bites on our lines... a couple here and there but no hook ups.. managed to bring in one decent sized flathead which was good. It was released safely to grow into a giant lizard.. had more bites with chuncks removed form the mullies but no hook ups ...was an alright outing broke my fishing drought so it was good..the location was the beach that the dogs swim at down by  freo south beach..


Mulloway anyone?

Just wonderimg if anyones doimg any good for mullas around the narrows latley? Thinking of heading down for some soft plastic action, well try to get my first mulla on one anyway!lol. Sometime at night over the weekend is the plan jan so any reports?


Midweek fishin

Now that summers coming , me and work mates start bustin out our wednesday fishin sessions.

Breaks the week up nicely :wink:

Started last night at the freo traffic bridge but it was way to windy  :lol:

Went down to a jetty in mosmans and hooked up to a few nice bream.

My Bream went a little over 36cm :wink:  Pretty sure Scano's bream was same size

Scano's Bream...


My Bream


Unfortunatly the bream i got swallowd the hook and was pumping blood out hard so i kept it and cleaned it ready for dinner tonight.
Its the fist blackie ive kept :cry:


Thanks Boys

Headed out wide with Tim yesterday for a fab day on the water. Was a bit quiet fishwise, they were all home but not very hungry until later in the day. Couple of good bustoffs, Honsu donating jigs to the sea Gods, we ended up with a few good fish for the day.

I would just like to say a big thank you to Tim & Honsu for being such gentlemen. They both were so kind and thoughtfull. as to keep all the Sambos occupied with their extreme jigging action, so I could slip a bait past the pesky critters, to the front door of Mr Dhuie.  

We did see something interesting on the way out tho, Looked definately like a long string of commercial cray pot floats. Is this not a bit early??

Thanks again Tim, for another great day out.




Heads Up

was at hillaries on monday fishing various spots on the south wall; caught nothing but hooked up to a monster skippy of about 1.5kgs off the disabled platform. There was massive amounts of bream caught off the point at the lighthouse and the occaisonal skippy, herring and whiting.


e shed results

i was fishing at e shed 2 day.....caught a bucket full of yellowtails...as usual....and ntg decent....heaps of bream around the harbour....biggest for me turn out to be 36cm....but bigger 1's are being caught by the peoples there...and also a couple of flounders being caught there.....bait r prawns....4 those who wanna knoe.....


Unbelievable Day on the water!!!!!!

I'm going to let Kasey tell you what happened. Just let me say, perhaps the greatest capture from my boat in 6 years.

Lots of photos and even better, some killer video footage. Kasey is one very happy camper!!!!!

Cheers
Andy Mac


Fishless Friday

Took the boat out for a run on Friday. Great expectations as the forecast was great and first time out to run in the new donk.
Launched at Ocean Reef at 6.30am to a 15 knot North Easterly ( what happened to the forecasted 2 knots?) Travelled 150klm for the day and only got one snapper and a sambo. Tried several spots and could not find a fish. Is it just me or are there no fish out there. The crew are getting a bit edgy and next trip I could be swimming home if I don't lift my game.
As I had to run in the new motor I didn't mind travelling a few k's but would have been nice to find some fish.
Would like to here from anyone else that went out on Friday -  how did you go ?
Paul


the mighty swan

went for a bream bash down the river today was planning to meet rickets there but he diddnt reply so o well i thought bugger ya ill go anyways, so me and the old boy (sherbert) headed down to arrive about 12:00 sherbs with the bait and me flickin plackys i had a couple of solid hit but that was it and sherbs had two 20cm bream and the wind was shockin, straight in our face.





cheers andyrew


Fun in the Exmouth Sun

Yesterday produced one of the best days I've seen in Exmouth yet. After finishing tidying up our old place we decided a day out on the water was required to chill out and I'd promised Jay that she'd see some whales. Anyway, 5 minutes after leaving the marina we found our first pod. Next thing we know they were swimming under the boat, slapping tails, jumping, singing - the whole works.

After hanging with them for a good 20 minutes it was time to get the lines wet. With a spread of 4 skirts out we were hoping for a lost sailfish to jump on and provide some entertainment, which wasn't forth coming. After a good hour and a half of trolling we gave up and thought we'd try something else.

Seeing as we didn't have any bait I thought we'd try some soft plastics. After the first 7 charlie courts I thought I'd put a strip on some gangs and see if we couldn't float it past a coral trout. No more than 5 minutes later the line started peeling and a spinner shark of 7 foot launches 5 meters from the boat scaring the living beejeebus out of us and busting off on re-entry. We decided to give up on the bait option and stuck with the plastics in 20m of water. Finally we got through the charlie courts and got into something a bit more solid. First fish was a 40cm Bluelined Emperor, second fish a 47cm Spangled Emperor, then an identical spangled came up 10 minutes later. After a couple of heavy bustoffs (we were fishing with 3kg mono) we landed a 57cm Spanglie that took a good 10 minutes to get up and peeled line like there was no tomorrow. We were fishing in 22m of water with only a light lead head jig which worked a treat. We also threw back a dozen more charlies and a heap of variagated emperor and small blue lines. After a hot two hour session we threw out a spread of divers on the way back in with little interest.

