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Bluewater Tackle World welcomes Josh Eastcott to the crew this month. You may know the name from his HotBite magazine articles, or the face from a couple of other tackle stores... no, you wouldn't have gone into them... this means at Scarborough we now have (amongst others) a Josh, a Joshua, a Jack, a Joe, a Joff (that sometimes calls himself Jon) and a Jared... so if you don't know the guy's name, just call him "Jay" and chances are you'll be OK.

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

METROPOLITAN

Tailor aren’t making raids every night but it’s worth a try this week. Like most summer tailor runs, it is a hit and miss affair, North Mole (late at night for preference), Floreat to Cottesloe areas among better spots. Beach anglers working northern suburbs territory, particularly north of Two Rocks, have encountered better size fish in bigger numbers, many ranging from one to 1.5kg. One fellow left the tailor biting there and landed a small bronze whaler during a night session. Metal lures have been productive for tailor.  

Northern rock walls are turning on a few herring, while use of berley at the likes of  Floreat will bring in big numbers of herring, with morning results better. Shore fishing to the south of Fremantle is quiet, plenty of effort required for moderate success on herring and whiting.   

The Swan’s bigger black bream are biting more willingly which makes a good pointer to Swanfish, the Sunday Times sponsored event coming up on March 14th/15th. Entry forms will soon available in Bluewater stores.

The Maylands to Causeway part of the river is working well for the larger bream. One fellow fishing for mulloway at Ashfield suffered a couple of bite-offs before switching to wire on his leader, then landed a small bull shark. Squid have attacked jigs in lower parts of the Swan.  

Bluewater Tackle World Mindarie’s Anthony Kane caught and released two seven-kilo jewfish out from Ocean Reef, also catching four breaksea cod. Tough ocean conditions kept many off the water but heaps of baitfish schools were spotted to the north of Rottnest, and southern bluefin and yellowfin tuna, and frigate mackerel have been encountered in that country. The FADs have served up some dolphin fish.  

BUSSELTON  

Rusty Ellis and Debbie Roulston enjoyed catching many big fat garfish while fishing at Peppermint Beach during a Naturaliste Game and Sport Fishing competition. Kathy Ellis noted jewfish, breaksea cod and samson fish at the weigh in, despite many boat competitors being hampered by strong winds in the region.    

There are lots of crabs around and squid about the Busselton Jetty, although they have slowed down.

STEEP POINT 

The Hetherington clan were in the thick of the action at the Coastal Angling Club’s annual trip to Steep Point. Dad John caught the largest mackerel of 19kg, and son Evan landed a 15kg yellowfin tuna for a new club record. All members caught mackerel although sharks and the resident groper snaffled many from the rocks, some of the mackerel halves coming up weighing about eight kilos. The sharks wait until the macs are about spent right near the rocks before striking.

Pink snapper and black tip whaler sharks were landed and Ken Fairhead brought in a baldchin groper. Paul Fathers caught the most mackerel and Peter Caddy’s big spaniard was also notable.