One of my aims this year is to catch a shark out of the Canning, just wondering if anyone has ever tried up near Riverton, or wether I am wasting my time having a go that far up. Not after monsters, just curious how far up they get.    Cheers,     Paul

All three of us set off in that  stormie weather for an all nighter, Arrived about 3pm and set up camp in time And then the sky opened up on us big time

Rolled the swags out and set the rods up ready for a long night fishing 

Bits of weed now and again But no big deal,

Picked up some tailor and a few big rays and had some great runs,  We got about 2 hours sleep and woke to a wind change

Wind moved around to the south/east by 2am So i sent out a bait under gas, and it got smashed in less than 30mins

So i put another bait on and sent it on its way west skipping across the water, Not long after the reel set the hooks And after a 350m of reeling in,  A nice size bronzy whaler came up on the beach

The wind changed again and it was getting light SO it was tailor time again

Last week we hooked a big shark of about 7foot long about 350m out at sea,  We got it to 20m of the beach and its tail snapped the line on us

Not sure how we would of unhooked it

Cheers steve

Hi I'm heading down to busselton this weekend  for first time and any help or info on fishing spots and equipment would be much appreciated. 

I'm taking a 12 foot rod along with two 9 footers and a couple of flick rods. May load up the kayaks so any help from kayak fishers would be great.

Info on bait, lure and soft plastic fishing.

Cheers

Just come back from 10 days up at Kalbarri, some good fish caught but what it has addressed is a lack of a longer & heavier casting weight beach stick. I am currently using a Nitro Surf Assassin 12' rod which is a very nice rod but really struggles to cast anything close to 3 ounces. It was also a little short for where we were fishing as the line couldnt clear the breakers. Looking for some suggestions on a rod & reel combo, I have quite a few Nitro rods and really like them, they do the Frankenstien 15' which seems like what im after in terms of quality, length & castability. Reel wise thinking something like the Windcast 5500 or possibly a Jap surf casting reel like the Shimano Aero's or something similar. Any recommendations? 

 Anyone know what time of year the bonito are around Albany? Was just reading an article from 1998 on bonito at the gap. I'll be there from mid dec to early feb.

On the beach tuesday and wednesday, but which one shall i pick Loonies- port dennis -sbends-Or maybe south

Sat/Sun fishing report. Northern beach.

Fished from sunset through to 1am Sat night with my eldest son (13). Only caught a couple of pike (or snook – don’t know the difference??), and a decent whiting.

Hit the tent at 2am and up again at 4am for a tailor bash. Glad I got up (but my son slept in!!).

After my 4th tailor for the morning, I was shouting at him to wake up. Tent was only 50m away!! Ended up getting the bag limit each plus a few huge herring. All tailor were between 40 & 50cm. Fairly decent for summer tailor i rekon?? The son could hardly reel them in, they fought so hard. The full aerial acrobatics and all. Were taking bait, poppers, metal slices. Dead calm ocean with a slight easterly breeze. We could see lightening out on the horizon. Beautiful morning.

Kept catching tailor after 8 each (total 16) and putting back. I switched to a popper with single hooks so catch and release was easy. All caught between 4.30 and 6am. Then they shut down.

And yes, we will eat all 16 fish. I have 4 hungry boys (and wife) at home!!

Photos below. We got some monster herring. Taking full mulies and fighting better than the tailor.

Hey

Anybody heading down for a beach fish this week end - where you going?

Cheers

Stuart

I will be finishing my 9ft 24kg rod shortly and I am undecided as to what reel to pair it up with ? unless I sell my pe2 jig/spin rod my budget will be aprox $200 to $250, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Around the beachs north of two rocks, Is it clearing

Hi Guys

Anyone got some Reel Suggestions for a Eupro Cyclone 9'

using a shimano 4000 but think it might be too small.

dont want to spend big bucks, already in trouble for buying another rod haha.

G'day fellas, I've just brought a Saragossa 18000 loaded with 50lb fireline and I'm looking for a rod to match.

I haven't done alot of landbased fishing and I'm going to Quobba between Xmas and the new year.

I'll need something to cast a bait but also poppers and metals as well, don't mind spending a bit for good equipment.

Something about 15-24kg or would that be too heavy for lures? 9-10 ft or longer? two piece or one?

What do you recommend

Monster Quest for me this summer.

OK guys - so I have a couple of species on my list for this summer - and this summer I am aiming for the monsters.

Me bucket list: I am going for the following - all above the 100kg mark. (Hopefully!!)

1. Bronze Whaler

2. Tiger Shark

3. Black Smooth Ray

Whats your species list like for summer 2011 / 2012??

Really want a new rod to go with my Penn 850ssm. It'll be land based. Got 3 rods in mind after some research on this forum.

1. 12' Ugly Stick Platinum

2. 10'/11' Rovex Bario

3. 10'/11' Penn spinfisher big game surf

 #3 is my fave so far. Any advice??

This may sound daft but I want to catch something big! Poss looking at shark.

Also where can I get these rods? I'm in Kalgoorlie at the min but will be going to esperance and hopetoun soon.

Thanks

does anyone know if anything decent has been caught off the north mole recently. decent meaning tailor/sharks/salmon etc.

went there a couple of nights ago and got heaps of bites but only landed a small snook.

Going down to Busselton after work today, is the Jetty main spot?

I am going for Sharks mainly, but will bring the flicky down for some tailor actions.

I don't have a cliff gaff, so was thinking beaching everything i catch...1.8km Jetty probably worth to buy the cliff gaff???

Bottom Fishing and Balloning what am i expected to catch?

Guys,

Normally landbased in the swan so i have no problem with rigs, bait etc for targetting bream.

