hey guys/girls im heading to busselton for a week on january 2 so ima give the busselton jetty ago and ive never been there and im just wondering what to expect. i would like to catch a sambo or mulloway tailor or bonito  if im lucky enough. Ill be using a shimano saragosa 18000f with 50 lb braid on so i guess im after a good spot on the jetty witch side is better left or right he so im wondering what sort of rigg should i use patarnoster rigg or somthing else would love to hear back if anyone could help me with thanxmuch appreciated

Just another bronzie from woodies and was released

hi

i live in mandurah.

and i like to go for a decent fishing trip over the next weekend

From a jetty or rocks or the beach. I like catch some squids and some nice decent fishes..

I dont have a 4wd car and i like travel about 4 hours from mandurah..

Any Ideas and tipps for me ?

thanks

cheers

stefan

Headed down to the harbour in dampier this evening. Spotted a decent fish on a pilon and with high hopes for a big barra i hooked up! 15minutes of pilon dodging, solid runs and half a dozen spectators. Ended sadly with this silver morwong (blue bastard) Not bad on bream gear, went hard! Anyways theres always tommorrow.

Got a week off before I start my new job so I'll be hitting the usual land based spots - S-bends region, cray factory rocks, and up to kalbarri on friday - wagoe / chinamans etc. Hopefully the wind and weed don't ruin the party.

Give us a PM on the site if anyone wants to wet a line next week.

hey everyone

thinking about heading to a landbased spot saturday evening for a fish...think the wind is calling for a south direction so im just looking for some help in finding a suitable spot..would the morth mole be ideal fishing north?...how about woodman point aswell or any areas up north shore way?,,

thanks

Hi All

Heading to Busso Late Dec-Early Jan and will be doing a few days land based and after some advice. Have heard you can get some Tailor out the front of Broadwater Resort (will be staying nearby) via swimming or kayacking a burley bucket out and casting mulies around near it. Anyone hear of this and if it's successful? Is it also worth throwing a livie around here or is it too shallow for anything big?

Will also probably kayak out for some squid as I have seen some punters have some success around weed in the bay doing this.

I am imagining the Jetty would be closed also so any other easy to get to land based spots and advice on the above would be great?

Cheers

Pezdog

ANYONE THINKIN OF GOING SHARK FISHIN AT COTT TONIGHT, I KNOW IM THINKIN OF IT

i am going upto lancilen on the weekend and was just wondering what fish are up there and the best times to get them?? or is it just like here ( rockingham ) with talior mullas, and the odd shark

G'day Gents. I'm heading up to Steep for a weeks LBG shortly and was wondering if anyone has heard how the point has been fishing?

After having to abort our trip in Feb at the last minute we finally made it to Exmouth. Being the only fisho in our group of 4 some compromises had to be made, but that turned out to be a good thing as the snorkelling and hiking was amazing.

Most days started with a quick trip to the reef in front of lighthouse caravan park throwing small poppers on very light gear for gts and queenies, I did this part of my day alone while the others went hiking, hence no photos. Got onto fish every morning and most released well, unfortunately one gt pretty much swallowed my popper whole and the amount of surgery needed to remove it meant it couldnt be released, so it became lunch. Lost a few poppers to bigger fish as well....

Evenings were spent chasing sharks, with 6 landed during the week. Tried using the head of the GT as bait and got picked up by a monster which wasted no time taking a few hundred metres of line off me before busting me off on some reef or something. Was great fun handing the rod around between the others who didnt fish much, the look on my mates girlfriends face is priceless lol. Also one estury cod took a big bait meant for sharks and one large stingray kept us busy for nearly an hour.

A home made hook remover saved me a few rigs and meant every hook was successfully removed as well as a few hooks from other peoples rigs that had been left in the sharks mouth

Was an awesome week, and though i didnt get one of the big sharks I was chasing I came back stoked and at least this way I have an excuse to go back, hopefully in the not too distant future.

Hi Guys

I have just moved to Warnbro and was wanting to give the beach fishing a try.

I've just moved here from Scotland so my knowledge of rigs and tactics for beach fishing in oz is not great, I was going to try the beach near Hilda road as that is the nearest one to me, from reading stuff on the net I think night time is the best time to give it a try, I think that there may be Tailor around but I am not sure what else, can some one tell me what species I might catch and what the best bait / rig set up to use would be ? I was thinking mulies on ganged hooks but am not sure.

I noticed on Warnbro beach that there is a drop off into to deeper water around 20 or 30 meters out, is this where I should be trying to put my baits ?

any advice would be greatly appreciated

Dunc

Hi guys,

Heading down in a few weeks, just wandering if anyone has fished around the cape here?

Looking for some good ground to fish, for bigger species

(the red box is a beach im looking at fishing - the arrow shows some good ground)

any info is greatly appreciated

John

Pretty fair effort from the jetty...

Must be a slow news day in Adelaide though because people have been doing it for years off the jetties along that stretch of coastline.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/teen-catches-bronze-whaler-shark-at-henley-beach-adelaide/story-e6frea8c-1225948552714

Hi All

Heading to Eco Beach and Broome in April/May 2011 with the Mrs and hoping to get in a little fishing while I am there.

