With the weather forecast not to crash hot in perth lastweek and exmouth looking good decided to bite the bulleit and go.
My main aim was marlin but found them pretty hard to come by. Water felt abit cool.

Thought i would throw up a few pictures of the fish/squid/crabs we have beeen catching since christmas.

Young bloke with a squid he caught in Albany. Pretty stoked with himself.

Yellow tail kings from Albany. Good fun on light jig gear. Except snapping my Mytho on one.

Squid from Albany. 8 in 20 mins 6 ove 30cm hood biggst 36cm.

Crabs from Mandurah. We got 16 that night just a bad picture.

Couple of shark mack from Mandurah. Good fun on light gear.

Few reefies for a quick trip out of Albany and a few skippy.

Feed of marron from up the river after a night camping.

Cheers Jayce

My old man and I struggled pretty hard to scrape together a feed on Saturday morning. The kids jump on and then we pull these two in next two pots. They loved it! Overall didn't get a lot but all good size. Was a bit late starting and a bit early finishing as we took the kids in to EQ.

Hi Fishwrecked

Headed out early yesterday to hit up the fads. Keen to try and catch another of these speedsters and with the weather forecast, I couldn't resist.

As predicted, the weather was magic and we arrived at the fads at about 6:30am or so.

When we rocked up there was a boat there, which left as soon as we arrived. Thought to myself, no fish here. So we trolled around a bit for no return. As we did the birds became more and more active and then we saw dolphinfish free jumping, a fair way from the fad.

Trolling and lures were not working, so we killed the engine and set up a drift towards the birds, thowing out cubes of mulies and as well as a couple which were attached to hooks. Well it didn't take long and we had our first one on board!

Biggest problem with this method was the hundreds and hundreds of rat kings which were marauding everything as soon as we got too close to the fad. If we were a fair way away it was ok, but anywhere near the fad these things would destroy everything, leaving no chance of the dolphinfish to see the bait let alone bait with hooks in it!

Anyway we persisted and eventually ended up with 3 dolphinfish (inbetween a million kings). We hit up another 2 fads, but 1 had another million kings, and the other was dead.

Saw some big tuna jumping out the back of rotto.

On the way home we had a bottom bash, which resulted in 1 sambo, 1 breaksea cod.

Good day on the water.

 Checked out some ground ive wanted to dive for awhile(again)

Had caught a bag of crays couple of kms south so tried a spot off the shore a bit further north today.

Got in heaps of fish life, nice scenery kakkas in close which there were many of.

Kept heading west. Found some nice lumps and holes which held a few. Some kakkas some just sized some well over. Quite a few soft, some whites, some rregulars. 

Didn't see any sized demersals.

Saw some crays that were not quite at the jumbo size at end of dive. Other than wishing id gone earlier in the day, great to be in the water

 I'm heading down for a house boat holiday would appreciate some info on how and where there  catChing some blueys .

PM me if you know wheres best to try at the moment on the Estuary I'm also 

planning on heading up the Murray  towards Ravenswood and  

pinjarah 

many thanks in advance 

 plan was to fish all night but bagged out on 2nd drop! So cooked up a feed then gutted a carton of sport and woke up at 630 am fishing the 40m line for a tuna! Didn't get any, saw a lot of baitfish on surface! 

 Out off Bunbury and a Black crab from down south

After finishing my False Enterance trip i had plans to continue heading up to Quobba to see what all the fuss was about on my own and with no return date planned i knew i would have plenty of time to have a good explore around.

pulled out of overlander and said my goodbyes to the guys from the false trip and headed north, stopping in canarvon for supplies and off i went. Got in about lunch time and quickly threw everything out of ther car at my camp spot and went exploring. Used a hand drawn map i had made from google earth research and pics of others fishing and started pin pointing all of the common spots and some more possible locations. ended up walking to Garths for a quick arvo flick just to explore but the water was a absolutely filthy green colour that i didnt escape for the entire trip, horrible water and fish where very very hard to come by but i set myself a goal of one decent fish a day and stuck to tried and tested methods for me. First morning i picked up a nice cobia on the 30lb gear at Garths second cast and dropped a fish a few casts later, the next few days where a lot less lucky than that with a good 7-10 hours of spinning a day put into getting 1-2 hookups for one fish landed generally. caught a massive array of species with a lot landed solo including gaffing on very light gear from 20-50lb. i did spend a lot of time targetting GT's but for no sucess on the heavy gear, the water was just to dirty and fish just not around so ill be back to tick that one off.