Have got 3 days at point samson coming up mid jan (no wife, no kids.......)

have done a little bit of googling and apparently I am looking at predominantly getting into some Mangrove jacks.  I am taking the same rod I use for bream (2-4kg I think) and will probably swap out the 3lb fireline for 10lb and use a heavier trace (maybe 20lb).  Does this sound right?

Will probably start around the rock bridge at the mouth of the river.  Has anyone been there?  Can you walk along the shore up and down a bit (as per the red lines on the map) or am I restricted to near the road?  Any other spots worth looking at?

Any advice in regards to targetting some of these or any other fish that I can expect to get at go at would be greatly appreciated....

Trev.

Hi guys, made a quick trip to Cape Town for me mom's 70th celebration bash. Had 2 days to try and catch something decent, no luck with that, but was still great fun fishing with some mates of mine.

Mountain location: Strand, 1ste Plaat - (close to Steenbras Mouth)

Beach location: Wolves Cliffs, in Macassar for monster Bronze Whalers.

First day headed out to the mountains for some deep spot fishing. Nice warm day with excellent conditions untill the wind turned and started howling from the south west, eventually forcing us to quit. Only excitement was my Pyjama Shark and my mate got cut his trace cut of by a decent size Thrasher Shark.

Second day ventured to try catch some monster Bronze Whalers out at Wolves Cliffs, Macassar. Had massive baits out on slides, bonito.s / whole monster mullets (see pic) / mac's / monster squids and no bite. That was untill a buddy of ours arrived at 5pm and he hooked into a monster that bit off his 250lb hook trace 50mt of the beach.

Was a good time to meet with some old friends and just enjoying the moment.

Went for an overnight fish on Monday night with Herbie and Billy.

It started off pretty slow with weed hampering monday nights fishing.

This morning though the tailor, whiting and herring were all on the bite along with heaps of stingrays at our feed chewing the berly trail.

I caught a gummy shark and then not long after Billy's rell screemed off and we thought he was onto another ray, Herbie threw his whiting line out as a disguised sabotage which managed to get tangled around billy's line so I had to step in to mediate (untangle) and noticed a substantial mulloway thrashing in the shore break which was a surprise to us all.  Billy then free from Herbie's antics wound in his prize and I dragged it up the beach as I left the gaff in the car.  It was Billys first mulloway and a cracker that pulled the scales down to 13kg, well done mate.

Herbie took advantage of the strong easterly and had a whole tailor balloned out which got mauled after a while, so out went another one and after a strike that had us guessing and a long wind in a Bronzie emerged.

all in all a great session capped off by Billy 

Couldbe heading to Hopetoun around Xmas. What fish should I be targetting? Is this a good time of year to fish the area?

went for a shark fish friday night with a few mates south of rocko me mate brang down his yak to paddle out some baits after bout an hour of soakin me tcurve revo bent over an finnor started screaming after bout an hour of heaps of runs an draging it out of the sand puttin myself an my gear through hell this is what pulled up

Does any onne know what the weed situation is like up that way at the moment as i hoping to head up on sunday evening? has there been much been caught lately in some perth metro area north area?

Finished my little project this afternoon.

Bought a ABU 7000i, unfortunately was the level-wind model, so had to change to conventional.

Also replaced the mag plate and took 2 brakes off for more distance.

Check my baby.

Photo 1 - Level wind

Photo 2 - remove levelwind and gear / pin & fit new CT S/steel bar

Photo 3 - hacksaw thru top bar and push ends out to rplace with s/steel caps

Photo 4 - ready to assemble

Photo 5 - ready to go fishing!!!

Hi guys,

Just a warning...I tried the beach at the end of Shenton Ave, Iluka yesterday (I think it's still Burns?) and was only there 1.5 hrs and my missus almost new Mondeo was vandalised by some prick trying to break in. All the trim around the door was smashed and bent - it looked like the swine had gone into a frenzy.

It's that small carpark next to the park with the barbies, when you turn right at the end of Shenton.

There was a suspicious looking white Magna wagon with no hubcaps already there at 5:30am, so I should have thought twice. I didn't see if there was anyone camping in it, but I'm guessing so because there wasn't anyone on the beach...

Worst thing is, my car is temporarily 'failing to proceed' which is why I borrowed hers, so 'er indoors is NOT HAPPY.

Anyway, I caught a 45cm tailor (on a three gang and mulie) so all was not lost...

Cheers

Stuey

Last time I fished up this way (couple of years ago) there were some protected area's marked on signs.  Apparantkly these have been vandilised and I cant seem to find any thing on the fisheries website about this area or a map of the zones.

Anyone got any info

cheers

  Hey eveyone I'm planing a 4wd trip from Esprence to Broome can anyone help me out with some big game land based spots. Most of my fishing I've done in S.A. on Surf beaches, Rocks and the odd jetty. I want to find some remote epic fishing spots like Carnarvon or Cape Arid can any help me out with a few spots. Cheers it would be greatly appricated.

Anyone get up to these parts on the long weekend?

whats the weed like?

cheers

 Hey everyone,

Going to head out for a fish this Tuesday. I live in Bunbury and have had little to no luck around here. Problem is i dont know any spots down south (i'm very much a beginner).

Has anyone got some good spots for me and a mate to try? I have a 4wd so preferably somewhere on a beach but anywhere the fish are biting would be great.

Cheers

Alex

might hit up the mindarie marina wall for an arvo evening fish. better take a few brews and watch the sun set i reckon

im going to go down to the beach for a fish tomorrow

this is the spot here oh google maps

-32.209306,115.768451

anyone is welcome to join can meet in the carpart there and just walk down to beach or drive onto beach as you are alowed will go down after lunch