All up we saw nearly 50 whales, had a hammerhead hit the side of the boat on the way back in at 25 knots, sea snakes everywhere, dolphins, tuna schools every 500m, a nice swag of fish onboard, some cold beers for the ride back in and absolute glass conditions for the whole time we were out there. Yes, yes it was good day. :)) Unfortunately the camera batteries died after the first bluelined so we didn't get any of the spangleds, which was the only downer of the day.





Kalbarri

Well i just arrived home from my Kalbarri fishing trip.

It was a funny trip away with the first laughs staring when we were driving up there. We had been driving for 7 hours and i seen a sign saying " shire of shark bay " :lol:  We missed the Kalbarri turnoff by 120klm!!!!!!!!!! :twisted:  :twisted:
Lucky we had just enough fuel to get back to Kalbarri!

As soon as we got unpacked we went strait to the cliffs. DAMM! It was rough as! Massive swells! Couldnt fish goats gulch all week! :twisted:

Tryed to fish red bluff but had a few close calls so we gave that a miss.

Fished fishermans jetty in the river all week. Landed a total of i recon about 50 undersized mulla's! At least the river is very healthy

Only beach spot fishable was blue holes. Caught 3 good sized skippy. Lots of bust offs . I was using occy on the bottom.

Had a few injuries , fell down a hole in the reef at blue holes and cut knee up :lol:
I was lazy and threw knife into my fishing bag then went into my bag to get tackle out and sliced finger open on the knife :twisted:

Oh well it was a good holiday away from work :wink:
Here are some pics....

 




 


 








Exmouth fishing report

Well, seeing as every fishing magazine writes an Exmouth fishing report and so does the local tackle store. I figured I may as well do one too.

Things have been firing up around Exmouth since the change of the moon last Sunday. The surface action is prolific at the back of tantabiddi with Manta Rays in the channel mouth, whales everywhere and an abundance of tuna and baitfish spread far and wide. The last couple of days has seen several marlin landed whilst bottom rigs have been brought up. The guys spending time targetting them with lures haven't had anywhere near as much success. Fishing from the bottom has seen mixed results with the guys having an idea of where to fish doing well on goldband jobfish and red emperor.

On the shorebased front things have been relatively quiet with the occasional spangled emperor being landed at 5 mile and in the national park. With the spring tides Trisel Access is starting to get some bait back in there as well as queenfish and has seen quite an increase in the local fishing population. In the gulf a feed of whiting is never too far away, along with some decent yellowfin bream in amongst them. Things on the mud crab front have been very quiet and the occasional mangrove jack is starting to show up which hopefully won't be too far away.

The equinoxial gales (south easterlies) have slowed down the fishing in a big way the last couple of days and look like they will be setting in soon. We still managed to get out for a fish on Thursday and got into a few Robinson Sea Bream, Longspined Pink Snapper, Goldband Jobfish and a nice coral cod, also losing many decent fish to sharks.

Anyway, hopefully tomorrow's fishing action will produce more goods and a few photos to go with.
Morning
Light winds with a slight chop. Small long period swell.
Winds: ENE 9 to 13 knots
Seas: SW 4 feet at 12 sec.
Afternoon
Light winds with a slight chop. Small long period swell.
Winds: NNE 10 to 14 knots
Seas: SW 4 feet at 12 sec.


Shorebased squidding

What a beautiful day today. Went out for a quiet fish this morning at the local rock groynes. Pretty slow on the fishing front with the odd herring. Stopped at South Mole to see if I can pickup more squid. Ended up with 13 in under 2hrs. Went home, cleaned up and had squid for lunch and tea...mmmh....squid burger Cool The sizes varied from bite size to better than average. There were more around but it was lunch time so left them biting so to speak.


Sorry no pics as I only thought of it after Ive eaten them.


Mixed bag, Dampier, 12/8/2007

Woke up this morning and the weather was just as good, if not better than on Saturday so we had to take the boat out.



We headed out and stopped at one of the barges near Enderby Island to score some livies. It wasn't long before we had quite a few yellow tails in the bucket so we powered out to Kendrew.



First drop and Glenn was on. It wasn't long before a nice little Chinaman of around 50cm was on deck and into the ice slurry. No time for a photo, lines were back down to see if we could nail another one. It went quite so we pushed on.

At the next spot I nailed a beaut coral trout that was 60cm. Went quite again so pushed on further to a spot we have in about 40m. First drop Glenn nailed a nice Sweetlip Emperor, a first for us off Dampier. Next drop I hooked up to something that managed to pull quite a bit of string on the PE5 jig gear, felt sharky but turned out to be the mother of all Gold Spot Trevs.

