Pictured this week is local angler James Spicer with a nice cod caught between the Muiron Islands and the Navy pier last weekend. James was very excited. It was 86cm and 11kg, and was caught on 15kg line with 80 pound leader. James is 13 years old and is a keen fisherman who wants to join the fishing club next year along with his Dad...

Paul Wright is up here for another month with his car, caravan and tinny. He headed out off Neds Camp through South Passage on a flat calm day. There were humpback whales and calves heading south, and in between dodging the mega fauna, his female counterpart boated a swag of fish. In the fiery fishing session she landed...

The Exmouth Game Fishing Club held its annual Billfish Bonanza last weekend. The event was a great success with 20 boats, 65 anglers, over 150 billfish raised and 49 billfish tagged. The mornings were a little breezy, but the gulf glassed off each afternoon...

This one was a Rowley Shoals trip with a difference: while most Reel Teaser charters are hard-core sportfishing enthusiasts, this one had four kids on board who were all keen to be a part of the action. After six days in sportfishing paradise, they came away with a string of captures the envy of many far more experienced adults...

It's nearly flounder time in Perth's Swan River, but they don't grow to a size where dropping 200 gram deepwater jigs would seem feasible. But it's another story in the wild waters off Vancouver where lunker halibut lurk....

The Billfish Bonanza is on this weekend. Briefing is 6pm Thursday October 22^nd at the rec centre.  If you are interested in seeing what this event is all about, you’re welcome to come down and join the club members and competitors as they gear up for the tournament...

Fisheries and Marine Officers will be out and about in the West Coast Bioregion,  to enforce the new seasonal closure for ‘high-risk' demersal scalefish currently in place.
The two-month ban is on the take of ‘high-risk' demersal species by recreational fishers... 

The Department of Fisheries wishes to remind recreational and commercial fishers that seasonal Cockburn Sound and metropolitan pink snapper fishing rules are again in place this year...

 The bait schools have been stirring up all sorts of action with the predatory fish off North-West Reef. According to the boys on Aqua you could have thrown a piece of wood in the water and it would have been eaten! The shark mackerel, spanish mackerel and sharks were rife and the best action was achieved using poppers which were smashed consistently...

The level-winding device, still standard fare amongst everything from tiny baitcasters to some massive electric boat reels, is born out of the design that William Shakespeare Jr patented in 1897, after perfecting it over five years. He was a smart man who was very lucky to be born at all...