I won't have a boat and will definately catch a charter while I'm there but would like any suggestions on land based fishing.

I have heard you can walk the stretch at Eco beach with lures trying for some Queenies etc but unsure of how succsessful this will be.

Any thoughts for both Eco Beach and Broome would be awesome as we will be staying about 5 nights at each.

Cheers

Pezdog

Cant waite to get there, And UK in april----- LOOK out roger knife iam coming soon CARP TIME

As always the case, things never go as planned. Although conditions last evening did suit, i've been down many other times with optimisim and they just weren't there.

So not expecting much i packed a handful of mullies, and drove down to Cottesloe expecting not much.

As the they often do, they came just after dark and hung around for about half an hour.  Lost a few and had one bugger bite through my wire trace about half way up

Happy to catch my first size flathead (by catch). He went 34, the tailor went 31 and 40cm.  Sorry for the sink pic, you can understand that i'd rather be fishing than taking photos.

Out of the water and into my stomach in a matter of hours... Tasty!!

HEEEY FISHOS

I am going beach fishing this sunday at 8.30-10.30. I am going next to floreat groyne on the city beach side. Bait casting Popper and bait fishing. U will enjoy it. Dont worry you dont need all the fancy gear.

Cya down there

Tom

Hey folks

I am heading to Kalbarri next week and I would like to get across to frustration reef for a fish, apart from hiring a canoe i heard you could get a lift over from the boat hire place or something for a small fee is this the case?

Also is there any mackies around at the moment worth sending out a balloon for

cheers

rig

G'day everyone..

Yesterday morning decided to get out and wet a line at one of the small groynes at Kwinana Beach.. Normally have a bit of fun there with herring, gardies and a few tailor.. Anyway fishing was very slow with bugger all fish around.. Then there was a massive boil-up with fish around the 1-2kg mark smashing into schools of small gardies.. Didn't manage to get into any because I was stuffing around with some squid jigs and by the time i re-rigged there were long gone!!!

I couldn't tell exactly what they were but thought they could be bonito or tailor?? They were really fast darting through the gardies..

Anyone out there got any ideas of what they were?? Or has anyone experienced anything similar lately?

Any one fishing the in north of perth the weed is big time, From around 30feet from the water edge out

I could cast raiders off the rocks today, but hard work with the last 30feet  or so

hi there....just want an advice on selection of bait for mulloway.........live the is the way to go, but if you cant get access to live bait,what other bait is popular with mulloway.

any advice is appreciated.

cheer

G'day guys. Stoked to be a member of such a great forum- have been reading for a couple of months but now the job's confirmed and I'm definitely moving to Perth I've finally joined up. (Greatest city in the greatest state in the greatest country in the world, so my sandgroper mates tell me)

I'm a pretty committed land-based guy (I have terrible luck with boats - lucky to still have 10 fingers!!) and there's nothing I love more than wading the flats with a rod and a box full of lures. Looks like the Swan will be perfect for me!

I've got some questions, if you don't mind.

1) What are blowies? Are they what we call toadies in the East? How big do they get over there?

2) What are cobbler? Are they legal to catch? I think I read somewhere that they're protected, but others talk about eating them. What's up with that? Am I right in thinking they're some sort of salt-water catfish?

3) One of two possible places I'm looking at is close to Melville Beach. All I can find out about MB is that it's big with kite surfers. Having a look at it on google maps, it looks like an area to shoot for flatties, flounder, squid and prawns. Or am I way off the mark? Is it a fish-less hellhole and I should be thinking about trying elsewhere?

4) It's been 10 long years since my last Mulla (on the Barwon) - are they around year-round in the Swan or just for certain months of the year?

That's it for the moment, but I'm sure I'll think of a million more!

Glad to meet you all and cheers!

heloo people just wondering if any bodys been having any luck on flathead in the swan and if so where ?

any suggestions will be appreciated

Time to get things sorted!

Saturday,27th November,Shark Bash at Yanchep,never fished there,so anyone who has,can you post the best place to meet.Whos interested and do we just want to turn up when we can or is there a time people want to meet there?

If the weather report stays as it is now, I will be heading away on wednesday morning very early One seat going or bring your own 4x4

If tailor are around that morning, They should be good sizes like the one in the photo that spess got

steve

this is the 1st mulla i have ever cought after 8 years of chasing them. i got it off goldernbay about 6 months ago.

on another note are there any good fish around warnbro - goldern bay area( or even sharks ) thanks

Hello,just got a new heavier beach outfit and keen to give it a work out,and possibly try slide baiting,does any one know of a good beach to try?thanks, Paul.

Feel free to post your fishing report....

I went to City Beach on Sunday arvo from 3pm - 8pm with not even a single bite! And bait keep missing!!

Have got a few days for myself on those dates and would like to get away for a decent fishing trip. I dont mind going along and just camping out where ever.

But, i would much rather have a few people to fish with.

I have been considering either heading down south and fishing either Esperance or Albany area on the rocks/beach. or heading up to Kalbarri area and hitting the rocks around there. Taking the big guns and trying to get into some decent sized fish.

Will bring all this up again closer to the dates if i havnt sorted things out earlier, but would be great to organise things early and maybe even sort out some half decent accomodation.

Cheers,

George.