Only used 3 main setups the entire trip and it covered everything i wanted.
Assassin Amia 11ft pe1-2, 20lb Tasline and 3012H Certate and that caught me 2 Grey Macks, 2 Shark Macks
Gary Howard spin cast pro 4-6kg 9ft 30lb Tasline, 4000 Catalina and that landed 1 big spango, 1 cobia, 1 big goldspot, 1 pinky
Assassin Sierra 2XH 11ft, 50lb JBD 4X braid and a twinpower 5000 with a 7000 spool. got one small GT, 1 Grey mack, 1 big spango, 2 Mack tuna, 1 shark mack, 1 tiny spanish.

spent hours and hours driving all over the station to try and find patches of cleaner water to spin in, lost some absolute amazing fish to either bad luck or silly mistkaes. just a cursed trip for me but we all get them.

First big fish was a horse of a GT that ate my lure at the edge of the rocks on the 50lb gear after getting a tip wrap so while i took it out the fish grabbed the lure, fought it for 10 minutes before i had it surfaced and buggered before a wave washed it over a rock and caught my line up, i freespooled then fought the fish gently through the reef for 40 minutes before it finally broke free and lost it.

Second fish was a very large tuna that i must of landed the lure on its head because i couldnt close the bail arm on the reel line was leaving that quick, came up tight and it puilled 200m of 50lb off my twinpower before coming back at me and going deep then after 10 minutes the hooks pulled somehow.

Third still haunts me and makes me want to burn the Jerry Brown factory to the ground. Fishing Garths one arvo on my own and seen one huge shark and a smaller shark come up to look at a bird on the surface so out of instinct i grabbed the 30lb setup with a plastic on it which i had just respooled with Jerry brown solid braid as i got spooled and lost the other line the day before on the catalina. cast at these sharks as they dissapeared into the green depths, seconf twitch and came up tight, fought this monster all over the place for an hour before it came to the surface absolutelly buggered, turns out what i thought was a second shark was in fact a 1.5-1.6m Cobia!!! with the fish pretty much done i backed the drag off to be safe and started steering it to the gaff in my hand. about 10m from the ledge the braid just popped out of nowhere and i watched a possible 30-40kg cobia slowly cruise back into the depths. 

Stil landed some great fish and for mostly solo (Thanks to the guys who helped gaff my fish) on my first trip to quobba in very hard conditions i did very well to bag myself out in 6 days and stayed for a total of 8 before calling it quits, ill be back again at some stage and best of all i didnt get sharked once on the lighter gear which i was suprised about.

 Hey All

Been a while in between posts. The silly season and constant travel to different cities has got a little to my fishing life. But im back and back with avengance!

Hit up the kings for a 7 dayer with some mates from NZ and a few from Aus and one lad i hadnt met yet (masterbait lures owner and designer).

This years trip was to target topwater and the normal jigging and if we were lucky a sword (just wait for it)

well, we were well and truely blessed, three trips to the kings and never had a nice glassy day till this trip. Where we got 7 of them

6 Anglers v estimated 350kg + Sword: Well night one we hooked a freight train, 9 hours the first angler went on him (we think when it jumped it threw the hooks and re hooked it self in the dorsal etc etc) and the rest of between 1-3 hours. The fight time 18 hours and 20 mins till the hooks pulled. Lets just say Lance was not a happy chap. If you know lance you would know his reaction to this. was on a 80w, and the fish owned us. He was no way near done, and happily say 60 m under the boat for a good 5 hours for before the hooks pulled. The sword deserved freedom. Yes we got a few good looks at him and surprizingly enough , it was the first 4-5 hours of the fight where we had it with 2 gaffs lengths of the boat.....from sunrize we never saw it again. and we battled through the next night , roughly to around 10 pm

Best Jigged Bass : 44kg

Best Bait Bass : 48 Kg

Best Jigged King : 40 Kg

Best Top water king: 27kg

Best Jigged Puka : 30 Kg

Best Jigged Blue Eye : 15 kg

Best Trev: 10.5 kg

3 tagged striped marlin between 90-140 kg

The kings were quiet we think due to the weather but the fish we got were quality. The bass owned us once again. came with heavier gear and got schooled once again....

Enchanter is an amazing charter and lance knows his shit!

Fishing with Lei from Master Bait lures was a blessing and he certainly taught me alot for a top water novice!

Enjoy the photos, got plenty more ...maybe one day 

 Headed out for an early morning crab near the narrows.

Only got three but all a good size.

Biggest went 184mm and a bit over 600mm claw to claw.

All chock-a-block full of meat.  

Im heading there now to do some fishing and just realised there may be some salmon there, what are my chances?