While I was hooked up Glenn hooked up as well so we suspected another gold spot. After a good tussle it turned out to be an 11kilo Cobia. I missed the first gaff shot which he didn't like and made Glenn work pretty hard before I got the second shot in.



After the cobe we decided to do a troll towards Roley Rock to see if we could finish off with a Sailfish. Unfortunately it was a bit queit on the billie front but we noticed some fishy ground on the sounder so we stopped for one last bottom fish. As soon as my bait hit the bottom I got smashed by a decent fish. I was shocked to see a nice 55cm Red Emperor hit the surface, taken in just 27m of water.



Finished the day off filming some whales which was pretty spectacular... and got back to the ramp to find a HUMUNGOUS line up. Ended up waiting about 45 minutes

All in all, a great day with quite a mixed bag, 1x Chinaman, 1x Sweetlip Emperor, 1x Cobia, 1x Coral Trout, 1x Red Emperor.


Pinkies at north mole last week

Heyzzzz...pinkies was really biting for the last few weeks in north mole!! i finally hooked up one last monday !! but lost it simply becoz got no gaff!! wat a shame!!! it was my first but oh well things happen!!


apart from pinkies...can anyone tip me with some tailor fishing ?? havent caught 1 at all since i started fishing but am willing to learnt but i got uni too so pretty hectic with things but thats part of growing up isn't it? i'm up north in joondalup any good fishing spots?only started abt a year ago...and was only reaaly into fishing recently...


Exmouth Fishing Report

Had a terrible day fishing in Exmouth today, winds under 10 knots all day and the fish biting. We only ended up with 3 red emperor, 5 rankin cod, 2 goldband jobfish, 2 rosy jobfish, 1 mack tuna, 1 spangled emperor, 1 blackspot pigfish, 1 robinson seabream and I can't remember what else was in the esky now, released a heap of everything too. Tried for marlin for an hour or so with little surface activity, but then went back to bottom fishing and got smashed by some monster unknowns. Gully's got the pics and I've now got all his video footage of early Exmouth and Rotto Salmon, it will be good! I hope everyone had a nice start to the working week, we did. :)


Hillarys crab fest

Went to Hillarys south wall last night to play with the new Sol.

Not a fish in sight, but heaps of crabs were munching my mulies.  Managed to jag one up.  Was a white crab the size of a can.

Every time the baits hit the bottom, a crab would be at it.

Are these Ghost crabs, and do folks eat them ???


NOR comp results.......and the winner is............

Before I rattle off the winners and the all important bragging rights for North versus South I would like again to thank our key sponsors for making this event possible. Without them being involved and being prepared to support us locally we wouldn't have been able to put on the day. 



Compleat Angler Joondalup

Oceanside Tackle & Marine

Compleat Angler Rockingham

Mandurah Pest Control

Hogsbreath Cafe Mindarie

Jody Pallett (Interior and Exterior Landscape Design and Construction)

Coates Cleaning Products

and others (you know who you are, and a big thank you for your silent contributions)



To the winners go the spoils, and whilst the NOR comp didn't have as big a catch as the SOR event, the diversity of species was pretty good I must say. It certainly appeared that everyone enjoyed the day, not necessarily so much for the quality of fishing but more the chance to catch up and put faces to names.



A personal thank you on behalf of Adam and myself goes to Tim for all his hard work behind the scenes in making the day a huge success. Also to anyone else who lent a hand, offered advice or simply showed up on the day, a big thank you too.



A quick reminder to all the anglers that caught dhuies and pinkies on the day that the research guys would love to take your frames. Just look for the Dhufish Frames thread and it has all the details. A total of 11 Dhuies were weighed in during the NOR comp and believe it or not that was the most common species weighed.



So here are the winners:



Biggest Baldie: ...........................Steve (Dean's dad)

Biggest Blackarse.......................Kal

Biggest Dhufish...........................Rob

Biggest KG...................................Cody


Biggest Leatherjacket.................Kal

Biggest Pinkie.............................Rob

Biggest Skippy............................SPESS

Unusual Catch.............................Salmo
(Bonito)

Unusual Catch.............................Max (Red Throat Emporer)

Most species...............................Kal (5 species)



And the two biggies!!



Champion Angler........................Steve (712 points) That Baldie was a cracker!

Champion Boat...........................Kal, Khalid (boat average 503 points) I have some more prizes for you Kal)



And finally the big one...........







SOR..............................................243 points average per angler

NOR..............................................261 points average per angler





WELL DONE NORTH OF THE RIVER !!!!!!!! Bragging rights until the next comp.



As we mentioned on the day we still have the overall champion Angler trophy to be awarded and some money left over from the entry fees. We will endeavour to organise a Swan River "land based only" BBQ piss up gathering where some additional prizes will be available for a suitable Swan river category. This will allow all the shore based deckies that didn't get a crack on a boat a chance to win a prize. Details will be posted as soon as we can agree on a date, so watch this space.



Congratulations again to all the winners.