Bluewater Tackle World News for December 12th

This year, for the first time, humans will eat more farmed fish than wild fish, according to a report being prepared by the United Nations Food and

Agriculture Organisation.

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Congratulations and commiserations last week were slightly misaligned. We had down staff member Josh Thompson as being on the upside with a Quobba trip, but he blew a hamstring on the first day. Anybody who has experienced Quobba's goat trails and cliffs would be left in no doubt that a week at Quobba with a hamstring injury definitely belongs in the commiserations category. Josh came back to Perth after two days.

Also due for commiserations from that Quobba trip is Andy Jarvis, who took an unintentional swim from a ledge north of Camp Rock, and needed a heap of stitches and bandages as a result. Better that than a funeral though. Korg as he's more widely known is as well aware as anybody of rock fishing safety requirements, and is far more experienced at Quobba than 99% of those who fish there, which only goes to show it can still happen to the best of them.

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We haven't spent any time studying this up yet, but the Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (i.e. the local commercials) have launched a website to encourage people to buy their product. There's probably a fair bit on there that will appeal to those who catch such fish too.

WAFIC Chairman John Newby said: “Seafood Lovers is online at www.seafoodlovers.com.au. The website gives members access to a huge array of information. The features include visual demonstrations on how to cook seafood; a recipe section where members can also  post their your own seafood recipe; links to seafood cooking classes; ask the expert seafood Question and Answer section; search function for nearest seafood outlets; and profiles of fish in season. There is even access to serious seafood information such as fish names, sustainability policies and fishery management. Not to mention the kids seafood section with education resources and games. Visit www.seafoodlovers.com.au for this and more!”

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This week's Bluewater Tackle World newsletter specials are plastic rod racks from Avaya and Tackle World. They're going off like a bomb at $29.99, save $20. That's until Christmas Day, both instore and online. See them and all the other specials here.

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The FADs are now out at the Rottnest trench, and will soon be loaded with mahi mahi and will provide focal points for those trolling for tuna and billfish.

The locations are:

Club Marine S 32° 03.316’ E 115° 19.450’ in 104 m
Fremantle Sailing Club S 32° 05.171’ E 115° 10.934’ in 219 m
Furuno S 31° 57.50’ E 115° 15.82’ 140 m (yet to be confirmed)
Hillarys Yacht Club S 31° 54.50’ E 115° 12.00’ 173 m (yet to be confirmed)
Perth Game Fishing Club S 32° 00.122’ E 115° 13.578’ in 188 m
Yamaha Outboards S 32° 08.793’ E 115° 10.434’ in 182 m

The FADs are organised by the Perth Game Fishing Club - see www.pgfc.com.au .

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Here’s a preview of this weekend's Sunday Times fishing news, with a bit of extra stuff...

PERTH METROPOLITAN

Bluewater Mindarie’s Brad Brown has taken his boys Kailum and Corey on a couple of beach outings north of Two Rocks, where they were joined by Andrew Petruzio. The group enjoyed tremendous success in catching tailor, mulloway, bull herring, skippy occasionally, tarwhine and for Brad a 70cm flathead. Sharks created havoc at times. Mindarie and nearby beaches have also yielded tailor, most fish around 40-45cm. Burns Beach tailor fishing has been best at first light, and there are good size herring on the bite at Mindarie.

** Incidentally, Brad (or Browny as everybody calls him) is moving to Queensland in January, which will leave us down one ful-time staff member in the northern suburbs. If you think you might fit the bill, see this link and let us know! Thanks **

Pinnaroo Point yielded sand whiting while Hillarys Marina and North Mole both turned on fair herring fishing. South of Fremantle held a few tailor, Long Point notable for choppers, and there are still some squid around Cockburn Sound, not in big numbers but trips worthwhile. Herring, garfish, skippy and big snook are a feature for close-in reef fishing, tailor in white water there. Hammerhead shark numbers have increased.
 
Pink snapper around 65-75cm featured in good mixed bag fishing for Jason Rushton and Troy Serra. The baldchin were biting well and quite a few samson fish added to their fun. All this happened in 20m of water off Yanchep. King george whiting make a prize addition to catches in 20-40m deep water off northern suburbs. Jewfish catches have slowed down, the suggestion that the well-fed jewies are following the crays into deeper water, amateurs doing well for the crays as the “whites” march out.         
 
Chasing flathead and chopper tailor schools is better down river, around the likes of Freshwater Bay, and bream have been more active in the stretch of river between Bassendean and Guildford.
 
MANDURAH
 
The Dawesville Cut is the centre of attention with tailor biting well, the best fish up to 60cm long, small salmon, plenty of herring and the odd skippy all willing to swipe baits and lures, one fellow having his hooked tailor chased up by a mulloway there. A few mulloway have hit the sands at San Remo.
 
Gulp Rattle Shrimp soft plastics proved attractive to black bream in the Murray River, while offshore fish also like Gulp lures, 7” Jerk Shads causing the downfall of a pink snapper and a small jewfish for Allan Strahan.
 
Crabbing is slow in the Mandurah estuaries. You should catch a few but it will take plenty of time.
 
JURIEN 
 
Craig White’s Seasports had a charter earlier in the week with jewfish to 10kg, pink snapper at 7-8kg and plenty of 3-4kg baldchin groper amongst the good bags. Samson fish and amberjack added to the action for those on board.  
 
Shore fishers have had a terrific time with a solid tailor run at the likes of Hastings Street, Island Point and Town Jetty, with some small mackerel and some decent size sharks visiting the latter spot at times. The Marina is fishing exceptionally well for skippy around 35cm, and bull herring there have kept the activity going.
 
Cray catches for locals have been rewarding.
 
KALBARRI
 
As for most of the coastline, tailor are the major feature for Kalbarri anglers, although mulloway have also been encountered. Wittecarra Creek and Red Bluff are among tailor hotspots, a couple of mulloway to 8kg there too. North of the river mouth is even better for mulloway chasing, a whopper 25kg landed by a Ashley Van Viersen a fair bit north, and there are some nice big tailor in that country. One fellow fishing Frustration caught a 15kg mulloway then another two to eight kilos in his next two casts, releasing both of those. A couple of pink snapper added variety for that territory. Dart and skippy made a target for beach fishers.
 
Offshore fishing was hampered by bad weather conditions but some mackerel were boated by groups working to the south of town, and near Wagoe, one small spaniard caught just south of Red Bluff.
 
The Murchison’s whiting are a touch scarce but bream made up for that by biting well around jetties and also upriver, school mulloway also moving further upstream, a few blue manna crabs about the place.     

EXMOUTH

There are two new Exmouth newsletters on the site since the last broadcast. Check them out here.

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