 G'day guys,

Ive been a member for a few months now and have silently absorbed a huge amount of info from these forums and as a new boat owner some of the advice has been very helpful. So thanks for all of the great info and stories you post, they give me great motivation to tick off my fish bucket list!

Anyway we took advantage of the warm weather last night to head down to a reliable tailor spot on one of our northern beaches for a feed and was more than happy we stayed on a bit after sun down as I landed 2 60cm mulloway. A first for me and my mate was a little jealous although he did get a nice tailor over 40cm.

Sure beat sittin on the couch watching the Aussies get flogged!

Cheers Stu

 Went for a shore dive down Mandurah way at a spot I've wanted to dive for some time. Swam out not much on the cray front in the shallow 5-6 meters but some interesting ground and surge nonetheless. 

Kept swimming west and got stuck into a few. Once I hit the 8-10 meter mark they were there. Kakkas mixed in with sized crays. Some soft a few whites, soft in between.

Got back to the shore with a bag limit and plenty more out there!

 The better half booked a few days off either side of last weekend to take advantage of the public holiday gone.

Took the dive and snorkel gear and explored some beaches west and east of Denmark.

First day at the beach the swell was borderline to get abs at one location so after awhile I gave up and chose to snorkel around. Found and caught my first Southern Rock Lobster somewhere around the 130/140 mm on the carapace. Far superior in taste to the west coast models. Also relocated to the bbq a smallish occy whose sacrifice was well thanked and regarded.

Ambled round enjoying the coastline further east driving around and walking. Water activities subsided til the arvo when heading home and got in west of town. Felt a little edgy swimming out a few hundered meters but was met with a good family of nice sized greenlips. Headed further out to find an inquisitive female Blue Groper and a Queen Snapper (650+/-) snuffling about.

Loaded the gun for the Snapper to end somehow manage to make spaghetti. Sorted it out and found the Queen Snapper. Dispatched and felt there was more than enough to eat.

Swam in keeping an eye out for Bruce.

Upon getting near a granite outcrop to sort out the gun, guts and gills of fish a nice Blue Groper about 800 or so came in for a look. Had not sorted gun out so Groper lived to be inquisitive for another day. Figured I had enough to warrant a few good feeds as well as swimming back in a couple of hundred meters with part bleeding fish

Cooked up abs and fish on bbq last night and tonight. Had forgotten the taste of greenlips. Another road trip to the south coast in order

Started my new year off in a great way with a trip with a mate and some now new mates to false entrance. 5 days we spent there not fishing overly hard relaxing and exploring a lot and tailor being one of our main targets and as usual i got distracted fishing the cliffs for pelagics. first day i did a day trip out to Turtle Dove shoal on a mates boat so the others where already up there when i pulled in on the night of the 4th ready for my first day in the morning and the excitment was building with the guys getting some good tailor in a quick arvo session.

morning session with tailor the target and some great fish landed and not long after ive found a decent ledge to spin for macks off and ive somehow got my Tailor of the trip at 73cm on a chrome mack bait that it swallowed at the cliff base, dropped a macky at the gaff 3rd cast which haunted me for the next few days after i lost another at the gaff and ended up with 0 macks for the trip while the other boys managed one on balloon and 5 on spin. the next few days continued with good fish coming up on a lot of different methods with a lot of exploring and relaxing in between, not taking things to seriously and just enjoying the place was relly nice for me anyway. fished plastics a lot and got roasted over and over fishing light gear but still had a heap of fun, landed a heap of tailor, dove and got some good baldies, more tailor than you can poke a stick at (10 over 70cm, 5 over 80cm and one over 90cm with hundreds smaller with none under 50cm), the boys got sharks and small mulloway fishing the beach, got some small GT's which was a suprise, good pinkys, spangos and dark tail perch on bait and plastics and even on a jig. 

ill just put the photos of my fish up but i had a rather quiet trip loosing some good fish, landed good fish just nothing crazy good or exciting. still had a great time and landed fish im more than happy with it was just one of those trips for me and on a good note i didnt get a single fish sharked and seen very few diving as well.

After the trip we all pulled into overlander roadhouse and i said my goodbyes to the guys and i turned and headed north towards my first adventure at Quobba station but ill save that for another report ill put up.

Hi guys,

After more than my share of fishless trips, including a couple trips with Bunny and his brother where I just couldn't hook any fish, then finally landing an 80cm on a trolled lure, I fished a comp last weekend and finally cracked the metre and skipped the 1.10 mark with a 1.11m fish.

