Bluewater Tackle World News for October 23rd

If you like sharks, great whites in particular, or exciting photography in general, check out a little photographic essay we have here. The photos are by Bluewater Exmouth's Matt Gates, but they're not at Exmouth.

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More busted: The decision by two recreational fishers from Yallingup to hide a haul of blue manna crabs on their boat has led to fines, court costs and penalties of almost $1140 each.

68-year-old Mark Alexander PATERSON and 57-year-old Geoffrey Leif LARSON had declared a catch of 20 crabs, when they were questioned at the Quindalup boat ramp last month, but a search of the wooden dinghy uncovered the additional concealed haul.

Busselton Court was told this week (Oct 21) that the additional 29 crabs were located underneath the floorboards of the boat. The judge also heard that, when Paterson had been questioned about his knowledge of the bag and boat limits for crabs, he told the Fisheries Officer “it’s on the sign” and pointed to a Dept of Fisheries crabbing sign located adjacent to the Quindalup ramp.

The sign states that the bag limit is 10 crabs per person, with a boat limit of 20 if two or more persons are aboard.

Southern Region Compliance Manager Steve Embling said the 29 additional crabs were checked and seized, after they were removed from their hiding place. “Luckily we were able to return the crabs to the ocean on this occasion,” Mr Embling said.

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

PERTH METROPOLITAN

Craig Spooner and crew enjoyed a red-letter day also out of Two Rocks, with jewfish to 19kg, big pink snapper to nine kilos, 60cm king george, baldchin and breaksea cod in their bag. Joe McNamara joined a couple of Bluewater staffers, Nick Bailey and Chris Boyling, to chase some adrenalin-producing species out from Two Rocks, amberjack and samson fish supplying the required rush. Bluewater Scarborough’s Joff Weston spent a couple of exciting hours in the Two Rocks area, catching a legal jewfish on his first drop, and then adding some nice king george to his bag. Weston found the water temperature increasing significantly. Whopper sized bluespot flathead made a good target in 36m-deep water out from Mindarie, great king george fishing in 38-40m.  
 
Reports say there are heaps of mulloway and big skippy around wrecks well offshore, in water 80 to 110m deep. Blue Juice Charters have been talking of vast numbers of samson fish offshore, no doubt beginning to form aggregations.  
 
Yellowfin whiting have made appearances for shore anglers in the Cottesloe area, the Gulp soft plastic sand worm pattern a hit with them, and real sand worms making the best bait.

Beach fishing for tailor has improved right along the metro coastline. Karl Rosenow from Bluewater Morley suggests it’s time to look for gutters for the spring run of mulloway at the likes of Singleton and Golden Bay. Tailor were active from Perth offshore reefs, some terrific fish among them. 
 
Neil Grant worked Cockburn Sound waters where he and crew picked up 28 squid, eight king george and plenty of skippy.
 
Point Walter and Claremont yielded flathead, and a mulloway around 15kg hit the sand on the south of the Narrows recently. There were a few chopper tailor in East Fremantle waters.
 
MANDURAH
 
Chopper tailor are a feature for Mandurah’s shore fishers, with herring to chase after the tailor schools have moved on. San Remo produced some nice-sized flathead and a few mulloway were landed there, not huge fish but worth catching at about 8-10kg.
 
An odd king george has returned to Dawesville Cut while in the White Hills area whiting and heaps of juvenile salmon created activity.
 
For boaties the Five Fathom continues to yield numbers of pink snapper, the best fish to near 10kg, jewfish catches good in 30m deep water.
 
JURIEN 
 
Tailor make an attraction for shore fishers along the Jurien coastline, early morning at the Town Jetty among better times to try, one local bringing in a couple of shark mackerel from the Jetty which surprised many. Herring in big numbers should make it easy to take home a meal of those, sand whiting prolific from beaches.
 
Craig White from Jurien Seasports reckons the samson fish are going mental as they chase jigs, one boat catching a 32.5kg sambo. Nice jewfish came from 40-50m deep water, decent snapper, the largest 96cm, found in the same area, many baldchin being a pleasing addition. White reckons it won’t be long before the tuna turn up as there are large numbers of good bait schools in the region.
 
EXMOUTH

There'll be a new Exmouth-only newsletter on the site this weekend. Last week's is here, with some news about the Betta Billfish Bonanza, mackerel, flathead and dart.

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