Thanks to Bunny for putting up with the unluckiest barra fisho in the world, actually that title has now been transfered to a mate of ours Moffy haha.

We cast from a boat, so I still have to get one from a kayak, hopefully before 'winter'.

I landed a 60cm rat too, I think I'll start finding a few now as my confidence levels are definitely up there now! 

Cheers lads. 

 Troy Hendrickson joined me for an afternoon outing near Rotto where we manage to catch a Dhufish and Snapper.

Video on YouTube below.

https://youtu.be/xLK4r6Odo3M

 Hey guys,

just wondering if any mulloway have been caught from eshed lately? also what else is there at the moment?

Cheers,

Sam

With the long weekend over the Australia day weekend making it a 4 day weekend, we decided it was time for a boys trip somewhere. After a little discussion we decided to try out Leeman as we had not fished there before, and with the warmer water pushing down we thought we would be in with a chance of some mackies and Tuna. Pushed up to Leeman at 4am Saturday morning as we wanted to get out for a fish Saturday with the weather looking ok. Managed to check into our accommodation and on the water by 8.30am. Weather wasn't as good as forecast but was definitely manageable. didn't take long until a little flare up came up, and within a couple minutes we were fishing. First drift resulted in 2 nice baldies hitting the deck, with the 2nd drift another baldie and a nice dhu. Good start!! Didn't take too many pics on the first day as it was a bit lumpy. Sounded around for a while and found a few more bits and pieces which pushed the daily tally to 4 baldies, 2 dhus and 1 BB. Decided to troll in towards beagle island and see if you couldn't luck a pelagic. After an hour or so we had a double hook up on the lures, resulting in 2 smaller SBT's which were quickly dispatched to the esky for the nights sashimi. Nothing more to really note on the troll, although we had a massive hook up on a deep diver in about 15m of water which was berried in the reef in about 20-30 seconds, not real sure what that was and also a couple of Nor West blowies took the lures....wtf those fat bastards can swim pretty quick!

Sunday saw us push out in a slightly different direction, out into the 50's and beyond with much the same plan. Look for a bit of ground whilst chasing tuna, birds, etc. Came across a nice ledge in 52m of water which came up to 46m so decided to give it a run. As with the 1st day, first drift resulted in baldies hitting the deck, always a good start! Followed by pinkys and a lot of red throats. read throats were like flies! I dropped down a smaller rig with 3'o hooks to see if I could find a baldie or 2. Did not take long before I hooked up big time. As we were getting a lot of Sambo's around the 4-8kg mark, I just thought it was another, with a similar fight. to our surprise, this big guy popped up!! about 11KG-12KG! happy days

Knowing these larger models normally hang round in pairs, I instantly grabbed the jigging outfit and strapped on a 160gm dhu drop, spun the boat around and did another run. Within seconds was on again!!! Another great fight on PE 1.2 saw this big girl surface!!

whilst this was happening rods were going off everywhere with Sambo's creating some great 3-4 way tangles!! plenty of red throats, a couple small dhus, more small pinks. Sounded around for a few more spots, with us ending up with 2 dhus, 4 baldies, 1 pink, 2 BB's and a red throat for the day. Same again, headed in trolling towards beagle island, but there was almost no pelagic action to be seen. Monday, last day fishing, decided to push out the same way as Sunday, this time a little further with the hope there would bee some top water action out wider. Fished a couple lumps for a nice Dhu to Brad, his biggest to date.

A couple baldies came over the side, and decided it was time to head wider. Out we went towards the outer bank where it comes up a bit in depth. Found a nice rise up to 39m from 52 so down when the jibs and bait. Scano wasn't having a great day, so he decided to strap on a 8 inch Zman plastic onto a 2oz jig head and down he went. I think it was first drop and he was on big time. We called it for a sambo initially, until it started to colour up and we didn't believe what we saw, fish of the trip by a long way, on the most unexpected method in 45m of water! up popped a nice 71CM Coral Trout!

high 5's all round!! Went round for another drift and Scano hooked up big again, and with a much the same fight, we called for possibly another trout but unfortunately is spat the plastic about 15m from the boat. We ended the day with a couple Dhu's, nice trout, baldies, Red throat and a nice Pink to cap of a great trip. We trolled and flicked lures at tuna Whilst out wider, managed to hook a couple small stripes, but just couldn't find a Yellow fun or mack unfortunately.

Things to note from the trip. I lost a 15-20kg Cobia boat side on a jig after a good 15 min... just spat the jig...gutted!! New Ramp, its a nice ramp, but with a blowing Southerly or South westerly its a little dangerous. The first day we came in, it was blowing pretty hard by the time we made it to the ramp, drive the boat on and even had a local come up and say I made it look real easy in the conditions and a lot of people get themselves in trouble. I said long boat and drive on trailer makes life easy. A Few fillets to go round!!

Nice and quiet, we stopped in Jurien for some food on the way back, the place was packed!! Great trip and will definitely be back to Leeman. Bodie

 New to Bunbury and had done some research on this forum so I decided to try the cut for some tailor last night on the full moon.

Didn't bring down my proper fishing rod as my car was filled up and was worried I might snap it when I moved down but I had my travelling rods with me. 

Got to the cut at sunset and tried casting weightless mullies on my travel rod and it snapped. Figured I was already here and there was no point crying bout it during the golden period so I just casted lures with my backup rod. 

Managed 10 tailor in an hour but they were all 28-29cm. Went quiet soon after 8.30. Was plenty of fun on the light gear but I was hoping that I could have at least kept 1. 

Was just wondering if the cut have bigger tailor than that?

Regards,

Kai

 Promised my son that he would catch his first tailor tonight. With a nice breeze blowing we ventured off to White Hills.  Given all of the reports I waited patiently for the bite  to start but it never came. In four hours (4-8pm) we manged two small herring and outside of that didn't get a bite.  Was a pretty quiet drive home but at least the lightening show was entertaining. Westy. 

 Went out sat fully hung over but all went away when that rod went over. In 10m off water. 7kg @ 4.5kg

Pretty stoked with this thumper on the light gear (PE2) today. Really pushed the Daiwa Ryoga Bay Jigging to the very limit in 80m of water off Hillarys!!!

Happy Days!!!

With the forecast looking good yesterday, Dean and I planned to continue hunting the ground in the 40’s we have had a bit of success on recently.  As seemed to be the case over the last week, the BoM didn’t quite get the wind forecast right so we delayed our trip to one in the afternoon rather than the morning.  The sambo rig destroying session of a couple of weeks ago meant we actually needed to spend the time preparing more, and re spooling, so the morning didn’t go to waste.

Hit the water just after lunch in excellent conditions and it was a rapid trip out to the “grounds”.  As before, we don’t fish the marks rather sound the general area and when you get good shows of fish on the sounder you lock over it with the Minn.  Let’s just say the first location was “alive” so anticipation was high.

The fish were biting and it didn’t take long to start getting them to the boat.  Nothing real big to start with but quite an array of different species, with the pinkies and Dhu all being undersized and released.  Then, Dean hooked up solid.

This was a strange fight and not characteristic of one we had observed in recent times.  We generally try and pick the fish type from the fight but Dean was having trouble with this one, both picking it and trying to get it to the boat on the relatively light gear.  His call was a large ray, but the lunging runs cast doubt on that theory.  When we finally saw colour, it was long and silver and when the “beast” of a mulla hit the surface it was lucky the gaff was nearby.  On it came and the celebrations of Dean’s first mulla capture began.  This was a nice fish of 15kg and 120cm.

After a few photos, the fish was dispatched to the new cooler bag with ice which was certainly a nice way to christen it.  Back down and within minutes Dean was on again.  He picked it this time and after another good fight another, smaller model, came to the boat.  I had heard a bit about “fabled” spots that hold big mulla in deep water and it was awesome to confirm they do exist.

We moved on with the fish still biting as with conditions like we had, it was about looking at the marks.  We landed quite a lot of fish over the day but it was the mullas that stole the show.  Perth Metro waters never fail to amaze me with the diversity and quality of fish you can get so close to home. 

plenty of these big boys about at the moment, got our 20 in Under an hour yesterday!

biggest went 720mm claw to claw smallest 600mm

new record for me the 720mm one!  

Gotta love big summer blueys!

 Awesome day today out of Mindarie, conditions were magic.

mate pulled a horse of a Dhuie up only to have the hook pull about 5 m from the boat.

Spewing about that but managed a couple of smaller models soon after, a decent pinky, big flathead ,baldchin and a good red throat.

Then pulled another Dhu about 8kg which went back down, thought would call it a day at that and left them biting.

back in by lunchtime.

 With yhe mint weather today and after a couple days chasing crabs in Mandurah ee decided today was a good day to go out and look for a dhuie. No luck on that front heading home seen some birds working. Cast out a plastic and a stickbait 0n 10lb and 15lb expecting the standard little tuna. 

To our surprise both lures got monstered by big shark macks.

Mine went 105cm on 15lb and my mates went 95cm on 10lb.

Both of us nearly got spooled but we beat them in the end.